After bringing Sarah back to the slums and standing outside the woman's house, Shen Yi thought for a while and suddenly turned around and said, "You wait outside."

Then he entered the house alone.

The woman with tattoos all over her body is already waiting for him

Seeing Shen Yi arriving, the woman threw a box to Shen Yi: "All the goods you want are here, where is my money?"

Shen Yi opened it and took a look. There was nothing wrong with the sample. He also threw out a box: "The money is inside, just click on it."

The woman looked at the money in the box and smiled with satisfaction: "That's not necessary... I think since you have 160,000, you will have more money, right?"

I saw three muscular, fat, round men with dragon and tiger tattoos appearing behind the woman.

They walked towards Shen Yi, and the bald man at the head shouted: "Put down the goods and take out all your money. If you are wise, you can still save your legs."

Shen Yi looked at the woman: "It seems that you are not satisfied with the price I offered."

"I just want more." The woman laughed hoarsely.

"Since you plan to take the goods back, I think you don't need to do anything with the goods anymore, right?"

"Of course." The woman said proudly.

"That's good."

As if she heard the noise, Sarah shouted: "What happened?"

Shen Yi replied: "It's nothing, there are just some transaction details that need to be discussed again."

As he spoke, he closed the door gently.

Then Sarah heard a slight and thin sound, like a sharp knife hitting flesh, but it was not obvious.

Immediately afterwards, a shrill scream suddenly came from inside the house and stopped abruptly, as if something had blocked the throat, causing the sound to only come out halfway and then become silent.

Sarah was startled and instinctively took a step back.

Then she saw the door open.

Shen Yi walked out of the door slowly and closed the door gently.

"What did you do to them?" Sarah asked in horror.

"It's nothing. We just had a friendly consultation, exchanged opinions on the basis of respecting both parties, and reached agreement on some aspects..."

Sarah opened her mouth: "This...this sounds really official."

Shen Yi has come to Sarah: "Let me put it in simpler terms. They feel that I am a big customer and it is necessary to give me a certain discount, so they decided to reduce the original 160,000 US dollars."

"How much reduction?"

"Sixteen dollars."

"That doesn't sound like much."

"Pay the numbers."

He didn't explain any more, but directly pushed a mask to Sarah: "Let's go, put this on and change clothes, so those guys can't find us temporarily even if they use satellites."

Sarah could only leave with Shen Yi.

Behind him, a lot of blood flowed from the small door...

On the way back, Sarah remained silent.

After walking for nearly twenty minutes, Sarah finally said: "They..."

"Yes, I killed them." Shen Yi replied: "Because they wanted to steal my money."

Sarah bit her lower lip: "I guessed it, but it's not a capital crime."

"I'm not a judge either." Shen Yi said leisurely: "I might not have killed them, but considering that the woman was the maker of the mask, she might betray us to the authorities, so I thought it would be more appropriate to kill them."

"But you are the guardian of the divine dragon of justice! Shouldn't heaven exist to protect humans?"

"Do you really believe this?" Shen Yi looked at Sarah with a teasing look: "Do we exist to protect humans? Do humans exist to protect endangered species?"

Sarah looked at Shen Yi in shock, Shen Yi had already shaken his head: "Don't be naive, Miss Sarah. The protection of the weak by the strong comes from pity and sympathy, but never from responsibility. However, some people have mercy. Some people don’t have a heart of compassion. As for me, my pity and sympathy only work on the premise that it does not affect my survival. I am very happy to save people, and I am very happy to be a good person. But I am willing to sacrifice myself to save others... Sorry, I'm not that noble."

Seeing the silent bitterness on Sarah's face, Shen Yi smiled: "But at least you have changed my previous impression of you. It can be seen that you have a good heart. Although I am not a good person myself, I have a good heart for you. I still know how to respect those people."

Sarah looked up at Shen Yi: "Then what was your impression of me before?"

"You want to hear the truth?"

"certainly."

"Stupid, incompetent, self-righteous, and a little willful and..." Seeing that Sarah's face had turned livid, Shen Yi changed his words in time: "He Shan, you are a kind girl."

"I'm not interested in your flattery at all!" Sarah was already walking forward angrily.

Shen Yi smiled helplessly and shouted to Sarah: "If you are unhappy about this, I can apologize to you for what I just said!"

"I'm not interested in your false apology!"

"How about giving you a gift?" Shen Yi said suddenly.

Gift?

Sarah Daniel turned back to look at Shen Yi, who had already taken out a necklace and came to her.

He put the necklace around Sarah's neck: "A small gift to express my apology. I hope you can accept it."

Sarah looked at Shen Yi in surprise.

In her impression, only lovers would give herself necklaces, but now, this hateful bastard who did evil things in the name of justice actually gave her a necklace?

Seemingly seeing what Sarah was thinking, Shen Yi smiled: "Don't be so surprised, it's just a little thought from a friend. It's time to go back, they are still waiting for us. I hope these masks can help us get through even the most difficult times." A peaceful day.”

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"I lost them." Cage sighed and gave up trying completely.

Hercules sat on the sofa, his face still calm: "Do you know their last location?"

"Los Angeles suburbs. However, due to yesterday's battle, there was a signal blind spot in that area, so I couldn't keep up in time. By the time I solved the problem, I had completely lost their whereabouts, but I am sure they are not far away in that area."

"Where's the police station?"

"They couldn't find anyone either."

Hercules thought for a while: "They should have adopted some kind of disguise... There are always many ways for adventurers to disguise themselves."

"Then what should we do now?" Claudia was a little irritated.

After chasing the Broken Blade team for a day, it was all in vain. Instead, Shen Yi took the opportunity to attack and kill Adolf. This feeling was quite bad for Claudia.

Seemingly sensing Claudia's uneasiness, Hercules said softly: "You are impatient, Claudia. Yes, we suffered a small loss yesterday and sacrificed one of our members. But Laudia, don’t forget that we are still the dominant side. From the beginning, the family has never expected to be able to deal with this guy without any loss... If we can see the terror of the other party clearly at the cost of just a few lives, then It's worth it. At least before we came, many of you still didn't take your opponents to heart, thinking that you could crush them with your absolute strength, but now you should learn to learn lessons."

You are the one who doesn’t take your opponent to heart, right? Hercules. Cage cursed in his heart, but he also knew that no matter who he met, Hercules would find a way to challenge him to a duel.

It has nothing to do with whether he values ​​his opponent.

Claudia replied angrily: "If this is the lesson we can learn with one life, then I would rather not do it. I don't think it has much effect."

"That's not necessarily the case." Hercules suddenly laughed and said: "When you find that your enemy is so difficult, your expectations will be lowered. When your expectations are lowered, you will be willing to pay some necessary losses.

Of course, there are more methods to be adopted..."

"What do you mean?" Gwart was confused.

Hercules replied: "It means that if we are willing to pay the price, we actually still have a chance to inflict heavy damage on our opponents."

He snapped his fingers: "Like...killing Sarah Daniel."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked at the same time.

Ulrik Bormann shouted: "Hercules, are you crazy? Our mission is to snatch Sarah Daniel away, not to kill her. If we kill her, what will we do? Can the mission continue?"

"

"Of course." Hercules replied: "At best, it means losing the rewards of the first main plot, but the Dragon Ball will still take shape, the second mission and optional missions will still go on, and the city will never give up anything that might give up halfway.

Even if there is a task, the task will be corrected back to its original track through timely modifications."

Hercules is very sure that killing Sarah will not affect the development of the plot. The Dane family's intelligence collection for many years has already made him understand the city's behavior and consistent principles.

"But we ourselves will also lose the rewards of the first main plot." Cage shouted.

"Yes." Hercules nodded: "But we only lose rewards, and our opponents will deduct points. I don't know if Shen Yi and the others have prepared enough fines, but what is certain is that there are no rewards for the first main line.

points, they will no longer be able to escape easily, which means they must complete the second main mission. And this is what I am looking forward to."

Claudia understood somewhat: "The first main line is to protect Sarah, which allows the Broken Blade team to take her to hide in the country. But the second main line task is to require Imogen to obtain the Dragon Ball. This task requires direct force.

In the battle, they will no longer have room for maneuver. In this way, our positive advantage will be given a chance to be used. Unless they plan to give up the second mission, then they will experience two point deductions... They can't be prepared to do this.

More points.”

This is what Hercules means.

When you truly understand how terrible your opponent is, and you want to choose to defeat your opponent, sometimes you have to pay some price.

Killing Sarah Daniel, trying not to get a reward, and letting Shen Yi and others fail their mission, is the "price" that Hercules refers to.
To be continued...