Chapter 313:
“You saw it just now. My subordinates reported the whole thing to me, and then they conveniently investigated your identities.
Guess what I found out?”
The Black Boss deliberately played coy with Chang Ning, waiting for him to respond like a foil.
“It seems the boss has investigated something interesting, but that’s not important to me!
I just want to close this deal, so put away your pointless tricks!”
How could Chang Ning be led around by this Black Ghost?
He didn’t know why, but every troublesome thing he’d encountered since arriving in America seemed to be related to Black people.
“Okay, okay.”
Seeing the customer becoming agitated, the Black Boss quickly raised his hands, signaling for him to calm down.
With such a lucrative business opportunity, how could the Black Boss, who prided himself on being a businessman, let this opportunity slip away?
“The driver who clashed with you belongs to a street gang called Zero Point,” the Black Boss whispered, leaning closer to Chang Ning.
“What do you want to say?”
Being targeted by a local gang in a foreign land was not good news for Chang Ning.
Hearing this, even though he was mentally prepared, a surge of inexplicable anger rose within him.
With the mission starting off so unproductively, Chang Ning had a premonition that things would not be easy from here on out.
The Black Boss saw no fear on the Asian man’s face, which was different from the Asians he had encountered before; they were as weak as sheep.
If they had heard they were targeted by a gang, they would have already lost their composure from fear.
But the man before him didn’t give him that impression.
His intuition told him that this man was not someone he could afford to provoke.
“Buddy, as a first-time customer here, I’ll give you a little discount.
What do you think about the information on that gang?”
The Black Boss, who had initially planned to make a larger profit, changed his mind. Although the decision pained him,
anything that prevented him from making money caused him pain, as that was green cash!
“How much?”
Chang Ning leaned against the counter, observing the people around him, only looking away after spotting a group of burly men.
At the same time, he managed to handle the Black Boss while multitasking.
“No charge, it’s free!”
Apart from the Boss himself, perhaps only the Almighty knew how much his heart ached when he uttered those two words.
The Black Boss’s expression was grim, but Chang Ning didn’t care; he just wanted what he desired.
And to finish this troublesome mission quickly.
Honestly, he regretted it.
He regretted interfering and taking on this mission, and he had even meticulously planned the execution, purely to cause himself trouble.
Since the Black Boss wasn’t charging, Chang Ning wasn’t going to be polite with a foreigner, and thus asked, “What’s their scale, and what’s their composition?”
Knowing he had been targeted, Chang Ning wasn’t going to passively accept it.
What were American gangs to him? Just fight them!
Given the local gangs’ impoliteness, Chang Ning felt he could gratuitously help the local law enforcement solve their problems.
Besides, who said he had to do it himself? Wasn’t it good to use other people’s money to get his own things done?
With this thought, Chang Ning discreetly observed the group of strong men not far away.
“Scale? Relax, buddy, this is just a small gang with about 20 members. The boss is called Drunk Donnie, and their base is in a bar, which is Donnie’s property.
They have five handguns, but I can’t tell you the models. I’m just a merchant operating in the black market,” the Black Boss said, shrugging and spreading his hands.
After speaking, fearing Chang Ning might forget, he thoughtfully wrote it down on a small slip of paper.
Chang Ning was already satisfied with the intelligence obtained from the Black Boss, especially since he had only paid $500.
Chang Ning was very pleased with the ratio of expenditure to return.
“Okay, I’m very satisfied with your information.
Now give me the money, and the car at the entrance is yours.”
Chang Ning pushed the car key towards the Black Boss, then watched as the latter took out a stack of loose bills from his pocket and started counting them one by one.
When the stack of change was presented, Chang Ning pushed it back.
“The amount is wrong. This is more than five hundred.”
The Black man hadn’t tried to hide the counting from him, and this stack of money before Chang Ning was at least a thousand US dollars.
“Consider the extra money a gesture of friendship.
I believe you can see that I sell not only miscellaneous items but also intelligence as part of my business.
Buddy, I can tell you’re a first-timer here and you’re quite skilled.
Someone like you often carries great business potential. I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future.”
The thin Black Boss looked at Chang Ning with intense desire in his eyes, a craving for money, a pathological one.
Chang Ning understood the psychology of such people; their desire for money was like that of a hound in the grasslands for a lone antelope, gazing longingly, wishing to devour them completely and drain them to the bone!
Chang Ning instinctively wanted to distance himself from this kind of information broker, not knowing if the other party would sell him out for US dollars.
Just like this time, the other party had easily revealed the information about “Zero Point” to him.
“There will be opportunities.”
Chang Ning dropped this sentence and left the Black Boss’s stall without looking back.
“If Zero Point finds out we sold information about them, Drunk Donnie will come after us!”
The Black Boss’s subordinate said worriedly, not wanting to be targeted by that pervert Donnie.
Especially when he thought of Donnie’s reputation on the streets, the subordinate’s backside began to ache.
“Don’t worry, that homosexual sadist Donnie won’t have a chance to retaliate against us,”
the Black Boss said slowly to his subordinate, watching Chang Ning’s retreating figure disappear into the crowd.
Even if that Asian man couldn’t handle Donnie, another group would clean up the mess.
Many people had their eyes on “Zero Point”; the previous Asian was just a bonus.
As a well-known information broker, he had to grasp every ripple in any industry; this was basic professionalism.
He aspired to become an intelligence merchant, and a small miscellaneous stall was not where he belonged.
Villas, young models, cash, and red wine were the life he should have; the FBI, CIA, and major political and business groups were the customers he should interact with.
The Black Boss had a premonition that the Asian man would surprise him.
Even if the Asian man ended up dead, it wouldn’t matter; he was just an Asian.
“Have someone keep an eye on Donnie. This is all money!”
“I’ll go do it right away.”
The subordinate received his boss’s order and hurried away.
After leaving the Black information broker, Chang Ning walked towards where the burly men were gathered.
From a distance earlier, Chang Ning had observed that the strong men were indeed very muscular, but upon closer inspection, he realized he had underestimated them.
The circumference of their arms and legs, who would believe it was natural?
Their exposed skin was covered in various patterns, seemingly markings of a certain gang.
“Kid, what are you looking at?”
A burly man noticed Chang Ning staring at them and asked with a stern, unfriendly tone.
