447: Chapter 444: Target, Emerald.
447: Chapter 444: Target, Emerald.
Ivan had already booked rooms for Gao Yang and the others, one for each person, and the conditions were quite good.
Of course, the money was to be paid by Gao Yang and his team.
The only problem was that Ivan didn’t know the Satan Mercenary Corps had an extra person when they returned, and it was a woman, so he had booked one room too few.
However, this mistake that wasn’t really a mistake made Bruce quite happy, even grateful to Ivan.
While everyone else could go and rest, Gao Yang invited Ivan into his own room.
He was very interested in the cooperation that Ivan had mentioned, so he couldn’t wait until the next day to discuss it with Ivan in detail.
“Ivan, when you were leaving the clinic, you said we could work together to make a big score.
I think now is the time to talk about that in detail.”
Ivan, sitting on the sofa, yawned and said with a wry smile, “Sorry, I’m a bit tired, so I’ll just give you a brief rundown.
It’s like this: some guy owes me a lot of money, he’s trying to weasel out of it, and I want to get my money back and teach the guy a lesson.”
Gao Yang frowned and said, “Sorry, I don’t really understand.
Are you saying you want to hire us to help you collect a debt?”
After thinking for a while, Ivan nodded and said, “It’s more or less like that.
I don’t have enough people in Colombia, and I don’t want to transfer more from elsewhere.
So, the best way is to have you guys help sort this out.
However, it’s not a matter of hiring you, but rather, after we take out the guy who owes me money, we’ll split the spoils equally.”
Gao Yang spread his hands and said, “You’d better explain in more detail.
What you’ve said so far isn’t enough for me to make a decision.”
Ivan said helplessly, “Alright, I’ll explain in detail then.
But first, let me ask you, do you know what Colombia’s most famous products are?”
After thinking for a while, Gao Yang shrugged and said, “I only know about cocaine from Colombia, of course, there are also big drug lords, and then there’s the anti-government armed forces.
These should all count as Colombia’s specialties, right?”
Ivan nodded and said, “Yes, those are some of Colombia’s famous products.
But Colombia is also known for the world’s top emeralds and beauty queens.
What I’m talking about is related to emeralds.
Here’s the situation: four months ago, I knew a guy who was in the cocaine business, but now the cocaine business isn’t so good, so he planned to steal emeralds from the Muzo Mining Area.
Extracting emeralds is tough work.
It requires machinery, explosives, and a lot of workers.
To steal emeralds, you need even more people because you need a lot of armed personnel to prevent anyone from daring to investigate.
The guy I knew didn’t have enough money to start the initial work, so he borrowed a lot of money from me.”
Gao Yang snorted with laughter and said, “Let me guess.
That guy lost everything, right?”
Ivan curled his lip and said, “That unlucky bastard, he said he had found a very good vein, and he could make a lot of money in just one month.
He convinced me, so I lent him the money.
Also, weapons enough to arm a hundred people, complete gear, for a month.
At the end of that period, he had to repay the money and also pay me back for the weapons.”
“How much money?”
“You mean the principal?
Two million US dollars, as for the weapons, valued at five hundred thousand US dollars, retail price and on credit,”
Gao Yang chuckled and said, “Two million five, that’s not a lucky number.
All right, he definitely hasn’t repaid you, or we wouldn’t need to discuss this now.
I want to know how much he owes you at this point.”
Ivan shrugged and said with an unconcerned expression, “Twenty million, including interest, since he’s three months overdue.”
Gao Yang grimaced and said, “You’re too harsh.
You can’t possibly hope to get all that money back.”
Ivan replied irritably, “That guy promised to pay me back five million US dollars, including interest, by the end of one month.
After working in the Muzo mining area for a month, he got nothing, so he ran off.
Anyway, that guy lost everything.
Even if I find him, I can only kill him; the money is unrecoverable, which is why I wasn’t in a hurry to hunt him down.
But just yesterday, I got news that the damn guy ran off to another mining area, and over these three months, he dug up a vein of extremely high-quality ore.
The damn guy struck it rich, yet never once thought about repaying the debt.”
Gao Yang immediately nodded and said, “Oh, I get it now.
The guy is trying to default on the debt.”
Ivan said indignantly, “If that damn guy had failed, I wouldn’t have been so angry.
I would have just treated it as a failed investment and wouldn’t have wasted more money trying to find and kill him.
But this guy, he used my money and my weapons to strike it rich and now refuses to pay me back, intending to kick me aside.
Is this something I can tolerate?”
Gao Yang immediately responded, “No, absolutely intolerable.”
Ivan lit a cigarette for himself, then leaned back heavily on the sofa and exclaimed, “So, I must kill him.
Whether he pays me back or not, he has to die, or else, people will think that I, Ivan, am a pushover.
Buddy, as an arms dealer, I don’t want a lot of people getting ideas about crossing me.”
Gao Yang smiled and said, “You’re absolutely right.
So, what do you plan to do?”
“That guy has quite a few men under him, and now that he’s rich, he’s got even more.
I don’t have many people in Colombia, just about a dozen.
I was planning to bring all my men over to Colombia, but that would be troublesome.
Plus, since you haven’t received your deserved compensation this time, as the middleman, I’d like to make it up to you.
Let’s take down that debtor, seize his money and gems, then split everything 50/50.
How about it?”
After pondering for a moment, Gao Yang nodded and said, “Sounds good, but how much money do you think we can get?”
Ivan shook his head and said, “Hard to say, really hard to say.
There should at least be several millions, but if we’re lucky, tens or even millions of US dollars are possible, depending on how much treasure that guy has dug up from the vein.
If you feel splitting the spoils isn’t safe enough, you can name a price, and I’ll pay you to fight for me.
Of course, in that case, all the spoils would belong to me.”
Gao Yang waved his hand and said, “No need for that, you don’t need to pay.
We’ll just split the spoils.
If there’s a lot, then we’re both lucky.
If there’s little, it doesn’t matter.
I’ll consider it helping a friend.
However, I can’t give you a definite answer now.
I need to discuss it with my men.
I’ll give you a firm answer tomorrow, but I can tell you, it’s likely they’ll all agree.”
Ivan slapped his hand and exclaimed loudly, “Excellent, then it’s settled.
Let’s start preparing tomorrow.”(To be continued.
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