Chapter 544 - Rogue

Chen Chen’s expression was uncertain. After thinking for a while, he turned, went downstairs, and walked into the shade.

Time trickled by in minutes and seconds. Chen Chen waited for a while and when he saw the sun gradually sink into the horizon and only a swathe of afterglow remained, he finally stepped out of the castle and went to the street.

The castle was kept a certain distance away from the surrounding buildings, encircled by a clearing without any shelter. The moat around the castle had long since dried up and was buried in the soil. Chen Chen could cross over with a single step.

Chen Chen stood in the open space outside the castle. He thought for a while and hovered up, but when he rose to a height of three stories, his head seemed to hit something with a “bang”.

Chen Chen rubbed his head. He tried to reach above the top of his head, but only touched a cold, hard object.

Chen Chen’s expression turned even more surprised. He tried to use the Field energy to extend upward. The Field energy surged at once but when his body tried going up, he bumped into an invisible boundary.

In other words, the only place where he could go higher than three floors was the inside of the castle.

Thus, Chen Chen only floated slightly above the height of the roof and then stopped rising. He started flying away from the front of the castle.

“Swish!”

The wind rushed by his ear, but Chen Chen’s speed was not that fast because most of the buildings in the city were two or three stories high. To prevent hitting the buildings in front, he was forced to reduce his speed to less than 50 meters per second.

Although his speed could not be increased to supersonic speed, Chen Chen had arrived at the edge of the city in less than a minute. Meanwhile, a towering wall appeared in front of his eyes.

The wall was about 30 meters high and extended from in front of him to the end of his line of sight. This wall directly enclosed the entire city.

Unlike the run-down buildings in the city, this wall was made of some unknown material. Its entire surface was non-reflective and black, appearing to be extremely tough.

In the center of the wall, there was a steel gate of the same height. The gate was dark red and there was even a row of digital buttons on both sides of the gate.

Was this a combination lock?

Chen Chen’s expression became even more astonished. Seeing a code lock in a medieval-style city was like seeing a group of knights wearing plate armor and not wielding a longsword but an AK each. It was too anachronistic.

Chen Chen did not think about the problem of the password. He tried to rise again to see what was behind the wall but when he rose to the height of the wall, he bumped into the invisible barrier again.

Erm…

Chen Chen suddenly understood that this space was sealed and everyone was only allowed to move within the scope of this space. No one was allowed to leave here by any means other than opening the gate.

This rule not only restricted Chen Chen but also restricted the group of people from leaving here.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen could not help looking mystified. According to the unique nature of this type of game, if one wanted to get the password to open the gate, one must solve a puzzle to do so, but the opponent’s IQ was only 5…

Chen Chen once again recalled the character card that was created on the consciousness battlefield. There was a [3D6] hint in the attributes of the previous character. This digit could only be understood by those who had played tabletop role-playing games. It represented the value cast by three hexahedral dice. Among them, D meant dice and the preceding 3 meant that the number of dice was 3, and 6 meant that each dice was a hexahedron, which was the most common cube dice.

Due to this, the evaluation given to Chen Chen’s IQ of 18 points was the “human limit” because the highest number of points that could be obtained by three hexahedral dice was only 18 points while the average value of a normal person was only 9 to 11 points.

The reason Chen Chen’s other attributes could exceed 18 points was also that Chen Chen was not a normal human being, but a T-virus modified person.

The difference between these values was not as simple as 1+1 equals 2, but an exponential calculation method. Compared with a normal person’s 11-point strength, the difference between that and Chen Chen’s 21-point strength could be more than tenfold.

The higher the value, the greater the degree of difference.

If the character card produced by the consciousness battlefield was truly the real data of the character, then it would be more difficult for the Consciousness Stealer to solve the puzzle within 24 hours.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen immediately thought of a special ability of the other party — Mind Reading 99.

As the name suggested, mind reading was one of the abilities possessed by Consciousness Stealers. If it wanted to get the password or hide in the group of adventurers or acquire it from the minds of the adventurers, the 99 behind the skill represented the level of the skill.

Tabletop role-playing games were all the same. What this skill indicated was that the player would roll five dice with 20 faces each and the level number meant that as long as the sum of the points rolled by the five dice was lower than the skill level, the skill was successful. Otherwise, it would fail.

For example, Chen Chen’s psychology was 77, so as long as the sum of the points of the five dice was less than 77, it would be considered a success. However, if it was greater than 77, the skill would fail.

In this way, the higher the level, the higher the chance of success and level 99 was the full level. The skill would only fail if one’s luck was terrible to the extreme and a full 100 points were obtained by the dice.

His opponent’s mind-reading skill was 99, which meant it was almost impossible to result in a failure.

In other words, maybe it could open the door in other ways such as mind-reading?

When Chen Chen was deducing this, the sky had turned completely dark and the entire city was plunged into darkness.

“That’s not right…”

However, Chen Chen frowned because he found that the speed at which the sky was getting dark was too quick. With his brain power, he was certain that only about half an hour had passed since he had woken up all the way to the present, but time had seemed to be accelerated by three times.

Three times, was it?

Chen Chen secretly remembered this number. The task gave him 24 hours. If this was calculated at three times the speed of real-time, it meant that he had three nights to fulfill these goals. Each night was about three to four hours.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen had already figured out some patterns. He turned around again and looked into the city, only to see a light flashing by in a building not far away.

That was… The light of a candle!

Seeing this scene, Chen Chen’s heart jolted. He rushed directly toward the building, and within a few seconds, he was outside the building!

“Patter patter…”

Suddenly, there were a few raucous footsteps in this two-story building, which sounded like someone fleeing.

“They noticed me?”

Chen Chen looked even more surprised. He rushed into the room directly through the window and stepped off his feet, jumping down the stairs like a dexterous cat. At once, a young man dressed in a black windbreaker, looking like an explorer, was seen blocking the gate.

This was a typical Western young man with a high nose, blond hair, and blue eyes, but his skin was slightly dark. At this moment, seeing Chen Chen standing in front of him, his pupils suddenly shrank and he turned around and ran inside the room without thinking.

Chen Chen observed this guy with great interest, only to notice that he was far superior to ordinary people in terms of decisiveness and agility. His skills were extraordinary.

However, faced with Chen Chen, this agile skill was futile. The guy had run into the room and wanted to escape through the window, but the next second, he felt an invisible force grabbing him and dragging him back in front of Chen Chen!

Seeing this, a ruthless look came into the eyes of the young man. He drew out a dagger at his waist and stabbed Chen Chen!

“Clang!”

There was a sharp impact sound. When the dagger in the young man’s hand pierced toward Chen Chen, it was blocked by an invisible barrier and a loud sound erupted at the same time.

“Attacked by a dagger, determining the decision to defend… The decision to defend was successful!”

At the moment when the opponent attacked Chen Chen, Chen Chen suddenly heard the loud voice from before and at the same time, there was a clinking sound of landing dice as if someone was rolling dice. After that, there was a notification of a successful defense.

Chen Chen listened to the noises in his mind while he waved one hand and the dagger flew out of the guy’s hand!

The young man only felt an irrepressible force wrench the dagger away from his hand. At the same time, a cold hand was directly clasped around his neck!

“Do you want to live or die?”

Chen Chen calmly gripped his neck and asked in a low voice, “If you want to live, you must answer my question.”

Feeling the terrible power contained in Chen Chen’s grip, the young man scrabbled at Chen Chen’s arm and his face flushed. He nodded quickly.

Chen Chen released his hand. The young man at once squatted and covered his throat, coughing heavily.

Chen Chen waited slowly. When the other party had recovered, he asked indifferently, “Who are you?”

“We, we’re explorers from the Principality of Assadin…”

The young man lowered his head in fear and said softly, “We accepted the commission of the mercenary union, to come here to find the treasure of Dulles Chen, the vampire count…”

Dulles Chen, was that himself?

Chen Chen’s heart leaped and meanwhile, he stared at the man with an unfathomable look.

“Using the skill of psychology, determining use of skill… Psychology is used successfully!”

In the next second, there was another jingling sound by his ear and at the same time, Chen Chen also developed a kind of comprehension that the two lines the man said were not false.

“The Principality of Assadin, the mercenary union…”

Chen Chen paced slowly in front of the opponent. “Treasure hunting? I think you still have the task of destroying me, right?”

Hearing this, the young man immediately lowered his head and fell silent.

“How many people are there and how strong are you?”

Chen Chen then asked.

“We have four teams with twenty people in total…”

The youth immediately replied, “The strength of the other team members is unknown. I only know that there are five people in my team. Besides me, there are two paladins, a wizard, and a priest… Our captain is the paladin, Julius!”

“Paladin? Wizard?”

Chen Chen narrowed his eyes and scanned the young man before him again. “Are you a ranger or a rogue?”

“Your Excellency, I’m the rogue, Gil Cedric the rogue.”

Chen Chen nodded and then continued to ask, “Are you familiar with the rest of them?”

“I’m not very familiar with them. We were all commissioned by the mercenary union to form a temporary team.”

The young man suddenly added. “By the way, Your Excellency, the two Paladins came together. They have the ability to protect against evil and are a great threat to you!”

“Oh?”

Chen Chen secretly memorized these words in his heart and then asked again, “Do the other teams have the same configuration?”

“It’s almost the same…”

The youth nodded.

“Have you ever seen a strange person in your team or other teams?”

After thinking about it, Chen Chen finally asked, “For example, his intelligence isn’t that high or he looks strange or something?”

“This…”

The young man shook his head blankly. “I’m not sure about this because I only met the other teams once before I came to Wasteland City.”

“Wasteland City?”

Chen Chen muttered in a low voice and gradually fell into contemplation.

“Your Excellency, please, please forgive my offense…”

Seeing Chen Chen sinking into thought, the young man gritted his teeth, trying to fight for his last chance at life. “As long as you let me go, I’m willing to leave this place now…”

However, before he finished speaking, Chen Chen suddenly raised his hand. In the next second, the young man was slammed backward as if he was hit by some massive blow and his body directly hit the wall behind!

“Boom!”

The entire building seemed to tremble and a scattering of soil fell from the ceiling. At the same time, blood was splashed all over the place and the young man was reduced to a pulp on the wall behind him…

“Not this one…”

Without even looking at the other party’s body, Chen Chen shook his head and stared out the window thoughtfully. “Sure enough, it’s a Western Fantasy module similar to D&D. It even has classes such as Paladins and Wizards. So, the ones I’m facing aren’t just ordinary people?”

Thinking of this, Chen Chen’s Field directly swept the entire house and in the next second, he immediately detected a locked room upstairs.

Chen Chen went upstairs again and walked to the door of that room, only to see that the door lock of the room showed many traces of damage and these traces were very new. It was the young man’s handiwork earlier.

It looked like he had used a candle for lighting and wanted to open the door, but eventually, he was discovered by Chen Chen?

Thinking of this, Chen Chen’s Field energy extended immediately, turning into a thin line as it fitted into the keyhole of the door. In the next second, there was a click and the door lock opened in response.

Chen Chen used Field to protect himself while gently pushing open the door, only to see that the room was empty, with only one iron box placed in the corner of the walls.

This was…

Chen Chen waved his hand and the iron box in the corner suddenly opened, revealing a piece of yellowed cloth inside.

Chen Chen unrolled the cloth and saw a map layout on the cloth.

The map showed the city where Chen Chen was located and the drawing was fairly detailed. Every street and every house were marked and in the center of the map, a large circle had been drawn with a red pen.

This circle was the location of Chen Chen’s castle.

This was a prop for the group of adventurers!