Demon’s Cage

Chapter 13 Transfer

“Ah!” After continuous screams, the dagger finally pierced into his heart. His lips trembled, but didn’t say a single extra word.

Qin Ran was watching all this coldly.

From the beginning, Qin Ran didn’t intend to let the guy go. Especially when he realized that the Vulture used women to trade with the rebels. And all the guys with the Vulture were not good.

However, Qin Ran had a deeper understanding of what Colleen told him.

For Qin Ran, he didn’t think of himself as a good man. He started to make a living since he was little, so he already witnessed the dark side of society. As a result, he couldn’t simply confirm the true justice. However, he didn’t think of himself as a bad guy either because at least he had a bottom line. Even in the last moment, he wouldn’t harm anyone else for his own interest.

He didn’t have to be nice, but he had to be kind.  At least he wouldn’t change this way of living.

This was his way of life. Therefore, he had to comply with it. Qin did not know whether he would change one day, but he wouldn’t change now.

Whew!

Qin quickly backed out of his thoughts.

He knew it wasn’t the time to think about this. He had to think about the current situation.

[Slashing: the opponent loss 10 health points.]

[Slashing: the opponent loss 10 health points.]

[Slashing: the opponent loss 10 health points.]

He looked at his system records.

The three records showed his effective attacks, but he didn’t see a new skill.

Besides this, Qin Ran also made a few effective verbal intimidations on the mobster, but he didn’t obtain any intimidation skills either.

“Comprehension of skills also has a limit! At least for verbal communication skills, like [Intimidation] and [Trade] didn’t appear. Or I didn’t use it in the right way. The knife is attributable to weapons. It should be appropriate for a skill! Unless…the game has a limit!”  Qin Ran suddenly frowned.

He thought of a possibility.

Because it was a novice episode, the underground game might give some bonus to players but these benefits there not endless. They had limits!

In this episode, as long as there were three valid triggers, players would get the corresponding skills.

But it should be only one skill for each type of skill!

As long as a valid trigger happened three times, they will be able to obtain the appropriate skills! But it should be only for the first skill in each category!

Once he triggered the [Dagger (cold weapon)], he couldn’t trigger any more cold weapon skills.

If he wanted to comprehend more skills, he had to follow the game rules, instead of the ‘rookie episode’ bonus rules.

“If it is like this……”Qin Ran frowned.

This was clearly beyond what he expected.

Originally, he captured the gunmen for getting information about the Vulture, but also he wanted to get more skills to make himself more powerful in a short time.

But the underground game designers already formulated corresponding rules to avoid this kind of thing occurring.

It would let you have the power to protect yourself, but not make you too strong for no reason.

After all, cheating would only ruin a game.

Although Qin Ran didn’t mind to cheat in order to live longer, he had to follow the rules.

“I don’t know once the first skill has been realized, and I want to enhance the level. Is it going to be in accordance with the bonus rules or the official rules?” Qin Ran guessed.

If it was the former rule, then it was good! But if the latter was the case, it would definitely make it more difficult for Qin Ran!

Now he didn’t have enough information, so he couldn’t get the right speculation. Finally, Qin Ran shook his head, then he stood up and waved to Colleen. Although he didn’t make himself powerful in a short time, the rest was done. Also, he exceeded!

The gunmen didn’t only tell him what he wanted, but told him the Vulture’s biggest secret: He hooked up with the rebels.

“b.a.s.t.a.r.d! How he can do this!” After he told Colleen about this, Colleen was angry.

As a lady herself, she knew how these women suffered.

“That son of b**ch. Even after death, he would go to h.e.l.l!” She cursed.

“So, we need to send him to h.e.l.l!” Qin Ran said.

“Yep!” Colleen agreed.

“However, before this, we need to handle our trophies. Only when they are properly sorted can we fight with the Vulture!” He pointed at the firearms and body armor.

Obviously they weren’t going to give up the trophies, just like how every other player wanted to fill their warehouse and backpack with items.

Even if some of the loot didn’t have high value.

Moreover, he didn’t think that his trophies weren’t valuable.

“I can do that!” Colleen said confidently.

“You are not going to bring them back to where we hid, right? Although that place was secret, it’s no longer safe now!” Qin Ran asked.

Colleen’s hiding place was very secluded and safe before last night.

However, after they exposed their general direction, the safety there was greatly lowered. The Vulture could search for them according to the general direction as well as others. Qin Ran didn’t want his items to disappear after he had a fight with the Vulture.

In particular, if Qin Ran failed, these items were important materials for him to recover. He absolutely couldn’t lose them. Facing the surge in the number of the Vulture, even with new skills, Qin Ran didn’t have full confidence.

Naturally he would think about what to do after his failure.

“Am I that stupid? I have more than one hiding place. Bring your stuff and come with me!” Colleen immediately acted.

She first came back to where she stayed earlier, brought back all her useful stuff, and took Qin Ran outside of the garden villa.

Nine pistols in total were put in Qin Ran’s backpack, with all the cans and other items, his backpack became full.

Colleen tied all the body armors together and carried them herself. Soon, she felt clumsy with her stuff.

Although Qin Ran carried a lot of stuff, he believed that he could take more. So he subconsciously wanted to help Colleen.

However, Colleen refused.

“If you want to complete your plan, you have to have enough strength. We don’t have much food, water and time. If we can’t arrive at my other place at the Sixth Avenue within an hour, it’s impossible for you to complete your plan before dawn today!” Colleen said.

Qin Ran couldn’t say anything to Colleen’s statement. From his fight with the 7 guys to interrogation, it had been 3 hours. Right now it was 1 a.m. midnight.

At about 6 a.m. in the morning, the rebel patrols would appear in the streets.

Thus, Qin Ran only had less than five hours.

Including his time walking to the nest, he had less than four hours. It was definitely not a good news. Although he obtained enough information from the gunman, field investigation was a must, and this would also take time.

“We need to speed up!” Qin Ran said.

“Of course!” Colleen walked faster, and Qin Ran closely followed.

……

45 minutes later, Colleen took Qin Ran into a half-collapsed house. There was supposed to be a two stories clothing store, judging on the broken models lying around the ground.

They climbed through a corridor. In the second half of the house, they found a gate to the underground warehouse.

“I worked here before the war started, so I knew there is a warehouse here. Here is safe enough. I take it as my last hiding place.” She opened the door and said.

Qin Ran nodded and walked in. The warehouse was even larger than their former hiding place. Even when they brought all the items with them, it was still s.p.a.cious.

Sitting in the warehouse, Qin Ran gave the rest of the water to Colleen.

“You need it more than I do.” Colleen refused, although she felt extremely thirsty.

“Just take a sip!” Qin Ran insisted.

“Alright!” Colleen nodded and took a sip in order to moisturize her throat. Then she gave the water to Qin Ran. Even though he wanted her to have more, she refused.

Then Qin Ran drank over half of the water.

Colleen was thirsty, so he obviously was as well. Even more then Colleen because he moved a lot more in the last fight.

Even if his digitalized body could quickly regain his strength, some hidden conditions still existed.

Looking at Qin Ran drinking the water, Colleen knew that he was as thirsty as she was.

However, under such a situation, Qin Ran still thought of her. She was greatly touched.

Since the war started, this was the first time she was touched.

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