337: Chapter 337 Please Respect Our Profession

Looking at this bizarrely styled, unfathomably aura-filled mysterious person, Captain Ji Xiaoyun swallowed, her palms already slick with cold sweat.

"This guy... could he be the hidden final boss of this S-rank secret realm?"

"Or perhaps, is this some special test arranged by the Organizing Committee?"

Just as countless terrifying guesses flashed through Captain Ji Xiaoyun's mind, and she had even prepared her moves for a desperate fight to the death.

The Faceless Man opposite her finally spoke.

His voice, disguised by the mask, sounded deep and raspy, carrying a mechanical quality devoid of any emotion.

"Robbery."

The Faceless Man raised the zixiao thunder bamboo in his hand, pointing it at Captain Ji Xiaoyun, his tone as casual as buying cabbage at a vegetable market:

"Hand over the valuable items in your storage ring."

"..."

In the dark space, there was a deathly silence, with only the electricity on that zixiao thunder bamboo crackling "zizila, zizila."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun was stunned.

She maintained her defensive posture as if facing a great enemy, her large eyes blinking, then blinking again.

"Rob... robbery?"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun's Brain crashed for a full three seconds before she could digest these two words.

The fear, tension, and the oppressive feeling of facing an unknown great terror that had filled her heart, the moment she heard this sentence, were like a balloon pricked by a needle, "pop," and leaked away completely!

"What the!"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun let out a long breath, her tense shoulders instantly slumping.

She directly lowered the short sword in her hand, placed her hands on her slender waist, and her previously pale face instantly switched to a triumphant yet speechless expression.

"You scared the life out of me!"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun patted her chest, rolled her eyes dramatically, and couldn't help but complain loudly:

"I thought I had triggered some deadly hidden monster mechanism, making such a big scene in the pitch black, but it turns out you're just a contestant looking to rob someone!"

She looked the Faceless Man up and down, with no trace of fear left in her eyes, instead filled with mockery:

"I say, buddy, your talent for playing god and acting like a ghost is not bad. You even wear a mask and a long trench coat in this hot weather; are you afraid that you'll be caught on camera during the robbery and retaliated against by our Nanhai Academy after we get out?"

The Faceless Man stood in place, his eyes behind the mask seeming a bit dazed, and he did not respond.

Seeing the other party not speaking, Captain Ji Xiaoyun thought she had seen through his intentions and immediately became even more enthusiastic.

As the young lady of a wealthy family in the south, with Nanhai located in a prosperous coastal area, she was accustomed to seeing all kinds of big situations and was least afraid of these poor martial artists who took risks for resources.

"Tell me, which small academy are you a contestant from? Is your school's funding very tight?"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun sighed like a wealthy woman, shaking her head with a look of compassion:

"I see your use of Supernatural Ability in space is quite good; to be able to set up this kind of domain, you must be at least a fourth-rank expert. With this ability, wouldn't it be better to safely hunt a few high-rank demonic beasts? Why must you do this shameful business of robbing?"

"How about this, it's not easy for anyone."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun waved her hand heroically, speaking with the confidence of the wealthy:

"I'm in a good mood today, so you withdraw this crappy space and let me out to meet up with my team. I'll pay out of my own pocket and sponsor you a few tens of thousands of Daxia coins as a form of poverty relief, how about it?"

"..."

As Captain Ji Xiaoyun's rapid-fire heroic speech concluded, the atmosphere in the [Organ Chat Group], which had previously been heated, instantly fell into dead silence.

Silence. A full ten seconds of absolute silence.

[Brain (its hand pushing up its glasses frozen in mid-air, its eyes filled with thick confusion and self-doubt)]:

"Brothers... does our getup look like it lacks intimidation?"

"I specifically studied three hundred human villain movies, combining the mask-man elements that best induce psychological fear, the dark claustrophobic space elements, and I even specially prepared a bizarre entrance!"

"But... why does it feel like this little girl isn't afraid of us at all? She even thinks we are poor?"

[Kidneys (pacing back and forth, furrowing its brow deeply)]:

"Brother Brain, I think the problem might be with the opening line!"

"Could our lines be too retro, too down-to-earth?"

"It feels like it lacks that air of dimensionality-reduction strike!"

"Shouldn't we have accompanied it with some villainous cackling earlier? Or something like 'Hehehe, offer your soul and treasures to me'?"

[Right Hand (knuckles cracking, angrily tapping on the screen)]:

"I'm furious! This woman actually dares to insult us with money! She actually wants to dismiss us with a few tens of thousands of spirit stones? Does she take us brothers for beggars?"

"Brother Brain, don't stop me, I'm going out now to give her two big slaps in the face and let her know what the cruelty of society is!"

[stomach (writhing in the corner, aggrieved)]:

"What do we do now? The atmosphere has been made a bit awkward by her."

"Since she's not afraid, there's no sense of accomplishment in robbing her..."

The organs in the group fell into an extremely abstract and absurdly intense discussion.

They never expected that their "villainous trump card," used to deal with the top talents of all Daxia, would meet its Waterloo in front of this Nanhai Academy second team captain with a unique train of thought, being forcibly treated as poor students working to earn extra money!

This is a serious insult to their professional standards!

Outside, in the dark space.

Captain Ji Xiaoyun waited for a long time, seeing the Faceless Man opposite still standing in place like a wooden post, neither speaking nor making a move.

She pursed her lips, becoming somewhat impatient:

"Hey, Masked Man, what have you considered? A few tens of thousands of spirit stones is not a small amount; one should be content. Open the door quickly; our captain must be looking for me outside now that he's noticed I'm missing."

"If he beats you up then, I won't be able to stop him!"

Hearing this, the Faceless Man, who had been silent all along, finally made a move.

Beneath the mask, the organs' self-esteem had been severely provoked, and they decided to immediately correct this little girl's erroneous perception and reshape the majesty of a villain!

The Faceless Man slowly raised the zixiao thunder bamboo in his hand. The voice from under the mask was still a mechanical synthesized sound without any emotion, but it had a bit more of a business-like seriousness:

"Please respect our profession."

"I already said it's a robbery. Hand over your storage ring yourself, and also remember to take off that blue earring on your left ear for us to check."

"Rest assured, we only rob for wealth, we don't take anything else."

The moment she heard this sentence, the teasing, relaxed smile on Captain Ji Xiaoyun's face froze instantly, like the surface of water blown by a cold wind.

The curve of her mouth flattened bit by bit, and in her previously somewhat careless eyes, a thick sense of vigilance and disbelief suddenly surged.

She subconsciously took half a step back, one hand quietly pressing onto the hilt of the short sword at her waist.

It was not strange for the storage ring to be seen through, as basically every contestant in the teams had a spatial artifact.

However!

The blue water-drop-shaped earring she wore on her left ear was a high-level hidden spatial spiritual artifact that her grandfather had spent a huge sum of money to have a top-tier artifact refiner custom-make for her!

That thing looked like a normal sapphire ornament on the surface, with three layers of extremely complex concealment formation patterns engraved on it; even a martial artist of the same rank who specialized in mental power, if they leaned close to her face to examine it carefully, would absolutely not be able to see any clues!

This masked man in front of her, who was playing god and acting like a ghost, from several meters away, without even releasing a trace of spiritual power, had actually seen through her deepest hidden trump card at a glance?

"It seems... you are really not simple."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun snorted coldly, and in those beautiful large eyes, there was no longer the previous contempt.

The pride and combat instinct belonging to the captain of the Nanhai Academy second team were completely ignited at this moment.

"However, wanting to take this young lady's things, it won't be that easy!"