Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1258: One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-One: Causes and Consequences

Chapter 1258: Chapter One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-One: Causes and Consequences

Krulney surrendered, but the problem is that mercenaries basically don’t accept surrender.

For a mercenary, a dead enemy is the best enemy, and Gao Yang has always held this as a creed. As a mercenary broker, Krulney definitely understands this.

Since Krulney proposed to surrender, he inevitably has to pay the price, and he needs to be sincere enough for Gao Yang to let him go.

Gao Yang pondered for a moment, looked up, and said, “I’m not used to leaving people alive, as you should understand, so now tell me, you’d better find a reason for me to spare you.”

Krulney breathed out, stood in front of Gao Yang, rubbed his forehead with his hand, and sighed, “This is a long story, let me organize my thoughts.”

Gao Yang said softly, “You can sit down and talk, think slowly, start from the beginning, I am not in a hurry.”

Krulney nodded, sat back on the sofa, thought for a moment, then waved and said, “To begin with, that matter happened with quite a few coincidences, let me start from what I know.

The origin of this matter cannot avoid IS; here’s how it is. America wanted to remove Assad, and they were determined to succeed. Saudi Arabia also wanted to remove Assad. Before Syria’s civil war started, they were already looking for a puppet in Syria to support them, and Tomler played a crucial role in that. There were many things America couldn’t do directly, so Tomler acted as an intermediary between them and the Syrian Rebels. In fact, Tomler has always had this kind of cooperation with America.

With pushing from multiple parties, after the Syrian civil war began, America supported at least three rebel forces, excluding IS. IS came to Syria from Iraq and initially wasn’t on America’s radar, but Saudi Arabia supported IS from the beginning. After IS arrived in Syria, they were quite active and relatively more combat-effective than other organizations, so IS got into America’s sights. At this time, Tomler began interacting with IS.

To help IS train soldiers, Tomler facilitated collaboration between the Iron Madonna and IS, sending the Iron Madonna’s Desert Combat Squad to Syria to train IS’s soldiers. This was a three-party cooperation: Saudi Arabia provided the money, America entrusted Tomler to find suitable candidates to train IS, and when necessary, they could directly assist IS in combat.

Later, a major incident occurred. We all know that Syria stored a lot of chemical weapons, which is a threat to many countries. To gain international public opinion support, IS proposed a plan to use chemical weapons to attack their own territory, framing Syria and thus playing the victim role. America could use the excuse of Syria using chemical weapons to launch an attack.

This plan quickly entered the implementation stage. Saudi Arabia provided the chemical weapons, and Tomler found a mercenary group of about a dozen people to escort them. However, in Iraq, the convoy transporting chemical weapons was attacked by local militants, but later, people from the Saudi side came out and paid to ransom back the chemical weapons.

In transporting the chemical weapons across the Syrian border until IS used them, America, Saudi Arabia, and IS absolutely couldn’t let chemical weapons be connected to themselves. If anything went wrong, the consequences would be severe, so those chemical weapons still had to be transported by a third party.”

At the critical moment, Krulney shrugged and said regretfully to Gao Yang, “At this key moment, two events happened in succession, leading Tomler to decide to have you escort that batch of chemical weapons.

One key point was that the Iron Madonna was looking for you, because the Iron Madonna’s jungle combat squad in Brazil suffered major casualties. If they couldn’t find the culprit, this matter could only be left unresolved. But the Iron Madonna, through the descriptions of a few survivors, determined it was you who attacked their jungle combat squad in Brazil, so the Iron Madonna decided to come after you.

The second key point was that after the first transportation of chemical weapons failed, the Saudi side was terrified. They absolutely couldn’t allow anyone to know that the chemical weapons were provided by Saudi Arabia, so their requirement was either America directly transports them, or a third party must be sent to transport the chemical weapons to the destination and kill all the third party to cover tracks.

Originally, Tomler wanted the Iron Madonna’s Desert Combat Squad to transport the chemical weapons, but after Saudi Arabia made their demand, he couldn’t let the Iron Madonna go. Plus, the Iron Madonna wanted to deal with you, so Tomler came up with a plan.

He had you transport the chemical weapons, and after reaching the destination, the Iron Madonna would handle you personally, satisfying Saudi Arabia’s conditions and letting the Iron Madonna avenge themselves. He wouldn’t have to spend a cent or take action himself, a perfect choice. In addition, taking you out was originally IS’s task, but considering your combat prowess, it was likely to go wrong if IS went themselves, thus making the Iron Madonna the executor.”

Here, Krulney raised his hand and said seriously, “Whether you believe me or not, I must declare that at the start, I really didn’t know about Tomler’s plan. I was just his assistant, unable to influence Tomler’s major decisions.

Later, after you took the mission and went to Iraq, while you were waiting there, Tomler told me the real content of this operation and sent me to Syria. My job was to receive the goods from the Iron Madonna Desert Combat Squad and supervise them to ensure your Satan Mercenaries were completely wiped out, then get the payment from IS for Saudi Arabia for this mission.

No need to say more about what happened later; you were led into a trap. The Iron Madonna and IS personnel jointly attacked you, but no one expected the Iron Madonna couldn’t finish you off and even got several of their own killed. Until the chemical weapons leaked, all plans had to be called off.”

Krulney sighed and said, “I really didn’t expect that with the leak of Sarin, most of you would still manage to leave alive. To be honest, at that time, everyone thought you were doomed.”

Gao Yang said coldly, “We lost one person, but that person was my brother. For us, whether we lost one or had one survive, the result is the same—revenge! Relentless!”

Krulney nodded and sighed, “The pity is Tomler realized this too late because he didn’t expect you’d actually dare to move against him. All right, let me continue on that matter.

The next day, everyone and I knew the matter failed. The IS side was okay because they used the chemical weapons right after receiving them, but the Saudi side was furious. Tomler didn’t fulfill the agreement to take you out. Saudi Arabia decided not to pay, and the Iron Madonna suffered casualties again. Overall, it was a failed operation.

Later, Tomler sent me to negotiate with the Saudi side. The money couldn’t be recovered, and Saudi Arabia demanded Tomler must eliminate you, otherwise Tomler would have to compensate Saudi Arabia as agreed. Compensating is secondary; the key issue is if this mess isn’t cleaned up, Saudi Arabia wouldn’t do business with Tomler again. You know, the Shah People are rich. They may not be the best customers, but they are definitely the most generous and easiest to deal with.”

Krulney spread his hands, smirking bitterly, “After that, things got out of control. Tomler was also angry, but he believed you wouldn’t dare to do anything to him, which was a very serious miscalculation, and he paid for it with his life, while I was still in Saudi Arabia cleaning up the mess, so I didn’t die at your hands by sheer luck.”

Krulney sighed again and said, “I was terrified. I returned to New York, first fighting and winning against some colleagues, grabbing most of the resources left by Tomler. I hold most of the mercenary and security company businesses he left, and I maintain connections with Saudi Arabia and America. If I don’t die, I can replace Tomler and become the new giant.”

Krulney pointed at Gao Yang and smirked bitterly, “I had a colleague whose status isn’t as high as mine, but he’s a broker for several mercenary groups. He defected to me, but I know this guy is not the kind to stay submissive. He’ll find a way to replace me, so I intentionally used a credit card I had used before to expose my whereabouts, because I knew he would inevitably betray me.

I wanted to strike first against you, but I didn’t dare to do it in New York, so I made many arrangements. First, I sent my wife and children to my hometown, then used my family as bait, setting up many men around my home. The Iron Madonna sent forty people, but you didn’t come looking for me.

Waiting wasn’t an option. The Saudi side kept pressing me; if I didn’t find a way to kill you, they’d kill me. The Iron Madonna didn’t have enough patience either, so I used the credit card again and left America, hoping you’d track my whereabouts to hunt me down.

I always had many people around me, moving around Europe, until the Iron Madonna lost patience. They refused to cooperate with my plan anymore, and the Saudi side was anxious, giving me a final ultimatum: If I couldn’t kill you, they’d kill me. I was out of options, planning to strike in New York using Little Donnie as bait, and then you know what happened. I realized I couldn’t kill you, so I decided to surrender.

In deciding to surrender, I couldn’t do anything to Little Donnie, but I had to maintain a stance of wanting to kill you, otherwise, neither the Iron Madonna nor Saudi Arabia would let me go. So I stalled; I needed to meet you, but you were too mysterious, and I couldn’t find you. So I made slight modifications to the original trap I had set for you, withdrawing all my ambushers and staying alone, hoping to talk to you about all this, and hoping you’d accept my surrender.”

After finishing, Krulney took a deep breath and said, “You know, I almost couldn’t hold on. Thank God you finally showed up today. I had decided to leave tomorrow. If I hadn’t been able to meet and tell you this, who knows what would’ve happened next.” (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)