Can't I Raise Myself? Chapter 44

The officers were taken aback and nodded one after another, "We understand, we understand, Captain, you go ahead."

The one who had guarded the door earlier then said, "Adler's little lover is only seventeen this year, and she's very beautiful. She lives at the end of the left corridor on the second floor."

Ryan: "?"

"Why are you telling me this?"

"It's nothing, just to help Captain with his investigation!"

Something felt off, but Ryan couldn't be bothered to think too much about it.

He walked into the large villa.

In the living room on the first floor, there were two people, one large and one small. The woman was about twenty-five years old and was Adler's wife. The child was only about five years old.

Seeing Ryan enter, the woman held the child tightly, her face full of nervousness.

Ryan glanced around and walked up to the woman, asking in a low voice, "Do you know who I am?"

The woman nervously replied, "Y-you're Captain Ryan."

"How did you know my name?"

"I saw it in the newspaper."

Good, she didn't recognize him.

Although the possibility was slim, what if Adler had said something in his sleep?

"Where is Adler's room?"

"In the middle of the second floor."

"And his study?"

"It's connected to the room."

The woman answered everything without reservation.

She seemed genuinely unaware of Adler's affairs.

It made sense; even noble ladies had to obey their noble husbands completely. With Adler's influence, she only needed to enjoy her life peacefully every day, so it didn't matter if Adler kept a mistress at home.

Ryan went up to the second floor. The rooms on both sides should belong to mistresses. He walked to the leftmost one and pushed the door open. He saw a girl about 1.6 meters tall, dressed in Lolita fashion, sitting at a desk, holding a book.

Confined as they were, they could only pass the time each day.

Seeing Ryan, the girl nervously shrank back.

"Don't be scared, I'm a good person."

"..."

"Do you recognize me?"

The girl shook her head.

Golden hair, a delicate pink face, her appearance was at least an 8. That damned Adler, an old ox still eating young grass every day.

Ryan walked around the room. There was nothing worth inspecting. The cabinets were filled with clothes, and all of them were strange.

In the room on the far right, another mistress was more brazen, even trying to trade her body with Ryan for her freedom. Ryan decisively refused.

"If you keep making pig noises, I'll lock you up."

With that, Ryan went to Adler's room.

There was nothing else noteworthy.

"Strange, nothing hidden? So clean?"

Adler's room was completely visible: a bed, a cabinet, a chair. The connected study on the other side was filled with books. For now, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

"Could there be a secret room?"

Ryan checked around but found no issues, so he had to return to the first floor to check other rooms. As a result, he found something amiss in one of them.

A Supernatural Being's perception was much stronger than that of an ordinary person.

"This room is much shallower."

The room Ryan was currently in was directly below Adler's study.

According to the principles of house design, the corresponding rooms above and below generally had the same size. However, the width of the current room was clearly problematic.

He walked to the inner wall and knocked. It sounded hollow. He then returned to the study on the second floor and, using his intuition, estimated the missing width in the room downstairs. It was almost exactly the width of a bookshelf.

And a bookshelf was placed against the inner wall of the study.

Ryan walked over and tried to push the bookshelf, but it wouldn't budge. He had to remember that his strength had increased significantly after becoming a Supernatural Being. Even if he couldn't move this bookshelf, he should have been able to push it a little.

"A mechanism..."

Where is it?

Perhaps it was a book.

Ryan searched but couldn't find anything. The plots he saw on TV that could be discovered with a glance were indeed just lies.

He returned to the room on the first floor and took out the cross sword from his body, stabbing it into the wall in its small sword form. With a slash and a bend, he finally drew out a rectangle.

The sharpness of this sword was terrifying.

Ryan pushed inwards on the wall he had cut.

Rustle~~

It was indeed empty inside.

Ryan kicked open the adjacent wall with two or three kicks, creating an opening the size of a person. Soon, he saw a downward sloping staircase. This staircase spanned not one, but two floors. The stairs turned in the middle, very narrow, and not even the width of a bookshelf. Ryan then realized there was also something wrong with the wall behind the room.

He descended the stairs and finally found Adler's secret room.

The secret room was about the same size as the study, with a similar layout: a desk, a telephone, and some small boxes. Ryan found over ten thousand soul coins inside. In addition, there were two relics, a short knife and a silver handgun.

[Demon-Breaking Blade]

[Quality: Tier 2 · Fine]

[Effect 1: Constitution +3, Mana +5]

[Effect 2: Demon-Breaking, reduces the mana circulation efficiency of hit units.]

[Equipment Requirement: Spirit 17, Mana 20]

[Silver Wings]

[Quality: Tier 1 · Fine]

[Effect 1: Constitution +2, Mana +2]

[Effect 2: Guaranteed Hit, 20% chance to hit target.]

[Equipment Requirement: Constitution 10, Mana 12]

"Nice stuff."

Although the tiers weren't high, the effects of both weapons were quite good.

The Demon-Breaking effect of the Demon-Breaking Blade, combined with the Mana Seal Domain, would make mages cry.

As for the Silver Wings, Ryan had obtained this item in the game before. It was a very good early-game equipment for the shooter class.

In Empress Online, most shooter classes didn't use bows and arrows, but firearms, such as handguns, rifles, and even sniper rifles. However, these weapons required mana, and firearms produced by the Empire's technology were far from that level.

Ryan decided to keep the Silver Wings for himself. As for the Demon-Breaking Blade, he would give it to 'Lin Qi,' as the Blade of Erosion was already outdated.

"These two items are useless to Adler, but they're a bargain for me."

Otherwise, why would they say looting houses was the most profitable job?

"The stuff on this shelf are all good things."

Ryan looked at the shelf behind the desk. It held some medicine bottles. He hadn't paid much attention earlier, but now, glancing at it, he saw there were even Mana Potions.

Just as he was about to examine them closely, the mirror against the wall suddenly rippled.

"Hm?"

"What is it?"

Ryan was startled and cautiously walked to the mirror.

He had always thought this was just an ordinary full-length mirror, but it seemed it wasn't...

As he was thinking, a white-haired loli appeared in the mirror.

"Adler, I have something to tell you... Huh? Who are you? Where is Adler?" Magana frowned with her delicate brows, then her expression suddenly relaxed. "Oh, it's you, Ryan. Nice to meet you."

Ryan: "???"

The air suddenly fell silent.

5k, working hard on the manuscript, there's another update today!