"I… I'll have to consult my manager first. Please, don't hang up."
"Okay," Jack nodded and decided to wait for her to do the consultation.
After about three minutes of waiting, the lady on the other end of the phone finally spoke. "Well, Mr. Jack. I guess you have great luck as the one that had booked pilot Gabriel Wadi has just said that the trip has been cancelled. So, pilot Gabriel Wadi is available now."
Jack couldn't help but be suspicious. He wondered of it was true that the person had cancelled the order, or it was just that a certain potbellied manager had heard that there was extra money somewhere and decided to change the pilot for the other person.
Anyway, he didn't care as long as he got what he wanted. He smiled and asked, "So, how much am I supposed to pay to hire him for a whole year?"
The lady was immediately stunned by Jack's question. Hiring a pilot for a whole year? Wasn't that insanely expensive? Furthermore, the other party seemed serious and at the same time joking.
After thinking for a moment, the lady related Jack to being a young man that was just trying to tease her. So, she could only ask for confirmation. "Are you serious sir?"
"Of course I'm. How else would I call if I wasn't serious about it?" Jack asked back with raised brows.
The lady sensed the seriousness in Jack's voice and couldn't help but take a deep breath. Then, she replied, "The pilot is paid according to the number of times that he will have to fly the aircraft. Furthermore, there's a guaranteed payment that has to be made, this is the one that if you hire a pilot for a long period of time, even if he doesn't fly you anywhere, he has to receive it."
Jack nodded in understanding. After all, if he took the other party in for a whole year and only flied the aircraft once, he surely would be a joker. Furthermore, the longer that the pilot stayed with him, the more the chances that he would be missing if there were others that wanted to book him. This was the exact reason for the guaranteed payment.
"Not a problem at all. Just tell me the price and I will sign the contract after we come to an agreement." Jack replied.
"Okay then. The pilot is paid according to the distance that he's going to fly the aircraft. Then, there's also the duration of which he's hired, the payment has to be made in advance. In case you want to withdraw, the advance payment would be refunded after subtracting the payment of the period of time that the pilot has been on duty. As for the total remainder of the balance, the refund will be twenty percent less." The lady stated.
Jack could also understand what this implied, being refunded twenty percent less of the money that he'd paid previously. After all, if he made an appointment that they would have a trip in three days, the schedule of the pilot on that specific day would be filled up.
So, if there was a person that wanted to get him, he wouldn't be able to as long as it was on that day. In other words, as long as booking was done, it would make the person stop receiving the other offers.
In the end, if the one that did the booking decided to cancel it, the pilot would have lost a lot. Fifteen percent of the twenty percent was the one that was given to the pilot as compensation, while the other five percent was for the organization.
"I want him to be my pilot for a year. As for the number of times that he would be flying the aircraft, just assume that it's ten days every month with the longest distance. So, can you calculate for me what the price is?" Jack said.
The lady on the other side typed on the computer's keyboard for a while before replying, "For a year of hire, you'll have to pay 7.2 million dollars in advance. On the other hand, I'll assume the ten longest flight a month would be within the country. So, for each flight, it will cost 30,000 dollars. The total cost should be $115.2M Of course, once you pay this, the service and fuel of the aircraft would be on us."
The lady's calculations were quite precise. Jack could understand that the reason for the high price was definitely for the fuel and service. After all, an aircraft's fuel wasn't like that of cars that could he easily accessed.
This fuel was restricted and as a result, for a person to get access to it, he must be authorized by the government officials as it was the country's government that controlled the flow of this fuel.
"No problem at all. Just send me the contract via the email and I will sign it immediately. I'll transfer the money immediately after we sign the contract." Jack said.
The lady never thought that Jack was such a rich person. She had thought that he would try reducing the period that he would be hiring the pilot. In the end, Jack was pretty serious about it and even agreed to complete the payment at this moment.
"Okay then. Send me your details through your email. I'll send you a text of the email that you're supposed to send your details to, after the call." The lady said enthusiastically.
She was one of the people that offered online services. Although there were several that did it personally, there were those that operated through calls or online in the website. She was amongst them.
Since Jack had placed such a big order, once it was completed, her commission this time would surely be high. So, the moment that the call ended, she sent over the email that Jack had to send his details to so that the contract could be drafted.
After receiving the message, Jack immediately entered the mailbox present on his phone. He uploaded the scanned copies of his identity card and a few other required documents.
After that, he decided to wait for them to draft the contract for him. As for the money, he could just transfer it via his phone, a privilege of his current black gold card.
He was just thinking of leaving to get a printer and so on when his phone rang. On the screen, it was an unfamiliar number that Jack didn't know. He then wondered to himself, 'What's up with these calls today? So many calls.'
He wondered if the person calling him was a delivery person who had come to deliver his laptop. Looking at the time on the wrist watch, he found that it was only five minutes to three in the afternoon. Jack simply shook his head as he thought that it would be impossible for the delivery to be done at this time as they said that it would be delivered in the evening.
After hesitating for a moment, he received the call. "Hello, who's this?"
"Jack, we are exactly in Inchoate city, where are you right now?" A familiar but somehow unfamiliar voice reached Jack's ears.
Jack frowned when he heard how rude the other party was. Not only had he not even greeted him nor had he introduced himself, he went straight to asking for his location.
Even if Jack was a retard, why would he give his location to a stranger? Of course he wouldn't do that. So, he coldly asked again, "Who are you? And why do you want to know of my location?"
Jack's question seemed to have stunned the other party as there was absolutely no reply for almost a minute. Just when he was about to hung up, the other party finally replied, "I'm your father!"
"Then I'm your grandpa! How dare you just come from nowhere and claim to be my father?!" Jack was furious at this moment at the mention of the word father and couldn't help but curse at the other party.
'Father' was the word that he had never liked to hear ever since he was at the Alfonso family and this hadn't changed even at this moment. After all, he and his mother had gone through a lot and as a result, he hated the fact that his father never cared about him and his mother.
His mother always secretly shed her tears as she looked at a photo of her and the person that was supposedly to be his father. From that moment, he hated the person who dared to claim to be his father. As such, he hated the word father as long as it was related to him.
So, the moment that he heard the other party claiming to be his father, his always suppressed anger and resentment burst out all at once. He threw several profanities that he had never done before at this moment, all of it just to vent his anger.
After cursing for almost ten minutes, it was at this time that his head cooled down for a moment. It was also now that the words that the other party said finally sank into his brain and were processed.
Jack had never expected that the reason as to why he found the voice familiar was due to the fact that the other party was his father.
"Father?" Jack muttered to himself at this moment, his eyes gazed at the void as he was in a daze. Just as Jack's mind was about to wonder around, Angel, the system's guide spoke accompanied by a system prompt.
[Emergency mission program activated. Advance reward, Professional Combatant. Accompanying task that you'll have to complete so that you can permanently have the reward is as follows: Task; Earn money by participating and winning a fighting competition. Time limit, 7 days.]
Jack: "…."