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Tick-tock… tick-tock…

It’s the sound of a watch ticking.

Lubbock stood in front of the hotel, casually opening his phone. The person he had arranged the deal with hadn’t sent a message yet.

“The lower district isn’t that far from here, why are they so late?” Lubbock rubbed his slightly cold hands and clutched the leather bag under his arm tighter.

This time, he was responsible for receiving a poor soul sold by her sister, a fifteen-year-old girl.

When he first saw the photo, even Lubbock almost couldn’t control his desire to claim her for himself. Her pitiful appearance, mixed with a hint of defiance, was truly irresistible.

Unfortunately, in their line of work, it’s taboo to indulge in “forbidden fruit,” especially since this girl named Nina was already reserved by that gentleman…

“Click!” Lubbock pulled out a lighter from his pocket, lit the cigar in his mouth, and blew out a few smoke rings without inhaling.

“Damn it… did that little brat back out? Why haven’t they come yet?” Lubbock, feeling the increasingly cold air, cursed in frustration.

He wasn’t afraid of a sting operation. Nancy, the infamous female thug from the lower district, wasn’t exactly cleaner than him. This time, she was forced to sell her own sister. Who knows if one day she might have to sell herself?

Lubbock thought wickedly, after all, if the sister looks that remarkable, how bad could the older sister be…

“Buzz!”

As Lubbock was lost in his thoughts, a distant light stung his eyes. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a municipal patrol drone. Seeing this, Lubbock quickly extinguished his cigar, turned around to avoid being captured by the camera.

As a result, in the moment he turned around, Lubbock saw a Tianzhou Security Office patrol car reflected in the hotel’s glass door.

“Damn it, such bad luck today! Came out for a deal and ran into cops!” Lubbock thought angrily. But then, he became a bit unsettled because he saw a male and a female officer get out of the police car, and at this moment, they were walking in Lubbock’s direction.

“?What’s going on?” Lubbock’s internal alarms were blaring. He secretly gripped the suppressant in his bag, which could temporarily enable him to use the supernatural abilities that had been sealed by the police due to his crimes. It was his ace up the sleeve.

“Excuse me, sir…” By this time, the male officer had approached close behind Lubbock. Lubbock heard the officer, indeed intending to strike up a conversation with him.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲!” Lubbock cursed under his breath and immediately pushed open the hotel’s front door, quickly heading towards the back exit.

“Stop! Police!” The male officer, noticing something off about Lubbock, hurriedly reached for his stun gun with one hand, not slowing his pace, and followed Lubbock inside.

“Philo District, Qiya Hotel, requesting backup.”

Seeing this, the female officer immediately activated her supernatural ring. Her ability was X-ray vision, allowing her to see Lubbock’s movements from afar.

“Xander, he’s gone through the back door, which leads to a crowded area. Please try to avoid shooting.”

………………

“Damn it, that mother f̲u̲c̲k̲e̲r̲ didn’t actually sell me out, did they?” Lubbock cursed, punching a bystander who was in his way. Looking back at the officers who had started chasing him, he realized he had been targeted.

While swiftly crossing the hotel lobby, he changed his escape route on the fly, planning to flee from the other side of the hotel, which led to a square.

His ability was fire-based; he could release a couple of fireballs, knowing well that the cops wouldn’t dare to act rashly in a crowded place.

Thinking this, Lubbock quickly crossed the street, simultaneously opening the suppressant inside his bag.

Worst case scenario… deal with these two cops first, then escape to the lower district…

“Hmm?”

“Screech—”

Just then, the sound of brakes screeched in Lubbock’s ears, followed by his view spinning wildly.

A twisted pain came from his left arm as Lubbock felt something hit him hard, and finally, inertia flung him harshly onto the ground.

“What…?” Lubbock barely managed to open his eyes, only to see a blur of red before him.

In his fading vision, atop a shared bicycle, was a striking figure with silver hair…

“Don’t move! Police!”

……………

“Screech—”

With a sudden brake, Nancy turned into an alley, smashed the electronic lock of the shared bicycle, and threw it into a nearby large trash bin. Then, carrying Lubbock’s bag she had grabbed along the way, she reached the end of the alley and turned onto another road that led to the main street.

Everything went smoothly. Due to her intervention, the trafficker Lubbock had been arrested. The ability suppressant he had on him was enough to get him in deep trouble, considering it’s a military contraband.

【Ding-dong, congratulations on completing character mission #1: Ensure the human trafficker receives their deserved punishment.】
【Reward issued: Fifty health points.】

As the voice in her mind finished speaking, Nancy felt a warm current quickly spreading from her lower abdomen throughout her body.

Afterwards, Nancy felt the constant feeling of weakness in her original body disappear instantly, and the hidden pains throughout her body immediately subsided—the biggest change was that her throat no longer felt slightly dry or blocked with pain.

“Cough cough… hmm…” Nancy tried to speak, and indeed, the sound she made was no longer the harsh, hoarse voice from before, but a light, youthful female voice instead.

Unexpectedly, her original voice was quite pleasant.

Thinking this, Nancy became somewhat excited about the appearance of this body, especially since, for some reason, it was covered in thick makeup, completely obscuring its natural look. And in the game, the character Nancy didn’t even have a portrait, so Nan Yin couldn’t estimate the original owner’s attractiveness.

“Hmm?” As she let her thoughts wander, Nancy waited at the intersection for over ten minutes without hearing the voice in her head again, suggesting that it wouldn’t issue any more missions for the time being.

Hmm? So, what should she do now? Go home to face her awkwardly related sister, Nina?

As Nancy pondered, recalling the memories left by the original owner, she then took out her phone and dialed a number.

“Hello? Boss, is everything taken care of?” The call was quickly answered, and a young woman’s voice came from the other end.

Judging by the background noise, it seemed like the person on the other end was still driving.

“Yeah, it’s all done. Come pick me up,” Nancy said after thinking for a moment, trying to mimic the original owner’s usual tone when speaking to this person.

But Nancy clearly overlooked the change in her own voice.

As expected, after hearing Nancy’s voice, the person on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, then the girl shouted in shock:

“Holy s̲h̲i̲t̲! Boss! What kind of miracle pill did you take to cure your throat?!”

“…So, are you coming or not?” Nancy, recalling the original owner’s typical demeanor, chose to ignore the girl’s astonishment on the other end and asked impatiently.

Perhaps accustomed to being shouted at by Nancy, the person on the other end didn’t mind her tone, but the topic was successfully diverted, the girl said nonchalantly:

“I’m coming! Of course, I am! I’d refuse even the Jade Emperor’s request but never yours, Boss.”

“Boss, just send me your location, trust my driving skills! No matter where you are in Tianzhou City, I guarantee I’ll be there in ten minutes!”

………

After hanging up, Nancy sighed. She couldn’t keep imitating the original owner’s personality and tone forever; it would give her away sooner or later. She needed to immediately sort out the original owner’s personal relationships.

The person she had just called was the original owner’s younger sister and close friend, named Jenna, who is also a student at Rolan High School in the lower district, in the same class as the original owner.

Jenna, orphaned from a young age, followed Nancy wholeheartedly after being saved by her in a past incident. Jenna is inherently good-natured, but she blindly supports everything the original Nancy does, including selling Nina. Jenna had tried countless times to persuade Nancy against it, arguing that Nina was her sister and it wasn’t necessary to go to such extremes, but ultimately agreed to the deal with Lubbock due to the original owner’s insistence.

In the game’s storyline, Nancy, as a throwaway character, didn’t have such a loyal friend. This was something Nancy learned from the memories after crossing over.

In less than ten minutes, an old van pulled up in front of Nancy.

A girl wearing an old leather jacket with beautiful orange hair jumped out of the driver’s seat, ran up to Nancy, and incredulously squeezed Nancy’s cheeks.

“Boss! Is your throat really better? You look so much more spirited than before!” Jenna’s surprise was fully evident on her face.