Maybe that thing they have in common pushed them to death. Or maybe it pushed to them suicide. He was seriously considering that last possibility as Wrath droned on.
He pretended that he couldn't hear the shadow spirit, but he was very grateful when the reply from the information broker arrived. It distracted Wrath enough to stop it from speaking.
"I am pleasantly surprised that you have gotten back to me so soon. I trust you have done your due intelligence to investigate me. I would be disappointed in you if you haven't."
"It doesn't matter anyway. My opinion of you is my matter, not yours. What matters is that you have decided to take the test. That is a good decision. I will forward you the details of your next mission. You have a month to complete it.
I hope you will not disappoint me."
The details arrived soon after. He is to destroy a human farm and kill everyone that tries to stop him. The human farm is right here in the city, so it is a wealthy establishment. They have a lot of plants too and are heavily guarded.
Human plants are supers with the ability to regenerate organs. They are kept in captivity, and their organs are harvested regularly for sale.
Sometimes their flesh is also harvested for clients with particular tastes or requirements. Not every client eats the flesh they buy. Sometimes they feed it to their summons or use them to produce stuff like drugs, as with Blue Crystal's case.
It goes without saying that most of them human plants are not at this facility voluntarily. Most of them are restricted in many ways be it physical, biological, or mental shackles to prevent them from escaping. They even dose them with narcotics to make sure that they won't even think of escaping.
He doesn't care about the ethics of the mission. All he cares about is getting the job done and how to go about achieving it.
For now, the objective is clear. He is to kill and destroy. He is not a stranger to this kind of mission. But he had to read certain parts of the details again to make sure he wasn't mistaken because he saw something unexpected in it.
It turned out that the mission is not straightforward, as he would have help with it. It is also not the kind of help he could have guessed. There's just no way he could have guessed that the city police force will be the one helping him.
Apparently, this particular farm has offended the police force. This is not the first time they would be doing so, but they kidnapped someone that they shouldn't for their farm. The police won't have any of it this time around and have decided to put an end to the human farm.
The police force can't do this themselves because they don't have jurisdiction in District 666. This is common knowledge. Many wars had been fought between the police force, the heroes of the city, and the villains of District 666. So they need someone to do the job for them.
He knows this, but he still finds the mission unbelievable. So he texted back, "Is this mission accurate?"
The reply came quickly. "It is. You can get in touch with the police force yourself to check their bounty list. They are your employers for this mission. I just want to use the mission to test you. They will pay."
He did immediately. He was not disappointed. There was indeed a mission to destroy a human farm on their website. It was a bounty worth 10 million dollars.
His eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw this. He didn't believe what he saw.
He muttered, "This can't be real. Maybe there is a mistake on the website."
He decided to check other bounties on their bounty lists instead of searching directly for the human farm one. This meant he had to go through a long list, which would be boring to read at any other time, but this time he was very interested.
He found that there were indeed a lot of missions with a high reward. The 10 million was not an exception. In fact, it was in the lower portion of the rewards.
Wrath said to him, "It seems you have been successfully tempted. Maybe you should become a bounty hunter."
He snorted and said, "You are speaking as if their money will be easy to earn. I might have to give up an arm and leg to get that 10 million. I know I did for the 500,000 dollars I just earned. I don't think I have it in me for another round."
He said that, but he was indeed interested. The main reason he was interested is because they made the information about the mission available for everyone at the click of a button. And this mission appeared to be reliable. That is a quality he has come to appreciate due to recent events.
What they made available is wasn't everything to know about the target such as the layout of the buildings, but there was key information about the target's identities, current location or place of residence, and their abilities.
This way, anyone who sees these criminals anywhere will be able to tip off the police force or actually kill them for the bounty. He would like to believe that the police didn't lie about this information since they appear to be desperate and have a lot to gain. Besides, if he can't trust the police force, there's no one else he can trust.
Their information was also straightforward and open. For example, for the human farm bounty, he was given the reason why the reward was so high. The mission didn't correlate to the power level of the criminals. Their power is important, but it is the crimes they have committed that truly determine the price tag for their heads.