Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 265 - 264: Tracking

Chapter 265: Chapter 264: Tracking

Mountain Eagle seemed calm, but Shasili’s injury had ignited a raging fire inside him...

At the first sign of trouble, the girl had chosen to push both Mountain Eagle and Tessa away.

Mountain Eagle didn’t say a word to Shasili when he put her in the ambulance, fearing that he would be overcome by anger like Tessa and make the wrong choice.

On the way to Pattaya, Mountain Eagle kept thinking. He instinctively felt that something was wrong, but could not make a logical judgment due to the lack of sufficient information.

Ever since Tessa told him that Tom had attacked a team of CIA agents and then the Asabaev Organization had claimed the attack, Mountain Eagle had felt something was off.

Who had found Tom, and why would that guy take such a big risk to attack CIA agents with injuries?

Tom should have been in Pattaya Hospital, which was surrounded by the police due to those stranded American soldiers.

Who would go to the hospital to hire an injured assassin?

Earlier, Mountain Eagle had found Sabaya, the former leader of the Asabaev Organization, in the safe house of CIA agent Villiant Hugo, and had handed him over to Taigore. Then Sabaya was used as a bargaining chip and transferred to the Philippine side...

According to what Taigore had told him before, Mountain Eagle knew that Sabaya had accepted the terms offered jointly by the CIA and MI6 to avoid execution by the Philippines. He voluntarily became a ’poison pill’ to rejoin the Asabaev Organization and try to cooperate with officials to dismantle it.

Under these circumstances, why would the Asabaev Organization attack the CIA?

Was Sabaya’s undercover identity exposed?

It should be impossible!

If Sabaya’s identity was exposed, the Asabaev Organization should be considering what to do now that they’ve been targeted.

Even if they were bold enough for revenge, they should be initiating attacks on their home ground in the Philippines.

Whether the terrorists that the Joint Investigation Team had been tracking were still in Thailand, Mountain Eagle had no way of knowing.

But it was clear to him, those terrorists didn’t have plutonium in their hands. How could the Asabaev Organization possibly make such a mindless move to cover for a few people’s evacuation?

Attacking Taigore’s lover to intimidate him - what kind of idiotic move is that? Other than infuriating Taigore, the Thai Police Team’s star player, what could they gain from it?

As the car neared the crime scene in Pattaya, Mountain Eagle voiced his doubts to Tessa.

Tessa, who tends to act on love and sometimes without regard for consequences, is still professional when it comes to case analysis.

After listening to Mountain Eagle’s analysis, Tessa also felt something was amiss...

Looking at Mountain Eagle driving, Tessa hesitated and then said, "Do you think that the attack on the Joint Investigation Team’s office also included Taigore?"

Mountain Eagle pursed his lips and thought for a moment, then said, "It’s hard to judge...

From the situation at the restaurant, it seems they wanted to intimidate Taigore.

But here in Pattaya, it’s clear that wasn’t the case. People have died, meaning those terrorists came with the intention to kill.

If the goal of both attacks was to intimidate, it means they knew Taigore’s schedule in advance and took the opportunity of his leaving work early to rush in and kill CIA and MI6 personnel.

But why would the terrorists do that?

Offending CIA and MI6 while also angering Taigore, what could they gain from it?"

Mountain Eagle hesitated and then added, "I don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but those terrorists don’t seem to care about CIA and MI6 personnel, yet they seem to be wary of Taigore...

That doesn’t make sense!

Why would a terrorist group with its core in the Philippines be afraid of a Thai Police officer?"

After a long contemplation, Tessa suddenly said, "Is it possible that those people aren’t from the Asabaev Organization at all?

That previous attack, the Asabaev Organization members came forward to claim it, so it should indeed have been their doing.

But this time, it’s all our speculation from the start!

Is it possible that this attack was meant to exacerbate the conflict between the UK and US and the Asabaev Organization?"

Saying this, Tessa vigorously rubbed her temples and continued, "Taigore told me when he called earlier that the attack happened shortly after he left the office.

Then he gathered the 191 team and rushed back as fast as they could, trapping those people inside the office building.

The attackers were unprepared, so they retreated into the office building and took those agents as hostages.

Could it be possible that the restaurant attack was threatening Taigore, trying to make him show leniency?"

Mountain Eagle couldn’t answer Tessa’s question. After thinking, he said, "Even if what you’re saying is correct, those attackers have been targeting Taigore for a while; otherwise, even his lover would not have come under surveillance.

The other side just shot; they didn’t try to kidnap.

They probably just wanted to intimidate Taigore, because if they wanted to negotiate terms, they would have attempted to kidnap Samantha."

Mountain Eagle glanced at the road signs ahead and steered the car towards the exit ramp of the highway, saying, "But you make sense. Until we confirm the identity of the attackers, we shouldn’t preemptively treat them as members of the Asabaev Organization. Otherwise, targeting the wrong people would make us look particularly stupid!"

As Mountain Eagle left the highway ramp and stopped at a red light at an intersection on the road below, Daria in the back seat suddenly said, "Sir, there’s been a car following us for more than ten kilometers... A white Hilux, with a damaged left headlight and mismatched side mirror colors."

Mountain Eagle had been deep in thought, so he hadn’t paid attention to the situation behind them... However, the reason he chose to drive Samantha’s car in the first place was to see if it would attract the opponents to make their next move.

Thus, he had made sure all the windows were closed from the moment they drove out of the restaurant, using the dark-tinted glass to block the view from outside.

To his surprise, they actually dared!

Mountain Eagle took a glimpse through the rearview mirror at the vehicle pointed out by Daria. The car was three vehicles behind his own, with the driver’s side window rolled down, and the driver’s elbow resting on it...

With a velcro strip, Mountain Eagle attached his CZ75, still in its holster, to the chest position of his tactical vest.

He drew the handgun, released the hammer, then re-holstered it. Looking at Tessa, who had already disengaged the safety on her USP45 submachine gun, and Daria, who had also prepared herself...

When the light turned green, Mountain Eagle suddenly accelerated out.

About a kilometer later, as Mountain Eagle looked behind to see the also accelerating Hilux, he swerved into the far-left lane and began to slow down.

Seeing the Hilux overtake him and then start to slow down as well, he confirmed that they were being followed...

Mountain Eagle smirked and, while rolling down the driver’s side window, laughingly said, "Get ready..."

No sooner had his words fallen than Mountain Eagle accelerated again, passing the Hilux from the left lane.

Then, as the Hilux sped up again trying to keep pace, Mountain Eagle decisively hit the brakes. When the Hilux overtook them on the right, Mountain Eagle extended his left hand holding the gun out of the window...

"Bang"—the bullet struck the front left wheel of the Hilux with precision...

The Hilux, with a burst tire, instantly lost control and veered into a rice field on the side of the road...

However, the vehicle wasn’t going very fast, and the driver reacted in time to halt the pickup halfway over the edge of the road.

As soon as Mountain Eagle pulled over, Tessa on the right front passenger seat pushed the door open and jumped out...

Dressed in a police uniform, Tessa, gun in one hand and police badge in the other, halted traffic flow in the middle of the road, preventing the cars behind from getting closer.

Meanwhile, Mountain Eagle and Daria exited from the left side of the car, Mountain Eagle leading with his pistol and Daria a few steps behind with her USP45 for cover, quickly approaching the pickup.

The people inside the pickup did not have time to react before they heard shouting from outside...

"Don’t move, put your hands where I can see them; I am with the Thai Police..."

The Southeast Asians inside the vehicle glanced at each other. Just as one was about to reach for a gun, it was already too late...

Mountain Eagle rushed to the passenger side, gun pointed at the people inside, and shook his head, "Don’t move, lift your hands up where I can see..."

Saying this, Mountain Eagle watched the passenger’s feral gaze fixed on him and shook his head, "Don’t be impulsive. You’re just minor figures; I don’t want to hurt you, slowly lift your hands where I can see..."

Under immense pressure, the passenger in the front seat grimaced and struggled for a few seconds, perhaps feeling the consequences of being caught would be more severe, so he suddenly lifted his gun-toting right hand towards Mountain Eagle...

The moment Mountain Eagle saw the gun, he squeezed the trigger...

"Bang bang"—a double tap hit the gunman in the passenger seat.

The other three gunmen inside the car prepared to retaliate at the sound of the gunfire, but before they could even lift their guns, Tessa, standing behind and to the side of Mountain Eagle, and circling behind the vehicle, also opened fire.

The 9mm bullets from the USP45 easily pierced the Hilux body, and the crossfire from two angles left no chance for the people inside to dodge...

"Ratatatatat..."

Sixty rounds from the two guns bloodied the entire cabin in an instant.

Seeing the gunman at the steering wheel convulsing before slamming his head onto the wheel, causing the pickup’s horn to blare continuously, Mountain Eagle checked that no one inside was alive. He gestured to Tessa and Daria, who were swiftly reloading, "Ceasefire, ceasefire..."

Once done, Mountain Eagle moved to the driver’s side, pulling the driver’s head away from the wheel, then forcefully opened the front and rear doors, quickly dragging out the guns of the several gunmen and placing them on the pickup’s hood.

Two pistols and two slightly outdated Scorpion VZ61 submachine guns.

These submachine guns seemed to be the same model as the ones used in the restaurant attack, but the vehicles were different, so Mountain Eagle couldn’t confirm if they were the same group of people.

However, one thing was for sure: the Scorpion VZ61 submachine gun was not common in Thailand. Even if they weren’t the same group, they were part of the same gang.

Tessa, still in her police uniform, came to check by the pickup, then looked at Daria, who seemed unflustered by what had seemed like a trivial task. Hesitating, she said, "The police will arrive soon. Go wait in our car..."

Daria nodded in understanding, helped Tessa set up cones to create a barrier for the halted traffic behind them to pass through, and then returned to sit in the police car.

Seeing Daria so obedient, Tessa approached Mountain Eagle and asked, "What exactly did you do in Moscow?"