Zhou Lin

Zi Lin sat on the porch, watching the red leaves and the sunset.

There was a round wooden tray beside him, which contained a plate of exquisite snacks, a cup of steaming coffee, and a mobile phone.

Bah—bah—

Suddenly, the phone started vibrating.

Zi Lin leisurely picked up the phone, pressed the call button, put it to his ear and said, "Hello?"

"Sir Zi Lin..." Olivia's voice sounded on the other end of the phone. Her voice was completely different from that in the textile factory. She sounded shy and excited, "...it's me."

"I know." Zi Lin responded calmly.

"I...heh...I just..." Olivia said, while letting out a strange, humming sound, "Haah...I just want to tell you...the plan you taught me... Ha...well...that...the layout is very...perfect..."

"In other words, it was successful, right?" Zi Lin continued.

"Hmm..." Olivia responded.

"Are you hurting yourself again?" Zi Lin asked calmly without changing his tone.

"Ha...ah~" Olivia moaned loudly at this time and replied, "Yes..." Her breathing became heavier, "As soon as I hear your voice, Master Zilin... I will ……so I……"

Although Zi Lin couldn't see it, he knew that Olivia was clawing at her body with her hands at this moment.

He had watched Olivia do many things at a very close distance, such as tearing open the flesh of her collarbone with her fingers, scratching her thighs, biting her wrists and arms with her teeth, and beating her with a whip. Her own back... In short, this woman likes to get spiritual satisfaction from hurting herself.

"I have no intention of criticizing your hobby, but out of consideration for your health, I think you should stop this behavior." Zi Lin continued.

"Ha...but...I..." Olivia continued, "Unless...unless Master Zilin comes to help me..."

"You can find someone else." Zilin rejected her without hesitation.

"How is this possible!" Olivia suddenly became a little excited, "Only you...Master Zilin...are my...only...only..."

"I think you have some misunderstandings about our relationship." Zi Lin said, "Although we did spend some pleasant times, I am not who you imagined..."

"Are you going to reject me?" At this second, Olivia's voice was suddenly full of violence. She interrupted Zi Lin and shouted, "I am the leader of Qian Ming now... you... even if you are Master Zilin...if you dare to reject me..."

"Okay, okay, don't get excited." Zi Lin didn't want to listen to this pervert's meaningless threats. Of course, he himself was not a normal person, so he didn't use words like "pervert" to talk about the other person, "Anyway , the plan was successful, right?”

"Um...yes..." Olivia calmed down a little and replied, "Everything is as you expected..."

"Yeah." Zi Lin responded, "That's good." He paused, "By the way, in a few days I'm going to stay in an Internet rehabilitation center for a while, and you're not allowed to bring mobile phones there, so you can Don't call me, I will contact you when I come out."

"What!" Olivia gasped when she heard this, "You... took the initiative... to call me?"

"Ah..." Zi Lin replied, "Maybe I will come to you in person, so... please be patient during this period and wait for me to come."

"Uh-" A strange sound came from the other end of the phone, as if a horse had been stepped on in the kidneys.

Zi Lin didn't even say hello, and hung up right away.

"Hey..." As soon as he put down the phone, a bearded old man standing against a pillar behind him said, "Is this really okay for you kid?"

"What's wrong with me?" Zi Lin picked up a piece of snack and answered without looking back.

"As a man, how can he promise something to a woman that he has no intention of doing?" The bearded voice and the way he spoke were as rough as his appearance.

"Don't worry, she will never know that I am lying to her." Zi Lin put the snack into his mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it with the coffee, "She is about to die, so let her be happy. "

"Hmph..." The bearded man curled his lips and smiled, "Then you are really gentle..."

"Yes." Unexpectedly, Zi Lin replied in a nonchalant tone while eating snacks, "I am very gentle to every woman I have taken advantage of."

"Hey..." The bearded man spat, took out a bottle of vodka from his jacket pocket and took a sip, "You are just a devil with a pure appearance and clear eyes..."

"Speaking of the devil..." Zi Lin drank half a cup of coffee in one breath, "Since Olivia's call came, it's almost time..." He said, picking up the phone again, "It's time Went to wake up some 'monster'."

…………

Twelve hours ago.

Naples, in an abandoned church.

Gallo took out his cell phone from his pocket and dialed the only number saved in his phone.

"What's the matter?" Zi Lin also got straight to the point and asked three words as soon as the phone call came through.

"I'm looking for you...to make a 'deal' of course." Gallo continued.

"What do you want?" Zi Lin asked.

"Can I ask you a question first?" Gallo said.

"You can ask, but I may not answer." Zi Lin said.

"Hmph..." Gallo snorted coldly, "Do you know the news about Jack Anderson's return to Crown County?"

"Don't you think this is nonsense?" Zi Lin asked.

Yes, it was bullshit, of course he knew it.

"Ha...that's right, let me ask another question." Gallo smiled, "So...before our call this time, have you ever sold this news to anyone else?"

"Yes." Zi Lin replied calmly.

"That person...is it Olivia Duccio?" Gallo asked again.

"So what?" Zi Lin said, "I have many customers, but I never remember that I only serve one person or one party."

His response basically acquiesced to Gallo's speculation.

"But we should have an agreement..." Gallo said, "As long as it is a matter within Crown County, you should give priority to me... And I have promised again and again... As long as it is a deal proposed by Olivia, no matter what Whatever price she asks, I’ll pay double!”

Unexpectedly, Zi Lin's next words were: "She slept with me."

"Well……"

If "fuck" was an adjective, it would be a perfect description of the look on Gallo's face at this moment.

"Do you want to tell me how she slept with me, and you, Gallo, have to do it twice as well?" Zi Lin's sarcasm followed.

Gallo definitely couldn't handle this. His momentum was immediately suppressed by three points, and he said with some embarrassment: "If you want a woman, I will naturally find a way for you..."

"I don't need other men to help me find the woman I want." Zi Lin continued, "Let's stop this topic. Don't waste time. Tell us...what do you want?"

"What do I want?" Gallo sneered, "Humph...you already know what I want, right?" He paused, "I want Olivia to die! I also want to get rid of Jack... Take back from Anderson the name that belongs to me...the God of Death!"

"Okay." Contrary to Gallo's excited tone, Zilin answered in a normal tone.

"Wha...what?" Gallo wondered if he had heard wrongly.

"I said yes," Zi Lin replied, "I can help you kill Olivia and let Jack go to your territory to surrender himself."

Gallo's hands were shaking: "Are you...seriously?"

"Really." Zi Lin said.

Gallo thought for a while: "But you just said... you and Olivia..."

"So what?" Zi Lin said.

Listening to the other party's tone, Gallo secretly marveled at Zilin's coldness, but on the surface he remained calm and asked: "This deal... what price do you want?"

"As long as you do one thing for me." Zi Lin replied.

"What to do?" Gallo was probably thinking about something as difficult as "reaching for the stars".

Unexpectedly...

"I'll send you an address in a minute." What Zi Lin said was incredibly simple. "Send a subordinate to sneak into a community house and steal a mobile phone without disturbing the neighbors." .”

"Then what?" Gallo felt that things couldn't be that simple.

"Then, you go to the innermost building of your textile factory, crawl into the gap at the bottom of the huge antique textile machine, pry open a piece of floorboard, and hide your mobile phone in it... That's it." Zi Lin replied.

"Just... do this?" Gallo asked suspiciously.

"What? Do you think it's too difficult?" Zi Lin said, "Then forget it..."

"No!" When Gallo heard that the other party was about to change his mind, he quickly shouted, "I will do it! Do it immediately!"

"Then... the deal is established." Zi Lin was still in a leisurely state, "As long as you get things done, within twelve hours, the Miss Olivia Duccio you know will die. , and Mr. Jack Anderson, whom you regard as your old enemy... will also automatically come to your door."

…………

Time, back to the present.

Although it was already dusk in the city where Zi Lin was located, here in Europe, it was almost noon.

Under the sun, among the ruins of a textile factory.

Bah—bah—

Among the broken walls, ruined bricks and rubble, there was a faint sound of cell phones vibrating.

At the same time, a man's figure slowly... crawled out from under a pile of charred rubble.

He was almost covered in blood, but the red color of the blood had been completely covered up by black scorch marks, dust and dirt.

He originally had an ordinary face, but now, there was a scar torn open by bomb shrapnel, diagonally across the entire face.

Bah—bah—

The phone has been ringing, and with his hearing, he can hear even the breathing of people buried deep underground, let alone this kind of obvious and regular vibration.

He leaned over and dug open some boards at his feet, and pulled out the buzzing mobile phone.

He recognized...that should be Angel's cell phone.

With a feeling that he didn't know he had, he answered the phone.

Di——

He answered, but he didn't speak.

However, Zi Lin on the other end of the phone spoke first: "Mr. Anderson, I know that when I get through this call and tell you your name, you will have a lot of questions...

“Rest assured, all your questions will be answered in the near future.

"But now, please allow me to help you... address your most pressing needs at this moment."

…………

It's night, the moon and stars are sparse.

A dark figure, half human and half ghost, came to an abandoned church.

At noon, he received a strange phone call, and then he kept walking, and kept walking...from noon to sunset, and then from sunset to dark...and he finally arrived at this place.

On the other end of the phone, the words of the man who called himself Zi Lin still lingered in his mind——

"On the map coordinates I sent, there is a church, which is Gallo's emergency shelter..."

He walked slowly into the church, like a walking corpse.

"There is a secret door under the altar of the church. When you open it, you will see a coffin..."

He walked half a circle around the altar and quickly discovered the switch of the secret door. So he opened the altar and with just one hand... dragged the coffin out and placed it on the dusty ground.

"Inside the coffin are stored some of the money and works of art that Gallo has accumulated over the years. Of course, there are also weapons, clothing, medical supplies, fake documents, etc. In short... you can just use them."

He opened the coffin, and naturally all the things Zi Lin described were there; in addition, there was something very concerning that was incompatible with the surrounding objects - a black card.

"I also left something in there. I think you can easily identify it. I hope you will take good care of it because you will need it in the future."

He stood in front of the coffin for a few seconds, and then took off his clothes that were torn and stained with blood.

Under the moonlight, his body is like a work of art. Even the best painters and sculptors of all time... can't outline such perfect muscle lines. Even though this body is covered with scars, it can still reveal a breathtaking look. of courage and beauty.

After simply treating his wounds, putting on his clothes, and grabbing his gun, he returned to the altar.

He raised his head and looked at the statue of Jesus crucified above the altar.

After a brief silence, he raised his hand and fired... The bullet hit Jesus' eyes directly, and shattered the head of the statue with a "bang".

Until he walked out of the church, the reverberation of the gunfire still echoed in the "dry grave" behind him.