American Comics: BOSS Invasion
#915 - Hiring a killer
In this unique world, so-called underground forces aren't that hard to find.
Organizations that run assassin businesses often moonlight in the intelligence trade. Therefore, the places they choose to do business are also hubs of information, such as teahouses, restaurants, or private clubs.
Although Qi Shan came out with his sister and a large group of people, they didn't actually go very far.
After all, he used to be in poor health and wasn't very well-informed about the outside world. He was only familiar with the facades of underground organizations in his own city.
The famous red-light district by the river, usually a place frequented by all sorts of people, was completely blocked off by a convoy of carriages and horses today.
Inside the courtyard, the originally noisy tavern was now silent. A group of Jianghu heroes were all staring at the couple at the middle table.
Qi Shan seemed oblivious, still flipping through the book in his hand, turning a page from time to time, as if he was already immersed in the world of the book.
His sister sat beside him, looking around timidly.
"Little brother, why did we come here? Aren't you going to help me find Big Brother Pang?"
Qi Shan didn't even look up, replying with a smile, "Aren't we looking right now? Don't worry, someone will come looking for us in a while. If you're hungry, eat something first.
Don't underestimate this small tavern. The decor is just so-so, but the food is surprisingly exquisite. Many people are willing to travel two or three hundred miles just to have a meal!"
"Young Master Qi really has an eye for quality. But such praise is a bit much, leaving me with nowhere to put my face!"
A charming female voice came from behind, followed by a gust of fragrant wind, and a graceful figure appeared directly across from Qi Shan.
This was an extremely rare beauty, wearing a pink and white interspersed gauze dress, covered with a layer of thin white gauze that draped naturally over her shoulders, able to vaguely conceal her graceful figure.
The woman had a beautiful face, with a delicate bun on top of her head. Her tender white hand held a palm-sized jade smoking pipe, which was currently emitting wisps of smoke.
Qi Shan looked up and smiled: "Boss Dong, you've finally come out. I thought you would wait for me to finish this meal!"
This woman was called Dong Xinmei. Don't let her delicate appearance fool you; she was actually a ruthless character behind the scenes.
The Dark Flower List, the force behind her, was almost the largest underground organization in the world, dealing in intelligence, assassination, and mercenary work.
As long as you had money, they could do almost anything and find anyone!
Moreover, the Dark Flower List was a rare old brand. Tracing its roots back, it could even be traced back hundreds of years, which was no small matter.
For a force that couldn't be brought to the table to continue in the ever-changing Jianghu for so long, anyone would know that it was definitely not simple.
Fortunately, Qi Shan had no other merits except for being rich.
"Others would be different, but for a rare guest like Young Master Qi, I, your sister, must personally entertain. How dare I be negligent in the slightest?" Dong Xinmei said with a light laugh.
"Clearly, you made us wait so long!" Qi Yue muttered softly.
Qi Shan smiled and said, "There's a bit of trouble at hand, and it's inconvenient for me to take action, so I'm asking Boss Dong for a small favor."
"Oh? Tell me about it and see if I, this little woman, have the ability?"
Boss Dong gently raised her hand, and the circle of burly men around her, who had been eyeing them fiercely, instantly lost their arrogance. One by one, they lowered their eyes and obediently got up, forming a neat line and leaving in single file, instantly silencing the huge hall.
Qi Yue was taken aback.
"Who is it?"
"The heir of the First Pavilion, Pang Deyu!"
Boss Dong was silent for a moment, put the small smoking pipe to her mouth, gently took a puff, and exhaled a puff of white smoke.
"I know Pang Deyu. He's a master of swordsmanship, and can be ranked among the younger generation. But even so, such a person shouldn't be much in front of your Four Seas Bank. You only need to pass a two-foot-wide note from your father to Yunnan, and someone will naturally send him to you. Why come to me, seeking the far from the near?"
"I think Boss Dong misunderstood my meaning!" Qi Shan said with a faint smile: "I'm not asking you to send someone to secretly capture him, but to uproot the First Pavilion, leaving only Pang Deyu, and force him to come before me!"
Dong Xinmei was shocked.
What a grand plan, to directly wipe out the First Pavilion.
"Young Master Qi, do you know what you're saying? The First Pavilion has been rooted in Yunnan for hundreds of years, with intertwined forces and countless assassins under its command. They are known for being difficult to deal with and extremely vengeful. Ordinary people avoid them like the plague. Who would actively seek their trouble?"
Qi Shan said calmly: "This is also something that can't be helped. It's not that I want to cause trouble, but that trouble has come to me.
My father is the richest merchant in the world. My family has plenty of gold and silver treasures. Fifty thousand taels of gold is not worth mentioning. Even if I threw it into the river, I wouldn't even look at it, but making my sister sad is a big deal!"
Qi Shan's eyes stared directly at Boss Dong.
Boss Dong's heart trembled slightly.
Qi Shan clapped his hands, and two burly men immediately walked in from outside the door, each carrying two huge leather boxes.
The boxes were placed side by side, and the two burly men turned and left.
"Boss Dong can consider for two days whether to take on this task! Here are 2000 taels of gold. I only want the heads of two assassins from the First Pavilion."
After saying that, without waiting for Boss Dong to answer, Qi Shan waved his hand and asked his sister to push his wheelchair, and slowly walked out of the tavern.
The sound of horses neighing came from outside, and the chaotic footsteps gradually faded away.
Boss Dong exhaled a long puff of white smoke. An old man dressed as a scholar suddenly appeared beside her, slowly closing the lids of several boxes.
The old man shook his head and sighed: "A grand gesture, a grand gesture. Young people these days are really too rich. 1000 taels of gold for a person's head is barely enough to kill a first-class expert. Xinmei, leave this deal to me, and I guarantee it will be done within three days!"
Before Boss Dong could speak, a large palm appeared behind the old man's head, slapping him away, revealing a strong man who looked like a bear.
"Why are you everywhere? You, the Life-Reaping Scholar, retired from the Jianghu 30 years ago. Why are you still wandering around?"
"I've decided on this deal, Boss Dong. You can now take your cut according to the rules. Don't even bother with 1/10 or 1/5, just let me give you half. I have 1000 taels of gold, enough to live comfortably for several years!"
The old scholar was furious: "Monster Ox, get lost! How dare you steal my business? Do you believe I'll kill you right now?"
“I really don't believe it, come and kill me! Come over here and I'll smash your head into a meat pie with one punch!”
“Black, you dare to provoke me? I think you're tired of living! Come on, let's have a great battle of 300 rounds!”
“Oh, you old codger, you're standing up for yourself! Today, I'm going to drain your blood dry!”
The clamor of the two men attracted a large group of bizarre-looking Jianghu travelers. Seeing the gold on the ground, their eyes turned golden, and they immediately joined the scramble. In no time, the entire tavern was in chaos, with tables, plates, and benches flying everywhere.
Boss Dong continued to smoke there, as steady as Mount Tai, her eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the four boxes of gold on the ground, completely unaffected by the environment.
After a long while, she slowly exhaled and sighed, "As expected of the young master of Sihai Qianzhuang, truly a grand gesture!"
— — — —
“Little brother, what do you want to do?”
Back in the carriage, the elder sister couldn't help but ask.
Qi Shan smiled and didn't answer. In fact, the answer was very simple: he just wanted to stir up the water.
First, drop a stone and see what emerges from under the surface, and then react accordingly.
With the ability to create things, gold and silver are cheaper than dirt for Qi Shan.
If he wants a lot, he only needs to move his mind, and mountains of gold bricks will immediately appear in front of him.
If he can make reasonable use of the power of money to achieve his goals, then it means the money was not spent in vain. Whether it's expensive or cheap doesn't matter at all.
With the convenience of transportation in ancient times, it was not easy to cause inflation.
Back at the manor, he asked someone to take his sister down to rest. Qi Shan also returned to his courtyard and began to study other things.
Now that he has come to the world of martial arts, and his body has become like this, and he cannot act on his own for the time being, he naturally has to think of other ways.
He has many forces at his disposal, including artificial humans, spirit particle technology creations, and ordinary humans.
However, Qi Shan felt that these were not suitable. After careful selection, he chose one that he had hardly ever used.
Demon Factory!
He got this thing from Earl Millennium in the Marvel world. In the later stage, he only used it to build some strange steel demon life forms for auxiliary purposes, and did not create too many demon soldiers.
After all, this thing uses the energy of pain to achieve evolution. Qi Shan really looks down on such evil means of playing with souls.
After Dr. Gero's long-term research, after the fusion of spirit particle technology, Dr. Gero's understanding of the soul has reached a certain height.
Therefore, under Qi Shan's order, the Demon Factory was transformed from the inside out.
The soul can be created at will with spirit particles. What kind of soul is needed? What kind of demon body? You can directly set the program and let the factory produce it directly.
With the support of Qi Shan's high-purity massive energy, the demons can reach the third level as soon as they appear, which is the level of humanoid demons.
And this is exactly what Qi Shan needs.
The defense of a third-level demon is stronger than ordinary steel. They also have the ability to fly when necessary. They are tall and their appearance can be shaped at will. They are the best bodies to accommodate shadows.
The Anhua List is indeed well-deserved. Early the next morning, Qi Shan received a gift.
Two exquisite sandalwood boxes, with two copies of character identities attached.
Qi Shan didn't even look at them and directly asked his servants to dispose of them.
He believed that even for 2,000 taels of gold, Anhua Bao would not dare to fool him. Although Sihai Qianzhuang did not have much force, it had money. Money is the boss at any time.
In the morning, after having breakfast with his sister, the two of them entered the carriage again and left with the team. This time, they were really going on a long journey.
Qi Shan had a mysterious figure beside him, wearing a black robe and tall, always following the carriage. His sister had curiously looked at him a few times, but didn't pay too much attention.
When passing by the small tavern where the Anhua List was located, Qi Shan's convoy stopped slightly. The two carriages at the end of the team slowly drove into the backyard of the tavern.
The guard found Boss Dong, handed over a letter, and turned to leave.
Boss Dong looked at the deep ruts and had some guesses in her mind. She unfolded the letter and saw it written on it.
“Shan is very satisfied with the last cooperation. I hope to continue at this price. As long as the assassin under the command of the First Building has joined for more than one year, their head is worth 1,000 taels of gold.
The hall master is tripled, the altar master of the branch altar is multiplied by 5, all the heirs are multiplied by 10, and the landlord of the First Building is multiplied by 100.
A special gift of 50,000 taels of gold is provided as a deposit for supervision and verification. For each person who fails the verification, 100 taels of gold can be allocated. Anyone who dares to engage in fraud will be killed and can receive 2,000 taels of gold.
In addition, there is a personal gift of 10,000 taels of gold. Please take care of Boss Dong.”
After reading it, Boss Dong had a wry smile on her face and sighed, "Rich and powerful, rich and powerful, can't afford to offend! Really can't afford to offend!"
She had seen a lot of money. There were even people who offered a reward of millions of taels of gold to hunt down one person, but they were all rare martial arts masters. She had never encountered anything like this, offering a reward of tens of millions of taels of gold to hunt down ordinary assassins, as if they were going to bankrupt their family to uproot the First Building.
How much hatred is this? How much hatred!
Boss Dong could imagine that when this announcement was spread, the entire assassin world would definitely experience a major earthquake.
At that time, everyone in the Jianghu, regardless of whether they were assassins or not, as long as they wanted to get some gold and silver, would set their sights on the First Building. Maybe even internal personnel would start killing each other, and it would collapse completely in a short time.
Unless they could kill the culprit, but thinking of Qi Shan's calmness when facing her.
Boss Dong knew that this was definitely not an easy person to deal with.
In the following days, a piece of news swept through the entire Jianghu like a storm.
Someone smashed hundreds of thousands of taels of gold in Anhua to uproot the First Building.
Mainly targeting assassins who have joined the First Building for more than a year, changing their ways will get you 1,000 taels of gold, the higher the position, the higher the martial arts, the higher the reward.
Ordinary heirs have as much as 10,000 taels, and the landlord is a sky-high price of 100,000 taels.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.
The entire Jianghu was restless, and a large group of heroes and Jianghu heroes began to gather in Biannan Province, while there was also a bit more turbulent momentum inside Yunnan Province.
The First Building, which was already somewhat mysterious, completely quieted down, as if it had never existed.
But everyone knew that the storm was coming.
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