Chapter 649: The Assassin
After dinner, Su Xiao sat on a chair outside and watched the noisy crowd.
Bubtney sat down next to him, bits of dough visible at the corners of his mouth.
The facts proved to him that bargaining with this big guy in food matters was clearly impractical, because even a slipper did not help in " negotiations».
While Su Xiao was thinking about what he should do, Black Mary's phone suddenly rang.
— Hello, well, let me ask you something, " Black Mary replied. "Mr. Byakuya, this is Brant, one of the ten dons, who wants to invite us to visit," Black Mary said, covering her phone with one hand.
— Why?
— He's hired a group of assassins and wants you to meet them. I think he wants you to knock down the stage. Should I turn him down?
— Let's go.
— Got it, " Black Mary said, and after a few words on the phone, she hung up.
— Sooner than I thought...
— Black Mary looked at Su Xiao suspiciously.
— Nothing.
The three of them drove to the new auction site, which was not far from the original auction site, just three blocks away.
A huge number of flowers were laid in front of the new auction house, there were even wreaths among them, and in addition to the flowers, there were many gangsters near the entrance, but they didn't look very happy.
Su Xiao was stunned when he saw all this. His first thought was that someone had died.
— Someone died?
— Black Mary was a little confused. - These flowers and wreaths are a kind of personification of the beginning of the holiday.
Su Xiao felt uneasy about it.
— Your traditions are really special, " Su Xiao said and got out of the car, leaving behind a surprised Black Mary.
From these flowers and wreaths, it was clear that the auction had some problems. Previously, the auction didn't need to resort to such things to attract guests. At previous auctions, this was not necessary at all, because the guests themselves asked to be allowed inside.
Black Mary, who saw Su Xiao's hesitation, began to talk about what had happened this morning.
Due to the fact that the auction house was destroyed, most of the guests decided not to risk their lives to participate in the auction.
When the auction house opened as usual in the morning, the entire street was empty, and not to mention the guests, not even the street vendors and locals could be seen nearby, even some shops in the area decided not to open, as if this auction house was something of a time bomb.
This angered the ten dons, but even though they were gangsters, they wouldn't be able to put a gun to the guests ' heads and force them to participate in the auction.
For the sake of their reputation, they had no choice but to arrange an unnecessary opening ceremony and invite their gang members to participate. Such an order frightened many bandits and many of them refused to carry out this order.
At eight o'clock in the morning of the same day, the ten dons discovered that the auction was still empty, and learned that even members of their own gangs refused to go there, which made them very angry and ordered anyone who refused to come to be expelled from the gangs.
Now it was already ten o'clock in the morning. Wreaths and flowers were still placed near the entrance to the auction house, plus gangsters with not very good looks were standing near these flowers and wreaths.
After listening to Black Mary's explanation, Su Xiao understood the general outline of the situation.
— So there's no one else in the auction house but gang members?
— Well, no one dares to come here, but we'll do something about it... Black Mary was a little alarmed by this development.
— It would be better if no one participated in today's auction, but there would definitely be people coming to the auction tonight.
Su Xiao didn't care if people would participate in the auction. The main thing is that it should pass without any problems.
After entering the auction house, Su Xiao quickly noticed that this building was much more spacious and larger.
The auction house was full of gang members, but there were no outsiders in sight.
Su Xiao quickly went to the elevator and went up to the sixth floor.
— They've already arrived and are waiting for us, " Black Mary said.
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In the living room on the sixth floor.
A short, bald, fat man wearing small round sunglasses was smoking a cigar and staring intently at the murderers in the room.
The bald fat man's name was "Blade", a nickname given to him after he joined the gang.
He was directly subordinate to one of the dons and was responsible for hiring third-party people to fulfill particularly dangerous orders..
Although he wasn't very strong, he was smart. In the original story, all ten dons eventually died, but he stayed alive. Of course, this was due to his poor strength and status. No one would intentionally search for and kill him.
— One, two, three, four... Well, everyone seems to be here, "Blade muttered, remembering the number of assassins for hire, but the subordinate behind him leaned over and whispered —" The Nostrade family isn't here yet.
The mention of this family made me feel unhappy. - Yeah, I would also like to predict the fate of people for a lot of money and do nothing.
As soon as his voice trailed off, the door swung open.
Light Nostrade and Kurapika entered the room. In fact, the Nostrade family was able to stay afloat not because of their powers, but mostly because of the strength of the family leader's daughter, Neon, or rather because of her ability to predict the future.
After entering the room, the two of them silently walked to the side.
— Everyone finally gathered. Our goal is to get rid of the Spiders. The auction will be held tonight. They'll probably show up and we'll need to kill them, " Blade looked around at the assassins present. They were all dressed in different styles, but they were all considered masters of their craft.
This time, they were supposed to protect rather than kill. They will have to wait for the arrival of the Spiders and if they appear eliminate them. If they were asked to just protect the auction, given their status, they would most likely refuse.
— I see, then can we choose our own code names? One of the assassins asked. This assassin was plain and belonged to the type of person who would never be noticed if he mingled with the crowd.
— Can we choose our own colors? I'm too blue, " the killer in the vest said.
— Red.
— I take black.
— What childishness? an old man with a shock of white hair and a thin white mustache said.
This old man had his hands behind his back, and there was a business card in his breast pocket.
Sivensi1: The marathon will be extended until the 8th, as usual, everything that could have happened, happened, classic :)
There will be at least 5 chapters a day, well, unless, of course, everything that can happen again happens, eh.
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