Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 10 Paradise
The part of the Mekong River in China is called the "Nujiang River". Beyond the border, it becomes the boundary river between Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.

The famous Golden Triangle is located at the junction of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.

The former Golden Triangle included Shan State and Kachin State in Myanmar, Chiang Rai Province and northern Chiang Mai Province in Thailand, as well as Luang Namtha, Phongsali, Oudomxay Province, and western Luang Prabang Province in Laos, with a total of more than 3000 villages and towns.

However, since the Mekong River case, these three countries have been seized upon by their home countries as an excuse to launch a high-pressure campaign to crack down on drug crimes and develop alternative economies.

During this 14-year period, the states outside the Golden Triangle have announced under pressure that they will abandon the drug trade and begin using local fertile land to grow crops to replace poppies.

Even Laos' Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone has begun to prosper with the support of several large companies. It is said that this year it will assist in the filming of a movie specifically about the Mekong River case.

But where there is repression, there is resistance...

Thailand submitted a '2014 Southeast Asia Opium Poppy Survey Report' this year...

The report shows that the continued high-pressure crackdown has led to an increase in international drug demand, which has also contributed to the increase in poppy cultivation area in the core area of the Golden Triangle.

What's even worse is that the drug lords have started to do two things. They not only produce opium, but also methamphetamine.

Naukan is a new methamphetamine dealer who has emerged after the famous Nokang. This guy has learned from the lessons of his predecessors and his whereabouts have become more secretive and more brutal!

When Shanying was pursuing the human trafficking route, he ran into the human smuggling line and happened to meet the people who were sent by Naukan to scout the country, and he killed them all easily!
Just look at the situation of those anti-drug police officers and you will know that there is nothing wrong with going against these big drug lords, but the consequences of having your identity exposed are very serious.

Shanying believed that as a member of the police force, his wife would be able to learn about the situation first and make appropriate responses even if she was implicated and fired.

But he doesn't want to gamble!

If Shanying offered to be the bait in the beginning with the intention of seeking bargaining chips, now he wants to solve the problem once and for all.

In fact, killing is the easiest part of the whole process. The hardest part is how to find the other party, figure out the other party's behavior habits, and then formulate an evacuation plan.

Now that the glaring bait of the mountain eagle is here, the rest is not that difficult...

Of course, 'less difficult' is only relative...

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After driving the speedboat for about 2 hours, Elk turned into a tributary, refueled on the way, and drove for nearly 4 hours in many twists and turns before reaching the shore.

When the speedboat reached the shore, two young men with guns ran onto the simple dock and diligently helped Milu to park the speedboat in the best berth, and then used cables to tie the speedboat's bow and stern firmly to the dock...

One of the young men, wearing a worn baseball cap, pulled the elk onto the dock and said with a smile in fluent English: "I thought you wouldn't be back for a few days. Did something happen? Do you need our help?"

The elk waved his hand in disdain and pushed the young man away, saying, "There are so many people around here who are coveting the gold mine occupied by your dead grandfather. If you leave, what will happen to your people?"

The elk turned around and pointed at the speedboat and said, "Make room for me and call a doctor..."

The young man glanced at the speedboat, then glanced at the two prisoners. His eyes stayed on Shanying for a few seconds, then he nodded and turned to his friend and said a few words in Laotian...

Soon seven or eight young men came running over and helped carry the prisoners into the village.

Shanying was really not used to the feeling of being supported by others. He took the crutch handed to him by a dark-skinned young man with a sunny smile, and after walking behind the team for about ten minutes, he entered a village built on the hillside... The sudden open view after walking out of the jungle made Shanying stunned for a moment. He did not expect that there was such a paradise-like place only about one kilometer away from the river bank.

The surrounding hilly areas are full of neatly arranged terraces, and a Zhuang-style village has been built on a relatively steep hillside.

The uniform black tiles of the wooden buildings are stacked layer by layer on the hillside in a fish-scale pattern, and are surrounded by a circle of low stone walls.

Shanying did not see any roads, and the scale of the buildings here obviously exceeded the level that the economic development of this area could sustain.

When stepping onto the first bluestone step, Mountain Eagle asked Blood Fox curiously, "What is going on here?"

Blood Fox glanced at the curious Mountain Eagle, waved his hand and said, "This is the hometown of our old comrade Pangolin...

After he retired 10 years ago, he discovered a gold mine nearby, and then he led the villagers to occupy the gold mine. He raised a large amount of funds by selling gold mining rights, and this is how this village was built. "

As he spoke, Blood Fox looked at the young men in front of him and said with a smile: "These young men were trained by that old fellow Pangolin...

Don't underestimate them, these young people have been dealing with warlords and drug lords for many years, and have long held the ownership of gold mines, so their fighting power is very good."

Shanying was amazed and said: "Auctioning mining rights instead of mining by ourselves is a very smart business strategy.

Your comrades must be amazing!"

After hearing this, Blood Fox nodded slightly and said in a low voice: "It is of course amazing that an old man can survive on the battlefield for decades, but old is old..."

Mountain Eagle was a little confused by Blood Fox's sudden depression...

But when he followed the main group up a dozen stairs and entered a large house, he began to understand a little bit...

The elk, who was obviously in a hurry, held an old man who was so skinny that he was just a bag of bones and happily shook him a few times, then put him on a recliner covered with bear skin, and began to loudly greet the young man in the peaked cap who greeted him first, asking him to prepare food and drinks...

Blood Fox led Mountain Eagle to the old man and said with a smile, "Pangolin, meet my new apprentice, Mountain Eagle. If anything happens in the future, you don't need my old bones to run errands anymore."

The skinny pangolin glanced at the mountain eagle and stretched out his hand to him...

Shanying didn't know when he became an apprentice. He subconsciously reached out and shook hands with Pangolin. Then he heard the old man say in a voice like glass scratching a blackboard: "Welcome..."

The mountain eagle subconsciously said "thank you", and then suddenly realized that the pangolin was speaking Chinese. Although there was a bit of a southwestern accent, it did not prevent him from understanding it at all.

When the pangolin saw the surprised expression on the mountain eagle's face, he seemed to have succeeded in his prank and said with a happy smile: "The TV series in the north are very interesting. I hope that the people in the village will go there to work and live in the future..."

Shanying didn't think his hometown would accept a group of Laotian natives who occupied the mountains and ruled as kings. He laughed dryly and said, "It is indeed developing very well there. I should go and see it if I have the chance..."

While the mountain eagle was talking to the landlord, the impatient elk said loudly: "Stop talking nonsense, set up the camera quickly, get him to confess, and find a place to bury him so that we can have a meal...

Don’t take crappy jobs from international agencies anymore. You won’t make any money and it’s just a hassle…”

(End of this chapter)