Chapter 241 - A Lead (2/2)

”Probably is nothing but a front, don't think on it too much.”

As they were talking, the man who had been freed of his restraints ran for the door. He turned back just enough to see that they were ignoring him before he bolted.

'Like I can f.u.c.k.i.n.g get away. The only thing I can do now is to let my boss know that these people are coming for them. Hmm... I wonder if i will get a bonus for this?' The man thought to himself as he bolted out the door.

He barely got two steps before a throwing knife had embedded itself in the back of his head. As his body tumbled down while his vision blackened, he finally realized that he had only just gotten out of the door, which was what he had been promised.

'F.u.c.k...'

Laz lowed his hand which was holding a gun that had been pointed at the escaping man. At the same time, Ivy's hand came down as well.

'Seems she was faster than me.'

Laz looked over at Ivy, only to see her emotionless face looking back, almost as if she was saying, 'allow me.'

Julia looked at both of them in shock, knowing that neither one of them had been willing to let him leave alive. Besides being relieved, she was also shocked at the speed of their actions. She hadn't seen either of them move before the gun had been pointed and the knife thrown. Julia couldn't help but feel very under classed at the moment.

Laz shook his head and put his gun back into the pouch, somewhat thankful he didn't have to fire it. It would have been very loud to have done so indoors. Without a word, Laz got up, walked over to the two bodies and looked back at Ivy.

”Did we need anything else form them?” He asked.

Ivy shook her head no.

With simply a nod, Laz released two small puffs of black fire that floated down and hit the bodies. In less than a blink of the eye, both bodies were reduced to puddles of goo, spreading out along the floor while the fire burned out quickly. It looked surreal.

”And that's that.”

Laz walked back over to the two ladies who were standing there.

”So now what?” Laz looked to Ivy first, only to see that she looked disinterested. He then turned his gaze to Julia.

”We... should get some info first about the building and take it from there.”

”Fair enough. Can you do that?” Laz asked.

”Yes, but..”

”But?”

”Their group is the strongest in the area. Well, them and the Vodun. I'm just part of a council of the weaker ones that have joined together. Although we have a decent number of people on our side, everyone on the council just plays a game of politics trying to be the leader.”

”So why don't you just pick someone to lead and have everyone else agree to follow. Or something like that?” A snake without a head was pretty useless.

”How? There is no one who is powerful enough to get the respect of the entire council. Once you add that into everyone wanting their own power, it becomes worse.”

”Well, they were consenting enough to send you to find the kidnappers to make things less troublesome right? I mean, if people kept disappearing, it would shine a light on things that were better kept in the dark. With that in mind, how bad could they be?” Laz asked. After all, for them to take this with concern meant that they couldn't be complete idiots.

”That's...”

”That's?”

”That's cause I yelled at the main council during the last meeting and called them all idiots who were going to get us all killed. So... since they wanted to get rid of me and make it seem like they were doing something, they assigned me to figuring out what was happening. That's also why I joined up with your group. I figured since they were targeting tourists and outsiders, I could use you all as bait.”

Laz felt like his eye was twitching after hearing this response. This was her punishment and her whole game plan was using Laz, Abraham and the others as bait? He took back what he said before, they were all idiots.

Laz looked over at Ivy who shrugged her shoulders. She had already long heard of this council and it was Freya's opinion that they were useless. After that, she didn't bother with them.

Thinking about the fact that this would be a larger operation, Laz felt that working with Heaven or Hell would be better. As such, he simply said,

”Can I get your help?”

Ivy thought about it and walked closer, until her mouth was right up next to his ear.

”Tomorrow after work. Talk to Freya.” Was all she said. Ivy then collected her gear and left without looking back.

”Well, that's something.” Laz watched her as she left. It didn't seem like a promise, but it wasn't a dismissal either. Looks like he would have to negotiate with the boss on this one.

”What should we do now?” Julia asked, looking around the room. The place was shitty and there wasn't much of anything around. She honestly wanted to leave, but she was going to wait until Laz said so. Having been convinced of his strength, she started looking to him for answers as well.

Interestingly enough, Laz didn't leave right away and instead took a look around. Spreading out his sense, he found what he was looking for.

”Jackpot.”

In the floorboards in the living room, covered over by some debris, Laz found almost one hundred grand stashed in a lock box. With but a flick of his finger, the lock was broken and Laz found the money. Besides that, there was also an interesting looking necklace in there as well. It looked kind of old and gave off a weird vibe. Considering the guys who lived here, he knew that it wasn't theirs. He pocketed it without thinking about it and handed half the money to Julia.

”What's this? I don't want this. This is money they earned by selling people's lives...” Julia quickly understood what Laz was doing and how these poor a.s.s guys had gotten this kind of money. She was immediately disgusted.

”Suit yourself. But let me say this now. At some point, the fact that you're an infected is going to make it impossible for you to live, much less work. At some point, this money could be the deciding factor of your life. And even if it was made by selling people's lives, we are the one's who got vengeance for them. If we don't take it, who knows where it will end up.” Laz's 'sweet' words made sense to Julia and she got over her disgust fast enough. After all, he was right. No amount of self righteousness was going to save her life in a pinch. But almost fifty grand might do it.

”You have to adapt to the times. If not... You'll be the body laying on the floor.”

As Laz left with Julia following close behind, one last spurt of black flame hit the final corpse, dissolving it completely.