Chapter 693 — I Challenge You
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"I challenge you!" As the forty-sixth-generation heir of the Flying Swallow Sect, how could Yu Xiaoke let Wei Zhao leave? The man actually dared to look down on a disciple of the Flying Swallow Sect — how could Yu Xiaoke endure it? She was only eighteen, young and hot-blooded, and she would never admit defeat.
(For more on the Flying Swallow Sect, see Faint Light of Old Dreamsed Rebirth: The Pursuit of Beauty.)
"Challenge? Challenge what?" Wei Zhao glanced at Yu Xiaoke and decided the girl was a bit unhinged. This was the pinnacle of thievery, surely — caught red-handed, and instead of thinking about escape, she wanted to challenge him. If she ran into a cop like this, she would have been thrown in prison long ago.
"A contest of thieving skills, of course!" Yu Xiaoke puffed out her chest and stared fixedly at her big wallet in Wei Zhao's hand.
"If we're comparing chests, I might consider it. Comparing thievery — sorry, not interested." Wei Zhao leered at Yu Xiaoke's chest. Not especially large, but quite firm — she must exercise a lot, her pectoral muscles fairly well developed.
"You—" Yu Xiaoke was about to go mad. In all her time in the trade, she had never been the victim of a reverse-pickpocketing — today was the first time! It infuriated her, and at the same time she felt utterly humiliated. She was an heir of the Flying Swallow Sect! The Flying Swallow Sect was the greatest thieves' sect in the martial world — how could she lose to anyone?
Besides, Yu Xiaoke did not think her skills were inferior. It was only that she had been too excited while counting her money and had bumped into Wei Zhao, giving him an opening to snatch her wallet on the sly. In fact, Wei Zhao had stolen her wallet at the very moment she stole his — she simply hadn't noticed.
Wei Zhao ignored her and turned to go, because he felt the girl had a screw loose. With psychological fortitude like that, coming out to be a thief — challenging people at the drop of a hat...
Seeing that Wei Zhao was flatly ignoring her, Yu Xiaoke ground her teeth in fury, yet there was nothing she could do. It was the first time she had ever run into such a thing, and she had no idea how to handle it either. When she saw Wei Zhao walk off, she followed him as if possessed.
Even if Wei Zhao would not compete with her, she still had to get her wallet back, didn't she? That was the biggest haul she'd had all month — how could she just let it be taken? Yu Xiaoke was not about to let it go.
Wei Zhao had not expected Yu Xiaoke to actually follow him. It left him not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and at the same time convinced him that she was truly unsuited to be a thief. To be a thief and sink to her level — the girl was missing a few screws, no mistake. He was on his way to the police station; was she going to follow him there too?
Yu Xiaoke tailed Wei Zhao as he walked on, confident in her lightness skill. The Flying Swallow Sect was famed for its qinggong; her fighting skills might be nothing to boast of, but she could run fast enough, and so in her eyes, shadowing Wei Zhao was as easy as breathing.
She meant to bide her time for a suitable opening and then lift every last wallet, big and small, off Wei Zhao's person.
But when she rounded a corner at a street intersection, Yu Xiaoke froze — because Wei Zhao was gone!
"Where'd he go?" Yu Xiaoke stared, baffled, at the empty street. This was the back street behind the hospital, a place few people ever passed through under normal circumstances, so there was no way he could have vanished into a crowd. The street was utterly deserted at that moment, which meant she could see everything at a glance.