Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 147: Trap

Chapter 147: Chapter 147: Trap

Tessa’s call for the police was quickly responded to, and they reached the villa district and cordoned off the area outside the villa to keep other community members from approaching.

That wall composed of banknotes was quite shocking. However, what surprised Mountain Eagle was that the Crime Investigation Bureau detectives who arrived seemed completely indifferent to the large amount of money.

This was somewhat different from Mountain Eagle’s impression of the Thai Police...

When Tessa saw that the people in charge of photographing and collecting evidence had arrived, she pulled Mountain Eagle and said while descending the stairs to him, whose expression appeared somewhat peculiar, "Not all police in Thailand are corrupt, and some money simply can’t be touched..."

Mountain Eagle hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and chuckled, "That’s true, such a big case is definitely going to make the news.

If the amount of money doesn’t match up with what the Replacer is reported to have, the police on the scene might end up in trouble.

But losing an entire year’s income at once, I bet the Replacer Organization won’t just let it go.

How do you usually handle that money?"

Tessa thought for a moment and replied, "Generally, we hold a press conference after the case is closed, announcing that all that money has been confiscated.

But before the case is closed, the money will be stored as evidence in the Crime Investigation Bureau’s evidence room..."

Mountain Eagle wasn’t familiar with the Thai Police Team’s procedures, he just found the assassin’s approach rather strange...

He had indeed found the money but only took the things inside the safe, leaving the cash untouched.

This did not align with the ’Replacer’s’ usual behavior, as those impoverished killers from slums are supposed to be unable to resist money.

However, considering the weight of that money, it seems like a clear-minded assassin really wouldn’t risk escaping with such a heavy burden.

Maybe he exposed the money just to use the police for revenge against the Replacer Organization.

After getting downstairs, Mountain Eagle started hearing the sound of retching from a few police officers at the door...

The villa owner’s facial features were gruesomely stripped from their face, a truly horrific death.

Watching Tessa placing a notebook into an evidence bag and handing it over to a Crime Investigation Bureau forensic officer wearing a work badge, Mountain Eagle grabbed Tessa by the arm and said, "Let’s go, the assassin has achieved his goal.

You staying here is pointless, let others investigate the identity of the villa owner. You need some rest now..."

Upon hearing this, Tessa frowned and said, "What do you mean the assassin has achieved his goal?"

Mountain Eagle shook his head and explained, "None of these people died from gunshot wounds; just looking at the way those two bodyguards at the door were killed, it’s clear they were slashed in the throat before they even had a chance to shoot.

The killer fired those shots, intentionally drawing the police here, most likely to expose the existence of the ’Replacer’, and then to use the police’s power to seek revenge."

As he spoke, Mountain Eagle took Tessa to the door and glanced at the onlookers outside the cordon, including two children crying incessantly in a police car, he shook his head and said, "Combating the ’Replacer’ is the police’s duty, but don’t let the assassin lead you by the nose...

Do what you need to do; I suspect that assassin will show up again, given the ruthless gusto he has in flaying a person’s face, his presence will significantly decrease the difficulty of your operations against the Replacer."

Upon hearing this, Tessa frowned and said, "You’re telling me to let that assassin roam free?

Who knows what excessive acts he might commit for revenge?"

Mountain Eagle was startled and realized this was not a political struggle; he shouldn’t let his worldviews interfere with Tessa’s investigation because indeed, allowing the assassin to operate unchecked could lead to chaos and collateral damage.

Mountain Eagle slapped his own head and said, "You’re right, as a police officer I really shouldn’t let an assassin act unchecked...

I suggest you leak information about the assassin and the Replacer to Kobe Andrews at the United States Navy Criminal Investigative Service...

The Replacer must have bribed or even controlled a large number of mid and low level Thai police officers. Make use of Kobe’s urgency to establish credibility with the soldiers by pressuring the British Government through them...

Your family definitely doesn’t have the time to investigate these cases right now, so it has to be someone assigned by the British Government to cooperate with that Kobe.

That way, your mother can clean the police force without being seen as the bad person."

Mountain Eagle continued, "As for how to track the assassin, that’s a bit beyond my ability; the police force is definitely more professional in this respect..."

Tessa looked at Mountain Eagle with a somewhat strange expression and asked, "How did you come up with all this so quickly?"

Mountain Eagle hesitated for a moment and replied, "If you spend a few years in a company full of clever people, you’ll find that politics isn’t actually that difficult...

In any situation, if you are willing to think, you can find the direction beneficial for you, and then seek allies to push things towards a better direction.

Politics isn’t just about slandering and framing each other; most of the time, as long as you improve yourself and allow more allies to benefit, you can overcome most opponents."

Tessa paused for a moment, then after a few minutes of silence, suddenly said, "What kind of company is that Security Company in Singapore you work for really?

What exactly do you want to do now that you are back in Thailand?

Taigore suspects that your aim is to expand operations in Thailand, but I haven’t seen any sign that you are thinking about setting up a security company..."

Mountain Eagle hesitated for a moment; how could he know what that Security Company in Singapore was really like?

Blood Fox once told him that the security company was just a shell company used to provide pensions for retired Arctic Foxes.

As a result, somehow, this company listed in the archives caused Tessa and her family to misunderstand.

Seeing Tessa’s inquiring eyes, Mountain Eagle hesitated for a moment, then said, "I don’t have any plans to start a security company right now, but I am indeed looking for business channels, trying some private business...

Like that old man Eddie you saw at the casino that night...

He is a senior executive of the risk control department of the Franxi Ansheng Group’s Southeast Asia division, he invited me to participate in a ransom payment mission against pirates in a while.

The task isn’t too dangerous, my main task is to assist the people from Ansheng Group, evaluating the shipping risks in the Andaman Sea."

"You are a Mercenary!!"

Tessa, with a ’so that’s how it is’ expression, said, "You still say you don’t want to start a security company, this is obviously a professional mercenary business."

Mountain Eagle didn’t like being called a ’Mercenary’, but explaining it would be too troublesome...

So Mountain Eagle slightly nodded, somewhat helplessly said: "If you say I am a mercenary, then so be it."

After listening, Tessa squinted her eyes and looked up and down at Mountain Eagle, then took out a banknote and stuffed it into the pocket on Mountain Eagle’s chest, smiling said, "OK, Mr. Mercenary, for the next 24 hours you are mine, remember to do as I say, let me sort things out here..."

Mountain Eagle touched his chest, sighed, and said, "Lady, overtime has a separate price..."

Tessa reached out and touched the stubble on Mountain Eagle’s chin, ambiguously said, "Be good, and after work, I can give you a little extra reward.

I have a set of small uniforms, you’ll definitely like it!"

Tessa...

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While Tessa and Mountain Eagle were flirting, hundreds of meters away from the villa area in a park...

Tom used a coconut tree for cover, holding a monocular binocular and watched the vehicles coming and going in front of the villa.

When he saw a dusty van along with six motorcyclists stopping for a few minutes in the shadow on the road diagonally opposite the villa’s gate, then quickly leaving the area heading south on the road.

After the van left, two motorcyclists that were left behind started circling the villa area.

Tom glanced at the two young motorcyclists, then took out his phone and made a call...

"Carlos, did you receive my gift?"

A rough voice replied on the phone: "FUCK YOU Tom, why won’t you just die peacefully?

You wait, our people will find you...

They will draw your blood dry by plunging your head into the toilet, just like how they killed your mother!"

Tom hung up the phone and mounted an off-road motorcycle, chasing in the direction the van had gone...

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As the highest-ranking detective on the scene, Tessa sat in the back of the police car, comforting the two children while trying to learn about their parents’ situation from them.

Mountain Eagle leaned on the police car, watching the Crime Investigation Bureau’s detectives, evidence personnel, and several police officers busily moving in and out of the villa.

A large amount of cash was carried out, packed into several large cardboard boxes, photographed, then placed into a van specifically for transporting scene evidence.

With the cash, several computer devices and hard drives were loaded into the van...

Mountain Eagle had seen those things, all were surveillance videos inside and outside the villa, the angles covering every room and the garden of the entire villa, even the bathrooms were not missed, there were no blind spots.

Moreover, the unbelievable thing was, these surveillance devices also had a remote mode, meaning this family was either insane, or they lived under constant surveillance.

Mountain Eagle, coming from a country rife with cameras like this, still couldn’t imagine how a family could live under such surveillance conditions.

The technical team of the Crime Investigation Bureau extracted the video of the murder incident, the assassin was indeed the one who had appeared at the hospital...

Moreover, when he tortured the villa’s owner, he chose an angle directly facing the living room’s camera, allowing the camera to film the entire process of him torturing the male owner without any blind spots.

The entire process of committing the crime was extremely bloody and brutal, and because the advanced surveillance could record both video and sound, the horror was magnified several times, making even the technical staff of the Crime Investigation Bureau hard to withstand...

The assassin, besides getting the code for the safe, did not ask any more questions.

Just like Mountain Eagle guessed, that guy was killing for someone to watch...

Unfortunately, Mountain Eagle didn’t understand the conversation between the assassin and the male owner, and he felt it inappropriate to disturb the technicians at work, so he didn’t find out what the killer said.

Just when Mountain Eagle was pondering what exactly the assassin wanted, Tessa got off the police car, her tone somewhat heavy, said: "The male owner of the villa is an accountant..."

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