Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 684 - 634: Only Cooperation
Mountain Eagle patiently waited for Kobe Andrews and his companions to finish dinner...
During this time, he carefully contemplated the whole affair's cause and effect, noticing some inconsistencies...
It is currently clear that the Talan family is very covetous of the legacy of the Valley Laboratory...
Additionally, the virus leakage issue from the Wenbo Ni Laboratory is likely related to the Talan family. Moreover, Merck Company and Glans Creek Group, these two large companies, evidently know some inside information but choose to ignore it due to their positions.
And most importantly, the Edward Foundation, led by these Jewish families, very much wants him dead!
Mountain Eagle's involvement stems from their intent to release the virus at the camp, thereby erasing his efforts at the Brown Bear Camp.
Kobe brought worse news, but it didn't directly conflict with Mountain Eagle.
The people who hijacked the virus are very cunning and well-trained, but from Glasman's current situation, the possibility of them being related to his line of people isn't very high. The most likely scenario involves those two escaped thieves.
The conditions proposed by this group for the so-called 'demonstration prisoner' seemed nonsensical to Mountain Eagle, but the news Kobe brought made the transaction logical.
If Brad Russell truly possesses around 15 kilograms of VX nerve gas raw material, then he indeed deserves being rescued with effort.
The only question is, Mountain Eagle can't figure out why the other party is making such a big deal?
A convict with only a five-year sentence, at most three years until parole, couldn't possibly be held in a place like Guantanamo.
Whether attempting rescue or contacting the guy through medical parole, it should not be particularly difficult.
Such a big fuss indeed leaves Mountain Eagle a bit baffled!
However, none of this prevents Mountain Eagle from putting eye drops on Glasman and the Talan family behind him...
After all, VX nerve gas, no matter who holds it, must be released in an expensive place; the Brown Bear Camp can't be a target.
Under these circumstances, those two thieves are Mountain Eagle's biggest bargaining chips!
Ever since missing the two groups that really stole the virus due to intelligence issues, Mountain Eagle arranged for Crow to keep a close eye on those two thieves.
They didn't head north at all. When the ISA took helicopters to block them from the north, they cleverly chose to turn south and then turn to the east.
At this point, they are about a day's journey from a small town upstream on the Yukon River, where Butcher and Pirate are waiting.
Previously, it was just the issue of the Ebola virus, with two giant companies involved, making the Department of Homeland Security seem overly refined in its actions.
Now, with the appearance of VX nerve gas raw materials, as long as Mountain Eagle secures the bargaining chips and subtly hints to Kobe, Glasman will end up with broken bones.
And he certainly won't be stingy in writing things akin to 'threat to national security' in the report concerning the Edward Foundation.
Actually, to this day, Mountain Eagle doesn't know the actual scale of the Edward Foundation, but it doesn't at all prevent him from listing the Edward Foundation as a dangerous opponent, attempting to weaken them whenever the opportunity arises.
Kobe demonstrated his position by leading Mountain Eagle to see those unlucky environmental organization members.
You see, I'm very harsh on people you disagree with, so it proves I trust you and have the intention to cooperate.
This approach is essentially ineffective for Mountain Eagle because he doesn't believe those people have a chance to leave Alaska alive.
Yet the intention is clear, and the cooperation can continue.
Mountain Eagle, with nothing else to do, conducts a certain level of interrogation on those people, organizing the various organizations' information concerning activities around the Valley in recent times...
Perhaps he might find some intelligence on that mysterious team, and by the way, through the mouth of that unfortunate university professor Philip Royce, gather more evidence detrimental to the Talan family.
The sudden appearance of Kobe gave Mountain Eagle an opportunity to deeply engage, to use more of the forces within the United States system to undertake tasks completely beyond his personal capability.
Patiently waiting for Kobe and his group to finish their dinner, Mountain Eagle called Sealion to start driving...
When he reached the hotel entrance, Mountain Eagle arrived at a Cadillac Escalade, saw Donkey step forward to pull open the car door, gestured for Daria to get in, then turned to Kobe, smiling, and said, "Want to ride in my car?"
Kobe glanced at his old car, Boulevard, driven over by his buddies, smacked his lips, and ultimately shook his head, saying, "We have our own car…"
Mountain Eagle gave a nonchalant smile, then got into the car and closed the door...
Kobe, looking annoyed, sat in the back seat of Boulevard, glanced at his companion in the front seat, and said irritably, "What are you looking at me for? Head to Anchorage Hospital..."
The blonde female investigator Ada, sitting beside Kobe, is his lover and colleague. Previously, they both went to Thailand to handle a case involving US Army smuggling, then were simultaneously reassigned to cold storage.
However, Kobe chose the Department of Homeland Security's archives, while Ada chose the logistics position...
This time, because of a report, Kobe was promoted to a frontline investigator position again, and he certainly wanted to bring his colleague and lover out.
The two guys in the front row, one named Da Qi, the other named Danon, were also investigators involved in the Thailand investigation.
However, they were so badly beaten in the highway ambush that they didn't catch the worst of it and were sent back domestically for treatment.
This time, Kobe took advantage of some senior officials' urgency, pulling these two into the Department of Homeland Security as well.
Blonde Ada, with a peculiar expression, looked at Kobe, saying, "Kobe, do you know what you're doing?
You just leaked Homeland Security's confidential information to a suspect during dinner.
Do you know how many charges you might face if things develop badly?"
Kobe glanced at Danon and Da Qi, who had strange expressions in the front seat, sighed helplessly, and said, "This is our last chance…
I've been in the archive room for three months, and then I clearly realized that quietly waiting won't bring us more opportunities.
We need to start over, and I thought this case was our chance!
But when those people sent me to Alaska, I knew I made another mistake.
The matter of VX nerve gas raw materials is taboo for some of the higher-ups in the Department of Homeland Security...
I do want to investigate VX nerve gas-related matters, but if I can't quickly make a breakthrough on the Alaska virus issue, then harsher punishment awaits us."
Kobe looked at the two guys in the front seats, sighed, and said, "Guys, I'm sorry to drag you into the whirlpool, but didn't take you to places most worth fighting for."
Danon, a rude former Marine Corps member, spat thickly out the window and said gruffly, "I don't care, at worst I'll just go back to Ohio and drive a truck.
I'm fed up with the lousy office work of filling out forms, it's always good to do something exciting and right."
Danon looked at the luxury Escalade in front and said displeased, "I just don't understand why you're so polite to him?
That guy screwed us badly when we were in Thailand...
Every time I see his face, I want to punch him!"
Kobe sighed and said, "I hate that guy too, but we all have to admit, the guy didn't lie to us when we were in Thailand.
Everything was voluntarily participated by us, and we did indeed send a colonel and a string of officers and soldiers to jail."
Danon grinned and said, "Yeah, and two lieutenant generals lost their pensions because of us, their lackeys looked at me as if they wanted to eat me alive...
Then when I was in the hospital, even the nurses were damn intern male nurses, that guy had a tube stuck up my ass."
"That's called a colonoscopy...'
Ada kicked the seat of the co-pilot and cursed: "Shut up..."
Then Ada turned to Kobe and said worriedly, "You still haven't explained why you told that guy everything.
We all know he's not some Thai Police, the guy killed more people in Los Angeles than died in a month in Afghanistan, he treats the United States like a battle zone...
It's unwise to involve a person like that in a case like this, if he does something excessive, you'll bear all the consequences."
Kobe smiled bitterly and nodded, saying, "What else can I do?
The investigation here in Alaska has reached a deadlock; does roadblocking really work for those who can escape the hands of the Special Service Bureau and ISA special forces?
These people sent us here instead of Florida just to make us scapegoats.
We must find a breakthrough in a short period, solve the virus problem, and only then can we apply to intervene in the investigation of VX virus and bring the involved people out into the open...
Only then do we have a future!"
Kobe looked at Ada, who was still somewhat disagreeable, and said seriously, "Trust me, that Mountain Eagle guy must know some important information...
And I guarantee that he definitely participated in the battle in that wilderness!
If I don't show sincerity, this guy definitely won't tell us anything..."
Ada froze for a moment and curiously said, "Why are you so sure?"
Kobe shook his head and said, "Because the statements of those captured mentioned that the order Glasman gave was to take the virus to Brown Bear Camp to release it.
If you carefully read the details in the data, you'll find that there were two teams sent to retrieve the virus, and the Special Service Bureau only captured one team, where did the other team go?
Those people confessed first thing and bit back at Glasman, don't you find it very strange?"
Ada heard this and said in surprise, "You think it was Mountain Eagle?"
Kobe nodded slightly and said, "Think about our experience in Thailand...
That guy is a war-hungry madman, but he can also utilize the power of the system to the utmost.
I hate that guy because he pushed us into a desperate situation.
But I must admit, that guy made the best choice for Thailand and those trafficked girls at that time.
That Glasman and the Talan Family are his enemies now, he won't let me, this system power sent to his door, go...
To utilize my energy, he needs to lend me a hand!
For him, helping me costs far less than fighting against opponents himself!"
Ada digested it for a while and then looked at Kobe with some curiosity and said, "You learned all this stuff just in the archive room..."
Kobe shrugged and said, "There's more...
Like the harm and prevention of VX virus...
Like the impact of private contracting companies on United States defense...
Like the consequences if a terrorist organization were to obtain weapons of mass destruction..."