Winner Takes All novel Chapter 306

In the living room, everything was in dead silence.

It was as if the very air itself was frozen.

The hair on Jack’s skin was standing on end. He couldn’t feel even an ounce of warmth at the moment.

He currently looked unwavering and composed, yet his heart was seized by total nervousness.

He was never afraid of getting plotted or becoming a target for assassination.

Before he was married with Amber, he had the luck to encounter something like that, especially the time when he had been sent to Black hell under the purposeful arrangement of his father.

When he was in Black hell, death was prevalent.

The brutal thing about his experience there was that the bouts of assassination often struck without warning, and without pattern and order. They came irregularly and the attacks wouldn’t let up.

The fact of this matter was what aroused such fear in him.

That would mean that he had to be on guard completely all the time, and not only he had to protect his own life, he had to take into account the people around him.

Mr. Ward, Yael and Brent all sunk into an oppressive silence. They had grave expressions on their faces.

They knew the true terror of getting killed unknowingly and that danger practically lurked in the dark all the time, ready to pounce on them at any moment.

They were very aware of the prowess of the assassin sent by the Burton family this time.

To be realistic, the fact that the Burton family had decided to come into light by revealing their name was just as Yael had hypothesized. They were ready to give up everything in order to confront Jack to the bitter end.

Although the Burton family had a shaky position in the capital city, they were still a pack of wolves who only had the nose for malice and violence. When the building had just collapsed and when they vowed to drag the whole thing out to the bitter end, they still were able to whip up a storm amongst the members of the Dark Net.

This was a party with Jack as the target of assassination!

“Whew!”

Jack let out a huge sigh as he studied his wanted amount. He couldn’t help sighing profusely, “It seems that the Burton family acknowledges my worth. They even put a price tag of one billion US Dollars on me.”

“Young master…” Mr. Ward was startled upon hearing that. Was Jack seriously spouting self-deprecating jokes at this juncture?

Jack shrugged slightly while putting down his phone, “Is there any way to call off this assassination mission?”

Mr. Ward and the lot all shook their head at the same time.

Brent explained, “When the Dark Net published this mission, the mission would exist forever unless it was completed or the assignee of the mission canceled the mission willingly.”

“What if we pressure them with the name of the Hughes family?” Jack tried this angle.

“I am figuring out a way to negotiate with people of the Dark Net.”

Mr. Ward chuckled bitterly, “However, it seems hopeless. The Dark Net is outside the jurisdiction of law, and it is an extremely dark and cruel place. I can still remember a decade or so ago a member of the Rothschild family had been listed as an assassination target in the Dark Net, and it was a S-rank mission with a reward of 800 million US Dollars.”

“At that time, the Rothschild family exhausted all of their means and they even wanted to delete this assassination mission with an even higher reward but to no avail. That targeted member ended up in a pool of blood in the end.”

Jack couldn’t help but suck in a cold breath.

This was his first time learning of the Dark Net and assassination.

The Rothschild family was a famous and wealthy family in the world. It had come a long way in the course of history!

A gigantic figure of history couldn’t even put up any resistance?

“At that time, three of the most lethal assassins were carrying out this mission at the same time. While their target was protected by more than a hundred bodyguards, his life was still gone in the end!” Brent added.

Jack was frankly surprised, “How did you know about the details so clearly?”

Brent raised his head and stared at Jack, “Because I was one of the three assassins!”

Jack was speechless upon hearing that.

“Brent was primed for execution at that time because of this incident, and in the end it was me who had single-handedly saved his life.” Mr. Ward explained.

Jack was finally enlightened. He had long known about Brent’s long history with his father, but it was only now that he finally learnt of the reason Brent was almost executed in the past.

After inhaling deeply, Jack tried to calm down his wavering heart.

Jack then asked, “So, are you saying that we have no other options now?”

The lot of them shook their heads simultaneously.

“Unless you are able to persuade the Burton family to cancel the mission.”

Yael laughed with a peculiar voice, “But this is easier said than done. Even if Old Master Burton has agreed to that, all the other members of the Burton family will never agree with that. All they’re thinking is to perish together with you.”

Jack let out a self-deprecating laugh which was full of his helplessness.

He didn’t want to have any scuffle with the Burton family and he had tried with all his might to stop that from happening.

However, he still wasn’t able to stop this scheming bastard from striking back at him.