Chapter 18: The Tunnel

Ling stood up, drew her Spider Cut, and slashed heavily on the table.

　　"Shut up! Speak one by one, you time, Luka." Ling said.

　　"I have nothing to say, you want to save your friend, then you just go, I don't care, but I don't want to be the leader, you find someone else to be."

　　"It's your turn Jason, if you have something to say."

　　Jason stood up from his seat and said to the others

　　"George is our friend, we can't abandon him. The Bloodaxe has taken him to the city hall, we must go and save him. The sooner we go, the sooner he can be out of danger."

　　"Jason, have you thought about that George could have be killed already. The news you got was several days ago. You could be dead, if you just be there without any new information." John disagreed with Jason's words.

　　Rachel also stood up

　　"I agree to go save George, but John was also right. We have to make a good plan to do that."

　　Several people argued for a long time, but they could never reach a unified opinion.

　　"That's enough. If we continue the discussion, it will be never end. So let's start voting. Those who agree to go save George, raise your hands." Ling said to others.

　　Jason and Kaya, both of them raised their hands.

"Two votes, those who agree to cooperate with the Bloodaxe, raise your hands."

John raised his hand, and seeing that he was the only one who raised his hand, John stared at his son Charlie and coughed softly.

　　Charlie didn't want to meet his father's eyes, lowered his head, and raised his hand as well.

　　"Two votes as well, how about you two?" Ling asked Luca and Rachel.

　　"I abstain my voting right. You guys can do whatever you want, no need to ask me. I don't want to be this cadre." Luca said.

　　"I said clearly, I agree to save George, but we have to figure out George's current situation, then we can do that." Rachel insisted on her point of view.

　　"Raise your hand if you want to get George's information, before to save him."

Rachel raised her hand, then Ling raised her hand as well. Another two votes.

"Ling ,you, Do you know how worried George was, when he heard you were caught by Goblins? And you do not want to save him right now, just waiting for some information? Who will give you his information, Bloodaxe?" Jason shouted at Ling.

　　"Shut up Jason. Since it's all two votes, then ,as the leader, I've decided that I'll go to the city hall by myself tomorrow, to collect George's information. Jason will be the leader when I am not here. That's all for today's meeting." Ling did not wait for the others to refuse her decision, stood up and left the meeting room directly.

　　The others saw that Ling had gone, and they returned to their own rooms. Rachel walked to her room and saw Ling was waiting for her at the front.

　　Rachel didn't expect Ling to come looking for her, so she quickly asked

　　"What's happened Ling, what can I do for you?"

　　"I came to give you three things." Ling took out a skill, a compass, and a wand from her bracelet and handed them to Rachel.

　　"These three are props dropped by Dare, I do not need to use them so I'll give them to you. Don't refuse me." Ling saw Rachel wanted to refuse, immediately said.

　　Rachel hesitated for a moment, and then took the two things.

　　"This compass records that Magic Circle in the basement, it is called Isolation Magic Circle. After I leave, you can go to the basement and study the Magic Circle, see what you can get from it."

　　"Thank you, Ling. Since I met you, you always helped me. "

　　"Well, take your time to look at them, I'm leaving." Ling left.

　　Rachel wanted to learn the skill first, it was "Primary Silence" Dare used it before.

　　"Primary Silence

　　Effect: Concentrate your attention on a selected target and block its skills for a time. Block time related to intellect. 2 times per day.

　　Dare used this skill to make Charlie and Rachel's skills useless. Now Rachel learned "Primary Silence", she can use it to support others better when there are fighting.

　　After learning the skill, Rachel looked at Dare's wand.

　　Spider Web Wand

　　Quality: White

　　Skill: Shoot a spider web, 2 times per day.

　　Rachel especially liked the wand, as a witch finally she had a weapon. After the hospital fight, Rachel only rose to level 6, because most of the Goblins escaped, they did not drop soul crystals.

　　The last one was compass, Rachel noticed that many symbols were recorded on the compass. She planed to go to the basement to learn the Magic Circle at tomorrow.

　　Jason stood at the front of Ling's room, waiting for Ling to return. Seeing that Ling came back so late, Jason asked

"Where have you been Ling, I've been waiting for you for a long time, you are the first one leave the meeting.

I am here to ask you, if you can take me with you tomorrow, because I own George!" Jason said.

　　"No, you'd better stay here and be the leader." Ling said and was about to close the door.

　　Jason hurriedly stopped Ling

　　"If I stopped George, do not let him leave alone, he would not been caught by Bloodaxe. Also, it's dangerous for you to go alone, take me with you, I can protect myself." Jason took out his Invisible Hat.

　　" This hat helped me sneak in the hospital and save you, it can make me invisible for a short time."

　　Ling wanted to take the Invisible Hat for a look, but Jason suddenly put it back. Then he said

　　"You need to promise me first, you will take me with you tomorrow, then I can lend you to look at it!"

"Shabby Invisible Hat

Quality: white,

Effect: Let use keep in invisible for 20 minutes, invisible effect is related to use's perception.

1 time per day."

Ling directly said the detail of the Invisible Hat.

Jason smiled embarrassed,

"I forgot you have 'Intermediate Scouting'."

　　"I won't take you there." After saying that, Ling pushed Jason out of the way, entered the room, and closed the door.

　　Jason returned to his room in frustration. He was just about to go to sleep, he heard that there was a knock at the door.

　　"Jason are you there? I am Luca, I need to talk to you, it's very, very important!"

　　Jason did not want to open the door, but Luca kept knocking at the door, he had no choice but to get up, open the door and let Luca in.

　　"Jason, this is the third time I've come to see you. In the meeting, you said that George was taken to the city hall by the Bloodaxe, right?" Luca asked.

　　Jason nodded, "Yeah, a lady from the Bloodaxe told me, but it was days ago."

　　"Looks like they found the treasure too, damn, I thought I am the only one know the treasure's place!"

　　Jason looked at Luca in confuse, not knowing what Luca was talking about.

　　"Do you remember what I told you earlier about the treasure I found? It was in the city hall, and the Bloodaxe members must have found it too. No, no, no, we must go to city hall, do not let them get treasure before us." Luca said to Jason.

　　"What is the treasure ah?" Jason asked curiously.

　　"I don't know, but there are so many traps over there, I did not go close. I guess the value of the treasure must be high. Let's go to the city hall tomorrow, we have to find the treasure before the Bloodaxe!" Luca repeated again.

　　"I just asked Ling, but she won't let me go." Jason said.

　　"She won't let you go? Don't worry, come to my room tomorrow, I know what to do." Luca said, winked towards Jason and left his room.

　　Early the next morning, Ling left the hospital and went to the city hall.

Rachel came over and knocked on Jason's door. She wanted to invite Jason to study the Magic Circle together. She waited for half an hour, but no one opened the door.

　　At this moment, Jason was in Luca's room

　　"Welcome Jason, you come early, I know a tunnel that will take us directly to the basement of the city hall. No other people know it." Luca pushed his bed to the side, and there was a dark hole under it.

　　"Come on Jason, hurry up the treasure is waiting us." Luca said and he first jumped into the hole.

　　Seeing that Luca had already entered the hole, Jason also followed him.

　　"If I had known we would walked in a tunnel, I would have borrowed a flashlight. It is too dark here." Jason complained from behind

　　"It's too dark, I can't see anything. How did you know there is a tunnel, Luca?"

　　"You're like Ling, you don't tell me your information, your skills, but ask me a lot. Tell me why you were able to sneak into the hospital on that day, why no one could find you, if you want to know how I find this tunnel." Luca said.

Jason was considering whether to tell Luka that he had a Invisible Hat. Suddenly, Luca, who was walking in front of Jason, stopped.

Jason hit directly on Luca's back.

　　"Why did you stop all of a sudden!"

　　"Do not speak!" Luca whispered to Jason

　　"Can't you see? There are so many rat bodies, and some rats are eating the bodies." Luca kept moving back.