Chapter 90: Kassel Academy is playing a big game
Old Tang blew up the corpse... No, he came back after touching the corpse? Lu Mingfei subconsciously wanted to log into QQ to contact Old Tang, but soon put down his phone and quickly walked to the table to open his laptop.
Yesterday, he, Ling, and Jiude Mai went straight down the river, stopped the boat halfway and rushed to Montpellier to spend the night in a safe house prepared in advance.
The next morning, Jiude Mai disappeared early in the morning. After buying breakfast, Ling said hello to him and went out.
Although the girl didn't show much emotion on her face, Lu Mingfei always felt that she seemed to be worried that he would ask her questions that she didn't want to answer or didn't know how to answer.
After all, Lu Mingfei has been wondering about one thing since last night - how old are Zero and Aze in this world now?
Clearly they were only eight or nine years old at this time in their previous life, so how come they are still little kids now but have expressions like little adults who are indifferent to life and death and have experienced all kinds of life?
He didn't think too much about it since he couldn't figure it out. His sister-in-law had her own blessings. Everyone has some little secrets these days.
I will tell you naturally when the time comes.
Following the steps given by Potato Chip Girl, he successfully logged into the Hunter website after jumping through pages several times.
The hunter website is called "Hunter Market" and is a website that specializes in publishing certain shady tasks.
Clients from all over the world upload their tasks to the "Hunter Market" to recruit capable hunters.
Some of the tasks here are simple, like delivering a package, while others are difficult, like asking you to fight Jackie Chan with your bare hands in a furniture store. Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.
However, the latter are usually tasks with high bounties, and hunters will be screened when they are first released. Only hunters with a sufficient level will have the right to view the details of the tasks.
Registered members who are confident that they can take on tasks can reply to the email on the site and attach their resume.
This process is called "submission", just like submitting a resume to a company for a job. The client will choose the one who meets the requirements among the submitters.
The hunter market is not like the talent market. Lying on your resume or fabricating work experience will have a price to pay, ranging from disability to death.
After all, these tasks involve some supernatural elements. Climbing in and out of an ancient tomb is a basic operation. If you don't have some ability, you may be knocked unconscious by the poisonous gas and die the moment you enter the tomb.
Lu Mingfei was speechless looking at the pitch-black login page. This potato chip girl said that this website could kill countless people and also make countless people rich overnight. It was a bit shady. The UI interface designer might have been sent from the ancient tomb.
"Strawberry_gummies, strawberry gummies...what kind of a name is that?"
Following the ID and password given by Potato Chip Girl, Lu Mingfei logged into the Hunter website with a complicated look.
The page refreshed from top to bottom, still with the pitch-black background, dark green lines, and deep red fonts, just like the door of an old haunted house slowly opening in front of you.
The account that Potato Chip Girl gave him was a new account that had just been registered two months ago. All basic permissions had been unlocked. He could browse all sections of the Hunter website and speak freely without any restrictions. If he saw a task that interested him, he could also try to submit his resume.
However, there is a high probability that the client will pass it after just one look.
There's no way around it. Strawberry Gummy doesn't look like a professional hunter. He looks more like a naive naive person who is looking for excitement on the Internet, especially since his mission record is so thin.
Lu Mingfei flipped through the task record of Strawberry Gummy and found that there were only two simple errands tasks, both of which were to help transport some dirty things, probably stolen goods that had just been dug out of the ground not long ago.
There were no unread emails in the mailbox on the upper right corner, but there was a draft letter waiting to be confirmed and sent. The recipient was "Desmodus" and the draft contained a note left by Potato Chip Girl: "This is your friend, Ronald Tang, the senior hunter."
His dream is to become the next Indiana Jones, but he gave himself the ID of a vampire bat. Lu Mingfei is a little confused about Lao Tang’s train of thought.
I guess he just started out and doesn’t know much, so he created an ID that looks impressive.
Lu Mingfei didn’t care what Lao Tang’s online name was. Anyway, it looked much more domineering than Strawberry Gummy.
After deleting the note, Lu Mingfei re-edited the email and sent it out.
On the other side of the ocean, Old Tang, who had just finished a mission, was happily counting his money while waiting for Lu Mingfei to reply.
The mission this time was a little difficult, but not high. No one else needed to help. He could easily carry the whole situation just by standing there. All the poisonous insects and snakes turned pale at the sight of him and fled away.
The client was also generous enough. He transferred the money to the account immediately after the task was completed, a total of 50,000 US dollars!
Due to his physical condition, many tombs with strange features would become ineffective when encountering him, and if there were no "strange things" he would naturally have no chance to take action, so in most cases he only received an appearance fee.
This is the biggest commission he has received this year.
I am one step closer to early retirement. Yay! "It's a pity that my gambling skills are average. Otherwise, if I save up some money and go to Las Vegas, I might be financially independent."
Old Tang sighed. He was a Chinese American. Although he did not have the forward-looking consumption concept of Americans who overdrew their credit cards to improve their lives, he also did not have the conservative consumption concept of the Chinese who saved money for emergencies. He was a typical seasonal spender.
He would spend most of the money he earned from each mission within three months at most.
It’s the same for all the brothers in Brooklyn. If they make money, they spend it. If they don’t have money, they go out and make more. If they can’t find a job, they go and collect social welfare.
Old Tang has been playing with them since they were young, so every time he makes money, he is very generous in treating his brothers to food, drinks and entertainment. If someone has difficulties and cannot pay back their credit card and comes to him crying for help, he will also generously lend them money.
As for the repayment, it doesn't matter. We are brothers who grew up together. It was them who helped arrange the funeral when our adoptive father passed away. We can pay it back when we have money.
In addition, he also had to buy some self-defense and life-saving props to prevent encountering critical situations while performing tasks one day.
And these things are, without exception, very expensive.
"The 20,000 will be used to buy equipment from Antonio, and the 10,000 will be used for rent, utilities, and daily expenses." Old Tang divided the money into three parts and laid them out. His pair of funny eyebrows kept jumping as he counted the money, looking particularly funny:
"I'll use the rest to rent a used car, and when Big Bear comes to America, I'll take him on a tour and eat delicious food and drinks. Perfect!"
After planning the use, Old Tang looked up at the screen and couldn't wait to share the good news with Lu Mingfei.
However, the big bear avatar in the QQ friend list did not move at all. Instead, a message popped up on the hunter website that was just posting for fun: "You have an unread email."
"Is there another mission coming to us?" Old Tang is a well-known senior hunter. He has accumulated a lot of connections in his daily life. Some of the trustworthy ones will directly send him private messages to specify tasks.
Most of the people who come to chat with him will leave messages in the forum.
However, when he opened the mailbox on the site, his face became a little strange. He wanted to laugh but didn't know whether he should laugh: a guy with the ID "Strawberry Gummy" sent a message, claiming to be his good friend Mingming in a foreign country, saying that it was inconvenient to use QQ recently, so he contacted him directly on the Hunter website.
What a joke, Big Head Bear is just a kid from an ordinary family, he can’t even climb over the wall, how could he find the hunter website.
Although this is a public website, it is impossible to access it without some channels.
Besides, he never told anyone his ID on the hunter website, so how could Big Head Bear find him so accurately?
Living in New York, a big melting pot, and having been in the underworld for several years, Old Tang is extremely vigilant.
He immediately suspected that his information had been leaked and that someone with ulterior motives had visited him.
However, the confidentiality of the Hunter website is still very strong. In the past, hackers tried to attack the website server to steal Hunter information for blackmail, but in the end they were caught before they could even break the firewall, and their fate was very miserable.
Besides, he is just a high-level hunter goalkeeper. The missions he usually takes are of low risk and low reward. Apart from his special physique, there is nothing else worthy of attention.
He clicked on the personal information of this strawberry jelly and found that only two tasks had been completed, which made him more convinced that someone was fishing for him.
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Who would entrust a guy named Strawberry Jelly to carry out a mission? He is not reliable at first glance! Just when he was about to ask who the other party was and whether he had kidnapped the big-headed bear, another new email came: "Your human race is not as good as my Zerg race."
"You farted!"
Seeing this, Old Tang no longer doubted Strawberry Jelly's identity, and his ten fingers flew on the keyboard: "We have played so many games. Excluding the losses in the past few years, our human race's record this year is 21 wins and 3 losses. It's a complete crushing victory, right?!"
Seeing the "Vampire Bat's" angry reply, Lu Mingfei smiled unkindly.
He guessed that Old Tang would not easily believe Strawberry Gummy's words, so he said a secret code that only they knew.
The reason why he and Lao Tang became close was because of the countless human-insect battles caused by this sentence. Later, he lost several times and was teased by Lao Tang:
"How about it, buddy, is your machine gun big, hard, or powerful? Do you dare to say that my human race is not as good as your Zerg race?"
"Brother, what's wrong with you? What do you mean QQ is inconvenient to use recently?" Old Tang was very considerate to his younger brother Lu Mingfei and got to the point right away:
"Have you met a bad guy recently? I tell you, don't hide it in this situation, call the police directly!"
"No, it's just that something happened at the Kassel Academy that I interviewed before. I was put on the observation list because I had contact with them, so it's not convenient for me to contact you directly."
Lu Mingfei's way of shifting the blame is becoming more and more sophisticated. The good thing about Kassel Academy is that it has a strong financial foundation, so it is not difficult for it to take the blame.
"Then where did you get the Hunter website account, and do you know my ID?" Old Tang reluctantly accepted this statement, but there were still many questions that needed to be answered.
"Oh, well, I have a friend who is also a bounty hunter, but he was forced to quit because his business skills were not up to par. Now he has returned home to inherit the family business."
Lu Mingfei started to talk nonsense: "Just look at the name she gave herself and you can tell she is just here for fun. After completing two missions, she is just posting here for fun.
You just happened to be quite famous on the Hunter website, so I just needed to ask her and she knew who you were."
"So that's how it is." Old Tang was not surprised by this. After all, there were indeed many young men and women on the Hunter website who were there for fun.
There was a period of time ago when the number of registered members on the Hunter website increased dramatically, and all of them talked about luxury cars, mansions, supermodels and famous watches. They were low-key and restrained while showing luxury.
At that time, Old Tang knew that the rich kids who had money but nowhere to spend came to the Hunter website to seek excitement. If they spread the news that they followed the bounty hunters who worked for money to explore ancient tombs, it would make them particularly prestigious at social banquets, and they could even become the center of attention at the dinner party.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Hunter website does have a lot of interesting people and interesting things. When Lao Tang has nothing to do, he likes to post in the forum.
Sometimes a little information leaked accidentally by others can help a novice hunter grow quickly.
When he first entered the industry, he posted here every day in an attempt to gain experience. He finally found a "senior expert" and spent a considerable amount of money to buy the "Hunter's Handbook" from him.
When I finally opened it, I found that it was all pornographic garbage from Xunfangwenliu.
"Anyway, this is the situation here. You don't have to worry about me getting implicated or anything." Lu Mingfei smiled silently:
"Tell me about the big surprise you prepared. You disappeared without even saying hello, didn't reply to my messages, and didn't answer my calls. I was worried that something might happen to you."
"That's how bounty hunters work. It's a gray industry. When on a mission, you basically have to avoid communicating with the outside world to avoid revealing your whereabouts."
Without Lu Mingfei telling him, Old Tang also knew that the brothers on the other side were very worried about him during this period. They would send him messages every night to ask if he was safe, and his phone had a full page of missed calls.
These are real brothers, unlike those bad friends in Brooklyn who, as soon as they get home, open the recorded message box to ask for money and leave a bunch of papers under the door.
But this also shows that they actually believe that they will return safely, which can be regarded as a disguised blessing, hehe.
"It's like this. My employer this time issued a chain mission. Although I can't tell you the specific content of the mission, I can reveal a little bit about where the mission location is."
Old Tang kept the question in suspense here, obviously wanting Lu Mingfei to guess the answer himself.
The hint was so obvious, how could Lu Mingfei not realize Old Tang’s next move.
"If I'm not mistaken, your next sentence should be 'Yes, I plan to come to China'."
“Yes, I am planning to come to China!”
"..." x2 Lu Mingfei looked as if he had expected it, and continued typing his reply: "If I'm not mistaken, your next mission location should be in Sichuan."
At this moment, he felt that Kassel College was like a giant spider, which had woven a huge web around him, and would not only bind him tightly in it, but also not let his friends go.
(End of this chapter)