Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 2164 Black Mamba

Since he didn't know if the other party had ambushed people on the way to escape, Amos didn't send anyone to pursue them, but just asked people to check the situation around the camp.

Smith said in a deep voice: "The casualties should be compensated immediately according to the regulations. You should handle this matter yourself. You must not let other people feel cold."

Amos nodded, turned and went downstairs.

Smith took Niu Xiaoqiang and Xie Jun back to the room where they were hiding before. The assassin's body was still lying on the dining table, and the remaining girls were all squatting in the middle of the room, guarded by bodyguards with guns.

Smith turned to look at Niu Xiaoqiang: "Mr. Niu, I don't have much experience as an interrogator. Do you have any suggestions?"

Niu Xiaoqiang thought for a while, and then said: "Before I give you advice, can you tell me where you invited these girls?"

Smith immediately replied: "They are all local high school students, studying in a girls' school established by a charity organization. Now it is a holiday, and many students will come out to work to earn money to support their families. I invited them here through the introduction of a middleman. This middleman is a well-known broker in the local area, and he specializes in providing special services to the rich and powerful."

When Smith said this, he changed the subject: "Speaking of which, this guy is a bit suspicious, why don't we arrest him and interrogate him?"

Niu Xiaoqiang shook his head slightly and said: "That's unnecessary, this kind of person is just to make money, the status is too low, it is unlikely to do such a thing."

Niu Xiaoqiang said to Xie Jun at this point: "Go and search the remaining people to see if there are any other hidden assassins."

Xie Jun agreed, and walked up to these girls.He didn't talk nonsense, he directly picked up a girl and winked at a bodyguard.

The other party immediately understood, held the gun in his hand against the back of the girl's head, and at the same time warned in local dialect: "You better not move around, or I will blow your head off!"

The girl was trembling with fright, and tears kept rolling in her eyes.

Seeing this, Xie Jun began to search. He mainly checked the accessories worn by the other party, especially metal ornaments.Xie Jun checked very carefully, not missing any detail.

Niu Xiaoqiang looked at the girl indifferently not far away, and waited until Xie Jun finished checking, but Niu Xiaoqiang didn't speak.

"Boss, she doesn't carry any dangerous items on her body."

Niu Xiaoqiang hummed, "Go ahead and check the next one."

"Yes."

Next, Xie Jun checked all the remaining girls one by one, but found nothing.

Niu Xiaoqiang watched the whole process from the sidelines, and when Xie Jun finished checking, he pointed to two of the girls: "These two stay here, and the others will be taken to the next room for custody."

Smith nodded immediately, and asked his personal bodyguards to take away the other girls, leaving the two girls pointed out by Niu Xiaoqiang in place.

When the other girls were taken away, Niu Xiaoqiang glanced at the remaining two girls blankly for a while, and then asked in English, "Can you understand English?"

One of them tremblingly replied, "I can understand some."

The remaining one was so patronizing and trembling that he couldn't say a word.

Smith thought that these two people were all the assassin's accomplices, so he couldn't help but interjected: "Mr. Niu, you don't have to be so polite to them, you should be more ruthless to them."

Niu Xiaoqiang waved his hand: "I have carefully observed the expressions of all the girls just now. They should not be the assassin's accomplices. The reason why they are kept is mainly to clarify one thing."

Smith asked in surprise, "What do you want to find out?"

Niu Xiaoqiang showed a calm expression, and asked the girl who knew English: "Can you tell me what the tattoo on your left wrist represents?"

The teenage girl looked down at her left wrist before replying: "Is this the tattoo you mean? It's the Black Mamba."

Niu Xiaoqiang then asked: "What is the Black Mamba?"

Before the girl could answer, Smith said, "The black mamba is a poisonous snake native to Africa, and it is very poisonous."

He took a few steps forward after speaking, and looked down at the tattoo on the girl's wrist: "Is this a black mamba? Why does it look weird, like an earthworm?"

The girl explained with a look of fear: "I have no money, so I can only find cheap places to get tattoos..."

Hearing this explanation, Niu Xiaoqiang told Smith, "Ask another girl to see if the tattoo on her arm is a black mamba."

Smith immediately followed suit, and after questioning, the tattoo on the girl's arm was also a black mamba snake.As for why the two girls got such tattoos on their arms, according to them, it was to protect their own safety.

In local cultural customs, the black mamba snake is a patron saint. Anyone who tattoos a black mamba snake on his body can avoid disasters and protect peace.

Niu Xiaoqiang was not surprised by this. This behavior is called poisonous snake worship, and similar cultural customs exist in many places around the world.

After asking clearly, Niu Xiaoqiang waved his hand and asked someone to take the two girls out.

Then he walked to the dining table and pointed to the back neck of the assassin's corpse: "Smith, take a closer look at this pattern, doesn't it look like a black mamba snake?"

Smith walked over curiously, and after a closer look, he found a very small tattoo on the back of the assassin's neck. The tattoo showed a coiled snake. The snake's head was raised high, and its mouth Open wide, a posture ready to attack at any time.

After looking carefully, Smith nodded slightly and said, "Not to mention, this pattern really looks like a black mamba snake."

Niu Xiaoqiang looked at the open bracelet on the corpse's wrist again: "Look at the color of the needles on the bracelet again, is there something smeared on it?"

Smith turned his head to observe, and then nodded vigorously: "Yes, these needles are indeed smeared with something. Judging from the color, it should belong to a highly toxic substance, maybe it is the venom of the black mamba snake."

Niu Xiaoqiang sighed: "The information we have is limited, so we can't deduce whether this girl belongs to a certain organization's killer, or was temporarily hired as an assassin, but there is one thing we should pay attention to in the future, that is, Be wary of people with black mamba tattoos on their bodies, especially the back of their necks, and they must be carefully checked. In order to avoid mistakes, anyone with the same pattern on their backs of necks, regardless of gender, must be on high alert."

(End of this chapter)