Chapter 14: A New Bounty
"Let's have a cup of tea." Li Ang gently rubbed his temples, "I just came back from drinking with my girlfriend, and my mind is still a little unclear." β
The mood is not very good either.
Originally, drinking was supposed to be promiscuous.
I didn't expect to come here.
Forget it, it's important to make money.
"Okay!" Ernis hurried to boil hot water, "What about Miss Potze?" β
"She's drunk than me, so she'll go back to my house to rest first, so hurry up."
"I understand, I understand."
While it was time for Ernis to make tea, Leon took a closer look at the apartment.
It is no exaggeration to say that this apartment, and everything in it, was bought at Leon's expense.
Don't get me wrong, that's not what it meant.
Leon didn't like that bite.
"You're buying boring stuff again?" Leon asked with a frown as he looked at a new portrait hanging on the wall.
That portrait... How to say it... It looks a lot like Ernis, but it's a little thinner, a little taller, a little more handsome, and it doesn't look like Ernis at all.
"Yes, I bought it from a girl who studied art, she was pitiful, because her family was not good, she didn't finish college, and she could only give portraits on the street..."
"Don't talk nonsense, let's explain first, you can't bring her here for the night!"
"Of course, how can I break the rules you set."
Ernis brought the brewed tea to Leon, "You are my food and clothing, if I mess with you, I will not drink the northwest wind." β
That's right, Ernis is not some skilled killer, but a face and puppet that Leon has found.
On the first day of the crossing, Leon was determined to leave the gang.
And he did.
But he never thought about leaving the underworld.
Is there a difference between gangsters and the underworld?
Of course.
Gangsters are the opposite of the police, whether it is smuggling and selling drugs or fighting for territory, there are police officers watching every moment, from the gang boss to the younger brother, who may be brought back to the bureau at any time to stuff popsicles.
And the people of the underworld are different, it is a staggered belt between black and white, neither side is not, both sides are stained.
Everyone in the underworld has a legitimate occupation, they may be your neighbor, your meantime, your girlfriend, waiting for the night to fall, but changing to another identity, doing unseemly things.
Silently, without a trace.
The Council is such an underground world, and it is the top underground world of the mortal rank.
Their membership-only hotels are located in major cities around the world, and they open their doors to do business, but no police have ever come to their door.
On the contrary, many times, the police really have no choice but to deal with certain criminals, and they will take the initiative to find the Continental Hotel to fight the black with black.
Leon's ultimate goal is to become a superhero admired by thousands and kill people in the name of justice.
However, just as the capitalists want to do bloody primitive accumulation, Leon also needs a process of getting rich first and then building products.
In the process, he needs an identity under the table.
The status of a lawyer can bring him a life and status under the sun, but it cannot bring him quick money and raw materials for a military town.
And the identity of the council killer can just fill the vacancy.
Assassination can get quick money, and you can also get raw materials.
No delay.
But this identity must be very, very hidden, and no one can associate this identity with lawyer Li Ang.
including the Council itself!!
That's where a character like Ernis comes in.
Leon and Ernis were able to meet by pure coincidence.
A year ago, Ernis was beaten up by three debt collectors in an alley when he happened to run into Leon taking a shortcut home.
Li Ang politely told the debt collector to let me go, and I would continue to fight when I passed.
Who knows the rise of the three debt collectors, and even Li Ang is not ready to let go.
After stuffing the bodies of the three into the trash, Leon invited Ernis to a cup of coffee out of sympathy and boredom.
After chatting, Leon found out that Ernis and himself used to belong to the same Tlasov family, but Leon had been studying under the sponsorship of Tlasov, and Annis was just an inconspicuous mechanic in the garage, not very skilled.
Neither of them knew anyone in the gang, and they had no criminal records, and after the gang was disbanded, they both had a chance to start over.
However, Leon is getting better and better, but Ernis is getting worse and worse, to the point of being in debt and homeless.
From a life with no future, to another life with no future.
However, Leon discovers that Ernis has a strength.
It's very good at pretending.
And it's pretty natural.
Obviously has no family, no money, no sisters, and has just been beaten, but he can still sit with his waist straight and drink coffee elegantly opposite Li Ang, describing his current situation as just a small episode in his life journey.
If it weren't for the swollen face like a pig's head, Li Ang might have believed it.
Watching Ernis's pretending performance, Leon instantly woke up.
Ernis once belonged to the Tlassov family, that is...
He is eligible to apply to join a mutual aid association!!
This is exactly the faΓ§ade and puppet that Leon has been looking for.
The two hit it off and worked out a plan for cooperation that night.
Of course, it was mainly formulated by Leon, and all Ernis had to do was listen to the teachings and play the skills he did best:
Pretending.
The next day, Ernis walked into the Continental Hotel in New York with the steps of not knowing his six relatives and asked to become a member.
The rest of the story went well, and Winston casually threw an assassination mission to put Ernis to the test, but he didn't expect him to complete it in half an hour.
Well, of course it was done by Leon.
But all the credit goes to Ernis.
As a result, Annis successfully obtained membership in the Board of Trustees.
Since then.
Ernis is responsible for pretending to be forced and receiving tasks in the Continental Hotel, Leon completes the assassination and collects raw materials by the way, and Annis pretends to be forced in the Continental Hotel to receive the bounty.
19 points.
Annis I, Leon IX.
This is a fair share, after all, all Ernis has to do is pretend to be forced, and take everything down for Leon when needed, and admit that he did everything.
Ernis has no complaints about this share and risk.
Without Li Ang, he doesn't have a single hair, but now he can live in a high-end apartment, and he still enjoys the adoring eyes of his killer colleagues every day, how can he complain.
What's more, he knew in his heart that if he dared to think carefully, Li Ang would hit him until he vomited.
Ernis made tea and put it in front of Leon, and invited the merit: "Boss, I behaved well today, Winston is polite to me!" β
Li Ang rolled his eyes: "Less nonsense, what kind of reward is it, and I must be very, very, very, very interested?" β
"The information is here, you will know it when you read it." Ernis took Winston's envelope out and respectfully handed it to Leon.
That expression was weird.
Leon pulled out the information of the bounty target from the envelope, and saw his photo at first glance:
Name: Li Ang. Hiss, age: 20, status: Columbia Law School...
"Isn't it..."
"Yes." Ernis held back and laughed, "Someone gave 300,000 and asked for your life..."
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