Chapter 37: Planetary Thief (2/2)
“So they’re working in pairs?” Lu Yin checked the gadget locations on the map, “Interesting, one of each has to be a school leader. Alright, come at me!”
Half a day later, he was floating amidst the clouds when two students appeared on the horizon and checked their gadgets. “Only 1,700, just trash,” one of them said disdainfully.
The other person gestured towards Lu Yin, “Get over here, kid.”
Lu Yin calmly flew towards them, his eyes showing nothing.
“Did you see the person who robbed you?”
“Yup,” Lu Yin nodded.
“Draw me a picture.”
Lu Yin shook his head, “I never learned how to draw.”
“Are you dumb or something? Just use your gadget and you’ll be able to draw whatever image you imagine!”
“Oh. Well that’s pointless, the person is right here.”
“Here? Where?!” The two were astonished.
“Me,” Lu Yin pointed at himself. A clap of the Shockwave Palm distorted the air around him, knocking one of the students out.
“So you’re the thief. DIE!” the second managed to resist, drawing his sword to attack. This was the top student of his academy, and while he couldn’t compare with those like Veron, he was much more powerful than people of Terence’s ilk. Unfortunately for him, that was nothing in the face of Lu Yin’s Cosmic Palm; one attack snapped his sword and swatted him to the ground.
Just like that, Lu Yin had successfully robbed two more students and created another ruckus on the network. Eddy took the news in with a grim face; someone had already been robbed after such little time. Where had this bastard come from?
“Remember not to get close to any strangers,” he messaged everyone, but this was a pointless suggestion. The students had already started keeping their distance regardless of power.
“Hmm… Half a cube more… I can use this to cultivate,” the thief commented as he checked his cosmic ring. He then removed his gadget, threw it into a stream, and dashed away to an abandoned farm. Crushing the crystals, he immediately activated his Cosmic Art to absorb all of the energy.
Far away, Zhang Dingtian and the others in Beijing watched the network speechlessly.
“I guarantee that’s Lu Yin.” Bai Xue determined.
Zhang Dingtian looked confused, “Why?”
She told him of how the youth had robbed Parlie and Veron, “So who else could it be?”
Zhang Dingtian was perplexed, while Lu Yin looked ordinary, he was someone who went completely overboard at times. He had robbed more than 15 people so far, many of whom were the strongest of their academies. What was he planning?
If Bai Xue could determine the robber was Lu Yin, Jeraldine was naturally able to come to the same conclusion. The news left her far more amazed than Zhang Dingtian and the others; she knew that Lu Yin had only been a Seeker she could crush the first time they met, and that same bug had now grown to the point where he could overwhelm school leaders. He was simply a monster.
While Lu Yin leisurely absorbed astral energy at the farm, Eddy and the other students were going crazy searching for him. They fruitlessly continued their search for five days without a single clue, but all they found in the end was an ownerless gadget in a stream.