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Chapter 19 Gwen Arrives

To be honest, this infiltration went more smoothly than Erin had expected.

The leader of the Water Ghost Gang, "Giant Ghost" Onik, was also easier to deal with than Erin had anticipated.

They didn't even encounter any decent resistance before they were inexplicably drugged and killed by Erin.

Even on their deathbeds, they didn't know who their enemy was.

Of course, the reason why Erin was able to resolve the situation so easily this time, including the three members of the Water Ghost Gang, including "Giant Ghost" Onik, was also largely due to that unexpectedly effective hallucinogenic spray.

Looking at the three people lying in a pool of blood, Erin thought with some emotion.

"It seems that killing is easier than I imagined, and that people are more fragile than I imagined."

"It's a pity that the last big boss of the Water Ghost Gang isn't here, otherwise we could have taken care of them all at once."

This murder did not cause Erin any discomfort, nor did it arouse any perverse excitement in him.

Yes, but it's just a kind of taken-for-granted ordinariness.

It seems that deep down he thinks that killing is not a big deal.

After shaking his head to temporarily banish this somewhat crazy thought, he...

Wearing gloves, Erin began searching through the house.

Having dealt with "Giant Ghost" Onik and his men without using firearms or causing any major disturbance, Erin has ample time to clean up the battlefield.

More than half an hour later.

After cleaning up the traces he had left behind, Erin, carrying a heavy backpack, quickly left Hell's Kitchen, avoiding the few security cameras on the streets.

And a dozen minutes after Erin left.

Through a simple trap.

In the house where Oniks was, a spark ignited the natural gas valve that Erin had opened.

With a loud "boom".

The raging flames mercilessly devoured everything inside the house.

After the fire trucks arrived and extinguished the flames.

The house had long been burned beyond recognition, and inside, only three charred, almost carbonized corpses remained, telling a story.

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And at this time.

Erin had already returned to Chinatown.

In his room, he emptied the spoils from his backpack and tallied up the gains from the operation.

First, what caught Erin's eye were stacks of tightly bound American knives.

More than a hundred bundles of US dollars, plus some loose change from looting corpses.

This increased Erin's wealth by a total of $1,300,852.

Besides.

In front of Erin were fifteen gold bars weighing one kilogram each, as well as some scattered jewelry.

These were all found by Erin in the safe of that house.

Erin wasn't quite sure about the current price of gold in the Federation, but he estimated that fifteen gold bars, each weighing one kilogram, plus the jewelry, would be worth at least one or two million US dollars.

Good guy.

This wave of murder and arson caused Erin's wealth to skyrocket by two to three million US dollars.

It truly proves the old saying: "Murderers and arsonists wear golden belts, while those who repair bridges and roads leave no trace."

shook his head.

After hiding all the gold and jewelry, as well as most of the US dollars, in a secret compartment under his bed, Erin only kept a few hundred thousand US dollars for emergencies.

Then Erin took a shower.

Then, they took all the clothes they had changed out of to the basement of the old house and burned them all to ashes.

After doing all this.

Erin lay back down on the bed and fell asleep.

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While Erin was sleeping.

After painstakingly building a completely soundproof room and carefully placing the forbidden object inside, Coulson finally finished writing this mission report after staying up all night.

Just then.

One of Coulson's agents knocked on his office door and told him that the Water Ghost Gang leader, "Giant" Onic, had died in a fire.

"Died in a fire? That seems too much of a coincidence!"

Because of the forbidden items, "Giant" Oniks, the behind-the-scenes boss of Morning Star Bar, and his gang had long been on Coulson's watch list.

So when O'Neal died, Coulson immediately received the news.

The agent responsible for relaying the message shrugged upon hearing this and said, "Of course Oniks wouldn't have died so simply from the fire. I had someone ask the police station, and according to the forensic doctor, Oniks and the others should have died before the fire, otherwise, the bodies of people burned to death wouldn't be in that shape."

"There are quite a few people eyeing the Water Ghost Gang now. I guess it's possible that the gang sent someone to kill him and then staged a fire."

"Is that so?" Coulson nodded. "So, has the NYPD found out who did it?"

The agent under Coulson shook his head: "By the time the fire trucks put out the fire, Oniks and his men were burned beyond recognition. All the clues were swallowed up by the fire, leaving no useful information. And the nearby surveillance cameras didn't capture any suspicious persons."

"So I suspect the killer is a repeat offender, otherwise the method wouldn't be so skillful."

recidivist?

Coulson shook his head.

Besides being done by gangsters, could it also be that someone else killed them to cover it up?

Coulson had sent people to investigate, and no one had seen that old-fashioned record player at Morning Star Bar before. That forbidden item couldn't have appeared at Morning Star Bar for no reason!

and.

For some reason, when he heard the news of Onic's death, the first thing that came to his mind was the face of the Chinese boy who claimed to be a fortune teller.

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Early the next morning.

Erin got up early, then took a taxi to Midtown High School, where she studied.

After her mother's death, the original owner became somewhat withdrawn and always kept to herself, and didn't have many friends at school.

He hadn't been to school for several days, yet it didn't cause any ripples.

However, this also made things easier for Erin.

On the contrary, the academic affairs director whom they met at the school gate asked Ai Lin about her health with concern.

Erin guessed that Pepper Potts had used her illness as an excuse to ask for leave from Midtown High School, so he just laughed it off.

After sitting in the classroom for a few minutes.

The teacher hasn't arrived yet.

Erin then met someone who surprised him.

With her blonde hair, pretty face, and sweet smile, Gwen Stacy quickly attracted the attention of a large number of people when she arrived at Erin's classroom.

After scanning the classroom, she quickly fixed her gaze on Erin.

(End of this chapter)