EFB Chapter 2655 Pickpocket
Chapter 2655 Pickpocket
Chapter 2655 Pickpocket
Observing the people of Ram Orchard City, Lin Mu felt a strange sense of detachment. Perhaps it was because he had never had the luxury of a carefree youth like these cultivators, or perhaps it was because, for the first time in a long while, he was seeing people younger than himself. Most of his recent encounters had been with ancient beings and powerful immortals.
'How old am I now?' Lin Mu suddenly pondered. 'Sixty-three... no, sixty-four. I think I turned sixty-four while we were still in the middle of teleporting.'
Time had become a blur, and keeping track of his own age seemed like an afterthought.
THUD.
Just as he was lost in thought, someone bumped into him.
"Sorry!" It turned out to be a teenager.
Lin Mu tilted his head in confusion and watched as the teenager ran away. He stopped in the middle of the road and touched his waist.
"Huh... did he try to pickpocket me?" Lin Mu wondered.
A few hundred meters away, the teenager darted into a narrow alley and hid behind a large basket before opening an old, dirty bag attached to his waist.
"Let's see how the harvest is this time." The boy muttered.
It was his daily 'job' to nab some money from unaware people in the market. Of course, he was no fool and only targeted those who were weak. There was no way he would try to steal from an Immortal Cultivator, so he kept to the weaker Spirit Cultivators.
It was usually easy for him to spot them just by observing the kind of robes they wore. If they were simple and had no clan crests or markings, he would go for them. If they were particularly well-made or had extensive embroidery, he would avoid them, as they could belong to someone with a strong backing.
He stared at the empty space in his hands, then at the ground, as if expecting the bag to reappear.
"It was just in my hand." He muttered. "Did it have a Spatial Return Formation on it?"
He had heard of such formations but had never encountered one in real life. A high-grade security measure, a Spatial Return Formation prevented theft by teleporting the storage tool back to its rightful owner. Even among high-grade Spatial Storage tools like rings and bracelets, these formations were rare, as their application required the combined expertise of a Grandmaster Formation Master and an Immortal Tool Refiner.
But this didn't make sense. To the boy, Lin Mu had looked like a common Spirit Realm cultivator. Someone like that shouldn't own such an expensive and complex artifact.
Only the wealthy elite or nobles would possess something like that. And those types never wore plain robes; they enjoyed flaunting their status.
Of course, the boy had no idea who Lin Mu really was, nor did he realize that the bag he had stolen was nothing more than an illusion created by the Silver Mirage Circlet.
Lin Mu's entire getup was an illusion, and when the bag was taken too far from him, the illusion simply faded away.
But the boy was in for an even greater shock than the sudden disappearance of the bag.
"So you really did try to pickpocket me."
A voice came from behind him.
The boy froze, his blood running cold.
Slowly, he turned around, dreading what he might see.
There stood the man in simple black and white robes, the same person whom he had just stolen from. Not only that, but when he gazed at the man's waist, he saw the same white cloth bag hanging there.
"It really was a Spatial Return Formation?" The boy muttered in disbelief. 'Just whom did I steal from?' He thought with utter horror.
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