Chapter 463 Crazy Level 6 Mission
In the den of ghosts.
"Dear user, welcome to your ghost's lair. May I ask how I can assist you?" the intelligent program inquired solicitously. After a pause, she added, "Also, dear user, I have reported your birthday gift to the system, and it has been approved. On the 21st of next month, the system will deliver your birthday gift to you precisely on time!"
"Hmm? Haha! Alright then!" Gao Jianfei touched his nose and chuckled. In fact, Gao Jianfei knew in his heart that this birthday gift from Super Ghost might be his only birthday present!
Gao Jianfei had already turned off his phone and thrown it into the haunted house. He didn't plan to contact anyone proactively. He knew his phone was definitely being monitored. Therefore, he figured throwing it into the haunted house wouldn't help; he didn't know if the surveillance systems of those countries could find it.
"Well, after upgrading to a Level 4 Exorcist, I can do Level 6 missions, which are missions with 10 to 100 experience points. I've never done one before, so today, in America, I'll just do Level 6 missions! Uh... I need 1000 experience points to upgrade to a Level 5 Exorcist, so I won't bother with Level 5 missions. I'll just stick with Level 6!" Gao Jianfei said frankly. "Sigh! Actually, I don't know if there will be any Level 6 missions issued by the dead in New York City, where I am right now. After all, back in Z Province, killing the king of the province's underground forces, Uncle Yao, was only a Level 5 mission."
"Dear user, please don't worry, I'll take care of it for you right away!" the intelligent program reassured. The next moment, the display screen representing the task began scrolling with chaotic radio waves, indicating that the intelligent program had completed the task within a dozen kilometers of Gao Jianfei's location! Level 6 task!
Gao Jianfei was also uneasy. If no Level 6 missions occurred in the vicinity, he would have to go out and take a detour around downtown New York City.
Three minutes later, a task prompt began to appear on the virtual display screen!
Thank God, the area where Gao Jianfei is located has indeed reached the level 6 mission level!
Gao Jianfei was thrilled and stared intently...
Level 6 mission
Deceased: Aiger
Occupation before death: Low-level gang leader in Queens, New York City
Cause of death: homicide
The deceased's last wish: During a territorial dispute with Holman, he was instantly killed and dismembered by Holman. Killing Holman will complete the level 6 quest issued by Aiger.
Task Reward: 60 Exorcism Points (maximum limit)
60 experience points
"Huh? Killing a guy named Holman completes a level 6 quest and grants a whopping 60 experience points! That's terrifying! Killing the emperor of an underground force in a certain province of Z country only gives a mere 10 experience points for a single quest. So, who exactly is this Holman? Is he several times more powerful than Uncle Yao?" Gao Jianfei was extremely puzzled and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "This Holman is too awesome! 60 experience points!"
"Dear user, I must explain something to you. The experience points used to measure the value of any killing mission are based on two factors. First, the deceased who issued the mission, their status in life; second, the difficulty of completing the mission and killing the designated killer. For example, if the President of the United States were killed by Holman, and his spirit issued the mission, it would likely not be a Level 6 mission, but at least a Level 7. This is because the President of the United States is clearly far more prestigious than this 'Aig'." The AI program began to explain.
Gao Jianfei nodded thoughtfully. "Hmm, roughly speaking, I understand. Can I understand it this way: even 'Aig,' a low-level gang leader in Queens, issued a mission to kill 'Hollman' worth '60' experience points. From this perspective, it also reflects how difficult 'Hollman' is to kill!"
"Yes, judging from the data, killing Holman is at least ten times, or even dozens of times, more difficult than killing Uncle Yao! So, esteemed user, are you willing to accept the mission issued by 'Aig' to kill 'Holman'?" the intelligent program asked.
Gao Jianfei chuckled. "There's nothing to consider. I'm just focused on doing missions like crazy and leveling up, who cares how difficult they are! I'll take this mission! Besides, there's only one level 6 mission about Holman around here, not enough! I always take on many missions related to the same person at the same time and do them all together; it's much more efficient that way." He paused, then continued, "I won't be going out tonight. Tomorrow, I'll take a trip around New York City. You activate the mission system and record all the level 6 missions you find related to Holman and other people. I'll accept them all when I get home tonight. Uh... right, also take on all the level 5 missions related to Holman!"
"I understand, esteemed user!" the intelligent program replied obediently.
After giving his instructions, Gao Jianfei left the den of thieves. Having just finished a long flight and feeling exhausted after landing, Gao Jianfei was also very tired. He immediately pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep!
…… …… ……
Holman's New York City "nest" was a place resembling a military base.
Inside a villa, Holman was worshipping Dale, the guardian deacon of this sacred site.
The two discussed how to issue a warrant for Gao Jianfei's arrest.
They all knew that Gao Jianfei had already arrived in the United States, specifically in New York, and even in Queens. However, getting Gao Jianfei there would be very difficult.
Faced with a "fugitive" who is proficient in disguise, all the "hunters" in the world would feel very troubled and helpless.
“I think blindly investigating Gao Jianfei like this will be ineffective!” Dale’s eyes gleamed with wisdom. “I’ve said it before, someone like Gao Jianfei could be ‘Song Tianjie’ today, you tomorrow, or me the day after. To catch him, we have to use our brains.”
"So, Deacon Dale, what do you mean?" Holman asked, feigning interest.
“First, our targets are nine people! Nine people who frequently appear together! And these nine people should be unfamiliar faces!” Dale took a puff of his cigar. “You need to know that, according to the investigation, Gao Jianfei fled with eight women. Including himself, that makes nine people. Therefore, our target has been expanded to nine people who frequently travel together!” After a pause, Dale continued, “Then, deploy the hunting dogs, good hunting dogs! All the hunting dogs in New York City! If that's not enough, we can recruit hunting dogs from other cities. According to what you just said, Old Jack from the farm discovered that Song Ying was with eight men. That is to say, Gao Jianfei habitually likes to disguise his women as men. However, I believe that while he can perfectly disguise their faces, he will definitely give himself away when it comes to concealing the unique scent of women. Holman, you need to know that men's and women's body odors are different. Careless people might not notice this, but excellent hunting dogs can give us accurate answers!”
Holman's eyes lit up. "I understand! Deacon Dale. We'll use hunting dogs to patrol the streets! We'll use their sense of smell to distinguish between men's and women's body odor. If we find a man who smells distinctly like a woman, then it proves that Gao Jianfei's trick has been exposed!"
"Yes! Remember, find excellent hunting dogs. Train them intensively beforehand. For example, find some women and men to train the dogs. The women give them dog food as a reward; the men ignore them. This way, when they smell a woman's scent, they will behave differently than with men… Get to work on this now! We need a large number of hunting dogs! Not only to patrol the streets, but also to enter apartments, villas, and even slums… We need time. I believe Gao Jianfei can't escape! At the same time, I will contact other Holy Land students in North and South America. We must work together to capture Gao Jianfei!"
“Yes, Deacon Dale, I’ll take care of it right away. You have to understand, now, all the police officers and thugs in New York City are under Gao Jianfei’s control; he has no chance of escaping!” Holman patted his chest to assure him, then turned to leave.
"Wait, Holman, this is what the Venerable One asked me to give you. Consider it a reward for your dedication to serving the Holy Land!" Dale took out a fragrant pill from his pocket and tossed it to Holman.
Holman, his hands trembling, accepted the pill, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "Deacon Dale... this... this is a high-grade pill to help me cultivate! We foreign students, after leaving the Holy Land, basically only receive one high-grade pill every few years. I haven't received a high-grade pill for two years, and my cultivation has been stagnant. This... this pill will definitely... will help me break through the barriers in my cultivation and greatly improve my power! Thank you, Deacon Dale! Thank you, Venerable One!"
…… …… ……
The place where Gao Jianfei "stayed" was the hideout of an underground force in Queens.
Early the next morning, the 20-odd thugs under "Hunter Knife" Songk returned. They were surprised to find nine Chinese nationals in their hideout! However, Songk had already been subdued by Gao Jianfei, and Songk's ruthless attitude dispelled any doubts among his men.
Thus, Gao Jianfei and his group continued to enjoy the high level of hospitality afforded to them by these thugs.
Breakfast consisted of toast with fruit jam and fragrant coffee. After breakfast, Gao Jianfei told Li Yun and the others to stay in their room while he went out for his day trip to New York, embarking on a crazy Level 6 mission!
Chapter 464 Kill Holman!
Chapter 464 Kill Holman!
Gao Jianfei, dressed in a black trench coat with his hands in his pockets, left the apartment and walked towards the main thoroughfare of Queens. The mission system was already automatically activated; the intelligent program was rigorously filtering all missions within a radius of several kilometers of Gao Jianfei's path, only accepting level 6 missions and level 5 missions related to Holman.
Actually, what Gao Jianfei wanted to do was very simple: just drive around New York City. And he could just take the bus and subway; he wouldn't even need to take a taxi. However, Gao Jianfei discovered that taxis were scarce in New York; most taxis were private cars, and even if there were, you had to book in advance. The chances of successfully hailing a taxi on the street were extremely low!
"Sex," Gao Jianfei first strolled leisurely down the street, heading towards the nearby subway station.
As for Li Yun, Song Ying, and the others, Gao Jianfei didn't need to worry about their safety at Song Ke's apartment. Li Yun and the others weren't just for show. After all, they were experts from the Emei Sect. As long as they didn't encounter any experts from the Holy Land, they were confident they could take down ordinary thugs. Gao Jianfei had even specifically instructed the young woman Li Yun that if she noticed anything even slightly amiss with Song Ke and the others, she should immediately attack and kill them!
Gao Jianfei, a cigarette dangling from his lips, strolled down the street. He noticed that even though it was still morning, the police and thugs were already conducting intensive checks and questioning. Some officers were even using sniffer dogs. The officers were deliberately directing the dogs to sniff around the men walking by, the dogs' noses constantly twitching and sniffing. Strangely, the police weren't using the dogs to sniff women! They were only targeting men!
"Huh? What's going on?" Gao Jianfei's steps faltered. At that moment, a black policeman, leading a large Belgian Malinois, charged straight towards Gao Jianfei!
"Buddy, don't move, it's okay, just stand still." The black policeman gave Gao Jianfei a fairly friendly smile.
Gao Jianfei chuckled and slightly raised his hands. "Hey buddy, what's going on here?"
The Black policeman shrugged. "What would you think if I said terrorists had infiltrated New York? Haha! Man, I'm just kidding!" As he spoke, the dog sniffed Gao Jianfei a few times before walking away, seemingly uninterested.
A Black police officer, leading a dog, brushed past Gao Jianfei.
Gao Jianfei had exceptional hearing. As the police drove away, he clearly heard a sentence: "What a pain! They could tell just by looking at the Adam's apple. Did they really need to send out police dogs?"
"You can tell just by looking at the Adam's apple?" Gao Jianfei choked, chewed for a moment, and then suddenly realized... "It seems that these police officers, by deploying police dogs, are trying to find a woman disguised as a man! This is targeting me! In other words, they found out that I have several women with me! Damn it, the police in the movies are all useless, but it turns out they're all lying! They're actually quite capable at doing things."
While Gao Jianfei was lost in thought, something happened in the nearby neighborhood.
A policeman was seen leading a dog, sniffing around a clean-looking man. Suddenly, the police dog barked, then began to act affectionately, circling the man.
"Fuck!" The policeman walking the dog looked both nervous and excited. He took a small step back, pulled a revolver from his pocket, and pointed it at the clean-cut man. The next moment, several policemen nearby, along with some thugs, rushed over and surrounded the clean-cut man.
It turned out that this guy was a woman disguised as a man. A policewoman checked him on the street and confirmed that this fair-skinned man did not have a...
Later, the New York police quickly confirmed that the woman disguised as a man was a wanted fugitive. Her crime was the murder of her husband.
Watching the woman disguised as a man being taken away, Gao Jianfei was horrified... "These dogs are really something else. It seems they can tell the difference between men and women based on some kind of subconscious ability... Wow! Amazing, amazing!"
Gao Jianfei didn't linger and went straight into the subway station to begin his journey around New York City.
It was just aimless wandering around New York.
Take the subway, transfer to a bus, walk, and so on.
Gao Jianfei discovered that it wasn't just Queens; large numbers of police officers and petty thugs were conducting checks in other boroughs of New York. It had escalated to checking IDs! Gao Jianfei didn't have any ID cards. His own was hidden away, and Song Tianjie's ID and passport had long been destroyed. So, whenever Gao Jianfei saw police checking IDs nearby, he quickly made his escape.
By evening, Gao Jianfei had finally made it back to 'Hunter' Songke's apartment after a long and arduous journey through New York.
Back at the apartment, almost none of Song Ke's thugs returned; only Song Ke himself was under close surveillance by Li Yun and her group. Seeing Gao Jianfei return, Li Yun and the others breathed a sigh of relief. They exchanged glances with Gao Jianfei, assuring him that everything was fine that day.
After dinner, Gao Jianfei chatted with Song Ke for a while. Gao Jianfei learned from Song Ke that his twenty-odd men were a group of pickpockets and a small number of drug dealers, usually sneaking out to work in the morning and returning to their apartments in the early hours of the morning. Song Ke, as the boss, simply sat back and waited to collect the money. Gao Jianfei also learned that the former boss of Song Ke's group was… Aiger!
That is, the first level 6 mission that Gao Jianfei encountered in this apartment building!
Issued by the late Queens underworld figure, Iger! Mission objective: Kill Holman!
Next, under Gao Jianfei's prompting, Songke began to recount the cause of death of his former boss, Aiger, and the identity of Holman.
It turns out that killing Holman grants 60 experience points, and that's definitely not a joke.
Holman, the kingpin of New York's underworld! Disappeared as a child, he returned to New York 20 years later, and then, in just three years, unified the New York underworld through terrifying and bloody means! He became king!
It's only been 3 years!
Song Ke told Gao Jianfei that Egger was killed because he disrespected Holman before Holman had truly risen to power. Holman punched Egger to death, and then, in front of more than a dozen underworld leaders from Queens, dismembered Egger's body. He laughed, drank coffee, and dissected the corpse—it was utterly heinous and extremely perverse!
Iger's death paved the way for Holman's conquest and unification of Queens. Many years later, Holman's devilish smile still haunted nightmares, waking the Queens bosses from their women's arms.
In short, Holman was an extremely violent man who killed indiscriminately, and even the U.S. "government" seemed unwilling to punish this thug.
“Sir, you must know, every month we pay Holman a huge sum of money. He’s like…like a greedy vampire…he uses all sorts of methods to exploit us…” Song Ke said weakly, a look of fear and trepidation in his eyes, as if recalling some extremely bloody and brutal scenes perpetrated by Holman, his body trembling involuntarily. “I have to admit, Holman is a real devil. He rules the entire New York underworld, he protects and sets the rules…uh, yesterday, Holman issued an order to all the underground organizations in New York City, telling us to find several people in a few photos…among them is Gao Jianfei, a famous figure from China, and a pretty girl named Song Ying…”
"Okay, I understand. Good night!" Gao Jianfei now fully understood. Holman had disappeared without a trace for 20 years, and upon returning to New York, he accomplished in just 3 years what ordinary people couldn't do in 30 or even 300 years. He reminded Gao Jianfei of Feng Haoyu.
Feng Haoyu, too, disappeared for more than ten years when he was young, and then became an unparalleled genius!
"No wonder killing Holman yields so much experience! It turns out he's hard to kill! He's from the Holy Land!" Gao Jianfei had already determined Holman's unknown, hidden identity.
"Excellent! The reason why the New York police and the underworld thugs were cooperating so well in finding the person is because Holman was the mastermind behind it all! What a coincidence! I need to kill Holman for my mission, and Holman happens to be my enemy, a member of the Holy Land! Therefore, killing Holman will serve as a warning to the Holy Land, and I can also gain a huge amount of experience to level up. Both can be done at the same time, killing two birds with one stone!"
Gao Jianfei took a shower, locked the door, and shut himself in his room. He listened to the sounds outside and, finding nothing unusual, immediately had a thought and slipped into the haunted house.
In the den of ghosts.
"Dear user, welcome to your haunted lair. Today, the automatic function of the quest system is activated. After screening, I have recorded the 8 level 6 quests and 16 level 5 quests issued by the souls of the dead in this city. All of these quests are related to Holman! In other words, the root of evil in this city you are in is only one person... Holman!"
The intelligent program's solicitous voice rang out.
"Huh? A total of eight level 6 missions? Adding the level 6 mission that Egger posted earlier, which was worth 60 experience points, that makes a total of nine level 6 missions! In addition, there are sixteen level 5 missions! This is unbelievable! I never thought that New York City could produce so many high-level missions!"
Gao Jianfei was taken aback.
"Dear user, there should actually be many more advanced tasks, but due to the passage of time, tasks that were released a long time ago have disappeared and are no longer available. The tasks that the software has provided for you are only those from the last 10 years or so. Would you like to take a look at the contents of these tasks?" the intelligent program said solicitously.
"Great! Let's take a look!" Gao Jianfei exclaimed excitedly.
Soon, descriptions of the task flashed on the virtual display screen...
Level 6 mission
1. Deceased: Bute
Occupation before death: Boss of a criminal underworld organization in Brooklyn, New York City
Cause of death: homicide
The deceased's last wish: During a turf war with Holman, Holman instantly beheaded and dismembered him. Killing Holman will complete the level 6 quest issued by But.
Task Reward: 100 Exorcism Points (maximum)