In many countries in Africa, it was not uncommon to be surrounded by children demanding money. Because there was no compulsory education, most children had nothing to do during childhood. They could easily join gangs and learn petty theft. The bolder ones among them would do things like this—called begging, but in reality it was a kind of soft robbery.
These half-grown children were Big Trouble for tourists. They did not yet have the appearance of adults, but they already possessed a certain amount of strength. Once you were surrounded by them, if you raised a hand against them, locals would definitely come over to cause trouble; if you did not, there was no way to shake them off. To the vulnerable group among tourists, they were like packs of hyenas.
Provoking Deathstroke and Schiller should have been retribution for these little demons. But in reality, Deathstroke obediently paid up—as long as someone had eyes, they could tell the money he had was not clean.
Deathstroke did not have any small change—for dollars, tens were not small change, but large bills—and he did not even have denominations in the tens. They were all green Franklins.
People's impression of dollars was mostly hundred-dollar bills, but the source of that impression was abnormal in itself. Those clean bills that appeared in Hollywood shows, often stacked neatly in cases at the drop of a hat, were either taken by bank robbers or taken by Assassins. That fully proved that money like this was generally dirty money.
Deathstroke did not even bother acting. The bills he took out were as clean as if they had just been printed. That meant the money had not passed through a bank, but had come directly into his hands through special channels.
Without a doubt, this drew some