Ultimate Firepower
Chapter 147 - 137 Calling Daddy is Also Fine

Chapter 147: Chapter 137 Calling Daddy is Also Fine

They said they’d arranged a place to stay, but the Number One Master had set up something that was definitely not a hotel.

The accommodation was a bit too luxurious; Gao Yi felt it was like a palace, albeit a smaller one, of course.

Looking back now, the efforts Sean made to corrupt Gao Yi truly epitomized that saying.

Comparisons are odious indeed.

If Gao Yi thought he was dreaming, then Lin Xianghua suspected he might have died and gone to Heaven.

"This is too... wow, this is way too... extravagant!"

Lin Xianghua opened the bathroom door, and after exclaiming twice in a row, pointed at the faucet and said to Gao Yi, "The tap is gold, I thought it was just gold-plated, but it’s not, it’s solid gold, I... I bit into it a little."

Gao Yi was shocked; he rushed into the bathroom and then said in astonishment, "Who bites a faucet in the bathroom with their teeth? Are you a little... off?!"

Lin Xianghua made a face and said, "I couldn’t help it, I was curious, I just wanted to know if this faucet was real gold or gold-plated, I... I couldn’t help it."

Gao Yi approached, touched the faucet, turned it on, and washed his hands under it. He then let out a long sigh and said, "It’s okay, it’s not that noticeable. Don’t do this kind of thing again. It’s embarrassing."

After finishing, Gao Yi suddenly said with a face full of wonder, "From now on, I can say I’m someone who has washed my hands under a gold faucet, hmm, damn... rich people!"

Lin Xianghua thoughtfully passed him a towel, then said with a flattering face, "Why is Prince Harold giving us so much money? I’m really nervous about it."

"What’s his name?"

"Big brother! Big brother!"

"We have to genuinely respect our benefactor. It’s good enough he didn’t ask to be called ’Daddy.’ And there you go, calling him by name. Do you have any manners?"

Gao Yi scolded Lin Xianghua, wiped his hands, tossed the towel onto the rack, and then casually said, "Can’t you figure out this simple thing? Didn’t big brother already say he can’t hire assassins against his own brother? But if there’s a personal grudge between the assassin and his brother, he doesn’t need to intervene, does he?"

"But why the money then?"

"See, that’s why he’s the big brother. Since he’s not hiring assassins, he can’t pay commissions, right? Big brother just thinks we’re poor and casually gives us some money to buy new clothes and equipment. Haven’t you ever played a game? That’s what it’s like when a big brother carries a newbie. You don’t even understand that?"

Lin Xianghua was stunned for a long time but finally said, "Isn’t that just a bounty?"

"If you insist on calling it a bounty, I can’t help it, but big brother is big brother; he gives the money upfront, pays first, then work later. That’s style, so much style!"

The phone rang just after he finished speaking, and Gao Yi answered it, only to hear Luca say, "I’ve spoken with Wind Vane; he’s heading to Abu Dhabi immediately, but he can’t carry guns on the plane, this gun..."

"Big brother will handle it, a piece of cake, not worth mentioning."

Gao Yi, phone in hand, took a few brisk steps to the living room and, seeing the relaxed butler sitting on the sofa, whispered, "Hello, we have someone coming over, we need to pick someone up from the airport."

Fesari had a butler, and so did Prince Harold, though Gao Yi didn’t even know the man’s name.

The butler spoke indifferently, "Then go pick him up, go to Baghdad, the private jet is faster."

Gao Yi swallowed hard and decided to give Feng Biao a break as well. He continued, "It’s just that his equipment is inconvenient to carry. Could... could you please... help us purchase some?"

The butler’s expression grew slightly sterner. He shook his index finger at Gao Yi in a serious manner and said, "Don’t use the word ’buy’ in front of me. Prince Harold doesn’t like it, and so I don’t either. Simply state what’s needed, but refrain from using the word ’buy’."

"I’m sorry, please prepare a full set of sniper equipment for us. We can discuss the specifics when he arrives, um, thank you."

The butler nodded, picked up the phone, and muttered a string of words in Arabic. Then, he hung up and said to Gao Yi, "Tell your person not to carry any weapons. It will be the same plane you used before. Once he arrives, just have him board the plane. Do you have any other requests?"

Gao Yi immediately smiled, "No, that’s it for now."

"Collect the money we gave you."

The butler then beckoned, and following his gesture, three burly men entered the living room pulling three suitcases with retractable handles.

Gao Yi didn’t know how much money was in each case, but he recognized the luggage as LV.

The butler nodded, glanced at his gold watch, and then said, "Contact me if you need anything. I have to step out for a bit."

The butler and the burly men left. Gao Yi and Lin Xianghua exchanged glances, then silently saw the butler off, watched him get into the car, and then returned inside to lay the suitcases flat and unzip them.

They were full of cash, all in US dollars.

"Hmmmm..."

Lin Xianghua let out a strange sound.

Gao Yi angrily said, "Just scream if you’re going to, why make such a sleazy noise!"

Lin Xianghua silently snapped the suitcase locks and then suddenly asked, "Boss, aren’t you afraid?"

"Afraid of what?"

Lin Xianghua lowered his voice, cautiously saying, "We’ve been given too much. Aren’t you scared when you take the money?"

Gao Yi pondered for a moment, then he still took out his phone, silently searched something on it, and afterwards handed the phone to Lin Xianghua.

Lin Xianghua glanced at it, then said, surprised, "My God... Ha... Big Brother turns out to be Fesari’s half-brother from the same father."

Prince Harold was Fesari’s biological elder brother, sharing the same father but different mothers, while Fesari was the youngest son in the family.

Prince Harold had a twenty percent dividend in the company, but only the right to dividends, without any other real power. Although this gave him a pure income of at least two billion dollars a year, he had no control.

Not only did Fesari have the right to dividends, but he also managed affairs, because his shares and wealth were handed down from his father. Therefore, as the eldest son, Prince Harold could only take dividends, while the youngest Fesari controlled the family business.

Gao Yi said indifferently, "Get it?"

Lin Xianghua nodded emphatically, "I get it! If Fesari dies, Big Brother can get one billion."

"Still scared?"

Lin Xianghua exhaled and said, "A bit scared, still afraid of being silenced."

"Knowing fear is also right. The money is rightfully yours but burns your hands, so we still need to send the money away quickly."

Just then, the phone rang again.

Luca whispered on the phone, "I’ve contacted Revenge Blade, didn’t go through the Dark Web. I told them directly that I want to buy one of their ’Consumables,’ a one-time buyout."

"Hmm."

"They’re asking for ten million, I counter-offered five million. For a ’Consumable,’ that’s not a low price. But Revenge Blade doesn’t agree; they said this ’Consumable’ is different."

"Different how?"

"Good-looking and still unopened."

"Uh... that reason."

Gao Yi was trying to phrase his next words to avoid the conversation from seeming too vulgar, but Luca continued, "However, the ’Consumable’ has already been deployed in the last operation, which is a good reason to argue for a lower price. So even if five million doesn’t work, it shouldn’t exceed six million. I think, at most five and a half million, we can definitely buy it."

The nun was a living person, but she was about to be sold without her knowledge.

Gao Yi always felt something wasn’t right, so he said softly, "Isn’t this human trafficking?"

"Of course not, a ’Consumable’ is just a tool, just expendable. From the moment she was taken in and trained as a ’Consumable’ by Revenge Blade, she ceased to be a person. The trade of ’Consumables’ among assassin organizations is extremely common, because ’Consumables’ don’t even know who exactly is training them."

So dark, so convenient.

While Gao Yi was still contemplating, Luca continued, "Most of the girls we rescued are Kurds and survivors from Mosul. Their families are basically all dead. Leaving them to Iraq, we don’t know what will happen to them; otherwise..."

"No, let the people from the Secret Action Bureau handle it; we don’t train ’Consumables.’"

Gao Yi exhaled and then he said in a very serious tone, "Remember, we don’t raise ’Consumables,’ we don’t use ’Consumables.’"

"What I mean is, you can buy the nun from Revenge Blade, but how will you make her work for you? And are you going to tell her she was bought with money, that she’s just merchandise? If you don’t want to, why not let her arrange for those girls? That could quickly narrow the distance between you."

The nun had not completed her mission, having been preempted by Gao Yi, but she was indeed already deployed, so her value for future similar missions would be much lower.

Since the nun was trained in France and had always been near a monastery outside of Paris, it meant that her moment of greatest value had passed. If used in other regions, then the nun’s difference from a regular assassin wouldn’t be too great.

Gao Yi thought about it and said, "Just pay ten million, don’t haggle anymore. Tell Revenge Blade we’ll take the person, give them the ten million, and bring her here immediately."

Luca said in a low voice, "You’re crazy! We could have got her for a maximum of six million, why spend an extra four million!"

Gao Yi responded indifferently, "Big Brother said we can buy anything with any amount of money. I want to spend ten million on an assistant. I can pay myself, but Big Brother would feel insulted if I used my own money. So, I can talk to Big Brother’s butler first. Maybe he’d let me pay for it myself."

Luca exhaled and said, "You confirm it first. If it’s Big Brother who pays, we can agree to Revenge Blade’s price later!"

"Time is tight, just buy it, trust me, Big Brother won’t miss this bit of money."

Luca ended the call, and thirty seconds later, his phone rang again. After answering, he sounded a bit anxious, "You’d better be sure it’s Big Brother paying, or we’ll be out ten million."

"Four million, not ten million. Don’t treat other people’s money as your own."

After retorting to Luca, Gao Yi picked up the phone. Of course, he was calling the butler.

When the butler picked up, Gao Yi carefully said, "I need to buy a ’Consumable,’ requiring ten million. May I ask..."

"I know, I’ll take care of it."

Gao Yi cautiously explained, "I have to explain that a ’Consumable’ is our professional term in the assassin world; a ’Consumable’ actually refers to a person."

"I know what a ’Consumable’ means. You don’t have to explain. Is there anything else?"

Gao Yi whispered, "No, nothing else, thank you."

Watching Gao Yi hang up the phone, Lin Xianghua, who had been observing and listening to the conversation, suddenly said, "Actually, I think, calling him Dad wouldn’t be so bad, what do you think?"