Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 345 Signing the Contract
Chakdi followed Shanying with heavy steps. He glanced at the holster on Shanying's waist several times, but in the end he did not make any dangerous moves.

From the moment Mountain Eagle pointed out that someone saw him taking two white men out to sea, he knew he couldn't escape.

His wife and children are here. If he does something stupid, he won't be the only one to suffer.

Thinking of the hardships he had endured over the past ten years, Chakdi said bitterly, "What do you want?"

Shanying could feel Chakdi's struggle. He thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you a chance to tell me the whole story. If I can still maintain my judgment that you are a good person, then I will give you a contract as a volunteer tourist police officer...

Of course, the contract will be signed earlier, so that you can have a relatively reasonable explanation for killing two Wu clan gangsters."

As Shanying looked at Chakdi's surprised expression, he smiled and said, "I want to remind you, don't lie to me!

You should think it over carefully. We have already confirmed that those two guys are gangsters, but that is not a reason for you to kill them at will. Especially, chasing them to the hospital, which is a provocation to the police, is not allowed.

Let me remind you again that we have a lot of information. If any details you said don’t match, my promise will be invalid.

Although we may still not be able to convict you by then, the whole village will know that you are a murder suspect.

The image of a good person that you have worked hard to build over the past ten years will collapse, your wife will face strange looks from others, and your children will be pointed at when they go to school..."

With every word Shanying said, Chakdi's footsteps became heavier, until Shanying mentioned his wife and children, the dark-skinned middle-aged man lowered his head...

"I am from North Korea, my name is An Sung-ok, and I am 39 years old.

13 years ago, I was about to be shot because of a mistake, so my father took me and my two sisters to Thailand...

Originally we wanted to take a cargo ship to the peninsula, but we encountered some unscrupulous human traffickers instead. They killed my father, took away my two sisters, and then sold me to my deceased father-in-law to do hard labor.

For the first three years, my father-in-law kept telling me that someone was looking for me outside and wanted to capture me.

I could only live and eat on the boat and do all kinds of hard labor. I wanted to stay alive. Only by staying alive would I have a chance to seek revenge on the snakehead and find my two sisters.

In the fourth year, when I was helping my father-in-law with smuggling, I was hit by the goods and my waist and neck were broken.

I was thrown into the sea to die. My wife risked her life to steal a small boat and fished me out. She then lied that I was washed ashore and took me to the hospital.

It took me two years to stand up again. I was in a lot of pain during those two years. In order to prevent others from thinking my accent was strange, I bit off the tip of my tongue to make my speech unclear.

What's even more painful is that my wife and her mother are beaten every day...

My mother-in-law came here illegally from Cambodia. She was beaten to death at home the year I stood up, leaving my wife to face her father..."

Shanying originally wanted to know not Chakdi's origins, but why he killed the Wudong gang members, but Chakdi's story soon attracted his attention...

Looking at the struggling expression on Chakdi's face, Shanying frowned and said, "Is your father-in-law's death related to you?"

Chakdi lowered his head bitterly and said, "Many people guess so, but no one says it."

Chakdi seemed relieved when he said this. He looked at Shanying and said, "I didn't like him. Many people guessed that I killed him, but everyone pretended not to know. When I married my wife, many people gave me their blessings.

Everything was fine, and I thought I could live a stable life. But in 2007, I met the human trafficker who sold me at sea...

I killed them and then brought ashore the two who were about to be sold.

Who knew they betrayed me, and the snakehead’s accomplices found me, so I…”

Shanying listened to Chakdi's confession and felt that he had been too aggressive in his threats and underestimated Chakdi's concern for his family...

Looking at Chakdi's tangled expression, Shanying asked curiously: "Did you kill them?"

Lost in memories, Chakdi nodded slightly and said, "25 people, I led them to a nearby mountain and killed them."

Chakdi paused and said, “Also, this time, two white men came to me and offered a high price for me to take them out to sea for fishing.

We had originally agreed to go night fishing, but they forced me to pick someone up near the high seas. When I disagreed, they stabbed me with a knife, and I could only resist..."

Shanying listened, nodded slightly and said: "Why do you want to go to the hospital to kill people?"

Chakdi lowered his head and sighed, saying, "I'm afraid he will bring people to seek revenge on me...

They thought I didn't understand Russian, so they didn't turn their backs to me when they spoke.

They are gang members, there are a lot of people and a lot of guns, I can't risk my family...

So I heard that someone had rescued a survivor from the sea, and I went to the hospital to wait, but unexpectedly he was sent straight to the operating room.

I hoped he would die on the operating table, but the doctor said he survived, so I stole a needle..."

Shanying heard this and asked curiously, "Why didn't you confirm the life or death of that guy at sea?"

Chakdi glanced at the mountain eagle and said, "At that time, he and I fell into the sea together. After I strangled him to unconsciousness, a wave separated us. It was very dark at that time, and I was very tired..."

Chakdi loosened his clenched fist and said, "I've made it clear, no matter what you want to do, can you please not involve my wife and children?
They did nothing wrong!"

Shanying nodded and said, "You didn't do anything wrong!"

"what?"

Chakdi looked at Shanying in surprise and said, "What did you say?"

Shanying said with a smile: "I said you didn't do anything wrong, and I didn't find any reason why you are not a good person. So I can offer you a contract. If you are a fisherman, you must be able to drive a speedboat. My office just needs a reliable boatman.

With the recent increase in the number of tourists, marine accidents are also increasing. I need an experienced person to help deal with these problems.

Oh, remember what I told you in the hospital?

I want to open up a whale shark-chasing route. Krabi’s marine tourism business really needs people like you to help develop it.”

Chakdi said incredulously: "You give me a contract, and you want me to be a policeman?"

Shanying waved his hand and said, “They are not police officers. Volunteers are only temporary workers. It is illegal for volunteer police officers to carry guns on the streets without the accompaniment of regular police officers.

Of course, I am an exception!"

Shanying looked at the stunned Chakdi and said with his hands spread out, "Of course, the salary of temporary workers will not be too high, but I don't object to the employees below developing some side jobs in their spare time.

For example, you can continue fishing in your spare time, or take tourists out to sea during your break.

I heard that the income of fishermen is not high. If you agree to my conditions, I estimate that you can earn more than just fishing.

When I came here just now, your wife boasted to me that you were going to replace the roof of your house. It just so happens that I have a lot of materials left, not only colored steel tiles, but also solar tiles. You can find a car to tow them back and use them. "

Chakdi looked at Shanying in disbelief. After getting the confirmation, he covered his face with his calloused hands and sobbed in pain...

Shanying couldn't empathize with Chakdi's feelings at the moment, but as long as he thought about the man's experiences over the past decade, he could not find any other word to describe it except "bitter".

This guy is very cruel. He is cruel to his enemies and even crueler to himself, but in Shanying's understanding, he is a good person.

When a good man has gone through untold hardships and crawled out of misery, and finally has a wife and children, no one should destroy this hard-earned beauty.

Driving such a person crazy is the greatest danger!

Seeing Chakdi kneeling on the ground and crying, Shanying glanced at the wounds on his hands, patted him on the back twice, and said, "Your son is watching, don't lose your tough guy image, otherwise how are you going to teach your son a lesson in the future?

Get up quickly, I still have something I don't understand, you need to explain it to me."

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the feeling of surviving a disaster...

When Chakdi was speaking just now, his body had been secreting a large amount of adrenaline.

When Shanying told him that everything was over, he felt as if his energy and spirit had been drained away, his body became weak and his mind was fragile, and even his ability to control himself began to decline.

After hearing what Shanying said, Chakdi rubbed his face hard, stood up with some difficulty, looked at Shanying with red eyes, and said, "What do you want to know?"

Shanying looked at the man in front of him who didn't look like a killer at all, and asked curiously: "What exactly do you do in North Korea? How could you kill so many people?
One or two is not surprising, but how did you kill 25 human traffickers at one time?

And where did you learn Russian?"

Chakdi was stunned for a moment, and said in a hoarse and unclear voice: "I joined the army at the age of 16, and joined the 17th Special Forces Corps at the age of 11.

There were people there teaching us Russian because we would be entering Greater Russia to carry out some missions like escorting supplies and protecting important people.

I served in the 11th Regiment for nine years and received special training..."

After hearing this, Shanying shook his head in disbelief...

North Korea’s 11th Corps has always been a secret unit in the past. It is said that the special forces that once wreaked havoc on the peninsula came from this team.

Twenty-six of their people landed on the peninsula because their submarine ran aground. As a result, the peninsula dispatched 26 troops and mobilized all available resources including helicopters and military dogs. It took two months to implement a strict blockade and curfew on a small area, and only then was the team wiped out.

The Korean Peninsula paid nearly $10 billion in military expenditures and economic losses in the 50s, and nearly military and police officers were killed or injured. In the end, one of the North Korean special forces soldiers escaped back to the north, and the rest all committed suicide, with only one being captured.

After that incident, the Peninsula completely changed its military thinking, sided with the United States on issues of military intelligence and joint operations, and began to rely on the power of the United States to develop its own special forces.

What does it mean that 26 people fought against 4 soldiers and police on the Peninsula in a very small area, and persisted in the mountains for two months without any supplies?
Chakdi, who also came from the 11th Legion, how powerful would he be if he had not been injured?

Of course, this strength does not refer to physical strength or skill strength. After all, in the 1990s, the North Korean people generally did not have enough to eat, and it was impossible to train muscular men under such circumstances.

This kind of strength refers to the strength in will, tactical thinking and mentality.

The military and police capabilities of the Peninsula at that time were very average, but even if 4 pigs were released into the mountains, it would be a miracle for those special forces to hold out for two months.

Chakdi is from the same unit as them...

Thinking of this, Shanying said curiously, "The 11th Corps is the most elite special forces in North Korea. You received nine years of training there. How could you be sold to a fisherman by a human trafficker and have to do hard labor for three years?"

After hearing this, Chakdi smiled bitterly and said, “I didn’t understand what they were saying at all. My late father-in-law always used the words ‘someone is looking for me’ to scare me, but I knew he was lying to me.

But even if I left, I had nowhere to go, and I didn't find the job that hard, so I stayed and worked.

At least then I could eat enough and see my wife every day...

She was the only person other than my family who was nice to me, and she was scared of her father, so I wanted to stay with her.”

Shanying listened, nodded with some emotion, and said: "Okay, let's go back, we have some other questions to ask you...

It doesn't matter that the two Wu gang members are dead. What we need to know is whether their followers have landed, and what they want to do?
This is very important to us, because the good situation of Krabi cannot be destroyed by anyone..."

(End of this chapter)