Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 223 New Harvest

Chapter 223: Chapter 223 New Harvest

Mountain Eagle was momentarily taken aback; he sensed Mi Lu’s concern and said with a smile and a wave of his hand, "I don’t have any particular thoughts...

It’s just that it’s the first time someone has told me so directly ’You are worth a lot of money,’ and it feels very strange to me."

Upon hearing this, Mi Lu, while driving, sniffled with an insinuating tone, "White Whale has a good reputation, but he has never worked with top teams..."

Mountain Eagle was amused by Mi Lu’s slightly comical caution and said with a laugh, "You might as well say he’s never worked with Arctic Fox."

Mi Lu shook his head, his expression complicated as he spoke, "No, Arctic Fox has cooperated with him in Estonia and Tunisia, but both times they suffered heavy losses!"

As soon as Mountain Eagle heard this, he frowned and asked, "Did that guy screw you over?"

Mi Lu nodded and then shook his head, speaking in a downcast tone, "No, it wouldn’t be right to say we were screwed!

White Whale secured us two major contracts, and the payments were very prompt, even when the client had issues, he dug into his own pockets to cover the final payments without hesitation."

Then, looking at a curious Mountain Eagle, Mi Lu said, "Contracts!

White Whale is obsessively dedicated to the terms of contracts!

He ensures that both hiring parties execute the contract so well, you feel like you are just a valuable screw, not a living person!"

Mountain Eagle could roughly grasp the point of Mi Lu’s words, but still somewhat puzzled, asked, "What’s the problem with enforcing a contract?

It binds both sides, not just one...

Mercenaries earn their keep by risking their lives; it’s fair!"

Mi Lu scoffed coldly, "Fair?

If you ever get a chance to meet White Whale, you’ll find that there are businessmen in this world without a conscience, without boundaries, without emotion!

White Whale can secure big contracts for capable people, but after the deal is done, he can betray those he’s worked with without any remorse.

You can make money working with him, but you’ll never feel any respect, because in his eyes, you’re just a tool or, should I say, a contract asset!"

After saying this, Mi Lu looked at Mountain Eagle, who appeared thoughtful, and said seriously, "Mountain Eagle, believe me, White Whale is not a good partner to work with!"

Mi Lu’s explanation wasn’t particularly clear, but Mountain Eagle already had an outline of White Whale in mind.

A middleman who talks only of contract interests, not personal feelings!

In the traditional Western notion, such a person has a classic image, the Devil!

Mountain Eagle had once experienced a huge loss due to contract issues while working back home.

He was amazed by the Northern Europeans’ expertise at setting contract traps; if headquarters hadn’t intervened to help its branch, Mountain Eagle’s branch would have collapsed.

From Mi Lu’s attitude, White Whale doesn’t seem to engage in contract fraud; otherwise, he wouldn’t last long.

So it must be that he’s ’unsympathetic’!

For a team like Arctic Fox with a strong and distinctive personality, if you only talk business and not feelings, the cooperation won’t last.

Mountain Eagle actually noticed White Whale’s traits from the beginning...

This guy comes across as open-hearted, broadly connected, but the impression he left on Mountain Eagle wasn’t negative, though it wasn’t particularly positive either.

Because he put a price on Mountain Eagle over the phone before they even met in person.

’Being materialized’ may be unavoidable for modern people, but if you get dazzled by the other party’s offer, neglecting other conditions, you’ll fall into a vortex of exploitation.

In the relationships between individuals and companies, money is often just one of the terms of cooperation; when the money isn’t significantly different, other conditions become much more important.

White Whale is like some celebrity agents...

I have money, resources, connections, and to make more money, I look for suitable people to collaborate with.

But because most people of good quality rise to fame in his hands, contracts signed with him are very harsh.

Such agents usually have many second- and third-tier stars under their control, immeasurable resources and earnings, yet no mega-star will work with them, and those who do become famous are likely to turn against them.

Arctic Fox is a typical underworld mega-star; they can’t tolerate someone like White Whale.

Mountain Eagle knew he couldn’t stand such a collaborator either, so he simply nodded and said, "I’ll remember what you said..."

Mi Lu nodded happily and added, "That’s more like it. You are the most promising young man I’ve seen. Instead of working with White Whale, you might as well go and rescue the Great White Shark.

Although she’s just an assassin middleman, she’s very intelligent, and her sources of information are very broad.

Such talents are your best partners, as she will respect your opinions and even prioritize them."

Mountain Eagle knew that these two old men meant well, but he couldn’t tell Mi Lu that he had eavesdropped on the two old men’s phone call at the Red Square Restaurant that day...

The old men did their utmost in paving the way for him, a greenhorn.

Though there were clear differences in their ways of thinking and habits, leading to extremely out-of-sync approaches to the issues in Moscow,

Mountain Eagle knew very well that they were the people who cared about him the most!

The advice of those who genuinely care about you must be respected!

Because the road they pave may not necessarily be correct, but the ’path nodes’ they design—meaning making more important contacts according to their guidance—will definitely not be wrong.

Accumulating enough ’good options’ during the process would ultimately serve as an aid on his own path to his goals.

Seeing Mi Lu suddenly becoming a bit naggy, Mountain Eagle shook his head with a smile and said, "I understand!

It will probably take a few days for the United States to respond. Let’s rest for two days, give our bodies a break, and take the time to study the rescue plan. Then, I’ll take action. What do you think?"

Mi Lu smiled and nodded without saying anything more...

After things quieted down, Mountain Eagle finally had the chance to check the changes in the Sergeant System...

He was not certain about the amount of weapons-grade nuclear material within the four nuclear bombs, but he could clearly feel that the changes this time were not as intense as the previous encounter with ’plutonium.’

The appearance of ’plutonium’ last time directly led to the creation of ’Golden Cicada,’ a bug-level weapon for night and indoor combat, and it also cut the price of flexible armor in gold by half.

If it weren’t for these two items, Mountain Eagle wouldn’t dare to act so recklessly in Moscow.

The nuclear material this time generated new changes...

Under the bionic drone project, there was a new option to adjust the shape of the bionic drones as needed...

For example, it doesn’t have to be a Crow, it could also be a bird like the Magpie with a similar body size...

In reality, it was just a few different skins to make the drone less likely to be spotted.

At the same time, perhaps to compensate for the lack of ground-based bionic drones, an advanced set of equipment that can be fitted on police dogs and has control, monitoring, attack, and defense functions was added to the project.

Lastly, the VSS and AK-105, which Mountain Eagle had activated, had evolved versions...

Mountain Eagle was most interested in the guns. Although the evolved versions did not entirely transform the two guns, they did significantly upgrade the performance of these rare quality products that were already regarded as rare on the open market.

The system showed that the new VSS’s effective range could reach 500 meters, with an optimal range of 400 meters.

It should be noted that under ideal conditions, the range of this gun is only about 350 meters, and the optimal range is only 250 meters.

Together with the subsonic bullets produced by the system, not only is the penetration better than before, but the firing noise was also reduced from the original 120 decibels to 105 decibels.

This volume, in a slightly complex and noisy environment, would probably not be heard over a distance of ten meters or through a door.

This was not just a slight improvement, this was a qualitative leap!

By comparison, the performance changes of the simpler AK-105 seemed somewhat minor for Mountain Eagle.

The range increased by 50 meters, and there was a new change inside the receiver...

It wasn’t a particularly impressive change; it was similar to the design of the AK-107, featuring the addition of a counterbalance inside the receiver that moves in the opposite direction to negate the recoil during shooting and thus improve the stability and accuracy during rapid fire.

Industry experts call this design a ’Balanced Automatic Recoil System’ (BARS)

The difference is that the AK-107’s counterbalance is on the bolt carrier, but the Sergeant System’s modified version integrates the counterbalance within the receiver.

This change is extremely user-friendly for common people as it greatly reduces the recoil issue with the AK family of guns.

However, for Mountain Eagle, this change would be somewhat useful if applied to 7.62mm caliber rifles like the AK-103, but the relatively light recoil of the 5.45mm caliber rifles is negligible to him, making it seem somewhat superfluous.

Yet, regardless of being superfluous, good stuff is good stuff!

And the most valuable and technically sophisticated change was in the bionic drone project.

Changing the shape of the drone did not constitute a fundamental enhancement; a Crow capable of carrying two hand grenades into the sky might not even be as good as a Magpie with a similar size.

Moreover, this type of attack method, even in a ’game,’ is not recommended, as it lacks both power and precision.

For true long-range precision bombing, one would still have to look at suicide drones.

The part of the drone project with real technical substance was the police dog kit!

Mountain Eagle had tried this kit in games, but the police dogs there, like the soldiers, were all NPCs. Compared to more advanced mechanical dogs or cats, the biological combination kit was too cumbersome to operate, so he was not particularly familiar with it.

However, he was very clear that having an agile ground partner that could scout ahead would be extremely convenient for a ground operative, aside from having eyes in the sky.

The high-energy mechanical dogs in the game were great, but at this stage, Mountain Eagle could not see any hope of unlocking medium-sized ground robots like mechanical dogs.

Not solely due to gold, but the Sergeant System also seemed to be missing some special component.

Thus, in the Sergeant System, compared to those gray, unactivated options, the options for medium to large robots were downright black, without even a gold price listed.

Mountain Eagle guessed it might be an energy issue, but he had no clue!

However, with new toys at hand, it was already enough for the current Mountain Eagle...

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