Los Angeles Pasadena...

Mountain Eagle sat on the bench of a veterinary clinic...

He never expected that a veterinary clinic located off the beaten path was in fact engaged in illegal medical practices!

The clinic's owner was of Asian descent, and both the doctors and nurses were South Americans.

When Eddie burst in with a vehicle full of injured men, the clinic's owner didn't show a hint of fear, calmly cleared several operating tables, and after taking the payment, began surgery on these patients.

Looking at the lethargic pet dogs in the cages in the lobby, then at the operating room behind a curtain that looked like a slaughterhouse, Mountain Eagle watched Eddie and Ham who were excited and frowned, "Why not just finish them off?"

Eddie exchanged a glance with Ham, then said with a smile, "I know one of the guys in there..."

Mountain Eagle frowned and said, "Don't tell me you guys are friends?"

Eddie grinned and said, "NO, of course not. If you pay attention to the website of International Intermediary Company, especially the bounty section, you'll know these guys are especially valuable."

Hearing this, Mountain Eagle glanced at the operating room not far away, where three doctors and six nurses were performing surgery on the injured.

A South American nurse was stitching up wounds on Roland's shoulder and temple. Upon hearing what Eddie said, the nurse glanced at two guys lying tied up on the ground.

Eddie winked at the nurse and said, "Darling, too much curiosity isn't good for you..."

Just as the nurse, a bit annoyed, was about to retort, the operating room curtain was pulled aside, and an old man of Mediterranean Asian descent with glasses poked his head out and shouted in Spanish, "What are you standing around for? Come in and help, there's a guy whose intestines are ruptured, his belly is full of shit..."

The nurse stuck out her tongue, finished the last stitch on Roland's temple, and then ran into the operating room.

Eddie, seeing Mountain Eagle's confusion, laughed and said, "Half a year ago, an Arab tycoon from Bahrain experienced a kidnapping. The kidnappers not only stole many precious collectibles and 2 tons of gold from the tycoon's home but also killed his entire family before leaving.

Those thugs were ferocious and professional, but unfortunately, they did not notice that the tycoon's home was equipped with hidden cameras.

Do you know who ended up being found out as the perpetrators?"

Mountain Eagle incredulously pointed at the two guys on the ground, saying, "They did it?"

Eddie laughed loudly and said, "The Bahraini authorities received the alarm and then released the images captured by the cameras. It was these guys who did it.

The tycoon's youngest son was in Kuwait at the time, so he managed to escape!

He went back, inherited his family's assets, while battling with the US Army, and through International Intermediary Company, he issued a bounty worth 50 million US Dollars.

You can get a 50 million US Dollar bounty for handing them over to the employer."

Mountain Eagle frowned and said, "Fuck, these guys are worth more than me!

How have they managed to stay alive until now?"

Eddie looked in the direction of the operating room and said with a smile, "Because they are worth 50 million alive, but only worth 5 million dead.

The employer has sworn to dismember them by his own hands, so they must be brought in alive!"

Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, 50 million is enough to tempt someone to try assassinating the President of the United States. Why would a Ranger team be worth 50 million?

These guys are still working for Titan Company with a 50 million bounty on their heads?"

Eddie shrugged and said, "Maybe Titan Group is willing to take care of the trouble for them?

Secretly setting up their families, while providing refuge for them, isn't too difficult for Titan Group.

Those Middle Eastern guys are very rich but that's all they have!

Aside from offering a bounty, they don't have many other options."

Mountain Eagle listened and shook his head, "I just looked at Titan Group's financial report yesterday, they are a listed company, and their net profit last year was less than 80 million.

I don't believe that with 50 million in pure profit in front of them, they wouldn't take it.

If Titan Group were really that upright, why would they go head-to-head with me for 20 million?

Two platoons, four military snipers, such manpower is enough to fight a small-scale war in the Middle East!"

Eddie said nonchalantly, "If you really want to know the reason, you can ask Mr. Kaufman...

I don't care how Titan Group thinks, the 50 million is right here!

Arctic Fox only earns that much in a year, it would be a shame to miss out!"

Mountain Eagle didn't care much for a few Rangers. Titan Group was his enemy, and those mingled with Titan Group were enemies in his eyes...

He frowned for a few seconds, just about to speak, when Roland, with a head as bloody as a gourd, said, "They're like me, they've been betrayed!"

Mountain Eagle frowned at Roland and said, "You're speaking up for them, if I'm not mistaken, it was them who tied you up and took you to the hangar."

Roland glanced at Kaufman lying on the ground like a lump of mud. He shook his head, "I'm willing to butcher them myself, but they were betrayed...

At the time, they were just following orders, they shouldn't be handed over to some Middle Eastern psycho to be tortured.

Those who should be dismembered are not them, but the one who gave them the orders!"

As he spoke, Roland looked at Kaufman on the ground, his tone grave, "Like this guy..."

Mountain Eagle frowned at Roland, who was acting strangely, and said, "How can you be sure that they were betrayed?"

Roland said with a bitter smile, "Look at them, if those valuable artifacts and gold were really stolen by them, why would they work for Titan Group?"

As he spoke, Roland looked at Big Beard lying on the ground and said solemnly, "Giving them a quick end is the best thing to do..."

Big Beard had been shot in the shoulder but the killing power of the small-caliber MP7 wasn't enough, so he could still hang on...

Hearing Roland's words, Big Beard struggled to sit up, thanked Roland, and then turned his head to look at Mountain Eagle, who was clearly the boss, and said, "We were betrayed. At the time, we all thought we were on a mission. Our target was that wealthy businessman. The slaughter was done by others.

It was too late when we realized something was wrong!

Don't exchange us for the bounty. Give us a quick end.

I have information for you. With it, you might be able to retrieve those artifacts worth billions and two tons of gold."

As he spoke, Big Beard glanced at Kaufman and said in a deep voice, "This guy thinks we don't know...

He's been in contact with that businessman's son who put a bounty on us!

When we were driven to a corner by the bounty and had no choice, this guy got in touch with us, provided us with shelter, and ensured the safety of our families. In return, we did their dirty work."

Mountain Eagle frowned, not understanding, and said, "You knew, and you still were willing to do their dirty work for them?

Did they have control over your families?"

Big Beard shook his head and said, "He helped our families change their identities, and then sent them to Europe.

I can die, but please, before I die, make sure I see him take his last breath."

Mountain Eagle considered himself a smart man, but he still didn't quite understand what Big Beard was saying...

Perhaps sensing Mountain Eagle's confusion, Big Beard coughed a few times, his voice hoarse as he said, "We've actually been investigating in secret...

That Bahrain businessman we killed was actually a CIA informant and intermediary.

The CIA was smuggling drugs from the Golden Triangle to Thailand, and then through special channels, to the hands of that Bahrain businessman.

But something went wrong six months ago. Someone stole $20 million worth of drugs from the CIA through that businessman, and then something happened. The CIA marked that businessman as a target, and that's how our mission started."

Big Beard gave a bitter smile and continued, "Then our photos were released, and that businessman's son put out a huge bounty on us.

We had nowhere to run, and eventually joined Titan Group...

This guy called Kaufman helped us out in our toughest times, but he probably didn't expect that a few months ago we ran into that businessman's son in the United Arab Emirates.

We were planning to take that guy out, so we followed him to a hotel, but instead, we overheard him talking to this guy in the bathroom.

The death of the businessman was to silence him, but his son was still in contact with the CIA, serving as an informant planted into terrorist organizations by the CIA.

Putting a bounty on us at such a high price was just his way of showing his stance. This Kaufman was the link between him and the CIA!"

Mountain Eagle listened and fell silent...

Six months ago, Bahrain, Thailand, lost drugs, the insane CIA...

These keywords sounded very familiar to him!

Six months ago, a trafficker named Vilter, who trafficked women from the military bases in Thailand to Bahrain, helped the CIA transport $20 million worth of drugs to Bahrain...

Then those drugs were stolen by a terrorist bigshot, who threatened him to transport a high-value item.

And that high-value item turned out to be 'plutonium' that had been processed by the Sergeant System!

At that time, both the CIA and MI6 lost their minds, and to this day, they haven't stopped looking for the 'plutonium.'

However, Mountain Eagle knew they had set their sights on terrorists in Southeast Asia and had laid a Poison Pill Plan against the Asafiye Organization in the Philippines.

If everything Big Beard had said was true, then he had truly been used as a scapegoat...

The Bahrain businessman was of no use to the CIA anymore, and it was natural for him to be silenced. To investigate the whereabouts of the plutonium and to bring down the terrorist bigwig who dared to provoke them, they used the businessman's son to set up a Poison Pill Plan.

This blood feud of a family annihilation, combined with the unwavering stance created by a $50 million bounty, would easily draw the resourceful businessman's son into a relationship with the terrorist bigwig.

There were some details Mountain Eagle still hadn't figured out, but now he looked at Big Beard with a bit of sympathy.

Betrayed and with their families in someone else's control, knowing Kaufman was a problem but still having to work for him...

The Titan Group or Kaufman sheltered them, not because of their outstanding abilities, but because they needed to stay alive, to keep that conspicuous bounty hanging there, but also to ensure no one would collect it.

Looking at Big Beard, who seemed to have let go, Mountain Eagle thought for a moment and said, "You're worth $50 million. If the information you just said you'd provide is valuable to me, I might consider letting you go..."

Big Beard perked up a bit and pointed at Kaufman, "This guy is not only a shareholder of Titan Group, he's also from the Kaufman family. He handles a lot of unsavory dealings for the CIA.

Those things stolen from Bahrain, they've all been sent to Los Angeles.

This guy is the one directing everything!"

Mountain Eagle listened, frowned, and said in a deep voice, "You want me to compete with the CIA for these things?"

Big Beard shook his head and said, "Not the CIA, this guy himself!

He and his backing family bought those artifacts and gold at a low price, then slowly started to sell them off in the art market and auctions.

I know where those things are stored!"

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