Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Chapter 922: Old Zheng's Legacy

[Meme Cat: Produces monotonous, repetitive sounds and influences to pollute the perception of all living beings in the vicinity.]

[Three-Ball Ice Cream Carton: Generates one random-flavored ice cream ball every 24 hours, storing up to three balls at a time. Licking one can greatly replenish mental energy and, depending on the flavor of the ice cream, affix different effects to your mental energy.]

[Mind Imaging Device: Stores "mind matter" that can be manipulated through thought and mental energy, which can transform into malleable physical entities. Each unit of mind matter weighs 15 grams.]

[Dream Box: Crafted from the blood of the Nightmare race, it possesses a "dream space" that can store your own thoughts and ideas. It can also place fragments of anyone's "dreams" or "unconscious thoughts" within.]

[Ash Spirit Eye: Grants "Soul Vision," allowing you to see spiritual entities under any conditions, and can also shift your own form into "spirit mode."]

To be fair, the items Old Zheng had placed in the Briefcase, aside from the Exclusive Item which looked quite prestigious, the rest appeared no different from a pile of junk at first glance.

A shabby ragdoll cat, an empty ice cream carton, an old-fashioned camera that looked broken, a pitch-black little box, a plastic fake eyeball...

Even their functions didn't seem all that impressive upon inspection. These five items, given to an ordinary player, might not boost frontal combat power as much as a single reliable weapon would.

But Lin Yu knew that as the legacy of 'Freud,' it was indeed exceptionally comprehensive.

Because...

These five items formed a complete system built around a "mental energy user."

There was control, recovery, attack, detection, mobility, and an upper limit...

Even a destitute soul with nothing to their name could immediately become a player of "considerable skill" upon obtaining these five items!

If someone who already possessed the ability to wield mental energy got their hands on them, they would essentially be considered "graduated" on the spot.

However...

Lin Yu was well aware that this stuff was probably originally Old Zheng's contingency plan left for "himself after revival." As for heirs or successors, that guy probably never even considered the question.

Not to mention, the most terrifying piece among them was Old Zheng's former Exclusive Item.

[Hypnosis Pendant: Allows your mental energy to be planted within the souls of others, consuming a portion of your maximum mental energy total to form "Hypnosis Seeds." Hypnosis Seeds can persist indefinitely without regard to distance or time constraints. Through these seeds, you can issue "suggestions," "manipulation," and "forced unconsciousness" upon implanted targets. You can also use the Hypnosis Seeds as "mental energy nodes" to transmit and utilize mental energy regardless of distance.]

Lin Yu had to admit...

Not a single Exclusive Item was a simple commodity.

Especially for someone like Old Zheng, who had once been considered top-tier and had founded the 'Psychological Society.' His Exclusive Item appeared almost completely unstoppable.

Although this Exclusive Item's cost was the "mental energy" upper limit, the ability to turn other creatures and players into "mobile signal relay stations" was far too outrageous.

Thankfully, that guy was dead. Otherwise, the 'Psychological Society' might have proven far more difficult to deal with than Lin Yu had imagined. They could have even used Old Zheng's Exclusive Item to form a "mental energy network" that was completely detached from modern society's internet infrastructure.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu suddenly realized something...

"Perhaps the 'hidden organization' Senior Shen Bingmiao mentioned, the one that could completely evade her surveillance, was also achieved through someone's special item..."

Of course, this was merely speculation.

Lin Yu noted the thought down before reviewing the other gains from this run, aside from the "inheritance."

He wasn't referring to the two new "materials" that had appeared in the Encyclopedia. The bark of the Soul-Draining Vine and the newborn scales of the Lie Lizard.

Rather, he meant two other items. They were also the two items Lin Yu had most wanted recently.

One of them was naturally the Mind Transmission Gun he had extorted from the Diving Merchant Morse.

[Mind Transmission Gun: Utilizes the power of the mind to open spatial teleportation passages. The destination must be a location where an "anchor point" has been established. Anchor points are divided into temporary and permanent. Temporary anchor points require consuming mental energy and surgically cutting away a portion of your soul, using your own soul fragments to set them. Permanent anchor points, however, must be established within a "familiar dwelling" recognized by the user's deep consciousness, where they have lived for an extended period.]

Without a doubt, this thing granted Lin Yu the long-distance mobility he had recently found himself sorely lacking. Especially now that this dungeon was over, he could freely travel between Jiangcheng and Zheng City.

As for the other item, it was a completion of the combination between the Counterfeit and Hannah's Prayer Water Necklace. Another item in building the "illusion" system.

The Transformation Dust that Fern had mastered!

As for how he got it, that was simple. In the final chaos, Algae had used the Transformation Dust to conceal her form in order to avoid the aftershocks of Tycoon and Bi Fang's attacks.

Lin Yu had seized that exact moment. In the instant the other party dispelled the Transformation Dust but hadn't yet managed to put it away, he activated Swift Hands (Limit-Breaking). Since he had long possessed the 'Thief' ability through the Old Yao identity, this theft naturally became permanent!

"Count yourselves lucky this time. Next time I see you all, especially you, 'Furbollo,' I'll kill you."

"What are you yapping about? I'm living in Jiangcheng next month. Come if you dare, and see if my big bro Tycoon doesn't beat your guts out all over the floor. You're the lucky one here. You were about to get beaten to death anyway. Besides, you don't even need Tycoon to come to Jiangcheng. My brother Director could kick you to death with one foot!"

"Heh heh, my big bro is the Diviner. He could kick those trash fish on your side to death."

"Still yapping, still yapping. What, don't you know the number one is our 'Order's' boss, 'General'?"

Inside the Settlement Space, Lin Yu, still playing dead, listened to Nineteen and Fu Luo exchanging threats and trash talk. He also caught Algae's puzzled muttering to herself.

"Huh, where did the Transformation Dust go...? This thing isn't a consumable item, is it?"

"Could it be... that He lied to me again, and this thing actually disappears after too much use?"

"Or did the Lord of the Sixth Island keep it?"

Lin Yu remained silent, though he felt an urge to laugh.

Sure enough, Algae was still a bit slow on the uptake.

But then again... even if Moss later noticed something off and even guessed it was the work of a 'Thief,' they would probably only suspect Li Nian.

After all, the only 'Thief' who could steal items and keep them permanently without returning them was Li Nian's camp!

Soon...

The Settlement Space came to an end, and Lin Yu returned to reality!