HPDBC Chapter 157 The Thief 3
Chapter 157 The Thief 3
He pounded his thigh, his face filled with resentment.
"Lin Tian's reaction was too fast! I had just gotten the staff in my hand when he noticed! If he had been even half a second slower, no, even a tenth of a second slower, I would have had a chance to steal those other shiny items next to me!!!"
He recalled the burst of light that filled the ground; besides the staff, there were at least two or three pieces of equipment and several items and materials that looked extraordinary.
"This staff alone is already this overpowered; the rest... their value is probably immeasurable! Perhaps there are even more suitable assassin artifacts for me!"
The more he thought about it, the more heartbroken he felt, as if he had missed out on hundreds of millions.
"Sigh, if my [Heart of Shadows] talent were stronger, increasing the stealth effect to 200%, or reducing the cooldown of 'Shadow Walk' to 20 seconds, I would have really struck it rich tonight!"
Both bosses' loot should belong to me, Deng Yi!!!
He was indulging in unrealistic fantasies, completely ignoring how lucky he was to have managed to steal even one item from Lin Tian.
Lost in regret and daydreaming about the future, Deng Yi was unaware of the passage of time, nor did he realize that danger was approaching from his supposedly safe hiding place.
From the moment he hid in the cave until now, when he was carefully admiring the staff's attributes, only about a minute had passed.
Just as he reluctantly put the staff into his backpack, took a deep breath, and prepared to activate [Heart of Shadows] again for perfect stealth and leave this temporary stronghold—
He carefully parted the vines at the entrance of the cave, just about to take a step.
Their steps froze instantly.
The pupils suddenly contracted.
Less than ten meters from the cave entrance, three shadow wolves, their bodies wreathed in eerie blue demonic flames, stood silently.
Their crimson wolf eyes shone like burning embers in the dim light. At this moment, those six crimson points were fixed coldly on Deng Yi, who had just poked half his body out.
The two stared at each other, wide-eyed.
The air seemed to freeze at that moment.
Deng Yi's mind went blank with a "buzz".
The next second, boundless horror washed over his entire body like ice water!
"Oh no!! We've been discovered!!"
His heart was pounding in his throat.
"How could they be so fast?! How did they find this place?! Lin Tian... does he have tracking abilities? No! These are summoned creatures! How could summoned creatures be so far away from the players?!"
Ordinary summoners typically have limited range of movement for their summoned creatures; once they exceed a certain distance, they will lose contact or automatically dissipate.
In Deng Yi's knowledge, this distance usually does not exceed one kilometer.
He deliberately ran more than a kilometer and hid in this extremely secluded cave, which should theoretically be absolutely safe!
Little did he know that Lin Tian's intelligence and mental attributes had already broken through the conventional boundaries, reaching an unbelievable level.
The over 10,000 Intelligence and Spirit on the attribute panel not only bring devastating magical attacks, but also absolute control over summoned creatures and an extremely long range of existence!
With Lin Tian's current attributes, his Shadow Wolf can move freely within a range of five or six kilometers around him and can clearly relay information!
The moment the three ghostly wolves' crimson eyes locked onto Deng Yi at the cave entrance—
Lin Tian, who was hovering low in the air hundreds of meters away, twitched his brow slightly.
Through the shared senses of the wolf pack, a clear location coordinate and image instantly entered his mind.
"I've found you."
The cold smile on Lin Tian's lips returned, like a hunter finally locking onto his cunning prey.
"Little mouse, you're quite good at hiding."
The moment he locked onto the target's location, a cold glint flashed in Lin Tian's eyes.
[Flash shrink!]
His figure suddenly blurred in place, and in the next instant, he appeared like a ghost above the entrance of the cave hidden by vines.
Without the slightest hesitation, to prevent the cunning rat from escaping again using its stealth or teleportation abilities, Lin Tianfu raised his hand towards the cave below as soon as he appeared.
【Universal Celestial Pull】! — Not the highest consumption, but enough to cover the entire cave and its surrounding area!
Om-!
A terrifying gravitational vortex was instantly generated, and the vines and rubble at the cave entrance were pulled madly toward the center of the vortex as if grabbed by an invisible giant hand!
The entire cave resounded with an unbearable roar, the rock walls cracked, and large amounts of dust and rock fragments were forcibly sucked out, as if trying to hollow out the entire mountain!
Smoke and dust filled the air, and gravel tumbled down.
Once the gravitational effect dissipated, the original opening had collapsed by more than half, and the internal structure was completely destroyed.
Lin Tian hovered in mid-air, but apart from some debris torn apart by gravity and a few startled ordinary underground creatures, there was no sign of the thief in the ruins.
"Oh? It ran away again?"
Lin Tian raised an eyebrow, but instead of being annoyed, a more amused smile appeared on his lips.
"You reacted quickly and slipped away decisively. It seems you little mouse may not have many other skills, but your ability to escape is unparalleled."
His gaze was fixed on the distance, as if he could see through the layers of trees and spot the figure fleeing in panic.
"However, let's see how many times you can run."
Lin Tian muttered to himself, his tone filled with the ease and playfulness of a cat catching a mouse.
"I still have a lot of patience left."
......
Just a few hundred meters away from Lin Tian's location, in the shadow of a dense thicket, an extremely faint, almost indistinguishable shadow was trembling slightly.
It was Deng Yi who had just escaped the cave at the last minute thanks to the Shadow Travel ability attached to his Shadow Heart talent.
He stared with lingering fear at the cave in the distance, which had been almost completely leveled, his back soaked with cold sweat.
"A madman! A complete madman!"
Deng Yi screamed wildly in his heart.
"They just started demolishing the mountain without warning! If I hadn't run fast, I'd be buried alive in there by now!"
He had activated his strongest stealth state at this moment. With the help of the S-rank talent [Heart of Shadow]'s [Perfect Stealth] effect, he was confident that almost no one of the same rank could see through his stealth.
Even so, a tremendous sense of crisis still coiled around his heart like a venomous snake.
"No, we can't stop!"
Deng Yi forced himself to calm down and analyzed the current situation.
"Although my talent is strong and can greatly amplify the stealth effect, my own [Stealth] skill is too low-grade! It's only C-grade!"
This C-grade [Stealth] skill was something he obtained by sheer luck after taking a huge risk to snatch the last hit from a low-health BOSS from an elite squad that was almost wiped out.