Chapter 93: Great Loot and Bittersweet Ability
This thirteen-year-old girl claid that she could sll a rotting body. She fought with her mom when she couldn’t stand the sll anymore, and tried to run away from ho.
Her neighbor heard the noise and thought that her mother was beating her, and so called the police.
Luke and Selina happened to be right next to the building, and went to the girl’s apartnt along with another officer.
After knocking on the door and figuring out what happened, Luke looked around the place, deep in thought, then smiled at the girl. “I bet there isn’t a body in your apartnt.”
The girl shook her head hard. “That’s not true. I can sll it. Soone definitely hid a body in here. It slls like a corpse.”
Luke smiled and said, “Do you want to bet with ?”
After a brief hesitation, the girl nodded. “Okay.”
Luke picked up a small tal ball from the desk. It was about one centiter in diater and was quite handy.
In the next mont, he threw the tal ball into a corner.
Everyone heard a squeak and saw a big gray mouse.
It was struggling to return to a mousehole in the wall, but was dying after being hit by the tal ball.
Everybody was confused. What was the aning of this? Was it so sort of acrobatic show?
Luke asked the girl’s mother, “Can we make the mousehole a little bigger? You won’t make us pay for damages, will you?”
The mother hesitated, but nodded in the end. “You can, but... don’t make it too big, alright?”
Luke nodded. “I won’t.”
He then asked the officer who had co with them for his truncheon, and widened the mousehole.
He dug so ten centiters in, and then the slightly rotting, foul-slling body of a mouse appeared.
The officer was speechless. Here I was, wondering why you asked for my truncheon!
The girl shouted, “Ah! That’s it! That’s the sll! It’s a dead mouse!”
Problem solved. Luke touched the girl’s head with a smile and said, “Why did you think it was a human body?”
The girl peered at her mother carefully, and seeing how angry her mother was, didn’t dare say anything.
Luke turned to the mother. “Ma’am, please don’t bla your daughter. She might have been oversensitive, but a dead mouse in your apartnt can’t be good for your health. She noticed sothing wrong. If you had trusted her more and examined the room, this wouldn’t have happened. What do you say?”
The mother was rather embarrassed.
She had thought that her daughter was just making a fuss, but the truth had been revealed.
Her daughter wasn’t entirely correct, but she hadn’t been lying, either.
The mother apologized to the girl. “I’m sorry, Alisa, I was wrong. Don’t be angry with , okay?”
The little girl shook her head quickly and hugged her mother. “I’m sorry, mom. I shouldn’t have watched that horror movie in secret. The bad guys in the movie hid the body in the wall, and were discovered because of the sll. So...”
The mother hugged her back and said, “No, you were watching TV because I work every day and you were bored. It’s all my fault.”
Smiling, Luke left his card on the desk and said, “It seems that the misunderstanding has been cleared up. Here’s my and my partner’s contacts. You can call again if anything happens. But Alisa, what do you say we have another bet? You’ll win if you don’t call us in the next ten days, okay?”
In her mother’s arms, Alisa smiled tearfully and waved at him. “Okay!”
System: You have defeated Alisa and received a list of her abilities.
You have received Alisa’s gratitude. You may now learn all her abilities.
Alisa’s abilities list: Sharp Nose (X-gene; prerequisite: 20 Strength): 1,000 credits.
Luke smiled so hard that Selina felt it was creepy. Why was he so happy after helping a little girl? Had so twisted fetish being triggered?
Luke was truly happy.
He had essentially picked up a super ability by doing nothing.
Also, the prerequisite and the credit points weren’t a problem for him.
He learned the ability without any hesitation.
After picking up Sharp Nose, Luke understood the rules of the system better.
The 20 strength prerequisite was probably the baseline for certain abilities.
Even when he hadn’t learned the ability yet, Luke had slled a vague odor in the apartnt.
That ant that once he t the prerequisite, his body already had extraordinary abilities such as a better sense of sll and self-healing.
Learning the ability was more like grasping the way to sll more effectively.
His nose, which had been keen enough, could only distinguish scents at the beginning.
But after he learned Sharp Nose, he could instinctively tell where the scents in the air ca from.
For example, he could sll the familiar scent of Selina’s shampoo in whatever place she passed through.
And he would instinctively know that a woman had just walked by.
It was truly an amazing feeling.
This way of observing the world was similar to how bats used ultrasound to sense their environnt.
Alisa hadn’t been able to discern that it was a mouse partly because she was too young, and partly because of the horror movie. Most of it, however, probably had to do with the fact that she was unaware of how hypersensitive she was.
Luke was happy that afternoon, but not so the following day.
It was the day when a certain son of destiny and super playboy was supposed to be attending a eting in Houston.
Luke and Selina were deployed early that morning to the eting hall to maintain order and take care of potential trouble.
It wasn’t until then that Luke realized the side effect of Sharp Nose.
The side effect was that... his nose was too sharp.
There were two hundred people in the hall, and more still were coming in.
Regardless of gender, most of them were wearing fragrances. So also had strong body odor and even slly feet.
Luke almost threw up.
In the end, he couldn’t help but put on a mask in order to stay strong.
Despite his usual calmness, he cursed Brock vehently in his heart.
They were detectives of the Major Cris Division, not special forces. They weren’t good at protecting important people, and had never trained to do so, either.
Brock had essentially sent them where things were most likely to go wrong.
Luke couldn’t leave, either. He couldn’t say that he was about to pass out because of the sll, could he?
Besides, Selina would be on her own if Luke left, and it would be on her head if anything happened.
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