Chapter 48.1 (1/2)

After swinging the whip, Bai Liu was exhausted by this high-level fishbone. He panted and half knelt on the hood of the car, his face pale and his shirt soaked with sweat.

[System tip: Player Bai Liu’s physical strength has dropped by 80 due to the use of the item Siren’s Fishbone. Please replenish your physical strength in time! Avoid running out of energy!]

The passenger hit by Bai Liu let out a pained roar from his throat. The eyeballs fixed in his eye sockets by scorched nerves swayed. He immediately turned and ran toward Bai Liu on all fours.

Bai Liu raised his head and drank a physical strength supplement. His eyes were calm as his whip hit another passenger who was about to attack Mu Sicheng. His voice was hoarse, “The second one. There are three more.”

[System tip: Player Bai Liu has used the Siren’s Fishbone to hit the passenger. The target’s aggro is transferred. It has decided to catch the naughty player Bai Liu…]

His whip moved one after another. Bai Liu poured the bottle of physical supplements in his mouth. He used the corner of his eyes to aim at the passengers with the whip. The rapid consumption of his physical strength made Bai Liu’s status drop visibly to the naked eye.

His face was white and sweat dripped all over his body. His hand holding the whip was shaking so badly that he could barely stand on the car. He was barely holding on due to the seat belt tying his ankle to the car.

In this weak state that was like a terminally ill patient, Bai Liu’s whip didn’t fail. Every whip happened to hit the back of the passengers’ hands as they were about to attack Mu Sicheng. Moreover, Bai Liu seemed to be maintaining his judgment. The position of almost every whip strike was the same.

Du Sanying stared almost blankly. Too strong… Was the quality of newcomers so outrageous now?!

Du Sanying really wanted to know why Bai Liu could aim like a sharpshooter. This person had all his values of his attributes panel falling crazily and his physical strength was repeatedly jumping around 0. If it was Du Sanying then he would already be out of his mind and like a dead dog, yet—

Bai Liu’s concentration on Mu Sicheng’s body was never once dispersed at all.

“The fifth one.” Bai Liu’s entire body was like a fish out of water. His hair on his forehead was wet and his eyes were darker under the sweat. They only had Mu Sicheng reflected in them. He smiled and let out a breath. “Go on, Mu Sicheng. The plan is effective. Continue to implement it.”

After this, his physical strength was exhausted again. His legs were soft and sweaty and he almost slipped off the car. Du Sanying’s eyes were quick and he grabbed Bai Liu’s ankle to pull him up. Bai Liu lay on the hood of the car, gasping. Then he took a bottle of physical supplement and drank it.

Du Sanying drove the car around the carriage with the five passengers chasing behind them while looking worriedly at Bai Liu who could hardly stand up. “Bai Liu, your situation is too bad! Do you want to take a break?!”

“No, the train is about to leave.” Bai Liu was cruel to himself while giving an order to Mu Sicheng at the same time. He staggered and stood up on the hood of the car, his eyes calm. “Go on, Mu Sicheng. Don’t try to steal from every passenger or your health will drop too fast. Try to find the one who has a lens.”

“I don’t want to either!” Mu Sicheng was very irritated. He would be burned by flames if he grabbed one and his health dropped by 1 point. There were so many passengers and it was impossible to steal from each one. That was just looking for death. “However, I can’t tell which one has a lens!”

All the passengers were a scorched mass and were still burning. Who the hell could find broken lenses the size of a few carats from them!

“Isn’t looking for stolen goods what thieves are best at?” Bai Liu was still in the mood to tease Mu Sicheng at this time.

As he spoke, he looked away from Mu Sicheng for the first time and glanced over the passengers. The flames were releasing smoke and ashes were scattered, gradually affecting people’s vision. Bai Liu couldn’t simply determine who had the lenses.

Since he was unable to come to a conclusion from the passengers, he worked backwards from the results. Bai Liu’s eyes shifted quickly to the five passengers following behind the small car, one of which Mu Sicheng had found a lens on. Then Bai Liu’s eyes narrowed.

Among the five passengers selected by Mu Sicheng, one had a much slower running speed and less flames than the other. It was like a headless fly swaying around. This was the passenger that Mu Sicheng had stolen the broken lens from. Yet Bai Liu remembered that previously, the passenger had moved much faster when it had the broken lens.

“Mu Sicheng, the weakness of the passengers with the broken lens is the broken lens!” Bai Liu spoke quickly. “The broken lens seems to have a bonus effect on these passengers. Find the passengers with a relatively fast movement speed and strong flames and steal from them. Can you see from your perspective who is moving faster and who has more flames?!”

“No!” Mu Sicheng hung from the ring and attached his back to the top of the carriage. He waved away the ashes flying in front of him and squinted, trying to distinguish between the red and black masses below him.

Mu Sicheng coughed. “All I can see is the fire and a bunch of passengers sticking together. I grabbed it blindly before!”

Then Mu Sicheng suddenly hung his tail on the ring and sank his body into the flames. He gritted his teeth and reached out to a passenger.

[System tip: Player Mu Sicheng has been burned by fire. Health value -1, mental value -1.]

“Stop, Mu Sicheng. You can’t continue to grab them randomly. Your health will drop too seriously and it will be easy for you to die if they catch you. Last time, you found one among five passengers. This is an 80% failure rate. It is likely to be invalid this time…” Bai Liu swung his whip at almost the moment Mu Sicheng pulled out his paw and distracted the passenger who tried to attack Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng raised an eyebrow and gestured to Bai Liu that he had stolen another broken lens. He grinned and interrupted Bai Liu’s word, “I’m sorry, it was effective this time.”

[System tip: Player Mu Sicheng has got the broken lens (2/???).]

Bai Liu quickly raised his head to the person hanging from the rings. “Can you tell?”

“I can see it once I completely fall into the pile of passengers.” Mu Sicheng wiped the smoke marks on his face and raised an eyebrow as he slightly smiled at Bai Liu. “You attack very accurately or else I wouldn’t do this. It is too easy to fall in and be counter-killed by the passenger once their aggro is locked on me.”

“I promise I’ll hit them accurately every time.” Bai Liu smiled and waved his whip with a ‘please’ gesture. “Go on.”

Mu Sicheng hung from the ring with his tail. Like a monkey fishing for the moon, he descended into the sea of fire and scorched corpses time and time again, passing by the passengers who wanted to bite him because their aggro was locked on him.

Sometimes passengers would open their mouths when facing him and the flames from their mouths burned Mu Sicheng’s face. Before Mu Sicheng could feel fear, a white bone whip would cut through everything and strike the hideous passenger about to bite Mu Sicheng’s shoulder.

It was thieving without any worries.

In the later stages, Mu Sicheng didn’t have to think about anything. He might even steal from two or three passengers at a time without worrying that these passengers would attack him in time.

It was just as Bai Liu said. He struck accurately every time and could always hold the upper limit of Mu Sicheng’s actions. No matter how many passengers Mu Sicheng stole from at a time, Bai Liu could easily remove these passengers to give Mu Sicheng a safe environment to steal.

Bai Liu’s extremely assured anti-monster performance meant Mu Sicheng’s attention gradually focused on stealing the lenses. Perhaps Mu Sicheng had completely forgotten that he was entrusting his back to a player with an F-grade panel who was participating in the game for the second time.

Every time this player swung his whip, 60% of his physical strength was consumed. All the passengers Mu Sicheng had stolen from were now following behind Bai Liu and the small car so the pressure Mu Sicheng felt was reduced. Stealing lenses became easier and easier.

Correspondingly, on Bai Liu’s side, the pressure on Du Sanying was much stronger.

Du Sanying’s go-kart car moved very fast and it could also drive on the walls. There was also the lucky buff bonus. Even if a few passengers tried to collide head-on, most of them would miss the car. Nevertheless, Du Sanying’s face was white now. He had a long string of charred bodies behind him, some of whom were so fast that they could possibly get into the car. Du Sanying screamed at Bai Liu who was waving his whip.

“B-Bai Liu!” Du Sanying looked at the long string of corpses chasing behind them. Each one had a ferocious expression and they stared at Bai Liu with maliciousness. A group of passengers got together and the flames grew a lot, so that the tail of Du Sanying’s car was burned. Du Sanying was frightened and stammered, “B-Bai Liu, we can’t hold on anymore. There are more monsters and we are about to roll over!”

“Someone else might roll over but you won’t.” Bai Liu indifferently continued to clean up Mu Sicheng’s passengers without glancing at Du Sanying, but there was praise in his tone. “Believe in yourself. You are 100% lucky.”

For the first time, Du Sanying heard a player in the same game as him say he was lucky in a tone of praise. However, Du Sanying wasn’t happy at all. Du Sanying held the steering wheel and wanted to cry. “I am 100% lucky but I’m not always invincible! Bai Liu, I can roll over and die too! The 100% luck only ensures that the probability of my death is smaller. There is no guarantee that I won’t die!”

“No! I can’t drive anymore!” Du Sanying’s face was pale. He had just almost been bitten on the neck by a passenger who attacked from the side. If it wasn’t for him having a strong hunch and dodging instinctively, he would be dead now. “Bai Liu! I will give you the car. I want to get off!”