That day, the newly minted detective and his partner received a call.

"James move your ass we have the body of a homeless man, it was probably a homicide!" - shouted the experienced cop

"I'm coming!" - he exclaimed and they walked together towards the door.

After half an hour they arrived at the scene, which was already cordoned off by uniformed officers. They approached and began to examine the corpse, the homeless man was lying with a bottle in his neck and the tent was full of blood.

"It's probably the work of another homeless person, tell the cops to search the whole park maybe they'll find something and her they'll ask others living here what happened yesterday, we're going back to base." - said the experienced cop.

James wanted to say something, but he also knows that the probability that it was not a homeless person is slim and they are swamped with work.

Viktor watched from a distance what was happening and a crazy idea came to him.

"Why not become a police officer? I'd have access to the database, I'd learn their protocols thoroughly, I'd know what's being paid attention to, and with an investigation, I could cover up an investigation at the worst time. But the police have too small a field, the FBI would be better because the more expensive the task, the more I will encounter the feds." - he thought while walking home.

At home, he started looking at what he needed to get into the service.

"It seems that in addition to physical fitness, skills such as languages, fighting skills, marksmanship, and knowledge in the chosen field are also important. "

"If I apply I will have about six months to catch up, during which time it would be best to focus on shooting, fighting skills, and languages. Studying in six months won't do it and I don't even have the money to do it."

"Another problem will be the polygraph test and the psychologist. I can handle the doctor but it's hard to say what about the polygraph. Maybe I can find some information on a forum for assassins. And I was just about to see if they accepted my test, "he thought and started logging into the dark web.

When Viktor logged into his account a sign appeared in front of him.

"Congratulations, you have successfully passed the test. Now you can use the forum as well as execute orders. Please note not all orders appear on this site."

"It seems that this page could also be a layer and behind it is an even deeper layer. But it makes sense if someone, for example, wanted to kill a high-value target such as a judge or governor or a very rich person this site has too many users and it's hard to protect the order information. That makes sense. I'm curious to see what kind of orders might appear in another layer and at what price haha." - he laughed when he started thinking about money.

Then the orders appeared on the page. He looked at the first one from the edge and saw.

"Assassination, requirements: 7 days, Protective: none, Target value: low, Payment: $20,000." - He smiled and browsed further.

"Rape, Requirements: brutal rape lasting several hours, Protective: none, Target value: low, Payment: $15,000."

"Murder, Requirements: none, protective: 3 people, target value: medium, payment: $35,000."

Viktor browsed through the ads and a smile appeared on his face.

"In a few days, I can earn half a year's salary of an ordinary worker. This is excellent and these are some of the simpler tasks it's time to see how much these better assignments cost."- he thought and clicked sort by price descending.

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"Assassination, requirements: a few words before death, protective 10 people, the value of the target: high, payment: $100,000."

"Oh fuck !!!, that's the money, it's just a shame that for the time being it's a little too heavy for a second time."

Viktor browsed through various advertisements and after a few hours found that assassination starts at $20,000 and ranges up to $100,000 depending on the requirement, protection, and value of the target. He decided for the time being to choose an easy assassination to avoid undercutting himself. He chose the assassination of a common man, with earnings of 20,000. He clicked and the target's information appeared on the screen.

"Adam Smith lives at 900 Degraw Ave/ apartment 4, leaves for work in the morning before 7 and returns home around 4".

A photo of his face and other information was also added to the information. He then started browsing the assassin's forum there were all sorts of guides from how to kill someone quietly to how to dispose of a body. As he read through the various guides, he began to think about how to kill his first paying victim.

"I should use a knife, preferably a disposable one, and then dispose of it. I also need to buy a gun because who knows what I will find inside, it would be stupid to get killed by my victim hahaha."

"It's best to buy the most common knife so as not to leave any specific cuts, and as for weapons, fortunately, there's everything you need on the dark web."

He managed to find a Colt 1911, bought a g10a suppressor to muffle the gun's bang, and topped it off with one mp5 submachine gun with the suppressor and a Barrett M82A1 along with ammunition. He paid for everything with bitcoin and spent more than $15,000.

To this, he added several fake IDs and social security.

"Now I have to rent a cache under one of the fake documents. This way I will try to separate the work I do from my identity as Viktor. If they got a clue they would get to one of my identities and my real documents will never be connected to any crimes. The only thing I have to be careful about is that no one recognizes my face." - thought Viktor to himself while smiling softly.

After two days, the things he ordered finally arrived and he rented a private garage in which he put the RV like in the movie "The Accountant," which he watched quite recently. This is a good idea for a quick change of location along with a good place to store things. In case of problems, he can escape at any time as long as the pursuers don't know the registration numbers of his RV. It took him a whole day to create hidden caches for weapons, documents, and money.

Then he went to a shooting range and hired an instructor to learn how to shoot well. After firing several hundred rounds, he returned to his apartment and went to bed.

The next day he went to pick up the guns and fake documents at the warehouse and then to the address given by the client. He noticed that the victim went out early in the morning and returned in the afternoon and lived alone in the house. There are no pets in the apartment which he feared because he didn't quite want to deal with the dog.

He opened the lock with a pick and went inside. He searched the apartment and found about 15,000 thousand hidden in a cabinet. He took everything into a backpack and then scattered the clothes so that they looked like the burglar's work.

"Now all you have to do is wait for him to come back, get behind the robbery and stab him with a knife and then make the scene look like a fatal theft. Plus another $15,000 is a good addition to the salary."

After three in the afternoon, Adam entered the building heading for the door. He has been living alone since his wife caught him having an affair with another woman and threw him out of the house. Entering the house, he saw that everything was scattered and immediately wanted to back up and escape but at that moment someone pierced his heart with a knife. He fell to the ground and tried to cry for help but nothing came out of his mouth. A moment later he died.

That person who killed him would, of course, be Viktor, who purposely hid behind the door and waited until he entered the apartment so that the victim could not make a sound.

"Although I was a little stressed it was a lot easier than the first time, nevertheless still my hands are shaking and my legs are trembling."- thought Viktor taking the knife out of Adam's heart.

"Now it is necessary to confirm the completion of the task and to take the valuables and, in addition to the money, throw them somewhere so that the police think that the thief did it."

Viktor quickly gathered what seemed more valuable and put it in his backpack, then changed into new clothes took off his gloves, and left the apartment so that the cameras would not catch him. He then took side streets two kilometers away and took the subway to dump the looted items in the river and burn the clothes and shoes.

After returning to the warehouse, he put away the colt and fake documents and returned to the apartment. He then uploaded photos confirming the man's death to a website and went to bed.

"This life is much more interesting than it may seem." - he smiled while looking up at the ceiling.