Chapter 508: Bounty

It took Chen Ling only one second to completely crack Vulture's phone.

All recent chat records, call history, and browsing URLs popped up frantically before Chen Ling's eyes as if out of control.

In this era, understanding a person is very simple. As long as they are in the city, every move they make leaves a trace on the internet... And since Chen Ling had his phone, it meant almost all his secrets were exposed.

Among the massive amount of information, only two things caught Chen Ling's attention: one was the call history with Nie Yu, and the other was a frequently logged-in URL.

The call history was nothing to speak of; even if Chen Ling had eyes and ears everywhere, he couldn't record their conversations at the time without prior wiretapping, so his attention ultimately shifted to the URL.

"This is... the Dark Web?" Chen Ling browsed the website for a moment, his eyebrows rising slightly.

This website was not simple; it was entirely structured overseas and used multiple top-tier technical means for encryption, making it difficult for ordinary people to log in... Of course, no matter how complex the encryption algorithm was, as long as it was based on communication technology, it was meaningless in Chen Ling's eyes. He hacked into the website with almost no effort and read the massive amount of content within.

This was a website filled with blood, violence, pornography, and gray-market transactions. Whether it was human trafficking, organ transport, drugs, guns, or bounties for lives, everything was carried out openly here. If the internet accessible to ordinary people was the iceberg above the sea, then the things on this website were the carnival belonging to the dark abyss beneath the surface.

In this, "Vulture" was a professional middleman. The number of murder bounties issued through his hands reached over a hundred, involving countries both at home and abroad. The one with the most completions belonged to the Golden Triangle region, and the one who completed all this was an ID named [Hunter].

And right now, in "Vulture's" post, a woman named "Su Zhiwei" had become the highest-priced bounty target in the country for the past few days, with a bounty of eight million. More than a dozen assassins were already participating.

"Eight million bounty for Su Zhiwei? What a grand gesture..."

Chen Ling looked at the number, gave a disdainful chuckle, threw the phone on the ground and crushed it, and walked slowly out of the blood-stained tavern.

Just a moment ago, he had connected his flip phone to the Dark Web and backed up the contents of Vulture's phone, so he naturally didn't need it anymore...

And as Chen Ling walked out of the tavern, the murder post that had originally targeted Su Zhiwei was instantly tampered with. Replacing it were two lines of text, glowing a deep, intense red:

[Bounty target changed... Bounty target: "Hunter" Nie Yu]

[Bounty amount: 80,000,000$]

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[Audience anticipation +4]

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At the edge of the horizon, a fiery red sunset gradually sank.

Nie Yu, with his hunting rifle on his back, crossed the desolate wilderness. In the reflection of his sharp pupils, the outline of a museum slowly emerged in the distance...

"Hiding there, are you." A grim look flashed in Nie Yu's eyes.

Behind him, more than a dozen figures trailed along in the distance. Their attire varied, but their clothes were all bulging, hiding unknown weapons, and their temperaments were mostly sinister and vicious.

"As expected of that 'Hunter' from the Golden Triangle in the rumors." One assassin couldn't help but exclaim. "To be able to track the bounty target just by the traces on the ground... I, for one, can't even see where the tire tracks are."

"But with the 'Hunter' making a move, even if we kill Su Zhiwei in the end, will we still get a share of the money?"

"With his strength and reputation, I'm afraid we'll only get to drink the soup... No, in all likelihood, we won't even get the soup."

"Bounties are like this: whoever gets the head gets the money. Even if he is the 'Hunter,' he can't steal the credit."

"That's true..."

"We can let him take the lead, and then find an opportunity to kill Su Zhiwei."

"I think that works."

“……”

The whispers of the crowd were clear to Nie Yu; he could hear every word. The enhancement [Sky Wolf] brought him wasn't just in terms of vision; his hearing was several times that of an ordinary person.

But even so, he didn't turn back to stop their "little schemes." After all, he was the one who issued the bounty in the first place, and he didn't expect to take his own money...

His goal was to kill Chen Ling. As for Su Zhiwei, an ordinary person, he would leave her to these assassins to deal with.

Nie Yu only wanted the result; he didn't care about the process.

Just as Nie Yu was watching the museum from afar, pondering how to break through and utilize the terrain for combat, one of the assassins behind him suddenly let out a soft exclamation.

"This... this..." He looked at his phone, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"What's wrong?"

"Look for yourselves!"

At his reminder, the crowd opened their phones simultaneously. The murder bounty for Su Zhiwei had disappeared... Replacing it was a bounty targeting "Nie Yu."

"One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million... ten million?? Eighty million? Dollars!!"

Everyone's eyes went round, as if they were dreaming.

"This... who issued this bounty?!"

"I don't know, it's anonymous."

"Eighty million dollars... That's dozens of times more than the original!"

"But this target..."

The group looked at each other, then simultaneously looked up at the figure standing under the blood-like sunset with a hunting rifle on his back. For a moment, they all fell silent.

Kill the legendary "Hunter" Nie Yu? Did they have the strength for that?

But eighty million dollars... the amount was simply too tempting.

The target was right in front of them, and he was basically in an undefended state; even he didn't know he had a bounty on his head... Making a move now, perhaps it wasn't entirely without a chance of winning?

A few bold and ambitious assassins exchanged glances, nodded simultaneously, silently gripped the short knives and daggers in their sleeves, and walked toward Nie Yu's back.

A single bounty had caused cracks to appear in Nie Yu's hunting team; before they had even seen Su Zhiwei, they had started infighting.

Just as Nie Yu was deep in thought while looking at the museum, his intuition suddenly warned him. He frowned, took a light step forward, and several grim, cold glints grazed his clothing!

The assassins who had made the move were shocked. When the sneak attack failed, they immediately drew their guns and pulled the triggers without hesitation. A dozen gunshots roared, and a dense rain of bullets flew toward Nie Yu's vital spots!

Clang, clang, clang, clang—!

The bullets hit Nie Yu's skin at high speed, but it was like hitting steel, emitting a harsh buzzing sound, and sparks flew in the sunset.

At the same time, the steel-like black-clad figure turned slowly, and a pair of highly oppressive pupils stared grimly at the crowd behind him...

"Are you... looking for death??"