"I also hope that the cooperation will be pleasant, but before the official start, things must be made clear first."
Arthur did things neatly and without any fuss, and said openly and directly: "My time is limited, I can only teach you for four weeks at most. How much you can learn depends on you. I will not assume any obligations afterwards.
And I can’t do it for nothing. For Wick’s sake, I’ll give you a friendly price of $500,000. If you can, you can stay tonight.”
The killer's assassination skills are basically unique, and he is willing to teach them to others, which is very respectable.
The tuition fee of US$500,000 seems really high at first glance.
But it cannot be generalized.
You have to determine the value of tuition based on what you are learning and what you are learning.
Learning knowledge that everyone can learn, or general technical skills, even if you go to Harvard, is definitely expensive.
It’s enough for you to read back and forth several times!
If it is used to learn rare and advanced skills and knowledge that ordinary people have no access to, such as Arthur's exclusive secret assassination technique.
Needless to say, the tuition fee of 500,000 US dollars is definitely worth every penny.
For Long Zhan, Arthur's assassination skills are related to the future development of Titan Company, and he can accept any price no matter how high it is.
Therefore, after hearing Arthur's request, not only did he not say a penny about the price, he even took the initiative to increase the price.
"I can give you 1 million US dollars, but there is an additional condition: let me be your partner, and you will be guaranteed to take me on at least three assassination missions."
Arthur originally thought that the dragon war would counter-offer, and he was already mentally prepared.
After all, he risked his life to go out and perform a mission to assassinate a target. The company usually only gave him $100,000, and the most difficult target only gave him $400,000 to $500,000.
Among them, his old partner Harry wants to take half of it, so in fact, there won’t be much left in his hands.
Now I didn't expect Long Zhan to be so heroic and take the initiative to increase the price to 1 million US dollars in one breath, doubling the original price.
This is already worth his total income for more than half a year of hard work.
The only thing that made Arthur feel a little grudge was that Dragon War added an additional hard condition, which required him to take Dragon War on three missions.
A partner who cooperates well is a partner, and a partner who does not cooperate well can kill people.
This makes Arthur a little difficult to handle!
However, I thought that my old partner Harry was already dead. He had killed him with a pistol himself a few days ago. In the process, he even pretended to be a thief who accidentally killed him while robbing a car.
Now that he has become a loner, he really needs a partner to cooperate.
In addition, Long Zhan offered so much that Arthur had no way to refuse.
Finally, after a few seconds of "hard" thinking, Arthur agreed to Dragon War's request, but also put forward additional conditions.
That is, during the period of cooperation between the two parties, all actions must be subject to his arrangements.
This request is not so much a request as it is a pretext for saving face.
Because Long Zhan originally came here to learn technology, he is equivalent to a student. He must have a learning attitude and must listen to the teacher's arrangements.
Therefore, Long Zhan agreed without thinking, and the two reached a cooperative relationship.
Wick was a rare introducer. Seeing Long Zhan and Arthur happily reaching a consensus, he couldn't help but smile.
"Let's go and sit inside."
Arthur, who happily made a lot of money, invited Long Zhan and Wick into the house.
He turned on his favorite record player and carefully put in a vinyl record. As the melodious music played, he opened another bottle of red wine.
As the three of them drank red wine and chatted, Long Zhan also learned more relevant information.
For example, Arthur's full name is Arthur Bishop.
For example, although Arthur is also a killer and is a good friend of Wick, he did not join the killer organization like Wick.
Instead, he chose to join a professional killer company and became a professional killer under this company.
The nature of the killer organization is the same as that of the killer company. They receive assassination orders from customers and then send out killers to kill the targets.
However, the operating modes of the two are completely different, and they are essentially different.
The former has great freedom. No one cares whether the killer accepts the task or not. If you don't want to make money, you can just lie at home and sleep every day.
The disadvantage is that the organization is only responsible for issuing tasks and does not care about anything else, let alone provide help to the killer.
The money earned from each order is relatively high.
The latter killer is equivalent to the company's contract employee. The company will constantly assign various tasks to employees. Although employees are not required to accept some tasks, there is an upper limit and penalties will be imposed if they fail to meet the target.
Secondly, the company is responsible for everything extra in the operation, so the commission the killer can get is relatively small.
The advantage is that the company will provide intelligence and equipment, everything needed for action, which is relatively safe and stable, and the risk factor is low.
The killer only needs to make a plan and then complete it.
Both modes have their own advantages and disadvantages. How to choose depends on the killer's personal preference.
Another example is that Arthur's code name is Mechanic, but Mechanic is not a code name that belongs to him alone, but is the unified name for killers in his company.
All killers in the company are called mechanics.
There was a lot of information like this, which gave Long Zhan a detailed understanding of the killer organization and a preliminary understanding of the killer company.
We even inspired a little bit of ideas from the killer company's operating model.
When there is a suitable opportunity later, we can apply it to Jushen Company.
Long Zhan gained a lot of information in the chat. In order to obtain this information, he also paid a certain price and revealed some of his own situation.
Arthur learned that Long Zhan was a retired special forces soldier and had participated in the war between Yin LaK and A Fuhan.
Treat him with a new eye immediately!
The impression that I thought he was a pure fool was completely shattered at this moment.
None of the special forces who have participated in the war and survived are easy to mess with. As a top killer, Arthur has an extremely deep understanding of this aspect.
The main strength of today's social security system basically comes from retired military and police personnel.
Especially for the top bodyguard team of rich people, more than half of them are from the military and police forces. The bodyguards all have sufficient VIP security experience.
This also makes it easy for killers to encounter bodyguards who are retired military and police personnel when they assassinate their targets.
As Arthur is the top killer, the targets of assassinations are basically not small characters, so the strength of the bodyguard team will naturally be stronger.
During his years as a killer, the most taboo thing for him was meeting a team of special forces bodyguards.
These special forces who have accumulated rich combat experience on the battlefield, and who have turned into bodyguards after retiring with this experience, are much more alert to crises than regular bodyguards, which will make the task difficulty rise to a higher level.