The Road to Slaying God - Chapter 42

CHAPTER 42: KILLER RANKING

“Can I have a look?”

“Sure!”

The old man took a look at the door and stood up from his chair. Then he put the string back to the desk and began to walk towards the bookshelf …

Watching the old man’s stooped body moving towards the bookshelf, Zhang Yang’s eyes were wide open. He glared at the old man taking out a book from the top of the bookshelf and putting it on the ground, and took out some parts of a gun from the tattered book and started to assemble it.  His movement skills were incomparable. The old man was fully aware of Zhang Yang’s close attention.

Walking around the bookshelf, the old man came out with a gun in his hand. He sat down comfortably and took out a pen and few more pieces of the gun from the drawer. He also loaded the spring that was on the desk, and soon after, a dark brand new pistol appeared in front of Zhang Yang.

  At last, the old man took of a necklace from his neck, it was made up of a flashing metallic bullet.

Kachak !!!! The sound of loading the bullet on the pistol.

“How long?”

“One minute and forty seconds.” Zhang Yang blurted out.

“Hmm …guess I’m really old.” The old man sighed and took out the bullet, and hung it back to his neck while throwing the gun at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang’s hand felt cold and heavy, his heart was bursting of excitement, so this is a real gun …ah!

“Uncle Li, can you get me some bullets, I want to try …” Zhang Yang looked at Lao Li with an ingratiating smile on his face while swinging around his hands with the gun, making some gestures.

“Why do you need the bullets for? A mosquito fight? I thought you didn’t like guns …” The old man laughed.

“No, forget it!!”

Zhang Yang stood up, depressed, and walked towards the bookshelf. Then after taking a lap he came back to old Lao Li’s side but with only a few parts of the gun. Those were the parts, that Lao Li had taken out from the drawer. Zhang Yang put the spring in the old man’s hand,”Take it!”

“Ah …”

The old man looked at the spring in his hand and stammered,” You …How’d you do it?”

“Didn’t you just do that? I just did what you were doing.”

“Cough … that …that ………”

The old man didn’t show any response as he kept on looking at the spring on his hand. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed that it’s true. Still, a mere school teenager to be able to completely dissemble a pistol by actually seeing it just once, was simply inconceivable and unbelievable.

Incredibly, the old man burst into excitement.

“Do you want to learn how to use a gun?” The old man’s voice was trembling a bit. The juvenile in front of him was definitely a gun wizard. In just the first contact with a gun, he could play with it so skillfully, any ordinary words wouldn’t be enough to describe him. ‘Wizard’ was the only word suitable.

“Yes ...”

“Why? The old man’s eyes were fixed.

“It’s not about the techniques. If there’s no gun, a non-martial arts killer is basically a waste.” Zhang Yang shook his head. He had an inexplicable repulse towards guns. Although the gun had a certain temptation, but compared to Kung Fu, it could be negligible.

“Hmm …That’s true, the world’s most ranked killers uses both guns and martial arts, even if guns are used to reach the acme of perfection, there is no plight that martial arts cannot achieve the same. In this world, the guns and genius people are increasing more and more, and as long as they have certain talent and foundation, it is easy to train them into a good killer. But martial arts, is not so easy. ”

"Is there really a killer list?" Zhang Yang’s eyes were wide open.

“Yes, and there should be. Generally, every people who gets involved will certainly have a rank. In this present society, which aspect doesn’t have a leader board? Book writings also have their own chart, companies have lists, and so killers will also naturally have their own ranking list, but the ordinary people do not know about it just yet. The killer lists are similar to the other charts, much as same as the world’s richest rankings. Although everyone says that they don’t care, they get very unhappy if their name is not on the list. Like me, my lifelong desire was to be able to rank in the top 50 of the list …”

“That’s not an ambition …” Zhang Yang whispered and asked, “What are the people on the top of the list like?”

“Like Actaeon …” The old man smiled and laid back in his chair, recalling his memories from the past years. (#Actaeon : A famous huntsman (hero) from the Greek mythology)

Zhang Yang didn’t speak. Recently, they were getting along really well, both of them had a general understanding between them, and the old man was brewing a good mood.

Sure enough!

“When it comes to the killer list, we have to mention an assassination organization, which was founded more than 20 years ago, when I was in the prime of manhood. The name of the organization was ' The Killing Network Era', but not for long. Don’t know why, the name of the killer organization changed to ' The Mythical era '. However, no matter the changes, this killer organization was called the World's best killer organization. When it stepped into the killer's ***, it shocked the whole world, and, it consisted of almost more than 70% of the world's top killer. The even most incredible thing is that on the top ten  of the killer list, eight people were the members of “Mythical era” organization. At that time, no one was capable to get in the way of “The Mythical Era’s” strength. The organization was extraordinary. As long as there was money, they could even hunt down any country’s president, including the United States …”

While the old man was raving, his face was full of excitement, it seemed as if it were his own glorious years.

“Why are you only talking about the time in the past? What about the organization now?”

The old man seemed to not have heard Zhang Yang’s words. He was still talking in that very ethereal tone.

“It was an assassination's age, the rise of countless good assassins. Moreover, at that time there were several heavyweight organizations who fought each other for their own benefits, but they were fragile in front of the “Mythical Era”. Unfortunately, in less than three years, the organization as it appeared, mysteriously disappeared without a trace. And it hasn’t appeared since in this 20 years. The ‘Mythical Era’ has become the myth of the world, just like the swan song, no more existence, ah …” The old man sighed deeply, with a face of regret.”

“Then that …what about the killers? Zhang Yang stammered. He didn’t believe that a group of such influence would suddenly disappear.

“Oh, along with the organization the number of people on the top also disappeared. In fact, today most of the ‘Mythical Era ’ killers are active in all parts of the world. The only difference is that they are not known as the killers of ‘Mythical era’, but they have their own private identity to carry out their tasks.

“So, now which is the new powerful killer organization now instead of the ‘Mythical Era’ organization?”

“No, although during these 20 years, countless of new killer organizations have been formed and some were powerful too, but, surprisingly, in the list of killer organizations, the ‘Mythical Era’ has always ranked first. Other killer organizations are limited to the second position. No one can explain this phenomenon. Perhaps, it’s the assassination organization's myth about the assassins world. …”