King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer
Chapter 1162 - 1014: Favorable Timing, Geographical Advantage, and United People

After Joe Ga and his team landed, they lost radio contact with the resort.

They could only use the occasionally faulty satellite phone to communicate a bit, to explain their situation clearly and prevent any worry from Nis and the others.

The boss of P.B. was stuck deep in a crisis within the Amazon Rainforest; how could this continue?

In Tubruq, Libya, they urgently borrowed two Winged Dragon drones from Haftar. Equipped with two Talus terminals, they were loaded onto a C130 transport plane escorted by 'Three Yellow Chickens', rushing to Manaus.

Sanderson and 'Bullhorn' in Rio were being cursed out by Karman, just as they swore and vowed to go rescue their boss, they were informed a transport plane had already taken off...

Karman led five squads: 'Dagger', 'Jazz', 'Ferryman', 'Night Tiger', and 'Goat', along with the three strange old creatures—Crocodile, Muck, and Rhino—and 40 anteaters, who would arrive in Manaus twenty hours later.

The news of Boss Joe being trapped in the rainforest was blocked by Nis and didn't reach the media, but the Edward Foundation had no intention of keeping secrets for him.

They deliberately leaked the information to Joe's old enemy, the Glorious Society.

As soon as the news spread, the Glorious Society, which was in a life-and-death battle with the Colombian drug cartel in Spain, urgently reached a truce...

Glorious Society spent $100 million to hire a large number of mercenaries equipped with advanced weapons from an international brokerage firm to head to Manaus.

Aaron tearfully earned a substantial part of it and immediately informed Boss Joe.

Meanwhile, in America, someone quietly mobilized a black team far in Haiti, attempting to send them into Colombia.

However, it seemed they did not expect that even before the black team set out, someone inside the CIA issued a warning to Thompson.

Although it's uncertain if this team was targeting Boss Joe, it didn't stop those with vested interests from issuing a heads-up.

The black team operated on a one-line contact basis, only their handlers had the authority to issue orders, and the internal report claimed they were targeting a Colombian drug lord, which couldn't be retracted.

However, it was possible to hold back the advanced weapons prepared for them before they initiated an attack.

The renowned Credos Drone System Company had just completed a large secret order.

A subsonic suicide drone just delivered and loaded onto a plane bound for South America caught the attention of a Pentagon brotherhood member at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Such sale of high-tech weapons bypassing military supervision wasn't allowed, so an anonymous tip-off call was enough to get the shipment detained at the airport, and promptly, the chairman of Credos Drone System Company found himself facing the FBI.

The series of actions by the Edward Foundation not only mobilized Boss Joe's enemies but also his friends.

They learned from an undercover beside Dvali that P.B.'s key figures were at the resort. So, they not only sent people to terminate Boss Joe but also goaded the Colombian drug cartel to a deadly standoff with Nis and the others at the resort.

Michael Beach of the DEA issued the sternest warning to Colombia through channels, and soon an operative from the DEA entered Colombia.

Michael Beach knew Boss Joe well; he knew the DEA couldn't be much help, so he focused on infiltrating Colombia to track the cartel's leaders accurately.

The Edward Foundation, on the other hand, to ensure their force was stronger than the drug dealers, arranged for a batch of veterans from the core layer of the Yemeni-based organization to enter Brazil through secret channels and converge into Manaus along multiple routes.

Aaron, though knowledgeable, wasn't omniscient, as he managed ISIS's finances but not the organization in Yemen, therefore unaware of any ties they might have with the Edward Foundation.

But not knowing them didn't mean he couldn't detect anything!

This guy was the main arms supplier to the organization, so when a client sent an arms request list and delivery address, he knew it was directed at Boss Joe.

Boss Joe learned about the movements of the Glorious Society...

Learned about the actions of the organization...

Learned about abnormalities from America...

Knew the Colombian drug cartel would make a move...

But he still had limited knowledge about the Edward Foundation, not knowing he was being targeted by them...

Boss Joe didn't expect that the Yemen Plan had touched the interests of a gigantic entity in the gray world.

He thought it was the leak of the Yemen Plan that caused related Yemen interests and his enemies to form an alliance, trying to keep him in Brazil.

But Boss Joe truly didn't care. A fight is a fight, no matter where it's at.

Thanks to the reasonably strong Brazilian military, theoretically, their opponents wouldn't dare to use heavy weaponry.

Comparatively, Boss Joe, having the Rio favela plan as support, proved to have significant advantages.

The Amazon is a great place; several thousand or ten thousand people wouldn't cause much of a stir, and it wouldn't alert the outside world.

"I don't even need your help from Brazil. You hold your ground, and if I do something excessive, just pretend you didn't see it."

The Brazilian military's control around Manaus was actually quite lousy, facing the aggressive Colombians they appeared to be in a hurry, with sluggish internal mobilization, and Boss Joe didn't trust them either.

Therefore, Secretary of State Steven extended his stay in Brazil and hurried to Brasilia to oversee them and prevent any mishaps.

Jorge Andres and the senators from Rio State and the State of Sao Paulo applied pressure on the military...

Not needing protection from the Brazilian military, but rather, to hinder them and prevent any internal mischief.

The people from the Edward Foundation had enormous influence, but they probably didn't expect Boss Joe's 'friends all over the world' to be on this level.

A seemingly loose and invisible alliance erected a huge protective umbrella for Boss Joe.

Each individual, on their own, wasn't formidable, but when united under Boss Joe's leadership and mobilized on his behalf, that power was vast.

This didn't even account for the effect from the Djibouti exhibition plan...

Boss Joe intended to confine the battle to a smaller scope, not wanting to trouble Brazil.

Otherwise, Mikoyan and Dassault would definitely convince the Brazilian Air Force to bring over the fighter jets.

Not to mention those armament companies eyeing the 'exhibition!'

Boss Joe was like a spider, slowly spinning silk to connect various interest chains around himself.

His demands weren't excessive, but all interest transmissions had to be conducted through him; to touch him was to disrupt the entire network.

The Edward Foundation was formidable, but this strength was both powerful and broad, ironically leading them to lose the overwhelming advantage in localized areas.

If the real clash unfolded, the scale, funds, network resources, and asset holdings of P.B. might lag behind the Edward Foundation by a few blocks, but war should depend on timing, geographical advantages, and human harmony...

For 'timing' and 'location', they were at a stalemate for now, but once the Winged Dragon drones arrived, 'location' would sway towards Boss Joe.

As the saying goes, 'a dragon shouldn't try to suppress a local snake,' and Boss Joe's Rio favela plan had made him one of the local snakes.

He first secured the 'human harmony' element, while incidentally pulling the Brazilian military to his side.

The Edward Foundation might have the power to influence world affairs, but they couldn't mobilize the Army, Navy, and Air Force to a trinity assault on Boss Joe...

A face-to-face hard clash, heh heh...