Chapter 12: A Hero Saving a Damsel in Distress? Not a Hero, but a Phantom Thief!
[Ding, Task 3: Increase your livestream viewership to 1 million, task completed, current popularity:
Reward: 2 Skill Enhancement Cards]
[Ding, detected host's first successful theft, Kaito Kid card fusion rate +12%, system points +1200, obtained divine-level lock-picking skill (beginner)
Current fusion rate: 42%]
"Lock-picking skill? Not bad."
In the late night plaza, Chen Feng sat alone enjoying a rare moment of quiet. A pigeon perched on his long legs, pecking at breadcrumbs from his palm.
On his phone played a recording of his livestream from an hour ago.
A series of headlines about him continued trending with high popularity.
[Real Thief Appears in Thief Game! China Region 3 Participant Chen Feng Steals World's Largest Sapphire—Heart of the Ocean!]
[Chen Feng's Warning Notice Taunts Authorities, Pursuit Team Returns Empty-Handed! The Match Ends with Chen Feng's Victory!]
[Phantom Thief! A Brand New Title!]
Besides these positive news stories, there were also some critical pieces from experts trying to gain attention.
[Professor Sun Evaluates the Chen Feng Incident, Clearly States that a Thief's Success is a Cultural Tragedy.]
[S City's Professor Li Claims the So-called Phantom Thief is Just Another Type of Thief, Chen Feng is Setting a Bad Example for Today's Youth!]
Of course, whether positive or negative news, Chen Feng just smiled and moved on, showing no intention of responding publicly.
He didn't really care about people's opinions of him online. What he enjoyed more was the fascinating process itself.
As for what others thought, that was beyond Chen Feng's concern.
He used the two skill enhancement cards just awarded by the system—one to upgrade Voice Changer to intermediate level, and the other to upgrade Magic Hands skill to advanced level.
According to Chen Feng's understanding, the system divided skills into four levels.
They were: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Perfect.
Once reaching the Advanced level, one's abilities would basically equal those of the card character. Reaching the "Perfect" level would far surpass the card character's original abilities.
In other words, if all of Chen Feng's skills reached the "Perfect" level, even if Kuroba Kaito stood before him, he would wonder who the real Kaito Kid was.
Just then, a voice from not far away caught Chen Feng's attention.
"Don't move! Hand over all your money, or you'll regret it!"
In a small alley not far from the plaza, a short man with a dirty face was glaring fiercely at a woman.
The gleaming short knife waved constantly in front of the woman, his vicious appearance preventing her from making any sudden moves.
"Don't... don't do anything rash, I'll give you all my money..."
Hearing this, a smile finally appeared on the short man's filthy face.
Who knew what kind of days he'd been having?
Since joining this damn [Thief Game] show, he thought he could legitimately make a fortune under the guise of the program.
Who would have thought that the cursed Pursuit Team would be so formidable, using the city's surveillance system with noses sharper than dogs.
Every time he showed his face, the Pursuit Team would arrive before he could do anything.
Three days had passed like this, and not only had he failed to strike it rich, but he hadn’t even had a decent meal.
Every day was either fighting rats for territory in the sewers or hiding in public restrooms, swatting away mosquitoes.
Today, though, luck was finally on his side. Not long after stepping out, he spotted a lone young woman—if he didn’t rob her good and proper, it’d be an insult to all the mosquito bites he’d endured!
At that thought, the man’s expression grew even more menacing.
His small eyes bore into the woman as if he wanted to devour her whole.
In his livestream, though not as popular as Chen Feng’s, the show’s hype had still drawn over twenty thousand viewers watching his every move.
“Damn, this guy’s disgusting. Too scared to go after groups or tough guys, so he preys on lone girls? What a coward!”
“Agreed. Compared to him, Chen Feng’s practically a saint!”
“Wait… doesn’t that woman look familiar?”
“Familiar? Is she a celebrity? Huh, now that you mention it, she does seem like someone I’ve seen before…”
“Oh! I remember! Isn’t she the girl Chen Feng flirted with at the rooftop bar on the first day of the show?”
“You’re right! Her name’s… Zhou Wanning, right?”
Meanwhile, Zhou Wanning stared at the vicious man before her, regret creeping into her heart.
After what had happened a few days ago, she’d taken notice of Chen Feng and learned he wasn’t actually a fugitive—just a contestant on the hit show Thief Game.
For some reason, the news had brought her an inexplicable sense of relief, even though she barely knew him.
Then came Chen Feng’s viral heist announcement, which had taken the internet by storm. Eager to see it for herself, she’d rushed over after work, hoping to snag a ticket.
But the event was so wildly popular that the line stretched halfway down the block. By the time she reached the front, tickets were sold out. Defeated, she settled for watching the livestream on her phone in the square.
And now, as if that wasn’t enough, just as she was about to head home, she got robbed!
Zhou Wanning couldn’t help but wonder if she’d forgotten to check her horoscope before leaving the house. How could one person be this unlucky?
Seeing her hesitate, the man grew impatient.
He brandished his knife and snarled, “Hurry up! Don’t make this harder than it has to be!”
Zhou Wanning flinched, her hands trembling as she reached for her wallet.
Then—a sharp whistling sound cut through the air.
A flat object sliced across the man’s wrist, leaving a thin trail of blood.
“Who’s there?!”
The man spun around, scanning the area in panic, but saw no one. Only the object, now embedded deep in the wall, gave any clue.
“A… playing card?”
Zhou Wanning blinked in disbelief. She’d never seen someone use a card as a weapon before.
“Such rough treatment of a beautiful lady is hardly becoming of a gentleman.”
Just as everyone was puzzling over who had intervened, a voice drifted down from above.
A figure in white sat casually on the railing of a second-floor window, a card gun in hand—proof that he was the one who’d struck.
“Who the hell are you?”
“Chen Feng.”
Two voices rang out simultaneously from the two individuals involved.
Yet one tone carried surprise, while the other brimmed with delight.
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
