I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

Chapter 164 He Gave Me $10 to Buy Your Life

This was Zhang Menglong's first time being so furious. Not only had he faced an assassination attempt, but the offer was also ridiculously low—200 billion US dollars, merely close to the total assets of the world's wealthiest person. That price might be understandable for assassinating Poladi, but him? They'd better add a few more zeros before talking!

Despite facing a powerful surge of electricity, Zhang Menglong's plane was built with ultimate safety features, so it wasn't severely damaged. It just needed minor repairs and was still fully capable of flying under the current circumstances.

The captain of Zhang Menglong's aircraft was none other than the famous Captain Sully, who had once managed an emergency landing on the sea with multiple engines out, successfully saving everyone on board. Now, he had become Zhang Menglong's dedicated pilot.

With a familiar smell of kimchi, Zhang Menglong once again returned to Qingqiu Country and to that familiar residence.

"Mr. Zhang, why have you come back again?" The housekeeper in charge of the building was overseeing the tidying of the rooms. Zhang Menglong was supposed to be almost back in Huaxia by now. Why had he suddenly returned?

"No worries, just a few friends I can't stop thinking about, and I wanted to visit," Zhang Menglong replied with a smile.

"Mr. Zhang really has great connections, having so many friends even in Qingqiu Country."

"You go and rest. I might need to stay here for another day," Zhang Menglong said.

The housekeeper nodded, then left the room with the domestic staff.

"Hong Yi, do you know what Su Zhihe and his people are up to now?" Zhang Menglong asked.

"There is a high-level Qingqiu gathering tonight," Hong Yi replied. "If the Sorens' assassination attempt had been successful tonight, it would have been a celebration party. They were all ready to sing and dance in celebration of having eliminated you as a threat, Mr. Zhang."

"Hahahaha, I'm sorry to disappoint them," laughed Zhang Menglong. "In that case, as the main character, I must make an appearance. Otherwise, how disappointed they would be!"

"Mr. Zhang, the party will be held at the Hawke Palace Hotel at 6:30 this evening. Almost half of Qingqiu Country's upper echelons will attend, giving you half a day to prepare."

"Call Lee Ji-eun for me," Zhang Menglong said. "Prepare two suits; attending a dinner party always requires a presentable companion."

"Miss Lee Ji-eun will certainly be delighted. I'll contact her right now!"

...

"Strange, by this time, Zhang Menglong should have been dead. Why hasn't there been any news from there?" Su Zhihe anxiously paced back and forth in his room.

From what he knew about the Wind Nest, if they targeted a president of a major country, it was as easy as picking something out of a bag. To this date, there had been only one mission failure, and most people believed that to be a fluke. Such an accident might happen once, but surely not a second time?

But at that moment, Su Zhihe suddenly remembered something Zhang Menglong had said when returning to his country—there seemed to be an implied meaning in his words. This feeling always unsettled him.

"Sssssss..." Suddenly, a strong gust of wind swept past his office window, and a glowing Lightning Orb burst through the tightly closed glass. A silhouette emerged from the thunder and lightning.

This person had high-voltage electricity flowing through his body, his eyes emitting an unnatural blue glow as if he were a mythical figure stepping out of a legend.

Yet strangely, this person was covered in blood, the stains dried as if he had just fought his way out of a blood-drenched battlefield, exuding a strong scent of blood.

"Are you from the Wind Nest?" Su Zhihe quickly reacted. Though he had never seen such a person before, in his worldview, such beings existed; thus, despite the incredible scene before him, he could wholly accept it after his initial shock.

"Is Zhang Menglong dead?" Su Zhihe asked eagerly. "I know your people from the Wind Nest have the highest success rate in assassinations!"

"Zhang Menglong is not dead," Sorens replied in a somewhat grim tone.

"What? He isn't dead? Then why did you come here? Is that all the strength your organization has?"

Su Zhihe seemed to have forgotten that he was speaking to a mutant endowed with a power incomprehensible to ordinary humans. In his mind, he was a minister of a nation and the principal client in this business deal, and he saw nothing inappropriate in his tone.

"It's not for you to comment on whether our organization is strong or not," Sorens said, "but this time, I came here to kill you!"

"What did you say?" Su Zhihe suddenly realized that he was standing in front of an extremely powerful and terrifying superhuman who wanted to kill him, and not even the protection of an armed military force could give him the slightest hope of survival.

"Why...why?"

"I couldn't kill Zhang Menglong," Sorens did not lie, "the power by his side was far more formidable than what your data provided, and I almost died on his plane!"

Sorens pointed to his blood-soaked clothes and said, "See this? This is my blood!"

"If...if you couldn't kill him... then... let's just end this matter here and think of another way..."

"I told you, I'm not here to report on the mission's progress!" Sorens said, "Zhang Menglong is spending 10 Huaxia dollars to buy your life!"

"What? You can't..."

A surge of electricity flashed through Su Zhihe's body; before he could finish his words, the potent current had already stopped his heart, leaving his face frozen in its last expression.

"Although it goes against my professional ethics, this is the only condition under which my organization and I can survive," Sorens said with a bitter smile before pulling out a piece of paper from his pocket and leaving it on Su Zhihe's desk.

It was an invoice from Qingqiu Country; the item listed was "Assassination", and the amount was written as "10 Huaxia dollars".

"Huaxia people really know how to play!" Sorens shook his head and disappeared again as a lightning.

... Read latest chapters at empire

"Oppa, this dress is really beautiful!" Lee Ji-eun was both shocked and delighted by Zhang Menglong's return, and stars seemed to appear in her eyes when she saw the gown he had prepared for her.

It was a snow-white evening gown, even more beautiful than a princess's wedding dress in fairy tales, and Lee Ji-eun could hardly imagine its price, let alone the crystal-like high heels and the pink diamond pendant nearly the size of a child's palm—this was truly a scene from every girl's dream.

"These items are very expensive, right?" Lee Ji-eun asked.

"Miss Lee, this gown was handmade by Mr. Zhang's personal designer over two years, and the cost of materials alone exceeded 3 million US dollars. The shoes are not very expensive, but this string of diamond necklace is indeed very valuable," Hong Yi explained.

"The diamond was only excavated from one of Mr. Zhang's diamond mines earlier this year. After cutting, the quality reached 105 carats, and the price should be over 80 million US dollars. You are the first person to wear it."

"This...this is too valuable!" Lee Ji-eun's complexion changed, with nearly a hundred million dollars hanging on her body; it was literally a matter of life and death.

"Wear it!" Zhang Menglong smiled, "Today we are going to meet someone of status, and we absolutely cannot lack manners."

"Are we meeting your friend?" Lee Ji-eun asked curiously.

"No, we're meeting the big boss of your country!"