Chapter 6 A Mercenary: Having Lost All Strength and Skill
[Severely humiliated xxx and severely injured him, stellar jade +60]
Cipher was taken aback after hearing the notification tone.
This can be considered an impact, but it doesn't seem to have as much impact as joining the Spark Team.
The previous 100 plus the current 60 is just enough for one draw, but...
Cipher glanced at the dozen or so people around him, thought for a moment, and decided to wait until he had saved up enough for a ten-pull before doing it, since there was no rush now.
Let's see if anyone continues to cause trouble first.
...
"Wonderful!!!"
"good!"
"well played!"
A burst of loud cheers and applause suddenly rang out, startling Cipher, who had been standing still, wondering if anyone would come looking for trouble.
Confused, she immediately ran to Luo Lin and the others, asking them with some bewilderment:
"What's wrong with them? Logically speaking, shouldn't there be someone stronger who dislikes me and wants to beat me up?"
"How could that be? With so little entertainment in the Pit Bottom District, they'd love for more of these kinds of scenes to relieve their boredom."
Luo Lin tilted her head and immediately refuted Cipher's "reasoning".
"Uh... So everything I just did was just a performance for them?"
Cipher was speechless, unsure whether he had gained or lost.
The good news is that no one is bothering me for the time being.
The bad news is that while I was making a fool of the other side, I was also being made a fool of myself...
I suddenly feel so angry!!!
"By the way, do we need to pay for the table later?"
Suddenly, I remembered that after I kicked that mercenary, he fell down and smashed the table. According to the plot of the novel, I should have to pay for it, right? But I don't have any money right now!
Thinking about this, Cipher suddenly felt a little annoyed. He should have held back a bit. He thought he just needed to avoid kicking him to death, but he forgot about preventing accidental damage to other items.
"unnecessary."
"Meow?"
Luo Lin's three words once again surprised Cipher, even causing her to blurt out a phrase in her native language (?).
"What that mercenary said earlier wasn't wrong. Here, might makes right. Since you beat him, all the expenses incurred as a result of this fight must be paid by the loser. The winner doesn't have to pay anything."
"I see."
Cipher seemed thoughtful. This place seemed truly cruel; compared to the city, it felt almost the same as a primeval forest where the strong prey on the weak.
If I had known this would happen, I should have used more force and made him crash through the ceiling and fall down, smashing the table... I don't believe his wallet wouldn't be bleeding money!
But Cipher quickly shook his head, rejecting the dangerous idea. If that were the case, not only would the mercenary's wallet suffer a huge loss, but the mercenary himself would also suffer a huge loss. As a law-abiding citizen who had only ever killed chickens in his previous life, he had no intention of killing anyone!
Standing to the side, Luo Lin noticed Cipher's alternating expressions of frustration and rapid head shaking. Confused, she waited until he calmed down before continuing:
"Also, Cipher, you're really amazing. I thought you were just showing off by saying you were strong."
"How is that possible!"
When Cipher heard that Luo Lin didn't believe him, he felt that his character had been questioned.
This is a very shameful thing for a Trick Demigod!
"I would never lie, I'm very honest!"
So Cipher said something that even she herself didn't believe.
However, as long as others believe what you say, then you can't be considered to be lying!
(The cat cries out)
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have disbelieved you..."
"Eh? It's nothing, it's nothing, I didn't take it to heart."
Seeing Luo Lin apologize so readily, Cipher was a little taken aback. She scratched the back of her head, her eyes darting around, and responded with an awkward laugh.
Just then, Cipher saw Lin Wei fiddling with something that looked like a camera, and out of curiosity, Cipher went over to investigate.
" Xiao Wei, what are you doing?"
Lin Wei was startled by the sudden sound coming from beside him, but breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that it was Cipher.
Then, she handed the camera in her hand to Cipher.
"Because I'm not strong enough, I wanted to record that person's appearance so I could take revenge when I get stronger. But I didn't expect you to be so powerful that you defeated that despicable guy so easily. So I want to delete this recording."
After listening to Lin Wei's explanation, Cipher looked at the camera. Sure enough, the video recorded the mercenary he had just kicked away. However, the latter half of the video showed Cipher mocking and humiliating the mercenary, as well as the mercenary flying through the air.
"The whole process was basically recorded..."
Cipher's face flushed slightly. She hadn't felt anything was wrong when she was doing these things, but looking back at her actions from an outsider's perspective, she felt a strange sense of shame...
After watching it, Cipher returned the camera to Lin Wei. She originally wanted to ask Lin Wei to delete it, but after thinking about it, she realized that this was her first conflict in another world, a record with commemorative significance, so she asked Lin Wei to keep it for her.
Lin Wei didn't quite understand Cipher's behavior, but she respected it. Besides, Cipher was the protagonist of the video, so she complied with Cipher's request and didn't delete the video.
Besides, whether she deletes it or not won't affect her.
After a while, Xiong Lei came out from a door behind the counter and immediately saw the very conspicuous graffiti mercenary.
Xiong Lei paused for a moment, but didn't pay it any mind. Instead, he walked directly to Luo Lin's side and asked with some confusion:
"Captain, what happened here?"
"Let's leave here first, I'll tell you on the way!"
Upon seeing Xiong Lei return, Luo Lin grabbed his arm and ran out of the association.
Seeing this, Cipher and Lin Wei also went out the door.
...
After a while, the mercenary lying on the ground slowly woke up.
"Ouch... My whole body aches, especially my chin... What happened...?"
He shakily got up from the ground, supporting himself with one hand and holding his chin with the other.
At that moment, he felt dizzy. In his remembrance, he saw the woman appear in front of him as if she had teleported, followed by a sharp pain and a feeling of weightlessness, and then everything went black and he lost consciousness.
"Hey Mad Dog, you look a little confused? Want to know what happened? Just ten credit points!"
Just then, a sleazy voice came from beside him.
He turned his head in confusion, looking towards the source of the sound.
A young man, who appeared to be in his early twenties, was holding his personal terminal, wearing a mask that covered most of his face, and looking at him with a smile.
After staring at the young man for a few seconds, the mercenary's rusty brain finally caught up, and he flew into a rage again.
"Who the hell do you think you are? Calling anyone a mad dog!"
As he spoke, he disregarded his wounds, barely managed to stand up, and then attacked the young man.
But the young man only turned slightly to the side, and then "accidentally" forgot to retract one foot.
"Holy crap!"
Another "thud" rang out, and the mercenary fell face-first to the ground.
Before he could recover, he felt a sharp pain on his scalp and was forced to lift his head, whereupon he saw the young man's face after he removed his mask.
At this moment, the young man was grabbing the mercenary's hair, smiling as he stared at the disheveled mercenary before him and said:
"You asked who I am? Do you recognize me now?"
"Shen... Boss Shen..."
Upon clearly seeing the young man's face, the mercenary realized that the person in front of him was someone he absolutely could not afford to offend, and he even began to stutter.
Because the person in front of them is from the Mercenary Association Shen Yan, Boss Shen, is the president of the Pit Bottom District chapter and the owner of the pub.
The rule-maker he kept referring to was the person standing right in front of him.
"Hmph, it seems you still recognize me."
Seeing that the mercenary recognized him, Boss Shen released his grip, letting the mercenary's head hit the ground.
"You know I'm the 'rule-maker,' but you never listen to the rules I set."
"He provoked other mercenaries without cause, and before he even cursed them, he was provoked into attacking them first."
"And then what? You haven't even fought back after you started, and you even went first. I really don't know where you got the courage to provoke others."
After saying that, Boss Shen took out a notebook from his pocket and began to take notes.
"Damaged glass, 50 credit points; damaged table, 200 credit points; you smashed several marks on the floor, which is wooden, so the repair cost will be 200 points... Oh, and there's also a 100 credit point cleaning fee; as for the other customers' emotional distress... considering you put on such a hilarious show for us, we'll leave that out. Okay, the total cost is 550 credit points."
"And I know you're a penniless wretch who definitely can't afford these fees, so I'll notify the captain of your Wolf Fang Squad to clean up your mess. In the meantime, you just wait here."
Every time Boss Shen spoke, the mercenary's face would turn paler. By the time he finished speaking, his previously rosy cheeks had turned deathly pale.
" Cipher, huh… It looks like the feline genetic modification technology from Genesis Technology, but… why would people from Genesis Technology come to Pit Bottom District? And why are they so ostentatious…"
After thinking for a while, Boss Shen couldn't come up with a solution, so he put away his notebook and walked towards the counter, leaving behind a pitiful creature who had collapsed on the ground, having lost all strength and ability.