Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 2 Investigator

Yue Ziheng did not answer the old man's question. He moved his body with great effort to make his aching right leg feel better...

"Thank you for saving my life, but I have to leave here now..."

The old man looked at Yue Ziheng's slightly distorted expression due to pain. He dropped the gun in his hand, pointed at the hatch and said with a smile: "You can try. If you can leave, you'd better take me with you."

"What do you mean?"

Yue Ziheng stood up with difficulty, moved to the cabin door, and after trying the door handle, he found that the cabin door was locked from the outside...

Looking at the smiling old man in front of him, Yue Ziheng frowned and said, "Is this a prison cell?
But why do you..."

The old man kicked the Makarov pistol on the ground to Yue Ziheng's feet and said with a smile: "I said, a pistol without bullets is like a bull without balls..."

As the old man looked at the Ruger silent pistol in Yue Ziheng's hand, he said with a curious expression: "Boy, I don't know how you did it, but we are in the same situation now..."

In order to relieve the pain in his right leg, Yue Ziheng slowly sat down with his back against the wall next to the cabin door and said, "That means everything you said before was false..."

The old man shook his head and said, “The part about scooping you out of the water and the bounty is true.

You are very lucky. If someone hadn't offered a $100 million bounty for you, you would have been thrown into the water to feed the fish yesterday."

The old man glanced at Yue Ziheng's pistol again, thought for a few seconds, shook his head and said, "But the current situation is not much better for you. The ship will arrive at its destination tomorrow, and the people outside will hand you over to the drug lord Naukan...

You killed Naukan's most promising son, and he said he would tear out your heart and eat it...

As far as I know, this guy has a criminal record!"

Yue Ziheng didn’t really believe what the old man said. He frowned and looked at the relaxed old man, and said in a deep voice: “What about you? Why are you locked up here?”

Yue Ziheng glanced at the coffee cup and the gun and said, "If you were imprisoned, those people seemed too polite to you...

Who are you anyway?

The old man seemed to appreciate Yue Ziheng's meticulousness. He smiled and said, "I am a retired mercenary. My friends call me 'Blood Fox'..."

Yue Ziheng muttered the familiar yet unfamiliar word "mercenary" and shook his head, saying, "This doesn't explain our current situation...

You look too calm to be a prisoner.

Unless you know those people won’t hurt you!”

Yue Ziheng looked into the eyes of the Blood Fox and said in a deep voice: "Who are you? What do you want from me?"

Blood Fox smiled and nodded, saying, "After I retired, I found a job as a consultant at an international agency. My main task was to investigate the parties involved in a disputed contract and give a conclusion.

You can think of this job as an 'insurance investigator', because all parties involved in the business of an international intermediary company need to pay 'internal insurance' when they register as members.

The purpose of this insurance is to allow the international intermediary company to intervene and give a clear and fair result when disputes arise between the two parties due to task issues.

Of course, the location of this investigator's job is usually remote, because the employers and employees of international intermediaries are usually people who walk in the gray area. I pulled you out of the water on the way to the Golden Triangle. Someone recognized your identity yesterday, and then those people obviously had some other plans..."

Yue Ziheng listened, shook his head and said: "I don't understand, those people recognized me, why would they control you?"

Blood Fox waved his hand and said, "The people who cooperated with me in the investigation were from the Southeast Asian Truth Foundation...

They hired a team of mercenaries three months ago to protect them and carry out some humanitarian work in the Golden Triangle...

As a result, after the mission was completed, the mercenaries died, and their families filed complaints due to some suspicious points, so I took over the investigation mission.

My original plan was to visit the Golden Triangle and investigate the truth behind the deaths of the mercenaries, but yesterday they stole the bullets from my gun and locked me up with you, which already explains a lot of problems...

The deaths of those mercenaries must be related to them, and now they want to kill me too..."

Yue Ziheng was a thoughtful person. He frowned and looked at the calm old man in front of him, and said, "I have never heard of the International Agency Company, but from what you said, it seems that this company is very powerful.

If there is a problem with the contract, someone will be sent to investigate, so the consequences of attacking the investigator should be more serious.

They didn’t attack you until yesterday, which means they didn’t think about how to deal with you at the beginning…”

Yue Ziheng suddenly figured out something, he pointed at himself and said with a wry smile: "If what you said is true, and the strength of the international agency is really strong, then will I become the scapegoat for killing you?

That way they can avoid their own responsibility!"

After hearing this, Blood Fox smiled and gave a thumbs up, saying, "You forgot that you will be sold to the drug lord Naukan..."

Blood Fox said, counting his fingers and laughing, "In the end, things will be like this...

I met you during the investigation and fished you out of the river. After you woke up, you killed me to escape capture, and then ran into the territory of drug lord Naukan and was ripped open by him. "

After listening to this, Yue Ziheng said helplessly: "That's it? Just make up a story and all the problems can be solved?

International intermediaries investigate controversial contracts, so is there no one questioning the death of the investigator? "

Blood Fox smiled and shook his head, saying, "Of course, every investigator will have a revenge fund worth $50, which will be activated once the investigator dies.

However, once there is clear evidence that the murderer is dead, it will be difficult for this revenge fund to attract powerful people to intervene and investigate...

Boy, international intermediaries are very powerful. As long as you follow the rules they set, you will be protected in a way that matches your worth, but you can’t expect an underground platform to operate flawlessly.”

Yue Ziheng rubbed his swollen temples. He didn’t know whether he should believe the old man in front of him, because what the old man said was completely beyond his understanding. He couldn’t even be sure whether the old man was making up a story...

Blood Fox saw what Yue Ziheng was thinking, and said with a smile: "In about 20 hours, someone will open the door and force you to kill me and leave a video evidence. Then you will know whether what I said is true or false..."

As he spoke, Blood Fox took a curious look at the Luger pistol in Yue Ziheng's hand and said, "I hope there are still bullets in your magic pistol by then, otherwise you will really be dead..."

After listening to this, Yue Ziheng took a deep breath and said, "Then let's wait and see..."

(End of this chapter)