When Xiao woke up, he felt pain all over his body; there wasn't a single place that didn't hurt.
"Someone ambushed me!" he cursed under his breath, swearing.
"This person's mouth is so dirty, Brother Jiao, let's brush his teeth and wash his face!" a childish voice rang out.
Just as Xiao was about to look up, a bucket of cold water was poured over his head, chilling him to the bone.
Xiao was soaked to the bone, and the water stung his wounds, making him wince in pain: "Damn it! Salt water! You guys poured salt water on me!"
Xiao then realized his predicament: he was bound with ropes and chains, with a huge rock at the other end, and he couldn't move at all.
"It's you! You brat!" He stared wide-eyed at Xiao Liu in disbelief.
He never expected that his situation would be reversed so quickly. Before, Xiao Liu was still tied up by him, like a fish on a chopping board, but in just half a day, he became the fish in the child's hands.
"Hurry up and brush his teeth!" Xiao Liu retorted angrily, "You're the one who stinks! You're the smelliest!"
The horn took out a toothbrush and actually brushed the owl's teeth, but the action was so rough that the owl's gums were broken and bleeding.
"What kind of toothbrush is this?!"
With a sly smile, he said, "A wire toothbrush, for brushing stones."
"Let me go! Do you know what you're doing? What you've done is enough to cost you your freedom and send you to jail!"
"My God, you know the law?" Xiao Liu asked with an exaggerated expression, clearly surprised.
The horn sneered: "I didn't expect a hitman leader to know the law. If you know the law, why are you in this line of work? Knowing the law and breaking it is an even greater crime!"
Xiao Liu pointed to himself: "I'm only six years old."
He then pointed to the corner: "Brother Corner is twelve years old this year."
Xiao Liu shrugged: "We're still young. Whatever we do can be forgiven. Besides, we're punishing bad guys, doing what heroes do. How can that be considered breaking the law?"
Jiao nodded: "Little Six is right."
Xiao Liu took out an iron ruler and said with a regretful look, "I originally wanted to use a blunt knife to give you a slow slicing, but I couldn't find a blunt knife. I only have an iron ruler. Actually, it's pretty much the same, isn't it?"
"What are you going to do!" Xiao stared wide-eyed in terror.
Xiao never underestimated any child. Although the "training island" had been shut down by the Dragon Kingdom police, he had personally witnessed the methods of those children on that island. Human nature is inherently evil.
In order to survive, in order to live, they were forced to grow up and eventually become qualified assassins.
Looking at the two children in front of him, he had an idea: if these two children went to the island, they would definitely become the final winners.
Xiao Liu took the iron ruler and slashed hard at Xiao's palm. The friction caused the ruler to chafe and bleed, creating a gap. The ruler slowly sawed into the flesh like a saw.
"Stop! What do you want? What do you really want?"
"Cold-blooded killer, this hurts already?" Xiao Liu felt deflated, shaking the blood-stained iron ruler in his hand: "Give back the money you swindled! That's my grandfather's money, you must return every single penny!"
"My phone has exploded."
“Use my phone to download a mobile banking app, and enter your account number and password.” Jiao said coldly, “Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten your account number and password, or Xiao Liu will be angry.”
Xiao Liu waved his iron ruler: "Yeah, when I get angry, I'll chop randomly with the iron ruler. This time it's my palm, next time..." His eyes darted around, looking at Xiao's lower body.
Xiao instinctively squeezed his legs together and swallowed hard. "I remember, I remember everything."
Xiao Liu pouted: "Give up so easily, that's no fun."
Jiao also found it boring, so he made Xiao reveal the bank and then the account number and password, with Jiao controlling the whole process.
"There's so much money in the account?" His eyes gleamed.
Xiao Liu leaned over for a look, then pouted and said, "It's all dirty money!"
Jiao lowered his voice: "Little Six, how about we double-cross each other?"
Xiao Liu's eyes lit up: "Great!"
Because of Xiao's special status, he personally signed many agreements with the bank, and his large-scale transactions were frequent. His bank card had no limit, so not to mention 100 million US dollars, even his original 500 million US dollars in savings could be transferred out at this moment.
Xiao deeply regretted not having a limit, but it was too late.
"Brother Jiao, I've gotten what I wanted. Now it's yours."
"Didn't we agree that if we gave you money, you would let me go?!"
“Yeah, I let you go now after getting the money, but Brother Jiao arrested you again. Is that right?” Little Liu shrugged childishly: “I even threw away my iron ruler.”
Horn approached Owl with a gun in his hand, his tone indifferent: "You've been an assassin for so long, have you ever thought that your creditors would come knocking on your door?"
“Creditor?” Xiao shook his head: “Every wrong has its perpetrator and its debtor. In my opinion, I am just a gun. If your loved one died at the hands of an assassin, then the creditor you should look for is not the assassin, but the person who paid for the life. That person is the real creditor.”
"Brother Jiao, I'm going out for a walk. You can stay here."
"good."
Xiao Liu ran out of the temporary room and looked into the distance.
Someone went to check the site of the explosion; there was a large crowd there, and police cars were present.
Xiao Liu was a little scared, but he tried to remain calm and shouted into the room, "Brother Jiao, you can't use the gun."
He was worried that the gunshots would attract the police.
“I didn’t intend to use a gun. It would be too easy for him to settle the score of killing his father, mother, and family with a gun.”
Xiao looked at the iron ruler in the other person's hand and was completely shocked. "Calm down. There's a cause for every grievance, and a debtor for every crime. You should go find the person who hired the killer."
To this day, Xiao still doesn't know who the other party is, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, he has made quite a few enemies. Asking them in detail will only remind them of past hatreds, and they will be even more ruthless when they do so.
“I’ve already killed him, but when I went there, I shot him to death to save Xiao Liu. I’m still not satisfied, so I can only vent my anger on you.”
"Save Xiao Liu? You mean...you killed Yu Xunteng!"
"Yes, I killed him, but he died too quickly."
"You are the dumpling recipe..." Seeing the endless hatred in the other person's eyes, Xiao immediately shut his mouth.
Why did you stop talking?
Tell me, why?
"Just because possessing a treasure is a crime?"
"But you already had the formula, which means that before the fire, before they died, you had already gotten what you wanted. Why did you still kill them?"
Horn gently tapped Owl's face with an iron ruler, asking questions softly, one by one, like a lover whispering in his ear. There was no anger in his voice, only a deep sense of doubt.
Xiao resignedly closed his eyes.
In fact, from the moment he became an assassin, he knew that he would die one day.
They might die during the mission.
They might die at the hands of an even stronger opponent.
But he never imagined that one day he would die at the hands of a teenager.
This is probably what they mean by karma.
"There is no reason, only because we are evil." The owl's voice was calm, like still water before facing death.
Jiao stared at Xiao's calm face, his hand gripping the iron ruler tightly, his knuckles turning white.
He had countless ways to kill the assassin and avenge his family.
Yu Xunteng is the source of evil, and the killer is the executioner of evil; both deserve to die!
But he killed Yu Xunteng to save Xiao Liu.
What if we kill the assassin?
What does that count for?
Is it evil to collude with them?
Is this what your family wants to see?
No, they wouldn't want to see that.
"I won't kill you. I'll hand you over to the police. You're a wanted criminal, a world-class one. I can get a lot of bounty, right? I think dying in my hands would be a relief for you. I won't let you die by my hand. I won't become another you. There are plenty of people who want you dead, and I think there are plenty of people more ruthless than me. Why not let you fall into their hands!"
Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, his calm expression vanishing instantly, replaced by extreme terror and fear.
Seeing his expression, Jiao laughed, and then tears streamed down his face: "I guessed right. Letting you die peacefully is the only way to let you go! Handing you over to them is the only way to make you wish you were dead! My family is watching me from heaven. I will not become a bloodthirsty executioner like you! I will be a hero, a hero who saves lives, a hero who catches a world-class fugitive!"
Xiao Liu saw Jiao come out and asked, "Is it resolved?"
Jiao laughed and said, "The grudge in my heart has been resolved, but the person inside is not dead. I'm going to hand him over to the police, the police of the Dragon Kingdom."
Xiao Liu was taken aback: "Aren't you going to take revenge yourself?"
“He’s too dirty. Killing him would only dirty my hands. I want to keep my hands clean so I can go to see my family cleanly after I die.”
“Uh…” Xiao Liu muttered, “But you killed Yu Xunteng.”
"That was to save you. I had no choice but to save someone. Xiao Liu, I'm your savior, don't forget to share the money with me."
"Brother Jiao, you should hand him over to the foreign police; you'll get a bigger reward that way."
"That won't do. Handing him over to those people is no different from simply releasing him."
Xiao Liu said with a pained expression, "Five hundred million, I'll give you half, when do you want it?"
"I don't want it now. When I do, I'll go to the Dragon Kingdom to find you."
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