Ultimate Firepower
Chapter 193 - 181 Idle Talk

Chapter 193: Chapter 181 Idle Talk

"This thing, it’s like a novice beating a master to death, sigh, no one expected it to turn out this way, but it just did, and there’s no reasoning to it."

Feng Biao felt deeply about this as he shared his own profound insights.

But Feng Biao’s speech won the approval of everyone.

Li Jie sighed and said, "Yeah, who could have thought? It’s always our boss, he never plays by the book. Just when I think he’s going to do this, he does that instead, and when I think he’s settled on that, heh, he switches it up again. We’re confused ourselves, so how could the enemy figure it out? Impossible."

Lin Xianghua struggled to speak up, finally stammering out, "The boss is far-sighted and clever, really impressive."

Feng Biao looked at Lin Xianghua warily and asked, "Since when did you learn to sweet-talk?"

Lin Xianghua sincerely replied, "This comes straight from the heart."

Luca felt left out and said coldly, "Have you forgotten there’s someone here who doesn’t speak your language? Chatting away in your own tongue, ever think about how I feel?"

Feng Biao lazily responded, "Can’t help it, majority rules. You’ll have to learn. One day you’ll master another language, which is a good thing, gives you a language environment."

Luca retorted coldly, "Haha, remember that I’m the one who pays all your salaries, including the boss’s."

"Hey, you two, that’s not right. Knowing our god of wealth here can’t understand, yet you still speak. Switch to English, from now on when Boss Lu is around, we must speak English."

Feng Biao, seizing the opportunity quickest, sold out his two teammates and turned to Luca with a flattering face, "Boss said my treatment would be the same as Old Ghost’s in the future. I just want to ask, what treatment does Old Ghost have? Can you tell me that?"

Without turning his head, Luca coldly stated, "A ten percent cut."

"Ten percent?"

Feng Biao drew in a breath sharply and said, "Isn’t that like earning one or two million from a single fight, oh no, I mean, from a single mission?"

Luca coldly responded, "One or two million? After cozying up to these Middle Eastern princes, to ask for less money would be disrespectful, wouldn’t it? Shouldn’t one mission be counted in the billions?"

"Sss, struck it rich... What about this time?"

"This time? No bonus this time. Did you see the boss taking any money? This mission’s a freebie."

Li Jie shook his head on the side and said, "That’s not the right way to put it. Just like when I started my studio, you have to keep clients, you have to break into the market, all this comes with costs. With this mission, we’ve made a name for Sky Garden. From now on, in Saudi, in Iraq, who doesn’t know of Sky Garden? It’s not just about the money, would we otherwise have handled so many things this time, right?"

Lin Xianghua immediately replied, "Exactly, if we just followed the mission brief, we wouldn’t have made it to where we are now."

Luca smiled and said, "It’s good you think so, that’s really good."

Feng Biao said with a face full of emotion, "It’s still the boss, with his benevolence as vast as the sky. So young yet so far-sighted, I submit, I truly submit, completely convinced."

"Speaking of youth, it’s gotta be Mu Tianwen. Can you believe he’s only fourteen? The way he uses idioms, tsk tsk."

Li Jie shook his head and lamented, "I feel inferior. His command of Chinese is better than ours, can’t compete with that."

Feng Biao disdainfully said, "You, with your double degrees, talking like this, are you insulting me and Ah Gui? Hey, what does a double degree mean?"

Li Jie didn’t answer Feng’s question but continued, "But there’s one thing, Mu Tianwen overdoes it with the idioms, it gets annoying."

"That’s because you don’t understand. It’s habit becoming nature, speaking without even thinking."

Feng Biao gave a thumbs up and said, "If you ask me, it’s still the boss who’s incredible. Only in his twenties, and look at the huge things he’s done! Utterly fantastic, I admire him..."

Li Jie said helplessly, "Can you survive without kissing up a few times?"

Feng Biao immediately replied, "That’s speaking from the heart. How can that be considered flattery? Am I not stating the facts? Just take this ambush, for instance. Although it was Lin Xianghua’s idea to use artillery, it was the boss who dared to do it. Hey, what does that mean? That means courage, and the key thing is not just using it but being able to control it. That’s skill! The ability to handle things with ease."

After some thought, Li Jie nodded and said, "You might be exaggerating a bit, but it makes sense. It’s the young people who dare to dream and act."

Lin Xianghua nodded in agreement and added, "Yes, the boss is brave and strategic. Tasks that I thought were impossible, he completed easily. Problems that I found unsolvable, he resolved with a flip of his hand. He’s very good at solving complex issues with simple methods."

Li Jie sighed and said, "Simplifying complex problems is a profound knowledge and a great skill indeed. In engineering, this capability is especially valuable. Anyone who can simplify and solve complex issues is a genius. He never needs any detailed and meticulous plans, but the problems are solved as if cut through butter. I admire that greatly."

Feng Biao quickly said, "Unarmed victory over the armed, swish swish, Dugu Jiujian, no matter what moves you have, the boss has one word for it, Break. With a few swipes, it’s done. An unarmed victory over the armed, now that’s impressive. I admit my inferiority and am willing to bow down."

Lin Xianghua whispered, "Seems like we’ve all started loving to use idioms. Maybe I should buy an idiom dictionary, otherwise, it won’t be easy to flatter in the future..."

At that moment, Luca, who was driving, couldn’t hold back his laughter. He laughed so hard he couldn’t catch his breath, and his hands on the steering wheel became unsteady.

"Hahaha... Simplifying complex problems... guffaws... you guys... are killing me!"

After a long breath, Luca chuckled, "Is that a valuable skill of your boss? He just doesn’t know how to make any detailed plans. His real strength is swinging a hammer at someone, and that’s all, no need for complicated plans... Hahaha."

The three men’s expressions chilled, and at that moment, Lucy, who had been sitting in the passenger seat like a ghost, suddenly turned her head, looked straight at Luca’s profile, and said very calmly but also very coldly, "Don’t you dare laugh at the master, or I will kill you."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

The car suddenly fell into silence.

After a long time, Luca unnaturally twisted his neck and said, "We’re not making fun of him, we’re a team. We need to have a proper understanding of the boss’s abilities, you know what I mean? That is, we can’t glorify him, can’t turn his abilities into a myth. What he’s good at, he’s good at, what he’s not, he’s not. That’s normal. If you guys insist that the boss can do everything, then that’s dangerous. We should carry out operations based on what we’re good at..."

Luca was telling the truth, and moreover, he made a lot of sense, and indeed it was common knowledge in the assassin circle.

In the business of assassins, there’s certainly respect for authority, but never blind obedience because in this line of work, a single mistake could be fatal, but the biggest trouble is screwing up the mission.

But Lucy didn’t care about that, she was just a vase anyway.

Just then, Li Jie suddenly said, "Master, that title is a bit, well, you know."

Feng Biao cleared his throat and responded, "You talk too much."

Calling him ’Master’ is perfectly normal, I think... it’s quite nice."

After Xianghua finished speaking, the car fell into silence again.

And the silence lasted for a very long time.

A particularly beautiful woman, who seemed to lack brains, was said to be fierce, but beautiful women usually have a temper. However, not only did Lucy not have one, but she also willingly called Gao Yi ’Master’.

And it seemed very natural, from the heart.

It wasn’t that the others couldn’t stand it, it just felt a bit jarring to look at, as men themselves, even if it was the boss, it still didn’t sit right.

At that moment, the walkie-talkie crackled to life.

"Stop the car up ahead, Lucy, come to my car. Our plan is like this, I and Lucy will go in with Mu Tianwen. Having a beautiful woman with him won’t attract too much attention."

Luca slowed down the car and Lucy opened the door.

Luca suddenly said, "Wait a second."

Lucy turned to look at Luca, who reached down and brought out a hammer with an expressionless face, saying, "Bring this to him."

Gao Yi had that small steel hammer for car repairs, which he didn’t take when they abandoned the car, but Luca had brought it for him.

Lucy took the hammer and closed the door.

The car started moving again.

The previously quiet car finally regained some vitality.

Feng Biao took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "When I have money, I will... damn it, I won’t be able to find one!"

Li Jie shook his head and said, "It’s not necessarily a good thing. Such a woman, she’s just pleasing to the eye, but... Well, the boss might not like her, might not enjoy it."

Luca immediately said, "Yes, I completely agree with you. A woman has to have a soul, something in common to talk about, better yet, an interesting soul. Lucy doesn’t seem interesting enough, she’s quiet, doesn’t talk much, and her way of thinking is different from normal people’s."

Xianghua suddenly said, "But I like that kind, is that bad?"

"If being good-looking equals good... then sure!"

"Indeed, quite nice."

"It’s not appropriate for us to talk about the boss’s woman like this, is it?"

Feng looked at Li Jie and asked, "Would you say that?"

"Er, no."

"Then it’s settled."

Li Jie sighed and said, "It’s the boss and Lucy again, none of our business."

Feng glanced at the wound on his leg and said, "I feel okay, it’s fine."

"Of course, you feel fine, you’ve made merit. Having the ten percent gratuity makes you feel secure."

Li Jie didn’t mean to mock Xianghua sarcastically, but Xianghua let out a helpless sigh and then whispered, "Otherwise, Luca, tell the boss to cut my share. I don’t feel comfortable taking it."

Luca, known as Iron Rooster, should have seized the opportunity to agree immediately. However, faced with Xianghua’s request for a salary reduction, he remained silent.

After a long time, Luca said indifferently, "You guys don’t have to feel like the money comes too easily. With the boss’s style, and his habit of bringing a hammer into action, you’ll have the chance to repay him sooner or later."

After finishing, Luca sighed and continued, "Remember, if there’s a mission in a restaurant next time involving a hammer, you must watch the boss’s back. He’s the king inside the restaurant, but once he steps out, he’ll be relying on you."

Xianghua was lost in thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Ah, speaking of that, I’m familiar..."