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Chapter 50: Is Gao Xingyun making another move?

As night fell, You Che led Qing Ling into the town.

Cloaked and relying on his extensive experience, he was almost perfectly hidden in the shadows, completely undetected by anyone.

This town has absolutely no redeeming features in terms of defense, and the mayor's governance is even worse; You Che could sneak in with his eyes closed.

As for Qingling, You Che was initially a little worried, but this monster girl once again demonstrated her intelligence, imitating You Che's steps and movements almost perfectly, and followed him into the town.

You Che was somewhat surprised, but nodded in agreement.

Then he gently tugged at Qingling, pulling in the half of her body that hadn't managed to hide in the shadows because she was so focused on imitating his movements that she hadn't paid attention to her position.

Hmm... it seems we still need to take it slow.

"Don't just stare at me, pay attention to your surroundings too," You Che said softly. "Just think of these buildings as strangely shaped trees that people live inside."

He had only said it casually, but to his surprise, Qingling seemed to have been enlightened after hearing it. Even without deliberately imitating him, she could perform stealth and concealment almost perfectly afterward.

"I underestimated you." You Che smiled, no longer paying much attention to Qing Ling, and turned his gaze to the mayor's house.

The mayor's house is the only three-story mansion in the town, covering a considerable area, and its defenses... are decent enough.

It seems this guy is well aware of how he is perceived by the townspeople.

However, in You Che's eyes, those seemingly formidable defenses were full of loopholes.

—Without even an automatic early warning array, how can it be considered heavily guarded?

With Qingling by his side, You Che waited for a moment when the guards were distracted and successfully infiltrated the area.

"Let me think, where would this kind of guy usually hide his money? It's so hard to guess."

You Che walked around the house a few times and memorized its basic structure.

In the world of "Dark Fantasy", many NPCs like to build secret rooms and hidden compartments to hide things, making it look very real. In some quests, if you don't have the eyesight to see through these mechanisms, you can easily miss some valuable items.

With You Che's experience, he certainly wouldn't miss those obvious secret room structures.

So when he silently strolled around the third floor and opened the door to the mayor's study, he only glanced at it before drawing his conclusion:

"The room width doesn't match; there's a secret room here."

He looked around again and found the mechanism—a magic lamp ornament on the table.

"classic."

The bookshelf opened, the door to the secret room opened, and You Che and his companion went inside.

The secret room was small and even somewhat rudimentary, containing only four large cabinets labeled with materials, potions, weapons, and equipment, respectively.

The most common items here are gold and silver products of various styles.

Unfortunately, the mayor didn't seem to like hoarding gold coins, and each of those gold and silver items took up a separate slot in his backpack, so Youche simply didn't have the space to specifically take them.

So he looked directly at the cabinet of materials, and after searching around for a while, he found all the potion materials he needed.

"Thank you for the gift from this unknown and unseen baron."

You Che found it somewhat amusing, as he didn't even know the town mayor's name, age, or appearance.

But that wasn't really important, so he just kept searching for things of value.

After taking some extra monster materials, Yu Che went to the cabinet where potions were stored.

"Hardening potions, fire resistance potions, beast language potions, exorcism potions, and... a whole box of stamina potions?"

You Che was completely baffled: "What are all these things? Why would this Baron hoard all this random potion stuff?"

Aside from the exorcism potion, everything else is meaningless! Is there nothing else?

Despite saying that, You Che still packed a few bottles of each kind in his bag, since he was already there.

He searched carefully again and indeed found a hidden drawer inside the cabinet. When he opened it, he found a beautifully decorated brocade box with a magical seal inside.

"Oh? This thing looks interesting."

You Che tried to touch it with great interest, but his fingers were repelled by the magic seal on the brocade box, and his hand was even burned.

Health Points: -1

Qingling noticed his "injury" and immediately came over and grabbed his hand.

You Che chuckled, "Don't worry, I'm fine. The magic seal on this box probably won't be broken anytime soon. Anyway, take it first, and we'll see if there's anything else."

Items sealed with magic cannot be put into a backpack or pocket, so Yuche can only carry them on his person.

He took one last look at the two cabinets containing weapons and equipment, and found that most of the items there were flashy but impractical, focusing more on appearance than performance. He was speechless.

"As expected of a ruined noble family, what's the point of collecting these purely aesthetically pleasing pieces of equipment? I'm asking you this!"

While the appearance of weapons and equipment is indeed important, Yu Che simply cannot accept the idea of ​​someone wearing cool armor but then sporting a cute pink teddy bear head on their forehead for stat boosts.

But good looks alone aren't enough!

You Che couldn't help but complain, and after searching for a long time, he finally found a piece of equipment that could be considered to have a stealth ability.

It was a protective amulet-like item with an exquisite appearance. When activated, it released a hazy halo to cover the body and shield the user from observation and detection.

However, it will continuously consume magic power during the activation process, and the consumption is quite significant.

"It's quite noticeable when it's activated, and it consumes a lot of energy... but it's better than nothing."

You Che felt like this wasn't the first time he'd said this in the past two days, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Aside from the box whose contents were still unknown, the biggest gain from this trip was gathering all the potion ingredients he needed.

"Well, this is enough. Otherwise, we'd probably have to travel to two more towns to gather all the materials."

You Che was not greedy and was prepared to leave.

However, as he left the secret room, he noticed that there was actually a hidden compartment in the desk.

Still with the mindset of "since I'm already here," Youche casually opened it and found evidence of the town baron's various crimes, such as colluding with bandits, persecuting townspeople, and disregarding the laws of the kingdom.

"How could someone hide their criminal evidence at home instead of destroying it?"

You Che said he found it hard to understand the Baron's thought process, but since he had seen all of this, he certainly couldn't let it go. Otherwise, if the Baron realized what was happening and destroyed the evidence, there would be additional trouble when Xiao Yang returned with his men.

So he casually pocketed all the letters and receipts.

With nothing more to do, he called Qingling, who was still wandering around the study like a mischievous child, touching and poking at everything, and together they left the Baron's mansion.

Not long after, when the elderly baron got up in the middle of the night, noticed the light on in the study, came to check, and discovered that his secret room had been burgled, Yu Che and his companion were already far away.

"Go chase after them, ahh ...

That night, the old man's roar echoed over half of the town.

However, while all the town's guards were mobilized to search the town and its surroundings, You Che and Qing Ling had already returned to their campsite in the forest.

Qingling seemed to be tired from running around today. After Youche laid out her sleeping bag, she quickly dug a hole next to her and half-buried herself in it to sleep.

As for You Che, he was studying the box that couldn't be opened.

The magic seal mechanism also exists in "Dark Fantasy", and it is not difficult to break. It is similar to a puzzle game, a combination of maze, connect-the-dots and Snake.

To break the seal, you must first activate it with your own magic power, which will continuously consume magic power in the process. Secondly, you must solve the puzzle in one go to successfully break the seal.

However, without magic-based classes and passive bonuses, this puzzle game would be quite complex.

Needless to say, You Che didn't have those, so when he tried to break the seal, what he saw was an extremely complex puzzle maze.

If the attempt to crack the box fails, the box will self-destruct.

You Che had to admit that even a player of his caliber had things he wasn't good at, such as these kinds of puzzle games.

So he carefully calculated and solved the puzzle, and finally succeeded in solving it just before his magic ran out.

"Phew... It's been a while since I played this. It's actually quite exciting. I hope the rewards are worth the effort."

He opened the brocade box and was immediately drawn to what was inside.

Inside the box lay a beautifully decorated gold bottle with a narrow neck.

You Che couldn't take his eyes off it once he saw it.

"Wait, no way, could this thing be...?"

[Requiem]

Category: Consumables

[Quality: Perfect]

"Holy crap!" You Che almost exclaimed, "This time it was totally worth it!"

Rather, this thing shouldn't even be in the collection of a down-on-his-luck baron!

Could it be that his luck, which is as high as 9 points, has kicked in again?

Anyway, this thing now belongs to the Yu family.

—I won't stand on ceremony!