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Chapter 148 The Messenger's Past

"What's that bounty hunter's name?" Tian Hao asked.

According to Tian Hao's observation, Ai Liang's attitude has always been to mind her own business.

Furthermore, since he rejected Jin Ping'an's request that night, why did he introduce the bounty hunter to Jin Ping'an the next morning?
This is the biggest point of contention.

To be honest, Tian Hao was very worried that the mastermind might have contacted and threatened Ai Liang, and then deliberately asked him to introduce a bounty hunter to Jin Ping'an in order to mislead the investigation.

No one can guarantee whether this will happen or not, but Tian Hao is more inclined to believe it will.

After all, how could a fifteen-year-old middle school student possibly know any bounty hunter, especially since this bounty hunter caught a key suspect in less than six hours after they met?

Even with Jin Ping'an's ability to rewind time, it was still too coincidental.

If it's someone from behind the scenes, deliberately approaching Jin Ping'an under the guise of a bounty hunter to mislead their investigation or destroy crucial evidence, then they'll never know the truth in their lifetime.

Jin Ping'an was a little annoyed: "His name... I don't know. He only told me to call him Messenger."

"Messenger?" Tian Hao felt that the title sounded familiar.

But he quickly remembered the meaning of the name "Messenger": "Messenger?!"

"You know him?" Jin Ping'an took out his phone and went to the Bounty Hunter website: "It's this person."

It really was him! What's he doing at Qianhua?

Tian Hao suddenly jumped up from the sofa with his phone in his hand.

His startled reaction startled Jin Ping'an: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this person?"

"No, I was just startled."

Tian Hao returned the phone to Jin Ping'an and sat back down on the sofa. His heart began to pound faster, as if it were about to jump out of his throat.

Tian Hao picked up a disposable cup and took a sip of ice water: "If it's him, then everything makes sense."

Jin Ping'an said with a stern face, "What are you talking about? Just say it. Who is the messenger?"

"He is a pitiful man."

Tian Hao sighed, his expression full of regret.

Jin Ping'an angrily banged on the coffee table: "You just told me not to speak in riddles, but now you're playing along, aren't you?"

Tian Hao put down his water glass: "I'm just organizing my thoughts, thinking about where to begin."

Since the tattooed man hasn't woken up yet, this is a good time to tell Jin Ping'an about the messenger.

It would be even better if we could use this opportunity to make contact with the messenger, since their captain has sent people to Nevada City time and again in order to obtain information about the Hermit.

The messenger is the only known person who has served under the Hermit.

If his whereabouts weren't as difficult to find as the hermit's, Shi Hongfang would have sent someone to invite him to Qianhua long ago.

Seeing Tian Hao's expression of being overwhelmed by information and unsure how to broach the subject, Jin Ping'an asked directly, "What's going on with the messenger's reputation score? Logically, someone who can legally possess firearms should have a score of at least 80, so why is it only one point?"

"This is a long story, so let me start from the beginning. If I explain it one by one, you'll probably be completely confused."

After gathering his thoughts, Tian Hao said, "The messenger is a registered bounty hunter in Neva City. He has received the Bounty Honor Medal, the kind that can only be obtained with a perfect reputation score."

Tian Hao's opening remarks were a bombshell: Jin Ping'an had naturally heard of the Bounty Medal of Honor, but compared to that, a gun license was nothing.

The difference between the two is even greater than the gap between primary school students being admitted to junior high school through direct admission and those directly entering a doctoral program.

The Bounty Medal is more than just a symbol of honor.

Having it not only exempts one person from the death penalty, but also allows one to exercise some of the powers of the procuratorate and the Ministry of the Interior, supervise police internal affairs, and influence personnel transfers within the public security system to a certain extent.

In ancient times, this would be equivalent to a martial arts champion who held a certificate of merit in his left hand and an imperial sword in his right, and was personally appointed by the emperor to inspect the local conditions of the people.

If you enter a government agency with a bounty and honor medal, you'll start at the section chief level and can be promoted again within a year.

Of course, with so many benefits, it goes without saying how difficult it is to obtain them.

Obtaining this item is no less difficult than winning ten consecutive grand slams on a casino slot machine.

Basically, it's like shaking your head and pointing at your buttocks; pointing at your buttocks is impossible.

Ignoring the stunned Jin Ping'an, Tian Hao continued, "You should have heard of the Great Purge in Nevada seven years ago, right? The messenger... he had some connection with the main figure in that purge."

The city was known as the "city of sin" even to children, and the results of the Great Purge made headlines around the world back then.

Jin Ping'an couldn't help but speculate: "Could it be that the messenger committed a serious crime during this purge and then used his Medal of Honor to avoid the death penalty, which is why his reputation score dropped to one point?"

This speculation is not far-fetched.

The messenger had told him that if he wanted to know about his past, he could just ask anyone who had participated in the Nevada purges.

It's obvious that what he did was big news, big enough to be known to everyone in both the legitimate and underworld sectors.

"more or less."

"So what exactly did he do?" Jin Ping'an pressed.

"In front of all the police officers participating in the purge, he bombed a house. Inside were business tycoons, gangsters, and... a total of eight people, none of whom survived."

Tian Hao still vividly remembers the scene of the explosion and the madness on the messenger's face.

Every time he recalled these events, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the messenger.

"The tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind. As one of the few bounty hunters in the entire Asian Union to have received the Medal of Honor, he will naturally become a thorn in the side of some people, and they will inevitably resort to underhanded tactics."

Tian Hao began to recount how the incident began.

"His only relative was kidnapped by a group of people. At that time, the Asian Union decided to carry out a major purge of the security situation in Nevada. The authorities asked the messenger not to act rashly and managed to suppress the matter."

"The messenger, who couldn't get through to the authorities, somehow managed to make contact with the notorious killer who struck fear into the hearts of criminals in Nevada at the time. He searched for his sister's whereabouts through illegal means, but in the end... he only found a mangled corpse."

"The eight people he killed were all related to his sister's death. After leaving the interrogation room of the criminal police team, the bounty hunter known as Messenger disappeared completely, and there was no news of him for five or six years."

Tian Hao summarized the messenger's past in a few sentences.

Even though Tian Hao spoke very briefly, Jin Ping'an still gleaned a lot of shady information from it.

His experiences over the past month have clearly shown him that what the messenger went through was definitely not just a matter of the Nevada authorities suppressing the issue.

Jin Ping'an remained silent. After listening to Tian Hao's words, he finally understood why the messenger would rush all the way from Nevada City for 100,000 yuan.

However, another person in this story caught his attention.

"You said the messenger found his sister's body with the help of others, so... who was that person who helped him?"

Jin Ping'an felt that his experience was very similar to that of the messenger. Now that he had the messenger's help, he was curious about who had helped the messenger back then.

After hesitating for a while, Tian Hao said, "Alas, the Asian Union's purge back then didn't work at all."

Jin Ping'an did not interrupt Tian Hao, who suddenly changed the subject.

Jin Ping'an knew that the person he was about to talk about was definitely related to the Great Purge.

"To be precise, before the Asian Union even had a chance to act, the criminals in Neva City had already been almost completely wiped out."

“There was a man who spent two years almost wiping out all the notorious criminals in Nevada.”

"And it was with his help that the messenger managed to tie those eight people together in the same room and blow them up."

"You should have heard of that person's name, after all, our Captain Shi used to frequently send people to Nevada to inquire about him."

At this point, Jin Ping'an had a guess: "The throat-slitting maniac?"

Tian Hao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's right, it's him."

(End of this chapter)