Click!
Almost as soon as John took care of the ten old men, the door of the conference room was opened, and then Ian was seen walking in from the outside.
"Hey, it was solved so quickly. I thought you would torture these people!" Ian looked at the corpses of the ten old men with surprise on his face.
John glanced at him: "Don't think of me so badly, I have no interest in finding pleasure by torturing others."
"Okay, but actually, you didn't have to come here yourself; just leave it to me!" Ian looked at the corpses of the ten old men and said with some regret.
What he regretted was not that the old men were killed, but that John only hired him to find the hiding place of the old men and did not directly hire him to assassinate them.
Between the two, the price of the latter is much more expensive. Otherwise, the ten old men would not have been able to live freely for so many years. The people they had persecuted long ago, and even the people below, were hired by the Zoldyck family to kill them.
"If you don't have money, it's better to leave without giving it away!" John waved his hand and said.
He came here in person not to kill his enemies with his own hands, but because of limited funds.
Just like he didn't let Ian kill the ten old men directly.
He is not short of billions of small money, but he does not have tens of billions of big money, so he can only choose to save money and let Ian find out where the ten old men are hiding, and then come and solve it himself.
"Uh... don't forget to remit that money to me. Our family has very strict disciplinary measures against customers who don't pay," Ian reminded him.
"I know, I will send you the money tomorrow!" Turning around and heading back to the balcony, John raised his hand and waved without looking back, indicating that he understood.
Ian shrugged and turned around to exit the conference room.
Returning to the balcony, looking down at the outside of the villa, you can see guards lying on the ground one by one, unaware of their life or death.
Exhibiting the wings of thread, John just glanced at it casually and jumped out, flying towards Yorknew City in the roaring air waves.
Compared to the battle with the Phantom Troupe, dealing with the Ten Old Men was as easy as going out for an outing.
Of course, this is also because John used Yorknew's underground auction to catch up with all the ten old men.
Otherwise, it would take a lot of time to deal with them one by one, even if there were no accidents.
And because of the accident at the underground auction, while hiding, the ten old men also reduced the strength of the guards around them to rock bottom.
But no matter what, the achievement was successfully completed.
On the way back, John also checked the rewards.
[The Sorrow of the Ten Old Men]: For this achievement, when he killed the ten old men, the system had already prompted that the achievement was completed, and during the review, the reward for this branch achievement was immediately known to him.
[Seed of Life]: A magical seed in a certain world that uses blood as fertilizer to cultivate life fruits that can expand life energy.
The more powerful the blood of a creature, the better the life fruits that can be cultivated.
The fruits are picked eventually, and the seeds will return to their origins, but as long as they are fed with new blood, they can be cultivated again!
"Hmm?!"
Looking at the rewards for this branch achievement, John, who was flying high in the sky, suddenly stopped, flapped his huge wings, and hovered in the air, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Cultivation of a life fruit that strengthens life energy with blood. Why does this life seed feel a bit evil... I just don't know how effective this growth is. If it is really good, then the more the merrier!"
Whether it's evil or not, that doesn't matter at all.
The key point is whether it is effective and whether the effect is good or not.
Of course, the most important thing is that the introduction of Seed of Life does not limit the type of blood, which means that the blood of beasts or monsters should also be acceptable.
If Steve and the others weren't still waiting for him, John, who was a little bit eager in his heart, really wanted to try the specific effect of this life seed now.
"Don't be in a hurry, there will be an achievement reward to be harvested later!" With this thought in his mind, John immediately controlled his thoughts, and his stopped figure started flying again at an alarming speed.
In order to avoid any accidents due to long nights and long dreams, John rushed there non-stop to solve the problem of the ten old men after eliminating Carl's thoughts of death.
Steve and the others returned to the abandoned warehouse that had been their base for the past few days after John left.
When John returned, he saw Steve, Mia, and Delilah resting on the spot, and their eyes were wide open as they watched, but they were lying on the ground unable to move because the anesthesia had not worn off. Shizuku.
"You're back. Have you solved it with the ten old men?"
"How's it going? Is everything going well?"
When John walked into the warehouse, Steve and the others first stopped to rest and stood up vigilantly, and then immediately relaxed after seeing John.
"Well, it has been solved successfully. Where is Kurt, has he left?" John greeted the two women with a smile, and by the way, he skillfully picked up the running Delilah and put it on his right shoulder.
Mia felt relieved when she saw that John's body had not changed much from when he left. She nodded and said, "Yes, Kurt left after resting for a while. He was afraid that if he left for too long, the Nosla family would be suspicious!"
John nodded slightly.
Kurt will enter the Nosla family not only because of his promotion. In the original work, he entered in order to find the Scarlet Eyes more conveniently.
The Scarlet Eye auction appeared in this underground auction.
Now that the Phantom Troupe has been solved, he is obviously ready to focus all his energy on taking back the Scarlet Eyes.
John actually just asked about Kurt casually. After learning about his whereabouts, his eyes fell on Shizuku lying on the ground beside him.
Steve noticed John's eyes looking at Shizuku, and immediately said with interest: "This woman is very interesting. She has been silent since she woke up, and she doesn't feel nervous at all as a prisoner."
"Really?" John raised his hand and raised his index finger. A parasitic thread shot out from the fingertip and was instantly connected to Shizuku's body.
Immediately, Shizuku's body sat down under John's control. At the same time, her eyes remained calm and she looked straight at John.
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