Chapter 17: One Step Late

  Jin Hu slightly tilted his head, the strength in his hand increasing bit by bit. The man kneeling on the ground had despair filling his eyes, his body trembling uncontrollably as he felt himself losing control, a foul odor mixed with the smell of urine gushing out from beneath him.

  Eve's first reaction was to grab Jinhu's arm and shake it vigorously, saying "Brian! Are you crazy? Let go!"

  Jin Hu turned his head and gazed at Eve lightly, his eyes calm like a sheet of ice. As Eve looked into Jin Hu's eyes, she took two steps back, then glanced at the man kneeling on the ground, whose face had already started to turn purple, before walking up again: "Let him go, are you going to kill him? Let him go quickly! I'm begging you." After speaking, tears flowed out, and she pulled Jin Hu's hand, trying to pry it open forcefully.

  Jin Hu felt a wave of annoyance in his heart and let go of his hand, walking towards the door.

  The man escaped death and didn't care that he was lying in his own excrement, prostrating himself on the ground and gasping for air with big mouthfuls.

  "Are you going to kill someone?" A man not far away finally came back to his senses and shouted at the back of Jin Hu who was walking towards the door.

  Jin Hu stopped his body, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it up. He turned around to look at the man, took a fierce drag, and the dark red flame on the tip of the cigarette immediately brightened: "What can killing you do?" After finishing speaking, he calmly looked at the person who spoke.

  Looking at this person without speaking, Jin Hu put the cigarette in his hand and walked two steps to open the door and went out of the house.

  As soon as the car started moving, Eve ran out and stood in front of it, facing Jin Hu and saying: "Brian! Where are you going?"

  "It's none of your business anymore" Jin Hu stretched out his head and said to Eve: "We have nothing to do with each other anymore".

  "I never ask about your affairs or pry into your private life, it's unfair of you to treat me like this!"

  Jin Hu looked at the woman in front of the car: "Where is there so much fairness in this world?!" After finishing, his hand lightly pulled, and he stepped on the accelerator under his foot. The car suddenly retreated to the side of the road, then turned around and disappeared into the night.

  It was early morning when Jin Hu returned to the factory, Kim was lazily coming down from the second floor, and Bernie was following behind Kim. Seeing Jin Hu return, he rubbed his eyes: "Fuck! Brian, didn't you say you were going to play with that slut for a couple of days?"

  Jin Hu shrugged: "She's too aggressive, I'm not interested anymore."

  Kim and Bernie looked at each other and asked in unison: "How much?"

  Jin Hu exaggerated the matter, and Bernie regretfully said: "Isn't it just everyone gathering together to have fun? Why are you overreacting like this? After all, she doesn't even count as your woman. Next time something like this happens, call me first! Let me be on the front line for such a disgusting thing."

  Jin Hu gave Bernie the middle finger: "I'm disgusted with other men!" After that, he picked up his clothes and walked upstairs.

  For the next few weeks, Jinhu followed his teammates and started to get bored again. When he had nothing to do, he would follow Kimu to tease the receptionist at the dental clinic, or follow Bernie to be a light bulb, or follow Lu Jing and Kelsie to have a four-person blind date. Kelsie and Bernie made good progress, while Jinhu and Lu Jing could only say they were stuck in place, one being unfeeling and the other being uninterested, with both of them focusing on being light bulbs.

  Early in the morning, Jin Hu came out of his room and walked to the stairs, watching Berni making a phone call: "That's what I said, I'll pick you up tonight, goodbye." After finishing speaking, he kissed the phone, and Jin Hu's hair stood on end. He asked Clyde, who was punching a sandbag beside him, "Is Berni out of his mind?"

  Clyde leaned against the sandbag and smiled at Jinhu: "Our Berny has reached puberty, he's in love!" He chuckled twice.

  "Kurisu?" Jinhu asked uncertainly, looking at Kurisu who nodded: "How long are you planning to do this?"

  "Kim opened the board early in the morning, and after ten days of going to bed, he lost two for one. After twenty days, he lost four for one. If they stayed together for more than a month, he would lose seven for one." Clyde said to Jinhu.

  "Kim!" Jinhu yelled at Kim not far away: "Ten days! Twenty dollars!"

  Kim took off his boxing gloves: "How can you all be pressed for ten days, can't you press the time a bit more? Don't you have some confidence in Bernie's love?"

  Jintiger pulled out a ticket from his pocket, lit a cigarette and said: "I'm not worried about Berni's love, I'm worried about when Christ will come to check the room! When we went to Berni's bedroom, there were golden hair, red hair and everything on the bed, it was wonderful".

  "Right! Right!" Duncan nodded and said: "When else can we find Bernie's private collection?!"

  Bernie stuck up his middle finger and drew a circle: "Don't call me for tonight's activities" He said, walking upstairs: "I'm going to burn all my collections onto discs and hide them in hard-to-find places!"

  Jin Hu listened and smiled, shaking his head.

  "Bryan! Come here for a moment" Evan said, coming out of the second floor door and leaning against the railing to face Jinhu.

  Jin Hu listened and walked towards the second floor, following Evan into his office. He looked up to see a new map hanging on the wall and said to Evan, "Does everyone have a new task again?"

  Aidan shook his head and said: "Not everyone, but you and me!" He turned over the table, found a piece of paper and handed it to Jinhu.

  Jin Hu flipped it open and took a look, inside was a photo, the photo showed a white man in his fifties, wearing a suit, looking very powerful, with someone opening the car door for him.

  "Is the task to kill him?" Jin Hu looked around and asked, "Tell me the location, I'll take care of it!" Jin Hu was bored with nothing to do anyway, how could he possibly let go of an opportunity to make money.

  Aidan looked at Jinhu and smiled, shaking his head: "No! This time is to protect him! One week's time!"

  Jin Hu was taken aback: "I've never protected anyone before, and this is a hassle." He looked at Evan and asked, "How did this happen?" Robbery and stuff are not the issue, but asking me to be someone's bodyguard? Who has such a big attitude? And isn't this job available 24/7? Has Evan taken the wrong medicine or something?!

  "My father!" Ivan looked at Jinhu and said slowly.

  "Hmm! Jin Hu paused for a moment, picked up the photo again and looked at the person in it. Upon closer inspection, he found that there was indeed some resemblance to Evan, although not very obvious. But if you look closely, you can vaguely see a shadow of him. This matter is getting a bit weird, Jin Hu asked Evan: "Is your father in some kind of danger?""

  "I'm not sure! My sister called me this morning, saying that he's going to testify in court these few days and accuse a big shot. Now there are several police officers providing him with protection, but I don't trust them, so I hope you can come with me for a few days."

  "Why don't you call them up?" Jin Hu found it a bit strange, isn't this kind of bodyguard work better with more people, why just the two of them, himself and Evan?

  Aidan said to Jinhu, "They have other things to do. I think you're the best at dealing with assassins. Of course, this is a private matter in my household. If you don't want to go, I can replace you with someone else."

  "When are we leaving?" What else can Jin Hu say? Don't say anything, just pack up and leave!

  "If possible, let's leave this afternoon!" Evan said, looking at Jinhu.

  Jin Hu nodded and turned around to prepare to go back and pack his things. Evan said to Jin Hu's back, "Brian, thank you!"

  "Alright, three days after a week later, everyone's entertainment expenses will be on you!" Jin Hu said without turning his head.

  "A month is also mine!" Ivan said loudly with his back to Jinhu.

  Jin Hu listened and waved his hand casually at Aiven, then opened the door and walked out.

  Back in the house, Jinhu simply put a few clothes into his bag and slung it over his shoulder. He arrived at Evan's office door, where Evan was talking to Lauter and Joey. Seeing Jinhu approach, he said to the two of them: "That's it! You guys be careful too, Lauter, you're in charge of everyone's safety! Don't take any risks, if there's anything you can't decide on, just wait until I get back with Brian. Your main task is to monitor the targets, especially those three I mentioned earlier. Just note down any special habits or behaviors they have." Seeing them nod, he picked up a backpack from the chair and said to Jinhu: "Let's go!"

  Jin Hu followed Evan to the airport in Philadelphia. After Evan left for about ten minutes, he came back and took Jin Hu out of the airport directly. Once outside, Evan hailed a taxi and invited Jin Hu to get in. He told the driver, "Go to Media!"

  After the car started, he took a small package from his luggage bag and handed it to himself. Jin Hu took over the small package and saw that it was an ID card, and it was a police ID card with his own photo on it, and the name was Brian Cohen. Below the ID card was a shield-shaped police badge with the letters NYPD on it, next to which was a handgun.

  Looking at these few things, Jin Hu raised his head and glanced at Aiven.

  Ivan smiled and said, "This is your ID, I brought it for you this time." After saying that, he pulled open a corner of his clothes, and Jinhu saw that Ivan also had a police badge hanging from his waist. Oh! This time again, he's pretending to be a cop! Jinhu took one look and felt like he understood, so he imitated Ivan's actions, hung the police badge on his belt, picked up the ID and put it in his pocket. As for everyone's unique hobby of loving to pretend to be cops, Jinhu had a bit... of fondness for it! Pretending to be a cop made Jinhu feel like he was getting a special kind of psychological thrill, and it seemed like he was getting addicted to it too. The flavor of this experience couldn't be explained to outsiders.

  The taxi ran along the road without stopping, and on both sides of the road were rows of small buildings hidden in the woods.

  After waiting for the car to start for more than 20 minutes, Evan said to Jinhu: "We're almost there" As soon as he finished speaking, the car turned a corner and saw many police cars parked at the entrance of a building. Evan's face stiffened for a moment before returning to normal.

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