Chapter 51: Taking the Blame, Change of Workplace, and Lucky Guess
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
For many reasons, the crime family that was at loggerheads with the Carlos Family also took credit for the Saprilla Club massacre.
When Luke heard that, he was stunned for a bit, before a smirk crossed his face.
With those people taking the blame for him, the numerous questions surrounding the Carlos Family’s destruction would vanish. Nobody would be able to tie that to Luke.
Chris felt helpless; after doing so much work on the Carlos Family, it was the enemy of the Carlos Family who had benefited instead. That didn’t feel good at all.
But no matter what, they had still contributed to the collapse of the Carlos Family. As for rebuilding the Carlos Family’s smuggling route, it would take other criminal organizations several years.
Thus, they would be able to take credit for that.
Recently, Robert didn’t speak much, and when he looked at Luke, it was with a complicated gaze.
Robert had a lot to say, but he left everything unsaid.
It was impossible for him to not notice something which even Selina had noticed.
Selina had yet to hear from Chris when she was trying to guess the reason for the change in Luke. This wasn’t the case for Robert.
And when he thought of how Luke had randomly gone off on a trip and returned shrouded in intense murderous intent, it wasn’t hard for Robert to connect the dots.
Robert had spent many years in the army and had survived a war zone. Thus, he was by no means an idiot. In fact, his senses were extremely sharp.
The only reason he had remained a chief in this tiny town was because he was tired of all the killing.
He had never imagined that after pulling himself out of a life of killing, the child he had raised would enter that life instead.
And he didn’t feel like he was even qualified to reprimand Luke for that.
After all, if Luke hadn’t gone on that “trip,” Robert would’ve personally gone on such a “trip” himself a month later as well.
Time passed, and a week later, he summoned Luke to his office and asked, “Do you want to work somewhere else?”
Luke was stunned. “Why?”
Robert didn’t answer. He asked again, “Do you want a bigger stage for yourself?”
Luke was astonished. “What?”
Robert continued, “If you’re interested, I’ll make use of my connections and help transfer you somewhere else. You’re young, and I doubt you want to stay in this place and live the life of a retiree.”
Luke sank into a short silence before answering, “Let me think it over.”
Robert nodded. “Sure. Let me know when you’ve decided.”
Luke didn’t take long to make up his mind. Three days later, he gave Robert an answer.
Robert didn’t say much about it. He only told Luke to put more effort now into learning more about everything related to his job.
Luke knew that this so-called learning period was the final stop before he moved on to the new job.
At a new place, he would no longer have Robert’s protection. There, he would have to make as little mistakes as possible and contribute as much as he could.
Luke told Selina what was going to happen.
He wasn’t worried that Selina would envy him for getting this opportunity. As partners who had survived death together, Luke didn’t want his partner to be the last person to know that he was leaving. That would hurt her instead.
Selina stared at Luke with an odd expression for a long time before nodding. “Ok.”
That reaction made Luke curious. That wasn’t like her at all.
Just like that, time passed.
During this time, Luke discovered another hidden rule of the system.
This story started with Catherine’s grumbles. She complained that Robert had been having a streak of bad luck recently, with numerous bad things happening to him.
Luke didn’t think too much of it, but when he asked further, he found out that Robert had injured his fingers five times recently, stepped on animal shit six times, and had even gotten trash all over him after the wind blew if off the upper floor.
Fortunately, these were minor accidents and didn’t hurt him much, but they still caused Catherine to worry. She even started becoming superstitious and wondered if a supernatural force was at work here. Thus, she started dragging Robert to the local church; so far, they had been there twice.
Alas, the last time they were at church, the bench Robert was sitting on collapsed, and a pointy part of the broken bench pierced Robert’s backside, causing it to bleed.
Luke didn’t think much of it at first, but after the church incident, he started growing suspicious as well.
Even when people had a run of bad luck, it wouldn’t be to this extent. This was real life, not a scene out of the Final Destination films.
Luke kept thinking about it, but couldn’t figure it out. That lasted until one day, when Robert challenged Luke to a bet while they were watching a football match. Luke turned it down.
Robert said resentfully, “My luck’s been bad recently, but I don’t need your sympathy. I refuse to believe that I’ll never win a bet against you.”
Luke didn’t realize it then, but that night, when he was lying on his bed, an odd thought suddenly surfaced in his mind.
And when he was on the verge of falling asleep, he suddenly sat up in bed. “Is that why?”
Two days later, when they were watching yet another football match, he made a bet with Robert, and bet on a weak team.
As expected, Luke lost the bet.
At that moment, part of Robert’s list of abilities dimmed and became unavailable.
Clearly, Luke no longer met the requirements required to learn these abilities. Some of what he learned were also automatically removed from his active abilities.
Luke didn’t care about that. He started observing Robert.
Seemingly out of nowhere, Robert suddenly stopped being unlucky. After a few days passed, he had only hurt himself once from touching some boiling water, while the only other minor incident was getting drenched due to a leaking pipe in the bathroom.
Compared with his previous situation of three or four minor accidents every single day, his current situation was much better.
Luke looked for a chance to enter a bet with Robert again.
This time, it wasn’t a bet on a football match. Rather, it was a shooting match between the two with a wager.
Luke lost uneventfully as he wasn’t even trying his best.
At that moment, all the abilities in Robert’s list dimmed, and the basic firearms Luke had learned became unavailable as well.
And from that moment on, Robert was no longer unlucky.
A few days passed with no accidents whatsoever. His mood became much better as a result.
It was then that Luke knew for sure about yet another rule of the system.
To learn an ability using the super learning mode, Luke had to first defeat an opponent to meet the requirement. Without meeting the requirement, he wouldn’t be able to purchase the abilities in the list.
Previously, after killing the Mexican gang members, all their abilities had become available at once.
What was the difference between those people and Robert?
The answer was simple: Robert merely suffered bad luck from a minor bet, while the gang members even lost their lives from their defeat.
That gave Luke a rough understanding of how the super learning mode worked.
The so-called “requirement” he had to meet to purchase the abilities was something related to luck, or perhaps, fortune?
The dead naturally had no luck or fortune.
Perhaps the system had judged that by defeating and killing those people, Luke had robbed them of their luck or fortune, rendering them completely helpless as the system plundered their abilities.
If that was the case, Robert’s stroke of bad luck was understandable.