Ace of the Dragon Division

Chapter 403: Finding Clue 

Xu Cheng didn’t realize the importance of intel until he began preparing for the operation.

The Dragon Division indeed gathered too little information on the Shanling Financial Group. Rather, they paid more attention to the movements within the government, and they didn’t investigate too much into other private financial groups since it wasn’t urgent.

So, it would be useless for Xu Cheng to count on the Dragon Division. Besides, the motive of Xu Cheng’s operation was revenge, and it wouldn’t be allowed anyways by the Dragon Division. Now, he threw away all kinds of communication devices on him so people wouldn’t try to contact him and convince him not to do it. So, without backup, it obviously wouldn’t be feasible to destroy the entire Shanling financial group, but he could still try to find the culprit behind the assassination attempt on his wife.

He then flew to the black market in Mexico.

Saar welcomed him graciously, even coming to pick him up in an armed pickup truck.

Xu Cheng didn’t stay around for too long. He just asked Saar, “I want you to do me a favor.”

Saar: “Just say it.”

Xu Cheng said: “I want to know if the criminal underworld has a bounty on my head.”

Normally, people would bring a profile to the Assassin Alliance to register the target they want to kill, and Xu Cheng wanted to know if he was already on the list. Then, if he was, then maybe he could track whether it was posted by the Wei Nation’s Shanling Financial Group since that seemed to be the only party he had offended recently overseas. Maybe he can also find out who exactly put his name up, and then he could trace it all the way to the roots and make his way over there! This would save a lot more trouble than just rushing over there directly.

Saar frowned. “We aren’t assassins, so we can’t check this type of confidential information.”

Xu Cheng: “That’s why I came to find you. With your status, you probably know a few assassins that you can trust, right?”

“It’s not a matter of friendship, you need to know that if the Assassin Alliance was to find out about an assassin leaking this kind of information, he would be traced down to be killed by the Assassin King.”

“I know it’s a matter of trust and credibility, but I can guarantee that I won’t leak this kind of information. I will give him 5 million dollars in compensation.”

Saar lifted his brows and said, “Then wait here for a second, I will get him to come over.”

Xu Cheng nodded.

After waiting for about two hours, a man with a scarred face and a black beard came in wearing sunglasses, dressed casually. He walked into Saar’s villa’s yard.

“Got business for me?”

Then, he saw Xu Cheng, and after briefly checking him out as he walked by, he poured himself a glass of champagne.

Xu Cheng directly said to him, “I want to check if my name is on the hit list of the Assassin Alliance.”

The black-bearded assassin was too lazy to even answer him. He just kept on drinking, as if he didn’t want to acknowledge him.

Saar didn’t plan on doing anything too. He knew the assassin’s temper, and at the same time, he also understood Xu Cheng’s. Both sides probably wouldn’t compromise easily.

Xu Cheng felt that he was looked down upon, so he slightly chuckled. He suddenly raised the glass of champagne in his hand and threw it at the black-beard assassin’s head. Such a lightning-fast speed made it impossible for either Saar or the assassin to react.

The black-bearded assassin was dumbfounded as he covered his bleeding head. He could still tolerate the pain, but when he wanted to retaliate, Xu Cheng already shoved a foot up his azz and sent him flying out of the window from the second floor.

Saar immediately went to grab onto Xu Cheng’s waist, anxiously pulled him back, and said, “Come on, man, just give me some face and don’t let this get out of hand.”

“Okay, I will give you face.” Xu Cheng let out a breath, and he walked down from the second floor. On the grass, he bent down in front of the killer and asked, “Now, can you say it?”

That assassin held onto his azz in pain and he said as the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably. “The hit list can’t just be checked at will. Generally, our assassins’ profiles are gathered by the Assassin Alliance and grouped by level, and we can only see missions that correspond to our level. Normally, there’s level C, B, A, and S, and I’m only at A, so at least when I checked the missions, I didn’t see you on the list. But judging by your power, I think you should be on the S-tier hit list. The bounty on people on that list are all really heavy, but they are also very dangerous.”

Xu Cheng: “How do you view S-tier missions?”

The black-bearded assassin: “You don’t know the Assassin Alliance’s mission reward system. Normally, S-tier bounty missions are priced between 15 to 30 million dollars, but before you are certain about accepting the mission, all of these missions are confidential. If you want to view the target with a 30-million-dollar bounty, you also have to pay a third of the bounty amount, which is 10-million, which is to be left with the Assassin Alliance as a deposit. Once you successfully complete the mission, this amount will be returned along with the bounty reward. If you just check out the mission but don’t take it, the 10-million deposit won’t be returned. Otherwise, there would be a lot of assassins with money just viewing confidential stuff and not taking the mission. Normally, when someone views the mission, they would take it. Even if you are on the S-class list, you don’t know what price range you are in. So, if you want me to check one mission, that’s already at least 10-million, and checking out 10 would be 100-million! Where would I find this much money to burn? Besides, if the Assassin Alliance saw that I am just checking missions but aren’t taking any, I will die! That’s against their rules!”

The black-bearded assassin looked at Xu Cheng and continued, “You want to know the people putting you on the hit list, right? Forget it, it’s all confidential. The system takes pride in its credibility and confidentiality, and many times, the guy registering targets won’t even leave any information down other than the money before leaving. The Assassin Alliance is also just responsible for taking money and killing people, and letting the target find out who put the bounty on his or her head is the most unscrupulous behavior in the assassin world, it would basically destroy the brand and the business, unless…”

Xu Cheng: “Unless what?”

The black-bearded assassin sneered. “Unless you go over to the Assassin Alliance’s HQ and find someone to ask, but you definitely won’t get anything out of me, nor will I tell you even I knew. As an assassin, the most shameful thing is to leak the employer’s name!”

Xu Cheng sneered. “Are you retaliating because I hit you so you deliberately told me such a solution?”

The black-bearded assassin snorted. “Besides this, there’s no other way to find out who wants to kill you. Do you have the balls to go? If you offend the Assassin Alliance, don’t even dream about living the rest of your life in peace.”

Xu Cheng let go of the guy’s collar and thought about it.

Saar asked Xu Cheng, “If you are suspecting that someone’s trying to kill you, why not just go and kill him? Why go through so much trouble?”

Xu Cheng: “If I knew, then would I come here? I can only find out who he is through the Assassin Alliance and then find him. I want him alive, and I want to drag him to the person he harmed to kneel and apologize! Now, I just know vaguely who I’m against, that’s an organization. I don’t even know who’s in it, I can’t just kill everyone in that organization, right?”

Saar: “Which organization?”

“Oh, my bad, not organization.” Xu Cheng said, “It’s the Shanling Financial Group!”

The assassin and Saar’s eyes opened up wide!

Holy fack! Your balls are that big?!