Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 979 Attack on State Police Headquarters
Everything is developing very quickly...

Mountain Eagle's original intention was to delay the other party by walking into a trap, but the other party sent a woman who showed no sincerity and offered a condition that was full of humiliation, wanting Mountain Eagle to surrender.

Moreover, from the moment she used the bullet ant venom to shoot the mountain eagle, the two sides entered a phase of no return.

From beginning to end, Mountain Eagle did not believe that the woman represented the will of everyone at the Lake Baikal Foundation, because the matters she handled under that title were of a very low level.

An organization like the Lake Baikal Foundation, filled with bigwigs, would not lack people and information from the White House, nor would it care about Los Zetas's ledgers and wealth.

Therefore, it's impossible that they were unaware of the dirty bomb issue, let alone what would happen if a dirty bomb were to explode in the heart of America, or what kind of impact it would have on the Angels of Death using dirty bombs to threaten America in the long term.

Therefore, Mountain Eagle concluded that the real culprit behind all this was likely certain individuals within the Lake Baikal Foundation, individuals who needed to manipulate terrorist organizations to influence NATO and American decision-making for quick profits.

Some of their actions align with the will of the Lake Baikal Foundation leadership, such as using terrorist organizations to maintain hatred and division in the Middle East, while simultaneously using terrorist organizations to keep the whole of Europe under constant pressure, thereby consolidating the will within NATO.

They've overplayed their hand this time. To avoid paying too high a price, they sent out the brown-haired woman in an attempt to find and eliminate the Angel of Death using the simplest and most brutal method.

In theory, their goals are the same as those of the refugee group and even the Mountain Eagles, but they cannot bear the problems exposed in the process of searching for the Angel of Death.

Corruption at the US-Mexico border is likely only a small part of this group...

These people are so arrogant that they've forgotten the principle of sacrificing pawns to save the king, which has driven their natural ally, the Mountain Eagle, to the opposite side.

The eagle's movement drew most of the enemy's attention to itself, creating an opening for Kobe and Dalia to maneuver...

To attract maximum attention, the mountain eagle chose an unexpected approach...

After watching Dannon take the 'cleaners' away, he destroyed the state police office's surveillance system, then used the sergeant system to generate new special tranquilizer grenades and bullet ant venom ammunition, as well as a lot of munitions and explosives, before turning back and storming into the state police office again.

When gas and smoke bombs filled the corridors of the state trooper office, the clerical staff who worked there day in and day out had no chance to fight back.

After Mountain Eagle hung Claymore mines on the front and back doors and set both remote and trigger modes, he single-handedly sealed off the building. Then, like herding rabbits, he used gas and smoke grenades to drive everyone upstairs.

Of course, because he was alone and his actions were simple and crude, he missed many people.

But none of that mattered. When the media's broadcast vans and helicopters arrived, it meant that he had used the state police office to draw the attention of the entire state of Texas and even the whole of America.

At that moment, the smoking state police office became an extremely jarring 'sight'!
Meanwhile, while those outside were in a state of panic, the Mountain Eagle, the instigator, was sending those he had anesthetized and rendered unconscious to the top floor to prevent them from being choked to death by the gas below while they were asleep.

US state police are divided into 8 levels...

Trooper (Patrol Officer/Junior Police Officer)

Corporal (or squad leader)
Sergeant (Superintendent/Squad Leader)
Lieutenant (Police Inspector/Squad Leader)
Captain (Police Superintendent/Captain)
Major (or Area Commander)
Lieutenant Colonel (Secondary Commander)

Colonel (or State Police Commissioner, usually appointed by the Governor)
Due to its location, the highest-ranking officer in Laredo is not a Major Regional Commander, but a Lieutenant Colonel Deputy Commander.

Mountain Eagle personally captured the old man who had led the charge, wanting to lead his men to resist his attack and cover the retreat of the others.

After sedating him, they occupied his rooftop office and used his position to force the state troopers to surrender all their weapons. The process wasn't smooth, but due to the intervention of the Lake Baikal Foundation, the state troopers lacked the necessary contingency plans. As a result, the SWAT team that arrived didn't begin their first round of announcements until the media arrived.

8th floor of the state police building...

The entire eighth floor contained only six offices and one large conference room, where more than two hundred state police officers, driven up by gas and bullets, were trapped.

Without the mountain eagle's command, most of them were crowding towards the window, because only there was fresh air, which could alleviate the nausea caused by the gas seepage downstairs.

SWAT snipers are in position, but they have absolutely no way to...

"Listen up, you inside! You are surrounded! Lay down your weapons and surrender..."

The television in the conference room showed footage of a media broadcast, in which a middle-aged man in a state trooper uniform was making necessary announcements through a megaphone…

Meanwhile, from the perspective of the media helicopter, it was clear that the SWAT team, dressed in black combat uniforms, had arrived at the front and back entrances of the state police building...

But clearly, the broadsword that the mountain eagle hung inside the gate rendered them powerless...

This thing isn't a toy you can dismantle with a pair of scissors, nor is it a bomb used by bombers to manipulate the mindset of bomb disposal personnel. If they try to push open the door or even the window, all the bombs that the Mountain Eagle has planted on the first floor of the state police office building will explode simultaneously.

At this time, the state police office building was filled with smoke. Although they repaired the surveillance cameras from the outside and intervened in the building's surveillance system, they were unable to obtain any useful information.

Nobody knows what else is inside the first floor besides the Claymore mines hanging on the door.
In this situation, the person who ordered the attack would face legal trouble. So, the two SWAT teams stayed at the front and back doors for nearly fifteen minutes under the media's watchful eyes, but ultimately returned empty-handed.

The media reporters and onlookers around the perimeter all let out a suppressed sigh.

On the 8th floor, Mountain Eagle, wearing a gas mask, used a combination of several broadswords and gas grenades to block all the stairwells and elevator entrances before returning to the center of the conference room…

Looking at the group of disarmed state troopers, he spoke in a slightly eerie voice through his gas mask: "I need ten volunteers now..."

We'll be staying here for a long time, so I hope everyone can work with me.

I don't want to hurt you, so I hope that no matter the outcome, you can all go home and reunite with your families.

As he spoke, Mountain Eagle turned his gaze to the few restless individuals, shook his head slightly, and then raised his pistol, firing non-lethal bullets at them...

The young state trooper who was shot felt as if he had been stabbed in the butt with a red-hot iron skewer; he collapsed to the ground in agony, curled up, and screamed at the top of his lungs within seconds.

After the group had fallen into such agony that they could no longer utter a sound, Mountain Eagle clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention and said in a deep voice, "Now, I need a volunteer..."

They should ideally be physically strong and have a willingness to contribute.

You have ten seconds left. If you don't choose yourselves, then I'll have to make the choice..."

(End of this chapter)