Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 183 Abnormal Forensic Doctor

Chapter 183: Chapter 183 Abnormal Forensic Doctor

"Why do I feel like you two old folks will eventually get eaten up completely by your ex-wives?"

Mountain Eagle bid farewell to Victoria and the moment he stepped into the Four Seasons Hotel, he called Blood Fox...

Faced with Mountain Eagle’s complaints, Blood Fox replied helplessly: "Actually, we could just ignore everything and focus solely on our mission."

Mountain Eagle was amused by Blood Fox’s words and said irritably: "Is that really focusing on your own mission? Don’t you need to cooperate with Erin?

Oh, and your daughter Anna...

I’m really baffled why the people who should be closest to you seem not to care much about your safety.

Right now your locations are still confidential, but I have a feeling that the first ones to betray your whereabouts would definitely be Erin and Anna."

Blood Fox said indifferently: "This is indeed a necessary process for fighting for Snowden’s political asylum...

Russia is eager to get him, but they need sufficient reasons and excuses."

Mountain Eagle sneered: "At the same time, you have to destroy all of Snowden’s last hopes of luck, right?

That guy knows the overall architecture of a global surveillance system that cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars over the past decade, constructed with the most advanced digital network technologies. He’s familiar with every link in its chain.

With his cooperation, you can manipulate the negotiation process of the Minsk Agreement by using ’helping European countries to avoid surveillance’ as a bargaining chip.

Actually, all these are just excuses, those so-called ’secrets that can’t be disclosed’ are nothing special.

Because public attention can be manipulated, otherwise Assange should be a superstar rather than hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy.

To those big shots, what’s truly valuable is the digital intelligence infrastructure Snowden controls...

This sophisticated system worth hundreds of billions doesn’t have patents!"

After listening, Blood Fox sighed and said: "Otherwise, why do you think a protection task is valued at 5 million US dollars?

The annual budget of many European heads of state’s bodyguard teams doesn’t even reach 5 million!

This is money pooled by Assange’s behind-the-scenes financial backers, and we need to follow the process they laid out."

After saying this, Blood Fox fell silent for a few seconds and then said: "Kid, you think I’m out of my mind cooperating with Erin and Victoria...

If you think about it carefully, you’ll realize that once the main plot is set, anything I do within my capabilities can be considered an extra gain.

Just like you want to establish authority before ’inviting’ Silicon Valley tycoons for negotiations...

Mountain Eagle, the financiers don’t really care about the process details, they want results.

As long as you can deliver the results they want, even if there are some issues during the process, there will be someone to clean up."

Blood Fox completely clarified the situation, making Mountain Eagle suddenly feel enlightened, and everything became much clearer.

Perhaps Erin didn’t find Blood Fox; after receiving a tricky task, it was Blood Fox who proactively approached Erin, to help his ex-wife and daughter while also securing support from within Russia.

Mountain Eagle still couldn’t sort out the interests of all parties, but one thing was very clear: due to the extremely high value of Snowden, the risks Blood Fox and the others faced were beyond his prior estimates...

Of course, officials from the United States would not want to be denounced for ordering the assassination of Snowden, but some capital behind the United States definitely wouldn’t let such a valuable person remain at large.

If they can’t have him, they’d rather destroy him, which is a norm in international competition!

Indeed, earning 5 million US dollars is no easy feat!

A purely mercenary mindset in handling tasks will definitely lead to being completely eaten up, and you might not even receive the final payment.

Faced with this situation, Mountain Eagle said worriedly: "Do you know if there’s any vault nearby?

We might as well rob it, and then buy some missiles for self-defense. Otherwise, I don’t feel safe!"

Blood Fox could hear the concern in Mountain Eagle’s voice, and he spoke with a somber tone: "Kid, you’re still on the periphery of the whole affair, so you need to consider carefully everything you do. I hope you can maintain the readiness to break away at any moment.

This matter was originally unrelated to you, I hope you..."

Mountain Eagle hung up the phone before Blood Fox could finish...

How could he possibly turn around and leave?

Even though they are just pawns in the big shots’ games, having the core of the whole affair, Snowden, enables Blood Fox and his team to maintain certain autonomy.

As long as they stay alert, in a situation of multiple constraints, they just need to withstand the attack to break open the chess game as mere pawns.

No matter what others want, Mountain Eagle has to protect the lives of the two old guys and then acquire what he wants for himself.

The duty of the pawn is to initiate battle, knowing that there will be someone to clean up afterward...

Let’s do this!

Mountain Eagle took the elevator to the 7th floor where Selena’s room was located, and the moment he used the room card to open the door, he saw Sergei pick up an MP5 and aim it in his direction...

"Oh oh oh..."

Mountain Eagle raised his hands indicating Sergei not to be too nervous, then slowly walked into the room and closed the door behind him.

When he reached the living room, Mountain Eagle saw the vodka on the coffee table, the forensic doctor Anton who was already drunk and confused, and a prisoner lying on the ground with a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth constantly moaning in pain. He frowned and asked, "What’s going on with this guy, what have you all found out?"

Sergei somewhat helplessly said, "Anton’s panic disorder acted up, so I gave him some alcohol..."

Mountain Eagle looked at Anton whose face was flushed with red, and incredulously said, "A forensic doctor with panic disorder? What could have put him under such stress?"

Sergei pointed at the prisoner on the floor, saying, "When I was asking questions, this guy said something that scared Anton badly, leading him to do some irrational things."

Mountain Eagle curiously asked, "What did he do?"

Sergei, looking a bit distressed, opened the prisoner’s shirt and then removed the cloth from his mouth...

The moment the cloth was taken out, the prisoner gasped for air, then screamed in desperation, "Kill me, kill me..."

While screaming, the prisoner was convulsing non-stop but his arms seemed frozen, no matter how his body twisted, his arms wouldn’t move.

Mountain Eagle curiously leaned over to take a closer look and then sharply gasped...

Although the unfortunate captive had no serious injuries, his arms from the shoulder joints to the elbow joints down to the wrist joints had been cut slightly, and a scalpel blade had been inserted into the joints.

Mountain Eagle didn’t know how exactly Anton did it, but it was clear that any slight movement caused the prisoner excruciating pain.

It’s well-known that human pain has a threshold, and once it’s exceeded, the brain automatically secretes hormones to alleviate the pain.

This is why water torture is so popular in old America...

Because interrogators find it difficult to control the level of physical pain, they use both physical and psychological pressure to force the other party to submit.

Now, the blade on this guy’s body controlled the scale of pain, inflicting immense suffering without severely harming the prisoner’s body or triggering the brain’s self-protection mechanism.

Mountain Eagle considered himself quite skilled, but had never seen such a tactic before...

At this moment, his gaze at the drunk Anton changed...

This damn guy is an interrogation artist!

After glancing at the prisoner who was desperately seeking death, Mountain Eagle signaled Sergei to stuff the cloth back and, curiously spreading his hands, said: "I’m a bit inexperienced; can you explain to me, what kind of person with panic disorder does this?"

Sergei found Anton’s reaction a bit bizarre as well, spreading his hands he said, "This guy is a member of a large gang in Moscow, and he and his coworkers picked up 6 assassins from the Georgian border three days ago and then drove back to Moscow.

He initially wouldn’t confess anything and kept threatening us.

Anton’s father was killed by the gang when he was a child, so he seems especially frightened, then just..."

Mountain Eagle paused for a moment, amusedly said: "This damn thing isn’t panic disorder, it’s childhood trauma mixed with stress response."

As he said this, Mountain Eagle looked at the prisoner with a twisted expression, amazedly said, "This guy hasn’t wet his pants yet, which shows Anton controlled the pain just right.

This guy is a torturing genius!"

Sergei nodded empathetically, saying: "I just remembered the years I spent as Anton’s classmate, and I’m really glad I never bullied him."

As the two were talking, Selena walked out of the room with a strange expression and said, "Do you want to listen to what you are saying?

We are agents of the Intelligence Bureau, not psychotic gang assassins..."

As Selena spoke, she threw a file bag on the coffee table, saying, "I contacted the hotel staff to help reset the safe’s password; this is what the female thief left in the safe."

Mountain Eagle frowned and poured the contents from the file bag onto the coffee table...

Euros in cash, 3 passports, a birth certificate, an adoption certificate, a property deed for Greece Athens...

Plus a thick baby customizing contract and a recording pen...

Mountain Eagle curiously played the recording and listened for a while, then he understood what the situation with the child was...

The thief couple had reached retirement age, but they wanted a child, so they reached out to a surrogacy company through the black market.

Normally, surrogacy is legal in some Eastern European countries, but they, being quite wealthy and having high hopes for the future, wanted a genetically superior baby, so they found that genetic laboratory.

The child was born smoothly, but during the delivery, their old greed kicked in...

Due to their greed, they swapped the baby they had paid 250,000 Euros to customize for a perfect baby that a lab head boasted was custom-designed by a European noble for 3 million Euros.

And that stirred up a hornet’s nest!