Chapter 305 Dark Net, Assassination


    Knock knock!


    Before the sun even risen, Jack and Amber were woke up by a hasty loud knock on the door.


    Jack went to get the door and saw Brent and Mr. Ward standing at the doorway.


    “Young Master, a big news, the Old Master Burton is dead!”


    With a flustered face, Mr. Ward frowned and said in a low voice.


    Dead?!


    Jack was taken aback for a moment, then smirked, “That’s none of my business. I’m going back to


    sleep with Amber.”


    “He was assassinated!”


    Jack, who was just about to turn around and close the door, paused upon hearing this.


    “Young Master, let’s talk about this downstairs. It’splicated.” Mr. Ward’s hoarse voice was


    trembling.


    Hesitated for a moment, Jack smiled and signaled Amber to go back to bed, and followed the duo


    down the stairs.


    He didn’t bother at all how Old Master Burton died.


    What bothered him was Mr. Ward’s reaction.


    It was abnormal to see Mr. Ward, who was always calm and level-headed, trembling in his voice.


    At the living room, Yael was sitting on the sofa in his pajamas, staring at his phone’s screen with a grim


    face.


    “Why is even Yael here?”


    Jack nced at the clock. It was only 5 o’clock. Yael was supposed to be on his way back home from


    the night club at this hour.


    Astonished, he looked at Brent and Mr. Ward, “What’s the big deal?”


    “Young Master, Old Master Burton was assassinated. Isn’t that a big deal?”


    Brent said frantically, “The capital city is in turmoil right now. The current wealthiest man in the city has


    been assassinated. This news is like an atomic bomb!”


    Rubbing his nose, Jack smirked and sat on the sofa.


    Leaning ckly, he yawned and put on a wry smile. “And what does that have to do with us?”


    “Old Master Burton died in Tyson Hotel!” Brent said.


    Jack was still indifferent at the matter.


    As he was about to speak, Yael passed him the phone he was staring at the whole time they were


    talking.


    “What Brent said wasn’t really the point. Take a look at this.”


    Bewildered, Jack took the phone.


    He got shocked the moment heid eyes on the screen.


    The interface was unusualpared to the normal website’s. It was designed with simplism in ck


    and white. On the cover of the webpage was a blood-stained dagger.


    The blood-red color was eye-catching on the ck-and-white interface.


    Jack involuntarily slid to the bottom of the webpage and saw a line of message dashing into his vision


    like a thunder.


    S-Rated Assassination Order! Target: Hughes Family’s Heir, DT Agency’s Owner, Jack Hughes!


    What the hell…


    Jack felt an impulse to curse.


    Why would there be an assassination order after me?


    Brent and Mr. Ward were both seated at this moment.


    Mr. Ward said, “Yael, I didn’t expect you can get your hands into the Dark Net!”


    Dark Net?!


    This got Jack’s attention.


    It was the first time he heard this phrase.


    “Hey, I’m from Quinn family after all. I even helped Quinn family rake in billions and be the


    wealthiest family in the city. Of course I can get into Dark Net,” Yael replied.


    Then, he turned to Jack and tried to be as casual as possible, “You’re in big trouble this time, Jack!”


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    “Wait!”


    Completely dumbfounded, Jack asked with confusion, “What’s a Dark Net? And what’s with this


    assassination order?”


    The trio looked at each other.


    In the end, Yael and Mr. Ward both looked at Brent.


    Brent knew the most about this amongst the three of them.


    Brent took a deep breath and said, “Young Master, you can take Dark Net as the other side of civilians’


    inte. It’s at the much deeper end of the inte world wheremoners don’t have ess to. This


    is why it’s the ce where the dark side of humanity lies.”


    Jack roughly got what he was saying and nodded.


    Brent then said gravely, “And we’re looking at here, Assassination, is the hit man organization that’s


    rooted in the Dark Net. The scale of this organization covers every state across the world.”


    “Assassination receives missions mandated from all sort of clients. It rates the mission ording to the


    bounty amount, the target’s identity and the mission’s difficulty. Anyone in the Dark Net can take up the


    mission and the reward will go to whoever aplishes the mission first!”


    As Brent was exining, Jack looked at the phone screen with his pupils gradually contracted.


    Chill ran down his spine.


    “Global delegation of missions with no restrictions. That is what makes Assassination terrifying!”


    Brent’s voice was extremely low at this point. A hint of fear even shed across his face. “The missions


    are rated from the most difficult S, then A, B, C and D. And the S-rated missions are ssified from 1


    star to 5 star. Young Master, you’re now a 1 star S-rated target!”


    Jack was not listening.


    Waves of chills were running through his body. Sweat was all over his palms.


    What bothered him was Brent’s previous remark.


    Globally delegated, no restrictions!


    Which meant whoever had ess to the Dark Net could see and take up the mission.


    And from now on, as the mission’s target, he would be dealing with pestering hit men from all around


    the world, even the amateur ones!


    Jack clicked into the mission folder.


    There were only a few lines of information introducing his background and status, and the line about


    him being the Hughes family’s heir was highlighted in red.


    It seemed he was most probably rated as an S target because of his identity as Hughes family’s heir.


    As he scrolled down even further, his pupils contracted to the extremity.


    It was Burton family from the capital city who mandated the mission to Assassination!


    It dropped a bomb in Jack’s mind.


    He chided with a stern face, “The Burton family?! They thought I murdered Old Master Burton?”


    Right after Old Master Burton was murdered.


    He became an assassination target in Assassination under Burton family’s order.


    Anyone with a sane mind could figure out what the rtion between these events.


    “Yup!”


    Mr. Ward nodded and said with a long face, “This is the real trouble you’re dealing with.”


    “But I didn’t kill Old Master Burton. I went to sleep with Amber right after I got rid of them!” Jack was


    going nuts.


    Anyone would be flustered when put into the treacherous Dark Net as an assassination target.


    “This is the part that’s confusing. We know you didn’t kill Old Master Burton, but the Burton family


    believes so firmly it was your doing to the point that they mandate an assassination in Assassination


    through Dark Net.”


    Bewilderedness shed in Mr. Ward’s eyes. He muttered, “Something’s going on behind this.”


    “It doesn’t matter now!”


    Yael cut Mr. Ward off, “What matters now, is that Burton family mandated an assassination, and Old


    Master Burton’s dead had stirred a chaos. What’s going to happen next is countless hit mening for


    Jack’s head to get the bounty!”


    “Another thing is, the mandators in Assassination are usually anonymous. The organization won’t


    disclose their indentities unless it’s out of their own will. Now Burton family holds itself ountable for


    your assassination, obviously they have resolute to fight you till the end!”