The Bus

Yang Yi was shocked greatly by this. He never knew there were those who are willing to do anything so they could die. They were even willing to pay any price to do so.

Shouldn't a hitman be tight-lipped and unafraid of death? This assassin was definitely not afraid of death. In fact, he simply couldn't wait to die. However, shouldn't a hitman be indifferent to everything? Even if they were repeatedly tortured, they should never divulge any secrets.

"My name is Iker Torres. I'm Spanish. I only joined the Destroyers two years ago. So, I'm not too clear on the inner workings of the Destroyers. That's because we operate with a single-line of contact. My contact's name is Kevin Stewart. I suspect it's a fake name. His codename is "Bus". Yes, as in the public transport bus.

The hitman seemed like he couldn't wait to divulge everything he knew to Danny. However, he was interrupted by Danny, "Single-line of contact? So, what's this Bus's position among the Destroyers? Is he the Destroyers' leader?"

"I don't know. But, most likely, it's him because everyone listens to him."

"Very good. Tell me how you usually get in touch."

"I'm not sure how the others do it but I was given a specific phone number to contact him. If there is a mission, the Bus will contact me and give me a specific location where we'll meet up. Once we've met, he then provides me with the details of the target to be killed. After the target is killed, I am paid once I handover evidence of the death."

"Does that mean you were not trained by the Bus? To be more accurate, you only joined the organization after you became a hitman."

"Yes, you're right."

"Do you accept private jobs?"

"It's forbidden to take on private jobs. The Bus has made it clear that I will be killed if he discovers that I accepted any private jobs. Aside from the fact that private jobs are very risky, there are a lot of missions for the Destroyers. At the very least, it's two missions a year. That's what the Bus promised me when he recruited me to join the Destroyers."

"How many missions have you undertaken for the Destroyers?"

"Five missions. This will be the sixth mission. It's also my first joint-mission. This is the first time the six of us are working together. So, we aren't familiar with each other. I know one of them has a very strong Welsh accent. So, he should be a British. There is another person who speaks very poor English. He should be from Eastern Europe. I don't know where the rest of team is from."

"You have performed well. Now, tell me the details of this current mission you are on."

"We were summoned by the Bus to London this time. He said there was an urgent mission. The employer requested that we kill a group of corporate spies within twenty-four hours. The employer wanted us to retrieve a piece of classified intelligence from them. We were told it should be on a computer hard drive. We needed to catch the corporate spies and force them to divulge where it was. The total remuneration for the mission is six million pounds to be divided between the six of us."

"What happened next?"

"The Bus gave us a name and address. His name was John Jones and the six of us found him at his home. However, the result of the interrogation wasn't ideal because he didn't have any idea where the intelligence was. He had no idea what was going on. We were still able to get a few names and addresses from him. There were a total of three people and one of them was a hacker. We believed the intelligence was in the hacker's possession. As such, we decided to split up to kill the three of them. We would split the remuneration once the intelligence was obtained."

"Do continue."

"I went to the house of someone named Ryan. From him, we managed to obtain more information. John Jones had lied to us. The Singers wasn't made up of four people but seven. He concealed the identity of his ex-wife, daughter and a newcomer who had just joined. As per the employer's request, we needed to kill this three people as well. So, we split up again. I stayed and continued the interrogation before getting rid of Ryan. My partner went to kill the other woman."

At this point, Kate's body started to shiver. Thus, Yang Yi pressed his hand to Kate's shoulder. After glancing at both of them, Danny insipidly asked, "What's your partner's name?"

"I only know he is called Regis. He went to kill the woman. However, when he finally returned, he had a gunshot wound. The group who went after the hacker was unable to find him. On the other hand, Regis managed to retrieve a few phone numbers from the woman's mobile phone."

"We finally found them using those phone numbers and the phone company. When we finally found them, we actually failed in our attempt. We needed to catch the hacker alive to retrieve the intelligence. Ultimately, we managed to kill one person and injure another."

Danny nodded his head. At this point, everything that had transpired was now accounted for based on the hitman's story. He solemnly said, "Continue to talk."

"We lost them temporarily while pursuing them. Nonetheless, we quickly found the whereabouts of the two again. The two of them had fled into Pearl Liang Restaurant. We actually wanted to rush into the restaurant to kill them but Steve Martin, the guy with the Welsh accent stopped us. He not only said that it was taboo to enter Pearl Liang Restaurant, it was important not to kill anyone there. It's prohibited for anyone to cause problems in Pearl Liang Restaurant but he didn't know why it was prohibited."

Danny's mouth twitched before he said in a grave tone, "You should have listened to Steve. Apparently, you guys didn't. So, what happened next?"

"We decided not to enter Pearl Liang Restaurant and monitor the situation from outside first. We found out that both of them had checked-in into the hotel above the restaurant. Thus, we wire-tapped the hotel's phone network. After waiting for an entire day, the Bus said we might not receive remuneration because the employer had already obtained the intelligence."

"Everyone was furious when they heard. The Bus said he would negotiate with the employer on our behalf. However, we would have to accomplish the task the employer set, which was to eliminate everyone in The Singer. Because of this, Regis strongly insisted we kill off the two remaining people hiding in the hotel. So, we tried to…"

"Who was the person who took action?"

"Regis."

Danny took a deep breath and said, "So, it's Regis. Torres, tell me where you meet the Bus each time and his phone number. Don't tell me you have no way to contact him."

"I have his phone number but it's been a different location every time we met. There are three meetings that happened in Paris."

"You met three times in Paris?"

"Yes."

"Describe to his appearance for me. Can you sketch his face out?"

"I can't draw. But I can still describe his appearance so that you can sketch out his portrait just like how the police do it."

"Sure. Let's start."

"Please wait! Give me a moment."

Torres was obviously relieved and looked at Danny, "I don't expect to get out of this alive.

However, you need to guarantee that I won't be tortured more once we are done. So, what assurance can you give me?"