Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 851 Arctic Fox Lifts Iron Plate
The negotiations are going very smoothly!

Colonel Clement and Colonel Lynch took turns calling their superiors to confirm the Mountain Eagle's intentions and proposed solutions. A contract, based solely on a verbal agreement, was then finalized...

Just as Mountain Eagle had guessed, Colonel Lynch's boss behind the scenes was none other than General Robinson, the head of the Alaska Command.

Moreover, before coming to Alaska, this senior officer served in the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a long time. After being transferred to Alaska, he served as an Air Force commander for two years before being promoted to commander of the Alaska Command.

Strictly speaking, there are strict requirements for promotion within the U.S. military, especially for core positions such as theater commanders, where the promotion path is usually straightforward.

In other words, after a commander retires, in most cases, the commander of the local military branch will take over.

For example, the commander of the Pacific Fleet usually takes over the position of the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command.

And the fact that this high-ranking general came from the 'Joint Staff Department of Strategic Planning and Policy' is rather unusual.

The fact that a general with such a strong political background would jump from the Pentagon to become a theater commander in Alaska has a strong sense of gilding.

The Mountain Eagle doesn't want to speculate on the specifics of what happened, but the background of this General Robinson and his style of doing things are quite surprising.

To express his enthusiasm, Mountain Eagle personally cooked dinner for two prominent figures in the Alaskan military...

As Colonel Lynch departed by helicopter, a sum of ten million US dollars was transferred to the Singapore financial office's account through several shell companies.

This general was clearly not on the same page as William Hurt, so he decisively chose to abandon the El Salvador project and instead seek venture capital from the Mountain Eagle's financial office.

Mountain Eagle knew very well that the $1000 million was probably just a test...

The 'friendship' between the two parties needs to be tested before it can develop into a positive relationship. Many of his ideas need to be based on the foundation of pleasant cooperation between the two parties in order to be realized.

However, Mountain Eagle has always maintained an optimistic attitude towards this kind of slow and meticulous work, and he will never think there are too many investors...

Singapore's financial office is not particularly well-established, and it urgently needs big names like General Robinson to enrich its list of investors.

From this general's choice, Mountain Eagle clearly sensed that this bigwig might not be the kind of military leader who rose to power through his own abilities, but rather a spokesperson for a certain interest group.

For the simplest reason, William Hurt, as the head of the Senate Pillar Group, is a connection that no high-ranking military officer should miss.

The fact that this senator and his interest group were able to scale up the US chemical weapons destruction business to tens or hundreds of billions of dollars demonstrates the exaggerated power of the group he represents.

Any high-ranking military officer with aspirations for their future would, from a personal standpoint, not want to miss the opportunity to establish a connection with this powerful figure, unless their faction has a power or interest conflict with William Hurt's side.

Or perhaps General Robinson wasn't entirely free to make choices, especially on such important politically relevant issues...

There was something quite subtle about this, and the Mountain Eagle grasped it instantly, which raised his expectations for Admiral Robinson even higher.

Because he has powerful backers, it means he can wield greater power and influence!
At the same time, it is also because he has powerful backers. As a representative who has been pushed to the forefront, he finds it difficult to suppress his desire to profit for himself while protecting the interests of the interest group.

The logic is simple: the power and benefits that come with a 'seat' belong to the collective, but the money in my account belongs to me!

This situation was most advantageous to Mountain Eagle, so when Colonel Lynch left by helicopter, he reserved a $100 million investment quota for him.

He doesn't need to invest any money. As long as the "friendship" between the two parties progresses smoothly, Colonel Lynch can receive 7% of the profits every year. If the cooperation between the two parties can continue to deepen after five years, then Colonel Lynch can take away the $100 million at any time.

Colonel Lynch knew very well that this thing was like an option, a carrot that would entice him to maintain the relationship between the two parties. If his boss did not perform as well as the Mountain Eagle expected, then the so-called $100 million would just be a mirage.

However, he still accepted the mountain eagle's offer, because even if he messed it up, he wouldn't suffer any losses; he was simply going with the flow.

When the Mountain Eagle saw Colonel Lynch off, they didn't hide it from Colonel Clement at all, and Colonel Lynch didn't deliberately show any signs of avoiding it...

This approach was quite unprofessional, but it was a great comfort to Colonel Clement.

Because General Robinson was the one who could decide his life or death, and now that Colonel Lynch has reached an agreement with the Mountain Eagle and is taking the benefits without hiding them from him, it means that he has escaped the crisis of being a scapegoat.

In contrast to Colonel Lynch, who was eager to return to his boss to report for duty, Colonel Clement, who had survived the ordeal, simply stayed in the village. He even dispatched a team of trusted ground crew to ensure his safety while assisting the villagers in establishing a temporary foothold there.

The promises made by the Mountain Eagles were quite tempting, and before the final results were announced, Colonel Clement preferred to use cooperation to deepen the relationship between the two sides...

Anyway, he wasn't the one doing the work, and the money he spent wasn't his either!

This is quite interesting. Apart from being threatened by four aerial bombs, the Mountain Eagle was actually an outsider in this whole affair.

But in the end, it was because of his unique experience and reputation that he reaped the biggest rewards! He not only made money to make up for his previous investments, but also developed several allies in Alaska.

After everyone had gone to rest that night, Mountain Eagle put the children to bed, sat on the cold terrace for about ten minutes, and then went back to his room, turned on the computer, and inserted a USB drive...

The first thing that catches the eye is a file folder...

After clicking on it, I found that it was full of information about drug dealers!
After opening a file, Mountain Eagle noticed the watermark and realized it was actually an intelligence file from the DEA (Denis Agency for International Affairs).

Moreover, perhaps because Admiral Robinson's people were in a hurry, the files were not classified in detail. They contained not only information on Sinaloa Cartel drug traffickers, but also information on other drug trafficking groups.

The documents contain information from DEA investigations over the years, including not only known information on high-ranking members of drug cartels, but also information on their channels along the US-Mexico border, and even information on these drug cartels' drug trafficking networks within the United States.

Some of this information is outdated and certainly not comprehensive, but when combined with satellite images provided by the Air Force Intelligence Agency, it saves the Mountain Eagle a lot of trouble.

However, these things no longer attracted Mountain Eagle's attention. He just glanced through them and then sent the package to Dalia, asking her to continue refining the plan in Mexico.

Half a month has passed, and Thiago's physical condition has almost recovered under the influence of the drugs. In at most two weeks, that guy will be able to 'escape'.

To this end, Dalia is preparing to put on a good show in El Salvador to make Thiago's escape more believable.

This information will be more useful to Daliya!
Mountain Eagle turned his attention to the documents in another folder...

The document contains many high-resolution photos, all of which are satellite images of Iraqi military bases.

There were photos taken during the day and at night, and someone even marked the important buildings in the photos. They also attached a nine-line chart for bombing and a rather brief attack plan.

Besides that, there was a file that was hundreds of pages long, and the main character in the file was a guy called 'Jackal'.

Mountain Eagle carefully read the file and then felt that he had seen a legend, and this guy was Chinese, just like him.

This guy built a city in the Central African Republic like he was doing charity work, then helped the Libyan National Army capture Tobruk, the Mediterranean gateway, and then marched into Iraq, where he opened a humanitarian corridor directly to Syria.

The document contains a detailed account of the jackal's rise to power, but the author's evaluation of the jackal is vague, seemingly lacking understanding of the jackal's choices in many matters.

Mountain Eagle quickly read through the information and soon realized that although he had never met this 'jackal', he had some indirect connections with him!

After his rampage in Los Angeles, the "Jackal" arrived in Los Angeles and dealt a heavy blow to the Sinaloa Cartel, robbed a drug dealer's vault, and even kidnapped a Middle Eastern princess in front of a huge audience, triggering a media frenzy.

The media frenzy even overshadowed the Snowden negotiations with the Mountain Eagles and several massacres in Los Angeles.

Several of the personnel used by "Jackal" in Los Angeles came from "Camel's" security training camp; they were even fellow trainees with "Sea Lion" and "Donkey."

This is of course just a coincidence, and may not even be considered an indirect connection, but the fact that this "jackal" discovered the plot of al-Qaeda and ISIS in Libya and carried out a hostage rescue in Monaco is related to the Mountain Eagle.

Because of the 'Refugee Group', Mountain Eagle has been keeping a close eye on the whereabouts of the Angel of Death...

Initially, the 'Refugee Group's' attention was focused on Canada, but after the events in Libya and Monaco, they realized that the Angel of Death had tricked them.

The Angel of Death deliberately leaked the operation to lure the 'Refugee Group' to track him, thus providing cover for the bomb expert rescued from the sea prison to travel to Libya, where he manufactured several chemical weapons and dirty bombs with the potential for mass destruction.

It wasn't until the "Jackal" thwarted the terrorists' chemical weapons operation in Monaco that the "Refugee Group" and other intelligence organizations around the world realized that those dirty bombs were the trump card that ISIS needed.

Due to information isolation, the 'refugee group' saw things more clearly than others...

From the moment the VX poison gas raw materials disappeared in the United States, the Angels of Death began preparing a grand spectacle...

He used Libya as a starting point, with chemical weapons as a pretext to attract everyone's attention, and then secretly sent dirty bombs into the United States.

When the refugee group discovered the problem and turned back to Canada to continue their investigation, the Angel of Death disappeared.

This 'jackal' has a typical military style, and acts in a simple and brutal manner.

He uncovered a corner of Project Death Angel in Libya and incidentally eliminated those dangerous prisoners who had escaped from the sea prison, but he didn't leave behind much clue or evidence. Now that Project Death Angel has disappeared, the refugee group is in dire straits.

Aside from the Angel of Death, nothing else originally had much to do with the Mountain Eagle, but now this 'Jackal' has gone to Iraq and clashed with the Arctic Fox...

The mountain eagle couldn't help but feel deeply worried!
If the contents of this document are true, then Arctic Fox has definitely bitten off more than it can chew this time!

(End of this chapter)