Bounty
Chen Ling only used one second to completely crack Vulture's phone.
All recent chat records, call history, and browsed URLs popped up crazily in front of Chen Ling's eyes like they were out of control.
In this era, understanding a person was extremely simple. As long as one was in a city, their every move would leave traces on the network... And with Chen Ling having obtained his phone, it meant that almost all his secrets were exposed before him.
Among the massive amount of information, only two things caught Chen Ling's attention. One was the several call records with Nie Yu, and the other was a frequently logged-in URL.
There was nothing to say about the call records. No matter how capable Chen Ling was, he couldn't record the contents of their conversation remotely without wiretapping them in advance, so his attention eventually shifted to the URL.
"This is... the dark web?" Flipping through this website for a moment, Chen Ling's eyebrows slightly rose.
This website was not simple. Its overall architecture was overseas, and it used a variety of top-tier technical means for encryption, making it very difficult for ordinary people to log in... Of course, no matter how incomparably complex the encryption algorithm was, as long as it was based on communication technology, it was meaningless in Chen Ling's eyes. He hacked into this website almost effortlessly and read the massive amount of content within.
This was a website filled with gore, violence, pornography, and gray-market transactions. Whether it was human trafficking, organ transportation, drugs and firearms, or bounties for assassination, they were all conducted flagrantly here. If the internet ordinary people came into contact with was the iceberg above the sea, then the things on this website were the carnival in the black abyss beneath the sea.
And at this moment, in a post by "Vulture," a woman named "Su Zhiwei" had become the bounty target with the highest domestic bid in recent days. The bounty was eight million, and over a dozen assassins had already participated in it.
"Eight million bounty for Su Zhiwei? What a huge hand..."
Looking at this string of numbers, Chen Ling chuckled disdainfully. He casually threw the phone on the ground and crushed it with a step, slowly walking out of the bloody tavern.
Just now, he had already connected his flip phone to the dark web, and also backed up the contents of Vulture's phone, so naturally he didn't need it anymore...
And as Chen Ling walked out of the tavern, the original assassination post placing a bounty on Su Zhiwei was instantly tampered with. Taking its place were two lines of text, so red they bordered on purple:
[Bounty target changed... Bounty target: "The Hunter" Nie Yu]
[Bounty amount: $80,000,000]
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[Audience Expectation Value +4]
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At the end of the horizon, a fiery red setting sun gradually sank.
Carrying his hunting rifle, Nie Yu walked across the desolate wilderness. In the reflection of those sharp pupils, the outline of a museum slowly surfaced in the distance...
"Hiding there?" A chilling gleam flashed in Nie Yu's eyes.
Behind him, over a dozen figures trailed intermittently in the distance. Their attire varied, but their clothes bulged, hiding unknown weapons, and their temperaments were mostly vicious and sinister.
"As expected of that 'Hunter' from the Golden Triangle in the rumors," an assassin couldn't help but sigh. "To think he could actually track the bounty target here based solely on the traces on the ground... In any case, I can't see any tire marks at all."
"But with 'The Hunter' making a move, even if we end up killing Su Zhiwei, will we still be able to get a share of the money?"
"With his strength and reputation, I'm afraid we'll only get to drink soup... No, in all likelihood, we won't even get soup."
"This bounty thing belongs to whoever gets the head. Even if he is 'The Hunter', he can't steal the credit."
"True..."
"We can let him take the lead, and then find an opportunity to kill Su Zhiwei."
"I think that works."
"..."
The whispers of the crowd were clearly heard by Nie Yu, every single word. The enhancement that [Heavenly Wolf] brought him wasn't just in terms of vision; his hearing was several times that of ordinary people.
But even so, he didn't turn back to stop these people's "petty thoughts." After all, he was the one who issued this bounty in the first place, and he didn't expect to take his own money...
His goal was to kill Chen Ling. As for Su Zhiwei, this ordinary person, it was fine to leave her for these assassins to deal with.
Nie Yu only wanted the result, he didn't care about the process.
Just as Nie Yu gazed at the museum from afar, pondering how to break in and utilize the terrain for combat, an assassin behind him suddenly let out a soft exclamation.
"This... this..." He stared at his phone, his eyes widening in disbelief.
"What's wrong?"
"Look for yourselves!"
Prompted by him, the crowd opened their phones at the same time. At some unknown point, the assassination bounty for Su Zhiwei had disappeared... Replaced by it was a bounty targeting "Nie Yu."
"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions... Ten millions?? Eighty million? Dollars!!"
The crowd's eyes widened completely round, as if they were dreaming.
"Who... who issued this bounty?!"
"I don't know, it's anonymous."
"Eighty million dollars... That's a full several dozen times more than the original!"
"But this target..."
The crowd looked at each other, simultaneously raising their heads to look at the figure carrying a hunting rifle standing under the blood-like setting sun in the distance, and fell silent for a moment.
Kill the rumored "Hunter" Nie Yu? Did they have the strength?
But eighty million dollars... This amount was simply too tempting.
At this moment, the target was right in front of their eyes, and was basically in an unguarded state. He didn't even know he had a bounty on his head himself... Making a move at this time might not mean they had absolutely no chance of winning?
Several bold and ambitious assassins looked at each other, nodded simultaneously, and silently gripped the short blades and daggers hidden in their sleeves, walking towards Nie Yu's back.
A single bounty caused a rift in Nie Yu's pursuit team. Before even seeing Su Zhiwei, infighting had begun.
Just as Nie Yu was looking at the museum in deep thought, his intuition suddenly gave a warning. Frowning, his steps lightly treaded half a step forward, and several ghastly cold glints practically brushed past the corner of his clothes!
The assassins who made the move were alarmed in their hearts. Failing their sneak attack, they immediately drew their guns and pulled the triggers without hesitation. Over a dozen gunshots boomed as a dense rain of bullets flew towards Nie Yu's vitals!
Clang, clang, clang, clang—!
The bullets crashed against Nie Yu's skin at high speed, but it was like crashing into steel, emitting an ear-piercing buzz as streaks of sparks splashed under the setting sun.
At the same time, that black-clothed figure that seemed like steel slowly turned around. A pair of extremely oppressive pupils chillingly stared at the crowd behind him...
"Are you all... seeking death??"