Chapter 53: Methods of enduring the battle
There is a rumor circulating in the New York sex industry recently.
According to legend, there is a genius who took a day and a night to challenge all the large clubs in New York City.
He defeated those service personnel with good skills.
Even a top female technical service provider in the industry stood on the stage and publicly stated that this time alone would be enough for her to recall for ten years.
During the whole process, this genius did not rest. Except for rushing on the road, he almost never stopped.
No one has seen his face, let alone his name, because the genius wore a Batman mask from beginning to end.
Even paying bills is done in cash, completely hiding his identity.
When the news spread to the society, it immediately caused a dramatic impact and attracted the attention of many people in the society.
Even the senior executives of DC Comics sat in the conference room to discuss.
Should we take advantage of the popularity and let the editors below create a special issue of Batman?
Far away in Los Angeles, Tony Stark got the news.
He publicly called on the media and was willing to hire the "Batman" as his health assistant with a high annual salary of 3 million.
Unfortunately, no matter how much the outside world quarreled, the "Batman" never showed up.
It seemed that this news was false, as if there had never been such a person in the world.
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New York.
A high-end steakhouse.
At this moment, Tommy was like a hungry wolf who had not eaten for several days.
With a sizzling sound, a fried chicken leg was bitten by him, and then his mouth opened up and down, and a steak disappeared from the table.
He ate fast and a lot, as if today was the last day of his life, as if he would have no chance if he didn't eat again.
Of course, he had his reasons for not caring about his eating manners.
Before coming to the steakhouse, he consumed a lot of energy and urgently needed a lot of protein supplements.
In less than a few minutes, he ate all the dishes on the table.
He waved his hand and called the waiter to serve him another one according to the previous menu.
At this moment, the mobile phone on the table suddenly vibrated a few times, and then a text message appeared on the screen.
"He's here."
The text message was very simple and did not reveal too much information.
But after seeing the sender's name, Tommy immediately knew what happened on the other end of the phone.
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Suburbs of New York.
A single-family villa.
John Wick sat in the living room, looking at the visitor across the table, and the expression on his face became a little strange.
"That guy was right."
That's right, the person who appeared in front of him at this moment was his old acquaintance, Santino from Italy.
And Santino's purpose was exactly the same as what Tommy said, that is, to hire him and let him go to Italy to kill someone.
According to the plan, John Wick deliberately made an embarrassed expression, indicating that he would not take this task.
But how could Santino give up?
"Listen, John, I don't want to come here either."
As he said, he reached into his arms, took out a metal disc from it, and gently placed it on the table.
"I am asking you to help me with a heavy heart.
However, there is one thing you should not forget. The reason you can retire is because of my help that day.
Without my help, you would not be able to complete the task, let alone sit here and drink coffee leisurely."
John knew exactly what he meant.
Many years ago, in order to quit the assassin world, he accepted the commission of the Russian gang boss, Vigo Tarasov, to complete an impossible task.
Since it was an impossible task, it was of course very difficult.
Even a legendary assassin like him spent a lot of energy, suffered serious injuries, and almost died on the roadside.
Just when he was weakest, Santino suddenly appeared, lent him a hand, and saved his life.
It was for this reason that he owed him a favor and made a blood contract representing soul and blood.
That is the metal disc on the table now.
"John, I think you should know very well what the price will be if you violate the blood contract."
Santino smiled, feeling that he had already won.
Of course he thought he would win.
Blood pact is the highest level of commitment in the killer world.
Anyone who dares to disobey will be wanted by the killer world.
John is very skilled and his shooting skills are very accurate.
But no matter how powerful he is, he is just an ordinary person after all, and it is impossible for him to defeat the entire high table by himself.
No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!
Considering this, he thought that John would never refuse him.
And as he expected, John, who was sitting opposite, was silent for a long time, but in the end, as expected, he stretched out a hand and took the blood pact in his hand.
Seeing his behavior, Santino smiled proudly.
"Very good, John, you made the right choice."
Since the other party has agreed, he naturally has to introduce the task in detail.
"I want you to kill my sister."
"What do you want?"
John pretended to be surprised.
His acting skills are not very good, and his expression is very inadequate.
However, he has always had an ice face that has never changed for thousands of years.
Therefore, his poor performance did not arouse Santino's suspicion.
"When my father died, he passed the seat at the high table to her..."
Santino chattered on without noticing anything was wrong.
In his description, the seat at the high table should have belonged to him, but it was Gianna who used conspiracy and trickery to snatch it from him.
Therefore, he was determined to retaliate, kill Gianna, and take back what should have belonged to him.
"I know what to do, but I can't do it. Gianna... After all, she is my relative and my sister."
Looking at the hypocritical Santino, John was thinking about something else.
Gigi is a member of the high table.
If he killed that woman, he would undoubtedly be punished by the organization and put on the hunting list.
In addition, in order to destroy the evidence, Santino also sent assassins to assassinate him.
But what if he refused?
The result was still the same. He who violated the blood contract would still be on the organization's blacklist.
This seemed to be a dead end.
Because no matter whether he agreed or not, and no matter what efforts he made, the final result was that he would not be at peace.
However, Santino would never have thought of it.
In addition to these two paths, he has another one to go.
Thinking of this, John shook his head secretly in his heart.
Santino is self-righteous and thinks he can control everyone.
Little did he know that in the dark, someone had already guessed his conspiracy and woven a big net, waiting for Santino to seek his own death and take the initiative to hit him.
Thinking about it this way, this guy is really a bit pitiful.
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