Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 859 Local Gangs' Impoliteness

The sudden appearance of the mountain eagle startled the middle-aged man in the room. He raised one hand and gripped his half-pulled-up pants tightly with the other, too afraid to move. He could only slowly turn his head to look behind him.

Upon seeing Mountain Eagle, who was holding a gun and wearing only a hat with no other disguise, the middle-aged man's eyes flickered, and his expression suddenly turned extremely panicked...

"Don't shoot! My wallet is in my jacket pocket. It has 2 lei and 3 euros in it. You can have it all..."

Seeing that the other party mistook him for a robber, Mountain Eagle stepped forward and pressed his silenced Luger pistol against the back of the man's head, forcing him to put his hands behind his back, and then tied his hands with straps.

He kicked the guy in the back of the knee, making him kneel on the ground. Mountain Eagle 'obediently' picked up his shirt, took out a brown paper bag from it, opened it, and found several stacks of cash inside.

After leaving the cash, Mountain Eagle took the man's wallet and ID, put the cash into a brown paper bag, then took out the bank card and threw it on the ground. He then casually tossed the wallet aside, and finally opened the ID to take a look...

"Officer Perez..."

After speaking, Mountain Eagle tossed his police ID in front of the slightly overweight Perez, then picked up his pistol and glanced at it...

This is a Beretta PX4 pistol!

Seeing that the guy named Pereta kept his eyes fixed on the ground and dared not look at his face, Mountain Eagle smiled and put the Beretta PX4 aside, pulled up a stool and sat down in front of Pereta, then turned on the camera on his phone and put it aside, saying, "Officer, you yourself said that this is a robbery."

The robber found out you were a police officer, so it's understandable that he killed you in a moment of impulse out of fear, right?

Perez lowered his head, his voice trembling slightly, and said, "Don't kill me. Killing a policeman will get you into trouble. All the money is yours..."

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle shook his head slightly and said, "Officer, you've already recognized me, haven't you?"

I just landed in Bucharest today, and I only took a rip-off taxi, and you guys are already showing up at my door.

Don't deny it, I was right next to you when you took my photo to the hotel reception to ask about it.

I need an answer…

Perez knew he was in trouble this time. In fact, he had a bad feeling the moment he saw the mountain eagle showing itself so openly...

Upon hearing the question from the mountain eagle, Perez hesitated for a moment before bluntly replying, "I took money from the gang; they let me monitor the airport through customs and taxi companies."

Once we spot you at the airport, we'll try to track you down to your location.

Mountain Eagle frowned, looking at Perez who dared not meet his gaze, and said in a deep voice, "Why?"

Perez shook his head and said, "They told me you're a dangerous person..."

That's all I know. Please don't hurt me. I won't tell anyone what happened today, and I can offer you some compensation.

Mountain Eagle didn't need any compensation. He squinted at Perez's twitching face and said in a deep voice, "Is that all?"

I have several companions who have gone missing in Romania: two women and a middle-aged man from Southeast Asia.

Think it through before you answer me. If your answer differs from the information I received in any way, I will consider you to be deceiving me.

I don't know how the Romanian mafia treats cheaters, but I just want to tell you that the consequences of cheating me would be ten times worse!

Perez was silent for a few seconds, then lowered his head and said in a low voice, "About two weeks ago, someone bribed the Gypsy gang to keep an eye on two women."

I had connections with the Gypsy gang, so they approached me and asked me to use my position as a police officer to arrange for two people to enter the hotel as waiters and keep a close watch on the two women.

The two women started going to an antique shop on Victory Street every day a week ago, and then we found out that someone had been sending them handguns and bulletproof vests.

I've always wondered why the gang didn't take action, until yesterday when those two women suddenly got into a car and were about to leave the city. That's when I realized the gang wanted to find someone through them.

I don't know exactly what happened after that, but based on my understanding of gangsters, they must have lost track of the two women.

So after receiving your message today, they acted very anxiously!

After listening, Mountain Eagle nodded slightly and asked, "What's the name of this Gypsy gang you mentioned? Who's their boss? Where's their headquarters?"

Perez sensed that the Eagle's tone had softened somewhat. He nervously looked up and said, "'Bayonet Gang,' they've been operating in northern Bucharest for a long time. Their leader is a Gypsy named Antonio Price."

As he spoke, Perez looked at the slightly amused look in Mountain Eagle's eyes and said, "'The Bayonet Gang' mainly operates in densely populated areas such as train stations, making money primarily through theft and selling stolen goods, and sometimes also engaging in drug retail."

I met the gang leader during a drug bust...

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "Drug bust?"
Why does it sound to me like you were involved in drug trafficking, then because your drugs were stolen, you contacted the "Bayonet Gang," which led to your contact with them and the subsequent acquisition of their incriminating evidence?
Don't try anything funny. I'm not a police officer. I have no interest in your character. I just want the truth.

"How could a gang like the 'Bayonet Gang,' whose main business is petty theft, employ so many gunmen?" Perez didn't refute Mountain Eagle's words. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know either. Those gunmen suddenly appeared a month ago..."

I asked Price, but he wouldn't say anything and warned me not to ask any more questions.

Mountain Eagle sensed the tension in Perez's tone. He thought for a moment and asked, "Why are you, a Romanian policeman, so afraid of a gang of thieves?"
Is it because they caught you with evidence of your involvement in drug trafficking?

What exactly is the background of this "Bayonet Gang"?

Perez listened and said helplessly, "'Bayonet Gang' is the Romanian branch of a transnational Gypsy theft group."

The theft ring was a member of the Gloria European Society, and they controlled a secret drug trafficking route in Eastern Europe.

They stole drugs from me, lured me into a chase, all to take down a drug gang I had previously worked with, and then used the evidence to blackmail me into cooperating with them.

Sir, I was really threatened by the 'Bayonet Gang'. I don't even know who you are.

They have evidence against me, I can't go to jail, so I..."

Mountain Eagle has an excellent memory. The moment Perez mentioned the so-called transnational Gypsy theft ring, he immediately thought of Selena and that perfect baby...

The child was stolen from a surrogacy lab in Russia by two thieves who were about to retire. Selena later told him that she took a lot of things from the thieves' safe, including money and a lot of documents...

Based on the information, Selena deduced that the two thieves' post-retirement target was the legendary Nashville treasure, the 'Gold Train'.

Currently, Mountain Eagle has confirmed, through the last phone call 'Bullhead' made to him, that Iberis is the mastermind behind this Arctic Fox crisis...

This guy must have been preparing for a long time, and then took advantage of the Arctic Fox's setback in Iraq to launch an attack.

Iberia must have contacted the Gloria or that Gypsy theft group a long time ago, and laid a trap for Romania long ago!
Otherwise, a seasoned veteran like Blood Fox wouldn't have been so passive, without any power to retaliate.

Seeing Perez's increasingly pale face, Mountain Eagle said, "Buddy, I need some intelligence, information about that gang and those gunmen..."

Perez's body stiffened upon hearing this, and he lowered his head and stammered, "Price of the 'Bayonet Gang' lives in a motorhome most of the time. Normally, he's in the motorhome camp in the north, which is a Gypsy community and easy to find."

Most of the gunmen were hiding there...

That's all I know!

As he spoke, Perez looked up at the mountain eagle, his face pleading, and begged, "Don't kill me! I'll tell you anything you want to know, please don't kill me!"

Seeing Perez on the verge of collapse, Mountain Eagle smiled and shook his head, saying, "Have you heard of 'Tiriak Bank'?"

Perez paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "I've heard of it. Some of my savings, well, a portion of my deposits are in Tiriak Bank."

It's Romania's first private bank, and it offers relatively high interest rates..."

Upon hearing this, Mountain Eagle laughed and said, "It's easier to launder money, isn't it?"

Perez, thinking the eagles were after his savings, nodded in desperation to save his life, saying, "Yes, the bank manager at Tiriak Bank can help me store some illicit income..."

"I deposited 170 million lei there. If you let me go, all that money is yours!"

The mountain eagle, whose mind was elsewhere, shook its head and asked, "Has anything happened at Tiriak Bank recently?"

Perez paused for a moment, then lowered his head to think and said, "I don't have accurate information, but I heard at the police station today that the general manager of Tiriak Bank was reported missing last week, but his wife informed the police station today that he has been found..."

Upon hearing this news, Mountain Eagle's heart sank. He had a premonition that Iberia's actions were much faster than he had anticipated, and Arctic Fox's 100 million pension fund was likely doomed...

Thinking about how the beliefs that Blood Fox and his gang of old fogies had upheld their whole lives had been shattered, Mountain Eagle shook his head helplessly. He then walked to Perez's side, cut the straps binding his hands with his knife, and said, "I need you to come with me to find the kidnapped general manager of Tiriak Bank. Are you willing?"

“Yes, yes, no problem. I know his address, it’s the Keda Apartments on Dacia Boulevard in the city center. I’ll take you there, I’ll take you there…”

The mountain eagle chuckled and patted Perez on the shoulder, then bent down to pick up his documents for him...

Just as the mountain eagle straightened up and was about to turn around, he heard the sound of a pistol being cocked and the trigger being pulled behind him.

"Click, click"

Looking back at Perez, who had repeatedly pulled the trigger but failed to fire a bullet, Mountain Eagle shook his head in disappointment, then raised his Luger pistol and shot him through the head...

Seeing the man's unseeing eyes in death, Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "I gave you a chance..."

(End of this chapter)