章 7: One battle to become famous
"I'll give you 8 million dollars, even if you ask for it in gold coins, I'll still do it, just let me go this time."
Lawrence said to Zod.
Zod inspected the metal door.
How afraid of death is this guy that he bought such a thick alloy door?
Although the walls are made of concrete, Zod can see using his x-ray vision all of the thick steel bars interlaced throughout the concrete wall. In the U.S. labor is very expensive, I don't know how much he spent just to make this basement.
"It's useless, even if you use a bomb, you can't move it."
Lawrence said calmly. He didn't want to stay in this basement all his life though. After all this assassin was so terrible, he killed all of the professionals sent after him. Even Bullseye would have a hard time accomplishing such a feat.
Zod thought for a moment, then put his hand on the handle of the metal door.
"Crack!"
Lawrence seemed to hear a noise from the alloy door, and there was dust shaking from the cracks of the door.
How could this be possible, it has to be an illusion!
Lawrence shook his head.
Zod also put his left hand up.
The alloy door shook suddenly, causing more dust to fall.
Zod gradually increased his strength, and the alloy door began to make a harsh rubbing noise, which was made by the metal being forcibly pulled from the frame.
However, Zod still couldn't open the alloy door, his current strength wasn't enough.
Lawrence had his mouth open wide.
Zod sighed and gave up for a moment.
Then he suddenly pressed his hand on his chest and his battle suit immediately covered his whole body.
Putting on the armor, Zod roughly pulled the alloy door open with one hand, and threw it towards the wall behind him with a loud bang.
Lawrence stared at this scene dumbfounded. Then Zod retracted the battle suit and aimed his pistol at Lawrence and pulled the trigger.
"Don't…"
Boom!
After searching the villa, he found more than two million dollars in cash which made him wonder what he was doing with so much cash at home.
Anyway, now Zod is richer. In order to destroy the traces, Zod lit a fire and piled the collected explosives in the basement while leaving.
With a loud explosion and skyrocketing fire, Zod casually walked out of the villa community.
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The intelligence work of the Midnight Hotel is naturally very powerful. It barely took any time from when Zod walked out of the community to when they received a report on the situation.
After the fire was extinguished, the local Midnight Hotel found a lot of traces, after all, Zod only blew up the basement.
"Three hundred and fifty-three people, except for the fifteen people wearing bulletproof helmets whose necks were broken, all of the others were shot in the head." [TL: that is straight from the MTL, not sure how 20 turned into 350. Had to do it though, to explain the next part.]
The executives of the Midnight Hotel looked at this record and said.
"He solved three hundred and fifty-three people alone. Before, that the top assassin Bullseye only solved a 15-person squad of navy-seals right?"
Asked a middle-aged man with a face with a full beard, who made people think he had a lot of hair, except for the fact he was completely bald
"it was a 17-person squad, sir."
"Whatever."
He waved him off.
"No extra bullets were found at the scene. He fired a total of 338 shots. Except for the 100 rounds of the same bullets he carried at the beginning, all of the other bullets came from the enemy's guns. Do you know what that means?"
Another look at the man across from him with a huge forehead and narrow face, the man said meaningfully,
"It means that he is very confident, and his marksmanship is beyond imagination. It seems we have a bigshot joining Midnight Hotel."
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Zod did not go back to the Midnight Hotel in Washington D.C., but instead checked in at the Midnight Hotel in California.
"Welcome, Mister Heath."
Said the African-American man in charge of the reception desk.
"How do I receive the bounty?"
Zod nodded and asked.
"You can apply for cash. We have the choice of USD, Euros, British pounds and even Chinese yuan. We guarantee that it is clean and legal, however 20% of the payment is required. You can also receive an anonymous account and withdraw the money at any time. Of course, you can also exchange for the simple and convenient gold coins which allow you to use the services provided by the Midnight Hotel."
The receptionist introduced it all one by one.
"Give me half of it in cash, and the other half gold coins."
Zod answered after listening.
"As you wish, sir."
Zod received the so-called skeleton face gold coin.
It seems to be about the same size as a normal bottle cap and thicker than a normal coin. Both sides are carved with skulls with intricate patterns surrounding it.
Although it is an assembly line product, it is still impressive.
Zod put away the gold coins.
In order to reflect the preciousness and importance of the gold coins, the Midnight Hotel made the gold content close to 100%.
Zod spent two gold coins and quickly rode a jet through the setup of Midnight Hotel.
"Unexpectedly, there are even private jet services, and it's an invisible channel under the radar of the country."
Zod felt the magical powers of the Midnight Hotel, but it made it easier to narrow down the identity of the group who is behind them.
This "invisible channel" is not easy to pull off. It is theoretically calculating all the surveillance loopholes and time differences to find a route that will not be discovered.
It is almost certain that the force behind the Midnight Hotel is some branch of governments from different nations or…Hydra.
Zod is actually more inclined to believe it's Hydra.
"Boss is back!"
After not seeing him for a few days, Judley felt like Zod looked different.
Zod nodded. He didn't like to deposit money in the bank, he preferred cash, so the newly acquired millions were put into the ranch's development by Zod.
Judley was dumbfounded. After a few days, where the heck did the Boss go to get so much money?
"Don't worry, these millions are clean and legal."
Zod said that although 20% of the money was taken, he was already satisfied with that, because most money laundering takes about 40% of the harvest or even higher.
Kingpin also keeps a large group of accountants who help him calculate the costs of laundering.
In places like the United States, or in most capitalist countries, if an accountant's money laundering abilities let them retain 70% of the money, all the big organizations will snatch that person up.
Zod does not plan to go to places like New York for now even if he has legal status, this ranch is a very good place to grow his power with a peace of mind.
The Midnight Hotel posted Zod's record. Those who had heard of Zod's record gave him the nickname "The Devil."
There is no Midnight Hotel in Texas. What Zod has to do is visit big cities like Washington D.C.
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