Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 535 Tell the truth
Others probably didn't understand why Sip shouted "Valeriana" at that moment, but his brother Ion certainly understood.

Simply put, this is one of the several common codes agreed upon by the two brothers.

Just like some people would agree on a "safe word" before engaging in certain dangerous activities, this pair of professional killer brothers also prepared several codes with different meanings in order to deal with various emergencies.

Generally speaking, these codes are made of nouns that have many syllables, are not commonly used, and do not form a sentence when taken out alone. This can effectively prevent false alarms, mishearing, or having the meaning guessed by others.

To put it bluntly, what Valeriana means right now is: retreat separately and meet in the south.

Because Xipu judged that the current situation... not only was it difficult for them to succeed, but if they delayed any longer, it would become problematic for them to escape, so he decisively shouted this and threw a smoke bomb.

As it turned out, this trick really worked. After all, the others didn't know what they were doing, so the sudden wave of smoke immediately caused a little chaos on the stage. The noisy voices and the music that didn't stop made it impossible for Huang Donglai to use his ears to catch the movements of the Popescu brothers.

In this way, the killer brothers successfully slipped away under the cover of smoke.

Not only did they slip away, but Dumitru on the other side also took advantage of the smoke bomb and escaped from Sun Yixie's sight.

Fortunately, the performance was not affected too much, because the audience regarded the ambiguous "smoke explosion" as part of the stage effect, and after the smoke dissipated, the show continued.

However, what people didn't notice was that at this time... there was no clown on the stage anymore.

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A few minutes later, somewhere backstage.

A bucket of cold water poured over his head woke Dan from his coma.

He opened his eyes and found that except for his underpants, all his clothes and belongings had been stripped off, and he had been tied tightly to a chair with ropes.

And in front of him, there were two clowns standing.

He recognized one of them, the pantsless weirdo who had attacked him; for some reason, the other person was now wearing the same clown suit he had just worn.

"Why are you..." Danfu opened his mouth and wanted to ask Huang Donglai why he wanted to wear his clothes.

"Shut up!" But Huang Donglai seemed to have been prepared for this question and interrupted him immediately, "Now we ask, you answer... If you say less, talk nonsense, or say more, you will bear the consequences, understand?"

Upon hearing this, Dan's mind raced, and he thought to himself, "I'm not afraid of a normal interrogation, because there's always room for bargaining. It's not the first time I've managed to get out of this situation, but... this guy in front of me is probably a pervert, and I can't use common sense to deal with him. I'd better do what he says, lest he gets excited and does something unimaginable to me... After I calm him down, I'll find a chance to communicate with other people who look more normal. That's the best strategy."

Dan was a smart man. Even though he had just woken up from a coma and his mind was still a little confused, it only took him two or three seconds to figure it out. Then he nodded calmly and said, "I understand."

"Okay, let me ask you..." Huang Donglai saw that the other party really stopped talking nonsense, and his tone softened a little, "Who are you? Why did you come to kill us?"

"My name is Dan Munteanu, and I'm working for hire," Dan replied.

"Who hired you? Where is he now?" Huang Donglai asked again.

"The man who hired me called himself Dumitru. He came here with me. When you knocked me down, he was outside the toilet door." Dan replied, "But I don't know where he is now."

When Huang Donglai heard this, he saw that what the other party said was consistent with his previous initial speculation, so he turned around and exchanged glances with Sun Yixie.

Before Dan woke up, Sun and Huang had naturally already talked it over. Of course, Huang Donglai did not reveal the fact that he had "changed pants", but used the reason that "I was afraid that he would wake up when I was chasing his accomplices" to explain why he stripped the other party.

Sun Yixie didn't hear anything wrong. Besides, the current focus was to find out the details of this "assassin", so he didn't have time to delve into other things.

"Then why does this Dumitru want to kill us?" Two seconds later, Sun Yixie took over the conversation and asked.

"This is complicated to explain, and even if I tell you the truth, you may not believe it," Dan replied.

"You can say it, but whether we believe it or not is our business." Sun Yi said jokingly.

"Well then..." Dan licked his lips, then spent a few seconds organizing his thoughts and words, and then he explained the "Contract of the Broken Wall on the Northern Suburbs of Saint Simion Township" and his profession.

After hearing this, Sun and Huang looked at each other, as if thinking about something, but generally speaking... both of them believed it 90% of the time.

First of all, they were no longer surprised by these strange things.

Secondly, if Dan really wanted to tell lies, he could obviously make up a much more reasonable story.

"Okay... I'll just assume that what you said is true." Sun Yixie thought for a moment and continued, "Then it's easy. You won't be held accountable by the 'contract' anyway... Then it shouldn't be difficult for you to betray your employer, right?"

Hearing this, Dan finally breathed a sigh of relief, because he felt that this was a normal-minded person negotiating with him.

"Helping you...can I buy your life?" Dan offered his price.

"Of course." Sun Yixie replied without hesitation.

But Dan became suspicious when he saw that he replied so straightforwardly: "Really?"

"Nonsense! Even if it's fake, would you dare to refuse?" Huang Donglai was a little impatient and pointed out the core logic of the conversation to him directly.

"Hmm..." Dan groaned, then thought of something, "Wait... Are you planning to separate the two conditions of 'sparing my life' and 'letting me go'?"

"Wow~ You're quite smart." Sun Yixie was indeed a little surprised that his thoughts were seen through by the other party so quickly.

"I knew it wouldn't be that easy..." Dan muttered angrily.

"Of course." Huang Donglai said to him as a matter of course, "You came here to kill us. If you succeed, we would have lost our lives. Now that you have failed, you just want us to let you go by betraying your employer and accomplice? Your business is too easy. You don't have to take any risks."

After these words, Dan fell silent.

After a long while, he spoke again: "You...what you said does make sense, so what price do you want me to pay before you let me go?"

"There's no rush for this. We'll think about it slowly." Sun Yixie said, "For now, you should first take care of the task of 'help us catch your accomplice in exchange for your life'."

Dan looked helpless, pursed his lips, and said slowly: "We are staying in the south of the town, and our luggage and everything are there... If you are a smart person, considering that I might be captured alive, you probably wouldn't dare to go there again, but Dumitru is a fool... Do you understand what I mean?"

When he said this, Huang Donglai couldn't wait to say to Sun Yixie, "Brother Sun, then you should go over and take a look. Maybe you can be quick enough to set up an ambush before the other party arrives."

"Fuck! Why should I go?" Sun Yixie got angry when he heard that Huang Donglai wanted to go alone. "Aren't your Qinggong skills better?"

"Tsk, I haven't seen his accomplice before. He had already run away when I chased him out of the toilet." Huang Donglai said, "But you did meet him on the stage."

"What's the use of having met him? He's wearing clown makeup. He runs out and wipes his face and takes off his wig. Does it make any difference whether I have met him or not?" Sun Yi argued jokingly.

"Oh, right." Unexpectedly, Dan interrupted and added, "Maybe this information will be helpful to you - Dumitru and I drew a cross on the back of our clothes where our hearts would be in order to distinguish each other."

"Hmm?" Huang Donglai's expression changed when he heard this. "Wait...how many people are there among you?"

The reason he asked this question was that when he was chasing the Popescu brothers, he saw from a distance that the two guys also had forks on the back of their shirts.

"What do you mean?" Dan instantly understood something from Huang Donglai's question, "Have you ever seen someone with..."

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At the same time, Zhennan.

Dumitru had indeed taken off his clown wig by this time, and found a puddle to wash off most of the makeup on his face.

There's no way. Even at night, the clown makeup is too eye-catching... It will be easily recognized if it's not processed.

In addition, because Dumitru was wearing another pair of trousers inside, he took off the exaggerated large overalls on the outside and threw them away on the way.

However, the "X" that Dan drew behind him happened to be drawn on the back of his long-sleeved shirt, which he did not take off.

Of course, at this late hour, unless someone knew about the mark in advance and consciously checked it, no one would pay attention to the charcoal marks on the back of the dirty clothes.

As for Dumitru, just as Dan expected, after fleeing in panic for a while, he saw that no one was chasing him, so he began to move towards his residence in the south of the town.

Because Dumitru had signed the contract, he would not give up the mission even though Dan had most likely been killed in his view.

But if you ask him to fight back like this...even he knows that it would be a waste of time.

Therefore, Dumitru's plan was: no matter what, he would go back to his place of residence first, first to pick up his luggage, and second to see if there was any money or weapons among the relics left by the "vulture".

After getting these, he can think of other ways, such as spending money to hire some helpers, or looking for another opportunity with the explosives made by Dan... Anyway, there are still several days before the contract is settled. As long as he can get through tonight safely, it won't be too late to take action after he has stabilized himself.

Dumitru ran and thought all the way, and before he knew it, he had arrived in the south of the town.

Tonight, because most of the townspeople went to see the circus, the street was exceptionally deserted; at this moment, every step Dumitru took as he trotted on the cobblestone road made a light sound that echoed throughout the street.

The sound of footsteps soon attracted the attention of someone in the darkness...

And that person's eyes were immediately fixed on the "big cross" mark behind Dumitru.

(End of this chapter)