I begin barreling down the street, however it's not fast enough.
I feel my exhaust grow and the car gets further and further away.
Before I begin to slow down Evan Truman races up next to me.
"What are you doing? There's no way you're faster than that car."
He had a point, unlike him my stats aren't superhuman, I can run about as fast as a bike.
"Whatever, it's not like it's heading anywhere other than the police station, I'll get there eventually."
Evan laughs and looks back at me, "Are you so sure about that?"
I stare at him puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"I've memorized every officer on the force, those guys weren't part of it."
Firstly, why does he have them memorized? But i'm not too concerned about that right now.
"They're not? Then why did they take Mr. Connolly?"
"I'm not sure, maybe it has something to do with that octopus."
That sounded a little far fetched, how did they turn a student into an octopus?
The only person who should be able to do that was Mr. Connolly, but he was occupied by me at the time.
Unless, was there someone with a skill that let them imitate others skills?
They need to have been born with it or are the peak of something related.
Counterfeiting maybe? Identity theft? Maybe forgery.
Any of those are related to crime, so we're dealing with a master criminal here.
I stop running and begin to ponder, how will I deal with someone like that?
Speed increases by +1
Thanks system, but now is not the… wait a whole point?
I've been running for at most 10 minutes, how did I gain an entire stat?
Does my skill maybe increase my stats based on my resolve too?
Since I was running as fast as possible in order to catch the car, did my stat increase in proportion to that?
Now isn't the time to test this though. I take a seat on a nearby bench.
Evan shows me his phone, "Here's the location of the car right now."
"Wait, how do you have this?"
"I ran ahead and placed a tracker on the car."
So in the time I thought about all of this Evan had the time to catch the car.
"Why didn't you try to stop the car?"
"The idea didn't cross my mind."
Just great, but it's atleast a start.
The car came to a stop at a shipping center, they must be trying to ship Mr. Connolly over seas.
"Well that's not good." Evan says, stating the obvious.
I begin to run again, the more time I waste, the less chance of saving Mr. Connolly.
It's 2 miles away, let's hope my speed and stamina increase a lot.