Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger-Chapter 1044 - 978: Assault on the State Police Headquarters
Everything happened so quickly...
Mountain Eagle intended to trap himself to stall the opponent, but the other side sent a woman over without any sincerity, offering a humiliating condition for Mountain Eagle to surrender.
From the moment she used bullet ant venom against Mountain Eagle, it became a fight to the death between them.
Mountain Eagle never believed from the start that the woman represented the will of the entire Belgar Lake Foundation, because the level of affairs she handled under that name was extremely low.
An organization like the Belgar Lake Foundation, with its gathering of big shots, couldn't be lacking in people and information from the White House, nor would they care about the accounts and wealth of Los Zetas.
So, they couldn't possibly be unaware of the dirty bomb issue, much less unclear on what would happen if it exploded in the heart of the United States, or the impact of letting Death Angel use dirty bombs to threaten the United States for a long time.
Therefore, Mountain Eagle judged that the true cause of all this was likely certain individuals within the Belgar Lake Foundation who needed to manipulate terrorist organizations to influence NATO and United States decisions to make quick money.
Some of their actions aligned with the will of the Belgar Lake Foundation's high-ranking members, such as using terrorist organizations to keep the Middle East in a state of hatred and division, while pressuring Europe to constantly consolidate NATO's internal will.
However, this time they overplayed their hand, and to avoid too great a cost, they sent the brown-haired woman, attempting the simplest and crudest method to locate and eliminate Death Angel.
Theoretically, their goals were actually aligned with those of the Refugee Group and even Mountain Eagle, but they couldn't bear the issues exposed during the search for Death Angel.
Corruption at the US-Mexico border was likely just a small part of this group's problems...
This group has grown so arrogant that they've even forgotten the principle of sacrificing a pawn to save the queen, forcing a natural ally like Mountain Eagle to the opposite side.
Mountain Eagle's move drew most of the attention to himself, creating a gap in action for Kobe and Daria...
To maximize attention, Mountain Eagle chose an unexpected method...
After watching Danon lead the 'Cleaners' away, he sabotaged the State Police office's surveillance system, then used the Sergeant System to generate new special tranquilizer darts and bullet ant venom ammunition, along with lots of firearms and explosives, and returned to storm the State Police office.
When the gas and smoke bombs filled the corridors of the State Police office, the civilian staff who worked there daily had no chance to resist.
After setting up Claymore mines on the front and back doors and configuring them for both remote control and trigger methods, he single-handedly secured a building, using gas and smoke bombs to herd everyone upstairs like rabbits.
Of course, since he was alone and his actions were simple and crude, he missed many people.
However, that didn't matter. When the media broadcast vans and helicopters arrived, it meant he had drawn the attention of all Texas, indeed the entire United States, to the State Police office.
At that moment, the smoking State Police office became an incredibly conspicuous spectacle!
And as the instigator, Mountain Eagle, while those outside were in utter chaos, was inside moving those he had tranquilized to the top floor, preventing them from suffocating in their sleep from the gas downstairs.
The United States State Police are divided into 8 ranks...
Trooper
Corporal
Sergeant
Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Because of Laredo's location, the highest-ranking officer here wasn't a Major regional commander but a Lieutenant Colonel deputy commander.
Mountain Eagle captured this elderly man, who took the lead to try to fend off his attack and cover others' retreat, with his own hands.
After tranquilizing him, he occupied his top-floor office and used his identity to force the State Police to surrender all their weapons.
The process wasn't smooth, but due to interference by the Belgar Lake Foundation, the State Police lacked proper emergency plans, and it wasn't until after the media arrived that the outside SWAT began their first round of negotiation.
State Police building 8th floor...
The entire eighth floor only had six offices and a large conference room, trapping over two hundred State Police staff who were driven up by gas and bullets.
No need for Mountain Eagle's orders, most of them were pressing towards the windows, as it was the only place with fresh air to alleviate the nausea from the gas seeping up from downstairs.
SWAT snipers were in position, but they were completely helpless...
"Listen inside, you are surrounded, put down your weapons and come out..."
The media broadcast carried the image of a middle-aged man in a State Police uniform with a megaphone conducting the necessary negotiation...
Meanwhile, the media helicopter's perspective clearly showed the SWAT team in black combat uniforms arriving at the front and back doors of the State Police building...
However, obviously, the Claymore mines hanging on the inside of the doors made them powerless...
This thing isn't a toy you can disarm with a pair of scissors, nor is it a bomb used to test a bomb technician's mindset, if they attempted to open a door, or even a window, all the bombs set by Mountain Eagle on the first floor would explode simultaneously.
At this time, the State Police office was filled with smoke. Although they had restored external surveillance and intervened in the building's internal monitoring, they could not obtain any effective information.
Nobody knew what else was inside the first floor besides the Claymore mines hung on the doors.
In such a situation, anyone ordering an attack would be held accountable, so the two SWAT teams, under media scrutiny, lingered by the front and back doors for nearly fifteen minutes but eventually had to withdraw without success.
The gathered media reporters and onlookers sighed collectively.
Mountain Eagle, on the 8th floor, wearing a gas mask, used a combination of Claymore and gas bombs to seal all stairwell and elevator entrances, then returned to the center of the conference room...
Looking at the disarmed State Police, he said through the gas mask in a slightly eerie voice: "I need ten volunteers now...
We will be staying here for a long time, so I hope everyone will cooperate with me.
I don't want to hurt any of you, so I hope that in the end, regardless of the outcome, you can go home to your families."
Then Mountain Eagle shifted his gaze to a few restless individuals, shaking his head slightly and fired non-lethal bullets at them with his pistol...
The young officer who got hit dropped to the ground, curling in pain like someone had jabbed his behind with a hot iron, screaming until his voice broke.
Once they were too pained to make a sound, Mountain Eagle clapped to draw everyone's attention, then said in a deep voice: "Now, I need ten volunteers...
It's best if they are strong and have a spirit of devotion.
You have ten seconds to choose, or I'll have to choose for you..."
