Demon’s Cage

Chapter 17 Boom

*Cough* *Cough**Cough*

The lady started coughing. However, the lady, who was more like a little girl, in front of him remembered what Qin Ran had just told her. Even when she coughed she tried to lower her voice. Meanwhile she stared at him. What she meant was obvious. She wanted Qin Ran to untie her.

“Just a minute, can you introduce yourself? The more detailed, the better!” Qin Ran did not immediately untie the rope, but quickly inquired.

He needed to further determine whether the girl would cause trouble. Although she showed that she was cooperative, Qin Ran hoped that she could continue her behaviour.

After all, she was different from Colleen who had established trust with him. She was just a stranger. Even though she was a victim tied to a bed by the Vulture, this wasn’t a reason for Qin Ran to relax.

“My name is Maggie, a nurse trainee at St. Joanna Hospital…before I hid in a tunnel at the subway station. There was an underground pa.s.sage connecting to an abandoned bomb shelter! I was caught by them when I looking for food!”

After a slight hesitation, she started introducing herself. She also told him why she was here.

However, there was still something Qin Ran cared about.

“How did you find the underground pa.s.sage?” Qin Ran asked.

“My father was a subway station maintenance worker. That’s why I knew about it.” The girl mentioned her father and looked gloomy.

This sadness meant that in this war-torn city, there was another person’s life that had ended. Even for the closest people, she could only be gloomy. Because everyone was powerless.

“Sorry! But I still would like to ask, how many people do you have there?” Qin Ran apologized and continued.

“I was the last one to leave – although it was very safe, there was a lack of food and water. We had reserves at the beginning, but when the food and water ran out, everyone left. I was too timid so I didn’t leave. I came out when I felt I couldn’t survive anymore. However, I was caught as soon as I came out of the station!” Maggie said with her head down, not only because the natural cowardly personality, but also because she felt powerless when facing the Vulture.

“This was not a shameful thing. They are really dangerous mobsters. Most people couldn’t be their opponents!” However, Qin Ran’s comforting words made Maggie feel more shamed because she witnessed how Qin Ran easily killed the mob chieftain who she was afraid of.

“Well, we don’t have much time left. We need to leave as soon as we find the key items!” Qin then cut the rope with his dagger. When Maggie untied the ropes, Qin Ran was searching in the Vulture’s room.

However, even when searching, Qin Ran paid some attention to Maggie. Until now, Qin Ran still could not fully believe Maggie.

Although he did not find any contradictions from her words, without any experience with her like he had with Colleen, he wasn’t confident enough. Therefore, Qin Ran intentionally untied only her hands.

With his sharp dagger, he could definitely cut two more ropes.

Qin Ran didn’t mind whether Maggie had noticed his vigilance. The next moment he already opened the drawer closest to him.

There were a few things in it: a pistol, two clips and two grenades.

He was familiar with the [M1905] pistol, and the clips.

The most important discovery was the grenade!

[Name]: U-II

[Type]: Grenade

[Quality]: Normal

[Attack force]: Strong

[Attribute]: Facing non-guarded creatures, the power increases by 30%.

[Special Effect]: None

[Able to bring it out of the episode]: Yes

[Note]: This is a self-defense grenade. Make sure to protect yourself when you use it.

Looking at the information about the grenade, especially the attribute aspect, Qin Ran suddenly had an idea.

The next moment, Qin Ran quickly picked up two grenades and placed them inside his jacket pocket. With the pistols and the clips.

Then, he checked again to confirm there was no valuable items left. He soon walked to the two large wardrobes. And this time, Maggie was still fighting with the ropes tied on her ankles.

Qin Ran opened the two closet doors. Canned food, bottled water, firearms, ammunition, seemed like a pile of items in the supermarket.

Qin Ran took a look at them. There were more than thirty cans and boxes of bottled water.

Among six to seven [M1905] pistols, there was another [M12] two-edged a.s.sault rifle, and a big box full of golden bullets, layers upon layers.

“Woo!” Although he was prepared, he was somewhat stunned.

After all, if he took the food and water with him, they were enough to spend the rest of his task time. Even more than enough.

He picked up the [M12], carried it on his back and walked to another wardrobe. Like before, he opened the two doors.

It was neat compared to the one before.

Besides a large quant.i.ty of canned food and water, there was a shoulder bag.

Without hesitation, he picked it up.

It was quite heavy, so he had to lift it with both hands.

Qin then opened the zipper.

The bright reflective light made his eyes squint.

Burnished gold jewelry imbedded with colored gems were stocked in this backpack without order.

Even mentally prepared, he stopped breathing when he really saw a whole bag of jewelries. Especially when he considered the value of them.

But then the game information quickly waked him up.

[Name]: Valuable jewelries

[Type]: Jewelry

[Quality]: Mixed

[Attribute]: None

[Special effect]: None

[Able to bring it out]: No

[Note]: You can choose to bring it to the captain, or do something else!

“Not able to take out?” Qin was disappointed.

Look at that name, he knew the value of these expensive jewelry.

If he could bring them out of this episode, he didn’t mind giving up his plan and finding a place to spend the rest of the time safely.

Because, as described above, by name, these jewelries could accomplish his goal to this underground game.

Unfortunately, the game designers obviously knew this loophole.

If the game designers were to allow this package of jewelry to be brought out of the episode, then Qin Ran wouldn’t be breaking into an occupied underground warehouse. Instead, he would have to break into the most advanced military base!

As for the Vulture who he easily killed?

At least it would be a well-rounded master. Might even be a MMA fighter!

All gains were accompanied by a corresponding level of difficulty! These were the rules of the game!

Unless …… there was a BUG, or cheating! Qin Ran was only an underground game rookie. He couldn’t find a game BUG. Not to mention cheating.

He zipped the bag and turned to Maggie. This time Maggie had untied the ropes, but was still sitting in bed without much reaction. Even when she saw so much food, water and firearms.

Whether it was really the case, or pretending, she had gained some goodwill.

The former showed that she was innocent, and the latter should that she knew how to make choices.

This was good for Qin Ran. Even if the latter would be a little trouble, as long as Qin Ran showed his great strength, then the girl would understand what to do.

“I’m going to solve the problems outside the room now. I’ll be back soon!” Qin Ran then walked out of the room.

Like what he said, he was about to kill the rest of the mobs. And this wasn’t his initial plan.

When he got the two grenades, everything changed.

Qin then went to the diesel generator. Next to him was the room there all the mobs gathered.  The noise inside was still loud. They didn’t find anything wrong. Qin Ran turned off the diesel generator.

Suddenly, the entire corridor turned dark.

“d.a.m.n! That broken machine is on strike again!”

“Go check it out! Otherwise, the Vulture boss will be angry!”

“We should look for more generators!”

The room was silent for a moment, followed by a series of cursing and complaining sounds.

Then, there was sound of footsteps. Then the door was opened by a gunman.

At the moment the door opened, Qin Ran started moving. He suddenly raised his left leg and severely kicked and stepped on the guy’s belly.

Without preparedness, the guy screamed and tumbled back to his room.

At the same time, Qin Ran threw the grenade into the room.

“What happened?”

“What’s wrong?”

Boom! The mobs started panicking. However, after the explosion, everything became silent.

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