Mike glanced back casually, pretending to observe his tail with nonchalance.
He didn't seem to notice anything, as everything appeared perfectly normal.
Gexi's expression shifted slightly. Her peripheral vision caught a fruit stall by the road. Her brain worked at high speed as she immediately ducked, hiding behind the side of the fruit stall's sign, doing her best to conceal her shadow.
Her sudden turn startled Lu Xun for a moment.
Damn, was I spotted?
Why is this stealth segment so hard? There aren't even any prompts.
Lu Xun looked around and saw a cardboard box with two holes poked in it that was interactable. His eyes lit up, and it took him only 0.01 seconds to realize the purpose of such an item.
The heavens were truly helping him; a wild god-tier item had actually spawned here!
He quickly pressed the interaction key and put it on his head. His vision instantly went dark, leaving only two small holes to see through.
NPCs in games are all idiots. As long as you make it so they don't recognize you, you can clear your aggro.
He could even follow her openly without being discovered.
He truly was a genius.
"Is this guy treating me like an idiot?"
Gexi stared expressionlessly at Grinya, who was wearing a cardboard box on her head. In the middle of the street, this person was the only one acting like a lunatic, wearing a box as if she were desperate to let everyone know how special she was.
Pedestrians curiously sized up Grinya, wondering if this was some new trend in performance art.
"Is this person treating me like an idiot?"
Mike's gaze inadvertently fell on the tip of a hat poking out from beside the fruit stall, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently.
If you're going to tail someone, at least be serious about it! Don't you know you're wearing a very tall hat? It's like you're terrified I won't see you!
As for the person further away wearing a cardboard box on their head like a clown, drawing laughter from the crowd, Mike subconsciously dismissed them as one of those fools who exposed their weird quirks in the name of performance art. Not even worth mentioning.
As an international metropolis, Yiertaya was never short of such fools.
Wait... that tail is hiding behind the fruit stall, which means she can't see me at all right now?
Mike's heart skipped a beat. Wasn't this the perfect time to escape?
The moment the thought flashed through his mind, he acted. He sprinted forward with all his might. His movements were crude; anyone blocking his path was violently shoved aside.
A woman was accidentally pushed to the ground and immediately cursed at him, "Are you rushing to your death? Watch where you're going!"
Hearing the commotion, Gexi's heart stirred. She cautiously peeked out and saw Mike running toward the corner with exaggerated strides. With a single turn, he disappeared from her sight.
Her expression changed drastically. "Damn it, he's trying to lose me!"
She didn't care about her composure anymore and instinctively gave chase. Her steps were rough and reckless, drawing everyone's attention like a gust of wind. Most of the onlookers gave her strange looks. What kind of woman ran like that in public!
"Trying to run?" Lu Xun snorted coldly at the sight. "If I let you get away today, I might as well quit being a streamer!"
Gexi reached the corner and came to a screeching halt. Before her was a long street where everything looked normal and peaceful. Mike had already vanished without a trace. She was stunned.
She lost him?
Damn it, the rats of the cult were far too sensitive. If she had been just a bit more careful, maybe she wouldn't have lost him.
Stomp, stomp, stomp!
Rapid footsteps approached from behind. Someone was running toward her at a speed of ten meters per second.
Gexi didn't even have to think; it had to be the person tailing her.
Without a doubt, this person was also a cultist. Since she had accidentally lost one, she would just have to find a way to catch this one instead.
It wasn't easy to make a move in public, so she needed to find a slightly darker corner.
"Hmm?" Gexi's eyes narrowed. Just then, she caught sight of a very narrow alleyway in the wall beside her, barely wide enough for one person to pass through sideways.
Because the light was so dim and the entrance was so narrow and inconspicuous, Gexi hadn't noticed it before.
But looking closer, wasn't this exactly the kind of place she wanted? Dark enough and unnoticed by anyone.
The heavens were truly helping her!
Gexi let out a cold laugh. She plucked a strand of her grey hair and tossed it into the air before squeezing herself sideways into the narrow alley. Since her figure was quite slender, the process of wiggling through was easy.
Lu Xun controlled his character to perform a practiced emergency stop at the street corner, then slid his perspective with muscle memory. However, the person seemed to have vanished into thin air. No matter how much he looked around, he couldn't see the female mage in the pointed hat, nor could he see any character information above anyone's head.
He lost her?
Lu Xun was shocked. He couldn't believe his stealth mission had failed!
Damn it, he had never failed a stealth segment in any other game. This was a first.
Although she didn't know what had happened, Grinya could clearly feel that the evil god seemed to have suffered some kind of setback. His mood was frustrated.
This could be considered one of the few improvements Grinya had made while serving as a vessel. Perhaps because she had been a vessel for so long, she was reaching a state of being one in heart and body with the evil god. Even when the evil god remained silent, she could understand his emotions.
How strange. Do gods have emotions too?
While Grinya was thinking, a strand of hair suddenly floated past the two holes in the cardboard box, catching her eye.
Lu Xun, sitting in front of the computer screen, was also drawn to it.
"Hair?"
Lu Xun paused, then shifted his perspective and saw the narrow alley nearby.
"Could it be..."
Lu Xun moved slightly, controlling the character to walk over.
【You cannot pass.】
The prompt said "You cannot pass" rather than "This area is inaccessible," which made Lu Xun realize that he could go through, but he just hadn't found the right method.
Was it because the alley entrance was too narrow?
Lu Xun tried to squeeze through sideways.
【You cannot pass.】
"Still nothing?"
Lu Xun was baffled until a prompt suddenly popped up on the interface.
【You can try again after modifying a certain value in the Character Appearance settings.】
"What does this have to do with character appearance?"
Lu Xun felt the game was getting more and more nonsensical, but he still followed the instructions and opened the character appearance menu. What appeared before him was the 3D model of the Peerless Fencer, along with her various physical data, such as height and measurements.
After squinting at the screen and admiring it for a good while, Lu Xun suddenly had an epiphany.
"Oh... I think I understand why I can't get through."
"With development this over-the-top, it's only natural that she can't squeeze through."
"This is the most physics-engine-accurate moment yet."
...
Grinya was currently looking down. She could see her own pair of overly healthy...
Upon hearing the confusion of the great being in her mind, she felt extremely embarrassed.
'I'm sorry, Evil God. I'm so sorry for holding you back.'
'But this really isn't something I can control.'
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