Chapter 57: Chapter 40 He Actually Came Back
Translator: 549690339
Cold river water choked Leonard Churchill, jolting him awake from unconsciousness.
In the pitch-black icy river, he opened his eyes, his gaze glowed with intense excitement and chilliness.
Although he had roughly estimated that the shock bomb’s power wouldn’t kill him, the close-range explosion’s power did knock him unconscious as expected.
If it wasn’t for the massive boost in attributes he had received from swallowing the [Secret Cause Spirit Medium], this could have cost him half his life.
But there are no ifs.
Leonard Churchill never based his actions on luck.
He dared to do it because he had deduced the plan before doing it. His physical strength was strong enough, and at the same time, he injected himself with an [Excitement Potion], ensuring that he would wake up the moment he entered the water.
Although it still had risks, once he was in the water, it meant that he had escaped.
This was far better than being caught.
A Curse Card Master was potent on land, but much less so in the water, where both perception and movements are greatly limited.
Especially for those muscular close-combat Curse Card Masters who are not necessarily more agile than Leonard Churchill in the water.
In the pitch-black river, Leonard Churchill couldn’t resist coughing up blood. However, the darkness could not hide the fear-inducing grin on his face.
His eyes resembled a beast lurking in the night, resolute and insane.
As his body was swiftly sinking with the turbulent flow, he suppressed his churning vitality and blood and started to untie the steel net on his body.
The steel wire was very sturdy, but the lock was mechanical.
Underwater escape was a skill that Leonard Churchill was very familiar with in his previous life; this mechanical lock was nothing to him.
Submerged in the icy river, his mind seemed to flash with insight.
He felt that it wasn’t merely about luck anymore.
As if there was a destiny at work.
With the Demon Mark granting him the extraordinary, he naturally had to bear the attention of the misfortune gambler.
There were enemies plunging into the water, but they had obviously lost their target.
Leonard Churchill unlocked the lock and suddenly laughed, “Tsk tsk…”
In his eyes, this is far from over!
If escaping was his only plan, it would not live up to his true intentions.
With a thought in mind, he swam into the inky river like a fish.
On the other hand, the sudden incidents had left the merchants in Dark Rain Street’s Black Market bewildered.
The sound of gunshots startled all the merchants and customers on the whole block.
Although Sinless City is a lawless city and a den of iniquity, there are some unwritten rules in some places.
Like Dark Rain Street, here is a market for the major forces in the city concentrate to trade materials, and many transactions that can’t be made openly are finalized here.
Therefore, almost everyone here agrees not to resort to brute force.
It is not explicitly prohibited, but if anyone fails to abide by the rules, he may no longer be welcomed at the Black Market.
This would have a negative impact.
The consequences would be severe.
But today, someone fired a gun in the street?
On the second floor of the “Silver Star Mysterious Material Shop,” the middle-aged shopkeeper looked down at the two bodies on the street, his expression a touch complicated.
He witnessed the whole incident.
He watched as the guy pawned a few cards in his shop in exchange for six [Demon-breaking Bullets] and left.
After that, he witnessed a spectacle that he found hard to believe.
That young man, a Card Master Apprentice, incredibly escaped from a circle of experts who had been in ambush?
His eyes couldn’t help but recognize the superb way that man responded.
The young man’s ultimate calm and judgment seemed otherworldly.
“No wonder the Blackwater Mercenary Group has been so active on the Black Market lately; they were after this guy. Room 407’s occupant? Well, his meticulous mindset is the only explanation as to how he could have broken that high-difficulty space.”
In the attic, the shop owner looked at his slightly narrowed eyes and murmured to himself, “It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a promising young man…”
Looking at the disoriented mercenaries of the Blackwater Group, it is clear that the young man who jumped off the cliff might have really escaped.
Tsk, truly interesting.
If anyone else were in the same situation, he would surely be caught.
But that young man managed to escape.
The appreciation on the middle-aged man’s face grew more profound.
Considering that Miss Seven had introduced the man to his shop, he ought to lend a helping hand.
He said casually, “Go and check. If he could be saved, go ahead and help. And, clean up the Miller Family’s people.”
Someone replied in the darkness, “Yes.”
The middle-aged shopkeeper gave his orders and then stood by the window, lost in thought.
However, he didn’t expect that the shock was just beginning. At this moment, an even more unexpected scene unfolded.
His gaze suddenly caught a dark figure emerging from an alley on the street.
The middle-aged shopkeeper rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.
But seeing the man stepping out of the darkness with a gun, he immediately widened his eyes, “This guy… dare to come back?”
Almost all of the Blackwater Mercenary Group had descended to the banks of the Dark River, a hundred meters below, searching for their target in the water.
If the man hadn’t appeared, they would have blamed it on bad luck.
But now that the man had clearly come but slipped away from their grasp, everyone in the Blackwater Group knew what fate awaited them.
No one could withstand the wrath of the Miller Family.
If they could not find the man, they were undoubtedly doomed to die!
They figured that their target had jumped into the river and was either trapped by the steel net and sunk to the bottom or had escaped downstream to an unknown part of the pitch-black river.
However, what no one expected was that Leonard Churchill had a different plan.
As the majority of the group was searching for him in the river, he had quietly emerged from the darkness.
He had not left. He had returned to Dark Rain Street.
He still had a task to complete.
That was to eliminate his lingering worries.
Leonard Churchill didn’t know how he had been exposed previously, but he suspected that a curse card master, probably a diviner, had something to do with it, considering the mysterious techniques involved.
When he jumped from the cliff before, he saw an old woman with white hair among the enemies.
It was she who identified him first.
His intuition told him that she was the spellcaster.
So from the very beginning he was discovered, Leonard Churchill had one thought: given the opportunity, he must kill that diviner.
Eliminate his lingering worries!
Despite the fact that the warrior-type curse card masters could jump from a cliff, he didn’t think the old woman could follow suit.
Although each of the fifty-two professional sequences had their strengths, the professions were relatively balanced. The Wisdom Sequence granted the old woman extraordinary divination abilities, but it also came with a weaker physical constitution than that of an average person.
Upon returning to Dark Rain Street, Leonard Churchill saw the lone old woman on the street.
Almost all the mercenaries had gone down to the Dark River to search for him. No one would have expected that the murderer had the audacity to come back and kill again!
Leonard Churchill had been wearing a clown mask since he came out of the water, making him immune to most of the mysterious techniques.
Like a ghost lurking in the dark, he emerged from the alley when he was less than ten meters from the old woman.
This distance was almost a guaranteed hit.
In the last moment of her life, the old woman seemed to have a premonition and turned to look at the dark alley. Seeing the shadowy figure with a gun, her eyes widened in surprise for a moment, then gave a wry smile of resignation.
She had already faintly sensed her imminent death.
She thought she would die from the backlash of a relic.
She didn’t expect to have guessed wrong.
She died at the barrel of a gun.
But it didn’t matter. She was nearing the end of her life anyway.
Was it not a kind of release?
The old woman in front of him seemed much older and more decrepit than before, as frail as a candle in the wind.
Leonard Churchill felt no pity as he pulled the trigger. The gun roared, and an Annihilation Bomb pierced through her forehead.
As everyone was still puzzled by the sudden gunshot in the street, Leonard Churchill quickly rushed over. He grabbed the storage ring from the corpse’s hand, then quickly darted into the alley, disappearing once again into the darkness.
A few minutes later, a customer arrived at the Silver Star Mysterious Material Shop.
Leonard Churchill, now in a new outfit, walked into the shop.
The middle-aged shopkeeper recognized him at once, even though he was now wearing a gas mask, as the same customer from before.
The shopkeeper’s gaze was complicated.
Leonard Churchill dumped a pile of items from his storage ring, and asked, “Boss, can I use these items in exchange for that breathing method?”
He was broke just a while ago, but now he had money.
The spoils of war from killing the old woman could be used to exchange for some items.
He was exposed anyway.
Underneath the goggles of the gas mask, a pair of eyes glowed with madness and brilliance. The self-assured arc of his smile seemed to carry a chilling killing intent that could freeze the air itself.
The bustling outside continued. Probably no one would have thought that the maniac who had committed murder twice in public would return so calmly to shop.
Was he confident that he wouldn’t be troubled by the shopkeeper?
The shopkeeper watched him. His thoughts racing, and then gave a resigned smile, “Of course.”
It had been a long time since he had met such a bold and daring young man..