Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 8 Respecting the Contract
Yue Ziheng looked at the unfortunate captive, hugging his knees and wailing in pain on the ground in the same position as himself. Just when he was about to ask Blood Fox about the situation, he saw Blood Fox shooting at the corpses and wounded on the deck...

"Pah, pah, pah, pah..."

With the crisp sound of AKM gunfire, those 'blood foxes' completely put an end to the killing...

Yue Ziheng had expected the Blood Fox to be ferocious, but now the coldness and calmness shown by the Blood Fox made him very uncomfortable.

Yue Ziheng had killed many people in the past month, but he acted in anger, far from being as calm and composed as Blood Fox was now...

Looking at the Blood Fox, it seemed as if those guys falling to the ground and wailing were not humans, but some kind of animals, or even just a puddle of mud...

A few minutes later, the ship's engine stopped, and Blood Fox came out of the cabin, escorting a woman in a floral dress to the front deck.

Yue Ziheng looked at the pretty face of the woman who kept screaming. He shook his head and said, "Is this the beauty who got you locked up?"

Blood Fox threw a first aid kit at Yue Ziheng's feet, then found a rope to tie the woman's hands and made her sit on the ground...

Seeing Yue Ziheng holding the first aid kit and not knowing what to do, Blood Fox raised a satellite phone and shook it, saying, "Hold on for a while, my guys will be here soon..."

As he spoke, Blood Fox grabbed the woman's hair, showed her face to Yue Ziheng, and said, "Let me introduce myself. This Ms. Luo Mai is the head of the Golden Triangle region of the Truth Foundation..."

Yue Ziheng looked at the woman named Luo Mai who was slumped on the ground with a terrified expression on her face. He said to the 'Blood Fox' who exuded the aura of a villain, "Who she is has nothing to do with me..."

Blood Fox looked at Yue Ziheng's uncomfortable expression, frowned, sat down beside Yue Ziheng, and said, "Your movements don't look like a rookie, but your eyes look like a rookie right now.

Tell me I'm wrong, or our previous discussion will be void."

After hearing this, Yue Ziheng looked at Blood Fox with a gloomy expression and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?"

Blood Fox shook his head and said, "Because if you are a soft-hearted rookie, you will definitely die in the Golden Triangle."

Yue Ziheng could hear the kindness in Blood Fox's words. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You know why I'm wanted, but you still think I'm a rookie?"

Blood Fox picked up three wooden strips from the deck, placed them next to Yue Ziheng's injured leg, measured their length, and then threw a roll of gray duct tape to him...

"Whether you are a rookie or not has nothing to do with how many people you have killed. You are a good shot and very smart, but you still use the same way as ordinary people to measure strength and weakness, good and evil..."

As Blood Fox pointed at Luo Mai, who was lying on the ground and twisting and begging, he said, "The way you look at her is like you are looking at a small animal that needs love and care...

But in fact, she killed a team of 12 mercenaries from an international intermediary company a month ago simply because those mercenaries discovered her transaction with Naukan, and protecting the drug deal was not in the contract.

She could have paid the penalty and modified the contract to solve the problem, but in order to save that part of the fee and to keep her secret from the outside world, she teamed up with Naukan to kill those mercenaries..."

Yue Ziheng didn’t quite understand…

In his mind, mercenary was not a noble profession, and the anger shown by Blood Fox made him a little confused.

Looking at Blood Fox's serious expression, Yue Ziheng frowned and said, "What exactly do you want to say?
Tell me this woman is extremely dangerous? Emphasize that she deserves death?

Blood Fox stared at Yue Ziheng's eyes for a few seconds, shook his head slightly and said: "No, I'm telling you the rules of survival...

If you are an ordinary person, you can show your compassion freely and even forgive your opponents or enemies.

But if you want to survive in the black world, you must understand that there is no right or wrong, good or evil here, only rules and positions.

When facing an enemy, no matter if she is a woman or even a child, you must strive for the opportunity to launch the first attack.

If you can't harden your heart, you won't live long..."

Yue Ziheng is a man who listens to advice!

Whether he could do it or not was one thing, but as long as it was well-intentioned advice, he would listen humbly. Yue Ziheng nodded to show that he understood, then he looked at Blood Fox and said, "Thank you, I understand!

But one thing I don't quite understand is that you are very angry about the mercenaries being killed.

why?
Do you know those mercenaries?"

Blood Fox was stunned for a moment. He moved closer to the blue bucket, put his mouth close to a gun hole and drank a few sips of the leaked water. Then he looked at Yue Ziheng and smiled, saying, "I don't know those dead mercenaries. Maybe in the eyes of many ordinary people, those mercenaries deserved to die."

As he spoke, Blood Fox glanced at Luo Mai, shook his head at Yue Ziheng and said, "Boy, mercenaries are a high-risk profession. They sell their lives for money. They can die, but they should not be betrayed by their employers.

This is the rule. International intermediary companies can grow stronger because they set rules to protect the rights and interests of both parties to employment.

This is also the reason why I am willing to be an investigator in an international agency!
Luo Mai committed a foul, so she deserves to die!

Boy, in this era, everyone wants to take shortcuts, and most people don't care about sacrificing other people's interests and lives...

As one of them, if we fail to uphold the rules, then one day in the future, we will also become victims!
If there were no rules in this world, no one would be immune!

The contract is the last line for people like us!"

Yue Ziheng was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and then realized what Blood Fox was talking about...

The underworld is a place where the strong prey on the weak, and no one in it is a good person. Everyone can fight each other, but they have to abide by a set of "underworld rules".

However, Yue Ziheng doubted the enforceability of this rule, because he had seen too many disgusting things in the killings over the past month, and he had not seen anyone in the martial arts world step forward to uphold justice.

But if it's just a 'contract', then that really might be the bottom line!

But just like many people always say that they have not violated the law, respecting the contract does not mean that both parties are good people...

Perhaps in this so-called underground world, there are no good people in the traditional sense.

In the underground world, it is dangerous to cooperate or oppose anyone if you don't have the ability to punish them.

This highlights the importance of this so-called international intermediary company and possible other large institutions and organizations, because without the constraints of rules, the market in the underground world will gradually be squeezed and shrunk.

This is the most basic business law!
Because even a heinous bastard hopes that when he pays someone for help, the other person will help him wholeheartedly instead of shooting him in the back.

Even the contract with this so-called international intermediary company requires "insurance" and "investigators" as guarantees, and there is no way to guarantee that the contract will be executed.

This shows how dangerous the so-called underground world is!
Yue Ziheng looked at the Blood Fox, who was speaking in a deep way to him, and said uncertainly: "Why are you telling me this?
I'm not planning on becoming a mercenary or anything like that, I just want to find a place to start over with a new identity...

I have a family and I hope that one day I will have the opportunity to reunite with them as a normal person."

After hearing this, Blood Fox sneered and said, "You have 76 lives on your hands. Oh, no, now there should be 6 more lives.

Just a dozen minutes ago, you swore to me that you would kill the drug lord Naukan, and now you tell me you want to be a normal person?

If you want to be a normal person, you should go home and turn yourself in and get shot! "

As he spoke, Blood Fox looked at Yue Ziheng, who had a complicated expression, and said with a smile: "Boy, I admire you very much. I, a retired old man, have been having a hard time working lately, so I need an assistant...

Are you interested? "

Upon hearing this, Yue Ziheng frowned and said, "Don't you have a partner?"

Blood Fox spread his hands and said, "You will know when you see him..."

(End of this chapter)