novelhk Chapter 139 An Unexpected Gain
Chapter 139 An Unexpected Gain
Chapter 139 An Unexpected Gain
As the first deal to crack down on the hitman industry, it must be done flawlessly.
Raphael planned to kill his target, Bennett, with a heart attack, as he had recently been diagnosed with a heart problem and was undergoing treatment.
If someone has a sudden heart attack at this time, it won't arouse suspicion from those around them.
As for how to induce a heart attack in the target, Raphael would prepare the corresponding poison.
He could concoct many kinds of poisons, which were similar to extraordinary potions; if an ordinary person drank them, they would basically be beyond saving.
However, since giving the target poison is contrary to the fighting style of the "zombies," those poisons are rarely used.
However, it is perfectly suited for use in the process of being an assassin.
At dusk, Raphael sneaked into Nebert's villa. The mining businessman was wealthy enough to afford two exceptional bodyguards.
But those were two "low-sequence" extraordinary beings, and Raphael really didn't take them seriously.
Raphael glanced at his target, who was dining in the distance. There were too many people in the restaurant; it wasn't a good time to make a move.
According to intelligence obtained by Wagner's men while keeping watch, Nebert would go to his study to read for a while after dinner, and Raphael was waiting for that opportunity.
He hid in the attic for a while, using a ghost to keep an eye on Nebert's movements.
"The living dead" can control ghosts and weaker evil spirits to serve them. This is the first time Raphael has used this ability. If they are used to attack targets directly, the attack power is not great, but they are perfect for surveillance.
After hiding for more than an hour, the ghost sent a signal, and Bennett finally got up and went to the study.
Raphael immediately left through the attic window, and in the darkness he climbed up to the second floor like a gecko, then entered a rather dimly lit corridor.
The brightness of a gas lamp is on a completely different level from that of an incandescent bulb. Even a wealthy man like Bennet could install gas lamps in the corridors, but there would still be some dimly lit places in the huge villa.
Raphael braced himself against the wall with his hands and feet, his back against the roof, and waited quietly.
Soon he saw Bennett and his eldest son enter the study, and then a servant brought in tea. Raphael, like a giant spider, quietly crawled over and dripped his venom into one of the cups.
To prevent Bennett's eldest son from drinking the poisoned tea, Raphael climbed onto the outer wall, pried a small pebble the size of a grain of rice from the wall plaster, and flicked it with his finger. The pebble shot out and knocked over the water cup in the tray.
The servant was taken aback, wondering why the cup had suddenly tipped over.
He lifted the cup and examined it briefly, only to find some debris around the cup.
Those were small pebbles that had been scattered by the impact.
The servant was somewhat surprised and quickly cleaned up the debris. If the butler or the master saw it, he would surely be scolded again.
After cleaning up the debris, the servant took a deep breath and continued forward, entering the study.
Raphael returned to the attic and continued to manipulate the ghosts he had previously entered into Bennett's study.
Through the ghost's perspective, Raphael saw that after the servant knocked and entered, Bennett and his eldest son stopped talking, clearly not wanting the servant to hear their conversation.
The servants poured tea for the two men. The cup containing the poison was filled to the brim, while the cup that Raphael had smashed with a pebble began to leak after the tea was poured in.
The servant quickly apologized and offered to go back and replace the cup.
The Bennett father and son didn't think much of it and told the servants not to change the cups.
After the servant left, Bennett took a sip of tea and continued to his eldest son, "It was indeed dug out of the coal. According to the workers, they initially thought it was a stone that looked like an eye."
"Until that guy suddenly disappeared, strange things started happening frequently at the coal mine."
He took another sip of tea: "At that moment, the great god sent down a divine decree, instructing me to take some workers to a place filled with resentment."
"After thinking about it, taking them to the factory area and the eastern district is the most suitable option—"
Bennett clutched his chest, feeling a pang of heart palpitation. He said to his eldest son, "Go to the bedroom and get my medicine."
He has been experiencing heart palpitations frequently lately and has to take medication constantly.
After Bennett's eldest son left, Raphael saw Bennett sit down in a chair, pale-faced, and begin to breathe heavily, his hand, which had been clutching his heart, gradually clenching into a fist.
Raphael noticed the conversation between the father and son, and there seemed to be some inside story, but he didn't care much about the specifics; his main goal was to kill.
A short while later, the eldest son quickly brought the medicine, put a few pills in his father's mouth, and then brought him some tea.
Then Bennett collapsed into the chair and lost consciousness.
The eldest son quickly called for servants to help, and they carried Bennett downstairs and into a carriage to the hospital.
Raphael then quietly went to Bennett's study and added a few drops of medicine to the tea, turning the poisoned tea into normal tea.
Just as he was about to leave, he saw an open folder on the desk containing a portrait. On the back of the portrait were a few lines of text that explained the basic information of the person in the portrait.
Raphael recognized the person in the portrait. Hugh Deercha's second task for Raphael was to mobilize the Mafia to find two missing MI9 members in the Bridge District, and the person in the portrait was one of them.
Raphael turned a page and, sure enough, saw another MI9 member on the second page. He continued flipping through the pages, and on the third page was a young man who looked somewhat melancholy.
Raphael felt that the young man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.
He glanced at the text behind the portrait, which simply stated that it was an extraordinary being, and he was pleased.
In addition, it states that upon seeing the person in the portrait, one must immediately put on sunglasses, otherwise one will lose oneself.
The next page was all text. Raphael glanced at it and saw that it described a bizarre mining accident and the strange events that followed.
At that moment, footsteps echoed in the corridor. Raphael didn't look closely, put the documents away, then clenched his fist and crushed the ghost he had been controlling.
The next second, Raphael jumped out of the window and crawled away like a gecko.
The footsteps were those of Bennett's eldest son, who had returned. He quickly came back and glanced at the half-full cup of tea. His father's condition had been well controlled and it was unlikely that it would suddenly worsen.
He let the servant who had brought the tea take a sip, and after waiting a while, he saw that the servant did not show any symptoms of heart disease.
He frowned, thinking he might be overthinking things. He tidied up the documents on the table and took a carriage to catch up with his father, who had set off earlier.
Meanwhile, Raphael returned to the mechanics company, told Wagner to get ready to collect the money, and instructed him: "The target died of a heart attack, and so far no one has suspected anything."
"If the employer refuses to pay wages on the grounds of accidental death, tell him that he will also die in a way that will not arouse anyone's suspicion."
Wagner smiled and said, "Understood."
He found such assassinations exciting and even considered taking on a job himself.
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