Chapter 92: Sending a message
Neo pov
This was not our task. We just had to kill the target and get out immediately before they close the building or before we were discovered . Collecting of papers was not in the plan . However, it's also not that we can't take them .
' Our goal was to leave evidence that a third party was involved . The business card and the vial that we left behind were meant to show that . So the theft of these documents , should not be a problem . It is also not at all that I want to know what is written there ....'
I thought , knowing that I copletely want to know what is written there . The rest are just excuses . Although they were true , they were still just excuses . I didn't really care much about them . I was just curious about what was written there
' Besides , who knows what information is given there ? Maybe we will be able to make money from it or get a favor from someone important ? Who knows , taking it would not hurt ? '
I think , when in the meantime the fight between the Grey's people and Viper began to gain momentum , and thus began to cause havoc . After all, this fight was not so quiet . Or rather, it ceased to be so when Viper, along with one of Grey's men, during the struggle fell through the barriers! The bang from the floor below caused by their heavy landing , certainly caught the attention of the people at the bar .
' It was certainly a fatal too '
I think , knowing that a fall from such a height for a normal person would certainly be fatal . Well unless you are lucky . Then you may survive but it will certainly hurt .
' Well if they unlocked their aura , then it wouldn't be a problem '
I think , still not knowing why people from the underworld don't unlock their aura . Not that they have to tell anyone that they have it unlocked . If they are not open with this the authorities will not impose any registration on them . It's also not that it would be impossible to find somebody with an unblocked aura ( or this person's family ) who would unlock their aura .
Sure it would be expensive , but for that they will be more protected and maybe they will even unlock their semblance . This is a literal superpower . Well certainly if every thug unlocked his aura it would disturb the balance of power . After all, if most thugs had superpowers then the police would have to have them, too. ....
' Well, if I think about it that way, it would all become a vicious circle. If everyone had an aura then the world would look completely different '
I think , knowing that this still doesn't explain why more people don't unlock their aura .
' Well there is no need to dwell on it . Their problem not mine . '
I think , knowing that I have no time to reflect . We are in the middle of the operation after all . Viper's fight with Grey's people give us an opening and distraction . Unfortunately it did not promise to be a long fight so we also did not have much time .
And as if understanding our limitation of time , Kurumi made a decision . Pale hands from the shadows took the paper to Kurumi's shadow storage space . Then the three of us quickly went outside the VIP lodge . Outside the VIP room right under our feet we found the body of one of Grey's men .
His bloodshot eyes were wide open as was his mouth from which saliva and blood were dripping . The mark of a pair of fangs, surrounded by bruised spots on his skin and dark veins underneath it, located on his neck made it clear what had killed him.
At that moment, suddenly a gunshot was heard from the floor below and I knew we had to leave quickly. Kurumi and Emerald also understood this . Therefore, we quickly headed outside the same way we came . Because of the commotion , the road was empty so it was much easier to get out .
Pov 3 person
Unaware of the three girls , who had been present right next to him throughout his conversation with Grey and who had just slipped away , Viper stared at the corpse that lied beneath him . The face of the man beneath was wearing , by now a eternal expression of fear . The fellow in his last moments of life knew what awaited him . Now the back of his skull was wide open , sea of red blood and gray matter spilled out of his wide-open skull.
Viper, however, lived . Admittedly he felt that he had broken ribs and probably dislocated leg . In addition, a headache and a new gunshot wound to the shoulder . Everything was hurting him like hell . However, he was glad , because had it not been for the corpse under him , he would not have survived the fall . He could say that his enemy saved his life unknowingly .
At this moment Viper really regretted that he had not awakened his aura . Like a normal person he thought about it, but it was not so easy. First of all, when he unlocks his aura, he will not only have problems with the police, but also with the hunters. Normally the hunters did not interfere with the tasks of the police . However , when criminal have an aura or even sembelance . Then the hunters are obliged to help the police . And Viper did not want that .
Secondly, finding someone willing to unlock his aura was difficult. Viper could not afford to pay for it . Kidnapping a person with an aura ? Any person with an aura already have a affiliation or was strong enough to take out his people. For example some of the Xiong people have an aura , but they already belong to the Xiong family so nothing can force them to help him .
Every self-respecting gang or organization has someone with Aura . However, it is a symbol of power in the organization . Most often the leaders have auras. Then there are their most trusted people. In the end, if you don't trust someone, why give him or her an aura. Of course, there are also people who enter the organization already with an unlocked Aura .... However, leaving that aside . This is not an essay about this .
The point is , if someone with an aura is willing to unlock somebody else aura , they demand money . And it is not a small amount of money . And it's not quite possible to do anything about it . Unlocking the aura means touching someone's soul or whatever it means . People with aura are not too willing to share their gift with strangers .
So , what about kidnapping the family of a person with an aura or a child with an aura ? ..... Someone has already tried this . And well . A desperate hunter looking for his daughter is unstoppable . As for kidnapping a kid . They are often the students of preparatory academies , or children of hunters , they may also be children of rich people . So , in the end they are protected . Move them and you have hunters and the government on your ass . If you do not have good connections or do not have a colleague whose aura has been unlocked , then good luck with raising money .
However, these were not the current thoughts of Viper . Although by some miracle he is alive . The current situation was not good and it did not allow him to think about the aura . He was thinking back to the very beginning of how he found himself here on the ground. The fight started so quickly and unexpectedly that Vipaer himself didn't have time to think about the situation.
Viper only knows that Grey simply falls to the ground dying . Surely Grey was poisoned . But , Viper had no way to do anything in this situation . He had no antidote and didn't even know what Grey had been poisoned with . He literally could only watch Grey die .
Then Grey's men rushed in and everything went downhill . Fortunately he had the experience and time to fend off the weapons of both his attackers at the very beginning of the fight . Then he quickly threw himself at the neck of one of the disarmed Grey's men with his fangs , eliminating him at the start to turn an unfair two-on-one fight into a one-on-one fight .
Immediately afterwards he had to face the weapon aimed at him for the second time . This time it ended in a tug-of-war where he had to keep the barrel away from his body with all his strength . Fortunately or unfortunately, the tug-of-war ultimately caused both him and his attacker to fall through the railings onto the dance floor below . And it was not a small fall . It was a fall from as much as six meters .
Had it not been for the way they fell through the bartiers he would have been the one below . And thus , he would have been the one dead . Of course the fall made all the people at the bar look in his direction . And before Viper could get up and collect himself after that , the third of Grey's man , who was at the bar .
Without waiting for an explanation , he drew his gun and aimed it at the Viper . His men also drew their weapons and with continued surprise and disbelief aimed them at the Grey's man, who, in spite of common sense, shot at the Viper .
And then all hell began . Despite the fact that Viper did not die from the shot , which again thanks to luck hit him only in the shoulder , his men went ballistic . The bullets tore Grey's man to shreds before he pulled the trigger again . All the Viper's men at the bar fired a series of squeezes from their guns , leaving from the Grey's man only meat paste and a bloody bullet dotted mural on the wall .
After this cacophony of shots a few , people who were guarding outside the club as if they heard the call of war , began their own exchange of bullets . And despite the commotion outside , a few of the remaining Grey's people rushed into the club to start shooting at the Viper people . All the commotion lasted only a few minutes . And when the shots quieted down .
During this time Viper did not say anything . He simply walked to the bar , letting his people take care of everything . He himself sat in silence without daring to drink anything . Clutching his wound he did not let anyone take care of it . The only thing the people who tried to help him received was a furious look .
And wasn't it understandable . Someone had just poisoned Grey and Viper had no idea how . After all, he had been drinking the whole time and nothing had happened . It was only when he was ready to leave that the poison killed him . From a logical point of view , it could have just been a poison that takes a while to work . However, Viper , knowledgeable knows that it was a very strong poison . These kind work very quickly , which means that he has no idea how Grey was poisoned . All the time he was looking at Grey ! So how ?
Besides that he was also angry with Grey . Now he knew from the behavior of Grey's men that the Grey was always ready to strike . He probably prepared his people that in a situation when shots are fired , they should immediately attack without asking questions . Which they did . Because of this he was also shot and several of his men are dead .
" Tell me what the hell happened ! "
Said a nervous Viper in a quiet voice . He didn't care about the three people he lost right at the bar . What mattered now was what happened . Of course thanks to the thing that Kurumi left behind , he found out quite quickly . Thanks to his now organized people the business card and a vial appeared under his hands quite quickly . Seeing these things his heart squeezed . Honestly he would already prefer it to be a traitor .
" Greetings from XIONG "
" We know , we see , but we forgive . "
" Don't test us , there will be no second chance " .
Seeing a business card with a message and a vial , a shiver ran down Viper's back . Someone was there with them . And he didn't even know . The papers were also gone so someone was there and heard everything . Fortunately he did not agree ... Nevertheless . Viper did not know what to do . He simply banged his head against the bar and ordered his men to clean up . At least he knows that if Xiong wanted him dead he would already be dead .