"Thump, thump, thump"
There was a knock on the door outside the presidential suite of the Four Seasons Hotel.
Sitting in front of the huge European-style French window, leaning on a comfortable swivel chair, watching the MAGA parade below and reading a newspaper, Lao Jiang said without even looking up:
"Open the door."
The wolf demon who was guarding the door and munching on delicious sausage shrugged his shoulders, waved his claws and opened the door.
There was a man and a woman standing outside the door.
Mike and Denise.
The two seemed to have taken a shower and changed their clothes. Denise's blonde hair was a little wet, and they were both out of breath, as if they had run all the way here.
"Fifty-seven minutes."
Jiang Xia said softly:
"You're right, young man, being lustful is not a good habit.
You see, you still have a lifetime to adapt to each other, a lifetime to go from liking each other, to adapting, to indifference, to quarreling, and finally to breaking up.
Then they started to cuckold each other crazily.
In the end, they completely fell out and hated each other until they died and never spoke to each other again."
Boss Jiang raised his head with a malicious look on his face and said:
"I mean, why rush it?"
These words made the two young men lower their heads, their cheeks flushed. They walked into the luxurious presidential suite embarrassedly. Ruyue was taking a shower in the bathroom.
Gu Miao was sitting on the hanging basket on the large balcony, reading a book on instrument making by the Mohist school out of boredom.
This girl only has a passing interest.
The strong adaptability she gained from being a monk has begun to make her lose her sense of novelty about this world.
"Come here and sit down!"
Jiang Xia waved his hand, his eyes stayed on Mike's wrist for a moment, and then focused his attention on the newspaper in his hand.
When the embarrassed young man sat down on the small sofa in front of him, he suddenly said:
"Denise, you're lucky to have drawn the Great Strength Ability, but for the sake of your boyfriend's life, you'd better start strength training immediately...
You are weak now.
But you won’t always be weak.
The ash potion strengthened your body, and once you adapted and your abilities began to grow, one night, when you were enjoying yourself and were overwhelmed with emotion, you might accidentally strangle his neck.
Believe me, it's no harder than strangling a chicken."
These words made Denise raise her head suddenly, and also made Mike subconsciously rub his red and swollen wrist, which still had bruises. He had more than one such injury on his body.
There are scratches on the back.
Indeed, he did not say these words in the excitement of the long-awaited reunion, but Mr. Pigeon could still perceive them.
This made Mike feel that Boss Jiang in front of him was even more unfathomable.
"How can this be?"
The blonde looked at her hands with some fear and said:
"Mike has clearly become a hero..."
"The power he obtained is obviously more inclined towards a spellcaster, and you, do you think you are still an ordinary person now?"
Jiang Xia raised his head and glanced at her.
With a wave of his hand, Lingfeng pushed the glass on the table in front of Denise.
"Hold it."
Lao Jiang said:
"Then you applied force little by little. You are so slow that you haven't noticed your abnormality yet. What can I say to you?"
Denise held the glass as Jiang Xia instructed.
She stared at the glass, and her five fingers began to tighten. The moment she exerted a little force, the cup in her hand shattered with a bang, which scared her.
She clearly hasn't used her full strength yet!
“What I gave you is a superior Ash Potion, which is a very expensive item, a divine item coveted by all my guests in several worlds.
It can easily turn an ordinary person into a superhero, or a villain into a murderous devil."
Jiang Xia leaned back in his chair, casually took out a cigarette and put it in his lips. A blue-purple arc of electricity jumped into , lighting the cigarette for Jiang Xia.
As the smoke rose, Jiang Xia crossed his legs and looked at the two young men in front of him.
He said:
“You must be curious about who I am, and so is Mike, this silly guy has no idea what kind of person he is dealing with, but it doesn’t matter.
You will always know when you are supposed to know.
Now, little girl Denise's illness has been cured. I have done what I promised. It is time for you to fulfill the contract.
Are you ready to hear what you do? "
Denise glanced at Mike.
She reached out and gently held Mike's left hand. The two looked at each other, and Mike spoke:
"Yes, Mr. Pigeon, we are ready. Please give us your orders, but...but please don't let us do anything bad."
"Haha, look at these two little cuties."
Jiang Xia blew out a puff of smoke and said:
“They actually think they still have the right to bargain... But don’t worry, even if I want you to do bad things, very bad things.
You two can't do it with your current abilities.
What I need you to do is very simple, just two things! ”
He said:
“Mike, I need you to be my employee, or in other words, my messenger, to collect all kinds of strange things for me here, as long as they are strange things, no matter they are good or bad.
I want them all!
You should collect as much as possible and use all means to collect it!
Buy, steal, rob, and cheat.
I don't care about the process, I only care about the result.
Next time I come here, I want to see at least ten rare items."
As she was talking, Ruyue, who had just finished taking a shower, came over wrapped in a bath towel. While shaking her long hair, she picked up a key to the bank vault from the table next to her and placed it on the table in front of Mike.
"The account opened in your name is in a bank two hundred meters away. It contains the start-up capital I left for you."
Jiang Xia flicked the ash off his cigarette and said calmly:
"You can spend it however you want, but I want to see results. I only want results!"
"oh."
Mike lacked confidence, but he knew he had no right to refuse, so he took the key and put it in his arms.
Jiang Xia turned his head and looked at Denise again.
He looked at the blonde in front of him, looking her up and down, and after a few breaths, he said:
“You, I want you to find a way to join the righteous company that creates heroic idols. Mike told me that there is a genetic drug there that can cure your previous illness.
That's your goal.
Next time I come over, I want to see at least three copies of that genetic medicine. Again, I don't care how you get it, whether by robbery or purchase.
Even seduction is fine."
"that……"
Denise said with some fear:
“I’m willing to try, but Justice Company has been creating idols for almost 20 years, and all of their contracted heroes have been trained since childhood.
Few recruits are from the streets, and even if they are, they still go through complex and strict background checks. I…"
"That's your problem."
Jiang Xia tilted his head, looked at Denise, and said:
"If I've done it for you, why don't I do it myself? I think a person who has just escaped from the brink of death should have seen the most terrible things in the world.
You should be fearless now.
Could it be that my idea is wrong?
Do you still think of yourself as an ordinary silly blonde girl?"
The two remained silent.
Lao Jiang stood up from the sofa, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, stroked his left wrist, and looked at the MAGA marchers below who were shouting slogans.
He turned his back to the two young men and said:
"Don't think that your meeting me is fate or something like that, and don't think that you are the center of the world, I told Mike before.
Although, my profession determines that I believe more in fate.
But my messengers and spokespersons in this world don’t necessarily have to be you two. If you fail, it proves that my investment in you cannot be recouped…
Then you two will have to repay my investment in you in another way.
You know, I'm not here to do charity.
I don’t like losing money either.”
The heaviness revealed in Lao Jiang's words made Denise and Mike Alexander, especially the werewolf sitting by the door behind him, chewing the sausage in big mouthfuls as if he was chewing raw meat.
Miss Ruyue, wrapped in a bath towel, looked at them with a cold gaze.
That kind of pressure made the two young men shudder with fear at that moment.
It’s not their fault. After all, they don’t have the same experience as the four people in front of them. It will take time for their minds to accept all of this.
"Why do you have such a heavy expression?"
Jiang Xia turned around and looked at the two young men who didn't dare to breathe. He chuckled and threw a cold ring over, which landed in Mike's hand.
“I’m not a black-hearted boss, I won’t let my employees go to the battlefield without any preparation.
The weapons, protection, potions, auxiliary scrolls, and even the vehicles you need, I have prepared them all for you, all you have to do is to do it.
Just use your little brains and grow quickly.
Find ways to solve the problems you encounter at work, and then do your best to complete it 100%, or even 200%. "
Jiang Xia walked over and stood in front of Mike. He turned over his left hand and a generation of ashes fell into his hand.
He tossed the thing up and down and said to Mike:
"This is your reward, child. It is like an apple in my hand. You only need to reach out and take it, and savor the sweet taste of victory.
The premise is...
You have to do your job.
I am very generous.
Believe me, you won’t find another boss as generous as me in this damn world, and you will realize later how lucky you are to meet me.
You see, it’s been less than two days since you met me and you’ve saved the love of your life, right?
You've made a killing.
What are you still hesitating about? Do you really want to be a street artist after graduating from college and let your sister Denise live with you in a less affluent life?
As far as I know, successful artists usually don't have enough food to eat while they are alive.
You will have kids, right?"
Jiang Xia smiled, and like a magic trick, he threw the bag of ash in his hand back into the ring. He bent down, patted Mike on the shoulder, and said:
"Do you feel the responsibility of a man, a husband, and a father?"
"Um."
Mike nodded.
“Are you motivated?”
Mike nodded again.
"Then why are you still standing here? You only have two months! Didn't I tell you that time is money?"
At Lao Jiang's raised-pitched scolding, Mike and Denise jumped up as if they were equipped with springs and rushed out of the room hand in hand.
The door closed the next moment.
"Hahahaha, Boss, you scared those two rookies to death, you are so mean!"
Liu Hui, who had been eating sausages with a cold face pretending to be tough, and Ruyue, who was wrapped in a bath towel pretending to be indifferent, laughed at the same time. Lao Jiang himself shrugged and laughed.
He watched the two young men rush out of the hotel. He took the wine handed to him by Ruyue, took a sip, and said to the person behind him:
"This game of pretending to be a villain...it's fun to play it once in a while, right?"
"Okay, let's take a break. We'll stay for another six days and then go back."
Jiang Xia took a sip of wine and said:
"I hope that secret society can act faster. We don't have time to continue playing house with them here."