Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 159 Send money to your door
The old apartment has two elevators, but there are 7 households on each floor...

Maybe because it is too old, there are no surveillance cameras installed inside the apartment, including in the elevator.

Shanying took the elevator to the 8th floor, then pushed the box, turned left, and walked towards an apartment on the far left.

When approaching the room where Carlos was, Shanying suddenly heard a slight sound of a rope breaking, and then the sound of cans rolling came from an apartment on the left.

Through the detection of the Golden Cicada, Shanying clearly saw two people in the room jumped up from the sofa, each of them took a submachine gun shaped like an Uzi and rushed to the door, then leaned forward to look at the corridor through the peephole.

Carlos, who lived in the side unit, seemed to have noticed nothing. He sat on the sofa, watching TV and feeding a cat with the food he had packed.

Shanying looked up at the door number, then took out a key and inserted it into the door of the room on the left and turned it a few times...

The door suddenly opened, and a man who was obviously of South Asian descent looked at Shanying fiercely through the crack in the door and said, "What are you going to do?"

Shanying was stunned for a moment, then he held up the key and said, "I rented the house in 802, and the landlord asked me to come..."

The South Asian man took a look at the three large suitcases in the Eagle Footsteps, opened the door a little, and said in curry-flavored English: "This is 806, 802 is..."

Before the South Asian man could finish his words, two bullets hit his chin and went into his head, leaving two bumps on his head...

Then Shanying took a step forward and squeezed the hollow plywood door, trapping the guy with the gun behind the door. At the same time, he raised the Ruger and fired four shots close to the door...

"Da Da, Da Da"

The man behind the door didn't even have time to shoot before he was hit in the face by a series of bullets. The bullets entered his brain and he lost his ability to move.

After Shanying succeeded, he pulled the man who was shot first, causing him to fall without making much noise.

Then Shanying turned around, grabbed the guy behind the door, and dragged the two into the living room of the apartment.

When entering the living room, Shanying found a set of surveillance equipment there. The monitor showed that the two guys had placed surveillance in Carlos's house and maintained 24-hour surveillance.

A fishing line extended from the TV cabinet in the living room to the corridor outside. Anyone who walked there would have the cans pressed on the fishing line fall down and make a noise.

The two men were very experienced. They did not install cameras in the corridor, but used a relatively primitive alarm system. Since the surveillance was silent, they would not miss the situation at the door due to distraction.

Shanying frowned and walked around the apartment, then found a Koran, a slightly worn carpet, hundreds of thousands of Thai baht in cash, and a satellite phone.

Combining these findings, Shanying guessed that the two men should have been arranged by the deceased's organization to go to Thailand to protect or supervise Carlos' work.

And they should be Rohingya or Bangladeshis, because they look similar to Indians, but the only ones who believe in Islam seem to be the Rohingya and Bangladeshis active in Rakhine State in Myanmar.

The probability of Rohingyas is higher because these "illegal immigrants" who are not recognized by the Myanmar government are the best targets for recruitment to replace the dead.

Extremely poor, daring to fight and kill, some of them have a background of long-term combat with the Burmese government forces, such people are the best candidates for cannon fodder...

Shanying was not sure whether his guess was correct?
But he didn't care about this. If he really had any questions, he could ask Carlos next door...

Quickly turning off the surveillance in the room, Shanying walked to the door and closed the door of Room 806, then gently knocked on Carlos' door.

Carlos in the room was unaware of what was happening next door. He walked to the door and looked through the peephole, and saw a man wearing a hat and a mask standing between three suitcases...

So he frowned and opened the door a crack, looked at Shanying and said, "You..."

Shanying didn't even give him a chance to speak. The moment he saw Carlos, he leaned his shoulder heavily against the door, hitting Carlos in the face...

Carlos groaned, and before he could fully come to his senses, the Mountain Eagle that broke in locked his neck. After a few seconds, Carlos' body went limp.

Shanying dragged Carlos to his living room, then turned around and dragged three large boxes into the room and closed the door.

When Carlos woke up, he found his mouth blocked and he was tied to a chair, with a large amount of cash piled on the dining table in the living room.

The tall man in the baseball cap was rummaging through his refrigerator and took out a few gold bars.

It was the first time that Shanying saw someone hide gold bars in the refrigerator, and hide so many at once...

There were 100 gold bars, each weighing 100 grams, hidden in the refrigerator's freezer, covered with frozen seafood. They could not be found without tearing the bulk seafood apart with force.

There were 200 of them hidden in the fresh-keeping room, wrapped thickly with plastic wrap and mixed with all sorts of random things.

That’s thirty kilograms of gold!
According to the current market price, gold is 260 RMB per gram, and 30 kilograms is 780 million RMB, which is roughly equivalent to 100 million US dollars, or 3600 million Thai baht.

Compared with the nearly 100 million Thai baht sent by Shanying, this amount of gold can be said to be pitifully small.

But Eagle searched Carlos' apartment and there was no trace of gold anywhere else.

Looking at Carlos who had already woken up, Shanying reached into the refrigerator and decisively activated the Master Chief System to absorb all the gold. Then he walked to Carlos and sat down, raising the gun in his hand to signal...

“Don’t yell…”

Carlos seemed to have anticipated his fate. He did not show too much fear, but just nodded calmly...

Looking at the guy's calm reaction, Shanying pulled a chair and sat in front of him, then tore off the tape on his mouth.

Carlos closed his eyes and took a long breath, then said, "Did Rohan send you to kill me?" Shanying shook his head and said, "I'm a policeman, but I don't mind listening to your story about following Rohan..."

Shanying pointed in the direction of the gate and said, "Don't count on the two people next door to save you. They are dead."

Carlos was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, and then asked curiously: "Are you a policeman?
Do I have a grudge against you, or do I have a grudge against you on behalf of the deceased?"

Shanying looked at Carlos who was extremely calm. He smiled and nodded and said, "A little bit...

You sent someone to rob the 100 million baht yesterday, and I was there. You wanted it so badly, so I brought it to you."

Carlos listened, was silent for a while, and then said: "You want to kill me and use this money to prove my identity as a substitute.

In other words, you are indeed helping the police, but the way you do things is shady!
What do you want? My little gold, or some benefit from the police?"

Shanying tapped his chest and said, "Because you almost killed my friend...

Because your scapegoats killed innocent people on their way to escape...

Because I think you deserve to die!"

Carlos shook his head and laughed, "Maybe you can kill me, but you are not a judge, you are not qualified to judge me."

Shanying looked at Carlos's relaxed appearance and asked curiously, "You are not afraid at all, why?"

Carlos smiled indifferently and said, "Because even if you don't kill me, I will die soon..."

Carlos turned his head and pointed his chin at a bed on the balcony, and said with a smile: "My father died on that bed, from plasma cell bone marrow cancer...

I spent a lot of money, but I couldn't save his life.

Unfortunately, I also suffer from the same disease..."

Shanying frowned and said, "That's when the deceased came to you?"

Carlos shook his head and said, "No, I was the one who found them. I found the files about the scapegoat from the information, and then contacted the people in the scapegoat organization.

I needed money at the time, and I could find plenty of clients willing to go broke for revenge, so I found a scapegoat.”

Shanying couldn't help but give Carlos a thumbs up and said, "You are really amazing for a little clerk to be able to do this!"

After hearing this, Carlos said with his eyes slightly drooping: "Do you think this is what I want?

You are wrong. The situation of scapegoats in Thailand has developed to this point because I can no longer fully control them.

Those scapegoats are like greedy cancer cells. They need to work, work non-stop, otherwise they will get out of control.

I have been trying to minimize the damage caused to Thailand by the scapegoat, but unfortunately the result did not turn out the way I expected.

Rohan saw an opportunity. He wanted to make more money by re-establishing his reputation as a substitute for the dead in Thailand...

Then he leaked my identity to the old ghost and sent someone to live next to me..."

Shanying understood immediately that this was a trick...

The network that Carlos controlled was too valuable, so the higher-ups who took over the deceased's place didn't want to kill him.

Leaking Carlos' identity to Lao Gui can arouse his ambition. If Carlos refuses to submit, Lao Gui can be considered an alternative plan.

If Carlos compromises, the group's deterrence will be enough to dispel the old ghost's covetousness.

As it stands, Carlos has compromised, and the scapegoats are becoming more aggressive and more unscrupulous.

Shanying thought for a moment and asked curiously, "Is this Rohan the boss of the deceased?"

Carlos nodded and said, "Yes, but Rohan is just his code name. I only know that he was once a Rohingya, but I don't know his true identity."

Shanying looked at Carlos who answered almost every question. He asked curiously, "You have been emphasizing to me that you are a person with a bottom line, but you know you are going to die, why do you compromise?"

Carlos turned his gaze towards the sofa and called out to an obviously old white cat...

The old white cat heard the call and stood up and jumped onto Carlos's thighs, then coiled up into a ball, occasionally sweeping Carlos' chest with its tail...

Carlos looked at the white cat on his lap lovingly and said with a smile: "For it...

I am dying and I don’t care about anything, but I hope to spend the last moments of my life with it because it has been with me through the most difficult times.”

Shanying sighed and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this cat dad...

"Since you are going to die, would you mind handing over the list of police officers you corrupted?"

(End of this chapter)