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The Road to Slaying God
Chapter 67
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CHAPTER 44: WAITING ALONE
“Hmm, there are very few newbies in the a.s.sa.s.sination world,because they are recruited by the former a.s.sa.s.sins and this profession has nosuch thing called “Mother of success and failures”. The a.s.sa.s.sination career will not provide youskills during the process. Failure means danger and death, so when an a.s.sa.s.sinis recruited, he must already be a qualified killer. Just as now I’m tellingyou, if you want to be an a.s.sa.s.sin, you need to understand a lot of things!”The old man was seducing like the big bad wolf in the Red Riding Hood tale,constantly tempting Zhang Yang to join the a.s.sa.s.sin industry.
“Good or not, I am a student, I don’t want to commitcrimes.” Unfortunately, Zhang Yang wasn’t captivated.
“Then. Why’d you f.u.c.king ask?” The old man was a littledepressed.
“Hey, having more knowledge is always good, and in case Imake a fortune and someone tries to kill me, I am better prepared.”
“….” The old man was silent. He put down the newspaper andlied on the couch, with serious disappointment on his face.
“Uncle Li, it’s past noon, time for lunch. I’ll get goingnow.”
“You can eat here, hey, uncle Li has a lonely life. Findingsomeone to talk isn’t easy for me ah … Join me, drink some wine, try somedishes from next door …remember you had stewed beef and peanuts. And also get abottle of wine from the small shop on the side, you needn’t to pay for that now,I usually pay there at the end of the month …”
The old man took out a hundred Yuan bill and handed it toZhang Yang.
“Gee Uncle Li …” As Zhang Yang stood up and took the moneyfrom the old man’s hand, the three men from earlier came out. While the threemen exited the alley, the young man at the front had a proud look on his faceand the other two men in a bodyguard like suit were each carrying a heavy blackplastic bag. They were vigilantly looking around and even reckoned Zhang Yanglooking at them.
“Ah ..it’s okay. Let them go.” The old man didn’t take alook outside but Zhang Yang could feel the old man’s eyes flash a little bit.
Zhang Yang was confused looking at the old man, and when helooked outside at those three men, he always had a troubled feeling in hisheart, because the old man’s actions were a little unreasonable but Zhang Yangcouldn’t think of any particular reason. Zhang Yang was sure that those threehad nothing to do with the old man because when they appeared the first day,the old man didn’t show any reaction. It wasn’t until a few days before, hisheart-throbbing aura appeared.
If it has nothing to do with the old man, is it related tothe casino?
The casino is just a place to gamble, what conflict wouldthere be? According to Liu Biao, the casino is fair. It is not that type ofcasino that lays down traps, but similar to the large international casinos inMacau. It was reasonable to a.s.sume that there were no contradictions betweenthe two. So why does the old man have such an intense murderous aura?
Zhang Yang had unprecedented doubts, but it was a tediousmatter to put his mind into. It had nothing to do with him. He didn’t even knowwhat the casino inside was like. He just knew that the casino is said to havenearly 20 years of history.
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Soon, several steaming hot dishes were placed on the littlebamboo table in the bookstore. Zhang Yang although he doesn’t drink wine,poured a cup for himself to accompany the old man. The more they drank, themore they talked. They talked about everything. The old man was also talkingwith zest from the Qin dynasty to the Tang dynasty, and then from the Tangdynasty to present, his happy times and exaggerating about his past about therivers and lakes which made Zhang Yang to recall the school janitor, unclew.a.n.g. Both of them had a common hobby: to brag!
“Uncle Li, don’t you have afamily?”
“No.” Lao Li suddenly got into a depressed mood when ZhangYang asked the question.
“I’m sorry, uncle Li, I didn’t mean to upset you.” ZhangYang immediately felt the mood and quickly poured some wine for the old man as anapology.
“Oh, that’s alright, when people get old, they get likethis, nostalgic, sentimental, in fact, although uncle Li is an orphan, he has afamily, a wife …” The old man sighed.
“Then you are old … … what about master’s wife?” Zhang Yangdidn’t know how to address, and finally felt that ‘master’s wife’ would beappropriate. Although the old man wasn’t a master, he felt that the old man wasvery good to him, it was an indescribable feeling.
(#shimu (master’s wife)= a respectful term for your master’swife)
“18 years ago, my wife and I had some business in Africa, sowe both went there knowing that the other party was prepared for us. And thoughwe ended up completing the task, my wife and I lost contact in the chaos …” theold man said.
“Lost contact?” Didn’tyou have a cell phone? No contact address? Zhang Yang was incredibly shocked.For two normal people to actually lose contact in this modern society withmodern communication technology, it was extremely strange. And also to knowthat the phone was really popularized twenty years ago.
“Well, our mobile phones used during a.s.sa.s.sinations aretemporary. When we went to Africa, we had abandoned all the contact tools,because those things could easily bring us more trouble. And besides, we alsohad a fixed contact information. No matter the success or failure of themission, we had an appointment to meet at the XX building in C city and be sureto wait until the other arrives, …”
“XX building, I’ve never heard about the XX building in Ccity ah!” Although Zhang Yang wasn’t the head of C city, he still knew C citylike the palm of his hand, but he had never heard of XX building. “Oh, therewas 18 years ago, you see, just less than 100 meters of the commercial streetfrom the alley, Xx building was there. At that time, it was the landmarkbuilding of C city. After we were separated, I waited there for two yearsbecause just two years later, that place was demolished and a large commercialplaza was built.” The old man sighed again.
“ … Then that means, even if master’s wife came to C city,she couldn’t have found you? Zhang Yang stood up and walked towards the door tolook at the high tower of the commercial mall. He felt uncomfortable in hisheart. Usually, he used to see such tragedy on TV only, but he never believedin it. He couldn’t even think that there are actually living examples of suchtragedies.
“I think the chances of her living in this world is prettyminimal.”
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