Awakening: Little Dragon

I was released from the hospital an hour later, causing a real scandal to Rose, who did not want to let me go. But I was no longer injured, and I was relatively in a good shape. So I was able to convince the woman.

It's already noon, and I still haven't done what I wanted.

I went to the same place I had planned earlier, before my marathon with those gorillas started. It was a long way, but still not so long that a stingy people like me would call a taxi for.

After forty minutes of detours through deserted alleys, I was before the mansion I wanted. The big mansion to say the least. It was big enough to show that very rich people live in here. But this is still not the main place of residence of my friend.

The two burly men at the entrance let me pass without further ado, just nodding at me to indicate that they weren't ignoring me. I met even more people on the way, but they didn't pay much attention to me either.

"My God, who do I see? Victor Gromov himself, in person!" - A joyful voice came from afar. Despite his status, the' little man ' almost ran to greet me.

"Hey, Little Lee. How are you?" - I greeted him with the same smile.

A cheerful Chinese man, about forty years old and one hundred and thirty-two centimetres tall, held out his hand to me to shake hands.

Little Lee or Little Dragon is a very influential person in the underworld of this city and is included, if not in the top ten of the whole country, but in the top thirty for sure. Lee is from the Triads and occupies a very high position in their organization, if not one of the leading ones. In Russia, crime has always flourished, but the entire criminal world rarely went under a single banner. That is why this short man was able to occupy his niche of a big man.

Oddly enough, I didn't have any interesting stories with this particular person. We just know each other from work - he's a gun salesman, I'm a customer. Well, my sister and his daughter are classmates and are best friends, which is also a plus to our relationship.

The man's cordiality had previously confused me a little, since I didn't understand the reason. Once I couldn't stand it anymore and asked directly for the reason. It turned out to be very simple - he just admired me. Not due to my power, no. He was impressed with the name I'd made for myself as an E-rank weakling. I mean, he just respected me, that's all.

I chose him as a partner solely for mercantile purposes. There are few places where you will find a person who sells weapons at the same low price. And he also leaves me the opportunity to argue the price, allowing me to reduce the price even lower. Sometimes, if I can talk him out, I can buy it from cheaper than Lee himself bought it.

That's why I'm here now. The system's "store" also has weapons, and I have already checked them out. But I can buy the same thing from Little Lee at a lower cost.

"How are you? How's life? Why you haven't called me in a month!?" - as usual for me, he began to bombard me with questions. - "I thought you'd already died somewhere. I tried to find out about your condition, but it turned out you were just fine. I wanted to invite you for a cup of tea. The one from my homeland. I remember you praised it quite a bit last time. I made you a present, a whole pack. Give it to your sister and you drink yourself. Tell your sister I said "Hi" and tell her that I am sorry that I did not let my daughter to go to your house yesterday" - he bowed apologetically in the manner of Asians. - "These are dangerous times, you know. I had a row with one bastard, and he is very vindictive. It seems there would be a war with him. With all sorts of shootings and victims, you know. We are going to meet soon. But i'd better keep my family safe. Yes, and your sister might have gotten involved, if my daughter, my angel, came to visit her. But I understand that they are friends, so I give her my apology. And then, when everything is settled, invite her for tea."

I listened to what he said with half an ear, nodding occasionally. Little Lee is very fond of chatting, as long as the interlocutor shows at least some signs of being alive. This is especially funny because of his cheerful Chinese accent.

Soon we came to a small room. He usually meets important guests here. He would invite me here, too, if there was a planned demonstration of his products to the colleagues. Since there was an unusual large number of people here, and almost all of them were known dangerous criminals, this was just one of those demonstrations.

Only two beautiful women stood out in this crowd of louts, like roses blooming in a garbage can.

The first unfamiliar to me, but judging by the clothing and the impression she made at first sight, she doesn't seem to be someone's underling – she stands there proudly, staring at the gun in her hand, and trying to show that she is no worse than anyone in the audience.

Is this woman trying to climb the criminal ladder on her own and achieve heights in this area? I think it is a stupid decision, to try to do something like this in Russia, but it's her own business.

On the other hand, I was quite familiar with the second decoration of this meeting. Half Chinese and half Japanese. With an impressive for Asian height of one meter and eighty centimetres, and a figure that would make any normal man swallow his saliva. I knew the girl as Wong, and she was Lee's agent. She can easily kill all those gathered criminals, and we will not even have the time to blink. According to Lee, Wong is an A-ranked adventurer of the "assassin" class, which is a very scary weapon if it is in the hands of a criminal authority.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, my dear guests." - Lee spoke with his usual salesman's smile. - "I had to go to meet my friend" - he nodded at me.

The fact that he singled me out drew a few suspicious glances at me. But I'm not particularly known to these people who are not involved into the dungeons and human adventurers. And even among them only a few people know me by my looks. So, they lost all interest when they couldn't recognize me.

"I want to introduce you to a new batch of my products." - The Chinese Smiled. – "Here are the latest developments of China, the whole world in fact. Not only you get to see the usual modernized weapons, but also something that is based on ingredients extracted from the dungeons!" - The merchant said enthusiastically.

"Who is interested in this muddy crap from the dungeons? Nothing can replace the good old AK." - A bald man with several scars on his face snorted. – "What do you have on sniper rifles?"

I closed my eyes. For high-ranking adventurers, firearms are useless. E-rank dungeon monsters are easy to kill. But starting from D-ranked dungeons – you can't kill anything with an ordinary pistol – at least a semi-automatic rifle is needed. C-ranked monsters can even take a direct hit from a stinger. As for the C-rank boss, even a dozen of simultaneous hits from tank rockets won't stop them.

In short, I use firearms actively, but if I can become stronger with the help of the system, it will be useless to me.

The discussion began about the weapons and their supplies the Little Dragon can sell to others. I listened for a few minutes, but then I lost the interest. It wasn't that I didn't need a better gun, but I think the chatter was useless and was just blowing dust in other's eyes, to blind them and sell the weapons.

"Is there a place to try it out?" - I looked at the Chinese, interrupting his discussion with another man.

Words are good, but I prefer to understand what a weapon feels like when I hold it in my hands.

"Of course." - he smiled at me, looking away from his previous companion. – "What weapons do you want to check out?"

I turned my attention to what was in front of me.

"All weapons of 'special' construction, as well as this, 'Chaos', and 'Librium'." - I pointed with my fingers at the most famous types of guns that appeared only a decade ago.

"All right, they'll be here soon. You know where to proceed to." - Lee said to me and pressed his watch. With this gesture, he called several of his henchmen here.

I nodded and headed for the shooting platform.

First of all, I decided to try out the conventional guns. I checked it "by touch" convenience, spread and return. A very important element for the gun is its weight. Then it was the number of cartridges contained, the sound, the design and so on.

And none of the" normal " stuff worked for me. I liked the weapons I was used to much more than this one. Unfortunately, I only have five sets of my weapons scattered in caches all over the city and one set is at my home. But this is exactly what the caches are for - if suddenly I get into trouble, and I can't deal with it, I know where I need to run to.

Purposefully heading for something that could save my life is much better than just blindly running away from danger, right?

My main weapon, which I used in the dungeons, I sowed while I was doing something, someone stole my bag with all the goods – to be exact, a pistol, semi-automatic rifle, automatic rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, hand grenade launcher and ammunition for all this. So, I have to buy everything again.

"If I don't find anything better, I'll buy as usual." - I sighed, lowering the gun.

I wasn't particularly happy with the result. I'm not an ace shooter, but I'm still pretty good at controlling my weapons. If we talk about just about the accuracy of shooting, I can hit the central dot for "ten points" from fifty meters away. And here, from just fifteen meters, two eights and one six.

"Good shot, boy." - I heard a woman's voice behind me.

I turned around. The woman that I didn't know was grinning at me.

She had black hair tied up in a complicated Japanese geisha hairstyle and grey eyes. I'd put her in her mid-twenties, but since I'm a "boy" to her, I'd guess she's in her late twenties. She was a very beautiful women, as usually the self-sufficient women with two cats at home and a feminist complex should be.

As for me, I never trusted pretty girls.

"If you can shoot that garbage like that, what kind of miracles can you do with some good weapons?"

I was silent for a few seconds, wondering if I should start a conversation. It doesn't seem nice to ignore her, but I don't need one more connection to the underworld. I'm a law-abiding citizen. Yes, with a lot of weapons, more than one hundred unproven or hushed-up crimes. But still trying not to do anything illegal to the best of his ability.

Unfortunately, everything has already been decided.

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Received a situational quest: Show the highest skill.

Description: A beautiful girl is interested in how good you can be. How can you refuse to show off?

Goal: Set the most difficult level of the "polygon" mode and complete it with no more than five misses.

Reward: +5 to charisma.

Penalty: None.

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A similar system message appeared in front of me, and at that moment it became obvious what I should do. But I wouldn't be myself if I didn't do another experiment.