Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

The mountain eagle never imagined it would be treated this way...

A bunch of old guys lying on the ceiling pushed a country into their hands as if they were playing a game.

He can, of course, choose not to respond, but if he does, it means he is out of control, and then the real consequences will fall on all the industries and people associated with him.

Those old men didn't need to destroy him physically at all...

Mountain Eagle grew up within the system of Dongda University, so he knows it all too well.

If Mountain Eagle refuses, the old man at the Lake Baikal Foundation probably won't do anything to him personally, since they provided the list, and Mountain Eagle only punished those people in a very extreme way.

However, if regulations targeting him are tightened, most of his current profit-generating projects could be targeted, and he could even face investigations and prosecutions.

Because what Mountain Eagle was doing was not a legitimate business, those people had an absolute legal advantage.

The Lake Baikal Foundation was able to seize a portion of Russia's energy assets at the beginning of Russia's independence, and use financial market rules to bind all of Russia's listed energy companies to London, and then firmly suppress Putin at the downstream end of the interest chain on financial issues.

This group's immense power signifies their near-unbelievable dominance over the financial system.

Most importantly, the mountain eagle couldn't even guess who was sitting in the high-ranking position of the Lake Baikal Foundation.
If he refuses the "sweet treats" offered by these people, it means that the two lines between the US Senate Pillar Group and Silicon Valley big capital will be completely severed.

Although he wasn't the main loser from the failed El Salvador project, his shadow fleet plan was bound to die slowly as well.

But once you swallow this 'sweet date,' you'll face an even more severe challenge!
Lee Sung-hee breathed a sigh of relief because she realized that the higher-ups at the Lake Baikal Foundation did not intend to physically eliminate Mountain Eagle, but rather to 'discipline' him, trying to bring him into the Lake Baikal Foundation's rules and use him for their purposes.

But what the mountain eagle saw was completely different...

Whether with good intentions or bad, those people saw the value of the mountain eagle and then helped him set things on fire, turning his Salvador plan to the extreme.

In the words of the University of Tokyo, it's 'overpraise to death'!
The original plan of the Mountain Eagles was to set up a Bitcoin mining plant in El Salvador, and then get Silicon Valley bigwigs to endorse and set up a cryptocurrency exchange, completing the final piece of the Shadow Fleet plan.

In his mind, the cryptocurrency exchange in El Salvador was just a decentralized settlement center. He didn't need to profit too much from the exchange; what he wanted was an 'underground bank'.

When Mountain Eagle first met Mr. Poungares in Thailand, he realized that 'money' was the key element throughout the entire underground industry, and whoever was closest to money could hold power.

His identity and career destined him to never reach the pinnacle of the secular world, but the intense demand for asset liquidity in the underworld, coupled with new technologies and concepts, made it entirely possible for him to achieve this.

Controlling a cryptocurrency exchange means controlling a portion of the underground financial flow.

There's no need to transfer all the money into your own account; as long as you can control the flow of underground finance to a limited extent, you can generate unlimited power.

Mountain Eagle wants to use the physical trade of the Shadow Fleet, combined with virtual finance, to create his own underground empire.

But reality dealt him a heavy blow...

The "sweet dates" offered by those people, though seemingly delicious, actually pushed the mountain eagle to the edge of a volcano.

Those people weren't interested in the Mountain Eagle's Shadow Fleet; they wanted the Mountain Eagle to be the main player, to set up a massive Ponzi scheme in El Salvador, to provide an outlet for the world's silent capital, or even to become a drain on dollar inflation or a profit center for them.

If El Salvador were to experience a landslide, the Mountain Eagle would be doomed. However, to maintain El Salvador's stability, he would have to rely on the Lake Baikal Foundation, be disciplined by them, and ultimately submit to them. This is what Lee Sung-hee calls 'binding'!
Once the mountain eagle takes the bait, he won't be able to escape!

However, Mountain Eagle gleaned something from this: the giants of the Lake Baikal Foundation exist in reliance on the American financial system.

Those people may wield immense power, but if they want to exercise that power, they still need to follow the existing rules, which means they need to provide a convincing reason in order to smoothly carry out their authority.

In other words, when they're going to mess with you, they have to find some reason, or even come up with a law, instead of simply and brutally emptying your bank account.

After all, doing so would cause enormous damage to the system they themselves built.

Since 08, the dollar system has been declining. If they act recklessly and trigger a crisis of confidence, the consequences will be dire.

The fact that they immediately removed Mountain Eagle from the VIP system of the international intermediary company shows that they probably rarely used the power of the international intermediary company in the past, but rather regarded it as a backup option.

Their decision to oust Mountain Eagles demonstrates their lack of confidence in the existing external forces they control, thus necessitating the use of international intermediary companies to exert pressure on Mountain Eagles in this regard.

In other words, the cost of "punishing without warning" in the case of the mountain eagle is much higher than pushing the eagle onto the crater of El Salvador.

Especially considering this guy's exceptional combat prowess, and the fact that no one knows what kind of destruction he might cause if he goes berserk.

They've already been put in a very difficult position by one angel of death; if another one comes along, nobody knows what the consequences will be.

For the mountain eagle, it seems there is no better option than to take the attack!

But those people had no idea what the consequences would be when they handed over control of a sovereign nation to the mountain eagles.
There are plenty of people and organizations in this world who loathe or even hate the Lake Baikal Foundation, and even within them, there is no monolithic unity...

Once the Mountain Eagle takes control of a political entity and achieves results, the cost for those who want to control it will rise rapidly until the cost becomes unbearable for them.

Those people still haven't fully understood the Mountain Eagle!
Having weighed the pros and cons, Mountain Eagle fell into deep thought. It wasn't until the plane landed at a small airport in Montreal, Canada, that he stood up and stretched vigorously...

Seeing Kobe's complicated expression beside him, Mountain Eagle reached out and patted the guy on the shoulder, saying, "Dude, the Angel of Death is in Ottawa..."

A group of old men gave me a difficult problem; those old men are the culprits that make you doubt yourself.

I can't help you piece your values ​​back together, I just want to tell you that you are a great guy, you have a sense of justice and responsibility.

If you really want to change something, then you have to calm down and focus...

Only power or unrestrained violence can defeat power. You certainly won't choose the latter, so the only thing you can do is strive for the former.

I will accept those people's proposal, and you, once the Angel of Death is captured and the dirty bomb crisis is resolved, you will be given an important position.

Continue with the refugee group; perhaps one day you can become a force that shapes the situation!

Kobe nodded with a strange expression and said, "Maybe. What are you planning to do next?" (End of Chapter)