456: Chapter Four Hundred Fifty-Three: Two Packs of Emeralds.
456: Chapter Four Hundred Fifty-Three: Two Packs of Emeralds.
The human body isn’t so fragile that one can completely twist and snap a spine with bare hands in an instant, that sort of thing isn’t as simple as just twisting lightly like in the movies.
Gao Yang had learned from Li Jinfang how to twist a neck, but this sort of thing is far from achievable with technique alone.
Li Jinfang had been practicing martial arts since he was young, his arm strength and explosive power were simply not something Gao Yang could match.
After practicing with Jiang Yun for a few days and knowing how to apply force to the more vulnerable areas of the neck, Li Jinfang could twist a neck as easily as wringing a chicken’s, but for Gao Yang, after a few days of learning, it would not be too late to think about twisting a neck only after training his upper body strength to a level closer to Li Jinfang’s.
The techniques of Li Jinfang were not suitable for Gao Yang to use, nor could he use Samuel’s methods, which involved stabbing the brainstem cleanly with a bayonet, not to mention the difficulty in accurately stabbing the knife into the correct spot, but also the force required to pierce through the skull with a knife was something Gao Yang did not possess.
Scouting was originally a job for the assault troops, both Li Jinfang and Samuel had put a lot of hard work into this, Gao Yang definitely couldn’t scout as simply, quickly, and efficiently as Li Jinfang and Samuel, so he had to use his own method, which was to smash with an ax.
Gao Yang rushed into the camp like a gust of wind, his footsteps drawing the attention of a sentry, but just as that sentry turned his head, Gao Yang had already swung his ax, bringing it down hard.
Striking the back of the head with the blunt side of an ax or hammer is actually more effective and swift than using the ax blade to chop.
With a soft ‘puff’ sound, the sentry struck by Gao Yang collapsed to the ground, his body going limp.
Lucica also pounced on a sentry the moment Gao Yang charged out.
She definitely couldn’t match Gao Yang’s strength, let alone compare with Li Jinfang or Samuel, so Lucica’s method had to compensate for her lack of power with skill.
Lucica covered the sentry’s mouth from behind and then used her knife to fiercely slit his throat; after nearly cutting half of the sentry’s neck, she then stabbed the knife into his back.
Before the sentry could struggle, after only a couple of kicks, he died completely.
By the time Gao Yang and Lucica had each taken down one, Li Jinfang and Samuel had also arrived; they had acted almost as soon as Gao Yang and Lucica did.
Li Jinfang ran and pounced on a sentry who was rapidly turning around, reaching out his hand midair, and as he skimmed by the sentry’s side, taking a stride forward as he landed, the sentry was already drooping his head and falling to the ground.
Samuel was even more direct this time, running out while pulling out his hammer, and just as the sound of Gao Yang smashing a head with an ax was heard, the sound of Samuel’s hammer smashing down followed, and after a ‘puff,’ brain matter splattered across the camp.
In a matter of seconds, the whole process of scouting was completed, the only people still alive in the compound were those sleeping in the tents, utterly unaware of the massacre that had just occurred next to them, with snores and the heavy breathing of sleep intermingling, and no movement yet from the lit room.
Gao Yang pulled out his pistol in a flash and slung the ax across his chest.
After signalling twice to the support team behind him, he pointed and he and Li Jinfang charged toward the lit room’s entrance.
The support team quickly moved into the compound, they would naturally take care of the aftermath, Gao Yang and Li Jinfang no longer needed to bother and just needed to secure the room with lights on.
Samuel, who often worked with Brejinsky, they stood in front of a slightly larger room.
Behind them were Lucica and Cui Bo, ready to provide backup, while Frey and Glolov stood behind Gao Yang and Li Jinfang.
Gao Yang didn’t switch to a shotgun, he held a pistol in his right hand and stood at the doorway.
As Li Jinfang prepared to kick the door, Gao Yang shook his hand, first gently pushing the door with his hand, and when he found it immovable, Gao Yang immediately made a hand gesture.
Li Jinfang took a step back and then forcefully kicked out, the wooden stick acting as a doorstop instantly snapped in two, and the door swung open.
As Li Jinfang kicked open the door, Gao Yang raised his gun and rushed into the room; this routine was one he and Li Jinfang were too familiar with.
In the room, there was a small bed against each wall with someone sleeping on them.
When Li Jinfang’s kick made a loud noise, one person abruptly sat up from the bed, and the other had just opened his eyes.
The two in the room were quick to react.
Upon seeing Gao Yang’s gun, the sitting person immediately raised his hands, and the one who had just opened his eyes, with a jolt, didn’t even sit up but instead lay back and raised his hands over his head.
The two in the room were shouting something loudly in Spanish, not a word of which Gao Yang understood.
“Shut up, don’t move.”
Gao Yang shouted in the Spanish he had just learned, and the two immediately stopped moving, just holding their hands up high, and then Gao Yang immediately heard Lucica shouting loudly, followed by Samuel and Brejinsky sternly chastising in Spanish.
Soon, Samuel shouted loudly, “We’ve got the situation under control, no one’s resisting, there are a lot of people in this room, and it stinks.
Definitely not where a big shot would stay.”
After hearing Samuel’s words, Gao Yang immediately said over the walkie-talkie, “We’ve got the situation under control, you guys can come in now.”
Excited, Ivan ran over, and Li Jinfang, who was left at the door, saw him and shouted loudly, “Over here.”
Ivan stepped into the room where Gao Yang was, with Antonov closely following him in as always.
Upon seeing the two people on the bed in the room, Ivan’s eyes lit up.
He flashed a cold smile at the person who sat up and said, “Arturo, bet you didn’t expect to see me again.”
“Ivan!
It’s you!
Listen to me, it’s not what you think.
I’ve always intended to pay you back, it’s just that I haven’t had the chance to find you, I…”
As Arturo frantically started to speak, Ivan turned and reached out his hand to Antonov behind him, who immediately handed over the pistol he was holding to Ivan.
After taking the gun, Ivan raised his hand and fired a shot at Arturo’s leg, cutting off his words, while the person on the other bed started shouting loudly in Spanish upon seeing Ivan firing the gun.
Although Ivan couldn’t understand what the man was saying, it appeared that despite being anxious, the man spoke with a tone of warning Ivan.
But Ivan’s response was more direct—while the man was shouting, Ivan shot him in the forehead.
After the Spanish speaker was shot in the head, Arturo immediately stopped screaming and looked at the one killed by Ivan with a face full of horror.
Waving the pistol, Ivan impatiently said to Arturo, “I didn’t give him a chance to speak, and he started yelling—no manners at all.
Alright, it’s quiet now.
Listen, you answer when I ask, and if you answer incorrectly, I’ll shoot you.
If you refuse to answer, I’ll shoot you.
If you start speaking out of turn when I haven’t asked, I’ll still shoot you.
Understood?”
Arturo nodded in terror and was about to speak but remembered he couldn’t speak out of turn, so he quickly covered his mouth with his hands.
Ivan nodded in satisfaction and asked, “Good.
Now tell me, where are your emeralds?”
Trembling, Arturo pointed to the dead man and said, “He has some on him; mine are here.”
Arturo took a cylindrical bag from beside the bed, unzipped it, and revealed a full bag of emeralds.
Seeing the emeralds, Ivan nodded with satisfaction and said, “Very good.
Now, where is your money?”
Arturo replied with a quivering voice, “There’s no money here, only emeralds.”
Ivan shrugged and said, “As I expected, money’s no good in this godforsaken place.
Alright, tell me where you’ve stashed your money then.”
With a downcast face, Arturo said, “I paid off some debts, and now I have a little over a million US dollars left.
Ivan, I wasn’t planning on not paying you back, I just haven’t had the chance.
I wasn’t deliberately avoiding you, please hear me out, Ivan, please forgive me…”
Before Arturo could finish, Ivan’s gun fired again, this time hitting Arturo in the head.
“If I didn’t ask, you shouldn’t have spoken, or I’ll shoot you.
I’ve told you already.
Well, now I forgive you.”
After saying a few words to Arturo’s now lifeless body, Ivan turned and handed the gun back to Antonov.
Then he rubbed his hands together eagerly and said, “Now, let’s see what else we can find.”
After taking a backpack from beside the body on the other bed, Ivan took a deep breath, unzipped it, and after seeing the contents, he held the backpack up to Gao Yang, saying with a laugh, “Almost a full bag of gems, so heavy.”
Gao Yang went over to have a look, and saw that the emeralds in the bag were already processed, though some remnants of the host rock still slightly clung to them, they had been cleaned well, so the bag contained rather clean emeralds instead of raw ore wrapped in stone.
After picking up the cylindrical bag next to Arturo, Gao Yang weighed it in his hand and then chuckled, “So heavy, at least five kilograms, right?
F**k, did we just hit the jackpot?”
Ivan, holding his own bag, shook it at Gao Yang with excitement, “Five kilograms?
I feel this one is at least ten kilograms.
Buddy, we absolutely hit the motherload!”
Afterwards, Ivan excitedly said, “But average emeralds aren’t worth much, pour out the gems and let’s see, check how much of it is top-grade emerald.
If both bags are full of emeralds, haha, then we really struck it rich.”
Gao quickly replied, “No, don’t be so hasty, let’s finish up all our work here and leave as soon as possible.
We can always take a look after we get back; there’s no hurry.”
Despite appearing quite impatient, Ivan ultimately sighed and said, “Alright, we’ll look later.
Let’s extend the thrill of anticipation a bit longer.
Buddy, I’ve studied Colombian emeralds before, and I can tell you now, a lot of what’s in our bags are top-grade emeralds.”(To be continued.
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