"I also hope that the cooperation will be pleasant, but before the official start, things must be made clear first."
Arthur worked neatly and unobtrusively, 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 being willing to teach them to others is very respectable.
The tuition fee of US$500,000 seems indeed high at first glance.
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, if he goes out to risk his life and perform a mission to assassinate a target, the company usually only gives him $100,000, and the most difficult target only gives him $400,000 to $500,000.
Among them, his old partner Harry wants to take away 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. He took 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 Long Zhan added an additional hard condition, which required him to take Long Zhan 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, and he had accidentally killed him by pretending to be a thief robbing a car.
Now he has become a loner and really needs a partner to cooperate.
In addition, Long Zhan gave too much, and 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 was equivalent to a student. He had to have a learning attitude and definitely 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.
But 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 large.
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, and the killer can get less commission.
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 formulate 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 the killers in the company are called mechanics.
There is 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.
It 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 the Titan 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 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Treat him with a new eye immediately!
My impression of him as a pure stupid guy was completely shattered at this moment.
None of the special forces who have survived the war 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 rich bodyguard team, more than half of them are from the military and police forces. The bodyguards all have sufficient VIP security experience.
This also leads to killers who easily encounter bodyguards who are retired military and police personnel when assassinating their targets.
Arthur exists as the top killer, and the targets of assassinations are basically not small characters. The strength of the bodyguard team will naturally be stronger.
During his years as a killer, his most taboo thing was meeting a team of special forces bodyguards.
These special forces who have accumulated rich combat experience on the battlefield and 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 another level.
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