The Death Knell

"Guys, we can't go on like this, we're sitting on nothing."

Wade squeezed in between Thor and Loki, hugged one with one arm, and spoke to them earnestly. The old red sofa was pressed down by the weight of the three of them.

"Hiss, fu~~~~" Thor held the cigarette rolled in newspaper and took a long puff, his eyes dull and numb: "It doesn't matter if you don't have money, we still have love and peace..."

"Thor is right, the world is too complicated, we are venting our frustrations, Rock"n"Roll..."

Loki also looked psychedelic, holding a cigarette in his hand, shaking his head in front of the TV, and wearing a small flower in his long hair next to his ears.

The mercenary slapped his forehead. He didn't know which step he made wrong.

.............................

The current location of the three of them is the basement shared by Wade and Heixiazi's aunt in New York City.

After all, he needed to avoid the limelight after blowing up the sanatorium, so he hid Thor and Loki here, but the days of hiding were boring and difficult.

He originally had a second-hand TV set that could barely pick up a few channels with an antenna. After all, Al was blind and she didn't watch TV. Wade himself only wanted to watch children's programs.

In the first few days, Thor and Loki were both interested in television, but their tastes were obviously different from Wade's. Muppet shows, cartoons, and news soon lost their appeal, and the two became I became restless and wanted to go out and wander around.

It's not yet confirmed whether SHIELD is hunting Thor, so naturally he can't let the two of them leave. It would be troublesome if they were lost again.

Hearing that everyone was about to quarrel, Al suggested that Wade find a VCR. Nowadays, everyone uses DVDs. VCRs are very cheap. Rent some tapes for the two people with British accents to watch.

The blond mercenary thought it made sense as soon as he heard it, and he would like to review the old movies.

So he went to the garbage dump to pick up a still usable video recorder and came back. He also picked up two boxes of video tapes. Although he didn't know what they were, he didn't want them in vain.

What he picked up was a pile of videotapes of hippies taking selfies from an unknown era.

It includes all sorts of smut, as well as an underground rock concert that looks like it was filmed somewhere in Greenwich Village with someone traveling with the band.

Wade, the lead singer of this band, also recognized her as Amanda Armstrong, a superstar who had been popular around the world for a long time. The short-haired woman's singing voice on stage was full of explosiveness and darkness. mood.

However, the fast-paced music of rock music still catered to the preferences of the two Thor brothers, and they quickly immersed themselves in it and settled down.

Wade, who breathed a sigh of relief, left his residence alone to find Weasel to take over the task because he was almost running out of money.

However, the other party said it couldn't be done, and took out the backup of the agreement signed by Wade and the one-eyed man, and carefully explained to him why Wade could not accept another task without completing one task.

"Before Party B, that is, you, that is, the lunatic, has not completely transformed the target into a normal person, you are not allowed to end the mission unilaterally." The wretched weasel pointed to another clause in the contract: "There is also an exclusivity clause here, which stipulates You are not allowed to accept employment tasks from other people during the task. Of course, our bar itself does not encourage one person to take on multiple tasks at the same time. After all, distraction means a decrease in success rate, which will affect the reputation of our agency."

Wade seemed to be frightened, and the hand holding the wine glass shook on the bar: "What if he is not good for the rest of his life?"

"Then you have to stay with him for the rest of your life." Weasel shrugged and replied very easily: "You signed the contract without even reading it, right?"

"That won't work. I'm still so young and don't have a girlfriend yet. I can't be tied to a madman." Wade scratched his hair and lay on the bar: "What do you think if I give up this mission? ?There has to be a break clause, right?"

Weasel held the document and kept flipping through it. The lights in the bar were dim, the colored lights were swinging around, and his expression was also gloomy.

"Not really, but it says that if you give up the mission, or if Thor dies during the mission, you will have to pay about 400 million U.S. dollars plus one life, and Party A will donate your body's usable organs to the Holloway Charity Hospital. You Take out your sperm and sell it for money, etc., and there is something I can’t quite understand... It says that your soul will be sacrificed to the ancient god named 'Dark Diver', so that you can live forever. Don’t turn over.”

"What is the Dark Diver?" Wade tilted his head.

"This." Weasel turned the document over, spread it out in front of Wade, and tapped the painting on it with his knuckles.

It was an evil god with an octopus head and wings, squatting on a stone platform, and tentacles sprouting from all over his body.

I don’t know who painted the painting, but there is a line of notes in the lower right corner.

‘PS: Tentacles love drilling holes. ’

"hiss!!!"

Wade covered his anus and mouth, but sadly he discovered that people only have two hands, so there was no way to cover their ears.

Seeing his miserable appearance, Weasel smiled happily. He pushed half a glass of whiskey in front of Wade:

"In the dark side of the world, you'd better believe that this is true, and that Party A can really do these things. Just think of it as paying tuition. Through this incident, you probably also learned that no one can completely believe it. .....Welcome to the free mercenary world, rookie, I’ll treat you to this cup.”

After saying that, he went to greet other customers. He was the only manager and bartender in the bar, and he was so busy that he couldn't even attend to an ordinary mercenary.

For the sake of friendship, saying so much is already the utmost kindness.

Although Wade only drank a glass and a half of whiskey that night, he was so drunk that he walked home crying...

In the next few days, the blond mercenary was decadent, and the Thor brothers were also decadent, but the two sides were in different directions.

Thor and Rocky gradually became obsessed with hippie culture amid the manic music and psychedelic videos. At the same time, they dug out the $10,000 'leaf' that Wade had accumulated in Miami and took pictures of the teachings in the video. Soon they all became smokers.

Al smelled that special odor and shook his head regretfully. What's wrong with young people learning to smoke marijuana?

The world is really deteriorating, and each generation is worse than the last.

Whenever she thought of this, she would sigh for a while, and then suck up the white powder on the back of her hand.

However, others can ignore it, but the roommates who live together should still care about it. Since he is bound to these two madmen, she reminded Wade that he can use their labor to generate income, just like the black coal kiln on the other side of the ocean.

So this was the scene before. Wade tried to get the Thor brothers to go out to work and earn income. After all, it seemed that the $70,000 was far away. Now everyone only had a few hundred dollars, so they had to live this life.