Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 853 Imminent
Mountain Eagle had never been to Romania, nor had Blood Fox ever mentioned the place...

In fact, he had been subconsciously avoiding getting deeply involved in Fjällräven's business, partly to avoid suspicion and prevent others from thinking he was after the $100 million pension fund...

Secondly, he himself was not optimistic about Fjällräven's operating model, while the group represented by Fjällräven was somewhat too stubborn.

Therefore, he deliberately avoided mentioning Fjällräven's core business to prevent misunderstandings and to reduce his own troubles.

But some things are just strange like that; the more you try to avoid them, the more helpless you feel when the time comes.

Regardless of what Blood Fox and the others thought, Mountain Eagle realized at this moment that he had actually been a member of this team for a long time.

As descendants of Arctic foxes, Tiffany and Lilith appeared even more anxious than the mountain eagle. Faced with their silent boss, the impatient Lilith stood up and paced back and forth, saying anxiously, "Boss, we can't just sit idly by..."

Mountain Eagle glanced at Lilith, nodded slightly, and said, "I'll arrange for a helicopter to pick you up tomorrow and take you to Anchorage. I'll rent a private plane, and you can get to Romania as quickly as possible."

"Did the camel and the eagle's claws tell you an address, or a person?"

Tiffany was also worried about her retired father. She rubbed her face vigorously and said helplessly, "It's an address, but I don't know what it means."

The camel simply told me that if I wanted to find him but couldn't, I could go to that place.

After looking at Lilith and receiving the same answer, Mountain Eagle decisively took out his satellite phone and dialed Eddie's cell phone...

He needs to know what's there in order to know what's appropriate to do.

Eddie had already received the news; the call to Mountain Eagle was answered immediately after it was made…

"Mountain Eagle, do you have any news about Blood Fox and the others?"

Mountain Eagle recounted the information he had received from Lee Sung-hee to Eddie, and then asked, "Do you know Bucharest, Romania?"

What's there?

Eddie paused for a moment on the other end of the phone, then said in a deep voice, "There's an office there with only one receptionist. Her only job is to wait for people to come to her, and then place an advertisement in the Bucharest Star newspaper in a specific format according to the name provided by the person."

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle asked curiously, "This is a single-line communication mode that should only be used between spies. Why would Arctic Fox set up such a mechanism?"

Eddie sighed and said, "It's to leave a channel of communication with the outside world while we're in hiding."

The Mountain Eagle and Arctic Fox have always carried out high-risk missions, which naturally offended many people, including military intelligence agencies of many countries.

During our hiding period, we need to completely cut off all contact with the outside world, but we are worried that our families will not be able to find us and will be anxious. We also hope to have a way to understand the situation outside the world, so Blood Fox set up such a mechanism.

However, this method is only known to us older, retired Arctic foxes. Nowadays, Arctic foxes are more cautious when accepting missions and have developed various online methods, so they have abandoned this primitive approach.

So apart from Silver Fox, no one else knew.

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle frowned slightly and said, "So, even if we find that place in Romania, we might not be able to find Blood Fox and the others?"

Eddie thought for a moment and said, "According to what you just said, Blood Fox and his team did not participate in the operation in Iraq. Based on Blood Fox's habits, he should be paying attention to the situation in Romania."

Don't worry too much. Blood Fox and his team are experienced. If there's any problem, they should let you know.

Mountain Eagle glanced at the anxious Tiffany and Lilith, sighed, and said, "I'll arrange for Tiffany and Lilith to go to Romania..."

Upon hearing this, Eddie on the other end of the phone decisively said, "I'll book the tickets right away. I'll go to Bucharest to pick them up. These two girls are too inexperienced..."

After receiving Eddie's assurance, Mountain Eagle hung up the phone, then looked at Tiffany and Lilith and said, "You two leave at dawn, but once you get there, don't act on your own. Listen to Eddie's instructions, because we don't know the current situation of Arctic Fox."

According to the intelligence Li Chengji gave me, they should have already left Iraq through some channels and are currently in hiding, so they have cut off all contact with the outside world.

These guys have offended a real big shot this time. Don't make any rash moves before they show up themselves...

Once you arrive at the destination, find a place to stay near the target location, then monitor the area and wait for my message.

"Do not enter without my order..."

Upon hearing this, Tiffany frowned and said, "If we don't move, how can we let Blood Fox and the others know that we are looking for them?"

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle frowned and said, "How could they not know we were looking for them?"
If that place was a contact point arranged by Blood Fox more than a decade ago, do you know what that means?

Tiffany wasn't stupid. She paused for a moment, then said, "That means they have a safe house in Romania, and it must be within the range where they can buy the Bucharest Star."

After listening, Mountain Eagle nodded and said, "Communication is so convenient nowadays. You can just buy a prepaid mobile phone and make a call to me. Why don't they do that?"

"Because they don't want to drag you down with them..."

Tiffany paused for a moment, then said, "It's also possible they don't want to be exposed..."

Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "It's more likely that Blood Fox thinks there's something wrong within Arctic Fox, so it wants to cut off all external communications. My profile is a bit too high, which is why I sent you over..."

Once you arrive, do not act rashly. Find a place to stay and then follow Eddie's orders.

If Blood Fox and his group are really in Romania, then I believe he will contact you on his own initiative.

Tiffany paused for a moment, then instinctively asked, "What if they don't contact me?"

Mountain Eagle shook his head with a gloomy expression and said, "That means their situation isn't good, and they don't want us to get involved."

Tiffany sensed the uncertainty in Mountain Eagle's tone. She took a deep breath and said, "Boss, we are the Arctic Fox Rescue Team. Our mission is to provide assistance to Arctic Foxes when they encounter problems."

"Okay, I'll wait where I am as you asked. I trust them..."

Looking at Tiffany, who seemed to have matured a lot suddenly, Mountain Eagle sighed and said, "It's best if you think that way!"
I need some time to gather intelligence before I can make a judgment...

I can't even tell whether Blood Fox doesn't want to drag me down or if she's really in a hopeless situation.

"We must at least not become an obstacle before I make my final judgment..."

Mountain Eagle waved his hand and said, "Go and rest. Get up early tomorrow to pack your things. A helicopter will come to pick you up at dawn."

After saying that, Mountain Eagle poured himself another glass of white wine, sat down on a sofa near the corner of the fireplace, and then turned off the floor lamp in the corner, plunging himself into complete darkness.

He had a premonition that this matter wouldn't be so simple...

The fact that even the old men from the Arctic Fox clan, who had long since retired from the Arctic Fox clan, were forced to join the rescue means that the Arctic Fox clan's situation must be extremely dire.

The mountain eagle always had a vague feeling that the problem with the Arctic fox might not lie in external factors.

But what exactly is it?

…………

Meanwhile, in the Romanian coastal city of Constanta, an old car with its windshield shattered screeched to a halt as it performed a stunt-like drift around a narrow street, driving into an alley only two and a half meters wide...

After the car got stuck on the debris on both sides of the alley, the people inside the car decisively kicked the windshield, then rolled out of the car with their weapons and ran wildly through the dark alley.

As they disappeared into the darkness, several black SUVs chased them to the alleyway intersection.

A dozen mercenaries armed with automatic weapons jumped out of the car and rushed into the alley to investigate. Then, one group jumped over the car blocking the alley and gave chase, while the others got back into the car and began to encircle the area along the main road.

The two fleeing men turned several corners in the darkness, then quickly pried open a sewer entrance and entered the sewer...

Holding GPS devices, the two walked for nearly 30 minutes through the dark and foul-smelling sewers before finally arriving at a sewer outlet...

When they pushed open the sewer cover, they were surprised to find a car parked above them. A hole had been dug in the car's floor, and a bald old man was sitting inside, watching them...

"Are you two the only ones left?"

Galahad, standing on the sewer ladder, removed his mask and looked at Blood Fox sitting in the car. His voice was grim as he said, "It was the Knights of the Round Table. We were ambushed. Lanmarok, Lancelot, and Percival are all dead..."

Galahad looked down and said with a pained expression, "Now only Robin and I are left as the Holy Grail Knights."

The Blood Fox, sitting in the car, paused for a moment, then reached out to help Galahad into the car, saying incredulously, "They're all dead..."

After Galahad got into the car, he pulled Robin, the young man following behind him, into the car as well. Then, under Blood Fox's command, he took off his clothes and all his belongings and threw them into the sewer. Afterward, he sprayed himself with a can of spray...

Seeing that Blood Fox was waiting for him to give him an answer, Galahad said with a gloomy face, "It's Arthur, only she knows our habits best!"
We were ambushed at the docks; the Knights of the Round Table were the ones who attacked!

Galahad rubbed his cheeks in pain and said in a bitter tone, "Lanmarok never understood why he died at the hands of his former comrade-in-arms."

Lancelot and Percival have surrendered, but they still haven't let them go.

They're all dead. The Holy Grail Knights are completely finished!

Blood Fox, we shouldn't have been so greedy for the 8000 million commission; now we're paying the price...

Someone is trying to silence us. I'm sure it wasn't that 'jackal' who did it!
If you can get in touch with Silver Fox, you'd better remind him..."

Upon hearing this, Blood Fox shook his head with a dim look in his eyes and said, "It might be too late..."

As she spoke, Blood Fox opened the car door, peeked out, then got out, pushed open a large gate by the roadside, and turned to say, "Come with me..."

(End of this chapter)