The King of Urban Mercenaries
Chapter 637: 639

Chapter 637: 639

Central Continent!

The city of luxury—Dini!

A certain private luxury villa.

This luxury villa occupied a vast area, in highly sought-after Dini, owning such a grand villa spoke volumes about the owner’s identity.

Aside from the expansive property of the luxury villa itself, the presence of suit-clad guards with earpieces, whether out in the open or hidden, nearly encompassing the entire villa,

was enough to sense the extraordinariness of the villa’s occupant’s status.

While Dini wasn’t like Mo Country, without its strict prohibition on weapons, the public safety situation was evidently far superior to that of other war-torn areas of Central Continent where armed individuals were a common sight.

The fact that someone could openly station armed guards in Dini City meant that the villa’s owner was clearly more than just wealthy.

And, indeed, that was the case.

The owner of the luxury villa was an oil tycoon well-known not only throughout the Peninsula, but in the whole Central Continent region!

As is widely known, Central Continent is rich in oil.

And naturally, it is also rich in oil tycoons.

The hallmark of an oil tycoon in Central Continent is power and wealth!

Power enables the acquisition and development of oil fields, and from these fields flows an endless stream of wealth.

At some point, the oil tycoons of Central Continent became a particularly unique and affluent group on the global stage of politics and economy.

When people bring up oil tycoons, they often think of the countless barrels of oil and wealth.

However, they subconsciously overlook the power and the means that prop up the oil tycoons, enabling them to gain their notorious titles.

In certain areas of Central Continent, there’s an unwritten proverb.

For every oil tycoon that rises, tens of thousands fall!

This illustrates that too many have died on the path to controlling oil fields.

Just like the owner of this luxury villa, who had killed two rivals contending for his first oil field along with over two hundred of their privately armed men.

And now, he was striving for his third oil field.

In order to achieve this goal, he had directly or indirectly killed nearly four hundred people, and had forcefully eliminated or scared off three competitors with designs on the oil field.

Currently, he was putting effort into disposing of the final competitor.

Unlike the previous three whom he had violently removed or scared away, the last competitor came from Mo Country—a private entrepreneur with suspected ties to the Mo Country government.

Therefore, he couldn’t simply use brute force. Even if the ties of the entrepreneur from Mo Country to its government were only suspicions.

Suspicions meant possibilities. Possibilities meant danger. Danger meant he could possibly die.

He was someone who cherished life; in short, he was afraid of death.

To provoke the government of Mo Country for the rights to an oil field, he didn’t have the courage nor the confidence.

But he didn’t want to give up so easily! Although his private assistants felt he should abandon the pursuit after their investigations and comparisons,

he didn’t want to give up! Because he was never someone who understood the concept of giving up easily!

He had made his fortune from the first oil field. He had truly entered the circle of oil tycoons with the second oil field.

Now, he needed the third oil field to solidify and elevate his status within the oil tycoon circle.

To achieve this, he spared no expense to hire someone to investigate the last competitor from Mo Country.

After spending nearly 1.5 million Iron Coins, he finally uncovered the most fatal and likely weakness that could force the competitor from Mo Country to give up the competition voluntarily!

That competitor from Mo Country had a daughter—an only daughter!

A daughter he cherished deeply!

Nearly 1.5 million Iron Coins were spent for what seemed like an inconsequential piece of information.

His personal assistants all felt that the transaction was not worth it.

However, he did not think so.

Because he understood the familial emotions within Mo Country households far better than his assistants did.

That was also why he was willing to spend close to 1.5 million Iron Coins to investigate that Mo Country competitor’s main reason.

After learning that the competitor from Mo Country had an only daughter,

He spent nearly another 200,000 Iron Coins to determine the precise residence of that Mo Country competitor’s daughter.

Then, he spent 300,000 Iron Coins to recruit over twenty inconspicuous mercenaries with no noteworthy reputation or background in the Central Continent area.

He dispatched them to Mo Country to kidnap the competitor from Mo Country’s daughter and bring her to him. This would allow him to coerce the competitor from Mo Country to withdraw from the oilfield struggle.

He believed his plan to be perfect!

Except that he overestimated the abilities of the twenty-some odd mercenaries he had recruited.

Although he had prepared himself for the possibility of a failed kidnapping, when the news of failure actually reached his ears,

He couldn’t help but explode in anger.

Because of this, he smashed more than a dozen bottles of wine, including a bottle of ’82 Lafite.

“If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have been so cautious.”

This was the only comment he made after his outburst!

From this sentence tinged with regret, one could tell that at the beginning, he had not intended to recruit outsiders to help him kidnap someone inside Mo Country.

After all, he had an elite squad of retired special forces from a certain nation in the Central Continent at his disposal.

The reasons he chose to recruit extra mercenaries for the kidnapping inside Mo Country were:

First, because he thought it overkill to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut and was unwilling to easily deploy what he considered his most treasured elite special squad.

Second, because he did not want to leave any trace that could implicate him during the mission’s progress, which could lead to being tracked back to him.

Recruiting some idle mercenaries, whether successful or not, would allow him to disassociate himself from the attempt to the fullest extent possible, thereby avoiding possible retaliation from Mo Country.

Now that the news of failure had come, he, aware that Mo Country was on alert, couldn’t help but regret not having sent out his elite special squad.

The failure of the kidnapping meant he could only engage in a direct competition with the competitor from Mo Country, which had an even chance of success.

He did not like this situation at all!

Fifty-fifty was not what he wanted.

What he wanted was to leave nothing to chance!

After all, he had already expended a great deal of manpower and financial resources to obtain the right to develop the oilfield.

To avoid wasting all that manpower and financial resources, he would not mind continuing to pay…