Walking to the dining table, Cipher saw two figures sitting somewhat dazed in chairs. As for Ethan, he was in much better shape than Lauren and Jasmine.
Kung Pao Chicken, Braised Lion's Head, Sliced Pork in Boiled Water, Double-Cooked Pork, and five bowls of rice. Cipher was a little surprised looking at the various home-style dishes on the table.
She didn't expect to see so many dishes in such an environment; it was even more lavish than what she had eaten in her previous life.
She didn't know where Claire got them, but it probably cost a lot of credit points.
Pulling out a chair, Cipher had just sat down when Lauren, sitting next to her, looked up at her.
"Sister Cipher, what happened just now? I felt a terrifying aura suddenly assault me, and then... then I lost consciousness..."
Hearing Lauren's words, Cipher awkwardly scratched her cheek, her eyes seemingly aimlessly wandering but quickly settling precisely on Claire.
"Uh... didn't Claire tell you?"
Lauren shook her head, indicating no.
At this moment, Claire, who was being stared at by Cipher, returned her gaze.
Although no words were exchanged, Cipher could clearly sense the meaning contained in that look.
'Boss, you caused this; you should explain it. Besides, this incident didn't cause much of an impact, right?'
Cipher helplessly withdrew her gaze, then took out a wisp of aura and placed it on the table.
Before Lauren could ask what it was, Cipher explained directly:
"This is a wisp of aura from my friend. This wisp of aura is formed by an instant-death curse on my friend. If any being with a soul is entangled by this wisp of aura, that being will die immediately."
"Because the instant-death curse is too powerful, even a wisp of aura, the suffocating sense of death it emits, cannot be immune to by people with lower strength."
"They will be scared unconscious by this aura."
"And this bottle can prevent that feeling of death from appearing, but I forgot that I have the ability to be immune to all instant-death type abilities, so I directly opened the bottle at the time, affecting you all."
"Don't worry, you were a certain distance from me at the time, and that feeling couldn't harm you."
"I see..."
Lauren looked at the bottle on the table, somewhat thoughtfully.
"Immune to all instant-death type abilities, Sister Cipher is so strong! And Sister Cipher's friend is also very strong... just a wisp of aura can scare us unconscious. At least S or S+ level!"
However, the further she spoke, the wider Lauren's eyes became, as she finally realized what she was saying.
"No, no, how could it be S+? That's too terrifying!"
She quickly shook her head, denying her previous deduction.
S+! That's a combat power that can easily destroy cities! Even among the ability users' cluster, IMA, Lauren had only heard of one S+ existence.
"I don't know." Cipher shook her head, "My memory is still somewhat incomplete, so I don't know my friend's strength, nor do I know where my friend is now."
After speaking, Cipher put a wisp of aura back.
"Let's eat first. We can talk about anything else later."
At this moment, Claire interrupted the conversation, then brought out a plate of braised fish from the kitchen.
After casually placing the braised fish in front of Cipher, Claire picked up her chopsticks and began to eat.
Cipher's eyes immediately lit up. She didn't expect to be able to eat fish other than the small dried fish from the system space in Pit Bottom District. And after her nose's inspection, this fish was still very fresh before being cooked, not frozen fish.
"Oh, and it would be even better with something to drink."
Saying that, Cipher took out five bottles of Sulada, which had been chilled at some unknown time in her system backpack, and placed them on the table.
"Sister Cipher, what is this?"
Looking at the five bottles of what appeared to be drinks, Lauren asked with some confusion.
"This is a sparkling beverage; it's very delicious."
After saying this, Cipher also began to use her chopsticks, picking up a piece of fish and putting it into her mouth.
The moment the fish entered her mouth, she felt immense happiness.
"Delicious!"
After a quick comment, Cipher began to rapidly enjoy the goodness of the food.
Seeing that Cipher and Claire had already started eating, the three members of Spark Team exchanged glances and then also began to eat.
Lunchtime passed quickly. Soon, everyone finished their meal and then went about their own business.
Outside the house, by Claire's car.
Cipher looked at the two people still unconscious in the trunk and asked Claire, who was beside her, with some confusion:
"Claire, what are you planning to do with them?"
"Sell them for money."
"Sell them for money?!"
Cipher was greatly shocked. The moment Claire said those three words, she instantly thought of the abhorrent human organ trafficking organizations from her previous life.
"It's not what you're imagining!"
Seeing her so shocked, Claire immediately realized what Cipher had just thought, after all, the trafficking of human organs was something universally condemned in Pit Bottom District.
"I have a way to contact the Reverse Current Alliance. These two are considered pillars of the Reverse Current Alliance; there's no way they wouldn't pay to protect them."
At this point, Claire even pointed a finger at Augie.
"Especially him; he's the son of an A-level combatant from the Reverse Current Alliance. That person would definitely be willing to pay a high price to protect his son."
After hearing Claire's explanation, Cipher frowned.
Actually, she didn't want these two to go back alive. Although these two were instantly killed by her, they were unaware of her Divinity Speed ability.
But keeping them alive would ultimately be a hidden danger, especially after witnessing her strength; they would definitely be better prepared if they bothered her again.
Moreover, Cipher looked at her small treasury (quantum storage) in her system backpack, which still had 290,590 credit points. She felt that she wasn't that short on money for now, right?
"How much money can these two... approximately sell for?"
But Cipher temporarily didn't plan to voice this thought. She decided to continue listening to Claire's suggestion.
"This Felix is a B-rank fast recovery, very rare. He can serve as a front-line tank, reducing their casualties. He can probably sell for over 700,000 credit points."
"As for this Augie, a B-rank ice element manipulator. Although not as rare as Felix, he is still the son of an A-rank, so his price can definitely be raised. Selling him for a million credit points is no problem."
"And since you captured these two, I'll just take 5% of the selling price."
Hearing Cipher's question, Claire lowered her head in thought for a moment, then gave her answer.
However, when she looked up, she found that Cipher, who had been standing beside her, had disappeared at some point.
She looked around in a daze, only to realize that Cipher had already sat in the passenger seat of her car at some unknown time.
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"What are you waiting for?! Hurry up and sell them so we can get the credit points, meow!"
Cipher sat in the passenger seat, poking her head out, excitedly shouting at Claire.