“Ugh…” Anne was speechless for
a second but quickly added, “We have absolute faith in your ability, Mr. Lin.”
“Okay,” Lin Shuo nodded, “Since
you have so much faith in me, I wouldn’t want to beat around the bush either.
I’ll make an exception and come out of my retirement this one time, ten million
dollars, live or dead.”
“Ten million!” Wei Xingshan
cried out aloud before Anne could respond, “Buddy, are you insane?
I will have you know that even
my elite mercenary group, three teams totally 15 in headcount signing our lives
away only get ten million dollars in total!
We are essentially exchanging
for this ten million RMB with our lives! And here you have to audacity to ask
for ten million dollars just for yourself?”
Lin Shuo casted him a glance
and said nonchalantly, “I am talking about USD.”
“What?!” Wei Xingshan looked as
if he had been punched in the face. He face beet red and veins throbbing
visibly in his neck.
He was about to say something
else before Anne gave him another swift kick at the back of his knee, gesturing
him to keep his mouth shut.
“That’s an amount greater than
I am authorized to approve. Please wait a moment, Mr. Lin. Let me confer with
my supervisor.” Said Anne calmly.
After that, she waved an
apologetic gesture before she took her cellphone from her purse and walked
outside of the house.
Wei Xingshan’s eyes widened as
he looked at the back of the beauty.
Judging from her words, ten
million dollar USD is negotiable?
Wei Xingshan was very
distressed.
He had just joined the Global
Lifeform Research Organization. Anne is his superior by name, but also his
target of protection in this assignment.
From the pieces of information
he was able to obtain on her, she wasn’t just any Harvard phD in biology.
Looking again at the bird on
the desk, and the lanky, young village teacher who looked like he was in dire
straits and straight up asked for ten million dollar.
Wei Xingshan had thought that
him being a mercenary who’d risk his life would be the most abnormal one in the
house and that the skill he possessed is the most valuable.
But now it looked like he
couldn’t be more wrong.
While Wei Xingshan was still in
a daze, Anne had finished her call and came back inside the house.
Smiling she said, “Mr. Lin, I
have received my instructions. My superior was happy that we are able to hire
you for that amount.
But we are a public service research
facility after all and we have limited capital. How about this. Ten million
dollar for the life sample, eight hundred thousand for the dead body. We will
pay 3% upfront.”
“Are you seriously?” shrieked
Wei Xingshan, “Higher up had agreed to that?!”
Anne ignored Wei Xingshan and
bowed to Lin Shuo, “I thank Mr. Lin for your assistance for the Global Lifeform
Research Organization.”
“You are welcome. That will
work.” Lin Shou nodded and stood up, “I need to get ready.”
“No rush, we will wait.”
……
Lin Shuo walked to the back of
the house and pushed open the door while the two looked on.
Outside was a small yard and a
blue stone table top next to the door. On top was it was the cutting board and
a cleaver. This was where Lin Shou prepared his meals normally.
On the other side of the
courtyard was the principal room with a red painted door. Yet Lin Shuo didn’t
normally live in there.
Red painted door
Photo credit: www.redocn.com
Inside the courtyard grown some
vegetables, and five to six chickens pecking at the ground looking for food.
Lin Shuo bent over, reached out
his arm, and grabbed a large rooster with a red comb.
The rooster fluttered its wings
violently and wailed.
Lin Shou picked up his cleaver
from the blue stone table in the courtyard and swung. The rooster’s flew into
the vegetable field to the side.
A yellow dog dashed out from
nowhere, picked up the head in his mouth and disappeared in no time.
Carrying the rooster’s body
with blood still gushing out, Lin Shou walked straight to the principal room
and pushed the door open without any hesitation.
All these transpired in barely
two to three seconds. There were no wasteful moves between grabbing the chicken
and killing the chicken. It was swift and efficient.
As Wai XIngshan watched his
move, he felt a shiver ran down his spine but also baffled.
“What is he doing?” Uttered Wei
Xingshan.
“Roosters’ blood is the
strongest and most yang1 of all
matters,” explained Anne lightly, “It’s the best offering for a weapon.”
“Offering to a weapon?”
“Lin’s, the family, worship an
ancient weapon for 86 generations,” said Anne. “And Lin Shuo, is the 87th
descendent of the Lin’s family.”
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Note:
1.
Yang. Considered as strong, bright (sunny), and
associated with male principal (taoism). As opposed to yin, dim, soft, and
associated with female principal (taoism).
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