Peerless Martial Expert in the City-Chapter 252 - 255 Familiar Voice

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Jin Xiaohan really needed to be warned.

To be honest, I had never imagined that Young Master Jin would manage to get in touch with Azure Cloud. It seems I had underestimated him before.

Once he had calmed down, Xiao Yi recalled Liu San’s words and a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes. Truth be told, he really didn’t expect that Jin Xiaohan would be the one to hire the hitman, let alone have the courage and audacity to find one, nor did he expect him to actually succeed.

You must understand that in this world, finding an assassin isn’t something just anybody can do whenever they wish. In fact, many people don’t even believe that so-called assassin organizations really exist.

When it comes to such dark matters as assassins, most people would rather believe they don’t exist.

Indeed, over the years, their breeding ground has significantly diminished, but their vitality is beyond what ordinary people can imagine. Their life force doesn’t come from the industry itself, but from the human heart. There’s always a dark corner within a person’s soul that comes to life when their anger or hatred reaches a certain level—it emerges, magnifies, and plays its part.

Annihilating enemies, rivals, nemeses... from international politicians to small-time traders, the demand for such services exists across the spectrum.

Assassins perfectly fulfill this need.

Regardless of the societal system or government in power, the only way to destroy this industry is to eradicate the ground it thrives on, to extinguish the darkness in human hearts!

At least, no country or government has managed to achieve this yet, so this profession stubbornly clings to existence.

However, it has indeed been greatly suppressed, which means it has had to hide, buried deep out of sight.

Each assassin organization has its own methods to reach potential clients. Typically, it is not the other way around where people seek out the organization; rather, the organization seeks out its clients. Of course, they also have channels through which clients can find them, and each organization keeps these channels tightly secured. For instance, Soul Slayer, also known as Azure Cloud, which Jin Xiaohan had contacted, Xiao Yi knew employed a set of exceptionally strict protocols.

How on earth did Jin Xiaohan manage to contact them?

Regardless of how he did it, the fact that he managed to reach out to Soul Slayer was indeed sheer luck on his part.

If he had the choice, he would probably be full of regret for seeking out a hitman, wouldn’t he?

Thinking about the pressure Jin Xiaohan might soon face from Liu San, a faint smirk uncontrollably appeared on Xiao Yi’s lips. He believed that Liu San definitely would not disappoint him, especially when it came to taking money.

What Xiao Yi did not know was that at this very moment, Jin Xiaohan had already begun to regret his actions.

Jin Xiaohan had never anticipated that Liu San would suddenly appear before him.

He had heard Liu San’s voice before, and each time, it filled him with dread. If he had a choice, he would quite prefer never to hear his voice again. When he first heard Liu San’s voice, he had been puzzled as to why an assassin organization would choose someone with such a terrifying voice for client relations. Wouldn’t they be afraid of scaring their clients away? Later, he understood that for an assassin organization, having such a murderous-sounding voice was actually reassuring for clients.

Thankfully, that voice was only over the phone, and presumably thousands of miles away, as the number he had dialed belonged to a small country, not Xuanwu Country.

After each call, he would think this to himself.

But even so, that voice hadn’t stopped him from having nightmares.

"Young lad!"

When he heard these three words, he almost thought he was hallucinating. He rubbed his ears and continued to press the accelerator, driving the car forward.

"Young lad!"

However, the voice echoed again, and this time, accompanied by the voice was a face that, although not particularly bad-looking, appeared oddly disturbing and rigid—it appeared right before him in the car’s rearview mirror.

"Ah!"

The instant he saw that face, Jin Xiaohan let out a sharp scream and slammed on the brakes.

The car shook to a halt by the side of the road with a violent screeching sound of brakes. Jin Xiaohan’s head jerked forward, and it took him a while to catch his breath. Slowly, he stole a glance upward, looking behind him.

"Young lad, your driving skills are rather poor."

The voice was hoarse and extremely unpleasant, sounding as though it was produced by the grating screech of metal on metal.

This voice, Jin Xiaohan was all too familiar with. Such an unpleasant voice was indeed rare in this world, and his complexion turned deathly pale in an instant.

"You don’t need to be afraid. I’m not going to harm you today, although I really do want to kill you."

Liu San looked at the young man in front of him, whose complexion was as white as a sheet of waxed paper, and a barely concealed look of scorn flashed in his eyes. He then felt a wave of disgust. Such a spineless lad, with so little courage, dared to emulate others by hiring a hitman.

He hadn’t even shown what he was capable of, and the kid was already scared out of his wits.

"Please, don’t kill me, don’t kill me!"

Jin Xiaohan, hearing that the other wanted to kill him, began to panic, raising his hands in the air.

"Shut your mouth. Are you deaf? Haven’t I already said it? I won’t kill you, but if you open your mouth again without my permission, I’ll kill you on the spot," Liu San said, impatiently glancing at him.

This young man’s cowardice was even less than he’d anticipated. He hadn’t done anything yet, and the kid was already yelling as if he were being butchered. To think that he had agreed to this young man’s request and accepted his assignment—it was utterly absurd.

"I..."

Upon seeing Liu San’s fierce gaze, Jin Xiaohan’s legs began to tremble uncontrollably. He was about to say that he would keep quiet when he caught Liu San’s eye and quickly held back the rest of his words.

"Jin Xiaohan, you’ve got some nerve, providing us with false information. The target is clearly a master, yet you told me he was just a country bumpkin with a bit of Kungfu skills. Because of you, we lost three Gold-ranked assassins. Maybe it’s time we settled this account properly?" Liu San said coldly, seeing Jin Xiaohan’s oppressively silent demeanor. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

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