My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1127 - 1055: Lawless? I Don’t Buy It!
"Before noon?"
Wu Jie let out a soft chuckle, taking a deep drag of his cigarette.
Tang Xiao’s eyebrows knitted in cold concentration as she dragged Wu Jie aside.
"Has that bastard Abulaxi lost his mind?"
"He’s kidnapped our staff and is demanding we hand over three nuclear warheads. Does he... does he have the launch codes?"
Wu Jie blew a ring of smoke and slightly shook his head.
"How would I know? But I reckon he’s gotten the codes through some other channels!"
Tang Xiao muttered to herself, "Makes sense. The classified data was stolen by Perrio for his personal gain and then kept by his brother Hittory. Who knows if any spies glanced over it before their deaths!"
Wu Jie nodded, "Remember before the Sea Shark super cruise liner was destroyed, a high-speed boat racing towards the Persian Gulf?"
"Of course, I remember!" Tang Xiao scoffed. "It’s quite possible that those beauties who partied night after night with Perrio and Hittory were spies in disguise!"
Flicking cigarette ash, Wu Jie squinted towards Baldet.
"Let’s get back to base first, fill our stomachs, and then talk. The hostages will be safe until noon anyway."
"That’s fine, I have a lot of arrangements to make."
As they talked, they immediately switched to a car and entered the bustling city to return to the security base.
As for the two nuclear warheads, along with the two squads of mercenaries including Edison, they were of course brought back as well.
So much had happened overnight.
Last night was supposed to be Lemur’s private organization of an auction between multiple countries. Tang Xiao and others were ordered to precisely guide the concrete missile to execute a precise kill, after which the delegations from various countries scattered.
Lemur’s five henchmen had betrayed their word, not meeting with Edison’s team as agreed. They went to a hotel to party, which ended with the Sea Shark Federation’s special forces paying a heavy price to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
To retrieve the nuclear warheads, the Star Federation deployed heavy troops to Seleck, the city went under martial law with checkpoints, Tang Xiao and others wiped out drug traffickers to clear security checks to enter Seleck Airport, only to run into Edison and others in disguise.
And then...
The War Statistics Institute’s private plane was tragically shot down by a quartet of missiles soon after takeoff. Tang Xiao and others parachuted to safety before the crash but landed in an armed group’s encirclement, suffering a brutal attack.
Heavy troops besieged them, rockets plowed the ground, and they even dispatched fighter jets for bombing... After a tough battle, they managed to break through with the nuclear warheads and people, but then Abulaxi played a sneaky move.
He forcibly kidnapped five engineers from Tang’s Communications Jiazhou Continent branch, detained and controlled them, threatening to start executing the hostages before noon if the nuclear warheads were not handed over.
Damn it!
It wasn’t just a simple case of tearing up the ticket, but publicly recording and uploading the execution video online.
And it was execution-style killing, which is exceedingly brutal and inhumane.
In some countries and regions, execution-style killings are generally for extremely atrocious criminals, instantly killed with a gunshot or poisoned with drugs. Of course, some still retain hanging or electrocution.
No matter the method, executions are swift and do not intentionally torment the prisoner.
But in the turbulent and chaotic Nabiya...
Execution-style killings are quite variation-rich.
There are methods similar to a death by a thousand cuts, injecting the victim with drugs to numb the pain before making many cuts, allowing them to watch their body being sliced like meat at a market, getting reduced cut by cut.
Even more brutal methods were reported in the news and shocked the world—a victim paralyzed by drugs, forced to watch their bodies being sawed with steel...
In short.
Evil breeds in a treacherous land.
Armed groups who kill without blinking an eye possess no sense of righteousness, honor, or moral integrity.
There’s nothing they can’t imagine doing.
Of course.
Those five engineers are important bargaining chips to Abulaxi.
He surely wouldn’t act rashly before noon.
But to get the nuclear warheads, he’s continuously pushing the envelope, and this way of courting death is infuriating.
Shooting down the War Statistics Institute’s plane, besieging with heavy troops and bomber aircraft, kidnapping hostages for ransom...
Each step taken is so audacious and lawless.
Do they really think that on the land of Nabiya, there’s no rule of law?
If having power means you can act recklessly, then why hold back?
...
Security base.
Upon arrival, medics rushed over to check and treat the injuries.
They had been surrounded and fought hard, and were bombarded by rockets three times.
Many were wounded, with scrapes and stab wounds from rolling, crawling, lying down, jumping, and more.
Tang Xiao was relatively okay since Wu Jie had secretly arranged for an Aggregated State Combat Robot to protect her.
The two nuclear warheads were quickly taken to the warehouse. Wu Jie verified the launch codes, and both were genuine.
In fact, it would have been the same without checking. Edison and Pakolin’s mercenary teams are professionals in combat, but they couldn’t possibly make two fake nuclear warheads overnight to fool anyone.
As for the payment...
Tang Xiao had already promised them fifteen million each. The money could be paid immediately, but they couldn’t leave right away.
They were to heal and rest at the security base first while also bolstering its defenses until the nuclear warheads were transported away. They wouldn’t stay longer than a day at most.
After last night’s hiding and battle, Edison and team would rather find a safe place to recuperate—they’re mercenaries, not robots.
The security base is well-built. Unless someone used heavy weaponry and bombarded the place, it was impenetrable.
