Chapter 38: Fierce Tiger Blood Blade

  "Quickly, there's a thief behind you!" A sudden, urgent but exceptionally cold voice rang in Ye Chen's ear, he didn't have time to analyze who was warning him, and subconsciously rolled forward with a fierce tumble.

  Hiss!

  A gleaming dagger swept across Ye Chen's back, easily tearing his monk's robe to shreds. The icy breath made his entire body break out in goosebumps, but it narrowly missed injuring him by a hair's breadth.

  "It's impossible!" With a low cry of surprise, a thief with an inverted dagger appeared from the position where Ye Chen had just stood. The pale face and sharp teeth were indicative of this guy's race - Vampire. This race moved extremely fast, came and went like the wind, was light as a swallow, and was very good at hiding. Few people could avoid the sneak attack of a vampire thief.

  Lie Huo Xue Ren's face was filled with shock, as the first thief of the Lie Huo family, he found it hard to believe that he had lost to a 20-level novice who hadn't even changed jobs yet. He really couldn't understand where he went wrong, after all, in order to be able to one-shot Ye Chen, he had even given up helping Lie Huo Chou Hu pick up equipment, just to make the opponent completely let his guard down, but heaven knows, he actually failed!

  Ye Chen took advantage of Lie Hu's brief moment of stunnedness and quickly retreated backwards. For a spellcaster profession to encounter a thief with extremely strong close-range explosive power, not keeping a distance would be foolish.

  "Second sister, freeze this thief!" Ye Chen shouted in the team chat while frantically jumping backward. It wasn't that he didn't want Zui Xiang Si to help take down Lie Huo Xue Ren, but attack magic required time to chant, and only this auxiliary magic could be cast instantly. The opponent was a powerful level 26 thief, and the dagger was emitting a faint blue glow, making it a bronze-grade weapon. Ye Chen had no doubt that Lie Huo Xue Ren could catch up and kill him in one hit while Zui Xiang Si was chanting.

  "Damn it, Ye Chen was ambushed!"

  When the girls who were surrounding and attacking the devil heard Ye Chen's shout, they noticed the situation over here and immediately became anxious. They all saw the bronze device in the thief's hand. If Ye Chen was caught up, he would definitely be hanged.

  "Icy Halo!" Second sister's reaction was extremely quick, she didn't hesitate to give up the Devil's Frenzy and turned around to cast a slowing spell at the distant Lava Tiger Blood Slash.

  Lietu's Blood Blade was encased in a ring of frost, and his rapid footsteps suddenly faltered, entering a slowed state!

  Ye Chen saw the situation and slightly rejoiced, quickly chanting the incantation of the black fireball. The opponent's life value wouldn't exceed 800 points, at most two hits, and he could hang him up!

  "Looking for death!" The fierce tiger blood blade saw the situation, but it was a strange smile. Suddenly, a layer of crimson light flashed all over his body, and then only heard a crisp sound, the ice ring of Er Jie's Drunken Beauty actually shattered under the red light. In the blink of an eye, the moving speed of the fierce tiger blood blade returned to normal.

  "Not good, it's the Vampire Bloodline skill, can dispel all negative states!" Jian Qing Cheng was knowledgeable and called out the origin of Lie Huo Xue Ren's blood aura at a glance.

  Among the screams of a group of sisters, Lie Huo Xue's blade almost instantly rushed to Ye Chen's face, with the dagger in his hand already raised high, and a layer of flames ignited on the dagger, which was the strongest skill of the thief's attack - Fire Blade!

  "Even if I die, I won't let you have a good time!" Ye Chen's eyes turned cold, and the black fireball curse in his mouth not only didn't stop, but instead accelerated by several degrees. Giving up resistance isn't our style, before dying we'll give our opponent a ruthless blow, that way we won't die unjustly.

  "At the death throes." Lie Hu's blood blade saw the situation and sneered, raising his dagger high, suddenly falling down, straight to Ye Chen's heart, gritting his teeth: "Die!"

  Brush, dagger broke through the air, and the black fireball also left the top of the staff.

  Bang! -856, a blood-red damage number floated up from Lie Hu's Blood Blade Head, it was a critical hit!

  The dagger that should have pierced Ye Chen's chest stopped in front of him, the tip piercing his robes but not causing any substantial harm.

  Lie Hu Xue Ren stood there stupidly, his eyes filled with an incredulous expression. No way, no way! It should have been him who was faster by a hair's breadth. In the blink of an eye, the outcome had reversed, and he, Lie Hu, the number one thief, had actually been killed by a mere 20-level Xiao Er Nai!

  As the anger in Lie Huo Xue Jian's eyes gradually dissipated, as his body slowly fell before him, Ye Chen's face did not reveal too much joy, but instead some repression. In that instant just now, he clearly felt that Lie Huo Xue Jian's dagger had hesitated for a moment. Yes, it had hesitated. To be precise, Lie Huo Xue Jian had stumbled. Yes, he had stumbled. Possibly even he himself hadn't noticed, but as his opponent, Ye Chen was extremely clear.

  "Is that you, 2058?" Ye Chen didn't type anything, he just stood there talking to the air. He recalled the voice that had reminded him to dodge earlier, and without a doubt, it was 2058 - apart from it, there wasn't another intelligent life form in this world that could do such a thing.

  "Yes, if I didn't do that, you would definitely die. You're on the red list, you'll lose levels and equipment. I don't want my only friend to get hurt." The voice was still cold, but Ye Chen felt that it was full of human emotions, which inexplicably moved him. For the first time, he truly felt that 2058 was not a cold machine, but a life form with wisdom and emotions just like humans. Its emotions were even more simple and pure. It would only be a temporary setback to die once, lose equipment, and then regain it by fighting again. Yet, because of this reason, it had risked itself to save him. In Ye Chen's eyes, 2058 was a bit foolish, but its foolishness was lovable.

  After a brief silence, Ye Chen said in a low voice: "But if you do this, it's likely to attract the attention of the authorities, which would be very unfavorable for you. Moreover, that critical hit was also adjusted by you, right? Otherwise, how could it have been so coincidental that the decisive blow just happened to be a critical hit?"

  "The crit was indeed my adjustment, if I didn't do that, you would still have died from his next attack." 2058 fell silent for a moment before continuing: "As for the official, don't worry about me, it's just once, even if that thief found out and went to report it, the officials wouldn't care, nothing will happen to me."

  That voice was still icy, but Ye Chen heard the forced casualness in 2058's tone. Who could guarantee that wouldn't happen? What if the authorities really investigated thoroughly? Would they discover that 2058 had developed autonomous consciousness? Could they tolerate its existence? Humans, could they tolerate its existence?