Capítulo 2: His Name is "Wolf"
Editor: Lucas
Chapter 2: His Name is “Wolf”
A while after Teng Qingshan had left the county, two shabby Santana cars drove to a stop near the courtyard.
There were a total of three people in the first car, and a sturdy man dressed in black was sitting in the back seat with a heat detector in one hand. After carefully observing for a while, he whispered, “Hey, guys, there shouldn’t be anyone in the yard. Let’s go!”
Immediately, six people hopped out of the two cars. Five Asian men and a Caucasian man.
“I really hope that fellow isn’t here…” The sturdy leader dressed in black muttered.
“If he really is here, we will all die – no matter how many people we have with us,” the Caucasian man whispered. Although they felt very anxious, they didn’t dare to disobey the commands of their organization, so they forced themselves forward. They separated towards the corners of the courtyard walls, and vaulted over the walls into the yard. Within seconds, they finished checking the entire courtyard.
The sturdy man was relieved. ”The target has fled, and all that remains here is the dead body of Xiao Si. We’ve now confirmed that the target is in the region near An Yi County. We have completed our mission, so we might as well return and get some rest. By the way, bring Xiao Si’s body with us – and thoroughly clean up the surrounding area.”
They were very skilled at doing these sorts of things.
***
Located in northern Italy was an Adriatic coastal city called “Watertown”, in Venice, which had a long and rich history. In the past, Venice held supreme power throughout Europe. Nowadays, this ancient city still had many historic buildings that had existed since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
In Venice, there was a red-brick ancient castle that had existed for a few hundred years. This castle was also known as the ‘Red Fort’, or ‘Blood Fort’, and it was the oldest ancestral home of the Redmayne Family. Even though the forces of the Redmayne Family were stretched throughout the entire western areas, the ‘Red Fort’ was still the base of the Redmayne Family’s highest authorities.
***
Within a dark hall in the ‘Red Fort.’
A giant LCD screen hung on the wall, showing a detailed map. In the hall stood a young man with short, auburn hair, and a silver-haired elderly man.
“Young master, the Hand of Darkness organization has sent us a message. ‘Wolf’ has appeared in An Yi County, which is located in the Jiang Su Province of the ancient oriental country. I have informed the Death Scythe organization of this.” The silver-haired elderly man spoke with respect.
The young man’s face turned slightly pale, and his eyes became cold as he commanded, “The presence of the ‘Wolf’ is a shame to the Redmayne family! I want the ‘Wolf’ to be killed as quickly as possible and at any cost! You must finish everything before my father learns of it!”
“Yes sir.” the silver-haired elderly man nodded in response.
At that moment, the sound of footsteps resonated throughout the hall. The expression of the young man immediately changed as he saw an auburn, short-haired, bearded, middle-aged man walk in.
“Father!” The youth immediately bowed.
“Patriarch.” The silver-haired elderly man also bowed immediately.
All the lineal descendants of the Redmayne Family had auburn hair. The bearded, middle-aged man was the person who held the highest authority in the Redmayne family – Alexander Redmayne.
Alexander cast a cold look at his son. “Ambrose, my child, you’ve really let me down.”
“Father, I… I was just trying to solve this problem as soon as possible.” The auburn-haired youth lowered his head.
“Solve this as soon as possible? I‘ve really started to doubt your ability then! If it weren’t for my friend who informed me, I wouldn’t even have learned that such a big issue had arisen.” Alexander humphed, and said, “Even now, I still cannot believe the news. Ambrose, tell me very clearly, all the details – from beginning to end – right now. ”
The lineal descendant of the family, ‘Ambrose’, raised his head and moved in front of a computer. “Father, this happened mainly because of a hitman with the code name ‘Wolf’.” As he was talking, he typed in a series of keys on the keyboard, and numerous images, text and news articles appeared on the giant LCD screens on the wall of the hall.
“Twenty-two years ago, the ‘Red’ organization – one of the two great hitman organizations controlled by our family – collected three-hundred and sixty well-built children from all over the world. ‘Wolf’ was amongst them. According to our historical records, ‘Wolf’ was Chinese and was seven years old at that time. After our first round of screening, he was one of the only one-hundred and thirteen surviving children out of the original three-hundred and sixty.”
Alexander looked at the description on the screen. The hitman organization selected new members every year, and the screening was extremely brutal. The participants came out either dead or alive; there was no third option.
“The one-hundred and thirteen children who survived were sent to a Siberian camp for training. After three years, there were only thirty-eight survivors left and ‘Wolf’ was still one of them. There, he was then officially awarded his code name, ‘Wolf’.”
“The thirty-eight candidates were then sent to Mr. Teng, who only accepted four disciples. ‘Wolf’ was among them. Six years later, when ‘Wolf’ was sixteen, he returned to the ‘Red’ organization. ‘Wolf’ and ‘Cat’ were the strongest ones amongst those four hitmen, and they completed various missions.”
“Last Christmas, I was asked to implement an SS-level, three hundred million dollar mission.” The auburn-haired youth, ‘Ambrose’, lowered his voice. “The ‘Red’ organization had not completed any SS-level tasks in the past twenty years. Therefore, for the three hundred million dollars reward, and the revival of the ‘Red’ organization’s reputation, I accepted the mission.”
“My child, you are even crazier than a she-wolf protecting her kid,” Alexander humphed coldly. “An SS-level mission is the highest ranked type of mission in the underworld, and the ‘Red’ organisation is simply incapable of completing one. Even if the organization was able to complete it, it would have to pay an extremely high price.”
“I had the top eight administrators of the ‘Red’ organization prepare a good plan. They spent a lot of effort and finally decided to use Wolf and Cat as bait for the successful completion of the task!” The red-haired young guy said. “In my opinion, Wolf and Cat were just A-level hitmen. They would only be able to bring one to two hundred million dollars in revenue to our organization in their entire lives. However, if we sacrificed them, we would not only receive three hundred million dollars, but we would also revive the ‘Red’ organization’s reputation. So why not?”
“Humph,” Alexander sneered, “But the result turned out to be very bad.”
“Yes, father,” the red-haired young guy sighed deeply. “I did not expect that… I didn’t even dare to think that… the professional hitman, ‘Wolf’, someone who had done so much work for us over the course of many years, somehow had hid his true strength!” The red-haired youth took a deep breath.
“His strength is far more than simply A-rank!”
“There was a mandate in which the organization wanted to have both of them die as bait. ‘Cat’ died, but ‘Wolf’ was still very much alive. When he learned that his partner, ‘Cat’, was killed, Wolf launched a frenzied revenge! He went alone to the ‘Red’ headquarters to kill everyone there!”
Alexander’s face changed color after hearing that. Fighting against all the hitmen in the headquarters completely alone? How crazy did this sound?! Even the most powerful person in the family was impressed by that hitman’s madness.
“Wolf had lived in the ‘Red’ Organization for twenty years. Through his familiarity with the Organization, he secretly sneaked in and almost half of the two A-rank and fifty-two B-rank hitmen were unknowingly killed by him. Because he was so familiar with the headquarters, he was able to quietly infiltrate it. He also killed seven out of the eight top senior administrators of the ‘Red’ organization. When the organization noticed that there was an intruder, it reacted to the threat and dispatched a force; Wolf then began to show off his unbelievable strength. Alone, he fought against two A-rank hitmen. His ability was far above the strength of an ordinary A-rank, and he soon killed both of them. Afterwards, he quickly finished off the last member of the top eight senior administrators. Later, he even single-handedly won a fight against more than twenty B-rank hitmen. He was hurt, but all of the A and B rank hitmen of the ‘Red’ organization were completely wiped out.”
Alexander’s face became pale. “More than twenty B-rank hitmen?” Alexander couldn’t believe it. In a battle against two A-rank hitmen, he might win. But defeating over twenty B-rank hitmen was far too shocking! Those twenty powerful hitmen were very unlikely to lose!
“He must be at least an S-rank hitman! Maybe even higher!” Alexander made such a judgment.
“Yes, the World of Darkness has adjusted ‘Wolf’s rank to S-rank hitman. In the entire world, there are only fifty S-rank hitmen, including ‘Wolf’.” Ambrose sighed. “If I had known this in advance, how could I have ever attempted to use him as bait?! One S-rank hitman is worth billions of dollars, and I would have never tried to exchange him for three-hundred million. For every single billion people worldwide, there is only one S-rank hitman! Tch… Of course, this doesn’t include some of the hidden hitmen. However, this fact stresses how precious ‘Wolf’ is.”
For decades, the ‘Red’ organization had had no S-rank hitman. The difference between a S-rank hitman and an A-rank hitman was really too large!
“After his successful revenge, he escaped. Naturally, I recruited people from the Underworld for a mission and began pursuing him.”
“However, this ‘Wolf’ really is powerful.
“He escaped from Russia and fled to the Hei Long Jiang province in the ancient oriental country through the Sino-Russian border. In the end, we couldn’t find any trace of him. Searching for a Chinese person in an ancient oriental country with Chinese people everywhere was very difficult. However, not long ago, the Hand of Darkness organization finally found ‘Wolf’. He appeared in the territory of a county in the Jiang Su Province.”
After talking for so long, Ambrose looked rather unpleasant.
“He is an excellent hitman, and could have been the strongest fangs of the Redmayne family…” Alexander sighed loudly. After hearing the experiences of the hitman, he held a bit of admiration for the person called ‘Wolf’. However, the ‘Red’ organization was operated by the Redmayne family and it had been obliterated because of an internal traitor! “This is the cruelest joke in the World of Darkness! For centuries, the World of Darkness has never witnessed a play such as this!”
Ambrose also lowered his head. It was really a shame! A powerful organization was destroyed due to a traitor’s thirst for revenge. This was simply inconceivable. He knew that the Redmayne family, an ancient family that had existed for several hundreds of years, couldn’t take this humiliation!
“Kill him! No one can live after challenging the Redmayne Family!” Alexander growled with a low voice. An endless, boiling anger could be felt throughout the hall.
Capítulo 3: Yangzhou City
Editor: Lucas
Chapter 3: Yangzhou City
Spring rain fluttered about recklessly and covered the ancient Yangzhou citadel.
In the old districts of Yangzhou City, near the window of the second floor of Willow Tea House, the bespectacled Teng Qingshan was quietly seated. On the desk in front of him was a glass of soya milk and a bowl of buns. “My whereabouts were leaked, so the hitmen might be able to find me within one or two days.” Teng Qingshan was acquainted with the powerful influence of the number one international intelligence organization known as the “Hand of Darkness”. The An Yi County was just a small county under the rule of Yangzhou. Last night, he arrived in this urban area, which was only one hundred kilometers away from the county. It’s not that he couldn’t escape; it’s just that he didn’t want to escape! This was because there was a person in Yangzhou City who he really wanted to see!
“Qing He!”
Teng Qingshan gazed at an old two-story house in the distance.
After finishing his buns and soya milk, he ordered a cup of tea and drank it while waiting. When his cup of tea was refilled for the third time, it was already eleven o’clock. However, Teng Qingshan still had not found the person he wanted to see.
“Let’s go back,” he thought to himself.
Teng Qingshan immediately left the tea house and returned to his temporary residence in Yangzhou….
This was a house in the Xi Cheng District of Yangzhou. The monthly renting fee of this type of house was about one thousand RMB, and Teng Qingshan wanted to live there for approximately three months. However, he had actually paid the owner ten thousand RMB. As a result, the owner did not ask to see Teng Qingshan’s identity card, nor did he ask any questions. He paid the owner so much money that the owner had no reason to be worried. In the living room, Teng Qingshan had just made a cup of tea and laid back on the couch when his phone rang.
Teng Qingshan frowned. He had just bought this phone and only intended to use it temporarily. There were only two people who knew his phone number: one was Lin Qing, the other was aunty Liu at the orphanage. This phone was originally bought with the sole purpose of contacting the orphanage.
“Hey, Teng Qingshan, let’s eat lunch together today.” A familiar voice rang.
Teng Qingshan smiled helplessly, shaking his head, and started talking. “I’m sorry, Lin, I have already left the county.”
“What?” Lin Qing asked, with surprise in her voice.
“Why did you leave? Weren’t you still here yesterday?” Lin’s voice was somewhat urgent.
“Lin Qing, my brother called me yesterday and told me that my family had an urgent matter. Therefore, I was in a hurry to return to my hometown. It was late then, so I didn’t want to bother you.”
Teng Qingshan had just made up an excuse, as he did not want these ordinary people to get involved in his world.
“Oh…” Lin Qing lowered her voice; it was obvious that she was slightly disappointed. After being silent for a second, she continued, “Teng Qingshan, where is your hometown? Perhaps I’ll travel there when I have time. ”
“My hometown is located in a remote mountainous area, so you won’t know even if I tell you,” Teng Qingshan answered. “Lin Qing, if I come back to An Yi county in the future, I will come meet you then. Oh, I need to go have lunch now. Let’s talk next time.” With this, Teng Qingshan hung up the phone.
Teng Qingshan had a self-deprecating smile on his lips as he tossed the phone onto the table.
Then, he took out a small cauldron which was hanging around his neck, about the size of a fingertip. He gently caressed the cauldron, just like a man comforting his lover.
“Little Cat, isn’t your man very charming? Getting chased by girls within such a short time.” Teng Qingshan stared at the tiny tripod cauldron as he whispered to himself, “Cat, I have lived in An Yi County for almost a week. I also met the headmistress; she was still as kind as she was so many years ago. I have fulfilled my wish, which was to meet Headmistress granny. Now, I only have one wish left, which is to meet my brother Qing He. Qing He is now living in Yangzhou. I guess that I should be able to meet him.”
“After I meet my brother Qing He, I will no longer have any regrets!”
“Then, I can travel everywhere, to the north and south of our country, pursuing martial arts. Of course, you will be with me throughout this entire journey!”
Although Teng Qingshan looked like a young man who had just graduated from the college, he was in fact nearly thirty years old. It was only because he had achieved an extremely high level in the Internal Martial Arts he practiced that he looked so young. Many years of practicing assiduously had caused his calluses and dead skin to fall off. Thus, his whole body was rejuvenated and he looked much younger than his real age.
He picked up the backpack next to him and took out a laptop.
After connecting his computer to the power supply, he turned it on and opened the music player. He then placed the laptop on the table in front of him.
“I am a wolf from the north, walking in the wilderness, howling in the mournful northern breeze….” The melodies of the Chyi Chin’s song “Wolf” echoed in the room. It was his absolute favorite song as, for two decades, he had only one name – Wolf!
It was the same as the woman he loved; she also had only one name – Cat!
Ever since the day he had been taken to Siberia, the name ‘Qing Shan’ had become part of his past. After many life-and-death trainings, harsh screenings, and walking out of piles of corpses, he then earned the right to have a code name – “Wolf”!
Before he was seven years old, he was just a carefree child in the orphanage. The year he turned seven, he was adopted. He thought his life would get better, but he actually entered hell. He became a potential hitman candidate of a hitman organization. In the first round of screening, a large group of children fought with each other for scraps of food, and only one-hundred and thirteen among three-hundred and sixty children survived. After that, he was sent to the horrible Siberian training camp.
The year he turned ten years old, only thirty-eight people among the one-hundred and thirteen were still alive. He overcame everything thanks to his immensely strong will and was bestowed the code name “Wolf”! In the same year, he met his mentor, a master of Xing Yi Martial Arts called “Teng Bo Lei”. Teng Bo Lei accepted only four people, but the other three were just disciples by name. Only he alone was Teng Bo Lei’s direct disciple! This was something that even the hitman organization did not know.
In the year that he turned sixteen years old, he returned to the hitman organization and truly began his journey as a hitman. Camouflage, hiding, etc….he had continued to learn more of those skills during his dangerous missions, and he continued to refine these skills.
During those long days, a girl who was the same age as him, Cat, was always besides him. They came from the same group of three-hundred and sixty people who had experienced incredibly dangerous training; they studied with master Teng Bo Lei together, and were in the hitman organization together… they supported and helped each other.
One day in their long journey, they realized that they could never live without each other.
They had originally made a plan: when the day arrived, they would quit the organization and live a free life together. But when he turned twenty-nine, a nightmare descended…
The flames from the explosion had pushed Teng Qingshan into complete despair. The other half of his life, Cat, had died! That was his most beloved woman, the most important person in his life! The death of Cat turned Teng Qingshan into an absolute madman. He became a vengeful lone ‘Wolf’, a crazy and lonely ‘Wolf’, who promised to get his revenge, regardless of anything!
Kill! Kill all of the top senior administrators of that organization, those who designed that plan! He was ready to die in that vengeful battle. However, at the last instant, his knife skills saved him. He actually escaped from the headquarters alive.
…
Cat‘s death completely changed Teng Qingshan’s mood. He returned to his hometown this time, hoping to have a chance to meet the motherly headmistress, ‘Granny’, and his younger brother, ‘Qing He’. After those two wishes of his were fulfilled, Teng Qingshan would have no worries and could spend his entire strength and soul pursuing martial arts.
…
Teng Qingshan finished listening to the song. He took a deep breath, then carefully put the small cauldron back into his collar and closed the music player. Simultaneously, he accessed the internet and adeptly opened a foreign website. All the articles there were written in English, but he entered the site and clicked around very familiarly. He then skillfully typed in the English letters.
“Every time that I want to contact Elena, it’s always so troublesome. This “beetle” software needs to be re-downloaded again and again.” After Teng Qingshan finished downloading the “beetle” software, he installed it on his computer. The software was a chat tool, similarly to Yahoo or QQ chat.
However, the “beetle” software was programmed by “Elena” – who was one of Teng Qingshan’s closest friends.
While QQ had millions of user accounts, the “beetle” chat software had only two users – one was Elena, the other was Teng Qingshan. This software was programmed for only them to chat with each other.
He started to run the software.
The entire screen suddenly became dark. Next, poignant drops of blood appeared on the screen. Then a sign-in box popped up, which allowed the users to enter their usernames and passwords, and he logged in. “Elena!” Teng Qingshan entered the English words, and waited for a response from Elena.
After a moment, she responded. “Wolf! Oh, now I should call you Teng Qingshan, shouldn’t I?” In a place very far away, in a villa located in the suburbs of London, a beautiful, blonde-haired barefoot girl who was wearing a nightgown was typing on her keyboard. Her eyes showed her excitement.
“Elena, last time you told me that there was an orphan called Qing He, who is now living in Yangzhou, right?” asked Teng Qingshan.
“Of course, are you doubting my intelligence? He was called Qing He when he lived in an orphanage. Later, he was adopted and was renamed “Qin Hong” by his adoptive parents. After graduating from high school, he entered the army and joined a Special Operations Organisation. Now, he is responsible for the Yangzhou region. The address I gave you is absolutely correct. ”
Elena had no doubt.
Teng Qingshan nodded. Today, he had only waited for half a day. Although his brother had not come, that didn’t mean he was not currently in Yangzhou.
“And Wolf, I have to remind you again! The powerful Redmayne family will not let you live. What you did was tantamount to a fierce slap to their face. The Death Scythe organization was hired to kill you, and two super-strong hitmen have already snuck into China. You have to be extremely careful. If your whereabouts are leaked, you must flee immediately. ”
”Oh, two super-strong hitmen from Death Scythe? Are they ‘Sharpshooter’ Sun Ze and ‘Body Crusher’ Dolgoterov?” Teng Qingshan typed in response.
“You’re very smart. Yes, it’s them. Those guys are S-rank hitmen. Neither one is weaker than you, so you cannot be careless,” Elena reminded him.
Teng Qingshan’s eyes lit up. “Except for those two hitmen, I don’t really have to worry about anyone else in Death Scythe. However, since they have come, It would be a good fight! ”
“So arrogant? Tsk tsk, you are indeed the Lone Wolf of the flying knives. You are as famous as them, and everyone knows that your ability is not worse than theirs. However, you are alone and there are two of them. The cooperation between a melee and a ranged hitman will at least double their power. Wolf, as your friend, I must tell you one more time: once your whereabouts are leaked, you must run away immediately,” Elena tried to persuade him.
“Your reminder is late. My whereabouts were leaked yesterday.” Teng Qingshan’s face was showing a special smile. Since his wife’s, Little Cat‘s, death, he had focused mostly on training his martial arts. Having the chance to fight with some super-strong hitmen was what he had been dreaming of.
“What? Leaked? You’d better run away now!” Elena urged.
“Haha, why do I have to run away? I’m now in Yangzhou, waiting for them to come… to fight!” Teng Qingshan’s look became incredibly sharp. With his wife dead, he had nothing to worry about. At this point, what should Teng Qingshan be afraid of? No matter how many people might come, he would be willing to give a warm welcome to all of them.
If worst comes to the worst, he would simply risk everything he had. He planned to silently wait in this small city for the arrival of the world’s super-strong hitmen. If one person came, he would commit a murder. If two came, then he would leave a pair of corpses!
Teng Qingshan’s eyes were as sharp as knives. “I want to find out just who it is that think they can kill me!”
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