Sin City (The Third Part: The Uninvited Partner)
Xu Huaiqing, pushing a luggage cart, swaggered across the VIP area of the nightclub, his only task being to kick open doors and sweep inside with his silenced gun, making it extremely quiet, even for those in the adjacent private rooms. As he collected spoils, he would often use his gun to nudge a female customer or waitress to help him gather things, as each body had a substantial amount of money on them. The people here seemed to be very wealthy, with everyone carrying high-end wallets, car keys, defensive handguns, and luxury mobile phones. Those with guns pressed against their heads could only watch as he stuffed the items into his bag.
"Search more carefully, don't miss anything. If you want to make it through the night, hurry up." Xu Huaiqing stood behind the person he was holding hostage, still calmly watching the cleanup of the battlefield. The female customer who had been taken hostage by him pulled out a pistol from the corpse and aimed at Xu Huaiqing, pulling the trigger. Xu Huaiqing kicked the gun out of her hand with one foot, then knocked the disobedient captive unconscious. "You can't even open insurance, how are you going to use a gun?"
Others saw that Xu Huaiqing's kung fu was very powerful and naturally did not dare to resist. Even the weapons on the deceased's body were obediently put in the bag, and no one dared to pick them up to fight back. Xu Huaiqing saw the confiscated mobile phones and thought that these things could be exchanged for a lot of money, or made into remote-controlled bombs and so on. In short, the seized items were basically all useful. "Turn off all the mobile phones, do you want the ringing to drive me crazy? Turn them off, you fools."
Xu Huaiqing was yelling and scaring his captives in the private room, despite today's work being extremely violent and bloody. He still managed to control himself and not shoot at women, instead knocking them out or using a stun gun. When doing illegal things, he had his own bottom line. In the VIP member area, Xu Huaiqing was unaware that the front hall was also in chaos. A female killer, carrying two handguns, opened fire on the nightclub's security guards and bouncers, with bodies falling to the ground one after another. After killing dozens of armed security guards and bouncers, she seemed to still feel unsatisfied, so she replaced her Glock 17 handgun with a high-capacity magazine and started shooting at male customers who might threaten her life. She couldn't tell who had guns on them; anyway, people who came to such an illegal place weren't good people, and the chance of mistakenly killing good people was low.
She killed a room full of people, but didn't bother to search the bodies one by one. Instead, she came straight to the cashier's desk and took the money. The female cashier was so scared that she had wet her pants, while others hid in the corners. The woman killer didn't need their help, she entered the cashier's desk herself and pulled out a pre-prepared cloth bag, sweeping away all the nightclub's revenue. She seemed to feel that it wasn't exciting enough, so she also took two bottles of wine worth tens of thousands of dollars from the wine cabinet. To show off her composure and calmness, she even poured Louis XIII into a glass with ice cubes and slowly drank it.
Many timid people on the scene fainted, and the female killer grabbed a female customer's collar. "You go get everything from everyone, jewelry, wallets, cash, credit cards, I want it all, as well as mobile phones and weapons. Carefully search those dead bodies, move quickly, before the ice melts, if you don't finish taking things, be careful of your head, if you intentionally leave out anything, then I won't be polite about it, that's all, go now." She kicked the female customer with her foot.
When Xu Huaqing pushed the luggage cart into the nightclub's dance hall, he found that there was no music here, the lights were all on, and there were many dead bodies on the ground. In the corner, someone was still crying. He wondered why they had come to sweep the place clean, but instead, they seemed to be waiting for his arrival in an orderly manner. As a result, he took a closer look and found that some women were sitting at the bar drinking, with guns in their hands, and a large package next to them, probably also looted goods. How could there be other hunters in his own hunting ground? This didn't follow the rules.
He walked up to the woman holding the gun, "Who are you and why are you distributing my things."
"Stop talking nonsense, I don't know where you got so many questions, I'll tell you the answers later." The female killer came down from the bar, finished all the wine in her cup, and threw a big bag of stolen goods onto Xu Huaiqing's pushcart. She still stood on the luggage cart, letting Xu Huaiqing push it while she rode on it.
After leaving with all the cash and weapons from the nightclub, Xu Huaiqing drove his car far away before asking, "Who are you anyway? Why are you working with me in the same place? I don't need anyone's help. Two people can't get rich by dividing this little bit of stuff. At most, we can only make enough to buy equipment. Is that right?"
The female killer also wore a mask in the nightclub, and when she came out, she took it off. She escorted Xu Huaqing out of the building where the nightclub was located, and when they got to the car, she leisurely smoked while waiting for Xu Huaqing to speak first. With a hint of disdain, she said: "Xu Huaqing, I've only heard that you're fiercely against evil and have some skills, but I didn't know you were so garrulous, even more talkative than me, like an old lady. Who can stand you? Is your girlfriend used to it?"
"Hey, who are you? How do you know my name?" Xu Huaqing drove the car out of the city to find a place to stop. He planned to figure out one thing before leaving. He gazed at the young woman in front of him with an unfriendly gaze. She had long hair and didn't wear much makeup, she was quite pretty. How could such a girl be holding a gun and doing the same thing as himself? Her appearance was too misleading, even if the police saw her, they wouldn't think she was the killer.
"From now on, you can call me Lisa. I used to work in your brother's company and was a bodyguard for your sister-in-law. I don't understand why your brother can't do some clean business instead of playing with guns all day. Why are you still following this path?" Lisa finally revealed her identity, and Xu Huaqing thought it was no wonder she knew him, turns out she knew his brother. "Why don't you just do something legitimate instead of doing these things?"
"Your brother is doing legitimate business because your sister-in-law has money, he doesn't have to start from scratch so he can do well. Don't you also have a very rich woman? Why don't you use her money to do legitimate business too? Even if not, that rich woman is willing to support you, you don't need to come here and take risks, right?" Lisa knew all about Xu Huaqing's past, he indeed had a girlfriend, but this woman was over ten years older than him, he didn't like her and of course wasn't willing to spend her money, he still liked being free and easy.
"Mind your own business."
"It's just like your brother said, you can talk about anything except what's going on between you and her. This relationship is really putting you in a difficult spot, isn't it? It's better to just cut things off cleanly. But when you bought the yacht, you didn't have enough money, so she paid for it instead, and now you're too embarrassed to refuse her. Isn't this just getting more and more complicated? You're working so hard to make money, aren't you trying to get rid of her?" Lisa said, taking out a package and sorting through the spoils of war. She put the guns in one pile, the cash in another, and prepared to discard the wallets and credit cards. Like Xu Huaqing, she wasn't interested in checks or credit cards, and didn't want to go to the bank when they could avoid it.
"Consider this money as pocket change, half for each of us. I won't hold it against you that you snatched the bundle of cash, and you'll need to keep some for small purchases anyway. All the jewelry belongs to me, since you can't use it. These guns are not bad either, we can keep them for our own use, selling them would only cause trouble for others." Lisa arranged all the spoils in the back, Xu Huaiqing said: "You're a dangerous element, knowing so much about me is very troublesome, if something happens to you, I'll be in danger too."
"You can also ask your sister-in-law to fax a copy of my information, then you'll know what's going on with me, but my social relationships are much simpler than yours. I came all the way here just wanting to have some fun for a few days, but since you're doing such a big thing by yourself, I think you must need help, so I'll come and do it with you." Lisa felt bored and lit another cigarette.
"Can you not smoke?" Xu Huaiqing himself didn't smoke much, so he felt uncomfortable when others smoked. However, if someone wanted to smoke cigars or a pipe, he could tolerate it. He only liked smoking cigars. Lisa extinguished her cigarette. "I want to do business with you together. If we make money, everyone will benefit. Why take risks alone? Two people should be less likely to encounter unexpected situations. If one person gets into trouble, at least the other can help."
"Actually, money and these things are just by-products. If you take them all away today, I won't say anything. I just don't want to see those scum continuing to exist in this city, where the law is not fair. Many people have been killed, but as long as they can afford to bribe lawyers, police and judges, they basically get off scot-free. When you walk into a nightclub, you can smell the strong odor of drugs - either heroin, cocaine or marijuana. Those without any smell are ketamine and ice, and there are also those who take too many ecstasy pills and stagger around. The police in this city not only don't catch them but actively protect them. However, to me, this is just a game where the strong prey on the weak. The seemingly powerful police are actually useless old hens that can't even protect those scum." Xu Huaiqing didn't tell her about who had asked him to kill the scum because he felt that this woman was not very reliable and some things shouldn't be told too early.
"You're different from me, I feel that killing a few scumbags and doing some small good deeds is just a byproduct. For me, money is the main thing. I want to travel around and stay in the most expensive hotels at tourist destinations. How can we do that without money? Tomorrow, let's not go to the nightclub anymore. The change there is too much trouble to get our hands on. There are many casinos locally, we just need to rob two places: first, the place where they exchange chips, and second, the casino's financial room. You can take care of the rest of those scumbags, then we'll leave. It's more efficient than going to the nightclub. There aren't many good things in a casino, you can just shoot randomly and not kill many innocent people." Lisa took out a cigar from her bag, lit it up, and handed it to Xu Huaqing.
