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Chapter 471 - 284 Cat and Mouse Game (Chapter number was marked wrong in the last - )_1

Chapter 471: Chapter 284 Cat and Mouse Game (Chapter number was marked wrong in the last Chapter)_1

"Rawr!"

Mu You looked at the newly dropped item with surprise.

He had given up hope on the thief’s loot, but he didn’t expect a golden Legend to pop out!

[You see the thief revive at the intersection ahead and charge at you again.]

[You received a ’Thief Appointment Letter’: Thief Valen Justin has taken notice of your newly acquired ’Thief’s Mask’. He will begin his theft 11 hours later, lasting 30 minutes. During this period, this mask cannot be bound, cannot be translocated, cannot be stored in a space object, and Valen Justin can find the mask’s position at any time...]

A few seconds after he picked up the new equipment, the game suddenly popped up a new appointment letter prompts.

Mu You knew instantly, this guy must have been anxious to find that his most important equipment had dropped after his resurrection. Without thinking, he activated his appointment ability on Mu You again. The aim was to lock down the mask first, to prevent Mu You from transferring it.

This guy deliberately set the theft time to one day later. It must be because he can’t steal immediately after sending this appointment; he had to stagger the timing to allow preparation.

They were about to enter the freezing cold time of the fourth layer, and he could not act during this time, so he could only delay it to the next comfortable period half a day later.

Knowing the opponent’s purpose, Mu You naturally would not allow it to go as planned. He decisively rewound time, and before the opponent’s appointment letter was sent, he clicked on the text of ’Thief’s Mask’.

A plain-looking hard mask appeared in Mu You’s hand.

This mask has the appearance of a red and white fox face. There is no color around it that represents quality, and it doesn’t even look like a piece of equipment. The information fed back by the Omniscient Crystal merely reads ’an ordinary mask’. Obviously, this thing has undergone special treatment like the Phantom Wand.

However, this mask is bound to skin and can only be used with a thief’s skin. Mu You can’t use it for now and could only keep it.

After extracting the mask in the game, the appointment letter prompt did not appear again.

[You see the thief charging at you with his weapon raised, you choose...]

"Run away."

He has yet to retrieve the Hunger Gem, but he has acquired something more important. He’s not afraid this thief won’t come looking for him.

Now, he should run first because the time limit of the Dark World is about to end. Once they leave the Dark World, their strengths will be reversed instantly. Therefore, he has to seize the last moments of the Dark World and distance himself.

[You chose to run away...]

[You run with all your strength while the thief chases relentlessly. The thief’s agility is higher than yours, and your distance is gradually closing.]

[You hear the footsteps of the Octopus Soldiers ahead. It seems there are patrols around the corner. You choose...]

[You chose to go forward!]

[You hear the thief behind you curse silently "madman", and then he stopped by the wall, hurriedly cloaked in invisibility.]

[You stopped just before rushing around the corner, you entered cell No. 4501 and changed the sentence for the cell to: one day.]

[The Octopus Soldiers patrol past your cell without noticing anything unusual and slowly move further away.]

[You have evaded the search of the Octopus Soldiers, but you are also trapped in the cell. If you unlock the door to leave now, the Octopus Soldiers who haven’t gone far will notice. The thief will appear again to hunt you down, so you choose...]

[Escape from the cell and keep running], [Stay in the cell and wait for a battle to the death with the opponent].

Given the two options, Mu You chose neither and directly exited the game instead.

The biggest advantage that players hold over native inhabitants is this: they can log off at any time when they’re losing, effectively breaking clean by switching between online and offline worlds.

With nothing to do after logging off, Mu You put away his phone and went downstairs.

There were no customers in the pet shop at the moment, as Friday has been designated as the pet shop’s day for restocking, and only morning tickets were sold.

Mu You walked downstairs to see Little Ya feeding the Chocobos in the zoo. Meanwhile, Lin Xue was at the front desk, engrossed in making Mystical Skills Cards.

"You seem in good spirits?" Seeing Mu You sauntering down and the smile on his face, Lin Xue knew something must have happened.

"I scored some good equipment in the game." Of course, Mu You was in good spirits. Legend-level equipment was truly a rare find. Moreover, he had seen the effects of this equipment firsthand. The ability to switch with the double at any time, if used well, could indeed turn decay into magic.

"Oh? What equipment?" Lin Xue asks.

Mu You didn’t hide it, and he briefly told her about the newly acquired equipment. She also knew about his infiltration of the Underwater Prison.

"What about you? How’s your mission going?" Mu You asked Lin Xue. She had previously received the inheritance task for Reaper’s Scythe and had been doing that task near Dark City recently.

"It’s a bit difficult. It seems like a chain mission. I just finished the first part... uh."

As Lin Xue spoke, the Mystical Skills Card in her hand suddenly emitted a faint light. It faded away in her hand like a brilliant firework would, a symbol that the Mystical Skills Card creation had failed.

"This week’s new card?" Mu You inquired.

Lin Xue had received a Low-level Soul Scroll ’Soul Fire’ at the meeting on Thursday. By noon today, it had been converted into a Mystical Skills Card by her, and she was now working on the duplicates.