Ultimate Firepower
Chapter 219 - 207 Suggestions

Chapter 219: Chapter 207 Suggestions

It was obvious that the captive was being too cooperative, and Feng Biao didn’t know what else to ask.

The key was, Gao Yi hadn’t expected to need to ask anything else either. The original scenario was that if the captive wouldn’t talk, they would just beat him until he couldn’t take it anymore and let something slip, and then they would hit him again.

Taking it slowly, there would naturally be ample time to think of the next question, then, once they got a confession, enough time to contemplate the next move.

But now the captive had blurted out everything he knew in one go, and Gao Yi needed a moment to digest the information he had just received.

"Wait a moment."

Gao Yi turned around; he had to think this through.

The Andic Group’s business partners, the subcontractors that were hastily found—right, he hadn’t asked how many people were involved.

Gao Yi turned back and asked the captive, "How many people are in your group? I mean, in your organization altogether?"

"Three people."

"Just three?"

"Assassin organization, three people should be enough. We’re not some large hitman organization. If we were, we wouldn’t just be taking jobs in Spain."

"Good, wait a moment."

The interrogator asking the interrogatee to wait because the answers came too fast for him to keep up, that was a bit of a rare sight.

Gao Yi thought for a bit and then asked again, "How did you contact the Andic Group? And how did the Andic Group find you?"

"We didn’t contact Andic; Andic contacted us. Here’s what happened: about five years ago, our gang had just formed and we had just taken our first job. We successfully assassinated the boss of a small thieves’ group in Madrid, completing our first task on the Dark Web. Then, we received a phone call."

The captive took a breath and then looked at Feng Biao, saying, "Give me some water to drink."

A muscle on Feng Biao’s face twitched, and then he still placed the ice water he had been ready to pour on the captive’s head to his mouth instead.

The captive tilted his head back and drank half a bottle of water from Feng Biao’s hand, then let out a breath and continued, "I took a call, and the person on the line said they knew I was an assassin and that we did pretty well. They asked if we were interested in working with them, that they needed a decent assassin in the Spanish region, and that I met their criteria."

"And then what?"

"Then, I said screw off, and hung up the phone."

Gao Yi was taken aback.

The captive sighed and continued, "Back then, I didn’t know how formidable the Andic Group was. The thing is, we became assassins because we had nothing to do after being discharged from the military and were too poor to want to work legitimate jobs. A friend of mine was an enforcer for a drug trafficking group, and he said they needed professional help to eliminate rivals, offering ten thousand euros a time, so I got a couple of friends who were also discharged and joined me in this venture."

Gao Yi shook his head, saying, "I don’t want to know why you became an assassin right now. I want to know how you got in touch with Andic."

"Oh, I told them to screw off, hung up, and then two minutes later I received a text message. The message had my name, address, my parents’ names, my girlfriend’s name, and who I had killed, of course, as well as my two friends’ names and their addresses. That’s when I knew I was in trouble; I was being watched."

"And then?"

"Then I called the number back. The person who answered said he was a headhunter for the Andic Group, that he was looking for outstanding assassins all over the world, and that their Andic Group was a global corporation, a large organization, the biggest assassin organization, with a constant stream of contracts, and that they could offer us a lot of work. The pay would be good, and he immediately gave me a job—to take out a well-known businessman in the Catalonia region for one million euros."

"And then?"

"We received a deposit of one hundred thousand euros, prepared for two hours, spent three months investigating to establish the target’s habits, the routes he took to and from work, and then we crushed his sedan with a truck on his way to the office. After three months, each of us walked away with three hundred thousand euros."

"What about the remaining one hundred thousand?"

"We three bought VIP suite tickets for Madrid Athletic, but then we decided that watching the game from the north stand was better, so we returned the suite tickets and donated the money to the club."

"You’ve got talent! All of you do. Madrid Athletic has lost its loyal fans; I apologize to Madrid Athletic. Considering how cooperative you’ve been, um, I definitely won’t torment you."

Gao Yi said this with true sincerity, and the captive helplessly replied, "My leg is really hurting, actually, that stab wasn’t necessary, but it doesn’t matter, it won’t hurt for much longer. Since I’ve been so cooperative, please just shoot me in the head at the end; it’s the quickest way to die. Don’t use any strangling or smothering methods, okay?"

"Sure, thanks. What else do you want to know?"

"Tell me about your cooperation with the Andic Group."

"We’ve done four jobs in total, the highest was the first one, one million, the second was fifty thousand euros, just to kill a small fry who annoyed the boss, the third we collected two hundred and fifty thousand euros, to take out a woman kept by the boss, and the fourth three hundred thousand euros, to eliminate an accountant who reported a rich businessman for tax evasion, after the last three, the bodies were transported to a crematorium in the north of Madrid, burned to ashes, gone forever, and then the ashes were scattered into the Manzanares River.

As for this time, this is the fifth, and obviously, we’ve encountered an opponent we can’t afford to mess with, Andic Group has screwed us over, you guys are tough, and we’re finished, that’s just the way it is."

The method of disposal was very similar to Gao Yi’s experience in South Asia, indeed typical of Andic Group.

Gao Yi once again made eye contact with Feng Biao.

Feng Biao scratched his head and asked, "Don’t you have any other help?"

"No."

"So you were just responsible for keeping watch?"

"Yes."

"What if the target suddenly appears and you have the chance to strike, what then?"

"Even if the target stands right in front of us, we just watch him, that’s the mission we received, not allowed to kill the target, nor allowed to capture him."

Feng Biao looked at Gao Yi and said, "Clearly, using consumables to keep watch on the target, they’re playing the long game to catch a big fish and then, they would be able to monitor the target’s position."

The captive immediately said, "They must be able to know the position, otherwise how would they tell us, but we are not consumables, mate, we are not consumables."

Gao Yi didn’t even want to know where the captive came from, but because he was referred to as consumables, he felt somewhat aggrieved, saying, "We’ve carried out many missions, and also, I retired from one of Spain’s best special forces units, we’re not those assassins who think they’ve succeeded when the target dies, we’re very meticulous, we’re professional hitmen."

The captive talked too much, it was annoying.

Gao Yi thought for a while, then said in a low voice, "We can now basically confirm that there’s a connection between the Dark Web and Andic Group that goes beyond the usual. It seems that we can consider the Dark Web and Andic Group as one and the same."

Saying this in front of the captive implied there was no intention of letting the captive go.

The captive understood, but he immediately said, "Right, otherwise how could Andic Group have found us, how could they have accessed our information? I think that the Dark Web is operated by Andic Group."

The captive’s words could very well be the truth.

Gao Yi looked at the captive, who said helplessly, "Actually, we’ve made enough money, but once we had a mission, we still had to take it, mates. Since the first time we took a mission from Andic Group, we couldn’t disengage, and we knew we would eventually die."

Feng Biao said in a low voice, "CIA also has close ties with the Dark Web, does that mean the Dark Web, Andic, and the CIA can actually be seen as one?"

Gao Yi shook his head and said, "No, the Dark Web and Andic are one, the CIA... is a distinguished VIP client, that’s what I think because if the CIA could directly control the Dark Web, then they wouldn’t be as restrained as they appear now."

"Maybe the CIA thinks it needs a cover, so it’s using Andic Group as a front?"

"If that’s the case... in any event, it’s complicated; it’s as if Iron Rooster’s identity has actually been exposed, and my identity... has been exposed too?"

"Yes, they just haven’t linked your several identities together yet, but in the current situation, you are in danger. Once they connect Sky Garden and Garden together, you’re done for."

The captive suddenly said, "You are Sky Garden?"

Several people looked at the captive.

The captive said with a blank face, "Well, if I die by your hands, I have nothing to say, but actually, I have a suggestion; we’ve always been thinking about how to get out of the situation where we can only work for Andic Group, so we were trying to figure out a way."

A suggestion from the captive?

Gao Yi said with interest, "Okay, let’s hear it."

"We are in the open, Andic Group is in the shadows, and we don’t know how our own identities were exposed, so we were thinking, what if we could go to a more infamous, crazier, more profitable place to cover our previous identities? That way, maybe Andic Group wouldn’t keep harping on us."

Gao Yi frowned.

The captive said earnestly, "Like a Mercenary Group, think about it, if we joined a Mercenary Group and went to war in Africa or the Middle East, would Andic Group still send Assassins to kill us? I personally don’t think so, it’s not convenient to go to such places, and we’d still be engaged in extremely dangerous work, definitely not posing a threat to Andic Group, so they would have no need to send Assassins to kill us."

"Why haven’t you done that?" asked Gao Yi.

"It’s not really necessary, being a mercenary is too hard, more dangerous, and not lucrative, so why bother? But I think it’s a good way, of course, just for getting rid of Andic Group, excluding other factors."

Gao Yi sighed, "To cover the original identity, not changing it, just for this suggestion, I’ll make it quick for you."