The apartment was very spacious, almost 400 square meters...

In the United States, there's no such thing as shared property area!

The over 400 square meter apartment features an enormous living room, a kitchen with separate dining areas for Chinese and Western cuisine, 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, a small gym, a study, a reception room, and a massive rooftop terrace not included in the square footage, big enough to host a party for over a dozen people...

Blood Fox's 'reminder' about this apartment came just in time to pull Mountain Eagle, who was getting a bit carried away with combat, back to his mission and decided to steer it back on course.

Being ambushed right after getting off the plane was definitely not part of Mountain Eagle's plan; if he got too embroiled in it, he wouldn't be able to do anything else.

He was representing Snowden and needed a respectable place to land and to meet with intelligence agency officials from both the US and Russia in a dignified manner, rather than desperately seeking assistance from both as a hunted hound.

He didn't really expect to get much out of negotiations with either side, but securing a respectable and safe end for Snowden would be his greatest gain!

He needed that respect, even if it was all for show!

Protecting oneself is also a way to demonstrate strength...

Making public appearances would force the FBI to put in more effort...

The relentless gang crackdown by Arctic Fox and Round Table Knight must have made the FBI realize the consequences of attacking him; if they didn't want Los Angeles to continue in chaos, they had to shift their stance and offer him a certain level of protection.

In fact, for all organizations with an official stance, protecting Mountain Eagle was actually about maintaining the dignity of the United States.

Otherwise, if Snowden went berserk, the United States would lose face, resulting in heavy losses for many individuals and companies.

Sadly, Mountain Eagle didn't trust individuals in these official organizations, and events from the past week proved that there must be moles among them.

That's what led to the current awkward situation!

But no matter, the FBI cleaning up after Mountain Eagle proved their stance, and the gang's uprising highlighted Mountain Eagle's destructive power, so it was time for things to get back on track!

Through an old tailor's shop, Blood Fox provided him with over a dozen sets of differently styled clothing, which was in fact hinting to Mountain Eagle that he should operate like a spy.

Daria realized everything the moment she arrived at the tailor's store, and that's why she took the bewildered Tiffany on a big shopping spree – it was all to assist Mountain Eagle.

Tiffany, the naive cop from the United States, couldn't comprehend any of it; her mindset was stuck on the cat-and-mouse games of crime-fighting.

She might be up to snuff as a warrior, bodyguard, even a commander, but as a spy, she just wouldn't cut it.

Ordinary thinking suggests that spies should operate in the shadows, stealing, deceiving, clashing with adversaries, eliminating them while gathering valuable information.

This might be a day-to-day job for some field agents or low to mid-level spies, even informants...

But in actuality, real high-level spies usually have legitimate official identities, working in embassies or other official institutions, frequenting various social events or activities held by large corporations and NGOs.

Because of their status, they might even receive protection from the host country's officials.

That is to say, attacking them is illegal!

Mountain Eagle was an invited observer at the negotiations, with a valid and legal identity, and had even secured immunity through an agreement with the FBI!

No matter how many troubles he had to deal with in the shadows, he ought to walk an upright and honorable path in the open, because in theory, that was his rightful power!

The indirect reminder from Blood Fox was very timely; that old man had finally found his place, no longer posing as a mentor but adjusting his role to that of an advisor.

Blood Fox now truly treated Mountain Eagle as the company boss, striving to advance affairs along Mountain Eagle's lines of thought, offering his input at critical junctures.

When Mountain Eagle was inspecting the apartment, he found a safe in the study...

He opened the safe using the password stuck on top of it, revealing a document bag, several bundles of cash, and a few pistol cases, and he grinned with delight...

Sitting at the desk, he opened the document bag and emptied its contents...

Inside the envelope were a USB drive, a black HSBC bank credit card, a business card, the latest iPhone, several stacks of documents, and a few car keys.

Mountain Eagle picked up the black credit card and noticed it was issued in the name of Yue Shan.

After pocketing the credit card, he glanced at the business card and discovered it belonged to the Los Angeles head of M·A (Mission Accomplished Company).

Mountain Eagle was impressed by Blood Fox's thoughtfulness, then he began to look through the several documents...

"Shit..."

Mountain Eagle had always thought this luxurious apartment was rented on his behalf by the Blood Fox Gang, but after seeing these documents, he realized that the apartment was actually owned by an offshore company in the Viking Islands, and he was the owner of that company.

Unknown to him, besides this luxurious apartment, he surprisingly also owned similar properties in Florida and New York.

Moreover, parked in the garages of these properties were several cars: an Audi A8, a Dodge Challenger, a Chevrolet Malibu, and a Harley-Davidson...

Finding himself suddenly owning so much without any clue as to why left Mountain Eagle feeling uncertain. He flipped through the property documents, looked around for a bit, and found a laptop in a desk drawer.

When he turned on the computer and plugged in the flash drive, Mountain Eagle opened a folder named after Snowden and found a compilation of secret documents that Snowden had sorted out over the past few months related to several big Silicon Valley companies and major investors.

These documents formed an evidence chain that systematically narrated how these companies assisted the United States government in global surveillance and also detailed how several of the big investors embezzled Congressional funds through shell companies and fake operations...

Famous Silicon Valley investors like 'Kingmaker of Silicon Valley' Peter Thiel, venture capitalist David Sachs, Chama Pitia, and a range of other Silicon Valley tycoons...

The exposure of this document would bring immense loss to those implicated big companies and investors, at the same time dragging a dozen of Congressmen closely associated with them into the fiasco.

This was precisely what Mountain Eagle wanted Snowden to do...

Just exposing the documents wasn't enough, as the general public didn't possess the expertise to comb through them, and most wouldn't even understand what they were looking at.

To truly threaten those powerful individuals, what was needed was a complete evidence chain that could keep a tight reign on them.

To be honest, Mountain Eagle had been mostly bluffing before...

He had found the sore spots of those big shots but without sorting out those tens of millions of secret documents into a corresponding evidence chain, he couldn't pose any real threat to them.

Now it seemed, after months hiding in the Golden Triangle, Snowden had finally made progress!

This was the confidence that Blood Fox gave Mountain Eagle to come out of hiding!

Because California was where these major investors had their political stronghold, they were more eager than anyone to quickly resolve Snowden's issue.

As past beneficiaries, they couldn't afford the exposure of the evidence chain, hence they had to provide legal and political protection to Mountain Eagle within their own capabilities.

Completely preventing the assassins or mercenaries arranged by the ill-intentioned was impossible, but it was obligatory for the Los Angeles police to cooperate in protecting him.

This was a massive advantage for Mountain Eagle!

He closed the incriminating files and opened another document on the flash drive, which contained a cryptocurrency transaction account, a property list, and notes...

Mountain Eagle could have never imagined that Yuliy had tortured Black Fox for nearly a month in Alaska to hash out his series of mission earnings...

It hadn't been even half a month since Blood Fox brought Black Fox to the United States, and his entire fortune had been unearthed.

The total value of those three apartments exceeded 9 million US dollars, and now all of it belonged to Mountain Eagle.

What he hadn't anticipated even more was that Blood Fox had managed to negotiate official support from investors like Peter Thiel, and had landed a hefty commission.

Using Mountain Eagle's name, he opened a cryptocurrency account, into which several big investors like Peter Thiel deposited 15,000 Bitcoins.

With the price of Bitcoin around 390 US dollars at the time, these people had forked out approximately six million US dollars, pressing Mountain Eagle to expedite negotiations and a definitive solution to Snowden's matter.

As long as an agreement was reached between the US and Russia and implemented, those individuals or forces that had clung to Snowden's issue would retreat. If they could delay until the change of the President of the United States, the remaining issues would be much easier to handle.

Once Mountain Eagle figured out what Blood Fox had prepared for him, he wrote down the account and password, then deleted the related content of the cryptocurrency account from the flash drive, unplugged it, and hung it around his neck with a piece of umbrella cord.

As he was packing up the laptop, Daria and Tiffany knocked and entered the study...

Seeing the opened safe and the items laid out on the desk, Daria took the initiative to open several gun cases...

Tiffany eyed the pistols inside the gun cases and, picking up a Glock 17, frowned slightly and said, "Is this all?"

Mountain Eagle smiled and leaned down to fiddle under the desk, pulling out a large bag and placing it on top of the desk...

"Now the situation is pretty good, I think handguns should suffice, but if you're worried, feel free to help yourself.

You are an active HRT, you have the right to carry automatic weapons to protect me..."

Daria watched as Tiffany opened the large bag and took out a UMP45 to fiddle with. She giggled as she picked up a compact Makarov pistol, lifted her skirt, and slid the pistol and a magazine into a holster.

Daria moved her fair thighs, and noticing that her boss's attention wasn't on that, she smiled and showed off her expensive handbag, saying, "Boss, my bag is very big, I can carry some stuff for you..."

Mountain Eagle didn't need anyone to carry weapons for him, he chuckled and threw two CZ75 magazines to Daria to put in her bag, then stood up and took a CZ75 and slipped it behind his waist...

"Is the restaurant settled?

We need to find a decent place to make an appearance, and also to say hello to those who care about us and those who hate us..."

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