North America Gunman Detective
Chapter 841 - 500: Plans Can't Keep Up with Change (Part 2)
After a while, he walked directly down the stairs, entering the octagonal cage competition area in the basement. Inside the cage, two fighters were battling fiercely, their hands wrapped in bandages, but without any protective gear. When Jimmy entered, blood was already noticeable at the corners of their mouths. This octagonal cage fight was truly brutal.
Jimmy glanced at the corner office, where two people were busy working. Jimmy placed a bet on the next match and stood at the back of the crowd, watching the fight while keeping an eye on the activities inside the office.
Shortly after the second match started, four men came downstairs, two carrying boxes and the other two walking before and after them, escorting them towards the office. After greeting the security outside the office, they delivered the boxes inside.
Jimmy stared at the people inside. One person opened a box to take a look, then came out with the men who had delivered it. Sure enough, this guy was Jimmy's target, Sergei Nikitin.
Jimmy didn't follow but instead used his Heart Eye to watch Nikitin go up the stairs, all the way to a room on the third floor. The intelligence mentioned that the third floor was a resting area. It seems that the reason Nikitin hasn't been seen these past few days is that he simply hasn't been leaving his place, only roaming between downstairs and upstairs.
There were too many people on site, Jimmy simply couldn't act here; it was just not feasible.
Jimmy waited for a long time, and after confirming that Nikitin upstairs was already asleep, he turned to leave the entertainment center. The person he bet on lost, so the ticket he held was just a piece of paper, worth nothing.
Having confirmed the situation of the two targets, Jimmy must now devise a plan.
The first target, Nikitin, if he doesn't go out, then he's inside the entertainment center. The only way is to infiltrate and assassinate him. However, he hasn't entered the third floor before and isn't sure if there will be any restrictions. If he forces his way in, he'll definitely be exposed.
Another issue is how to leave, coming down by the stairs normally will pass by several security guards, who will also remember his face. Unless he takes them all out, the likelihood of exposure is too high. Leaving is something that needs careful consideration.
Jimmy went to the window to look towards the entertainment center, once again observing the details of the building's structure. After considering it, Jimmy shook his head and went to rest, planning to take a closer look during the day.
He had been out for a few days, initially telling Nia he was helping a friend with some matters, but now he was wasting too much time. Jimmy had only two weeks off; handling matters in Portland had already taken four days, and now investigating the gang leader and the finance department took another three days.
Half the suspension time had already slipped away; he couldn't waste all of it on such things. Jimmy was really reluctant to spend too much more time on them, at most two or three days more.
Jimmy had pinpointed Nikitin's resting place, during the day he carefully checked the structure inside the building, as well as possible operation plans from the third-floor windows to the ground.
Outside, there was a common sewage pipe, and that was quite useful. Jimmy's climbing skills were still up to the task; dealing with such a situation was no problem for him. The only issue was that the room beside the pipe was some distance from Nikitin's resting room, requiring him to navigate a few rooms on the third floor.
Just when Jimmy finalized his plan and prepared for night action, he suddenly realized that during the day, gang leader Shendo arrived.
This seriously disrupted Jimmy's plan. In the nighttime action, whether he's climbing pipes outside or shooting inside, it's usually not a big deal, nor would anyone typically observe the walls late at night. But in broad daylight, someone crawling on the wall is way too conspicuous, and there's likely to be someone who would spot him.
However, this opportunity was too good. Both targets were inside the entertainment center; if he missed this chance, he'd have to run between them again later and might even let one of them escape.
After some thought, Jimmy decided to take action. He changed into the sportswear and shoes he'd been preparing, wore a knitted hat on his head, masked his face, placed the pistol at his back, and put the magazine and gloves in his pockets, sneaking directly out of the hotel's back door.
In these few days, Jimmy had pinpointed all the surveillance spots around. The only surveillance that might capture him was the back door of the entertainment center. For this action, that surveillance had to be disabled.
Jimmy bypassed the street corner surveillance, coming from the other side to the back alley, first confirming the positions of people inside the building. Three men were in one room on the third floor, two seated and one standing, while outside in the corridor stood a man who appeared to be a bodyguard. In the basement office, there was no one; others were scattered in various spots resting. It seemed the people in that third-floor room were indeed his targets.
Screwing the silencer onto his P226, he fired a shot at the surveillance, directly blasting its camera. The mission was to kill, so leaving bodies behind wasn't really an exposure issue, destroying a single piece of surveillance didn't count.
It was daylight, and no one was outside the back door at all. Their security personnel only maintained order outside before starting business, during the day they were all resting inside.
Jimmy glanced around, holstered the gun at his back, donned his gloves, grabbed the pipe, and started climbing. The room beside the pipe on the third floor was currently unoccupied, so Jimmy clung to the window sill, opened the window, and jumped inside.