readease #668 - Copycat
#668 - Copycat
Although he didn't understand why Lin Yu would suddenly ask for the statue, Li Nian, out of trust for Lin Yu, directly handed him the mermaid statue she was holding.
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“You actually took something from my hands,” Li Nian said with emotion, “That's amazing, sister. Once something enters my hands, it rarely leaves.”
Lin Yu took the mermaid statue, and a prompt appeared before his eyes at the same time.
【Acquired Item · Siren's Blessing!】
Lin Yu looked at the blood-red prompt and replied, “There's no need to transfer the ownership to me; I won't use this thing anyway—I just want to help you ‘reset’ it.”
As he spoke, Lin Yu then took out the 【Repaired Mist Pocket Watch】.
The hands moved, and mist emerged. The already dimmed mermaid statue began to glow again.
Lin Yu returned it to Li Nian and mentally transferred the ownership of this 【Item】 back to Li Nian.
Li Nian looked surprised as she took the statue, unsure whether it was because Lin Yu immediately returned it to her or because the 【Siren's Blessing】 could be used again.
She held it in her palm again, and the ethereal mermaid song sounded once more. Then, an invisible barrier supported by the song spread out, repelling the surrounding spiders and spider silk once again!
“Bang!”
Those spider demons once again clung unwillingly to the barrier, unable to advance an inch.
“Whoa—saved!”
Seagull looked at this scene and said excitedly, “You guys even have a refresh orb.”
Li Nian also looked at the pocket watch in Lin Yu's hand, clicking her tongue in wonder, “Hey, this is really a good thing.”
Gao Shan reminded, “Be careful, Ms. Yao… Remember to check if your 【Item】 is still there before leaving the 【Instance】.”
Li Nian looked at Gao Shan, “Hey, hey, hey, what are you saying? Why are you trying to stir things up, you ‘Order’ guy!”
“How could I steal this beautiful lady's things? I would only steal from people I hate.”
As Li Nian spoke, Lin Yu also said seriously, “Thank you for your reminder. I will be careful.”
Afterward, he deliberately pretended to be wary and put the pocket watch away again.
“I'm so sad,” Li Nian also cooperated with Lin Yu, saying exaggeratedly and resentfully, “Indeed, prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain.”
However, the other three didn't expect that these two knew each other and were putting on a double act.
Gao Shan said earnestly, “The direction of a tree is decided by the wind, and the path of a person is decided by themselves. If you feel uncomfortable being suspected, then steal fewer 【Items】 from others in the future, ‘Thief’.”
After a brief interlude, the two sides set off again.
However, the invisible gap in this team, which was originally somewhat suspicious, became even more obvious.
Lin Yu, mixed in the team, didn't care about these things.
After all, it was enough as long as this trio didn't directly fall out with Li Nian and start fighting.
And because they roughly knew the limit of the 【Siren's Blessing】, the speed of the group's journey this time invisibly increased a lot.
Gao Shan led the way in front, and Li Nian was protected in the very center—if there were too many congested spiders and spider silk, or if there were any roadblocks such as falling rocks on the road that were not conducive to progress, then Seagull and Snow Owl would step in to clear the way.
The group had a clear division of labor, and coupled with the fact that the number of spider silk and spiders would be relatively sparse as they went further to the periphery, they quickly arrived near their destination!
Lin Yu looked at the continuous and steep peaks near the destination, with one small peak after another standing tall, and said.
“No wonder there are bandit strongholds in this place. If I were a bandit, I would also choose to build my stronghold here.”
As he spoke, Gao Shan pointed to a certain peak in front and said, “That's the stronghold where we first appeared—at the entrance of the stronghold, there is a fork in the road, one side leading to the main road and the other leading to a dilapidated Taoist temple.”
“That's right, I recognize it once we get here. It's indeed over there.”
“Although I only took a look from afar at the time, that should be the Taoist temple you mentioned. After all, that Taoist temple looked very extraordinary at first glance. The surrounding scenery was completely different from the bare mountains around it—it's just that the letter mentioned the escort team, and we were afraid of missing the best time for the escort team to pass by, so we didn't go to explore that Taoist temple,” Snow Owl said, “I didn't expect that a key item was also hidden there.”
Compared to the Little Fire Dragon, Squirtle, and Deadshot trio, this trio, in addition to their strength, also completely outclassed them in terms of recognizing roads.
In the entire team, only Seagull didn't know the way—Gao Shan was even able to directly lead everyone to the correct destination in the mountains that were almost unrecognizable due to being covered by spider silk and spiders at the time.
Along the way, although Captain Gao Shan would also stop to identify the direction, he never went the wrong way, and every route choice was completely correct.
Lin Yu once suspected that he used some 【Item】 to achieve this.
Following the road that Gao Shan pointed out again, the three of them set off towards that small mountain—soon, they arrived near the stronghold.
Compared to the settlement buildings of Chenjiabao, the architectural style of this stronghold was obviously much wilder.
Although they were also buildings built of stones, basically all the places where people lived in this stronghold were built against the mountain and expanded inward relying on natural caves. They just built a door and a wall on the outside, and that was about it.
The outer walls were also very irregular, with traces of multiple repairs.
At the same time, Lin Yu also understood why these two ‘Night Watchers’ plus a member of ‘Order’ would rather increase their difficulty in clearing the game than cooperate with this group of bandits.
Because within the walls of this stronghold, between the gaps of the stones, a large number of human bones were piled up.
The bones discarded along the walls had also piled up into small hills.
The threat and harm that these bandits entrenched here posed to the surrounding villages, mountain people, and passing caravans were no less than those of the demons in the mountains.
However, they have now received their retribution—in front of the crudely made stone gate at the main entrance of the stronghold, three fresh corpses hung at the entrance, and more corpses were piled up below.
Judging from the attire of the corpses…