950: Chapter 939 Same Fate, Different Price_2 950: Chapter 939 Same Fate, Different Price_2 Whether it would be useful or not, he could only know after meeting, but Gao Yang was quite satisfied with the cannon fodder that Justin had sent, because a person who didn’t want a penny and was only planning for revenge, and who hadn’t wavered in his intent to seek revenge after so many years, was no ordinary character.
Gao Yang didn’t know exactly how bail worked, but he knew that after American police arrested a criminal suspect, they needed to gather evidence, but couldn’t proceed immediately to trial.
From collecting evidence until the suspect was brought to trial required time, and according to the principle of presumption of innocence, during the time before the suspect was tried and while detained, the suspect could initially pay a sum of money as bail to be released.
The amount of bail was determined based on the suspect’s financial status and the severity of the crime.
From this perspective, Ludwig was impoverished, yet still required one hundred thousand US dollars for bail, indicating that his crime was quite serious, but not exceedingly severe, such as having killed many people, because particularly severe crimes would not be eligible for bail.
For a while, Gao Yang was quite interested in Ludwig.
These days, Gao Yang had been thinking about revenge.
He had decided to go through with many things but still had no clear plan, as his thoughts had been solely on Bruce’s funeral lately.
He couldn’t figure out how to proceed, but after receiving a call from Justin, and the mention of Ludwig afterwards, it reminded Gao Yang.
Gao Yang turned his head and said in a low voice to Glolov, “Big Dog, you used to know many formidable characters, are you still in contact with any?”
Glolov frowned and said, “No contact, mercenaries don’t easily give out their contact information.
However, I can probably find them, it just might take some time.
What’s up?”
Gao Yang spoke softly, “Here’s what I’m thinking, Tomler is manageable, but Iron Madonna has too many people.
We need to find some help.”
Frey said in a deep voice, “Are they to join Satan?”
Gao Yang shook his head and said, “No, we might not take any missions for a long while to come.
This means we’ll have opportunities to spend money but none to earn it.
So, I’m thinking of hiring them, we pay to hire people to help us fight.”
Glolov nodded and agreed, “That’s not a problem, I still know some capable people, and their fees wouldn’t be too high.
Exact prices can be decided depending on how dangerous the job is.
One very dangerous mission could get someone willing to do it for one hundred thousand US dollars, I know many such people, I actually used to be in that category myself.”
Tommy shrugged and said, “Same here.
Back in the day, if someone gave me fifty thousand dollars for a fight, I’d be ecstatic.”
Satan could make tens of millions from a single battle, but many who were no weaker than them, spending their entire lives as mercenaries, fighting their whole lives, might never encounter a task that paid one hundred thousand US dollars.
Having strength doesn’t necessarily mean getting big deals.
While some people make a fortune, others only earn small money.
There’s a saying ‘comparing yourself to others will only make you angry,’ and it’s just like that.
Gao Yang and the others were over the moon when they could originally make ten thousand US dollars a day for the four of them.
Capture was one thing, but the real big money from commissions started with the mission from Morgan, who paid five million dollars to rescue Bob.
Then, with Little Donnie as their broker and getting to know Justin the intelligence dealer, Satan had the opportunity to take on big-time deals and became famous in the high-end market.
It was only after becoming known in the high-end market that they had the chance to achieve record-high commissions.
If Satan had still been playing around in the low-end market, dreaming of making millions of US dollars per battle, that would have been just a fantasy.
A thousand dollars a day, five hundred dollars a day, or twenty to thirty thousand US dollars for a single mission, that’s what the mainstream mercenary market looked like.
No matter how elite of a retired Special Forces you were, or what skills you had, if you fared well, earning three to five thousand US dollars a day on a mission was considered a very high payment.
Thinking you could make a cut of a million or two hundred thousand US dollars per mission as a mercenary was just wishful thinking.
It’s easy to want to be a mercenary; wanting to be one who makes big money is not.
Competence is secondary; first figure out how to get into top-tier mercenary groups like Satan’s.
Even if you made it into a top-tier group, you’d still need a leader like Gao Yang to possibly share the big money.
Otherwise, even in a top group, dreaming of making big money on a mission is just that, a dream.
Apart from Gao Yang, where else do you get mercenary groups that tell all members up front how much commission they could make from a mission?
A mercenary’s life is actually pretty cheap.
Aside from Gao Yang, a oddball among mercenaries, other group leaders might get ten million and give fifty thousand to their subordinates, who should then consider themselves lucky.
Disagree?
If you’re capable, then take on the big contracts yourself.
You may be skilled but if you’ve got no connections to big deals, hold your tongue.
Just kindly earn your little bit of money.
If you’re not satisfied, then leave.
No one will stop you; there are plenty of mercenary groups out there, go wherever you want.
In a top mercenary group, a battle could earn you maybe eighty to a hundred thousand dollars.
Feel that’s not fair?
Go join the Cannon Fodder Mercenary Group, get paid daily, and maybe make thirty to fifty thousand dollars a month.
Not too bad.
Everyone in the Satan Mercenary Corps knows what being a mercenary is all about after being in this industry for a long time.
The idea that everyone makes the same money for risking their lives is just nonsense.
Why is the Satan Corps united then?
The reason’s right here, sticking with Gao Yang might make you big money, but more importantly, no one feels it’s unfair.
Everyone risks the same and earns roughly the same, and those gathered are brothers who can trust each other with their lives.
Although they’re mercenaries trading their lives for money, it’s no different from being in a real military, setting aside the money factor; everyone is willing to live and die together.
That’s what cohesion and unity are.
If each mission ended with Gao Yang keeping half the money for himself and the rest dividing what’s left, it would be weird if Satan was united.
Or if the original four or five members took eighty percent of the commissions, leaving the rest for those who joined later, those initial members might stay united, but the newer ones certainly wouldn’t feel the same cohesion.
Many times, it’s not really about how much money there is, but rather it’s about fairness.
How you treat me is how I treat you.
If you treat me like an outsider, I obviously can’t consider you a brother, that’s just how it is.
Of course, Gao Yang also knows what this mercenary business is all about.
That’s why he has no pressure when it comes to hiring capable but cheap mercenaries to help out; it really won’t cost much.
The only issue is that such mercenaries aren’t very reliable, but they’re just cannon fodder anyway, never really trusted with his back, so it doesn’t matter much.
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