A Wretched Life

It wasn't worth throwing away his life for a little money—not even that much.

He still had a bright future ahead of him, along with countless fortunes waiting for him to squander. There was no way he would put himself in danger.

In the end, he chose to pay an additional one million and have Lin Qi record the entire operation.

After the young middle-aged man left, Lin Qi asked Austin a question. "How long do you think it would take if we sent people to do this?"

Austin answered almost without thinking. "If they don't go into hiding, we can wipe out all the criminals in at most a day or two."

That was the pride of federal soldiers. If the same question were put before the Gefra Army Minister, he might be thinking about how much compensation money to prepare first...

All right, that was a joke. No matter how bad the Gefra Army was, how could it possibly be worse than some street gangs?

Just as Lin Qi was thinking about this, something subtly changed in Austin's eyes.

A few words, and six million was in the bag.

She counted it as six million: four million in advance payment for the operation and two million as a deposit. She figured Lin Qi definitely wouldn't return the two million, and she had guessed correctly.

He had only needed to move his lips, and all that money had gone straight into Lin Qi's pocket.

He only needed to spend less than one million to complete this military operation. Everything else would be profit.

That was capitalism. In their eyes, everything could be tied to wealth. To pursue greater profits, they dared to do anything.

She had actually misunderstood Lin Qi a little. Perhaps seeing that shameless woman cleaning beside