Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 855 Traitor
After Tiffany and Lilith left, Mountain Eagle began to frequently contact his friends...

Through Anna, Mountain Eagle quickly uncovered the details of the oligarch who hired Arctic Fox to attack the 'Jackals'.

Sergei, an oligarch in the Great Russian Energy Group!
Within the Russian Federation's internal hierarchy, this Sergei does not belong to the Hiravik group headed by Putin; he is more like a front man.

When Putin came to power, he suffered a great loss at the hands of a group of British-led organizations. Not only did he lose some of his shares in the Great Russian Energy Group, but he also lost face at the International Court of Justice.

However, perhaps due to his yearning for the European family, his blind worship and trust in the European capitalist system, and the fact that he was also unstable at the time, this fiery-tempered boss actually put up with it.

He not only condoned that those people controlled a portion of Russia's state-owned assets through front-door deals, but also allowed them to continuously extract profits from Russia through financial means.

Sergei's predecessor was the infamous Khodorsky, who had essentially rebelled. Although he was eventually imprisoned, he surprisingly received a pardon from Prussia with a tearful letter expressing his longing for his mother.

After his release from prison, this guy went to settle in Europe and became an anti-Russian vanguard.

Even after all this, Boss Pu has tolerated him!

It's easy to imagine how powerful those people behind the scenes are!
Since getting to know old guys like William Hurt, Mountain Eagle has gained a completely new understanding of the power structure and the implicit power and interest chains in this world.

After listening to Anna's description, Mountain Eagle already had a preliminary impression of 'those people' in his mind.

"High position and great power" is no longer enough to describe the energy this group represents!

The oligarch named Sergei had no overt conflict with "Jackal," so it was illogical for him to spend 8000 million to buy "Jackal's" life.

Mountain Eagle prefers to believe that the 'jackal' was blocking the way of 'those people,' so they launched an attack on the 'jackal' through this oligarch named Sergei.

For various reasons, the Arctic fox became the knife wielded against the jackal!
Mountain Eagle knew very well that with the size of 'Jackal' and what he was currently doing in Iraq, he couldn't just chase after a bunch of mercenaries around aimlessly, and wasting time and money on them.

The reason why the Arctic fox had problems is very likely not due to that jackal!
However, due to the scarcity of intelligence, Mountain Eagle could only piece together what had happened through guesswork...

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Half a month passed quickly, and the problems caused by the snow disaster were finally brought under control...

Alaska's population is not large, and there are even fewer people outside the towns who truly need help. So when Eilson Air Force Base deployed four Black Hawk helicopters, carrying mixed groups of soldiers and hunters, to drive away wolf packs and airdrop supplies, the situation quickly improved.

It has been proven that the American military can be effective if it is willing to put in the effort!

When the Black Hawk helicopters hoisted several large fuel tanks and landed on an open area near the village, and then Koyukuk forces used bulldozers to forcibly clear a makeshift path and began continuously refueling the village, Razer's long-awaited runway plan was also put on the agenda.

This time, he didn't even need to raise funds himself. Colonel Clement submitted a report and obtained two million dollars from the Alaska Command to begin leveling large tracts of land near the village to park Black Hawk helicopters. With a little preparation, that land could be used to build a gravel runway that would allow C-27A transport planes to land.

The negotiations between the Mountain Eagle and Kerry Cantona went very smoothly...

This guy, who had been cornered, clung to the Eagle's leg like a drowning man grasping at a straw after learning that the Eagle was the one who helped Snowden escape his predicament.

The two parties signed a contract through an international intermediary company, with Mountain Eagle representing him and his family to negotiate with the other party. He was willing to surrender all his bargaining chips to the other party as long as he and his family could be saved in the end and a certain amount of money could be left for his family to get through the difficult period.

This is the advantage of information misalignment through the middleman. Kerry Cantona had no idea that the Mountain Eagle had already reached an agreement with General Robinson, who was behind Colonel Lynch.

Kerry Cantona showed no resistance to Mountain Eagle's proposal to cooperate with the FBI and take responsibility for previous arms smuggling cases in Alaska, after all, he had indeed been involved in those cases!

Now he's willing to take the blame alone. In exchange, Mountain Eagle and Admiral Robinson will use their influence to help him reach a plea bargain with the Department of Justice, so he might only need to stay in prison for ten or eight years before he gets out.

Kate from the Bangkok team handled this matter...

Things in Mexico have reached a critical point, and Kate really has no time to waste in Alaska.

After the appearance of Kerry Cantona, a key figure in the case, Kate, within just one week, finalized the entire case with a report and a batch of logically coherent evidence, and contacted a familiar prosecutor to transfer the case...

In order to close the case as quickly as possible, the prosecutor offered to make a deal with Kerry Cantona in exchange for a plea of ​​guilty.

The trial will certainly take a long time, but in the meantime, Kerry Cantona has handed over evidence he had hidden in Washington…

This guy entrusted the most important evidence to his best friend, who was also a shadow partner responsible for transferring a batch of assets to Europe.

It was impossible for Kerry Cantona to readily hand over his friend to Admiral Robinson and his men. Only the intervention of a 'middleman' like Mountain Eagle could save Kerry Cantona's friend's life while retrieving the crucial evidence.

For this reason, the Mountain Eagle had to fly to Washington, D.C., where it obtained the evidence and escorted Kerry Cantona's friend onto a plane bound for Thailand.

This guy will transit through Thailand, and then Jaws Sofia will arrange for him to go anywhere in the world, as he needs.

Everything went smoothly, but Mountain Eagle was far from relieved, because he soon received even worse news...

"What? Sergei is dead?"

Mountain Eagle, who was processing business online, received Anna's call. He jumped up from his seat and said incredulously, "When did this happen? How did that guy die?"

Anna, on the other end of the phone, said in a somewhat complicated tone, "I don't know the specifics of what happened. I only know that Sergei died on a farm in Belarus... I saw photos of the crime scene, and it looks like Sergei drugged his bodyguard and then hanged himself."

Mountain Eagle simply couldn't believe that a top billionaire with a net worth of billions would do such a thing...

Even if he wanted to die, there was no need for him to anesthetize his bodyguards. He could just jump off a tall building or cliff, or take some illegal drugs before bed. Could his bodyguards possibly stop him?

Whether Sergei lived or died was none of the Mountain Eagle's business, but his death made the Mountain Eagle sense danger.

Hearing Anna's somewhat unnatural breathing, Mountain Eagle took a deep breath and said, "Suicide is definitely not the case. Do you know something else?"

Anna sighed upon hearing this and said, "According to the surviving bodyguard's testimony, Sergei met with 'Silver Fox' and 'Iberis' of the Arctic Fox before he died to discuss the mission to attack 'Jackal' and said that he would give the Arctic Fox an additional $5000 million."

But after the two Arctic foxes left, they quickly fell into a coma...

In the end, no one knows what happened, but before he died, Sergei signed a high-value protection contract with the Jackal's company, P.B. Company, which would be responsible for the safety of his family.

Before his death, Sergei also transferred all his shares in an energy group worth billions of dollars to the Russian government free of charge.

This guy's death set a bad precedent; the atmosphere in the Kremlin is very strange now!

Mountain Eagle couldn't help but take a deep breath and ask curiously, "Was it your Boss Pu who did it?"

"of course not!"

Anna couldn't help but sigh and said, "But now everyone thinks it is..."

The mountain eagle understood immediately...

Sergei was merely a front man holding shares on behalf of others. Now, before his death, he transferred all the shares of the energy group to the Russian government, causing not only heavy losses to the interest groups behind him, but also greatly alarming the bigwigs of the Shiravic Group, who were united around Putin.

Just kidding, all that wealth of his was acquired through hard work and undermining Russia's policies...

If everyone were like Sergei, returning all the money before they died, what would happen to their families and descendants? How would resources and power be passed down?

It's no longer important who killed Sergei; what matters is Putin's attitude.

Ultimately, Sergei did not violate any explicit laws. Even if you wanted to deal with him, you should have used methods such as auditing accounts and taxes, instead of physically destroying him right away.

In a situation where even friendly nations feel a sense of unease after the death of a rabbit, if external forces stir up trouble and Putin doesn't handle the situation well, Russia could descend into turmoil.

Moreover, Mountain Eagle is quite certain that even if that boss Putin handles it properly, Russia will soon experience a wave of asset flight.

This is not something a qualified politician would do, but based on the principle that whoever benefits is the most suspicious, Mr. Putin certainly won't be able to clear his name anytime soon.

The mountain eagle realized almost instantly that the 'jackal' must have done it.

Instead of targeting the Arctic Fox, he found the person who paid him, took them down in one fell swoop, extorted a large sum of money, and even 'protected' Sergei's family.

Mountain Eagle was so sure because he felt he would have done the same thing in his place!

In fact, Mountain Eagle has taken in many of the families of his former enemies in Thailand, and many of the guys who were once driven to attack him now owe him favors and are working for him to pay off their debts.

However, the brilliant move of 'Jackal' transferring shares has drawn all suspicion and attention to the owner of Big Opus.

With such a powerful figure drawing attention away from Sergei, the interest groups behind him won't be able to create trouble for him for the time being, thus buying more time.

But for the Mountain Eagle, Sergei's lead had gone cold...

After hanging up with Anna, Mountain Eagle anxiously tried to call Blood Fox and the others when an unfamiliar number called his satellite phone...

Mountain Eagle answered the phone immediately, but just as he was about to speak, he heard an explosion on the other end, followed by a hoarse, distorted voice...

“Mountain Eagle, this is ‘Bullhead,’ ‘Silver Fox’ is dead, and Iberis is a traitor…”

Tell Blood Fox and the others to run! Run!
Iberias has found their location…

'Bullhead' was clearly badly injured. Even through the phone, Mountain Eagle could hear the whistling sound that only comes from someone with a damaged trachea. Just as he was about to ask 'Bullhead' for his exact location, a desperate roar came from the other end of the line...

"Iberia, you will go to hell..."

"boom……"

After a huge explosion, Mountain Eagle looked at the disconnected phone, stood up, and strode towards his wife and children...

(End of this chapter)