Chapter 183: Souvenirs

"Mmhmm~ It's over."

Yun Mu stood up from her seat, stretching her body, which felt somewhat stiff from sitting for over four hours, and said.

"It's time to head back." Brenna stood up as well at this moment, looking at the sky above as she spoke.

"When do you two plan to leave Winter City?" William, who was to the side, heard their conversation and couldn't help but ask.

"Tomorrow morning, the specific time isn't certain." Upon hearing William's question, Brenna didn't think much of it and immediately answered.

". Alright." Upon learning this news, the other party's expression suddenly became somewhat dejected.

Watching him in this state, Brenna thought for a moment, then spoke up: "You should change your target, it's impossible."

As she said this, she didn't specifically avoid Yun Mu, just like that directly laying out William's thoughts.

"I, you, you, you, Brenna, what are you saying!?" Hearing her words, William immediately turned bright red and denied it.

"Stop pretending, Miss Yun noticed those little thoughts of yours long ago." Brenna slightly supported her forehead, feeling quite speechless at her older brother's performance.

"Ahem, well, this..." Yun Mu chuckled in slight embarrassment and said: "I did indeed notice from the very beginning."

"I originally wanted to find an opportunity to refuse, but I didn't know when it would be best to bring it up..."

"How could it be like this..." A sound like a heart shattering rang out, and William's entire body suddenly turned a pale gray.

"That... I won't disturb you, I'm leaving now."

Yun Mu quietly grabbed Brenna's fingers and began to Retreat, saying.

"O-okay." William recovered from his heartbroken state, looked at the two, and said: "I, I need to recover for a while longer, you two go ahead."

After a pause, he added another sentence: "I will go to the station to wait for you tomorrow, it's just a normal farewell."

Seeming to prevent being misunderstood, he added another sentence at the end.

"Mm."

Brenna nodded, though she wasn't too worried about this guy, and turned to leave with Yun Mu.

"Is he okay like that?"

Before leaving, Yun Mu couldn't help but look back at the emo William, asking with some concern.

"It's fine, that guy William has his heart broken quickly and recovers just as quickly; he's always been like this," Brenna said, accustomed to it.

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For some reason, watching Brenna's accustomed demeanor, Yun Mu felt a bit sorry for William instead.

Just how many times must she have seen William heartbroken to be able to say such things with a calm face! However, after Brenna said this, she wasn't too worried about William's state anymore.

It was just unrequited love before it even began; such things were a dime a dozen on Earth, so there was nothing to worry about.

"Hey, two young ladies, would you like to buy some souvenirs?"

Just as the two were following the flow of people and about to leave Warm Snow Park, a stall owner at a nearby booth suddenly called out to them.

"Souvenirs?"

After hearing the stall owner's words, the two, thinking that since there were many people in Warm Snow Park now, they couldn't leave quickly even if they wanted to, stopped and looked at the stall beside the person.

They saw a wooden rack placed on the stall, with countless white Masks hanging above it.

Yet, strangely, the faces on these masks all lacked features and were almost all carved from the same mold, looking like products from an assembly line.

"Hehe, they are all handmade, won't you buy two?" The petite female stall owner, who was wearing the same faceless mask as those on the rack, chuckled and said.

【You have encountered the 【God of Pleasure and Chaos Vikala lv??? (Myth)】's subordinate 【Faceless Fool Airui Laya lv135 (Legendary)】】 How, how much!? Seeing the prompt on her Game Panel in her mind, Yun Mu was instantly stunned in place.

"Why do these masks of yours have no features?" Brenna, to the side, clearly failed to recognize the stall owner's identity and asked with some confusion as she looked at the faceless masks hanging on the stall.

"The features on these masks need to be outlined by you, the guest." The stall owner, no, the Faceless Fool Airui Laya, answered Brenna.

"Outline them myself?" Brenna raised an eyebrow.

"That's right." Airui Laya nodded and said in a meaningful tone: "Everyone will wear a unique mask."

"There are also those who will use someone else's mask to conceal themselves..."

As Airui Laya spoke, Yun Mu could feel that the pair of pupils hidden beneath the mask were silently watching her.

Is this guy hinting at her identity as a Chuanzhezhe!?

Yun Mu's heart was almost in her throat.

In the past, no matter how the system prompted her, she could never see those gods appear before her.

And now, this subordinate of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, the Legendary-level Faceless Fool, was appearing right before her.

She had no idea what the other party wanted to do, or why she would appear here.

This made her panic for a moment.

"Would the guests like to buy two?"

Airui Laya's questioning words interrupted Yun Mu's thoughts.

"Mm, let's buy two." Brenna thought for a moment and said: "Just consider it a souvenir."

"Thanks for your patronage!" Airui Laya rubbed her hands happily, took two masks from the wooden rack, and handed them to Yun Mu and Brenna.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but when the other party handed the mask to Yun Mu, she felt as if a smiling face suddenly appeared on the person's mask.

However, when she wanted to see the appearance of that smile clearly, the mask on the other party's face suddenly became Pingpingwuji again.

"How much money—huh, where is the person?"

Brenna reached out to take out her wallet to pay, but when she looked up, she found that the girl in front of her had already disappeared, and even her stall had vanished as if it had evaporated into thin air, leaving no trace behind.

Even Yun Mu, who had been observing the other party the whole time, felt a blur before her eyes, and by the time she regained her senses, she realized the other party was already gone.

Is this the strength of the Legendary level?

Yun Mu felt horrified in her heart.

"Was that person just now a Supernatural?" At this time, Brenna also reacted, her expression appearing somewhat surprised.

"That person is..." Yun Mu hesitated slightly, but after thinking carefully, she decided to say: "The subordinate of the God of Pleasure and Chaos Vikala, the Faceless Fool Airui Laya."

"That Faceless Fool who loves to tease others and is temperamental!?" Brenna's expression changed upon hearing Yun Mu's words.

Clearly, she had heard of the deeds of that Faceless Fool.

She did not doubt Yun Mu, but looked at her with some confusion and said, "How did you recognize them?"

"I have mastered the domain of Civilization; it allows me to appraise items and the characteristics of living beings."

Yun Mu spoke the draft she had prepared in her mind long ago, reached out to take off her sunglasses, pointed to her right eye, and injected Spirituality into it as she said this.

"So that's how it is." Looking at the pale blue eye pattern emerging in Yun Mu's grayish-white pupils, Brenna realized. Any Transcendental who has stepped into the domain of Civilization to a certain degree can master an ability to appraise items and living beings.

Brenna was clear on this point, but... "Don't try such dangerous measures again next time. This time the other party had no malice; otherwise, under the backlash of Spirituality, your brain could have been burned out!"

Brenna lectured Yun Mu with a serious expression.

"Yes, yes, I won't dare to do it again next time!" Yun Mu decisively admitted her mistake.

Anyway, it was her Game Panel that detected the other party's identity, not her trait 【Appraisal Eye】, so what did Spirituality backlash have to do with her?

"Speaking of which, what should we do with these two masks?"

After Brenna's lecture ended, Yun Mu looked at the faceless masks in both their hands and said.

The two of them had no idea what that Faceless Fool was planning.

It was hard to say whether there might be some tricks on these two masks.

Keeping them on their persons might cause problems, but if they threw them away directly and that Faceless Fool hadn't left, but was actually watching nearby, what then?

Or perhaps there were no tricks on these two masks, but after they threw them away, they ended up offending the other party... "Sigh, what else can we do? Let's keep them." Brenna sighed helplessly and said.

The hostility of a Legendary Transcendental was terrifying just to think about, not to mention that the other party was also a subordinate of the God of Pleasure and Chaos.

It would be difficult for the two of them not to accept these masks.

Wait, why is she afraid of a hairball here! Yun Mu suddenly realized.

Didn't her title of Favorite of the Gods also include the recognition of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala?

Then how could the other party's subordinate come to deal with her? "Let me see the effects."

Thinking of this, Yun Mu muttered in her heart.

Without using the ability of the trait 【Appraisal Eye】, but instead using the equipment viewing function of the Game Panel, Yun Mu checked the effects of the mask in her hand.

【Apostle of Joy's Mask (Red)】

【Stealth +10】

【Passive Skill: Apostle of Joy】

【After wearing the 【Apostle of Joy's Mask】, at 12:00 AM every day, the mask will automatically collect some of the items possessed by the wearer and randomly generate a skill.】

【When it reaches 12:00 AM the next day, the items collected the previous day will be returned to the equipment wearer.】

【Passive Skill: Secret Masquerade】

【When wearing the 【Apostle of Joy's Mask】, any detection means below 【Myth】 will be unable to probe the wearer's true face under the mask.】

【Passive Skill: Mask Substitute】

【When the wearer of the 【Apostle of Joy's Mask】 dies, the mask will automatically be destroyed and resurrect the wearer of the mask. Depending on the degree of damage to the wearer's body at the time of death, the resurrection time will vary.】

【Passive Skill: Random Number】

【When wearing the 【Apostle of Joy's Mask】, any action taken by the wearer will have a certain probability of triggering the effect of 【Random Number】, and the effect of this action will be determined according to the 【Number】 of the 【Random Number】.】

【A prop used by the followers of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala. Put it on, and you are a member of the Apostle of Joy! As long as you don't go provoking the gods like those predecessors of yours who only have fun on their minds, believe me, this mask will definitely bring you unprecedented peace of mind!

Oh, damn it, what am I saying? How could I expect an Apostle of Joy not to go provoke the gods?】

Holy crap, Red Epic-tier equipment! Looking at the quality of the mask in her hand, Yun Mu was so shocked that her eyeballs almost popped out from under her sunglasses.

That series of passive skills afterwards... not to mention the two harder-to-evaluate skills, Apostle of Joy and Random Number, the remaining two skills—whether it was Secret Masquerade, which could hide one's face, or Mask Substitute, which could resurrect the dead—

were both very practical skills!

And Apostle of Joy... is that a term for the believers of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala?

It shouldn't be, otherwise, everyone having an Epic-tier mask would be a bit too extravagant.

Could it be a status similar to a subordinate, or are those subordinates called Apostles of Joy?

Because she had the recognition of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala, did that Faceless Fool specifically come over to give her equipment?

Yun Mu guessed in her heart.

Then... she silently looked at the remaining seven gods in her 【Favorite of the Gods】 title.

If they could each give her a piece of Red Epic-tier equipment... *cough cough*, she hadn't even gone to sleep yet, why was she starting to daydream?

Yun Mu extinguished the fantasy in her heart and turned to look at the mask in Brenna's hand.

Hmm.

As she expected, it was just an ordinary mask of white quality.

After all, Brenna was not a believer of the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala; there was no reason for that Faceless Fool to give her an extra Epic-tier mask.

Uh, although she herself wasn't actually a believer of that deity either.

"Let's go back quickly." Yun Mu put the mask away with a small card she carried and turned to look at Brenna.

"Okay." Brenna also put the mask into her personal storage item at this time. After hearing Yun Mu's words, she nodded and said:

"Let's put the matter of that Faceless Fool aside for now. Anyway, if that guy really wants to deal with us, there's nothing we can do about it."

"Sigh, in the end, it's a matter of strength." She said, looking somewhat unwilling.

"We will always become stronger, in the future." After thinking for a moment, Yun Mu said to comfort her.

"Mm."

Brenna nodded and did not speak again.

The two walked out of Warm Snow Park along the dense crowd, then hailed a Steam Taxi on the side of the street and headed toward the Red Thorn Hotel where they had rested last night.

What was somewhat surprising was that the driver of the Steam Taxi they hailed at random turned out to be the same one from last night.

Upon seeing Yun Mu and Brenna, the other party was also somewhat surprised, and stated that they had only arrived to pick up guests just as the Warm Winter Art Festival was ending.

Being able to meet the Princess, as well as the two of them, Yun Mu and Brenna, was purely a coincidence.

The three of them chatted idly throughout the taxi ride, and then stopped when the taxi arrived at the Red Thorn Hotel.

This time, that driver did not speak up to refuse the fare, perhaps because he knew that even if he said it, it would be of no use.

After stepping out of the car, Yun Mu and Brenna pushed open the Gate of the Red Thorn Hotel and, just like last night, booked a double room from the male attendant at the front desk as a place to rest for the night.

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You can throw any ideas you have in there.

I will go check it periodically.

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