Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1127 - 1127 One Thousand One Hundred and Ten Compensation

1127: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Ten: Compensation 1127: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Ten: Compensation Justin took the initiative to call, and even directly admitted that the intelligence he provided was a trap, which was quite a relief for Gao Yang.

After listening to Justin’s hoarse shouting, Gao Yang waited before speaking solemnly: “We were ambushed, with three casualties, nearly everyone is wounded, four seriously.

Two helicopters went down.

We are now besieged in Aleppo Prison.

A bullet broke the brachial artery in my right arm.

I don’t know if it will be useless, and I am still waiting for treatment.”

Gao Yang played a bit of a trick, but he didn’t lie; he didn’t mention who the casualties were, and that was all.

Justin let out a long sigh, then after a moment of silence, he finally said in a low voice: “So, you’re safe now, right?

Okay, who are the casualties?”

“Yes, we are in Aleppo Prison.

The three casualties were the crew members of the helicopter that came to evacuate us.”

“That’s great, as long as no one from Satan is dead, it seems I don’t need to worry about being hunted by you guys, unfortunately lucky.

I’m sorry, but right now I won’t explain how the false intelligence came about.

Mm, let’s talk about compensation.”

Gao Yang is a person who values loyalty and is sentimental.

Although he had a poor impression of Justin when he first met him, even approaching Justin with a sense of exclusion and caution, but after a few contacts, Gao Yang still came to acknowledge Justin.

Gao Yang didn’t acknowledge Justin’s character; completely trusting the character of an intelligence trafficker was tantamount to suicide.

What Gao Yang acknowledged was Justin’s professional ethics.

No matter the profession, ethics are important.

If you have professional ethics, even if you’re engaged in a profession that can’t be completely trusted, you can still cultivate a group of regular clients and have a group of loyal customers.

Mercenaries and intelligence traffickers are certainly not groups with sentiment.

It goes without saying for a mercenary, get paid for the job, whoever pays is who you sell your life to.

Even if a collaboration is pleasant, if someone else pays more next time and you turn around to attack your former employer, it’s considered normal.

People can say that the mercenary group is indifferent to past cooperation, but no one can say the group lacks professional ethics.

However, if a mission isn’t even over and you take someone else’s money to turn against your employer, such a mercenary group is ruined.

Intelligence traffickers are more or less the same.

If they have intelligence, they sell to whoever pays more, which is fine.

Intelligence traffickers make that money.

It’s okay to play both sides as long as it’s clear the intelligence isn’t unique.

If the intelligence is exclusive, meaning it’s sold to one person and not to others, such intelligence should fetch a high price, several times more.

But if you secretly sell the intelligence to many people, then the trafficker has no professional ethics.

As for providing false or incorrect intelligence, such an occurrence is definitely not in the trafficker’s favor, but it’s not an ethics issue, because anyone can make a mistake in this world.

If a mistake is made, that’s that.

If an intelligence trafficker provides false intelligence, according to the rules of the trade, returning double the money is the very least.

Admitting mistakes and compensating for losses is a matter of capability; not operating according to the rules is a question of character, albeit possibly affecting the trafficker’s reputation for capability, but not to the extent of being accused of having professional ethics issues.

For an intelligence trafficker, having a reputation of lacking professional ethics, even if only a few people say so, can be fatal to their business.

Once that reputation spreads, they can forget about doing business, at least not doing it well or expanding.

A reputation of lacking professional ethics is a fatal blow to an intelligence trafficker.

Justin is very reasonable, which means, at the very least, Gao Yang and his group won’t have to chase Justin all over the world.

Of course, whether Justin can completely resolve this mistake depends on how sincere he is.

Justin immediately brought up the issue of compensation, and it was indeed a stroke of luck that no one from Satan died; otherwise, compensation wouldn’t be enough to solve the problem.

But since nobody died, they could discuss how to compensate and how much.

Gao Yang didn’t want to push things to the extreme, so he simply stated: “I accept compensation.”

After a moment of silence, Justin said with a heavy tone: “I will return five times the intelligence fee!

I will compensate for your losses.

For the personnel losses on the Syria side, I’m not responsible.

All medical expenses for your wounded, I’ll cover, plus 100,000 US dollars each for mental anguish.

I’ll also compensate for the loss of equipment at its value.

Was the helicopter yours?

If so, I’ll pay!”

Justin’s terms weren’t insincere; they were so genuine that Gao Yang couldn’t believe his ears.

After being stunned for a moment, he finally exclaimed: “According to the rules of your trade, isn’t the intelligence fee supposed to be double the refund?”

Gao Yang is a honest man; after he spoke, he realized he was pressing down on his own compensation, but he didn’t regret it.

There are rules, and they should be followed.

Breaking the rules is not good, no matter who it is.

Justin said in a low voice, “False intelligence, incorrect intelligence, fivefold return, that’s my own rule!

And I don’t intend to break the rules I’ve set for myself.

The reason I’ve reached the top in this field is because I play by the rules!

What, have I never mentioned my rules to you?”

Gao Yang earnestly replied, “No, you really never mentioned to me that you have a personal rule of a fivefold return on incorrect intelligence.

So, if you’re acting according to industry standards, actually, I have no objections.

Since we had no prior agreement, you’re not breaking any contracts.

If you insist on following your own rules, of course, I’ll be happy to accept that.”

Justin said softly, “Now you know my rules, and I’ve said that I’m not planning to break them.”

After a short pause, Justin continued in a heavy tone, “You know, this is the first time I’ve paid compensation to someone, the first time!”

“You mean you’ve never made a mistake before?”

“No, not once.

There have been instances of minor errors in intelligence before, but they were all false information that led you into traps.

This is the first time!”

Gao Yang said gravely, “Okay, I am pleased with your approach, and now I forgive you.

Yeah, the helicopter isn’t ours, it was provided by Syria, but the night vision equipment on it is ours.

The cost of a set of night vision equipment is about half a million US dollars.”

After thinking it over, Justin said in a low voice, “The intelligence fee was 1.2 million dollars, with a fivefold refund, that’s six million dollars.

Plus the one million dollars for the shock money, that’s seven million dollars.

I’ll cover the losses of the night vision equipment and add another half a million dollars.

The medical and rehabilitation cost for the wounded, let’s also say half a million dollars.

All together, I’ll pay you eight million dollars.

Do you want me to deposit it into your personal account or your broker’s account?”

Gao Yang didn’t expect that he would see a kickback in Syria, and that his largest income in Syria would actually be compensation from Justin.

And Gao Yang thought it over carefully; it seemed that Justin hadn’t even earned eight million dollars from him yet.

Unexpectedly, Justin’s one mistake paid back all the money he had earned from him.

“Um, transfer it to my broker’s account.”

“Okay, I’ll make the payment right away.

The money will be in your account in five minutes.”

After finishing, Justin changed his tone and said indignantly, “This time, it’s the biggest stain in my professional career.

I can’t believe I’ve been played by a Rebel Army leader.

Ram, I don’t want to say much now.

I just want to tell you, if you still want to go after Badadi, I’d be very happy to provide you with intelligence at a discounted rate!”

Gao Yang replied helplessly, “I thought you would provide the intelligence for free.”

“Each deal is separate; this one is over.

We need to look forward.”

Gao Yang chuckled, “Alright, each deal is separate.

Let’s leave it at that for this time.

If you have new intelligence on Badadi, I am still very willing to buy it.

I trust you wouldn’t enjoy paying out fivefold every time.”

“Listen, if it’s false information, or completely incorrect information next time, I will return ten times the money to you.

Don’t worry, there’s no way I’ll make the same mistake again.”

Justin made his promise with utmost determination, and Gao Yang chuckled, “Okay, now tell me, what exactly happened?”

“Damn, it’s actually very simple.

Badadi set a trap.

Badadi’s public appearance was only a ploy to lure you in.

The person wasn’t Badadi at all, just a body double who looked like him, appearing only with Badadi’s guards.

Unfortunately, my informant did indeed see it.

Without confirming up close, he told me and swore that he saw it very clearly, and it was Badadi himself.

After that, it’s pretty simple.

I informed you and led you into the trap.

Later on, I felt that there might be a problem because your recent operations against Badadi were too frequent, and Badadi might very likely set up traps.

I felt there might be a problem, so I contacted my informant again, and that damn fool confirmed again that he saw Badadi up close.

It was only after I contacted that damn informant for the third time and scared him a bit that he told me he actually saw someone who looked like Badadi from a distance, and he recognized Badadi’s guards but never saw Badadi’s face.

Later, I couldn’t contact the informant who gave me the intelligence.

So I found another informant.

When he told me there was an unusual night mobilization near Aleppo Prison by the Rebel Army, I knew they were setting a trap, but it was too late.

By the time I confirmed it was a likely trap, your phone was already turned off.”

After finishing with a sense of helplessness, Justin sighed, “I don’t know exactly how Badadi set up the trap, but that’s the situation.

I made a foolish mistake.

I trusted intelligence from only one source too much.”

As Gao Yang had suspected, he too sighed before saying somberly, “We both paid a hefty price this time.

Please notify me in time if there’s any new intelligence.

That’s it for now; I have too much to do and need to hang up.

We’ll get in touch later.” (To be continued.

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