Chapter 497

, In Marvel, working for the system

Deliberately matching strength with someone stronger wasn't bravery. It was recklessness.

Suzaku had never been a reckless fool.

He walked over to where Xu Xi and Ajax had fought.

Their battle had been far more brutal.

Ajax had a huge gash across his throat. He was dead.

Xu Xi had been stabbed several times with a dagger.

Seeing Suzaku approach, Xu Xi forced a smile. "I won."

"I'm not blind..." Suzaku said. "Can you hold out?"

"I stitched myself up a little," Xu Xi said. "I'll manage."

Suzaku rolled his eyes at Wade. "You just stood there watching?"

"Of course not! I interacted with the audience!"

"..."

He'd forgotten Wade wasn't quite right in the head.

Taking his phone back, Suzaku told Xu Xi, "Go find the information you wanted. I'll handle the cleanup."

"Is your idea of cleanup conventional?" Xu Xi asked.

"???"

"Livestreaming like this, for example, is pretty unconventional."

"Oh. Conventional."

How could Xu Xi not trust him? He hurried off to find the files.

Suzaku checked his phone and jumped.

Wow. Over two hundred thousand viewers.

Were those numbers real?

"Man," Wade said, "if I'd known livestreaming paid this well, why would I have become a mercenary? I killed forty-one people during my service—one every seven weeks, about as often as normal people get haircuts—and I still needed a mortgage to buy a house."

"..."

"Whether you can buy a house outright has nothing to do with your profession," Suzaku said. "The problem is that you can't keep it in your pants. Those ladies have great skills, but they charge a lot. Get it?"

"Is that it? Uh... don't ever let Vanessa find out. She'll definitely castrate me."

Chatting with Wade, Suzaku entered the wards and undid the test