HA2 21.2 – The Possibility of Being Hunted
Slowly and vigilantly Hide and Shizuka came out from their cover. Then, they walked down their assault line and gave every lying body on the floor they encountered a head shot. A moment later, the two arrived next to a fat and trembling man, the only survivor of the ambush. Hide was about to take aim at his head when the trembling man suddenly sprung to his knee and put his hands behind his head.
“Don’t kill me!” The man shouted while panic was all over his fatty face.
“Why shouldn’t I?” Hide casually asked, even though actually he almost got cardiac arrest from the fat man sudden movement.
Seeing Hide didn’t go straight showering his face with projectiles the fat man instantly smiled. Then, he introduced himself, “My name is Mr. Gua Be Go. I hold the third-highest seat at Cheat Cheat Party.”
“Cheat Cheat Party? The biggest and most despicable crime syndicate in Chyna?”
“Yes, but we are not that despicable actually. It is western propaganda that makes us sound like a crime syndicate.”
“Well, even if what you said is true,” Hide casually said, “It doesn’t mean you are truly a high ranking official of Cheat Cheat Party.”
“You can check my ID to confirm it,” Mr. Gua Be Go said as he slowly handed over his wallet to Hide.
Without delay Hide searched the wallet, and he found Mr. Gua Be Go’s ID card and his position in Cheat Cheat Party.
“Fuck me,” Hide weakly cursed. “Why the fuck a big shot like you appear in this place when I hit it.”
“I’m here to renew a huge deal with some big medical players in Nikko, but I can find other broker,” Mr. Gua Be Go calmly explained. “Just let me leave silently and you can continue whatever business you have with Kamui or their remains.”
“Sorry Chubby, I can’t leave a witness,” Hide casually said as he pointed the silenced Mini Uzie at Mr. Gua Be Go’s face. ”But let’s be a good mahjong buddy in the next life.”
“Young man! You dare?!” Mr. Gua Be Go said in a threatening tone.
“Why wouldn’t I?”
“W-w-w-wait….” After seeing Hide’s determined eyes, panic instantly resurface in Mr. Gua Be Go’s face. “If you kill me, Cheat Cheat Party will send some people to hunt you and your crew, and these nasty people are really good at their job.”
“Well, leave no witness is still my best option I believe,” Hide casually replied.
“What about money?” Mr. Gua Be Go expectantly asked. “I can offer you money enough to buy whatever heavenly life you have dreamed for, and no one will hunt you and your crew.”
“It’s an interesting offer,” Hide paused for a moment before adding, “But past experience teach me that high ranking official from Cheat Cheat Party never kept their words.”
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“Good Brother, only older generation from Cheat Cheat Party never kept their words,” Mr. Gua Be Go firmly said. “The current generation of Cheat Cheat Party accepts only honest people with great virtue. I swear.”
“Is that so?”
Mr. Gua Be Go eagerly nodded his head. “Heaven is my witness, and lightning will strike me nine times if I lie to you.”
As he amusingly looked at the fat smile in Mr. Gua Be Go’s face, Hide concluded, “You must be a successful quack doctor before joint Cheat Cheat Party, aren’t you?”
“I’m,” Mr. Gua Be Go admitted in reflex.
“And now you try to coax me using your old trade.”
“No no no no no…No!!!!” Mr. Gua Be Go firmly denied Hide’s accusation while shook his head. “I have put behind that despicable ways of life, long long long long very long time ago.”
“Really?”
“Good Brother,” Mr. Gua Be Go firmly said. “Right now, I’m just an honest and simple politician.”
After a smile Hide said, “I can tell that.”
“So, Good Brother,” Mr. Gua Be Go happily smiled before continuing, “Let’s just let a big problem turn into small problem, small problem into no problem, and then you can enjoy a huge reward and live your life happily ever after.”
Hide took a deep breath before answering, “Fine. Let’s do it that way.”
“Good Brother, you are truly a wise young man.” Mr. Gua Be Go then turned his gaze to Shizuka. “Your Sister is also a wise young woman.”
“Even after becoming a big shot you still know how to flatter,” Hide casually said.
“Of course I do. I’m just a simple and humble politician after all.”
After a deep breath full of relief, Mr. Gua Be Go made a big smile, but his smile instantly froze as a series of bright flash suddenly came out of Mini Uzie’s silencer, followed by a short burst that hit his face from point blank. Mr. Gua Be Go’s body then tumbled to the side and hit the floor.
“Dead man tells no tale,” Hide calmly whispered as he changed Mini Uzie’s magazine.
At the same time, Shizuka who all the time just stood by in silence immediately turned her gaze to Hide.
“If what Gua Be Go said is true, then, did we just disrupt an important deal that can affect our country medical industry negatively?”
“You are overthinking it,” Hide casually replied. “The huge medical deal he mentioned is a transaction for illegal drug and illegal human organs.”
Shizuka slightly nodded a few times before asking another question, “What about people who would avenge his death?”
“Like it or not, those nasty people are our problem now.”
“Maybe we shouldn’t kill Gua Be Go.”
“If we didn’t kill him, he would tell his new broker every piece of information he knew about us.”
“Hide, how can you so sure about it?” Shizuka curiously asked.
“It is standard MO of high butt official from Cheat Cheat Party, no matter the faction they comes from. I experienced it personally,” Hide casually said. “But most of all, always remember that in our line of work, don’t ever leave witness.”
“Dead man tells no tale, right?”
“Yeah.”
Wasting no time, Hide and Shizuka then went to the next phase.
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With ease Hide opened the second safe. Inside it he found: 35 million Ren in cash, 12 pieces of 1 kg gold bar, 5 bags of 2 kg cocaine, a stack of treasury bonds from Nikko, Americ, and Eurova, and a huge pile of debt note.
After ditching the cocaine to the sink in the kitchen and flushed it clean, Hide packed everything else into two sport bags. He also packed the firearms and ammunition in the first safe into four sport bags he found in the martial gym. It was high quality and untraceable firearms, while the workshop had excellent armory, so Hide just couldn’t leave them.
After everything was ready to be moved, Hide called Shizuka. Then, while pointing his finger at the first two sport bags closest to the door he said, “Start from these two.”
“Money and gold first?”
Hide nodded and replied, “Yup.”
“What do we have in other bags?” Shizuka curiously asked. “Other than the debt note I mean.”
“Treasury bond from Americ, Nikko, and Eurova, and firearms.”
“Wait a second,” Shizuka said as she turned her gaze to Hide. “If my memory serves, you have told me that we can’t liquid Kamui’s legit investment without leaving a trail. As for the firearms, right now we didn’t lack any. We can carry out Knosses job without additional firearms.
So, why do you suddenly decide to take the treasury bonds and the firearms?”
“An idea to safely use the treasury bond just popped up in my mind,” Hide casually replied. “Soon, we will also have a group of nasty people in our six. Additional firearms are good thing in case they sniff us close enough.”
“Okay. I have nothing to say if you have solid plan.” After taking a deep breath Shizuka asked, “The white flour you ditched to the sink earlier, was that drug?”
“Yeah, a highly pure one, in Nikko, its current market price is 145.000 Dillar per kg, almost three times higher than a piece of 1 kg gold bar.”
“Damn.” Shizuka paused for a moment before continuing, “I never thought drug is far more expensive than gold.”
“Nikko is one of the countries with tightest drug control. Here, the price of illegal drug is two times higher than in Americ or Eurova.”
“I see.”
“Well,” Hide casually said. “Let’s get back to the work.”
“Roger.”
Wasting no time, Shizuka took the first two bags she had to transport to the workshop. She had to carry it without meeting anyone on the way. Normally, it would be very hard for her to do it. Fortunately, on Saturday night Chikara Tower had almost zero activity. Not to mention, she also received a good assistance from Takeo.
And so, Shizuka could carry out her work relatively easy. At the same time, Hide carried out the work to clean body trail and forensic trace.
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