My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 204 - 117 Chief Song [Changed the Book Title]_3

Even if the bell made but a slight jingle, such a motion during a theft would go unnoticed by most, but compared to the other ten competitors, it was slightly lacking.

"Pickpocketing" is the most commonly used skill among thieves, as effortless as eating and drinking for the adept.

The six who were eliminated couldn’t leave just yet; they could only stand aside and wait.

Opposite pickpocketing was another skill called "Cutting."

Pickpocketing only allowed one to steal from open pockets, which the poor usually use. Some wealthier households, more meticulous in nature, would use wallets either hanging or tied around their waists.

Wallets aren’t open-topped; those tucked inside or simply hung around the waist were easy enough, but if it was tightly tied, the string had to be cut before one could make off with it.

This necessitated thieves to independently develop the skill of Cutting, attaching two thin blades to the index and middle fingers to sever the wallet’s cord.

For petty thieves, this was a difficult craft.

Yet for the Thief Sect’s elite who had weathered the storm, advancing through rounds of trials, this was child’s play. In this round, not a single one of the ten was eliminated.

Everyone smoothly cut the cords from the mannequins, successfully acquiring the wallets.

Even the robed elder expressed his satisfaction, saying, "Not bad, I thought if three or five made it this far, that would be plenty. I didn’t expect ten to remain..."

The masked Chief beside him also said with a smile, "Their abilities are all sufficient for a Chief’s role, now we’ll see who excels in the final ’Blockage’..."

Li Nuo’s array of skills, inherited from the former protector of the Thief Sect, naturally placed him among the final ten.

The final contest was named "Blockage."

The Six Arts of the Thief Sect, frankly, revolved around two scenarios of theft.

Scaling walls, picking locks, and Blockage were essential skills for burglary.

Pickpocketing, Cutting, and Blockage were targeted at street theft.

The last art, "Blockage," involved secretly swapping another person’s belongings with items of the same weight.

If one, out on the street, suddenly lost a heavy wallet, even if they never saw the thief, they would notice the change in weight.

But if one could replace the stolen item with something of equivalent weight in the blink of an eye, the chances of being discovered were slim.

However, this skill required high expertise.

Firstly, one had to judge how much the belongings weighed based on the swing of the wallet, then substitute it with an item of the exact same weight. This level of professionalism was beyond even the average street thief.

For the Thief Sect’s test, the difficulty of "Blockage" was reduced.

A Chief, with a wallet tied to his waist, walked back and forth in the courtyard.

The ten contenders had to observe the Chief’s movements and the wallet’s swing to estimate its weight, then replace it with sand or pebbles of equal weight. The closest in weight would be declared the winner.

In the courtyard, all ten contestants watched the Chief’s waist-worn wallet intently, shifting positions occasionally, attempting to observe from different angles.

After a moment, the Chief removed the wallet and said, "Begin."

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Upon hearing this, everyone immediately grabbed an empty wallet from the table and started filling it with sand.

The window to act was fleeting; they needed to complete the task within ten breaths.

"Stop!"

At the command of the masked Chief, everyone stopped in unison.

He brought out a balance scale, placed it on the table, set the actual wallet on one end, and picked up a filled one from a contestant and placed it on the other end.

The scale clearly tipped towards the filled wallet.

Clearly, he had filled it too much.

’Blockage’ was already the most challenging of the six skills, and precisely estimating the weight of a wallet by sight alone was something not even a Chief, sometimes not even a protector, could do without error.

The masked Chief tested each filled wallet one by one, and they were all either too light or too heavy.

Two individuals came closest to the original weight.

One of them was a middle-aged man he recognized, the most experienced steward in the Thief Sect, proficient in the Six Arts and one of the front-runners to be promoted to Chief.

The other was a young man with a darker complexion, of ordinary appearance at first glance, but on closer inspection, faintly handsome.

The two had filled their wallets, one slightly over, one slightly under the weight, but the difference was minimal.

Unable to decide himself, he looked towards the robed elder and asked, "Protector, it’s hard to determine a winner in their ’Blockage.’ Please make a decision."

The robed elder looked at the young man and asked, "What’s your name?"

The young man replied, "Protector, I am Song Yu."

The robed elder nodded and said, "Very well, from now on you are the new Chief of our Thief Sect."

Several Chiefs were taken aback; they had assumed the protector would let the two compete further until a clear winner emerged, but to their surprise, he had directly appointed the young man.

The middle-aged steward heard the elder’s decision and, after a brief moment of shock, abandoned decorum and angrily said, "This isn’t fair, our results were nearly identical, why should he become the Chief!"

The robed elder gave him an indifferent glance and asked, "Where is your steward’s waist card?"

"Right here..."

Upon reaching into his chest, the steward’s expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed in shock, "Where is my waist card?"

The young man produced a waist card from his pocket and returned it to him with a smile, saying, "Thank you for letting me."

Silently accepting the waist card, the middle-aged man lowered his head, too ashamed to meet anyone’s gaze.

Indeed, he had lost face.