Modern-day assassin

The reason Wang Xiuyuan gave was very sufficient and seemed very reasonable. In the current situation, choosing to kill or not to kill were both acceptable options.

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Everyone's moral values are different, so everyone's choices will be completely different, but in his heart, Wang Xiuyuan absolutely hoped that Andrew Smith would choose to pull up the roots and eliminate the problem entirely.

Andrew Smith and the people Wang Xiuyuan had looked for before shared the same background; they were all elite retired soldiers from various special forces units.

These elite veterans had encountered the same predicament. For some, it was a severely ill child; for others, a wife or parents. It was just a different family member who was sick.

But without exception, none of them had any money and couldn't take their family members to the hospital for timely treatment. They could only watch helplessly as their loved ones slowly died.

If Wang Xiuyuan just needed some conscientious bodyguards, he could have directly hired a group from a security company. They would already be trained, which would be the most cost-effective and least troublesome approach.

But what he wanted were die-hard confidants who would take a bullet for him. Therefore, he had to spend more time, energy, and money to win people over.

Simply offering high salaries and benefits did have some effect, but Wang Xiuyuan personally believed that the loyalty of people cultivated this way was not enough.

So he decided to use the method ancient Chinese noble families used to raise 'Death Soldiers' to train a team of bodyguards. Only those who were willing to die for him at any time could guarantee absolute loyalty.

What he needed were Death Soldiers who had a very high moral baseline towards him, were absolutely loyal to him, and gave him unconditional support and obedience.

As for outsiders? It was best if there was no one who couldn't be killed.

Furthermore, his system had two metrics: sin points and merit points. Among them, sin points required him to do bad things to get the corresponding points. What if the bodyguards around him weren't loyal enough and sold him out?

People like Andrew Smith were at the darkest and most desperate moments of their lives. Wang Xiuyuan was like a god descending from the heavens, splitting the darkness over their heads and saving their families from deep waters and scorching fires.

Then he provided him and his family with a high-paying job, allowing the whole family to live a decent life.

How could these people repay such an immense kindness?

They couldn't hope to repay Wang Xiuyuan's kindness in this lifetime. Repay it with their lives? That was because their lives were the only thing they had that Wang Xiuyuan valued.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks cannot understand that kind of despair where the heart is like dead ashes, and calling to heaven or earth brings no response.

A person surrounded by such despair, if there is no person or thing left in this world worth lingering for, would truly choose to die without hesitation.

The American veterans represented by Andrew Smith were just like this. If it weren't for their families still being there, and if it weren't for trying to find a way to treat their families, the feeling of despair would have broken them long ago.

Now Wang Xiuyuan had dropped from the sky and saved their families. The emotion of being forcibly pulled out of a desperate situation cannot be described in words.

In short, the kindness of the boss, Wang Xiuyuan, could never be repaid, not even in a lifetime.

Wang Xiuyuan's question made Andrew Smith struggle for a long time, but in the end, emotion took the upper hand.

"Boss, under normal circumstances in the past, I certainly wouldn't do anything illegal, criminal, or against my moral conscience.

But you saved my daughter's life, saved my family, and are willing to give me a job to support them. I owe you too much.

In a matter like this where you can give me a reasonable explanation, I will resolutely carry it out even if it violates the law.

I know very well in my heart that a person whose eyes are full of kindness and sympathy when looking at a child can absolutely not be a bad person. If you make such a decision, there must be a reason why you have to do it."

Andrew Smith's answer was exactly the same as the others. They all chose to believe in Wang Xiuyuan's character and chose to execute the orders he gave.

The reason for such a highly unified result was that, in essence, these people were all the same type of person.

Long before Wang Xiuyuan decided to help these people, he had collected a large amount of personal information, family information, and service records of retired special forces soldiers from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Veteran Associations in various cities through a consulting firm.

Only those retired veterans who strictly adhered to their duties during service, had happy families, and had no major disciplinary violations could be included in his selection range.

Retired soldiers who would do their best to earn money for their family's medical treatment when they were seriously ill, but still adhered to the legal and moral baseline, could basically be selected directly.

The satisfactory results seen now were just a form of presentation of the results of careful preparation involving a large amount of time, energy, and money in the early stages.

The reason a camel is crushed by the last straw is that before that last straw was added, a large amount of weight had already been hung on the camel. That last straw just gave the camel the fatal blow.

But many people, whether due to poor vision or lack of brains, happen to ignore the process of continuously adding weight to the camel and only see the image of the camel being crushed by the last straw.

When they have a straw in their hand, they dare to shout at the person leading the camel, saying your camel is not as powerful as the straw in my hand, because the straw in my hand can crush your camel to death.

"I understand. Report to the company tomorrow. Like the others, your salary will be ten thousand dollars a month, with mission bonuses calculated separately.

Tomorrow someone will come to your house to take your daughter to the hospital for treatment. You don't need to worry about the medical treatment; just leave it to your wife to handle."

After saying that, Wang Xiuyuan got up and led his subordinates out of Andrew Smith's house, heading to the next home of someone in need of help.

Standing in front of the door, Andrew Smith could not calm down for a long time. He completely couldn't believe that what had just happened was actually real.

Before yesterday, he and his wife were still worrying about their daughter's medical treatment. They could only intermittently provide the medicine that kept her condition stable.

Unexpectedly, after one night, the matter of his daughter's treatment was instantly solved by a kind person, who also provided him with a high-paying job.

A monthly salary of ten thousand dollars—that was ten thousand dollars!

Even forty years later, a monthly salary of ten thousand dollars would definitely be a solid high-paying job.

In the year 1980, white-collar jobs in large American cities only paid a monthly salary of around thirteen or fourteen hundred dollars.

In small Midwestern cities, one could hire someone for the same job for eight or nine hundred dollars.

Now this kind person who was willing to pay for his daughter's treatment had actually offered him a job with a monthly salary of ten thousand dollars. The income from this one job alone could instantly make his family a high-income group.

Note, not a middle-income family, but a high-income family.

The starting price of Wang Xiuyuan's mercedes-benz 450sel sedan was only a bit over forty thousand dollars. Even with some optional accessories, it was only sixty thousand dollars. This was a top-tier luxury car second only to the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.

Andrew Smith could buy one after working for half a year without eating or drinking. If placed in 2026, what kind of concept would it be to be able to buy a Bentley Mulsanne with half a year's salary?