"Your Brother Su is in this neighborhood. Come on in with me!" The Passat driver pulled up to the entrance of the Fuli Residential Community and led the siblings inside. As instructed by Zhai Defeng, he had also left the "clue" phone on the driver’s seat. "Uncle, is Brother Su Xuan eating here?" Xiaoyun, the younger sister, asked, blinking her big eyes as she glanced at the community’s run-down surroundings. "That’s right!" the driver lied. "A friend of his lives here, and he’s eating at his friend’s place." "Don’t ask him so many questions," the older brother, Shi Yazi, told his sister. "He’s just helping Brother Su Xuan by picking us up. It’s not like he’s the one treating us to a meal." The driver overheard and glanced at Shi Yazi with admiration. This kid is pretty sharp! If he weren’t a boy, I’d spare him. Indeed, he had already made his decision. If Su Xuan won and he only had to kill one of them, he would kill the boy. The driver led the siblings into a building and up a dark stairwell. He stopped at an apartment door and opened it. The siblings walked in calmly. Then, they saw that the apartment was completely empty. Su Xuan was nowhere to be found. Xiaoyun looked at the driver. "Uncle, our Brother Su Xuan isn’t here." "Of course he’s not here!" the driver’s face suddenly turned ferocious. He drew a dagger and held it to Xiaoyun’s neck. Seeing this, Shi Yazi pulled out his own boning knife. "Are you stupid, kid?" the driver laughed when he saw the knife in Shi Yazi’s hand. "Your sister is my hostage, and you want to pull a knife on me?" Shi Yazi shook his head. "I don’t want to pull a knife on you. I’m just a little scared." The driver sneered, "You should be scared. Let me tell you, I’m an assassin, just like those cold-blooded killers on TV. A lot of people get scared when they see me!" Shi Yazi shook his head again. "I’m not afraid of you. I’m just a little afraid of snakes." "Snakes?" the driver asked. Shi Yazi nodded. "Yeah, snakes. I’m scared of things that slither around everywhere without any legs." His sister, Xiaoyun, chimed in, "My brother really is a bit afraid of snakes. I once put two of them in a jar under the bed, and now he has to check if the lid is secure every single night before he can fall asleep." "That’s true," Shi Yazi admitted. "But brother," Xiaoyun said, "when we eat fried snake, you eat more than I do." "Eating and being afraid are two different things," Shi Yazi replied. "It’s just like how you’re afraid of wild boars but love to eat pork." Newest update provıded by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝·𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚·𝔫𝔢𝔱 "That’s right! Wild boars are so big and fierce. They can knock down a small tree! I get scared just hearing them grunt," Xiaoyun said. Shi Yazi added, "But when we’re together, we’re not afraid of anything." "Yup! We’re not afraid of snakes or wild boars. They’re just food for us." Listening to the siblings’ conversation, the driver felt completely bewildered. They had been chattering in this strange way in the car, too, giving him a headache. I seriously suspect these two kids are crazy! And besides, where is this snake? They’ve been talking about them forever. He was also a bit scared of snakes. Those things wriggling on the ground, with their gleaming little eyes and forked tongues flicking in and out... it’s genuinely creepy! That’s why I always kill any snake I see. At that moment, Xiaoyun raised her arm. A small, bright green snake uncoiled from her wrist, twisting as it raised its head. With a flick of her wrist, the little snake shot forward as if it were trained. It slithered up her arm and coiled around the driver’s knife-wielding hand, sinking its fangs in! It bit two small, bloody pits into the back of his hand. "Damn it!" The driver frantically shook his wrist, flinging the snake to the floor and raising his foot to stomp on it. The clever little snake shot under the living room sofa. "You actually carry a snake around with you?!" The driver’s mouth twitched as he stared at the two pinpricks of blood on his hand. "What kind of kid does something ?" He showed the composure of a professional assassin. Even after being bitten, he didn’t release Xiaoyun, lest Shi Yazi take the opportunity to stab him. Besides, the snake was too small to have truly rattled him. "Some people like to keep cats, and some like to keep dogs. What’s wrong with me liking snakes?" Xiaoyun said, her big eyes blinking at the driver. She had brought this snake all the way from Pig Head Alley. She had raised it for a long time, and it was quite obedient. She was very fond of it. Coiled around her wrist, the little green snake looked just like a beautiful green bracelet. It seemed her Brother Su Xuan had never even noticed her little secret! The driver held Xiaoyun hostage with the knife in one hand. With the other, he brought the bite wound to his mouth and sucked at the seeping blood. "Is your snake poisonous?" he asked angrily. "I’m not really sure," Xiaoyun said. "This snake doesn’t look like any I’ve seen before. It’s all green with no markings, so I can’t be certain if it’s venomous or not." Shi Yazi said to the driver, "You should be asking yourself if you’re poisonous. After all, you’re the first person it’s ever bitten." The corner of the driver’s mouth twitched again. You make way too much sense! So much sense I want to smack you right across the face! Next, using Xiaoyun as a hostage, the driver disarmed Shi Yazi. He tied the siblings up and threw them onto the sofa. He also used a rope to tie off his own wrist, hoping to stop any potential venom from spreading through his body. "Boss, the kids are taken care of. Your game can start whenever you’re ready," the driver said into his phone, having called Zhai Defeng. "You really are a professional. Job well done," Zhai Defeng said. "I’ll pay you the balance after the game is over." The driver suddenly said, "I want an extra twenty thousand." "You think I’m paying you too little?" Zhai Defeng asked. "No, that’s not it. I just got accidentally bitten by a snake. The twenty thousand is for medical expenses. According to the rules of our trade, the employer has to cover medical fees." "A snake? Where did it come from?" "Those two kids aren’t normal. One carries a knife, the other carries a snake." "Oh? So the job had some risks after all." "Fine, I’ll give you the extra twenty thousand!" "POP... POP... POP..." "What’s with that popping sound?" Zhai Defeng asked. "Don’t tell me you’re blowing me kisses just for an extra twenty thousand." "No, Boss... pop... the snake, it seems to be poisonous... pop... I’m foaming at the mouth... pop... can’t talk... pop..." The driver wasn’t lying to Zhai Defeng. At that moment, his lips were turning black, and foam was continuously bubbling from his mouth. Every word he tried to speak came out with a popping sound.