"Honey, don't glare at me with those big beautiful eyes; although my handsomeness may not be so obvious."
Lin Hai touched his stubble with a deep smile.
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Xiaoya saw Lin Hai's actions and expression. Her pearly white teeth made a grinding noise, and her icy, beautiful face was filled with anger. This guy was just too detestable!
Just as she was about to verbally lash out at Lin Hai, she heard that annoying voice floating over again.
"Alas, every loser out there is vying for wisdom, good men are hard to find."
He paused for a moment, then Lin Hai added another line: "Especially a high-quality man like me."
Ouyang Xiaoya almost stumbled and fell hard on the ground. This was the first time she had seen someone with a face as thick as tile, oh no, as a city wall, even thicker than a city wall—so shameless!
Looking at Lin Hai's scruffy chin and messy hair, which exuded a sense of utter hopelessness.
And yet, it was this kind of top-tier loser who still boasted about being handsome?
Moreover, everything about this guy was so irritating, especially his slick tongue, like the "fighter among losers"!!
Suddenly, Lin Hai distinctly felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
Having just returned to the country, almost no one knew this mobile number, except for a few very intimate brothers-in-arms who had come out of the battlefield alive with him.
Getting a call at this time usually meant something important.
Immediately, Lin Hai kept his composure and chuckled, "Wife, I'll go back to the room and rest a bit, okay?"
After speaking, he turned and walked away, ready to go back to his room to take the call.
Watching Lin Hai enter his room, Ouyang Xiaoya hurriedly adjusted her bra, quickly calculating in her mind how to completely get rid of this guy. Dealing with someone who was impervious to reason and immune to influence was really difficult.
Back in his room, Lin Hai looked at the number and smiled; it was his good brother Judge calling.
Answering the phone, Lin Hai asked with a smile, "Judge, what's up, calling me so late at night?"
"Big brother, I saw a job on the Black Restricted Zone just now; it's strange," came a deep voice over the phone.
Hearing the words "Black Restricted Zone," Lin Hai frowned slightly.
Just from the name, one would know that it wasn't something the average person could be involved with.
"What job? I've recently issued a notice that I'm indefinitely not accepting any missions," Lin Hai inquired.
The Black Restricted Zone was a website for assassins in the international underground Dark World, famous within the industry. There were no shortage of top masters, someone like Lin Hai, who was a super assassin with a handsome Bonus in the Black Restricted Zone.
"Big brother, it's a job targeting you!" Judge said.
"Oh? That's interesting, tell me more."
Lin Hai was flabbergasted that someone actually dared to put a bounty on him.
Soon after, Judge roughly explained the situation over the phone.
"The opponent is strange, not using a hidden account, with the nickname X**."
After hearing that the Judge mentioned the lack of anonymity and that the account had a weird but prominent acronym as a nickname, Lin Hai was stunned for a moment before finding it both tragic and comical.
"Sh*t, this X**, must be Xiao Jiba. Didn't expect this dude could even find such a website. Interesting, daring to put a bounty on me, 100,000 US dollars? Tsk tsk, damn cheap."
Lin Hai was speechless, surprised that this kid tried to target him and managed to find a high-end, classy place like "Black Restricted Zone". Quite fierce indeed.
However, all of these efforts were futile.
"Log into my Black Restricted Zone account and take this job," Lin Hai ordered.
"Yes, Boss, rest assured."
Lin Hai lit a cigarette and squinted his eyes, thinking about how to deal with Xiao Jiba.
At the same time, Lin Hai thought that since he was living with Ouyang Xiaoya, he should take care of her as well.
"By the way, your future sister-in-law will be Ouyang Xiaoya, remember to take good care of her."
On the phone, the Judge paused for a moment, then exclaimed in shock: "Boss, I just saw a bounty on Black Restricted Zone for someone named Ouyang Xiaoya."
"What?!" The cigarette almost slipped from Lin Hai's hand and dropped to the floor, he exclaimed, surprised: "Someone put a bounty on Ouyang Xiaoya?"
Though the CEO wife seemed to have a fiery temper, she definitely didn't seem like someone who would deliberately provoke all sorts of enemies.
"Take both jobs, in the name of 'King Yan'," Lin Hai decided swiftly.
After the Judge took both jobs on the behalf of "King Yan", a massive uproar ensued on this notoriously covert yet famous "Black Restricted Zone" assassin network.
In a secret basement in Siberia, in front of a computer, Jason, who was planning to take a few small jobs for living expenses, immediately gave up on the jobs targeting Lin Hai and Ouyang Xiaoya after seeing a special name.
Subsequently, assassin organizations around the world received a message and, amidst their shock, immediately gave up on the jobs targeting Lin Hai and Ouyang Xiaoya.
"My God, he who hasn't appeared for more than half a year has finally shown up."
"King Yan has appeared, the King Yan from the East has surfaced on Black Restricted Zone, and even took two very minor jobs."
"King Yan took two jobs? Good heavens, I need to check my recent mission plans immediately to see if there's any conflict with his."
Lin Hai's account name in Black Restricted Zone is King Yan. None of the assassins knew each other's identities, and on this website, King Yan was known as one of the two great taboos, hailed as being from an Eastern nation.
When people realized they could be competing with King Yan for a job, they promptly gave up. If you encountered King Yan during a mission, it would certainly mean a slim chance of survival, if not outright death.
Everyone on Black Restricted Zone knew, back when the number one assassin Netherworld Angel challenged the then newly-famed King Yan to a life-and-death duel on the website, a month later Netherworld Angel's body was found lying in a stinking ditch, rotten for several days, and the word "King Yan" was written in blood on the ground.
Since then, King Yan's reputation skyrocketed in Black Restricted Zone and the entire underworld.
By taking the jobs, Lin Hai's intention was simple—using his hidden identity's power to protect Ouyang Xiaoya, and by extension, rid himself of trouble.
Some insightful people even deduced King Yan's intentions, quietly noting down the two names, and warning themselves and those close to them not to provoke this woman, Ouyang Xiaoya.
Some who were more familiar were curious, as King Yan typically only took jobs to assassinate drug lords, terrorists, and human traffickers. Why would he suddenly be interested in two civilians?
Others speculated that perhaps these two civilians had hidden identities, possibly drug lords themselves. The assassins of Black Restricted Zone all knew that King Yan hated drug lords the most, and if it hadn't been for Netherworld Angel's intention to delve into drug trafficking, King Yan might not have mercilessly killed him.