CHAPTER 511: CHAPTER 475: THE IDENTITY OF THE HOSTAGE

When Mountain Eagle lost the ability to act and focused his attention on his children and his business, the efficiency of his team became terrifyingly high!

After confirming that Mountain Eagle was physically fine, Mr. Poincaré flew to Anchorage to bring Xiao Wan a sizable bank account and began to assist her with business and charitable issues.

Daria set down her gun, picked up a laptop, and became an important communication hub for Mountain Eagle...

Blood Fox and broker Mori in the United States, Anna in Russia, Sofia and Tessa in Thailand, as well as strategist Jon and hacker Zorn who had just arrived in Singapore...

She even had to keep tabs on Xiao Wan’s progress through her sister Yuliya, and report to the boss regularly.

Coordinating with Mori about the timing to head to the United States, the location of negotiations, even the hotel residency...

Connecting with Anna regarding matters in Cyprus, documenting Anna’s progress, and regularly reporting to the boss.

Discussing with Sofia the situation in Thailand, deciding which mercenary team to hire, and striking against pirates in the Andaman Sea.

They couldn’t neglect the AXA Insurance Group; only by working in unison with them could they maximize benefits.

Meanwhile, Daria had to occasionally buy some small gifts to cheer up Tessa and clean up after their boss, this ultimate scumbag.

In these communications, Daria, the assistant, felt unprecedented pressure due to a certain degree of decision-making power.

Because she knew her performance wasn’t perfect and as a result had increased the operational cost of her boss’s actions, she felt a bit anxious these days.

As anyone who has worked knows, the purpose of an employee is to save the boss time and costs by handling the majority of the tedious tasks, and ultimately leaving the decision-making to the boss.

If things don’t work out, they then act as an emotional dustbin, carrying the blame for the boss.

Daria was actually doing great!

She was beautiful, heartless, thick-skinned, with strong executive power, and determined to fulfill the boss’s ideas.

A bit of rigidity and inflexibility, which Mountain Eagle actually considered to be advantages, but having seen true efficiency and mutual benefit, Daria found it hard to rate herself highly.

She was currently engulfed in intense anxiety, so even though she knew they would be attacked, she couldn’t shift her attention to combat readiness.

Because she knew her boss’s personality too well, it was a stern test for Miranda, but it was not actually dangerous, or else Butcher and Pigeon would not have been sent.

Same-sex individuals repel each other, and Miranda’s evident competence and coordination abilities brought a sense of threat to Daria.

Dealing with Miranda in an intentionally friendly yet mean way when she came to get equipment...

Watching Miranda check her gear, Daria sat in front of a computer, expressionless, and said, "See if anything’s missing, just list it all at once..."

Miranda picked up a UMP45 submachine gun to examine it and then checked the contents of her backpack...

Other than weapons, the most important things were the tactical vests and radios, both of which Mountain Eagle provided at top quality.

Miranda signaled to Red Sparrow and Hummingbird to test the radios, and they exchanged surprised looks. Afterward, Miranda picked up the Glock 17 pistol to check it, confirmed it was fine, and then thoughtfully said, "I need to know our weapon and ammo inventory, which would help formulate a detailed defense plan..."

Daria replied without looking up, "You don’t need to know, you just need to state your requirements..."

Red Sparrow did not like Daria’s attitude. She glared at this busty secretary and sarcastically said, "I like big guns, Barrett suits me...

The river is our defense focus; we also need Javelin missiles to prevent the enemy from approaching by boat.

Of course, Javelins are hard to come by, I understand, AT4s could basically meet our needs too."

Daria lifted her eyes to glance at Red Sparrow and took up a piece of paper and pen, scribbling down several lines...

After finishing, she looked at Red Sparrow and asked, "Anything else?

Maybe the enemy will attack from the air by plane, you’ll certainly need Stinger missiles, I’ll add that for you...

Anything else?

If not, sign here..."

Miranda frowned as she looked at the brashly behaving Daria and asked discontentedly, "What do you mean?"

Daria replied impatiently, "Sign it, and then you’ll get the stuff listed here!"

Miranda’s eyes suddenly widened, "Are you joking?"

Daria said disdainfully, "I’m busy, I have no time to joke with temp workers..."

Red Sparrow saw her boss rendered speechless by the snub, cursed with an expletive starting with ’B,’ stepped forward to sign her name on the paper, then glared at the obnoxious Daria and said, "Now it’s your turn to prove that you’re more capable than your mouth is."

Tiffany, seeing Red Sparrow and Daria square off, approached with a headache hoping to mediate, but was dragged into the cellar by a sneering Daria...

Seeing the things in the cellar, Tiffany’s first thought was about their origins...

While admiring Mountain Eagle’s boldness and the State Police’s blindness, she observed Daria provoke Red Sparrow with cutting words and made her do the grunt work. Tiffany sighed and said, "I’ll help..."

"We’re all on the same side here, no need for such pointed confrontation!"

Daria glanced at Tiffany and puffed out her chest, saying, "I told you, I’m busy!

Only the ignorant would think that everything others say or do is aimed at them."

Outmaneuvered, Red Sparrow couldn’t help but flip the bird...

...

While those women were at odds, Mountain Eagle had already received key intelligence through Crow, and there was also word from Blood Fox...

He logged onto the International Intermediary Company’s website using his laptop, then accessed the D.B. account using the username and password provided by Blood Fox.

Clicking on the bouncing inbox icon, he saw a mercenary contract...

The client was Green Nature Foundation, offering a contract fee of 2.5 million US Dollars, for a mission to search for and rescue hostages.

Bringing back the hostages alive would earn him 2.5 million US Dollars.

If the hostages were found dead, identifying their causes of death would still garner 500,000 US Dollars.

Should the hostages be injured or killed during the rescue mission, Mountain Eagle would only receive 30% of the pay.

Furthermore, since the client was a Super VIP with a guarantee from the International Intermediary Company, they didn’t have to pay a single cent in deposit.

It was a very generous contract, impeccable aside from the absence of a deposit.

Because there was no deposit required!

As long as he took action, at the very worst, he could still get 30% of the payment!

Blood Fox must have utilized Black Fox’s credibility within the Green Nature Foundation to secure such a favorable contract.

Signing was exceedingly simple – just enter a 12-digit contract code, and the deal was set.

As the system prompted that the contract was in effect, the inbox started bouncing again...

Mountain Eagle quickly clicked in and saw the information for two targets...

A man and a woman in the files; the man, an American from Rhode Island, named Richard Franklin; the woman, an Irish born in Edinburgh, named Emma Stone.

The details in the files weren’t particularly comprehensive, but with a price tag of 2.5 million US Dollars and surname Franklin, Richard Franklin’s identity was almost self-evident.

The Franklin family has been around since the birth of the United States and has continued to this day.

To say they controlled everything might not be accurate, but their influence in America was certainly ample.

Black Fox once confessed that the Green Nature Foundation was essentially an NGO set up by trust-fund babies wanting to flaunt their existence.

Relying on their parents’ political and wealth influences, they organized a rather tight environmental protection organization and declared war on all of America’s high-pollution companies.

The Koch Brothers, the DuPont Family’s industries, all have been their victims!

But strangely, these extreme acting trust-fund babies had never attracted retaliation and even received funding.

The Koch Brothers and the DuPont Family, once their major victims, became their sponsors.

And then their competitors suffered!

This pattern is commonplace among most environmental and animal protection organizations...

First, they take a bite at a tough bone, gaining social prestige and supporters, then attract substantial investments.

They are often used by moguls to deal with competitors or suppress emerging businesses.

Utilizing their influence, they slowly penetrate and alter people’s thoughts, deeply involving themselves in rulemaking.

Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emission issues, national environmental problems – these NGOs are deeply involved.

Protecting the environment is undoubtedly right, but these NGOs ultimately turned environmentalism into a trade...

It is no exaggeration to say that in the construction of the global supply chain, these environmental NGOs have been instrumental in the deindustrialization of Europe and America.

Most high-pollution industries moved to third world countries, then these NGOs followed suit, producing reports which became political tools.

For example, America could utilize these so-called reports to sanction certain high-pollution countries, ostensibly demanding correction, while actually wanting them to yield interests.

At such times, no one would consider that these high-pollution suffering countries prioritize survival and development. Furthermore, by producing exports at the cost of high pollution, they effectively bear the pollution burden for Europe and America.

In simpler terms, "I don’t want to dump my trash on my own turf, so I pipe it over to yours, then I’ll berate you for the stench, accusing you of irresponsibility if you don’t address the odor."

And behind these political acts, the reports issued by such so-called non-governmental organizations have exerted influence and played a significant role...