Chapter 00167: An Unexpected Discovery
# An Unexpected Discovery
Chapter 167
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 167: An Unexpected Discovery
Sitting in front of the desktop computer upstairs, Li Chengxi looked at the computer screen.
With a move of his mouse, he right-clicked on the person in black entangled with Yang Yiyi.
In the character panel that popped up, the artwork also showed someone dressed in black.
The name field read Qin Yan, and her age was a bit younger than Yang Yiyi's, just fifteen.
What a little female thief, playing tricks and being mysterious.
Among her various attributes, only her movement technique was extremely outstanding; the others were much worse than Li Yingluo's and Zheng Yinping's.
But precisely because her movement technique was so outstanding, Yang Yiyi had a particularly hard time, like trying to catch a flea.
Her tried-and-true dump truck assault (Iron Head Skill) had little effect.
Even when she did land a hit, Qin Yan would quickly disperse the force, slippery as an eel.
However, Li Chengxi was not worried.
Yang Yiyi against Qin Yan felt like a main battle tank trying to shoot down a drone circling it with its main cannon.
Although it could not hit it, the drone could not do anything to the tank either.
It seemed Li Yingluo and Zheng Yinping were having no problems either.
At the very least, they could more than protect themselves.
What made Li Chengxi most curious was the chest the escorts were guarding.
What on earth was inside that would attract someone to rob the escort?
He felt like this might be the beginning of some major event.
After all, according to the tropes in wuxia novels, even if the item in the chest was not a peerless treasure of the martial world, it should be something extremely important, and then the protagonist who stumbles upon the affair would be drawn into it.
Li Chengxi even had the impulse to have Yang Yiyi pretend to accidentally smash the chest open to see what was inside.
Fortunately, it was just a thought.
Li Chengxi did not know martial arts, but he knew how to play games.
Presented in the form of a tactical grid game, Li Chengxi could tell at a glance that the situation was a stalemate, meaning it was temporarily impossible to see who would win.
Just as he was pondering what to do next, Yang Yiyi, chasing Qin Yan, swung her head and unleashed an Iron Head Skill.
She missed Qin Yan and instead hit the statue of the Three Pure Ones behind her.
It was just an old statue made of clay.
How could it withstand a headbutt from Yang Yiyi? The statue of Yuanshi Tianzun was shattered on the spot, leaving only its base.
He felt like she might face retribution for this.
And just then, Li Chengxi saw something sparkling under the broken statue of Yuanshi Tianzun.
He reached out and pressed the Alt key, and a tag popped up from the shattered part of the statue.
‘Sky-Upholding Stone’
“Fuck? Why was it hidden inside the statue?”
There was no time to think.
Seeing Yang Yiyi about to leap in pursuit of Qin Yan, Li Chengxi quickly picked up the microphone.
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Yang Yiyi had a dream of being a great hero, hoping one day she could roam the lands and uphold justice.
So when she saw the person in black appear, she was even more excited than the escorts.
Never mind what the escort agency was transporting, this person in black was being sneaky and mysterious; they definitely were not a good person.
Since they were not a good person, a great hero should take action.
Acting on this simple and pure thought, Yang Yiyi appeared even more worked up than the escort agency's men, chasing after Qin Yan and giving her a sound thrashing.
But this Qin Yan was more agile than a rabbit.
No matter what moves Yang Yiyi used, she just could not land a hit.
It felt exceptionally frustrating, like punching a ball of cotton.
A headbutt flew out, missing Qin Yan, and instead shattered the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun.
Yang Yiyi looked up to see Qin Yan leap onto the wall behind the statue, clinging to it like a spider without falling, and then scurrying quickly along the wall.
Just as she was about to give chase, she heard Li Chengxi's voice say:
“Inside the divine statue, yes, there's something sparkling. That's a Sky-Upholding Stone, get closer.”
The statues of the Three Pure Ones were all made with a bamboo frame core, coated with a layer of mud plaster, dried, and then painted, so they were hollow inside.
Yang Yiyi's headbutt had shattered the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun, leaving only the base of it sitting cross-legged.
The Sky-Upholding Stone, as translucent as white jade and covered in red divine patterns, was stuck right in the middle of the base.
Just as she was about to lower her head to pick it up, she heard the sound of something cutting through the air above her.
Qin Yan, who had just jumped onto the roof beam, actually flew down again, a small dagger in hand, aiming for Yang Yiyi's neck.
If she insisted on grabbing it, her neck would definitely be stabbed.
The Iron Head Skill did not train the neck, so Yang Yiyi had no choice but to take half a step back, lean her head back, and face the enemy with both fists.
“Left Sealing Tricky Hand!”
With the Sky-Upholding Stone right in front of them, Li Chengxi could not be bothered with anything else and directly commanded her.
When Qin Yan heard a man's voice suddenly come from Yang Yiyi's body, she was greatly alarmed, her large, clear black-and-white eyes widening into perfect circles.
It seemed she might have thought Yang Yiyi had a woman's appearance but was actually a man.
But these details were not important for now.
Yang Yiyi had originally intended to use the Black Bear's Three Pushing Hands, but upon hearing the command, she obediently waved her arm in an entangling motion, locking Qin Yan's left arm.
If she followed up with a Right Sealing Tricky Hand, Qin Yan's arms would be restrained, and Yang Yiyi could end the fight with a single headbutt.
The Left and Right Sealing Tricky Hand was a joint locking technique, using one's own arm to twist the opponent's arm, similar to tying a slipknot with your arm that only you can undo.
Once a joint is caught, it is difficult to escape in a short time.
But unexpectedly, just as she locked Qin Yan's left arm, her arm twisted out of the lock like a snake, as if she could voluntarily dislocate her arm joints at will.
“Fuck! What is this, Shadow Serpent Hand!”
Yang Yiyi did not understand what Li Chengxi's comment about 'Shadow Serpent Hand' meant, but Qin Yan, having escaped the hold, took the opportunity to aim a spear-finger strike at Yang Yiyi's throat, forcing her to retreat.
She was already prepared to deal with Qin Yan pressing her advantage, but instead, Yang Yiyi saw that she did not pursue.
Instead, she bent over, scooped with her hand, and grabbed the Sky-Upholding Stone from the statue.
Yang Yiyi immediately became anxious.
She was well aware that her own aptitude was unspeakably trash, and she mainly relied on the Sky-Upholding Stone to defy fate and change her destiny.
Whether one could encounter a Sky-Upholding Stone was entirely up to luck.
Now that one was right in front of her, she could not let it go no matter what.
She immediately darted forward and launched a Black Tiger Snatches the Heart.
Qin Yan had just scooped up the Sky-Upholding Stone and had not had time to put it away when she felt a vicious gust of wind from behind, forcing her to respond in a hurry.
Yang Yiyi's style was all about being faster and stronger; dexterity was lacking, and finesse was out of the question.
Qin Yan, on the other hand, was the complete opposite.
Her palms flew with extraordinary agility, her moves were strange and ever-changing, and for a moment, they were evenly matched.
The Sky-Upholding Stone jumped back and forth between their fists and palms as one tried to grab it and the other tried to snatch it back.
It was a good thing the Sky-Upholding Stone was sturdy enough, otherwise it would have been shattered by the two of them.
Li Chengxi, on the other side of the screen, was also very anxious, but the others had no time to come and help.
He wanted to intervene directly with his hand, but his Spiritual Power Value was insufficient.
He could zoom in on the view to reduce the area of effect and lower the spiritual power consumption, but the Sky-Upholding Stone was moving all over the place as the two fought over it, making it very difficult for Li Chengxi to zoom in and lock onto its precise location.
After all, the Sky-Upholding Stone was only palm-sized.
Such a small object was hard to grab.
If only he could retrieve objects from a distance.
Thinking of this, Li Chengxi spoke into the microphone:
“Throw me over.”
Qin Yan heard it too, but only found it baffling.
Yang Yiyi, however, did not think twice.
Upon hearing the words, she immediately took out the Jade Tablet from her clothes.
At that moment, the Sky-Upholding Stone was already in Qin Yan's hand.
The Jade Tablet thrown by Yang Yiyi struck the Sky-Upholding Stone dead center.
The latter only felt a powerful suction force wash over her.
Her hand loosened, and the Sky-Upholding Stone was sucked into the Jade Tablet.
Such an illogical scene made Qin Yan's eyes widen even more, looking as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
(End of this chapter)