The Hunter's Path: Starting as a constable, ascend to the Old Ones.

Chapter 120 Wardfa, Pig Butchering Scam

"Martin, I've already taken care of Eiji Tsukamoto. You can come and verify it. Remember to transfer our money out. I'll personally collect it in a couple of days."

Lu Ming and the other two withdrew from the Jiaben Group. After traveling some distance, he called Martin from a phone booth on the street and asked him to come and prove that Tsukamoto Eiji was the mastermind behind the assassination of Tsukamoto Ichiro.

"So fast!?"

Martin was taken aback, not expecting this guy to act so quickly. They had just finished discussing the story script, and then he turned around and killed Eiji Iemoto.

"Starting work early brings peace of mind."

Lu Ming replied calmly.

"OK, I will go and verify whether Eiji Tsukamoto is dead. After confirming it, I will bribe the other two notaries and fabricate a story that Eiji Tsukamoto hired an assassin to kill Ichiro Tsukamoto in order to seize the family fortune."

Martin was elated. The murder of Eiji Iemoto meant that he could now share the $100 million revenge fund with Lu Ming and his group.

He was finally able to get his hands on the money he had been eyeing.

I hope you won't let me down.

Lu Ming's tone was calm, yet filled with a chilling aura, making Martin on the other end of the phone tense. He chuckled dryly, "Don't worry, I'm a professional at doing this kind of thing."

"I hope so."

Lu Ming hung up the phone and disappeared into the night.

Martin is a smart man. He wouldn't dare embezzle their money unless he was 100% sure. Otherwise, he would obediently help him sort out the subsequent series of transfer issues.

He'll withdraw the money after things calm down in a couple of days.

I wonder if the first bounty I got by cheating will be enough to qualify me for the Sequence 8 Bounty Hunter promotion ceremony.

The thought that Sequence 8 was within reach filled Lu Ming with excitement.

"Breaking news! Breaking news! Eiji Tsukamoto, grandson of Ichiro Tsukamoto, has been murdered!"

"The manager of the Revenge Fund announced that the fund has been taken over. What was originally thought to be a chivalrous act of punishing evil has turned into a melodramatic family feud."

"Beast! Animal! Eiji Iemoto hired an assassin to kill his own grandfather in order to seize the family fortune. He is worse than a beast and deserves to die at the hands of an assassin. He brought this upon himself."

The next day, news of Eiji Iemoto's murder spread like wildfire throughout Hong Kong. Martin secretly slipped money behind the scenes, turning the whole affair into a melodramatic soap opera about a wealthy family fighting over inheritance.

Meanwhile, the other two notaries of the Revenge Fund, under Martin's influence and with his money as leverage, quickly endorsed Martin's script and fairly and impartially proved that Eiji Iemoto was the mastermind behind Ichiro Iemoto's murder.

Moreover, this plot has already been approved by the Iemoto Group—or more accurately, by Eiji Iemoto's father.

It can be said that Eiji Iemoto's father was the biggest winner in the whole affair.

The old man who had been bullying him for years was suddenly killed, and his ambitious son, who had been trying to seize power from him, was also shot dead.

In that short period of time, the two people who posed the greatest threat to his position both died tragically.

It's truly a double celebration!

These wealthy families don't care about family ties; they only care about money and power.

Eiji Iemoto had long been openly at odds with his father.

In particular, after Ichiro Tsukamoto was assassinated, Eiji Iemoto's father believed that revenge could be left to the Revenge Fund, and their more important task was to elect a new president of the Iemoto Group in order to stabilize the morale of the group.

Eiji Iemoto strongly protested this, and at Ichiro Tsukamoto's funeral, he openly accused his father of not avenging Ichiro Iemoto and of being subservient and unworthy of being the next president of the Iemoto Group.

The two have essentially broken off all ties.

When money and power are at stake, what fatherly affection can there be?

Eiji Iemoto boasted that once he avenged Ichiro Iemoto, he would take direct control of the entire Iemoto Group.

It was precisely because of this premise that others quickly accepted that Iemoto Ichiro died at the hands of Iemoto Hideki, who was fighting for the family fortune.

Martin's script fits the current situation of the Kapton family perfectly.

As Martin had predicted, Eiji Tsukamoto's father had no interest in pursuing the real killer who had murdered him and his son; he was only focused on inheriting the entire family business as soon as possible.

"Wodefa!"

When the assassins who had come to Hong Kong from all over the world on behalf of their agent heard that the Revenge Fund had already been taken, they were completely stunned and then started cursing.

It happened so suddenly that they didn't have time to react before the whole thing was over.

"It's a pig butchering scam, absolutely a pig butchering scam! My five million deposit—"

In a dilapidated house, Crocodile slammed the newspaper on the table and let out a mournful howl. Those who participated in the Revenge Fund had to pay a deposit of five million yen to be allowed to attend the meeting that day and sign an agreement in black and white. The deposits they paid would accumulate in the pool of the Revenge Fund until the mastermind behind Ichiro Iemoto's murder was killed. Then all the funds in the Revenge Fund would belong to the assassin team that killed the real killer.

Simply put, the Revenge Fund is a winner-takes-all competition.

Now that Eiji Iemoto is dead, the public promotion of the Revenge Fund has ended.

This means that everyone who attended the Revenge Fund meeting instantly lost five million yuan.

This huge sum of money is equivalent to the cost of a single life for those top assassins.

The loss is huge.

However, they already knew this rule before joining the revenge fund, so many of them were already mentally prepared to lose money and leave.

They were naturally angry, and even more eager to shoot the notary, manager of the revenge fund, and the assassin who had received the bounty.

But doing so would violate industry rules, incite public outrage, and more likely lead to death.

So they had no choice but to accept their fate and swallow the bitter pill.

At least that's how it appears on the watch face.

Xiao Fu slurped the noodles into his mouth and swallowed them whole, then said with a hint of regret, "It's come to this, try to think positively—let's eat some instant noodles first!"

"All you ever think about is eating! Do you even know that we're going to be so poor we can't afford to eat anymore?"

Crocodile Man instantly donned a mask of anguish. The five million yuan he had handed over was his life savings, which he had mortgaged his house and borrowed from all sides to scrape together. Losing it all at once meant he could expect to be harassed by creditors every day for the rest of his life!

The only thing that comforted him was that at least he had gotten out of this mess.

His life was saved.

Losing money is a way to avert disaster.

This five million yuan is equivalent to buying his life.

"No—something's strange about this."

Crocodile suddenly realized that, in truth, he was actually somewhat involved in the murder of Tsukamoto Ichiro, which was why he had borrowed money to squeeze into the revenge fund meeting.

Logically speaking, if a real investigation were conducted, it would inevitably lead back to him, and he wouldn't have the opportunity to sit at home so peacefully eating instant noodles.

unless----

The murder of Eiji Tsukamoto was a setup; someone deliberately framed Eiji Tsukamoto as the mastermind, hoping to use this to fund a $100 million revenge fund.

Perhaps, the murder of Ichiro Iemoto was a setup from the very beginning.

The mastermind behind this scheme wanted to seize the $100 million from the Revenge Fund, so they set up this plot: first, kill Ichiro Iemoto to activate the Revenge Fund, and then find a scapegoat to complete the loop and obtain the $100 million.

The crocodile man felt a chill run down his spine at this thought and dared not think any further.

"Xiao Fu, let's eat noodles and pretend nothing happened."

He ate his instant noodles, his hands trembling.

The person who can set up such a scheme is someone you absolutely cannot afford to offend.

The only option is to pretend to be confused and bury this matter deep in your heart forever, lest you bring about your own demise.

If someone as powerful as Ichiro Tsukamoto or Eiji Tsukamoto could be easily killed, killing a nobody like him would be a piece of cake.

"Let's eat noodles, let's eat noodles."