33: Chapter 33: Fleur Carson is an Assassin 33: Chapter 33: Fleur Carson is an Assassin “Brother, how do you keep appearing out of thin air?
Where did you get this Buick from?” Yusuf Zuck opened the car door and got in, Fleur Carson had obviously been waiting here for quite a while.
First, Fleur Carson handed over a cigarette, and then laughed, “Wanna hear a story?”
“Not interested!” Yusuf Zuck waved his hand to interrupt, what the hell did he care about a story?
What he wanted to ask about right now was what the deal was with that million dollars.
“Dammit, can’t you show a bit of respect?” Fleur Carson cursed with a laugh: “Well, my family was not very wealthy, we lived in a backwater area, and I wasn’t supposed to be able to afford going to school.
But later, I was sponsored by a businessman from Hong Kong, from elentary school to high school, and then college.
All the tuition and miscellaneous fees, it was all paid by this businessman from Hong Kong.”
“Maybe because I’m pretty proud, didn’t want to let down the kind-hearted person who helped , didn’t want to disappoint my parents, I always did very well in my studies, was even admitted to university at sixteen on special consideration, back then I was considered sothing of a prodigy…”
“Stop bragging and get to the point!” Yusuf Zuck took the opportunity to cut him down.
“Dammit, I’m telling the truth, alright?” Fleur Carson retorted.
“Fine, then carry on, prodigy,” Yusuf Zuck chuckled, also leaning back relaxed in the car.
“At twenty-one, after graduating from college, I got a Hong Kong and Macau travel permit and went to Hong Kong to find this benefactor.
I t him, but he wasn’t so real big boss, just a janitor at a property managent company!”
“A good man, that’s soone good!” Yusuf Zuck nodded.
“Yeah, he sponsored three others just like , and I was only one of them.
At that ti, I stayed in Hong Kong, lived at his place.
He lived alone; he had no wife, children, parents, and such, and his ho was quite small.
I was thinking of finding a job in Hong Kong, considering there were more opportunities.
I wanted to earn so money to repay him.”
“Get to the main point,” Yusuf Zuck reminded him.
“Okay, to the main point.” Fleur Carson shook his head with a wry smile: “On the ninth day after I moved into his place, he ca back one night, clutching his stomach, bleeding…
he had been shot!”
“Oh?” Yusuf Zuck raised his eyebrows; how did this janitor uncle get shot?
“He wouldn’t go to the hospital, nor did he allow to call for ergency services.
Instead, he asked to help him get the bullet out with alcohol, forceps, his own first-aid kit.
He stitched up the wound himself.”
“This guy’s got strong willpower, not simple at all,” Yusuf Zuck sighed.
“He recovered very quickly.
You could say it was a miracle.
No infection after the surgery, no fever; he just rested for seven or eight days.”
“And during those seven or eight days, he talked to a lot, about his views on life, his thoughts on good and bad people, his perspective on life values!”
“He finally asked whether I thought he was a good person or a bad person in my heart!”
“I told him, of course, he was a good man.
If for nothing else, just for the fact that he had the heart to sponsor students in need from the mainland, that in itself was great rit!”
“Then, he told that he was an assassin!”
“Oh,” Yusuf Zuck drew out the sound, a janitor disguised as an assassin, mingling in the hustle of the markets, an assassin who didn’t stand out.
“He had joined an Assassin Organization, and their headquarters were in Southeast Asia.
Moreover, he was a gold-dal assassin in the organization, the really formidable kind.”
“He was very strong; he told he practiced a type of Qigong every day that involves a breathing technique of inhaling and exhaling.”
“Then he asked if I wanted to be an assassin; he could teach all that he knew.”
“At that ti, my heart was torn and conflicted.
But he did not pressure , he just let consider it on my own.”
“I thought about it all night, and the next morning I agreed to him because I had co to an understanding.
What is a good person?
What is a bad person?
What are life’s values?
As an assassin, I could still do good deeds, still be charitable, and still support children from the mountains who were like .
I could even rob the rich to help the poor and get rid of the bad guys for the people!”
“That’s how, I spent three and a half years with him in Hong Kong.
After three and a half years, I had learned everything he knew—surpassing the teacher!
Afterwards, he took to Southeast Asia, South Africa, North Arica, and other places, and I completely embarked on that path!”
“Wow, big brother, you’re an assassin?
Are you for real?” Yusuf Zuck looked at Fleur Carson with exaggerated surprise.
“Heh, I thought you would be shocked, but your reaction is a bit unexpected!” Fleur Carson laughed, then continued, “Two years ago he died in Paris, France of bone cancer.
Before he died, he told that as an assassin, there’s no good end.
He advised to stop and to return to my country; and I did go back.
First to Shanghai, then to the Capital.
Later on, I t a girl who frequently took my taxi…
And over ti, we just…”
“The person you’re trying to save is her?” Yusuf Zuck raised an eyebrow then, thinking how Fleur Carson really knew how to keep his cool.
His own woman had been kidnapped, and he still had the ti to tell stories and play?
“Yeah, I only got the ssage last night.
We had argued before and, afterwards, her phone had been off, but when she suddenly made a call last night, it wasn’t her on the phone.
She had been kidnapped by a married couple I had offended overseas.
They’re known as the ‘Cobra’ duo!”
“You’re living incognito in the Capital, how did they find you?” Yusuf Zuck exclaid in surprise.
“That’s what I don’t understand, either.
I cut off all outside contacts, so they shouldn’t have been able to find at all!”
“Then why aren’t you going to save her, instead of being here telling a story?” Yusuf Zuck asked again.
“They haven’t told the location yet, just to wait for instructions today.”
“So you’re asking to help you save her…
and the one million is coming out of your pocket, huh?” Yusuf Zuck’s eyebrows shot up!
“Yes, after buying a house in the Capital, I only have a little over a million left in savings.
I can only take out one million.”
“No way, I’m not doing it!
Don’t drag into this!” Yusuf Zuck imdiately started protesting.
After all this, it turned out Fleur Carson was the one paying.
Although Yusuf loved money, there was money to be earned and money one shouldn’t earn.
“Don’t back out now, I’ve brought the money!” Fleur Carson said, “You don’t have to help kill two assassins, I only need you to give a hand from the shadows.
When I confront them, you just need to find a way to secretly rescue ‘Shanshan’ for .”
Yusuf Zuck fell silent for a bit, then suddenly said with a laugh, “You know, I have a quirk when it cos to making friends; I don’t talk about money.
I believe friends bought with money are not true friends.
Do you…
consider your friend?”
“I…
I don’t have any friends.
I haven’t been in touch with any classmates for so many years.
To be honest, I do want to be your friend, because being with you is fun, and you give off a trustable vibe!” Fleur Carson said sincerely.
“Then what the hell are you wasting words for?
Between friends, we don’t talk about money; talking about money damages the relationship.
Besides, I’ve promised before that I would help if you needed it in the future.
You think I, Yusuf Zuck, care only about money and not friends?” Yusuf Zuck said, half laughing, half cursing.
Fleur Carson looked at Yusuf Zuck seriously, opened his mouth, and then said, “Thank you.”
“No need for thanks.
Hurry up and tell what those ‘Cobra’ spouses are capable of.
I don’t want to go into battle unprepared.
Son of a bitch, a couple of foreign assassins dare to be so brazen on our turf?”
“Let’s not talk about that for now,” Fleur Carson waved his hand, and looking very serious and formal said to Yusuf Zuck, “Yusuf Zuck, to be honest, this is extrely risky, and it could very well…
get us killed.
So take this money.” He didn’t wait for Yusuf Zuck to argue and quickly continued, “It’s not for you; it’s for your sister.
You said you had a sister before, right?
We can be friends or brothers, that’s fine, but I can’t let you take the risk without peace of mind!”
“Of course, if we both co out of it okay, then you can just pay back.
I’m really poor too, just a taxi driver…” Fleur Carson lightened the mood.
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