Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 813 Playing the Good Cop

When it's cold, a steaming hot pot is truly the best food!

Compared to the hot pot lamb that Shanying and his son enjoyed alone, the spicy and tomato hot pots, which were already flavorful, were more popular with the group of ladies.

There were more than a dozen people, four large copper pots, and more than 4 kilograms of beef and mutton. In the end, the vegetables were not even cooked; they were simply torn up and made into a salad, which they then ate.

These women, except for Xiaowan and Tessa, were all incredibly greedy when they ate...

From the special operations team led by Griffin to the Arctic Fox rescue team led by Tiffany, they are all fierce female warriors. Although they have not been very active in the village for the past month, they actually need to do high-intensity labor every day in order to settle down here.

The food here is certainly nutritious, but to be honest, Xiaowan's cooking skills are just average, and she doesn't know how to cook many dishes. With vegetables scarce, she is even more helpless.

When a group of tough women who are known for their guns and hard work pick up a spatula, it's destined that they'll have a hard time enjoying their meals.

Steak, frozen salad, roast meat, vegetable soup...

Then there's 'rice', 'fried rice', 'mixed rice', 'rice noodles', 'fried noodles', 'hot and sour noodles'...

Xiao Wan was slightly better off, while Tessa was only a mediocre cook, barely managing to maintain the variety of her daily meals by relying on her racial advantages and half-baked culinary skills, using rice and rice noodles.

Xiao Wan brought all the copper pots. She had taken everyone out for hot pot before, but none of them had thought of using a carpenter's plane to cut beef and mutton.

The beef and mutton were already frozen solid, so even after they were brought indoors to thaw, they were still a bit difficult to cut.

The ingredients are not diverse, and you won't get full. It's better not to eat this hot pot at all!

But today was different. Mountain Eagle took the initiative to take on the responsibility of processing the beef and mutton, and modified several meat-cutting and slicing knives using the existing tools. He and a few children who ate quickly took on the most troublesome task.

After finishing their meal, these tough girls with terrible eating habits threw down their chopsticks, clutched their stomachs, and gathered around the fireplace, lying on the cushions to chat and digest their food.

Seeing Xiao Wan start cleaning up the mess, Shan Ying stopped her, then woke up the other women and told them to do it themselves.

After arriving here, Mountain Eagle realized it was a mistake to have Razer bring his wife and children here...

To be honest, Razer and his family definitely did their best, because they brought out the best things they had and tried to help them adapt to life here, but Xiaowan and the others refused because of their lifestyle.

However, these women's life skills are really lacking. After leaving the city, apart from Xiao Wan, a married woman, and Mata, who had spent a few years in Thailand and had to rely on herself for many things, the other women's life skills are really not good enough to watch...

Yulia does have some skills; her skill points are modeled after espionage. Apart from combat and intelligence gathering, her other abilities are trained and shaped according to the standards of a mistress.

She could charm men to obsession in luxury homes and yachts, but living a refined life in a place with limited resources was simply impossible.

Both the special operations team and the rescue team members have undergone rigorous training, and it is precisely because of this training that they have developed a strong ability to endure hardship...

It doesn't matter if it's a little dirty or the food is a little unpalatable, as long as it provides basic nutrition and energy, it's fine to make do.

Aside from work-related issues, getting them to do things voluntarily is simply impossible...

When the mountain eagle threatened to withhold their wages and force them to wash dishes and pots, they were met with a series of boos.

Mountain Eagle pushed Xiao Wan to rest by the fireplace, then saw the Griffin, Cardinal, and Hummingbird from the Special Operations Team sighing and starting to clean up the mess on the table. He said irritably, "I heard that all three of you have been married and have children..."

Now I know why you, as mothers, couldn't win custody..."

Upon hearing this, the hot-bodied and fiery-tempered Red Sparrow retorted unhappily, "Sir, you can question our professionalism, but you can't question our love for children..."

Looking at the several women with such heartbreaking expressions, Mountain Eagle said with disdain, "I bet you can count on one hand the number of times you prepare three meals a day for your babies, except when you first give birth and breastfeed them."

Put your hand on your heart, aren't European and American laws extremely unfriendly to married men?

Look at yourselves in the mirror. I absolutely do not believe that your ex-husbands are some high-ranking official or big shot...

Given that the law favors the mother, what exactly did you do to warrant the court revoking your custody rights?

Crimson Sparrow, instantly stung by the blow, then angrily raised her middle finger and cursed, "We've fallen to this state because those men are all useless..."

Mountain Eagle said disdainfully, "If your ex-husband is a good-for-nothing, then the child should stay with you even more!"
Get to work and clean the house. It's a dereliction of duty for a bodyguard to make his employer wash the dishes.

Look at you two, you haven't managed your marriage well, you haven't taken good care of your children, your life skills are terrible, and now even your professional ethics are questionable... Only my wife is a kind person, which is why she tolerates you..."

Mountain Eagle's harsh words provoked the anger of the special operations trio, but they dared not lash out at their boss. They could only lower their heads to avoid his disapproving gaze and obediently begin tidying up the things on the table.

Xiao Wan didn't interrupt when Shan Ying was raging. When the atmosphere became awkward, she walked to Shan Ying's side, pulled him up, and said reproachfully, "You just keep poking where it hurts, huh?"
Don't bring up these things again. I'm looking for a lawyer to help them with the custody issue.

They now have high-paying jobs and are mothers; the court will support their rights, and at the very least, allowing them to take their children on vacation each year should not be a problem.

Mountain Eagle was indeed not very satisfied with them, because Xiao Wan was their boss. He originally hired them because they were women and could share some of the work with Xiao Wan in life.

They are employed, and theoretically they should adapt and try to get closer to Xiaowan's lifestyle.

However, these are not matters of principle. Mountain Eagle is not the kind of person who likes to lash out at people for no reason. At this moment, he actually just wants to play the bad guy, to give these women a heads-up, and to make Xiao Wan's goodwill have the greatest effect.

His thoughts couldn't be hidden from Xiao Wan at all...

Xiao Wan wasn't incapable of controlling them; the reason she was so busy was that she was still processing the battle at the brown bear camp, processing the corpses, the flesh and blood, and the impact of the mountain eagle's so-called 'career'.

She needed to do other things to distract herself, and she was also the person with the highest standards of quality of life and the strongest life skills on site, so gradually she had more and more things to do.

Mountain Eagle's actions had essentially awakened Xiao Wan's "systematic spirit," a move that was practically equivalent to whispering in her ear, "I'll play the good cop, you play the bad cop"...

Once she was sure her husband was alright, Xiaowan quickly returned to her normal routine.

Watching Yulia and Mata, under the majestic gaze of the mountain eagle, sneak along the wall to the laundry room, Xiao Wan chuckled...

She took Mountain Eagle's arm and whispered in his ear that she would go to his room tonight, then sent him off to take care of the children and animals, while she rolled up her sleeves and joined in the cleanup work.

Having received the promise, Mountain Eagle avoided Tessa's amused gaze, took out a large bag of dog food and some prepared beef and mutton scraps, and began feeding the animals.

The children had very clear roles: Yueyi had to take care of the entire snowy owl family, as well as Balang's two sons who had already finished molting...

Luna was responsible for helping him, or rather, causing him trouble, to make the feeding process less tedious.

Angel is in charge of two large Doberman Pinschers that are practically useless in Alaska. Since arriving in Alaska, these two handsome dogs have been forced to stay around Xiao Wan due to the threat of extreme cold, and their outdoor exercise time has dropped to an all-time low.

These two handsome dogs don't get much exercise, so they don't eat much and are relatively easy to take care of.

In contrast, those wolves that were resting at the horse's back were different...

More than half a year has passed since the mountain eagle broke into the valley laboratory and recruited those wolf cubs.

After passing through their adolescence, these Magnix wolves began to enter a period of rapid growth.

In the past two months, they have grown almost every day. When the mountain eagles first came to Alaska to prepare for battle, these Magdenshe wolves were only the size of black-backed wolves. Now, just over two months later, their shoulder height has exceeded 80 centimeters, and their bodies and limbs are very thick. Moreover, their development does not seem to have completely stopped.

The largest known wolf in the world is the Magengshe wolf, with the largest individuals reaching a shoulder height of over 1.1 meters.

The Magengshe wolves raised by the mountain eagles are not yet fully grown, but they are already showing signs of surpassing their peers in size.

Compared to the ferocious giant wolves that the mountain eagles encountered before, these are new breeds that have been selected and bred from the best. The mountain eagles believe that they will grow to be even larger, which can be seen from their appetite alone.

There are four wolves resting here...

Zach prepared a large stainless steel basin for each of them, filled it with about 8 kilograms of minced meat, then gave each wolf a smoked cod more than two feet long, and finally half a basin of dog food. After soaking it in the remaining vegetable soup, he used it to fill in the gaps between their teeth, and only then were they satisfied.

It was while feeding Baron that Mountain Eagle saw the Magnier Wolves crowding around Zack, and how any slight movement could make Zack stagger. That's when he realized these guys had grown up.

Because Baron and Mountain Eagle both experienced the virus, Baron's physique is already considered muscular among Malinois, but when placed next to those Malinois wolves, Baron suddenly seems to shrink by two sizes.

He hadn't really noticed the mountain eagles he saw every day before, but now it dawned on him that the twenty-odd wolves in the brown bear camp had finally become a force to be reckoned with.

Compared to the two brown bears that have been hibernating and the two cougars that are hopelessly addicted to the greenhouse, these packs of Mackenzie wolves, once fully grown, will be able to control a huge area.

Of course, feeding them is also a difficult and huge undertaking...

(End of this chapter)