The Ultimate Firepower

Chapter 6: Three Missions

Ethan Gray was somewhat excited. He could finally see the public missions on the dark web.

The page was very simple. It had no mission ranking system like Ethan had imagined, but it had a regional option at the top of the mission interface.

Ethan found that the region was Asia, Thalvaria.

At the top of the mission list was the public mission section, and each mission was titled only by an amount of money.

The top-ranked mission in Thalvaria offered one hundred thousand dollars. The amount immediately caught Ethan's attention, so he clicked on it without hesitation.

After opening it, he found a very detailed mission description. After all, it was a public mission, so all the information about the assassination target was listed there, including photos, name, address, occupation, and so on.

In short, if someone wanted to kill the target as quickly as possible, they had to provide as much detailed information as possible. Ethan felt that the dark web must also play a very important role in this, such as verifying the authenticity of the information. The dark web should be responsible for that.

The mission with the highest reward was worth one hundred thousand dollars, but Ethan took only one look at the target's information before immediately giving up.

There was no other reason. The target was a major general.

A full-fledged general's life was worth only one hundred thousand dollars?

What kind of joke was that?

Ethan would never assassinate a general for one hundred thousand dollars. It did not matter which country's general it was. This was not a question of whether he wanted to make money. It was a question of whether he could stay alive.

Lucan Veyrath also saw the page Ethan was browsing. He gave an awkward, helpless laugh and said, "Forget about this one. No one is really stupid enough to buy a general's life for one hundred thousand dollars, and even fewer people are stupid enough to accept only one hundred thousand dollars to kill a general. So this mission is actually a warning from a competitor. Look at the date. The bounty expires in another twenty days."

Ethan exited the page. He had not even looked at it carefully.

The second-ranked mission offered fifty thousand dollars. Ethan clicked on it and discovered that the target this time was a woman.

A very beautiful woman with an exceptionally attractive figure.

There were photographs of her from every angle, along with detailed information, including her name and address, and even her license plate number.

Ethan was somewhat curious because the woman did not look very old. He did not know why someone had put a bounty on her head on the dark web.

The information was very detailed, and the mission requirements were also very clear. The woman had to die in an accident, and there could absolutely be no sign that she had been murdered. The standard for determining success was that if the police announced that the woman's cause of death was an accident, the mission would be considered successful.

If the police announced that the woman's cause of death was murder, the mission would fail.

Ethan looked at Lucan and asked in confusion, "What's the story with this woman? Can you tell me?"

Lucan answered without hesitation, "It's very simple. This woman is the mistress of a wealthy man. Now this mistress has become a problem. To get rid of the trouble as quickly as possible, the simplest and most convenient way is to spend a little money to kill her. Of course, it's only a little money to a rich man, but the person who posted this mission is probably the kind of minor rich man who has some money and has only recently come into contact with the dark web."

"How can you tell?"

"She's just a mistress. Why would a truly wealthy man or a super-rich tycoon go to the dark web to find someone? He could just send someone to take care of it."

Lucan looked very experienced. He said indifferently, "And fifty thousand dollars actually isn't a small amount. Look at the woman's car and the luxury goods she's wearing. They're all brands that the middle class can't afford, but that the truly wealthy wouldn't bother buying.

"Then look at the mission reward. Fifty thousand dollars is already quite a lot in Thalvaria. The person who posted the mission is willing to pay fifty thousand dollars for her life instead of giving that money to her. That means this woman's appetite is far greater than fifty thousand dollars."

Lucan's analysis was very convincing. Ethan could not help asking, "Do you know her? Or do you know some wealthy person?"

"I don't know her. But look at the mission duration. The mission has a deadline of one month, which means the person who posted it is in a hurry. And this mission has already been posted on the dark web for eleven days. No one has accepted it in eleven days. What does that tell you?"

"What?"

"It means this mission is troublesome. The killers who are actually registered on the site think the cost and reward don't match. So I think this woman's identity isn't that simple. Hmm, she's not a celebrity, but she should have a certain level of fame, the kind where killing her would cause trouble. Most likely she's an internet celebrity, probably with around one hundred thousand to three hundred thousand followers. But that information isn't mentioned in the client's materials. This client isn't being honest."

Ethan stared at Lucan in surprise. He said confidently, "We'll know if we check. Wait."

Lucan Veyrath took out another phone and searched online. Soon, he said, "Yes, she's an internet celebrity. She has one hundred and forty thousand followers on F******k."

"That's impressive! How did you determine how many followers she had?"

"The method is simple. If she had enough followers, she wouldn't need to be the mistress of a man who isn't particularly wealthy. But if she had too few followers to be considered an internet celebrity, she would already have been killed."

Ethan truly began to admire Lucan.

Lucan smiled proudly and said, "This mission can be accepted. All we need to do is create a car accident. The troublesome part is that figuring out the target's movements will take time, and we'll also have to avoid being seen by other people. It's a little troublesome."

"I won't take this kind of mission."

Ethan spoke very seriously.

Lucan shrugged and said, "Fifty thousand dollars really doesn't seem worth it. And your body..."

"It's not about whether it's worth it, and it's not because of my physical condition. I told you before, I only kill bad people. Otherwise, I can't get past my own moral standards."

Lucan was stunned for a moment and said, "Then is this woman a good person?"

"But she isn't a bad person either. Anyway, I won't kill her. Killing her would violate my principles."

Lucan scratched his head and said, "All right, I respect your choice. Besides, the underground world has never been short of scumbags. You have plenty of targets to choose from."

Ethan exited the woman's mission page. Then he saw a mission offering twenty thousand three hundred dollars.

He clicked on it. The moment Lucan saw the photograph, he sighed and said, "This mission isn't suitable. The commission is only twenty thousand dollars, but the target makes it a very dangerous mission, so it's extremely poor value."

This target suited Ethan because the information showed that the target was the boss of a human trafficking organization and a cyber-fraud group.

There were only three missions in all of Thalvaria.

If this twenty-thousand-dollar mission was also unsuitable, then there would be no missions left.

Ethan asked curiously, "Why isn't it suitable?"

"Because the risk is high and the reward is low. This mission has been posted for at least three years. The target is still alive because twenty thousand three hundred dollars is simply too little."

Ethan asked curiously, "You know about this mission?"

"Of course. Killers throughout Southeast Asia know about it. Hmm, the client is a father who lost his daughter. He put up all his property as a bounty to kill the bastard who caused his daughter's death. But the problem is that twenty thousand dollars is far too little. So when the mission reaches the end of its one-year period, the client adds one hundred dollars to the bounty and keeps the public mission active. This mission is quite famous, but no one will accept it."

After Lucan Veyrath finished speaking, he was about to take back the phone. "There aren't any in Thalvaria, so let's look at the nearby regions. There must be missions suitable for us."

"No, no."

Ethan moved the phone away from Lucan Veyrath's hand. Looking at the phone with a delighted expression, he said, "Starting my career as a killer with a mission to uphold justice, this really couldn't be better. Forget about how much money it pays. I'm taking this mission."