Thinking like this, his brow couldn't help but wrinkle slowly.

"What's going on?" At this time, for some reason, the system warning sound that had been ringing non-stop suddenly stopped, and my ears suddenly quieted down, which made me lose the clue to continue searching, and also made me doubt in my heart.

Although I know that once the thief's stealing behavior is discovered, even if the intermediate process is not discovered by the player, the final result of successfully opening the package or stealing will still be shown to the player, which is also a setting of Phantom Company's virtual reality, which is close to the real world, and is also popular with the majority of non-thief players.

Therefore, the player who stole from me must not have succeeded in opening my skin, and it must have been something else that made him stop stealing for the time being.

"Could it be that my actions aroused his suspicions?" I was shocked.

If it was as I expected, the thief was so clever that he was able to detect something wrong with my small movements and stopped his actions for a moment.

"Interesting! Let me see who is smarter," I couldn't help but feel competitive.

I don't believe he'll give up on stealing because of this, and as long as I behave appropriately, I should be able to dispel his doubts and go ahead.

I opened the NPC's inventory again, put the 3 cores inside, and scratched my head with my hand, as if I was annoyed by the uncertain price of the item, but in fact I used this action to carefully observe my surroundings again, hoping not to miss the slightest suspicious sign.

Thankfully, I was cautious about the search.

Since I focused my attention on the vicinity of the player dressed as a samurai, and observed his surroundings in particular, I noticed a little bit of difference.

The shop is actually small, with only a right-angled counter, which forms a rectangular space with the walls on both sides.

The player dressed as a samurai stood to my right, and not far to his right was the 90-degree corner of the counter.

Originally, if someone wanted to hide on the other side of the corner, due to the system and the corner, he couldn't use the stealing skill on my side.

Stealing can only be used on players on either side of the corner if they are hiding around the corner, exposing at least one arm and half of their head.

The samurai-dressed player stood in such a clever position that he was blocking most of the view from my position around the corner.

In this way, the player standing on his left side will not be able to see another player crouching around the corner unless he looks very carefully and carefully, and this player is also wearing an earthy yellow robe that is very similar to the color of the counter, and the crouching there seems to be integrated with the counter, which at first glance seems to be just a protruding part of the counter, which adds to his concealment.

If I hadn't been observing the samurai player just now, I would have looked at the corner of the counter a few times, and I would have really looked at the crouching player.

"Good guys, the plan is really thorough and well-prepared, I believe many players have fallen into the trap" I secretly admired the thieves' scheming.

While quickly entering the price of selling the Core in the item box, I secretly calculated the distance from the crouching player to where I was standing.

"There is a minimum distance of twelve steps, and the thief's trick must be within eight steps of the player to be executed, otherwise the system will only display the message 'too far away to steal', then the person who stole from me just now must be a player dressed as a samurai" I calculated the distance between the player crouching around the corner and me, and immediately ruled out the possibility of him stealing.

I still don't know how this physique-based and strength-based samurai player was able to use the thieves' unique stealing techniques, but I was able to confirm that he was the one who had stolen from me.

"Then he and the player crouching around the corner must be a good match," I guessed.

Looking at where I was standing, and thinking deeper, I immediately understood the secret of the two thieves' cooperation.

I'm standing with my back to the doorway, which is not usually the case for an experienced player.

As long as there is a thief hiding outside the door, he can easily steal from the players in the store outside the store, and even if he is discovered, the player will usually only suspect the person in the store first.

And even if the player calls the guards, the guards will appear because the players in the store have actually been violated, but it will only check on the people inside the store and ignore the people outside the store.

Unless the player who is being stolen runs out of the store and shouts, there is nothing they can do about it.

In fact, this method was widely used by thieves and victims, and almost everyone who was not a thief was in danger and panicked all day long.

Later, someone finally knew the secret and announced it on the website, and the players who traded for a while invariably gave up the convenient position that the owner could see outside the door, and all walked to the inside of the store to trade, even if the thieves were found in the store, they would run outside the store and shout a few guards, and for a time the thieves in Shenzhou Longteng were killed, and countless people were caught, and they were almost extinct in the cities for a while.

By the time the thieves were released from prison, the secret was known to almost everyone, and the thieves did not dare to do it again, so they had to find another way to steal

During that time, players who chose the Rogue class were much more honest than in other periods, and some notorious players even disappeared.

Players will be very careful when entering the store, and there are often some players who suddenly scream in the process of trading items as a means to prevent thieves from stealing.

In the beginning, this method really caught a lot of thieves.

However, as time goes by, the thieves become more and more proficient in their skills, and their actions become more and more rapid, often before the player is aware of it, and the players who enter the store are generally very well guarded, and some even start to call the cut to call the guards as soon as they enter the door, making it difficult for the thieves to start, so slowly the thieves who steal in the store are getting fewer and fewer, and finally almost extinct.

On the other hand, as the thieves abandoned the position of the shop, the players' tight defense in the shop also began to relax, and the city of Longteng was calm for a while, and the law and order was better than ever.

However, there is always something special about everything, and today I have obviously met two thieves who dare to break the balance and seek wealth and danger.

Judging from the position chosen by the two of them, it is obvious that it has been stepped on and confirmed many times, and the theft is carefully planned.

The position of the samurai dressed up as a player, just outside the door and the critical place of reach, as soon as other players enter the door, most of them will first observe the environment, and see that there is only one samurai, and the vigilance will generally be greatly reduced, and because of the habit formed for a long time, it must not be exposed to the door, so it has to stand on the right side of the samurai or simply go inside, but for convenience, and the image of the samurai, it can also make the player feel at ease, so most players will walk to the right side of the samurai to trade, then it is within the effective range of the thief who squats around the corner。

If he succeeds, it goes without saying that he only needs to take the method of temporarily going offline, and he can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

In case the mistake is discovered, if the player calls the guards, they have to be arrested and imprisoned, but most players will have hatred for the thief who steals themselves, and there are many people who choose to draw their swords, and in the midst of anger, how can they find the thief who is very hidden in time, squatting around the corner?

But in fact, it wasn't the samurai player who stole it, so he was a legitimate PK at that time, and of course he would fight back.

If PK wins, not only will you get the opponent's full body equipment, but you will also get the reputation reward that you get after winning the legitimate PK.

If the samurai player's legitimate PK fails, then the stolen player will become a murderer in the city, not only will the sin value increase, but as long as the thief hidden in the shadows calls out the guard, he will be killed on the spot, and the whole body equipment and items will become the thief's trophies, and the thief's collaborator, the samurai player's equipment and items will naturally return to him.

And today, due to my lack of experience, although I knew about it, I instinctively stood in the most convenient place, but it made the two people mess up, but I also judged my novice identity from my behavior.

But the thief crouching around the corner was too far away from us to perform the Stealing Spell on me, because the distance between the two of us was too great, far beyond the effective range of the Stealing Technique.

Only that samurai player is closest to me, and there are enough conditions for stealing. And there are only three of us in this store, either/or, so he was the only one who stole from me just now.

"It's really thoughtful and ruthless, and the implementation of such a plan is really a foolproof method" I am full of appreciation for their clever cooperation.

But stealing it from me is another story, and I'm not one of those average players to compare.

While I was secretly preparing, I closed the item box at the NPC and made it look like I was ready to leave.

"Alarm, alarm, someone is trying to open your carry-on skin"

"Your Pocket has been successfully opened by an unknown player, check if the item is missing" The alarm sound of the system warning sounded, and the message that my Pocket was successfully opened flashed in front of my eyes.

I knew that the samurai player's theft had already opened my skin, and that if he didn't do anything, I would have lost my belongings, and if he had transferred the items to the thief around the corner in time, I would have really stared at them.

I used the fastest speed to change the weapon in my hand to the Heavenly Fallen Dragon Soul Staff, and with a single pounce, I came to the side of the samurai player, and "swept the world" conjured up 32 wild dragons, focusing on his brain with a single click.

I guess he's thinking about stealing something from my bag right now, so I didn't expect me to fly in and launch a deadly attack on him

Therefore, the joy on his face due to the successful opening of the bag had not completely disappeared, and my Heavenly Fallen Dragon Soul Staff smashed his skull firmly, accompanied by blood-red solitary lightning, and yellow, white, and red stinking liquids splashed all over the counter.

As the XP drops into the body, the system also sends a reward message with a 4-point increase in reputation.

I didn't have time to pay attention to it, I didn't have time to wipe the blood from the spills, and there was a thief on the lookout.

First open your inventory, then search the samurai's dead body, and have to keep an eye on every movement of the thief crouching around the corner.

I know he's also searching the corpse's items and gear to minimize the damage, but I'm confident he's no faster than mine.

But I'm not sure he won't be embarrassed to steal from me again after he can't get any of the items from the samurai's corpse.

For according to my reckoning, the samurai must have something on him that would enable him to perform his art of stealing, and it is absolutely undoubted that it is a treasure, and it must be of great convenience to me.

That's why I'm going to open my inventory, so that even if his stealing skills are high enough for me to be detected and the system can't raise an alarm, as long as any item is suddenly missing from it, it means that he has already stolen, and killing him will be a legitimate PK act at that time, and it can teach him a bad lesson.

Sure enough, as soon as I put the last item I found from the corpse into my inventory, I watched as one of the MP pills that had been in the inventory disappeared, and it was from the dead player's corpse.

I didn't hesitate any longer, and when I crouched down, I didn't have time to stand up, and I bowed my head, twisted, turned right, rolled sharply, and swung my cane, and in a few moves, I approached the rogue player in the khaki robe crouching around the corner.

He obviously didn't expect that I would be able to spot his location so quickly and launch a fierce attack.

Seeing that I was at his side in a blink of an eye, I was stunned for a moment, and reacted quickly, and I wanted to jump out of the power circle of my staff with a backward flip.

Although his reaction was quick and his movements were not wrong, he was still unable to do so in the face of my more clever reactions.

My staff, though it didn't hit him, didn't miss it completely, but it struck him in the right rib, sending him flying to the ground and hitting the counter wall.

Although I didn't use the "Sweep the World" trick with this staff, with the super attack damage of the Heavenly Fallen Dragon Soul Staff, the thief in front of him still lost a lot of blood, and a quarter of his exposed blood bar disappeared at once.

It took both of us by surprise.

I'm shocked that with my current staff strike, if it hits a monkey monster of more than 70 levels, even if its health is higher than other levels of the same level, it can also hit nearly one-third of the blood, but hit this thief's unprepared body, but it can only hit a quarter of the blood, so I immediately look at him differently, which means that his level must be above 80, and may even reach level 90, although I don't know how the thief's attack power is, with my current strength, whether I can keep him as I wish, it's really hard to say.

And he stole from me and was never discovered by the system, which shows that his stealing skills are also extremely clever.

In this case, even if I called in the guards, there would be no threat to him, because the system did not record his theft, but only regarded it as a feud between the two of us, so I had to kill him myself to teach him some lessons.

And he was shocked that I was able to discover his hiding place so quickly, let his wishful thinking fail, and be able to attack him in such a timely manner, and the attack power was so high, it was strange that he was cold.

Moreover, in order to have more space to load the loot after the theft, he basically emptied his skin bag before each operation.

Therefore, the equipment used for PK is not around at all now, and I have to equip myself with the loot obtained from the theft.

With the momentum generated by my hit, he slid out of the power of my staff after hitting the counter wall, and I couldn't help but applaud the accuracy and decisiveness of his actions.

At this point, even if I wanted to take advantage of the situation, I had lost the best opportunity.

I stared at him vigilantly, assumed an attacking posture, and while blessing myself with the purple cloud amulet, for the sake of prudence, I also ate a small pill that I had just found.

The thief who had already stood up on the other side also took off his earthy yellow robe, changed into a golden light armor, and changed to a short knife in his hand.

A burst of yellow light rose from his body and merged into his feet, and suddenly it was golden, as if a yellow cloud was supporting his body, and his movements immediately became light.

I knew he must have blessed himself with a thief's unique spell, the Light Swift Technique.

This light agility is one of the unique spells of the level 50 thief-pickpocket, which can temporarily increase the agility attribute of the caster by 1 point, and can be increased by another 1 point for each level 30 in the future, up to a maximum of 3 points, which belongs to the category of agility deficiency, which is extremely useful in battle.

You can't wait any longer, the longer it takes, the worse it will be for you.

"Huh" I shouted, and while he was stunned for a moment, the Heavenly Fallen Dragon Soul, which was already ready to attack, struck out, flashing four staff shadows, attacking his left, right, back, and the top of his head, forcing him to move closer to me.