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Chapter 307: Chapter 249: New ’Money-Making Business’ (Please subscribe!)_1
Watching the fighter’s ’none of my business’ expression, Liu Qian, Chai Ren, and the bodyguard in the co-pilot’s seat all had the feeling of wanting to stay away from this ’dangerous individual’. Even though the fighter was on their side for now, he wasn’t truly one of their own. He was just temporary, and if he turned into an enemy one day, that... Shivering at the thought, the three of them shook their heads vigorously, this was definitely a nightmare scenario.
Monkey and others in the car behind had also noticed those ill-intentioned people. Just like the bodyguards ahead, they only discovered one car trailing them. The three vehicles were not following them consistently. Two of them drove around, sometimes approaching, sometimes looping around. Only the one on the right rear followed them all along, with the intention of catching them off guard. Even if they noticed it, what could they do? Their numbers had suddenly tripled, which rendered any of Chai Ren’s preparations futile.
However, what the robbers didn’t realize was that after the command room briefly took over New York City’s traffic monitoring network, they had identified from historical records that the three vehicles were all together. They knew everything about their whereabouts and even their hideouts, which were not within direct surveillance but were deduced from several other pieces of information. After all, the robbers weren’t idiots to plot directly under the surveillance cameras.
"Brother Yuan, won’t your actions cause any trouble for you?" Chai Ren asked worriedly. Liu Qian was also a bit nervous as he looked at the fighter. After all, the group behind Fighter had provoked some desperate fugitives for no reason at all. Even though he paid the money, it wasn’t for dealing with this incident.
"No, it won’t. All you need to know is that you didn’t see anything, hear anything, and nothing happened today." The fighter replied slowly as he continued driving.
"I understand. We will act like we didn’t see or hear anything and won’t tell anyone about it." Chai Ren hastily promised and sternly commanded Liu Qian and his own bodyguard to do the same. After all, this incident was related to them. From the earlier report made by a pedestrian, they are even guessing that the New York police might question them.
"Understood." Liu Qian and the bodyguard said in unison. They were good at keeping secrets.
Just at this moment, Chai Ren’s phone rang. It was a call from the bodyguard in the car behind.
After answering the call, Chai Ren instructed a few things. If the police were to ask later, they should tell as it was, and not discuss any conjectures within the car. As the only ones who knew those people were the fighter’s friends were themselves, and with a white driver in the back, pretending not to see anything would be suspicious.
After hanging up the phone, Chai Ren didn’t know what to say.
Although they had encountered kidnappers, they were shocked not by the kidnappers themselves, but the straightforward and unreasonable way the power behind the fighter handled the situation. They preferred action to talk.
The car fell into silence for a while.
"Mr. Liu, it seems we must leave here as soon as possible. As soon as we get back, let’s pack up and go to my friend’s farm," Chai Ren suggested after mulling over the situation a bit. In case the ones they fought with didn’t die and sought revenge, he had to change his plan and find a place to hide.
"Alright, no problem." Liu Qian immediately agreed. He didn’t want to stay in New York City anymore.
After stating this, Chai Ren turned to the fighter riding shotgun and said, "To show our gratitude for your help, Mr. Liu and I will gather 10 million RMB for you when we get back. We hope you won’t find it too small." It was only right to offer a reward after someone had helped them out so greatly.
"Thank you," the fighter replied.
Of course, the fighter would not reject this income. They may be born for war, but war not only represents destruction but also plunder. How could the command room decline such a windfall?
Of course, this did not apply to Tang Qing’s relatives. They wouldn’t take advantage of Tang Qing’s relatives nor dare to. Even if they were offered something, they would decline in various ways, because Tang Qing was everything to them, and their existence was to carry out Tang Qing’s will.
As for Liu Qian and others, in the eyes of the command room, their wealth and background were of no significance. To them, they were just ordinary people and shouldn’t be given preferential treatment.
At the same time, Tang Qing was also in the command room, observing this operation.
At the moment, it was afternoon in the US.
But it was early morning in China. Tang Qing was watching purely out of boredom as though he was observing an American movie. Only this movie was not stimulating at all, and it ended abruptly. Tang inclined a little, void of any interest.
He was also considering how to deal with these incapacitated men. Three vehicles, fourteen people, these were all the members of that team. Their profiles indicated that they were basically retired American soldiers who had resorted to this due to livelihood issues. Killing them would be impossible; they hadn’t offended him, they simply wanted to kidnap Liu Qian and others, and they hadn’t even succeeded.
If they had aimed to kidnap his family, these people would definitely not live till the next day. But Liu Qian and others... they were not significant enough for him to order to end these people’s lives.
But clearly, letting them go was also inappropriate.
"Tang Yi, how do you think we should deal with these people?" Tang Qing decided to pass the buck.
Without hesitation, Tang Yi said, "Commander, I believe we can make them our own."
"Oh? The reason." Tang Qing questioned, he didn’t lack people, and this was not like other places, whether it was Bangkok or Myanmar or that security company, where ordinary people would get involved, but those were special circumstances.
Anyone recruited wouldn’t be doing ordinary work, they would definitely be executing tasks, which made many things less secure.
"Commander, I understand your concerns. The reason for my proposal is that the fighters are too strong and their origins are basically untraceable. Therefore, we need some people to create ’flaws’." Tang Yi said.
Flaws?
Tang Qing felt after hearing that there was some truth in it – these fighters were indeed too strong. Their performances in front of Liu Qian and Chai Ren were astonishing, they needed something closer to ordinary people. Sometimes they needed to leave a ’flaw’ to give the enemy hope. Whether it was a core task or a non-core task, they couldn’t always complete it in one swoop without dropping a single hair.
This seemed a bit foolhardy, but it was necessary.
There was no way around it; his subordinates were full of formidable characters.
In the future, the core tasks would be completed by the fighters, and some less important ones could be handled by these people. Otherwise, if there were no casualties at all in every operation, it was akin to ’courting trouble’. Furthermore, he would be heartbroken if any of his fighters died. As for the others...they weren’t from his own country, nor were they good people. He didn’t have that much compassion in him. Moreover, this was only a possibility, he wouldn’t really give them a suicidal order.
The more Tang Qing thought about it, the more sense it made. Indeed, it was time to start planning non-core forces.
And... there were also ’side benefits’, weren’t there?
"Well then, Tang Yi, find a way to recruit them. Let them continue in their old line of work, perhaps... we can also take a cut from their ’business’. Think of it as regular training, we don’t support loafers." Tang Qing gave a mysterious smile. These guys liked to kidnap for money, why not take a ’cut’ from their earnings?
He would never let his fighters engage in kidnappings for money.
"Ah..." Tang Qing sighed, feeling like he had become a bad guy again.
Taking protection money from kidnappers made him seem even worse than the bad guys.
"Tang Yi, that is our decision. We recruit them and adopt a loose management approach. All activities must be approved by us. We take a fifty percent cut from their earnings, and they can decide what to do with the rest. If they agree, we might even offer some small help. But they can only target those who are unscrupulous in their wealth accumulation, and, absolutely no tearing of tickets. As for ransom, they shouldn’t go overboard, ten percent of their assets would be enough. Our general principle is, no participation, no encouragement, no killing." Tang Qing slowly said. If it was too much, those American crooks wouldn’t be able to afford it; if it was too little, it would be pointless.
"Yes, commander." Tang Yi agreed.
"Hmm, I’ll go to sleep now." Seeing there was nothing else, Tang Qing prepared to go back to bed for a nap.
Damn it. 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
Is this kind of thing right or wrong?
Tang Qing didn’t know.
Was it aiding and abetting?
Perhaps.
After all, this money could be used to do good things, and it was all the money of those unscrupulous foreigners anyway. They wouldn’t tear tickets or cause direct bankruptcy, so why not?
What a wicked self-defense.
Sleep.
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PS: The next Chapter will be out around ten o’clock.
