Chapter 16 (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Li Ang frowned while looking at the new Face-Changing Mask in his inventory.
This mask was oval and had a curved, glossy surface. There were circular notches on the edges of both sides that threads could go through so it could be fastened.
It was made of wood, and the surface was covered with black ink-like paint. The mask could cover the entire face, including the chin and forehead.
After Li Ang paid and left the pig intestine noodle shop, he started to test his Face-Changing Mask while going home.
It was different from the Cat’s Eye. This piece of equipment would not consume Spirit when equipped. Once the inside of the mask touched the face’s skin, the black color outside the mask would rapidly fade away and would be replaced by a variety of strange patterns.
Tiger, Kamen Rider, a cute girl with rabbit ears, Handsome Monkey King Sun Wukong, a golden toilet seat, pink fluffy ladies slippers…
After playing for over ten minutes, Li Ang was finally sure that, besides being fun and being able to cosplay, Effect 1 of the Face-Changing Mask was useless.
Li Ang liked cosplay a lot, though.
As for Effect 2, Li Ang went to an anime convention in Yin City in the afternoon to test it out.
The result was quite gratifying. When he chose to weaken his presence, the people around him would actively ignore him as long as he stood still.
Even if he walked around at will, it would be hard for other people to have an impression of him although he was wearing an obvious mask.
When he enhanced his presence, no matter what he did, other people would quickly notice him even if he stood still. They would think that this weird person wearing a mask was really strange and wonder whether they should call the police since there was a weird person there.
As for the usage of the mask, it was quickly developed by Li Ang.
For example, he could use it for assassinating, hiding, eavesdropping, and… peeping in the open.
Based on Li Ang’s deduction, the strength of the Face-Changing Mask was probably dependent on the wearer’s Perception. The higher the Perception, the better one could resist the confusion effect of the mask.
In short, it was good to have useful equipment. Li Ang put the mask back in his backpack and continued to look for triggerable quests around Yin City.
In the next few days, everything was normal besides the fact that the school assigned a new young and pretty female teacher to his class. As Li Ang was waiting calmly, he received a delivery message.
“Your order has arrived in Yin City, Xindong Road. Delivery Man Zhang ** is dispatching your order.”
When it came to game novices, purchasing high-quality and inexpensive equipment had always been the best way to increase strength quickly. As long as they found the right ones, they could arm themselves with less than 10,000 yuan.
Li Ang’s previous purchases on Taobao included laboratory equipment, chemical fertilizers, seamless steel pipes, bulletproof vests, and camping hand axes…
There was no problem if these products were separated. However, when the buyer was the same person, it was easy to be noticed and marked by the official online data-monitoring system.
Therefore, Li Ang had used different Taobao accounts, IP addresses, personal information, and contact numbers to make his purchases to ensure that he would not be traced. He had sent all his orders to different addresses in Yin City.
Although he had to rent a tricycle to run about picking up his orders, everything was worth it.
Li Ang quickly opened all his parcels in his living room and started small production.
As an uncertified wild genius, Li Ang believed that his knowledge, actions, execution, and creativity were top-level.
At the age of 11 or 12, when kids of the same age had still been addicted to using firecrackers to blow up feces and water cannons to fry fish, Li Ang had already studied the manual of the Soviet militia and mastered infantry skills such as shooting, firearm maintenance, assassination, underground mine installation, position determination, distance determination, as well as manufacturing, storage, and transportation of flammable and explosive materials.
It was much more pleasurable to blow up feces with a pull-top remote control bomb filled with steel balls and iron pieces than use firecrackers.
At the age of 13 or 14, when kids of the same age as him had been addicted to animated TV series, Li Ang had flipped through the Soviet Union war saga information and mastered artillery skills such as artillery maintenance, artillery force deployment, coordination, tactical command, firepower deployment, as well as firepower organization and usage.
At the age of 15 or 16, when most kids of the same age had reached puberty and had hazy youthful fantasies, Li Ang had already browsed through the Internet about the full set of U.S. Army Command Doctrine Publication, U.S. Army Command Doctrine Reference Publication, U.S. Battle Commands, U.S. Army Technical Publications, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Training Manual, and Intelligence Bureau Interrogation Manual…
He had played jungle guerilla warfare and city CQB and gone to Guantanamo to interrogate prisoners and to Mexico to fight drug traffickers. He had also learned about atomic bomb waxing, nuclear submarine maintenance, dismantling and cleaning missile engines, scrubbing satellite surface dust at high altitude, and repairing aircraft rear-view mirrors…