"MOVE YOUR ASSES YOU LAZY BASTARDS WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR.." the shout echoed through the camp as the men who were hauling supplies around moved faster muttering something about a power-hungry bastard

The surprising part came from who was shouting, a skinny short man with a bald spot on his head.

He was almost skin and bones. Anyone who laid eyes on him would think twice to call him an anorexic despite banting with every breath he continued to shout at everyone around with a smile on his face nitpicking every small mistake they made.

"Hey, Su Qiaolian stop shouting your lungs out and get over here the boss is calling for ya" Su Qiaolian was about to turn and scream at whoever was behind him on reflexes but immediately shut his mouth when he saw who was talking.

The man stood 2 metres tall while looking down at him with his arms folded, the veins on his arms were visibly pulsing busy supplying his muscles with oxygen, his shirt barely holding on as it was visibly strained against his biceps, clearly too small for him.

Su Qiaolian face immediately made 180 degrees from his previous arrogant one to a meck nervous mess, scrambling to a big tent on the far end of the camp before going inside feeling the gaze of the man on him.

"*scoff* fucking rat" he turned to look at the men working around seeing them stop to catch their breath before noticing his gaze.

Narrowing his eyes at them they quickly ran to get back to what they were doing, the big guy just letting out a huff before making his way to the same tent from before.

Inside the tent, Su Qiaolian stood In Front of a well-built man who was looking through one of his bags with an annoyed expression on his face.

"B..br..brother long you called for me" sweat was already forming on his face from the short run that he made here, he tried to steady his breath while waiting for the boss to speak.

Long long ignored him and continued to look through the bag until finally finding what he was looking for as he pulled out a cigar and lit it up with a smile on his face before turning to Su Qiaolian.

"How are the preparations going?"

"*sigh* they are going well, just need to set up the traps and we are done".

"Good..good.."

"...Umm brother long.."

"What?"

"N...n..nothing boss.. I will go check on the traps"

Long long just nodded letting Su Qiaolian leave the tent bumping into someone on the way out.

"Sorry.."

"Hmmm" Su Qiaolian left almost tripping on thin air as he did. Long noticed his other guests the same mountain of a man from before.

"Oh Shao Shoushan, what's up?"

Shao Shoushan ignored him in favour of glaring at Su Qiaolian as he left, making sure he was far away before turning back "I wanted to ask you about the contract we picked up since you kept saying that you will tell me later".

"Oh right… well long story short we are here to hunt a mystical ape"

"...you're joking, right?"

"You know damn well that I don't joke about business, some old fart has been hiring people to hunt down an ape that lives in these woods. Some bullshit about how eating its heart will grant him his youth back or something."

"Oh, really and how much is his youth worth?"

"Just a little over 10 million dollars"

Shao Shoushan frowned "and how will some old man pay all that and does that ape even exist?"

"Don't worry he can pay that and more, he is from old blood so he got more money than he can spend in a lifetime. And for the ape well every other hunter who came here didn't come out so there is at least something here I made sure that Su Qiaolian triple-checked on that"

"So? That doesn't guarantee anything maybe they were some overconfident bastards and got themselves eaten by a tiger or something"

"And that is why I tricked Snog Chao into coming here before us"

Shao Shoushan's eyes widened in surprise "you want to tell me that whatever it is in this forest got Snog Chao and you want to hunt it? Did the whisky and whores finally kill all your brain cells?"

"Oh relax I wouldn't take that much of a risk whatever it is has been dealing with hunters for weeks now It has to be both injured and tired"

"And if it isn't?"

"*Smirk* why do you think I hired so many people honestly the more energetic it is the better after all I still have to give them the second half of the payment after the mission"

"..."