When facing someone who was deliberately looking for trouble like this, Su Shu did not want to give him even a single glance.
However, she truly favored the long umbrella in her hands, so she deigned to raise her eyes and asked the man, “Who are you?”
The man had a righteous expression: “Me? I am a righteous person who sees injustice on the road and draws his sword to help! A good person who cannot stand your evil deeds!”
—*Pfft.*
Before Su Shu could react, the young girl running the stall burst out laughing first.
Su Shu and the man turned their heads at the same time.
The young girl was covering her mouth, her face completely red.
It was clear that holding in her laughter was quite a struggle.
While holding it in, she apologized: “So—sorry to disturb you!”
Su Shu nodded to show her understanding: “The way he talks… is pretty funny indeed. No need to feel embarrassed.”
This young girl running the stall was actually an acquaintance; she was Qingqing Liuse Xin, who had previously been curious about what penalty Su Shu would face for exceeding the time limit while killing 300 gophers.
The girl did remember Su Shu’s previous kindness toward her. Ignoring the man whose face was flush with anger, she snatched the umbrella she was selling straight from the man’s hands and stuffed it into Su Shu’s arms: “I’ll sell it to you! Just give me 3 gold coins.”
She had rolled for this long umbrella when running a dungeon instance. Although its attributes were good, no one in the party could use it, so she had basically gotten it for free.
Still, 3 gold coins was a friendly price.
Su Shu looked at the listed price on her stall and counted out 5 gold coins over.
The two shared a tacit understanding, leaving the man on the side feeling an unprecedented sense of humiliation—
Su Shu’s IGN “Huaishu” wasn’t unknown, so his outburst just now had successfully drawn the attention of many surrounding players!
He had originally wanted to take this opportunity to use his language, looks, money, and superb operating skills to conquer Su Shu, thereby making a name for himself—
Or at least get familiar in front of the goddess!
Never in his wild dreams did he expect that in Su Shu’s eyes, it was as if he didn’t exist at all…
A Level 15 alt account, ignoring a max-level main account like him!
And even being mocked for being clichéd!!
At that moment, anger rose from the man’s heart while evil grew in his mind. He suddenly stood up and kicked hard at Qingqing Liuse Xin!
Qingqing Liuse Xin was caught unprepared! She instinctively closed her eyes and let out a high-pitched scream, “Ah!”
Su Shu swept sideways across the ground, and the umbrella held in her hand suddenly snapped open!
The man’s kick stomped onto the umbrella, and the rebounding force pushed him into a stumble! Before he could even regain his balance, Su Shu snapped the long umbrella shut again. A ring of red light swirled at the tip of the umbrella, and a streak of fire shot straight toward the man’s face!
The man reflexively blocked with his hand!
A burning sensation fell upon his skin, and the man shook his hand, screaming in agony!
However, Su Shu’s firelight seemed to split; after the man shook his hand away, the remaining half charged straight for his eyes!
Turns out that long streak of fire was three consecutive Fireballs cast by Su Shu!
The man had only blocked the first one, failing to notice the two following right behind!
—Direct fire into the eyes!
The man clutched his eyes and kept screaming in pain. His health bar didn’t drop terribly fast, but the fear of watching fire rush toward his own eyes was spine-chilling!
—Even the onlookers faintly felt a smell of burning eyeballs swirling around the tip of their noses.
Yet Su Shu wasn’t frightened at all—
With a flash, she stepped forward. The long umbrella vanished out of thin air from her hand, replaced by a dagger—
The dagger’s damage wasn’t much, but every single stroke of Su Shu’s blade targeted vital points!
Although *Dreaming of the Rivers and Lakes* could not truly simulate bodily pain and injury, it could simulate a real person’s fatal spots—
Even the highest-tier armor had weak points!
Su Shu perfectly grasped these weaknesses and demonstrated what it meant to—
Hit him while he’s down! Take his life!
A moment later.
As the man turned into a streak of white light and vanished on the spot, Su Shu gently blew on the blood-stained dagger. She slowly bent down to pick up the spell ring and gold coins the man had dropped on the ground upon death, saying calmly, “If your hands are clumsy, don’t try to play hero.”
The onlookers, whose eyes were feeling a chill: “…”
*So logical, impossible to refute.*
Su Shu handed the gold coins dropped by the man to Qingqing Liuse Xin: “Here, compensation for you.”
Qingqing Liuse Xin shook her head frantically!
Su Shu: “Think it’s too little?”
She looked at the small pouch in her hand and also felt it was a bit meager.
Su Shu put the gold coins away, preparing to walk around more: “Then next time I run into him, I’ll carve him up for you again.”
Su Shu spoke with no fluctuation in her tone, just like saying the weather was nice today—
Yet the weird part was that she, a Level 15 alt account, talked about carving up a max-level player as if she were peeling an apple…
Yet she had just accomplished it moments ago.
With sound logic and evidence, leaving no room for argument.
The crowd of onlookers couldn’t help but step a bit farther away from Su Shu.
Although Su Shu’s strike just now was a surprise attack, it was clean, swift, and brutal in execution, making people involuntarily feel empathetic terror…
Seeing Su Shu about to leave, Qingqing Liuse Xin suddenly lunged forward to grab Su Shu’s leg: “Big boss!! Carry me—”
Before the word “fly” could leave her mouth, Su Shu instinctively kicked her away.
Su Shu: “…”
She touched her nose: “My bad, my bad, muscle memory.”
Qingqing Liuse Xin: “…”
*Big boss, do you know that doing this will leave you without any sidekicks?*
The crowd of onlookers: “…”
*A big boss is indeed a big boss; when she goes crazy, she even beats up her own people.*
Su Shu stepped forward to pull Qingqing Liuse up, then walked toward the city gate.
Her next main quest required her to go into the city to WanHua Brothel to find Beauty Han. In her past life, Su Shu had visited many places of entertainment due to work, but when she checked the strategy guides, it said that this WanHua Brothel was designed after ancient Chinese brothels. The beauties inside were not only stunningly beautiful, but also skilled in poetry—
After all, this was the only brothel class in the entire game that could be experienced by real people.
As a cold and aloof face-connoisseur, Su Shu had her pursuits when it came to beauties.
Only, before she even reached the city gate, she was blocked again.
It was the man who had been finished off by Su Shu just now.
Along with a group of his buddies.
Su Shu raised an eyebrow, looking at the man surrounded in the middle: “What’s the matter, not satisfied? Brought your little friends to settle the score?”
Su Shu’s tone was still cool. The man shuddered upon hearing it, as the sensation of fierce burning and blindness from earlier surfaced in his mind again—
He couldn’t help but flinch.
However, with many brothers around him, he took a deep breath and plucked up his courage: “Yo—If you return that ring from earlier to me, I’ll… I’ll let you off!”
“If you return it to me, from now on, we’ll mind our own business and stay out of each other’s way!”
Once he finished saying this, the man seemed to gain confidence out of nowhere, repeating it once more: “That’s right! Mind our own business!”
“Is that so…” Su Shu dragged out her voice.
The man opposite nodded heavily, as if seeing hope.
Su Shu’s eyes curved into a smile: “What if I don’t return it?”
The man and his buddies erupted in an uproar.
A mage who had his hair dyed yellow said, “You only won earlier because of a ambush! Otherwise, do you think a low-level alt like you could beat my big brother?!”
Another purple-haired one said, “My big brother only asking for the ring back shows his great generosity! If you don’t return it, do you think you can walk out of here alive?!”
Su Shu put on a poker face: “Even if I can’t live through this, so what?”
Su Shu’s bag was full of seasonings and trash equipment. The only thing presentable was that long umbrella, which Su Shu had already bound; that picked-up ring was mixed in a pile of junk…
The probability of it dropping upon death was rounded down to nearly zero.
Besides, even if a person died, others couldn’t pick their pockets.
So so what? Whatever trash dropped, she would just casually pick it up again.
The opposing side fell into a temporary silence.
Su Shu snorted coldly, took a large stride forward, and walked straight toward the man she had slaughtered earlier—
The man’s legs trembled. Under Su Shu’s half-smiling gaze, he shifted slightly to the side.
Su Shu pushed him aside directly and walked past the man in a grand and swaggering manner—
A snicker suddenly broke out from the surrounding crowd, which had been as quiet as dead silence.
The man’s face flushed deep red.
He suddenly charged toward Su Shu—
—*Bang!*
With a crisp shoulder throw, the man was pinned firmly onto the ground by Su Shu.
She raised her head and smiled amiably: “Do you know the sound a dagger makes when it crushes cervical vertebrae?”
Su Shu’s dagger was pressed against the man’s neck, pressing out a fine line of blood.