At this moment, Michael looked utterly dejected, his left hand on the steering wheel, his right arm resting on the back of the driver's seat, propping up his face.
He couldn't understand why he agreed to save Kincaid, and even less why he would participate in this cursed mission!
"Mm~ mm~"
Kincaid and Sophia were passionately kissing in the front, and the strange noises they made were unbearable for Michael.
But he had no choice; if he let go of the steering wheel, all three of them might end up dead here. He also didn't know what was wrong with Sophia, who needed a passionate kiss every now and then.
"What a sin!"
He had called Zhang Jie before they left and told him their destination, hoping he could arrive in time.
Portofino.
Their beat-up car would take at least seven or eight hours to get from Naples to Portofino, and now half the journey was over. Heaven knew how he had endured it.
On the other side, Zhang Jie and his three companions were also heading to Portofino.
Along the way, Caesar seemed to have had a switch flipped, and he began an incessant rap.
The other three remained silent.
Finally, Zhang Jie couldn't take it anymore. Caesar's mouth was truly too talkative. They decided to get off midway and find a place to relax, figuring that with Michael and Kincaid's strength, they wouldn't die that quickly.
So, the four of them found a hotel in Florence and rested.
As night fell, Zhang Jie took Jensen, Caesar, and Yin Yang to a bar to unwind.
Zhang Jie had a premonition that these two guys would honestly stay in Portofino. Although he couldn't remember the plot, he vaguely felt they would return.
When Zhang Jie and his three companions entered the bar, his photo had already reached a certain woman's hands.
"Oh, you're quite resilient, aren't you? You didn't die last time, you didn't die when you were hunted, and now you dare to come to Europe again. I have to say, your luck really isn't that great."
Lisa sneered as she looked at Zhang Jie's photo on the tablet, then took out a phone and made a call.
"Russell, you have four hours to take out this guy in the photo."
There was a pause on the other end of the line, as he was clearly looking at the photo. "The Chinese kid? Four hours is too long, but he's John Wick's apprentice, so the price goes up."
"What? You need more money to deal with a rookie?" Lisa clearly didn't want to pay.
But Russell was completely unfazed by her. "This guy is both John Wick's apprentice and a protégé of that old man. You don't want to provoke that old man, and neither do I."
Clearly, Russell knew Zhang Jie's background. Firstly, as John Wick's apprentice, that itself was a huge threat. Who didn't know how protective John was?
An apprentice who died three years ago, and John still went after the person who killed him. Who wouldn't be afraid? Moreover, John Wick's strength was also extremely formidable.
Seeing that Russell wouldn't budge, Lisa pulled out her trump card.
"What if I tell the old man that you killed her son and daughter-in-law..."
Upon hearing this, the other end of the line immediately fell silent.
After a long while, Russell replied, sounding very tired, "Wait for it."
After hanging up, Lisa chuckled as she looked at her phone.
"Did you really think I had no way to deal with you?"
Then, Lisa once again turned her gaze to the iPad, looking at the photo on it. "Sometimes I wonder if it would be a shame to let you die so easily, but unfortunately, you can't get the old man's list, so you can only die."
Lisa's goal in approaching Zhang Jie was to get the list in the old man's hand. As long as she got that list, she would have a way to increase her leverage.
Unfortunately, Zhang Jie knew nothing about it at the time, and the old man was not in the apartment at all. She only came for a few days each time, always managing to miss her.
Finally, an infuriated Lisa decided to eliminate this useless person.
Killing him directly was impossible; she knew what living in the Killer's Home meant. So she used Liu Ziqiang to set up a trap, intending for Zhang Jie to die in the warehouse.
But she didn't expect this guy to be so tenacious. Not only did he not die, but he also met John Wick and grew stronger from then on.
She had considered whether to come back and rekindle their past, but she ultimately gave up.
Because the constant flow of information told Lisa that this guy had become a decisive and ruthless person, so for her own safety, it was better not to get close to him.
But at the same time, to prevent him from coming to trouble her, Lisa was also trying to eliminate him.
To be honest, if it weren't for the Blackthorn Castle video leak, she wouldn't have known this guy was still alive.
But all that didn't matter anymore, because Russell would take care of it. She believed Russell had the ability.
Although they were going to a bar to relax, it wasn't a commercial bar, but just a random roadside bar. They all had their bags with them.
Going to the bar was just to relax and pass the boring time.
Caesar was already bored to the point of bubbling over. "Zhang, where exactly is your friend? I'm really bored to death."
Yin Yang just kept clenching the wine glass in his hand, not speaking, but his gaze was also on Zhang Jie.
Jensen simply drained the wine in his glass, but there was a hint of impatience in his movements.
To this, Zhang Jie could only helplessly say, "Just wait a little longer, it will be soon."
Zhang Jie sat by the bar window, looking outside.
He was also wondering where Michael and Kincaid, those two unreliable guys, could have run off to.
But very quickly, a black van stopped by the roadside, catching his attention.
Then, people got out one after another, each wearing black tactical gear. This immediately made Zhang Jie realize something was wrong, and he immediately spoke to the three people beside him.
"Trouble's here!"
With that, Zhang Jie grabbed the backpack in his hand and walked towards the restroom.
Jensen, Caesar, and Yin Yang glanced out the window, their brows furrowing, then a smile appeared on their lips.
"Oh, finally some work to do, I was so bored!" Caesar said with a chuckle, then the three of them grabbed their backpacks and headed to the restroom.
Their weapons were in their backpacks. After they had equipped their weapons in the restroom, gunshots rang out from outside.
For Russell, rather than a direct cleanup, it was better to eliminate everyone at the target's location to prevent future problems.
So, the people drinking in the bar had no idea that a disaster had struck, and it was a merciless one, leaving no one alive.
The gunshots lasted a long time, and the people outside went from screaming in terror to gasping for breath, and finally to silence.
Then, the people in tactical gear came in and began to confirm the dead targets.
After looking around, Russell didn't see the man from the photo, and his brow furrowed.
"Escaped? That doesn't make sense."
Russell then looked towards the back of the bar, where the restroom was located.
With a wave of his hand, one of the tactical team members stepped forward and took a grenade from his waist.
However, before he could pull the pin of the grenade, there was a sudden loud "bang."
Russell, standing outside, saw only half of his subordinate's body flying towards him.
Without hesitation, everyone retreated out of the bar and found cover.
At this moment, Caesar's voice rang out from the direction of the restroom.
"Haha, holy crap! You pieces of shit, all of you die!"
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