Just Like Water

This world is not only as the public knows it; there is an underworld that ordinary people don't encounter.
Government agents handle troubles in the shadows, while corporate assassins privately deal with issues.
Assassins, mercenaries, arms dealers, and spies exist, along with a dark web that ties this world together, and tycoons who attempt to control everything with money.
Gao Yi entered the underworld, unbeatable in close combat, carving out his own domain.
But there are guns in this world. Beyond seven steps (close combats), guns are faster.
Within seven steps, guns are both accurate and quick.
Only within three steps does Gao Yi's punch become faster.
Unable to beat them, he chose to join them, aiming to rule them all.
To rule everything, become the king of killers in the eyes of mercenaries, the king of spies in the eyes of assassins, the king of killers in the eyes of spies, and the king of intelligence in the eyes of arms dealers.
Until he is crowned king by the entire underworld, Gao Yi is the ultimate firepower.

Ultimate Firepower

Normally, this is where the phone call would have ended.


Panetta circumvented Crawford and Joelson and, with the dignity of a CIA's deputy director with actual power, had personally spoken to Gao Yi—a collaborator not even on the official roster, no, "collaborator" would be an overstatement; in Panetta's eyes, Gao Yi was, at best, nothing more than consumables. It was already an exceptional gesture of respect to Gao Yi.


If it weren't for Panetta's genuine and urgent desire to eliminate Freedom Wind, he would never have deigned to speak a single word to Gao Yi in his entire life.


So now it was time to end it, perhaps let Joelson contact Gao Yi in the future, but more likely, he would watch Gao Yi and Freedom Wind fight it out like two dogs, and then Panetta would come in at the end to "close the door and beat the dogs," eliminating the surviving party as a termination of the matter.


However, Gao Yi was unwilling to let things develop in this manner.


Chapter 315: Go See a Ghost