The Great Thief - Chapter 896

Chapter 896: 896
Lu Li sat in the alleyway to kill some time, then suddenly heard some sirens .


This was when he remembered that he had forgotten something . The last two hours of the game were the hardest to endure . There was nothing wrong with hiding, but he wasn't supposed to be hiding from these gangsters .
The sirens reminded him that all the police in the city had begun to move too .
Lu Li quickly left the alleyway, but was met with a dead end . If he was caught in a dead end, there would be no escape, not to mention, he couldn't explain why he was there .
After walking back onto the street, a number of police cars rushed past . Apparently, these models were popular around 200 years ago .
Lu Li tried his best to avoid them, because it didn't matter how innocent he seemed . Chances were, he would be stopped and questioned . If he was caught, then all his points would be gone too .
In the beginning, there were only a few cars, but they increased in number .
Lu Li even saw some players who got stopped by the police . They were either exposed and beaten to death, or were killed while running away . Lu Li began to panic .
In this game, Lu Li thought that his biggest advantage was his mentality, then the fact that he was familiar with the rules . All the guides that he had read in his previous life weren't actually too useful – after all, this was a competition with many variables .
As he was walking around, a policeman even spotted him . Fortunately, another player nearby suddenly started running, which caused a distraction .


Lu Li had to run further away from the city . All those who were behind him were players who thought they had hid well, but ended up being found and killed . The scenes were horrific .
Dawn was a game that didn't really torture their players, but they still had to attract them in some way .
In this special kind of scenario, they didn't receive any kind of special treatment because they were players .
Some might have thought that this would cause the players to dislike the game, but in fact, these competitions were extremely popular . The more violent the game was, the more attractive it seemed .
As he was thinking, Lu Li had already run through the entire street .
At the end of the road was an even wider path . Police cars were packed and they even began to invade the homes where the civilians lived . They checked these houses one by one, as if they planned to leave no route of escape for the players .
Lu Li checked the time; there was still about an hour left .
This was when he saw a little stall nearby and his eyes lit up .
There was an old guy who was definitely an NPC, standing in the cold wind as he cooked his sweet potatoes . There was barely anyone out at night, but he had to keep going to survive . He needed to sell his potatoes as quickly as he could – the more he sold, the less he lost .

"I have something to discuss with you," Lu Li said as he walked over and picked up a sweet potato to eat .
"What do you want? It's not right to eat food without paying," the old man responded, staring at Lu Li cautiously . These young men often liked to take things without paying .
It wasn't that they lacked money, but that they enjoyed the feeling of dominating weaker people .
"Here's some money – I want to buy your stall . You can push it back tomorrow morning," Lu Li said as he took out all the money he had with him . This was thousands of dollars; it was all of the money that he had taken in the process and had no value to him .
"Why do you want my stall?" the old man asked nervously .
His stall wasn't worth so much, but it was his means of survival . Without this stall, how was he going to keep his wife alive?
"You can have this watch too . When I was a child, I was always envious of those old men who sold sweet potatoes . I thought they were the richest people in the world, so tonight, I want to pretend to be one of them . If you don't want to, I won't force it either," Lu Li explained, playing it smart .
The old man hesitated but he still couldn't resist the temptation of the red notes .
"Sure, sure, take over for today . Just don't break it . "
Lu Li let out a sigh of relief as he watched the old man walk further and further away .
He picked up a few logs and tossed them into the furnace with one smooth action, then placed two sweet potatoes inside to cook them slowly . As the power of the fire grew stronger, the smell of the sweet potato grew stronger too .
"Who are you? Where's the old guy from before who was cooking the sweet potatoes?" a policeman asked . After exiting a house, he had carefully walked over since he suspected that Lu Li was an intruder . These intruders were very dangerous; they killed whenever they wanted to .
"My father went back; he's old now . It's not good for him to stay up," Lu Li replied calmly .
"Your dad?"
The policeman looked at Lu Li in curiosity, trying to find anything that he could pick up about him, but there was nothing . However, he didn't want to give up so easily either .
"You look like a businessman . Why would you even bother with this little money? No one really sells sweet potatoes anymore . "
"My dad is a farmer . He's honest – the potatoes that haven't been sold today won't taste good tomorrow . He didn't want to throw out these potatoes either, so I guess I just have to takeover instead," Lu Li said as he picked up a cooked sweet potato and smoothly tossed another in .
"Give me one," the police said . Upon seeing how professional Lu Li looked, he was more than convinced, and even decided to buy one in the end .
"Alright . "
Lu Li took a paper bag from the side and placed one in, then passed it straight to the policeman .
"Bro, just take it – you know it too . I don't need this small amount of money, but me and my father think it's such a shame to just throw them out . "
"No way . " The policeman felt a little ashamed, since he had suspected Lu Li before .
"You guys are working so hard at night – just take it . The faster I sell them, the quicker I can go home . I have to work tomorrow too," Lu Li laughed, determined to pass over the sweet potato .
"I have to pay, or else it'll be against the rules," the policeman said as he passed over a twenty dollar note . "Regardless if it's enough, this is all I have . "
"Sure . Hold on tight to the potato, and be careful out there . "
Lu Li took the money and placed it into his pocket . It seemed as if he was an open guy and the policeman liked him even more .
Not far from here, another few policemen had just killed a player . They saw the scene here and came over . Even before they got to interrogate him, the policeman who had purchased the sweet potato pointed at Lu Li and said, "My friend – he's helping his father here sell some sweet potatoes . You guys should have some too . The faster he sells them, the sooner he can go home . "