"Who would be friends with such a bigwig, like a Little Cake!" Vi, who had called Mylo and Claggor, sat at the table, protesting Vander's words.
Caitlyn frowned. She now somewhat regretted coming. Although it was her first time in Zaun, and she had seen things she had never seen before, which she found novel, under Vi's provocation, she just wanted to leave as soon as possible.
"Oh, right, Duke!"
Vander suddenly remembered something Duke had mentioned when he came last time.
"Didn't you say you wanted me to deal with the Plague Rats at the Oil Tank Factory?"
"What's wrong?"
"There's a problem. Your guess was right. Those rats have become a force to be reckoned with. I suspect there might be a powerful and cunning Rat King controlling them!"
"Want me to help you take care of it?"
Duke crossed his arms and chuckled, "My price is very high!"
"I've already given you a daughter; what more do you want to say?"
"Don't mention Jinx to me; just hearing her name gives me a headache. That little girl just blew up the school's laboratory a while ago. Now she's practically a little demon king who fears nothing!"
"She's quite energetic, isn't she?"
Vander chuckled, but then he started coughing incessantly, covering his mouth, with traces of blood showing between his fingers.
"Are you sick?"
Duke noticed this. Vander turned his face away and shook his head, "It's just a lingering problem from the last time at the old cannery. Besides not being able to fight anymore, there are no other symptoms."
"This is no small matter; I still need you to manage Black Alley for me!"
"It's fine, just find a way to deal with those rats. A few children were dragged into the Water ditch and disappeared earlier!" Vander wiped the blood from his hand and waved his hand to silence Vi, who was about to speak.
"Why not inform the Enforcer?" Caitlyn couldn't help but ask, and Vi sneered, "Those guys, whose eyes are only on the golden sea, won't come all the way here for this kind of trouble!"
"Oh, right, the big one upstairs must have always been pampered and cared for, not knowing the darkness below, right?"
Vi looked at Caitlyn with a provocative gaze, and Caitlyn slapped the table, getting up from her stool, "Duke, I'm leaving!"
"Alright, I'll send you back first, then I'll come back to deal with the rat infestation here!"
"What, is the big one running away?"
Vi mocked Caitlyn, leaning against the counter behind her and smiling provocatively, "That's right, after all, you are a big one who has never worried about food or clothing, raised in a sugar jar since childhood, so you should hurry back!"
Caitlyn's steps, which were about to leave, suddenly paused. She looked at Vi and said, "Say that again!"
"I said you're a big one raised in a sugar jar, what about it?"
Vi came in front of Caitlyn, leaned close to her, and whispered, "Little Cake!"
"Duke, do you have a shotgun or a rifle with you? Lend me one. Count me in for dealing with the rat infestation!"
Caitlyn looked at Duke, who rolled his eyes helplessly, "Give me ten minutes, I'll make one for you!"
"Hmph!"
Vi snorted and said to Mylo, "Go get ready, we're taking Little Cake to hunt rats. I hope she doesn't get scared and cry!"
Duke smacked Vi on the head, "Don't vent your dissatisfaction with Upcity on an innocent person!"
"Tsk!"
Vi sat at the bar with her arms crossed, while Duke took the opportunity to go to the Underground Room, took out one of the replaced Deathstroke's sidearms, and found a damaged, abandoned rifle from a storage box in the Underground Room.
"Although it's broken, the barrel is still intact and can be modified!"
"Duke!"
Claggor walked up to Duke and said uneasily, "Can you help Vander?"
"He's been coughing a lot lately. It wasn't obvious a while ago, but now he's coughing up Hemorrhage. I'm a little worried!"
"Don't worry, I'll arrange for a Doctor to come over!"
Duke took out the tools from his tool bag and then said, "Don't worry too much. Also, help me brighten the light a bit, I'm going to dismantle this rifle!"
"Okay!"
Ten minutes later, Duke came to the counter carrying a rifle modified from Deathstroke's sidearm, and placed both the rifle and the bullets in front of Caitlyn.
"I modified it from my old sidearm. It's a makeshift. I calibrated the sight for you, added a scope, and also made a recoil reduction device, and even some engravings."
Caitlyn looked at the rifle Duke had just made, her eyes filled with surprise. The rifle was modified from Deathstroke's sidearm, with only an added stock, a lengthened barrel, and a scope.
However, the stock had a miniature clockwork device that could absorb and reduce recoil, and the barrel had been specially modified, and the scope was even brighter and more sensitive.
Feeling the weight and grip, Caitlyn said with delight, "This gun is even better than the one my father gave me for my birthday!"
"Was it really made in ten minutes?"
"Ten minutes is all it takes. Give me five more minutes, and I can even add a grenade launcher for you!"
Duke popped a piece of malt candy into his mouth and said to Vi, "Oh, and there's yours too!"
"Mine? Half?"
Duke pulled out the prototype he had made before crafting the gauntlets. Although this prototype's performance was inferior to the finished product, it still possessed the ability to punch through walls, and Duke had even installed shock absorption devices in these gauntlets to protect the user.
"It's a prototype I casually made before, for you to play with. Later, when you find your own career, I'll give you an even better pair!"
Vi eagerly put on the gauntlets, listening to the clicking sound of the internal clockwork mechanism, and said with uncontainable joy, "This is absolutely amazing!"
"Then let's go, ladies!"
"We're going hunting!"
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