The Legendary Thief

Chapter 164

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Chapter 164
Chapter 164: Murong Shanshan’s Gamble

That was a purple long-spear. Its entire body flowed as if it contained a flame elemental. The spear tip emitted bursts of blazing heat, as if piercing everything would be normal ——

[Ardent Blaze Spear] (Purple Equipment)

Attack: 265-350

Strength: +45

Vitality: +50

Agility: +26

Pa.s.sive: Increase knights’ fire-based skills by 30 attack points.

Required Level: 48

… …

It was an excellent high level and attack knight spear. However, the only drawback was that the added agility value was much worse when compared to other equipment of the same grade. Fortunately, it did not affect the nb properties of the spear. Knights were not a cla.s.s that was proficient in agility skills anyways. I have heard of full strength knights and full vitality knights, but I have never heard of a full agility knight. [1]

Murong Shanshan pa.s.sed the long-spear into my hands and said: “I’ll give this to you for now. Once we return just put it in the exchange so that we can auction it tomorrow!”

Continuing to look at the dropped equipment, there was an aquamarine leather helmet ——

[Agility Guard] (Headgear —— Purple Equipment)

Defense: 104

Strength: +52

Vitality: +37

Agility: +60

Pa.s.sive: Increase your dodge rate by 5%. [2]

Required Level: 50

… …

Murong Shanshan smiled slightly and asked: “Do you want me to treat this as a meeting gift for Xin Yu? Last time when I went to your place, she was pretty tense regarding you. She wouldn’t even let me pour water for you.”

I laughed dumbly in spite of myself: “No need. She’ll earn her own equipment. This helmet’s attributes are really, it should be able to sell for a good price. It would be better to sell it to prepare your future tuition and dowry.”

“Who wants a dowry… …” Murong Shanshan said in an angry voice, a touch of a charming blush flying across her snowy face.

I laughed softly and said: “Isn’t there still a cloak? Let’s check what its attributes are.”

Murong Shanshan immediately shared the attributes of the cloak. It was a fire-red cloak ——

[Flame G.o.ddess Shawl] (Armor —— Purple Equipment)

Defense: 114

Strength: +52

Vitality: +48

Agility: +36

Pa.s.sive: Increase fire magic resistance by 100.

Required Level: 50

… …

Murong Shanshan had long since looked over the equipment on my body and she knew that my cloak was a level 50 purple cloak. Thus, with little suspense, the cloak fell into her hands. I did not say anything. My relationship with Murong Shanshan seems to have had unconsciously surpa.s.sed that of employer and hired muscle. I would even be willing to give her ultra-high quality orange weapons, never mind this mere purple equipment.

After Murong Shanshan equipped the Flame G.o.ddess Shawl, her previous cloak that reached her kneecaps was immediately replaced by a ma.s.sive fire-red cloak. The cloak drooped to her heels and it swayed naturally in the wind. How beautiful. [3]

The pretty little lady was very happy. She directly handed me the blue book and said: “I didn’t see what skill this skill book has but it is fine to just give it to you.”

I was dazed for a bit before then looking at the skill book: Poison Mixing Secret Recipe; requires level 3 Medicine Mixing. [4]

I lightly clicked and a system message appeared: You have learned the skill —— Poison Mixing Secret Recipe.

I was suddenly overjoyed. The skill clearly displayed

: Poison Mixing Secret Skill Level 1 ——

Refine poison that you can apply to weapons to temporarily increase poison attack effect.

Another huge score!

Murong Shanshan seemingly did not notice how pleased I was. She urged: “Let’s return to the city. We’ll go together to the exchange to put those two dropped purple equipments on the auction rack.”

Upon saying that, the two of them went back to the city and put the goods on the rack. Due to system regulations, purple equipment did not need to be appraised in order to be placed on the higher tier auction rack. Thus, we did not have to waste any time on this issue. On the item list, there were still three purple equipments after excluding our two. Those should be the equipments that Xu Lin, Xin Yu, and Lu Xuehan got. It seems like the luck of Red Blood and company was not very good. However, according to our undercover spies’ reports, Red Blood has recently been busy organizing large-scale leveling. They seem to not be very interested in fighting bosses.

After repairing my equipment, I looked at the time and saw that it was 9pm. Murong Shanshan suddenly smiled and said: “We rose quite quickly today, why don’t we log off for now?”

“Log off? Log off to do what?”

“You can come to my place. I’ll treat you to supper~”

“But I’m not very hungry yet… …”

Murong Shanshan was a little unhappy and in a soft tone said: “I’m still a little afraid. Can’t you come over to keep me company?”

I thought for a bit, nodded my head, and said: “Okay, I’ll be there right away.”

After logging off, I saw that everyone was still in-game so I did not disturb them and just put on my coat before walking out the door.

The weather was still rather cold. 9pm is the busiest time of the night. Due to it being pretty close to the university, there were quite a few young couples snuggling while walking by the road. Of course, there were also quite a few young ladies who were pulling guests to find a location to “open for business”.

I tightened my collar and pa.s.sed straight through the road. I only needed to pa.s.s two traffic lights to reach Murong Shanshan’s residence so it was unnecessary to take a car. Running a few steps for exercise would be good for the body. Suddenly, in the stunned eyes of the onlookers, a fairly handsome young man started darting along the roadside.

Ten minutes later, I smoothly reached the downstairs area of my destination. As I was preparing to rush up the stairs in one breath, someone not too far away suddenly shouted at me. As I turned my head to take a look, I saw that Murong Shanshan had already come downstairs and was now standing next to the queue barrier. [5]

I quickly trotted over and asked breathlessly: “Didn’t you say that you would wait for me at your home? What did you come over here for?”

“I’m a little hungry…” Murong Shanshan revealed an innocent expression.

Toward her both lovable and hateful expression, I was completely unable to resist and could only ask: “Ah, let’s walk then. Where should we go eat?”

“Why walk somewhere? Isn’t this a good place?”

Murong Shanshan pointed at the nearby queue barrier and said with a blessed smile: “City management was lazy today; otherwise we would never have had the fortune to taste authentic stall goods.”

We walked inside and Murong Shanshan said: “Boss, two beef noodles!”

The boss glanced at the beautiful lady a few times before finally going off to cook. Murong Shanshan sweetly smiled and said: “Did Xin Yu and Lu Xuehan try to stop you from coming to meet me?”

“They were still in-game and don’t know that I’ve already come out.”

“Oh, so that was the case. Earlier I was worried that you wouldn’t be able to come out~”

I couldn’t resist laughing: “What sort of people do you take them to be? Could they even restrict everyone’s personal freedom? If I want to walk then I walk. If I want to sleep then I sleep. n.o.body can control me.”

“Right. Beggars are also like this… …” Murong Shanshan glanced at me without any kindness. She turned to look at a nearby table before she suddenly said to me: “Lin Fan, it’s kind of boring right now. Why don’t we play a game? If you lose, then you’ll have to obey one of my requests.”

I had an unsettling premonition so I cautiously asked: “What do I get if you lose?”

“I’ll pay for this meal…”

“My ears have become red from hearing that. I’m really at a loss that you could bring yourself to say that…”

Murong Shanshan pouted and slightly smiled. Her round lips slightly moved before she coquettishly whispered in my ear: “How about if I lose… I’ll let you give me a kiss instead?”

“Gudong~!” I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and immediately nodded my head to agree: “Then we’ve decided. What game and how do we play?”

Murong Shanshan giggled, held up a coin, and said: “Very simple – see this coin? I’ll let it spin on the table. If it lands with the chrysanthemum facing upwards, then I win. If it lands with the ‘1’ character facing upwards, then it’ll be your win. How about it?” [6]

“No problem, but first I need to check whether or not this coin is acceptable.” I insisted on checking the coin out of caution.

Murong Shanshan was very unwilling but still handed the coin to me in the end. After carefully checking it, I found nothing wrong with it. It was just a brand-new coin issued in 2015.

Murong Shanshan hurriedly retrieved the coin. She grasped it tightly within in her palm and said: “Are you done? I’m starting.”

I nodded but did not notice that one side of Murong Shanshan’s mouth lifted in a sly smile.

“Xiu~!”

The coin spun at a high speed in the air. Murong Shanshan readied a hand and smacked the coin down onto the table. With a big grin she said: “I’m about to lift my hand~”

I tensely nodded my head and said: “Lift it~!”

As she moved her creamy snow-white hand, the coin on the table was revealed impressively to have a little chrysanthemum facing up. Murong Shanshan immediately said in high spirits: “You lost!”

I wrinkled my brows and suddenly said while staring at the coin: “Why does this coin look a bit thicker… Wa! Shanshan, you’re such a rogue! You even stuck two coins together. Eh… where did you find these rice grains… …”

Murong Shanshan calmed down: “Why are you asking so much? Do you not want to recognize it?”

“But you cheated… …” [7]

“What’s wrong with cheating? When other people win in gambling they also cheat…”

A nearby table’s group of buddies was already looking at me with gazes of contempt. I bit the bullet and said: “Fine, I lost. What’s your demand? Don’t go too overboard; otherwise I’ll fight this to the bitter end.” [8]

Murong Shanshan said while laughing: “Of course I won’t go overboard. I’m not that sort of roguish person. Look, at the third table on our right sits a very pretty girl sitting by herself. How about this, go over there and ask her on a date to go see the 10pm night movie tonight. If she agrees then we’ll count it as having fulfilled my request. How about it?”

After hearing her request my cold sweat would not stop. Suppressing my voice, I said: “Shanshan, everyone is their own person. There’s no need to be so ruthless. If I were so skilled at chasing mm, how could I still be single until now?” [9]

“Stop trying to appeal using our friendship. Go right now or I’ll tell Lu Xuehan that you were indecent towards Xin Yu… …” [10]

I secretly thought: If I wanted to coerce Xin Yu, I would probably not have to exert much effort. [11]

The guys at the nearby table were no longer eating and were instead looking very lively. The girl in question also felt something was abnormal and thus looked over at us. En, I did not see clearly, but she was definitely a beauty despite not being as beautiful as Murong Shanshan. However, seeing a beauty of this cla.s.s at night in Suzhou was pretty rare.

“Go. If the police come, I will help testify that you did not try to coerce her.”

[1] The raws state 不过并不影响这把枪的nb的属性. Credit to null for the following information. ‘nb’ stands for 牛逼 (niu bi) which is slang for “awesome/great/incredible”.

[2] Again, the raws literally just say “increase dodge rate by 5” but I’m making the a.s.sumption that the author is indicating 5% since dodge rate is probably a percentage and not a flat value.

[3] Ignoring the fact that they are in an underground cave at the end of a tunnel that was at the bottom of a well, it was natural for the cape to sway in the wind despite it being utterly unnatural that there was wind.

[4] Again, would someone please find out if there is a skill that is named along the lines of “pharmaceutical skill” or “medicine mixing” or maybe “potion making”? The raw term is 制药 which literally means to make medicine. It is clearly a skill that Lin Fan has since he learns the skill in the next sentence.

[5] Does anyone know how to translate the words 排挡? I’ve never heard of this term. If I look at the words individually, it translates as “queue” and “block” respectively. I ended up translating the term overall as “queue barrier” sort of like those rope barriers you see in banks/airports.

[6] I don’t know my flower species in Chinese. I translated 菊花 as chrysanthemum. Let me know if that’s incorrect.

[7] They use the phrase 老千 here. I think it’s a colloquial term that means something along the lines of cheating, but correct me if I’m wrong.

[8] The author uses the phrase 只要硬着头皮 here. Again, I think this is a colloquial term (since the direct translation doesn’t really make sense) and I chose to translate it as “bite the bullet”.

[9] The raws include the mm. I don’t have any idea what it means. For anyone interested the raws state 如果我那么会泡mm的话，怎么会到现在还单身？Credit to null for the following information. ‘mm’ stands for 妹妹 (mei mei) which when used as slang means “pretty girl”.

[10] So my Chinese knowledge doesn’t include knowledge of indecent vocabulary (considering I learned Chinese from my parents as a child). The raw term is 非礼 while the full sentence is 不然我就告诉陆雪涵你非礼欣雨. If that means something other than what I translated it as, please let me know.

[11] Again, my Chinese knowledge does not extend to indecent vocabulary. The raw term is 轻薄 while the full sentence is 要轻薄欣雨的话. If you know what that means, please let me know and I’ll update it. The same term is used again in the last sentence as well. Credit to null for letting me know that 轻薄 means “coerce”.

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