177: Huangfu Dong: I am smart and have seen through everything!

Cheng Zhen, wearing gloves, held the pair of slippers with two fingers, a look of distaste on his face.

“Equipment: Fire Cloud Cthulhu’s Slippers (Female)”

“Quality: Rare”

“Wearing this equipment immediately increases Strength by 10% and Speed by 15%, and grants the active skill: One-Legged Vertical Split.”

“One-Legged Vertical Split: Raise your leg high and kick forward with a ‘Slipper Shockwave’ that repels targets in front of you (impact force is affected by Strength attribute).”

“Note: It’s okay if you can’t do a one-legged split; the slippers will automatically help you complete it~~~ However, you must have legs and feet first!”

The attribute bonuses were mediocre, but the skill effect was quite good.

After all, Ge Chang’s main weapons were various firearms, and his skills had a taunting nature, so he often encountered situations where enemies would close in to attack him. Using the ‘Slipper Shockwave’ could repel targets, making it convenient for his subordinates to finish them off from behind.

But as Cheng Zhen held the slippers, he couldn’t help but imagine a certain bald old man scratching an itch with slippers…

He didn’t want to wear them, he really didn’t want to wear them. He’d just sell them later for money.

While Cheng Zhen was showing his disdain here, Ge Chang was screaming internally over there.

Where’s my equipment?

Why did my slippers suddenly disappear!

What on earth happened!

He saw that the newly spawned snowman behind him hadn't approached yet, so the disappearance of his equipment had nothing to do with the snowman.

Then someone must have used a skill or item on him?

But Ge Chang surveyed the entire area and didn't notice anything approaching him. Only that mysterious sensation lingered in his mind, as if a ghost had touched him…

Hmm? A hand?!

As if Conan possessed him, a flash of insight crossed Ge Chang’s mind, and he instantly realized something.

He knew, it was that item!

“Item: Cloud-Grabbing Hand (10/10)”

“Quality: Epic”

“Effect: When the user touches a target with this item for 3 seconds, there is a chance to steal equipment from the corresponding position on the target. (If less than 3 seconds, the item use fails, but still consumes a usage count. If the target of the theft kills the user, the stolen equipment will be returned.)”

“Note: Sa and Sa, PDD!”

Ge Chang, having been in the business for a long time, was quite knowledgeable and immediately thought of the effect of the [Cloud-Grabbing Hand] item.

It was said that a certain audacious thief once used this item to steal equipment from a guild leader, infuriating the guild leader so much that he put a bounty on the thief’s head.

However, the thief was extremely cautious, always keeping his face and body covered like a zongzi, so no killer had found the target to claim the bounty yet.

But thanks to that thief, everyone learned of the existence of such an item.

After Ge Chang heard about the item, he also fantasized about using it to steal high-level equipment.

Unfortunately, the item appeared a few more times later, but it was always bought by the wealthy bigwigs of various guilds.

Ge Chang calculated the price and gave up.

That item was selling for more than epic equipment, but even if he got his hands on it, there was no guarantee he could steal epic equipment.

If he used up all the charges and only stole a bunch of trash equipment, wouldn’t buying it be a pure loss?

But now, as the victim, he couldn't even consider the question of loss.

Because he was already missing a piece of his equipment!

Ge Chang cursed inwardly. It was already annoying enough to have a snowman behind him slowing him down, but they had to steal his shoes!

However, despite his anger, he forced himself to calm down.

Because he realized that the only person likely to possess and use this epic item was Cheng Zhen; the other few Raiders didn’t seem to have the strength to own an epic item.

But their marked target was moving in another direction, and there was no way they could use an item to steal his slippers through a wall.

Either Cheng Zhen also had an invisibility item or other means to approach, or the three of them really did something stupid and mistook their target.

Thinking of the person who called himself ‘Huang Putong’ and that skill, Ge Chang’s mouth twitched.

Did they really provoke someone they shouldn’t have?

At this thought, Ge Chang immediately pulled out his walkie-talkie to talk to his subordinates.

“You guys, pay attention. We might have mistaken Cheng Zhen before! The target of the encirclement is very likely to be the former top-ranked Huangfu Dong…”

Before he could finish speaking, several hidden weapons shot out from the smoke of the explosion and attacked him.

Ge Chang immediately rolled to dodge.

But he had only known before that his opponent would use hidden weapon attacks, never expecting that those martial arts masters would also use internal energy to release qi waves.

Seeing the transparent ripple about to hit his face, Ge Chang felt a bad premonition. In a hurry, he could only shield his head with his arm. The walkie-talkie in his hand shattered with a crash, and the rest of his words could not be transmitted.

The snowman was slowly approaching from behind. He couldn't stop moving, or he would stack two more debuffs.

He couldn't use grenades either, or the same situation as just now would occur.

Then… he could only charge through with his own abilities!

Ge Chang held a weapon in his left hand and a water gun in his right, planning to activate a skill to interfere with the enemy, then take down the blockers.

But just as he was about to charge, his hair suddenly stood on end.

He felt as if he had encountered a pervert on a train; that feeling of being secretly touched (physically) came again!!!

…

“Boss?!”

Ge Er and Ge San frowned. The sound of the explosion before the communication cut off made them a little worried.

“Let’s go back and find Boss first!” Ge San said decisively, “Anyway, Cheng Zhen is in this instance; he can’t run away.”

Ge Er nodded: “Okay! If Boss dies, and we haven’t contacted Jing Zhiyuan, we might not get our final payment!”

“…”

Ge San was silent.

Although what you said is true, isn't that a bit too realistic?

Ge Er: What else? We can't put up a banner saying they owe their assassins wages, can we?

“Hmph, as expected of that shameless scoundrel Jing Zhiyuan!”

Just as the two were about to leave the room, they heard a voice with an accent.

Looking warily, they saw a person carrying a long sword walking towards them from another door in the room.

Huangfu Dong knew their location through Rui Jun and immediately threw out an item, which instantly rendered their camouflage coating ineffective.

Thinking of their boss’s words before losing contact, Ge Er couldn’t help but say, “You… you’re really not Cheng Zhen, you’re Huang Putong?!”

Huangfu Dong was silent.

Damn it, they even dared to mock my accent!

His rage instantly flared up.

Seeing his murderous demeanor, Ge San quickly said, “Huang… Mr. Huangfu, actually, it was all a misunderstanding before! The person we were looking for was Cheng Zhen, but we mistook you for him, which is why we attacked.”

“So you’re trying to say that it’s all his fault for misleading you, which caused me to suffer?” Huangfu Dong asked, with a ‘kindly’ expression.

Ge San answered unequivocally: “Yes! It was all him!”

Regardless of whether it was true or not, the priority was to deceive him first. Otherwise, directly confronting two super rookies, they couldn't win!

Huangfu Dong was directly amused to anger.

Indeed!

I knew it! How could professional killers mistake their target!

It was your guys’ premeditation! Making me think Cheng Zhen was trying to harm me, wanting me to deal with him for you!

Now you’re not even pretending anymore, are you?

Ge San didn’t expect that after he finished speaking, Huangfu Dong’s already furious rage meter would surge even higher.

“You two, do you really take me for a fool to trick? Don’t think I can’t see through your schemes and tricks!”

“You’re insulting my intelligence, aren’t you? Prepare to die!!!”