Leaving chapter numbers behind

Looking at Alisha pretending to be pitiful, Su Ming laughed and generously sent her a $100,000 bonus as compensation for missing out on beauty sleep.

"Ah~ Boss~ Mwah~ Love you!"

Alisha excitedly wrapped her arms around Su Ming's neck and planted a loud kiss on his cheek.

"This girl..."

Su Ming wiped the saliva off his face with a mix of laughter and helplessness, signaling for Alisha to continue.

Alisha efficiently pulled out a notebook, densely filled with the intended details of every phone inquiry:

There were fifteen assassination requests, with commissions ranging from $100,000 to $300,000.

There were eight bodyguard requests, with commissions ranging from $50,000 to $200,000.

There was even a cheating-spouse investigation request, with a commission as high as $400,000.

But that was not even the most outrageous part—there had been no fewer than twenty calls inviting Su Ming to dinner.

The price—he could name it himself.

"Holy shit! What do they take me for?"

As he listened to Alisha summarize the requests, a chill ran down Su Ming's spine.

He was very curious whether those dinner invitations involved proper dinners.

Then Su Ming fell into deep thought.

A mission to kill a Lizard Man had taken several days of running around everywhere, yet it had only earned him $600,000.

Even after it rose to $1 million later, that had only been due to someone else's false generosity.

The cost-performance ratio was far too low.

Not to mention those ridiculous requests. Though their commissions often reached hundreds of thousands, they were still too little.

After all, the talents worth buying in the System Shop started at millions or tens of millions, and plenty cost over a hundred million.

Not to mention the upgrades afterward.

Those cost billions or even tens of billions at a time. At this rate of making money, compared to those prices...

Damn it, what was the difference between earning this pocket change by completing bounty missions and delivering food back then?

He might as well go hunt terrorists in Afghanistan~

Even a small group of terrorists there had bounties of more than $2 million.

At that thought, Su Ming's eyes lit up.

Afghanistan?

That seemed like a pretty good gold-farming map.

After sending off the still-excited Alisha, Su Ming finally had time to rest quietly for a while.

Though his immense stamina kept him from feeling tired, the past few days had been too eventful. His brain needed a break.

After taking a shower, he lay comfortably on the bed and considered his next move:

He was, after all, a bounty hunter worth tens of millions, even though he did not have much money left now.

Ordinary jobs could no longer satisfy his desire for larger numbers in his bank account.

"Going to a gold-farming dungeon and clearing the map for ten or twenty million dollars shouldn't be a problem, right..."

Those terrorists shouted about freedom and holy war, yet committed murder, arson, looting, and robbery. They were enemies of the entire world.

Everyone had the right to kill them!

And he just happened to have the ability...

No need to be jealous. Ordinary people really could not handle this job.

Even a Hydra bounty thug could be worth $5,000. High-end goods like terrorists had to be worth more than $5,000 even if they were cannon fodder, right~

There were plenty of enemies of the world, and Afghanistan had especially many!

It was settled!

He would clear Afghanistan first, then Somalia.

Whether terrorists or pirates, those people who gave every country headaches would eventually become the balance in his account.

Having figured out his next step, Su Ming began reflecting on his abilities.

Using throwing knives to carry himself through the air was indeed pretty awesome.

Why did it feel strangely familiar...

Right!

Didn't Thor fly around by swinging his hammer with the same principle~

The difference was that he was a god with limitless stamina, while Su Ming...

At that moment, a system notification sounded:

[+$1,000,000, Account Balance: $2,835,000]

Alisha had transferred the mission commission over, while he had previously spent $300,000 hiring and rewarding her.

The numbers were correct.

Returning to his earlier thought, Thor had unlimited stamina while Su Ming's was limited. With the same method of flight, he could not possibly reach Thor's level.

He looked at the Physique Enhancement upgrade screen:

[Physique Enhancement Lv1 → Physique Enhancement Lv2, Permanently increases physical ability by 20 points. $2,000,000]

Good lord, how did this amount seem so perfectly calculated?

He was destined never to save money—Su Ming was exactly what people meant by a four-legged money-eating beast, adult edition.

The system sensed that Su Ming's gaze had lingered on the Physique Enhancement upgrade screen for a long time and issued a prompt:

"Upgrade?"

"Upgrade!"

[-$2,000,000, Talent upgrade successful! Account Balance: $835,000]

A faint numb itch spread through his body. His muscle tissue became denser and his bones strengthened further, but his overall physique and appearance did not change much.

Perhaps after undergoing the transformation of upgrading to Deadpool-Level Recovery, ordinary upgrades could no longer give Su Ming any obvious sensations.

He opened the attribute panel. Streams of data flashed with golden light and formed a holographic interface before his eyes:

[Name: Su Ming]

[Age: 28]

[Physical Ability: 35]

[Current Account: $835,000]

[Existing Talents: Deadpool-Level Recovery, Dynamic Vision Lv.2, Jeet Kune Do Mastery, Physique Enhancement Lv2, Formless Mask, Danger Sense Lv1, Precision Throwing Lv2, Sketch Mastery]

Seeing that his physical ability had increased by twenty points, Su Ming still had no real concept of what that improvement meant.

"I need to find a suitable place to test it."

His eyes shifted, and he casually put on some clothes before leaving the hotel.

Strolling through the streets of Manhattan, Su Ming still could not think of how to test exactly how much his body had been enhanced.

He had only just adapted to the last upgrade and stopped casually destroying household objects, yet this time he had gone out and crushed two pairs of shoes and torn three shirts...

The clothes Alisha had bought for him were all decent brands. He was not short on money, but using them like this was too wasteful.

As he carefully passed an abandoned factory, Su Ming's eyes lit up at the sight of the rusted steel coils inside.

Lightly vaulting over the fence, Su Ming was surprised to discover that he could easily jump more than ten meters high through physical strength alone. If he put in more effort, jumping a hundred meters straight up from the spot would not be a problem either.

"Is a twenty-point increase in physical ability really this insane?"

Muttering to himself, Su Ming walked over to a coil of steel, hooked his hands under its base, and exerted force—the entire coil left the ground.

With some effort, Su Ming held the enormous steel coil for about a minute before casually tossing it to the ground.

"Bang!"

The steel coil crashed down with a deafening boom, kicking up a huge cloud of dust.

Su Ming remembered reading an introduction about steel coils before. One of these weighed roughly fifteen to thirty tons.

Even ordinary trucks did not dare haul too many of them.

The fact that he could lift one meant that his strength was probably around twenty tons—at most, no more than forty tons.

This discovery gave Su Ming a rough understanding of his current physical ability.

With a slight smile, a green figure appeared in his mind.

Maybe he could now trade a few blows with the Hulk...

Back at the hotel, he had Alisha book him a plane ticket to Afghanistan.

"Boss, is it a new mission?"

Hearing Su Ming's instructions, Alisha's eyes lit up as she looked at him eagerly.

"Not a mission. We're doing some charity work..."

Thinking of the high bounties on terrorists and Alisha's exceptional hacking skills, Su Ming had her search online for terrorist hideout locations so she could provide him with remote support when the time came.

Alisha thought Su Ming was truly going off to uphold justice. Since there was no money to be made, she was not very interested, until she heard him say:

"$200,000 bonus."

Alisha instantly transformed into a locomotive, hugging her laptop and getting to work with fierce enthusiasm.

Shaking his head helplessly, Su Ming took his Crimson Suit and throwing knives and headed straight for the airport without further delay.

When Peter Parker excitedly arrived at the Manhattan Hotel after school, Su Ming had already boarded the plane.

On his way home, Little Spider gloomily kicked a pebble down the street:

"Damn it! If I hadn't run into that robbery and delayed myself by going to catch the criminals,

I could be going out with sir now... Damn~"

That beautiful older sister from earlier was probably sir's girlfriend~

Thinking of Alisha's beauty, tall figure, and the heroic air beneath her lazy demeanor,

he silently praised:

Sir had such good taste too. He really was a man without weaknesses!

"Afghanistan? I really want to go..."