Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 396: Provocation
Old Joe thought he had met an interesting guest and could earn a considerable amount of hunting guide fees...

But what he didn't expect was that when he was choosing a new outboard motor with the native captain Quetta, Redick called them to the parking lot.

When Old Joe arrived at the parking lot, he saw Redick standing behind a truck and looking worried. He walked over curiously and said, "What's wrong? Did that guy change his mind?"

Redick shook his head, opened the boxcar, and said, "He said that this was your suggestion, so he bought all the stuff and asked you to transport it to the destination and find a place to store it first."

Old Joe stretched his head to take a look, then his eyes suddenly widened and he said, "Why doesn't this guy just buy Alaska?

I just asked him to buy some fucking bullets as a gift, not to prepare him for a world war.

Where can I put it?
Or you can ask that bastard to buy another piece of land, and I will build him a house to store his ammunition…”

Redick pinched his nose and said depressedly: "That guy is a rich bastard with a lot of money but nowhere to spend it...

When he was checking out just now, he just chatted with old Ruby for a few words and bought his Yukon River camp for 30. "

After hearing this, Old Joe said in disbelief, "Old Ruby's camp? Who would spend $30 to buy that place?

It takes two hours to fly to buy a bag of salt in that crappy place!"

Redick sighed and said, "I don't understand why that guy bought that crappy place.

You know old Ruby better than I do. He probably saw that the guy was willing to spend money, so he worked hard to promote his camp tour program.

God knows, his camp has been abandoned for almost two years..."

Redick recalled the scene when he paid the bill just now. He sighed and said, "I still feel that everything is unreal. That guy just clicked on the map and took a look, and then decided to buy that place.

I shouldn't have asked him to cooperate with me in fighting the mafia. I should have pretended to be poor and clung to his leg to get him to buy my farm so that I could save the damning property taxes every year.

You know, old Ruby had a happy heart attack and was taken to the hospital...

The guy's heart was about to stop beating, but he still held the other guy's hand, hoping to see his son get the bank check before he died.

Old boy, I think I've got myself into a lot of trouble..."

Old Joe looked coldly at the gloomy fat man Redick and said, "You have also caused me a big trouble!

If we want to transport so many things over there, the new outboard engine in Quetta will definitely be ruined!"

Redick looked at Old Joe, holding his chest guiltily, and pointed to a truck next to him and said, "You're a little too optimistic. I suggest you go lick that guy's ass, otherwise I don't think Quetta's new ship can be saved..."

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"You mortals will never understand the world of the rich!"

Shanying stood outside the emergency room, spread his hands to the stingy butcher and said, "We are not really here to have fun, so it's not bad to buy a ready-made camp as a base."

As Shanying faced the gazes of a group of people looking at him as a sucker, he smiled and wrote a check for three hundred thousand to a short and strong middle-aged man with red hair.

Then a middle-aged lawyer with a mustache who looked more like a cowboy briefly negotiated the transfer details with a fat land agent. After guaranteeing the basic rights of the Mountain Eagle boss, he put a transfer agreement in the hands of the red-haired middle-aged man and said with a smile: "Ruby, as long as the old man inside can wake up and sign, you can go to the bank to cash the check."

After saying this, the cowboy lawyer walked up to Shanying and said with a smile: "Sir, you are a generous person!
Do you need an Alaska wilderness attorney who has his own plane and is always on call and is skilled in handling all types of disputes?

At this time, Shanying really enjoyed the benefits of spending a lot of money!
He didn't actually spend much money...

Because what he bought was a gold prospector's camp located northeast of Bethel, surrounded by mountains, swamps, and forests.

It was said that the purchase of an almost semi-abandoned gold digger camp was for 100 yuan, but in fact it also included the equipment in the camp and hectares of surrounding land.

More importantly, he got a very important piece of information: the Alaska state government sold a large area north of the camp to a large multinational company a few years ago.

The company then had serious conflicts with gold diggers and local Aboriginal people over land use.

So the company deployed a large number of security personnel to enter the area, driving away the gold diggers while seriously interfering with the lives of the local indigenous people...

In Alaska, where the people are tough, the way gold diggers and local indigenous people deal with the situation is armed resistance.

That old Ruby who is still in the emergency room is a very cunning old man...

Gold diggers will never earn as much as those who guard the gold mines and sell shovels!
His campground had always been profitable, but as conflicts between big corporations and locals began to intensify, his campground business was the first to plummet.

Soon after, the company took a fancy to the location of his camp and its function as a transit point for daily supplies for the natives, so they wanted to buy it.

The plan was to cut off or significantly increase the cost of living for the indigenous people in that area, and at the same time, to discourage gold diggers from entering that area.

Old Ruby had lived in Alaska all his life. He knew he couldn't handle the pressure, but the other party's offer was too low.

Moreover, once the camp is completely closed, the natives will have to travel hundreds of kilometers even if they want to buy a screw.

The old man came to Anchorage to purchase supplies this time, intending to buy enough daily necessities for the natives at one time, but he didn't expect to meet a rich man who didn't take money seriously...

He just asked out of trial, but Mountain Eagle not only agreed to buy the camp, but also agreed to his other conditions.

Mountain Eagle promises that it will never sell the camp to individuals or businesses other than locals. It will also hire old Ruby and his son to maintain the camp and uphold the camp's tradition of "material transfer".

When old Ruby was pushed out of the emergency room by the nurse and signed the agreement, there was even applause from the audience.

Shanying, a rich man who should have been annoying, stood in the right position at this moment and unexpectedly won the love of some locals.

Shanying actually didn't know whether the location he bought on a whim was a "conflict" point in Black Fox's plan?

But he didn't care at all, because a Chinese person has a desire for land and wilderness in his bones, and for him, having more land will never be a loss.

He has always had a thought in his mind, which is to find an opportunity to bring his wife and son out, maybe in two years, maybe in three years, as long as there is a chance he will be willing to try... Then he will take the children to stay in Thailand in the winter and visit Alaska in the summer.

When Shanying walked out of the hospital, he was still fantasizing that one day he would be able to take his son out hunting and fishing, so that he could experience a completely different life from that of city children.

As a result, when I walked to the parking lot, I heard Barron leaning on the car window and yelling in one direction...

When Shanying subconsciously drew his gun and rushed over, he saw two old men guarding a few thugs in strange costumes, standing there with their noses not noses and eyes not eyes.

Seeing the Eagle appear, Old Joe held back the curse words that were about to come out of his mouth, and then forced out a dry smile and said, "I thought about it and felt that since I accepted the job, I should be responsible for my clients.

It was my fault that I didn’t fully understand the needs of the customers. We should have another talk about the service fee…”

Shanying was stunned for a moment, then suddenly grinned happily, then spread his hands and said, "What are you talking about? You set the price, I didn't bargain."

The muscles on Old Joe's face twitched a few times, and he took a deep breath and said, "You bought too many things. It will cost nearly $100,000 to transport them to Old Ruby's camp.

From now on, Quetta and I will guarantee your safety, you…”

Shanying never thought of deliberately making things difficult for Old Joe, nor did he expect the freight to Alaska to be so exaggerated.

Seeing the old man looking particularly aggrieved, Shanying laughed and said, "I will definitely pay for the shipping fee, but forget about protecting me..."

As Shanying looked at the hooligans in strange clothes lying on the ground, he shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about this kind of stuff..."

The old fisherman, Quetta, who had never spoken to Shanying, stepped on the ankle of a gangster, pointed at several cars outside the parking lot, and said in a deep voice: “You should be worried!

You brought a million dollars' worth of gold with you, spent hundreds of thousands at the store, and now you've spent another three hundred thousand to buy a campsite...

To some people, you are a walking ATM!
You are in big trouble!"

Quetta is an Indian with long greasy hair. Perhaps because of the latitude of Alaska, he does not have the brown-red skin color that Shanying has in mind for Indians.

Whether from the skin color or the appearance, Quetta is close to the yellow race. At first glance, Shanying thought this guy was quite friendly...

After hearing Quetta's warning, Shanying looked in the direction he pointed and found several cars parked on the street outside the hospital. A group of guys with obvious violent characteristics were looking at him through the car windows.

Faced with this threatening gaze, Shanying shook his head indifferently...

Even though he didn't have particularly clear ideas and logic before, he had a very clear idea from the moment he signed the land purchase and sale contract.

He was just a passer-by before, but now he wants to make a name for himself and maximize the profits from the money he spent!

Spending money is a means, fighting a war is also a means...

Seeing Kuida's impatient expression, Shanying smiled and said, "I have always known that being a 'rich man' is a very dangerous identity...

If you want to maintain your wealth for a long time, you have to become a respected rich person.

Do you know how rich people can be respected? "

As Shanying said this, he walked towards the roadside and raised a finger...

"If you want to be respected, first of all, you need to make people believe that your wealth can benefit the people around you, and the most important thing is..."

Shanying walked to a place two meters away from a car, and slid his right thumb across his throat, making a throat-cutting gesture towards the tattooed villain...

The tattooed villain impulsively tried to open the car door and rush out, but was stopped by his accomplice...

Shanying shook his head in disappointment, turned around and looked at Old Joe and Kuida who had followed him, and said with a smile: "When trouble comes, I will prove that I am the real trouble!"

Shanying waved to Sheriff Redick who was not far away, then spread his hands to Quetta and said, "This is the secret of my respect...

I'm a nice guy, but these greedy bastards are just the thing to fill my needs!"

After listening to this, Quetta looked at Lao Qiao and said, "This guy has a problem with his brain. You have caused me a big trouble..."

Old Joe pinched his nose in pain and said, "This is a very rich 'big trouble'!"

As he spoke, Old Joe glanced at a car not far away and saw someone with a gun. He stepped forward, opened his coat and revealed his M1911, and shouted at the restless gangsters, "Get out of the way..."

Old Joe's actions made the gangsters even more agitated. A few particularly impulsive guys pushed the door and got out of the car. Standing on the side of the road, they opened their coats to reveal the pistols on their waists and began to yell and provoke...

The butcher immediately pulled out his gun and stood in front of the Mountain Eagle. The smart Daria took out the newly bought UMP45 from the car, walked to the butcher, and raised her gun to point at the provocative thugs.

Baran jumped off the car, held his leash in his mouth and stuffed it into the hands of the mountain eagle, then bared his teeth and barked at the gangsters, as if the mountain eagle would rush forward if he didn't hold it...

Shanying looked at the gangsters who were obviously shrinking back. He shook his head in disappointment, gave them a thumbs up, and turned around...

Watching a few young hooligans pacing back and forth on the sidewalk like angry bulls, but still not daring to cross the line...

Shanying shook his head, glanced at the rooftop opposite, then reached out and patted the butcher on the shoulder, saying, "Let's go, these guys are not even qualified to be our target."

………………

Just as Shanying and the others were getting in the car to leave, on the rooftop opposite the hospital, a man wearing a high-end suit with several eye-catching gold teeth put something like a snuff bottle against his nostrils and took a deep puff...

"hiss……"

A few seconds later, the man shuddered as if he had just urinated, moved his itchy nose and mouth, then grabbed the neck of a younger brother next to him and said with a ferocious expression: "Notify our people, don't let that guy go back to the hotel!
Bring him back to me, I want to see what’s so special about this stranger!”

(End of this chapter)