"But I told you," Jace's mother yelled back, tears clouding her eyes, with a hint of anger mixed with frustration. She crouched and started picking up some of her clothes from the floor. "I told you that I will pay you soon, I promised you that I will gather the money once my son leaves for college." She continued, "I needed the money I had on me for his flight ticket, and ... and you gave me one week to pay you. It's not even up to a week yet, and I have your money with me, so why did you have to do this?" The landlord stood upright without a hint of sympathy in his expression, his eyes glaring at the lady before him without remorse. "I don't want to keep you in here anymore, it's my apartment and I choose to do whatever I want to do with it." "I have never owed you," Jace's mother cried, as she lifted up the broken mirror from the floor. Most of her belongings were mishandled and lay broken on the floor. "This is the first time I ever delayed with my payment and you are doing

[ Both ][Good luck, Jace, ]"Yeah, I have to try at least. Heaven knows what sort of package he has given her to deliver at the most secluded places in the area, she will get into trouble just like I did at the airport."The drive to sector 9 took twenty minutes, each passing second felt a little more tense than the last because Jace feared that Tess would get there before him thus getting into the hands of those thugs.When they finally arrived at the area, he got out and paid off the taxi and went on his way further into the area. All these while he was more focused on the task at hand that he forgot to send the money he had promised his mother earlier.The streets were deserted, just a bunch of abandoned facilities, including medical centres, malls and schools. He couldn't help but wonder what happened to make everyone leave the area. A fight, a plague, or an epidemic.Far ahead, Jace spotted the facility known as sector 9, its distinct dome-like shape and bright yellow colour nev

"System, how much exp does it cost to upgrade my combat skills?" [ To increase the already existing skill of an attribute by 1% costs 50 exp ] "And that is all I have," he thought, taking a deep breath and contemplating whether or not he needed to upgrade his combat skills. If fighting the guard were as easy as fighting those thugs at the bar, then he wouldn't mind, but if they appeared tougher, then he'd have no choice but to improve his combat skills. As time passed, Jacd became more relaxed because not a single guard was in sight, fifteen minutes felt like a really long time. He followed the system's lead to find the vault, but just when the entrance to the vault was in sight, the guards whom he had been expecting emerged from every corner. There were six of them, and they surrounded him in all directions, each one pointing a gun at him. "Don't move!" One of them ordered, and Jace lifted his hand above his head and closed his eyes for a moment. "Damm it, they are huge," he

Jace's mother had a hard time putting her belongings together. Even after Jace left, she went back to plead with the landlord, hoping that he would reconsider and let them back into the house, but the old man hardened his heart and stayed true to his words."You and your wretched son will not spend another night in my apartment," he repeated several times.Without a choice, Jace's mother parked most of her belongings together and kept them beside the house; she just needed them to be there long enough for her to find another place to stay.But then, she recalled what Jace had told her, to go to the Skyview apartment and rent a home to stay. These words repeated over and over in her ears but she had a hard time believing them. If Jace was truly wealthy enough to pay their rent at the Skyview apartment, then what was the source? Certainly, such a huge amount of money did not fall from the sky.Then again, she remembered how he got out of the case with the chief, and wondered,"He might

Meanwhile, at the police station, Jace placed the bag he had taken from sector 9 in front of the police officers just as the system had directed him. It felt as though the cops knew that he was coming over, with the way they welcomed him and took the bag from him without queries, leaving Jace stunned. "Well done, boy," the officers commended him, "You've made our job easier, we can now take action against those bustards." "Uhm, yes," Jace nodded, but there was a hint of uncertainty in his tone, a question trapped in his head that needed answers. "Who are they?" He asked. "Drug dealers, for short." The police officer answered, "We have tried everything humanly possible to catch those fools, but they are impossible. I don’t know how you managed to sneak into their base and come out alive." The more words the officers said, the more curious Jace got, and the more he wondered how his boss at Lincoln bars was linked to the association. For a split second, he started to connect the