The Devil's Cag Chapter 38: The Smoking Pipe and the Deerstalker

Chapter 38: The Smoking Pipe and the Deerstalker

Translator: Dess Editor: Efydatia

[Background: The daughter of a renowned businessman by the name Hunter has gone missing. You, as the city’s greatest detective, have been hired to find his precious daughter. You are now heading to Hunter’s manor to investigate…]

[Main Mission: Find Altilly Hunter, dead or alive, within a month.]

[Temporary language pack, disappears upon exiting the dungeon.]

[Clothing, backpack, weapons, items, attributes remain unchanged, temporarily changed look, disappears upon exiting the dungeon.]

[Inspecting firearms and grenades… Weapons do not match the current year, damage reduced by 50%, handgun reloading speed

1 seconds, sniper reloading speed

30 seconds]

[Hint 1: This is your first official dungeon. You can fail the main mission, but you will have to pay 100 Points as a penalty, and your highest attributes will drop by 1. If your points are insufficient, the system will deduct from your equipment. If your equipment is insufficient, you will fail.]

[Hint 2: The real dungeon marks the beginning of the title mission. The title mission and sub mission are both hidden. You will need to discover them yourself.]

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When the blinding light subsided, Kieran heard a series of gallops and the sound of a wheel splashing through a puddle on the ground. His body was bouncing in a orderly manner.

It had been raining the day before and the roads were full of puddles of water. There were people cleaning them, but only the bigger puddles were cleaned off pletely.

The smaller puddles that the wheels were splashing into were hard for the cleaners to get rid off.

"A horse wagon?"

Kieran looked around with a startled face.

It was an average cabin with a three to four person capacity. There were two rows of seats, front and back, facing each other. Kieran was sitting in the back, facing the front. He could see clearly the passing view through the window of the cabin.

They were in a Victorian Era street. Antique cars passed by from time to time, allowing Kieran to estimate the date.

The people on the streets greeted each other by taking off their hats. The men wore suits, and the women wore long parasol skirts.

Kieran himself was wearing a black trenchcoat. While he was inspecting his new outfit, he noticed that he was holding a smoking pipe and wearing a deerstalker. After checking the background message, "You are the city’s greatest detective