While having dinner, Tessa received a phone call...

Listening to her informant, Marta, ramble on about the discovery of a body in Ao Nan, she glanced at Mountain Eagle, who was cooking for everyone tied in an apron, and quietly instructed Marta on how to protect the scene before calling her colleagues at the Ko Lanta Crime Investigation Bureau.

When dinner was nearly finished, a police car drove up the mountain, picked up Tessa, who was essentially the boss of Ko Lanta Crime Investigation Bureau, and left Sunset Mountain.

Mountain Eagle felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange during the meal, but since Tessa didn't wish to talk about it, he naturally didn't ask.

Just a day into arriving at Ko Lanta and something had already come up for her, it must definitely be a murder case in Ko Lanta.

This was Tessa's job, after all...

After dinner, Mountain Eagle, as usual, took Balang and his two kids for a walk to bond, then returned home, turned on the TV to get used to Thai language, and equipped the selected HK417 with the necessary accessories...

16x optical scope, side red dot sight, suppressor, laser pointer, comma-shaped foregrip, sling...

After everything was set, Mountain Eagle walked to the backdoor, said hi to Butcher who treated building houses as a hobby, then set up a target 100 meters away, pinned a few playing cards to it, spent over a dozen bullets to zero the sight, then contentedly went back to his room for a good night's sleep.

Early next morning, Mountain Eagle got up, completed his routine swimming training, and after breakfast, continued with walking the dogs. Then he greeted everyone including Daria, and they drove in two cars towards the Old Gun Club.

Butcher wasn't interested in new guns, so he was left to house-sit at Sunset Mountain!

Samantha, sitting at a café terrace sipping coffee, watching Mountain Eagle who left briskly, said somewhat uncomfortably, "I thought he was joking yesterday, but he really doesn't treat guests as outsiders."

Sofia, also holding a cup of coffee, shook her head and said, "If you aren't used to it, then you…"

Samantha quickly waved her hand and said, "No, I think it's good this way, don't misunderstand me. It's just that his style is a bit different from others. Actually, I'm more worried that he is too polite to me."

Hearing this, Sofia smiled and said, "You should have let me finish talking. What I was going to say is, if you find it uncomfortable, then you must force yourself to adapt.

Now it's fine, no one is forcing you to do anything, and you don't need to do anything out of courtesy or for appearances...

Living on Sunset Mountain means we're all insiders, and we shouldn't make each other uncomfortable!"

Samantha paused for a while, smiled, and nodded, saying, "That makes sense…"

While the two women were having a coffee and chatting, Mountain Eagle drove the vintage F100 pickup and took about 40 minutes to arrive at Ko Lanta town.

Just as he drove through the congested town road to the other side, he found it was even more congested.

A dozen police officers had set up a cordon, using several police cars as cover, surrounding an overturned ambulance in a field.

Mountain Eagle saw an old acquaintance, Chief Ke Cha, borrowing a megaphone from a nearby shop and rushing next to the police cars to start calling out. He parked the car, picked up coffee from the cup holder, and walked with his crutch to Chief Ke Cha's side...

Watching a white man in patient attire holding a scalpel and holding a nurse hostage at the side of the ambulance...

Chief Ke Cha called out in both English and Thai, but the other party had no intention of surrendering. The man repeatedly stabbed the nurse with the scalpel and yelled loudly: "Everyone back off, get me a car right now, or I'll kill her…"

Chief Ke Cha had never encountered such a situation before. Seeing the blood seeping into the nurse's white uniform, he immediately raised his hands, stepped forward, and shouted, "Alright, alright, don't hurt the hostage, wait, I'll get you a vehicle...

Don't hurt the hostage!"

After shouting, Chief Ke Cha turned around intending to ask his subordinates to disperse the surrounding onlookers and tourists, but then he saw Mountain Eagle leaning on his crutch and sipping coffee while watching the scene...

Chief Ke Cha's eyes lit up, grabbing Mountain Eagle's arm and said, "Help…"

Mountain Eagle furrowed his brows, glanced at the agitated kidnapper, and said, "How can I help? Take him out?"

After glancing around at the police officers who did not even carry guns, he said, "That guy only has a small knife, as long as you move quickly, he can't kill anyone."

Chief Ke Cha pulled Mountain Eagle aside and said, "The ambulance overturned, and there's no response from the driver and the accompanying doctor inside, they must be injured, we can't wait.

Help, please!"

Mountain Eagle listened, slightly nodding and said, "So, do you want him dead or alive?"

Chief Ke Cha, slightly annoyed, tugged his nose and said, "There are so many tourists watching, it will be troublesome if a foreigner dies, the guy's accent sounds like he's English, even more troublesome!

Let him live if possible…"

Mountain Eagle glanced left and right, seeing a dozen police officers barely managing to hold up the cordon, but the number of onlookers hadn't decreased; in fact, it was increasing.

This situation was indeed unfavorable for the police. If a hard approach was taken, not only could the hostage be in danger, but it would also leave a very negative impression on the tourists...

Seeing Chief Ke Cha with a pleading look, Mountain Eagle slightly nodded...

Today, he was dressed in jeans and a green quick-dry T-shirt, with a scarf used for sunblock and wiping sweat tucked into the back pocket.

He handed the coffee to Chief Ke Cha, took a walkie-talkie from a nearby police officer, then turned back to his vehicle...

First, he used the scarf to cover his nose and chin, took out his gun bag from the passenger side, pulled out the HK417, pulled his baseball cap low, and limped into a nearby snack shop...

Pigeon left Daria and Yuliy in the car, fetched a pair of binoculars, and followed Mountain Eagle to the second floor of the snack shop.

Watching several young waiters stand a few meters away from their boss, gossiping fervently, even a young guy holding a card camera, ready to rush up for a photo with an idol at any moment.

This situation is strange but not surprisingly dangerous.

Pigeon felt somewhat uncomfortable as she moved closer to her boss and raised the binoculars. As she observed, she remarked, "This situation is just too strange..."

Mountain Eagle adjusted the variable magnification of his scope and said with a smile, "That's the beauty of being a cop. In a normal country, people aren't scared when police carry guns."

Pigeon held a monocular to her eyes and focused on the scene, saying, "One hundred twenty-five meters away. Looking at the direction of the wheat swaying, wind from the southeast, wind speed 5 meters, ready to fire anytime!

The kidnapper has tattoos on his neck and the back of his hand. I've seen these kinds of tattoos before; this guy must be an assassin from the Great Russian Mafia..."

Mountain Eagle set up his rifle on several towels stacked on the windowsill and, while holding the gun with one hand, picked up the radio and said, "This is the sniper, target locked, ready to fire at any moment.

Chief Ke Cha, provoke him…"

Downstairs, Chief Ke Cha was stunned and said, "What are you joking about? The knife is at the nurse's throat, what if it cuts an artery?"

Mountain Eagle sighed and said, "That's why you need to provoke him, make him feel he needs to stab one more time to make you obey."

Chief Ke Cha, conflicted, said, "If I do this, I am responsible…"

Through the scope, Mountain Eagle saw the overturned ambulance, blood seeping from the rear compartment, and the scalpel already cutting the skin of the nurse's throat…

"You'll be responsible whatever you do…

Just go tell him that Ko Lanta is in a traffic jam, and there are temporarily no cars available for him."

Chief Ke Cha figured it made sense. He grabbed a megaphone and loudly shouted, "Hold on a moment, Ko Lanta is jammed with traffic, you'll have to wait a bit longer for your car…"

As soon as Chief Ke Cha finished speaking, the kidnapper, indeed provoked, raised the scalpel, attempting to stab the nurse again…

"Pop" "Pop"

The suppressor on the HK417 reduced the noise so it wouldn't damage the eardrums. The bullet, propelled by high pressure, passed through the barrel and accurately hit the kidnapper's wrist from a distance of over a hundred meters...

The full force of the metal bullet slightly deformed the moment it hit the kidnapper's wrist bone and then destabilized its trajectory…

Then, like an ax, it left a gap the size of a baby's mouth in the kidnapper's wrist.

The scalpel in the kidnapper's hand fell to the ground immediately…

Then a second bullet, half a second later, hit the kidnapper's shoulder, completely paralyzing his side.

After the shot, Mountain Eagle picked up the radio and said, "What are you waiting for? Go up…"

After finishing, Mountain Eagle got up with his rifle, placed the borrowed towels back on the table, and limped downstairs…

The waiters who had been watching didn't dare approach for a picture after hearing the two gunshots, realizing it was no joke.

Mountain Eagle didn't mind though; as he passed a young man holding a camera, he took it from him and, covering his face, completed an imperfect group photo with them.

Looking at the rigid expressions of the waiters on the camera screen, Mountain Eagle laughed heartily and said in Thai, "Keep it as a keepsake, and don't do anything bad in the future!"

Intimidating the young waiters in his slightly clumsy Thai, Mountain Eagle went downstairs to join Chief Ke Cha, taking a sip from his coffee…

Seeing the policemen waving from a distance signaling the situation was under control, Mountain Eagle patted the somewhat frightened Chief Ke Cha on the arm and said, "I'll leave this for you to handle. Clear a path for me; I'm heading to the shooting range…"

......

Tessa, covering her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, stood next to a body in the morgue, looking at the tattoos on its body and frowning, "Why would a hitman from the Great Russian Mafia appear here?"

Marta looked significantly at the mutilated body before her and said solemnly, "This isn't a hitman from the Great Russian Mafia, but from the Ukraine Gang!"

Tessa, curious, looked at Marta and asked, "How do you know?"

Marta, with a pained expression, said, "Because it was these people who killed my parents!

These people are crazy Nazis; they'd do anything for money!"

Tessa hugged Marta with some sympathy, then frowned and said, "If this guy was a crazy Nazi, then who killed him?"

Marta, surprised, said, "Wasn't this guy turned into this by a boat propeller?"

Tessa shook her head and said, "Officially, we have to say it was an accident…"

Pointing at the skull on the left side of the body, Tessa continued, "The coroner is on vacation, but even without a report, I can tell. This guy was hit on the head with a blunt object and then pushed into the water.

The size of the wounds suggests that the cut was probably from an outboard motor used on speedboats.

He has injuries on his neck and arms, probably from fighting on the boat, getting injured, and then hit by the propeller.

Who would pick a fight with them?"

As Tessa was speaking, her phone suddenly rang…

"What…"

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