Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 4: Seeking Cooperation

Yue Ziheng is the kind of person who is absolutely proactive!

When facing any problem, he would seek to take the initiative. Even if he didn't have bargaining chips, he would find a way to create them...

The 100 million bounty offered by the drug lord Naukan made him have a certain value. In order to get out of the predicament and ensure the safety of his wife and children, he did not hesitate to put himself in it.

However, the threat of the drug lord's bounty to his family is not the main problem at the moment...

Yue Ziheng's home is in Jinling, and his wife is an employee of the system. Even if the drug lord wants to take revenge, it will take a long time to find them.

Yue Ziheng said this in an attempt to find a common goal and create bargaining chips in the void to increase his own value.

Otherwise, given his current condition, he wouldn't be able to go far even if he could escape from his current predicament.

For Yue Ziheng, the biggest risk is not the people from the so-called "Southeast Asian Truth Foundation" outside, but the "Blood Fox" deceiving him.

At present, all the information Yue Ziheng had obtained was from Blood Fox, but he could judge that Blood Fox did not lie about himself...

The wanted notice must be real, otherwise 'Blood Fox' would not be able to know his identity!

The bounty must be real, because during the last battle in Mengka, he did hear someone introduce himself and make threats.

Yue Ziheng judged that what Blood Fox said was more credible!
So he had to find a way to catch the 'Blood Fox', even if it meant 'advance' on the bounty.

Only with a foundation of cooperation can there be room for maneuver...

Using himself as a bargaining chip to attract the 'Blood Fox' to invest in his plan is the best way Yue Ziheng can think of in a short period of time!

He would not lose the initiative because of this. On the contrary, once Blood Fox invested the cost, he would gain more initiative...

In the end it doesn’t matter whether the plan succeeds or not; what matters is that he has bought himself time to recover.

As long as his leg injury recovers a little, he will be able to handle various situations.

This is what Yue Ziheng learned from his career, about the role of sunk costs!
When you encounter a problem, don't try to handle it alone. Look for every opportunity to attract people who may be in the same camp to join you. As long as you can get them to invest enough costs, they will naturally have more reinforcements. At the very least, you can buy some time.

If all goes well, once the problem is shared, it becomes easier to solve!

Seeing that Blood Fox seemed interested, Yue Ziheng pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice: "We will work together to get rid of the current predicament, and then you will send me to Naukan and take away 100 million US dollars...

All I ask is that you give me a few days to recover from my injury and plan an escape route before the trade."

Blood Fox looked at the determined expression on Yue Ziheng's face, nodded in appreciation, then sighed and said, "You have a clear mind. Even though I know you are buying time for yourself, I still can't help but want to help you."

Blood Fox pinched his nose and thought for a while, then said, "Since you are willing to take risks, we can try some unconventional methods...

Naukan is very rich, but his whereabouts are difficult to track, and he has many bodyguards and gunmen around him...

Handing you over will allow me to locate Naukan, and perhaps I can try to convince some people to help."

Yue Ziheng had been staring at Blood Fox's expression. When Blood Fox said the word "help", a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which made Yue Ziheng suddenly realize something...

He recalled the previous conversation and suddenly said, "You have backup, so you don't need my help to get out of this predicament.

You told me so much, and repeatedly emphasized Naukan's brutality and his care for his son..." Yue Ziheng stared into the eyes of Blood Fox and said in a deep voice: "Actually, your target is Naukan, right?"

After hearing this, Blood Fox subconsciously avoided looking at Yue Ziheng. Then, he looked at Yue Ziheng's stunned expression, shook his head and smiled, touching his half-bald head, and said, "I'm surprised that you're so clear-headed..."

As he spoke, Blood Fox stood up and walked to Yue Ziheng, squatting down. He ignored the pistol in his hand, stretched out his hand and said, "Let me introduce myself again. My name is Jenkins Kasimov, a former Soviet KGB field officer, a retired mercenary, a part-time investigator for an international agency, codenamed Blood Fox...

Of course, my name is just the name on my passport, but the codename is real and the jobs are real!"

Yue Ziheng handed the pistol to his left hand, stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Blood Fox, and said in a deep voice: "Former KGB, international intermediary company investigator, the only thing he downplayed was his mercenary career...

Do you have many enemies?"

Blood Fox was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly laughed and patted Yue Ziheng's shoulder, then he pulled him up with all his strength, helped him sit on the narrow bed, then he found two bottles of mineral water from under the bed and threw one to him...

"Boy, you are very smart, but you guessed wrong..."

Blood Fox seemed not to want to talk about his own problems anymore. He looked at Yue Ziheng and said with a smile, "What did I do wrong that made you guess my purpose so quickly?"

Yue Ziheng stared at Blood Fox's expression and said, "Because you have been testing me and putting pressure on me, but a cripple like me should have no value to you...

A trapped person shouldn't waste his time like this unless you can get something more valuable from me.

You have backup, so your safety should be no problem. You should also have no problem subduing someone like me who can't move...

When $100 million is within your reach, you still tell me so much, it can only be that you want to use me to get more.

You get more if you take Naukan, right?"

Yue Ziheng pondered for a few seconds and said, "You didn't refute me, so our goals are actually the same, so we can cooperate, right?"

Blood Fox stared at Yue Ziheng's face for a while, then seemed to recall something, he shook his head slightly and said: "You are very smart, not like a young man...

You guessed some things right, but you're still far from the truth!"

As he spoke, Blood Fox looked at Yue Ziheng, who had a questioning expression on his face. He smiled and said, "Don't look at me like that. I do like money, but my current identity is first and foremost an investigator for an international intermediary company...

I really want to kill Naukan, because those people from the Southeast Asian Truth Foundation outside are the mercenaries who cooperated with him to kill the company.

Actually, I have to thank you...

If you hadn't appeared, allowing those people to imprison me in advance and then wait for you to wake up before executing the plan, I might have wasted some time to find out the truth.

But now it’s not necessary…

The only difference is that I can summon the company's "executors" to do the work after I get out of trouble, and then take 50% of the 10 revenge fund as a reward...

Or I can use you to find Naukan, install a locator on you, take the $100 million bounty first, and then kill him and take the full $50 revenge fund.

Boy, you have been trying to take the initiative, but you have revealed too much. Now I am the one who makes the decision..."

(End of this chapter)