Capturing someone—dumbfounded! Overjoyed!
So damn rich! Was this how the damn rich handled things?
The assassin who had contacted Bart looked at the extra ten billion in his Assassin Platform account, his feelings incredibly complicated.
Though assassination brought in money quickly, it also burned through it quickly.
The more they earned, the more they spent. Moreover, the higher-ranked an assassin was, the less readily they accepted jobs.
For one thing, everyone knew there were only two possible endings for assassins: either retire, or get killed.
Besides, assassins were unwilling to keep too much money, mainly to prevent certain people from setting their sights on them.
The people running the Assassin Platform were not doing charity work either. Once an assassin began to decline, plenty of people would covet everything that assassin possessed.
Another reason high-ranking assassins did not act lightly was that they feared failure.
Failure also had two possible endings. The first was a drop in ranking, which meant the rewards for future jobs would get lower and lower.
The second outcome of failure was being killed by the target instead.
Ten billion was an astronomical reward even for these assassins.
"Get him!" This only strengthened the assassin's determination to deal with Bart.
Bart had over two trillion, yet lacked sufficient backing, at least in the eyes of all the assassins.
These people did not think much of Bart's individual strength.
After all, assassins mainly relied on unexpected methods.
What assassins feared most were people with deep foundations, because no matter how formidable an assassin was, they could not defeat a whole group of mechs.
In the assassins' eyes, they were competing with intelligence, not individual strength, to say nothing of the bounty as high as one hundred and eighty billion.
Whoever completed this job would likely become a