Mercenary's War

The two rushed out to the open space outside. People tend to follow the crowd, and when they saw someone jump on a car and drive away, most chose the same way to escape. Of course, some belonged to the village and didn’t need to drive away, but Gao Yang’s goal was achieved, which was a chaotic and crowded crowd.

Justin whispered, "Quick, let’s steal a car!"

"No! Let’s get on someone else’s car!"

Gao Yang shouted urgently, then spotted a middle-aged couple as they were terrified and opening their car door, immediately pulling Justin along and said, "This one!"

Cars were gathered together; it wasn’t possible to drive away all at once. Those easy-to-drive cars outside were driving towards the village exit one after another. When the middle-aged couple they were eyeing opened their car door, Gao Yang and Justin immediately followed, pulling open the back door and getting in.

As soon as the car started, seeing the unexpected guests in the back seat, the plump middle-aged woman immediately screamed.

"Don’t move, don’t speak, drive, follow the other cars out, we won’t harm you."

Justin hastily said, while Gao Yang pulled out a pistol, shouting at the man driving, "Answer me in English, or I’ll shoot you immediately. Say, where are you going!"

The man was confused and didn’t know what to do, the woman just screamed in terror.

Gao Yang immediately put away the gun, saying, "Great, they don’t understand. Tell them to go anywhere, just don’t go to Rome City Center, don’t reveal our true destination."

The car in front drove away, the road was cleared, Justin shouted, "Drive, drive, follow them, where do you want to go?"

The driving middle-aged man, extremely frightened, mentioned a place, to which Justin replied, "Drive quickly, you wouldn’t want to eat a bullet, listen, do as we say and you won’t have any trouble."

The car drove away, left the village, and reached the road. Gao Yang looked out through the window and said, "Can’t see the helicopter, but it should still be above us. They’ll definitely monitor the road or leave a helicopter here."

Justin sighed and said, "Anyway, we’ve shaken off the pursuit."

Gao Yang nervously looked out the window, as the car traveled a distance, the cars fleeing from the village gradually spread out. Those going to nearby villages didn’t travel far before returning, and as the distance increased, they finally had no helicopter overhead.

They stopped the car under a tree, let the woman go check, then Gao Yang got out to carefully observe. Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We’re completely safe now."

Justin looked relaxed and asked, "What do we do next?"

Gao Yang whispered, "Meet up with our comrades, alright, take their phones, we’re leaving."

Justin intimidated the couple who had taken them away, took their phones, and then got in the car. After Gao Yang sat in the passenger seat, he whispered, "Let’s go, I have some calls to make."

Justin drove while Gao Yang dialed numbers on the phone. Soon, he murmured, "We got away, great."

Yarebin responded calmly, "Surprising, but well done."

Gao Yang whispered, "Is Tarta alright? I saw him fall, is he injured?"

Yarebin softly replied, "He’s fine, falling was because a stone hit by a bullet struck his head, tripping over without noticing, no one is injured. You diverted the helicopter, we drove away, and have already switched cars, temporarily safe."

Gao Yang exhaled deeply and said, "Good, then I’m relieved. Now we’re heading to Rome City Center, we’ll meet in Rome."

At this time, Yarebin said softly, "Tarta wanted me to tell you he remembers what you did. So, we’ll meet in Rome."

After hanging up, Gao Yang immediately called Number Thirteen, informing him that Mario was not dead, that it was all a conspiracy, and arranged to meet in Rome City Center, then notified Grand Ivan and Glolov.

Once Gao Yang finished the calls, Justin smiled and said, "You sure have many people to notify, what do we do now?"

Gao Yang shrugged, "I don’t know, we’ll figure things out as we go, why are you able to laugh at this?"

Justin pondered intensely for a moment, and nodded, "Yes, why can I laugh? Perhaps because of the recent close escape from death. Ever since Mario killed my family and drove me to Iceland planning to end my life, until recently, I was indeed quite desolate, life lost meaning. But now I suddenly feel, maybe living isn’t so bad."

After speaking, Justin sighed deeply and said, "Suddenly I’m not very sad anymore, I suddenly want to truly contend with Mario. My mind has been a haze these days, but now I’m very clear-headed, perhaps it’s because I’ve just run the hardest segment of my life, now I’m awake."

Gao Yang nodded and said, "Got it, you just need a good beating."

Justin shrugged and said, "Maybe I do need a good beating."

Gao Yang whispered, "What’s past is past, the dead won’t come back alive, life is beautiful, you should look ahead, buddy. I’m glad you’ve looked past it because you’ve been performing quite badly lately. Now, I hope you can utilize your capabilities as a top intelligence dealer."

Justin said seriously, "I’m an intelligence merchant, not a dealer, don’t say it so harshly."

After speaking, Justin thought for a moment and said, "Next, we need to gather some intelligence, no matter who favors me, it’s not important. What’s important is that I know how to contact them and find them."

Gao Yang asked solemnly, "What do we specifically do?"

"I don’t know, let me think, I need to think thoroughly, I’ve wasted too much time in the past, missed too many opportunities, now I need to systematically think."

The two went silent, Justin silently drove the car. Suddenly Gao Yang said, "We need to change cars, that couple should have reported to the police, we must switch cars."

Justin nodded, "We’ll borrow another car."

With Gao Yang and Justin’s method of borrowing cars, finding another one isn’t difficult. Soon, they drove on the correct road towards Rome City Center.

All roads lead to Rome, but a road is necessary. As Justin drove onto the right path, it didn’t take long before he quietly said, "This situation doesn’t look good, police checkpoint, I have a bad feeling."

Seeing the checkpoints appear on the road, Gao Yang frowned and said, "Not good, Mario’s men can’t set up checkpoints on roads, but police can. If the police’s goal is to find us, it means..."

Justin said seriously, "They’ve finally sided with Mario!"