Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 141 Fighting in the air
It's a big deal when an American soldier commits suicide in a hospital...

When Shanying and Tessa ran to the incident room, they saw a nurse slumped by the door. On the bed lay a corpse with a hole in the head, and next to the corpse was a common Glock 17.

The dead soldier's calves were wrapped in gauze, his upper body fell to the end of the bed, and his stiff legs fell outside the bed.

It looked like he had shot himself in the head with a pistol while sitting on the edge of the bed.

Shanying watched Tessa put on gloves and began to survey the scene. He grabbed Gru and whispered, "Seal off all entrances and exits of the hospital. This is not suicide. There is a killer in the hospital."

After listening to this, Gru nodded heavily and began to use the radio to call other police officers...

He still focused on finding the killer, but Shanying had roughly realized the problem...

There are now a large number of Yellow Shirts surrounding the hospital, and the pressure from the United States cannot be transmitted into the hospital.

But the videos that kept flowing out of the hospital were like a slap in the face to America, dealing a huge blow to the legitimacy of its overseas troop operations.

If they keep waiting, things will get increasingly out of control. America needs an excuse to get its people back, even if it means killing them, it is better than leaving them here to be coerced into confessing by reporters who are eager to create chaos.

The killer's actions were somewhat contradictory. He set up a suicide scene, but the presence of the gun itself was illogical.

What we need to do now is to block the hospital and the news at the same time, then find out the killer as soon as possible, and then hold him off as long as possible.

However, Shanying felt that given the political situation in Thailand, if another soldier died in the hospital due to an "accident", Tessa's mother would not be able to stop it for too long.

Gru's work is reliable. The soldiers of the 191st Special Forces have no power relationship with the local police and have all undergone loyalty checks. When the order was issued, only a few minutes later, the floor where the accident occurred and all the entrances and exits of the hospital were blocked.

Shanying walked into the ward where the accident happened. Just as he was about to remind Tessa, the female police officer from the Criminal Investigation Bureau stood up, frowned, and said in a heavy tone: "He didn't commit suicide, but someone killed him and left the gun here..."

Shanying knew how to stimulate the initiative of girls like Tessa. He looked curious and asked, "How did you figure that out?"

Tessa, who had entered the working state, pointed at the dead soldier's hand and said, "The base of his right hand and the gaps between his fingernails are very clean, while the base of his left hand has very thin gun calluses, and there are some residues in the gaps between his fingernails.

His left hand is his dominant hand!
He only had a leg injury, there was no reason for him to commit suicide with his non-dominant hand."

As she spoke, Tessa used her gloved hand to move the corpse's pierced head, then gestured at the height and angle, and soon found a bullet hole in the lower part of the wall opposite the bed.

Tessa squatted on the ground, used a multi-purpose military knife to dig out the bullet stuck in the wall and put it into a plastic bag, then stood up and walked to the bedside, gestured with her left hand as if she was making a gun, and said, "People who commit suicide usually have a parallel or slightly upward trajectory. Someone shot and killed this guy while he was sitting on the bed...

That person should be about the same height as me, no more than 165 cm. "

Seeing Tessa getting more and more excited, Shanying said at the right time: "The other party used a Glock 17, which is a very common gun in Thailand. But you should notify all the police in the hospital to check themselves. First, make sure their guns are still there."

Tessa was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily, picked up the radio and began calling all police officers in the hospital to check themselves and report quickly.

Then Tessa frowned and looked at Shanying, saying, "This method is very crude and can't be hidden from professionals at all..."

Shanying said with a serious expression: "Is it possible that the opponent didn't want to hide anything at all?"

When Tessa heard this, she frowned and said, "What do you mean? The killer is deliberately exposing himself..."

Shanying shook his head and said, “If I were a killer, and I could enter the ward without being discovered, I would have many ways to kill this unlucky guy silently.

After the gunshot, Gru and his team rushed here as soon as possible, but they didn't see any suspicious people, which shows that the killer is quite cautious and professional.

But the killer chose to shoot and left the gun behind...

If this gun is the service weapon of a hospital police officer, what you need to consider now is how to deal with external pressure.

Because if this was planned, someone would quickly package this murder as a 'hate crime' and use political pressure to force you to hand over these soldiers or send people into the hospital to investigate.

In either case, your media campaign will cease."

Tessa was quite professional in investigating cases, but she seemed a little immature when it came to political issues. She said anxiously, "What should we do? We have only completed less than one-fifth of our 'media interrogation' work..."

Shanying spread his hands and said, "Protect the remaining soldiers first. You'd better call your mother and ask for her advice.

Then we tried every possible means to find the killer..."

Shanying looked at Tessa with some sympathy and said, "Tessa, you have to be mentally prepared. There might be something wrong with the police in the hospital.

Without the help of an insider, it would be impossible for the killer to sneak into the ward and kill people silently.

And this might not even be the worst case scenario..."

When Tessa heard this, she frowned and said, "Can it get any worse?"

Shanying pulled Tessa to the window of the ward, lifted a corner of the curtain, pointed at the yellow shirt soldiers blocking the hospital entrance below, and said, "If I were the manipulator behind the scenes, I would let the killer kill one or two American soldiers who had been interrogated, and then go out and surrender openly, and let him hint to the police that there is an insider in the police force...

I will package the killer as a 'radical avenger' and the police involved as problematic police with populist tendencies, so as to put more pressure on the Thai police... In this case, the Thai police force itself may be investigated."

When Tessa heard this, she said excitedly, "What should we do?"

Shanying said in a deep voice: "The hospital is blocked and no one, including the police, is allowed to enter or leave. At the same time, people from other departments are not allowed to enter the hospital.

We have to find and kill the killer before the opponent takes action, so that we can still have room to maneuver."

Shanying looked at Tessa's gloomy face and said with a smile: "Don't be too nervous, we still have a chance to fight back...

The killer was targeting those American soldiers. If we let them believe that the killer was here to silence them, some of them might choose to ask the police for help out of fear..."

Tessa's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said, "We should seal off all the wards, cut off the channels for those soldiers to communicate with the outside world, and use killers to put pressure on them."

Shanying nodded slightly and said, "If necessary, we can use some means to make them feel that their lives are not guaranteed..."

Shanying looked at Tessa, who looked confused, and said with a smile: "Find an American soldier who has been 'interrogated', and let's go and say hello to him together..."

Tessa frowned and said, "What are you going to do? Those soldiers can't die in the hospital."

Shanying walked out with a smile, saying, "We must be prepared for anything we do. Our opponent is not just a killer, so we'd better prepare some pre-emptive measures before we act, so that we can buy more time and find an excuse to delay time.

In the game, this practice is called 'skill pre-swing'..."

Tessa caught up with the mountain eagle and said, "What on earth are you going to do?"

Shanying didn't have time to explain in detail to Tessa. He called the two bodyguards, Suka and Geralt, who were standing at the door of the ward and said, "I need someone to take a bullet. Which of you two has better acting skills?"

Sokka and Geralt are Gru's men. They have known him since the first day that Shanying became a policeman...

We have experienced a series of battles and have a high level of trust in each other.

After hearing what Shanying said, Sukka and Geralt looked at each other, and Geralt said a little worriedly: "Are we really going to get shot?"

Shanying shook his head and said, "As long as those American soldiers think it's true..."

Shanying pulled Tessa forward to talk and said, "You are responsible for finding the killer in the hospital and contacting the media outside...

The information that there were assassins trying to kill American soldiers and that Geralt risked his life to protect them must be disclosed as soon as possible. "

Tessa frowned and nodded, saying, "Are you going to pretend to be a killer?"

Shanying nodded with a smile and said, "I need to change my clothes and then go give a certain American soldier a surprise. Then Geralt will rush in to protect the hostages. I will shoot him and run away."

As Shanying looked at Tessa's worried expression, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will take the radio with me, and if I encounter the police and the 191st Brigade blocking me, I will notify you to transfer them away.

If I'm lucky, I might find the killer before you do!"

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While Shanying was guiding Tessa to act according to his plan, a middle-aged white man got on a van two blocks away from the hospital...

After getting on the van, the middle-aged white man tugged at his tie, raised his arm and put his sweaty armpits to the air-conditioning vent for a while, then handed a briefcase to an old Thai man who was smoking...

“Here’s $4…”

The old man threw the cigarette butt out through the gap in the car window, then opened his briefcase and counted the money...

"Don't worry, the person I arranged has already gone in. He has killed that guy as you requested, and is now looking for an opportunity to kill another one. Then he will walk out of the hospital and turn himself in."

The old man grinned with his yellow teeth and said, "Don't you really need to kill more people?

Anyway, that guy will be killed in the end, so why not let him do more..."

The middle-aged white man shook his head decisively and said, “Just do as we ask, kill another idiot who confesses, and then put some pressure on those media reporters.

Remember, once the footage of him turning himself in is captured, find a way to silence him immediately."

The middle-aged white man opened the car door and got out of the car, saying, "Don't let me down, or you won't be able to afford the consequences..."

The old man with yellow teeth grinned as he watched the middle-aged white man leave. He then asked the driver to drive and took out his phone to make a call...

"Tom, the four thousand dollars has arrived. Kill one more person and intimidate those reporters. Then go out and surrender. Our people will pick you up on the way to the police station...

Well done, with these four thousand dollars your debt is paid off!"

(End of this chapter)