Chapter 35 Diamonds

Chapter 35 Diamonds

Chapter 35: Ten of Diamonds

Jianquan Road is located in the suburban villa area.

Recently, first-tier major cities have begun to build city walls in imitation of Bianliang, and civil engineering has swept away its decadence and become a popular industry again.

The vehicle was moving on the road. Felix simply treated his wound and drove despite the pain. It was not a very lucky thing to be targeted by the card club. The Ten of Clubs cleared out the bodyguard team by himself. Theoretically, there were still fifty-three such killers.

As they approached their destination, Felix's cell phone rang. He answered the call with a strange look on his face and handed the phone to someone behind him.

Jiang He picked up the phone and a young man's voice came from the other end.

"I'm Dong Bing, the team leader of the Order Bureau."

"Ah."

Dong Bing: “…”

Oh my god.

"I'm not reporting to you. My superiors have assigned me to monitor your actions. The Order Bureau has always maintained a gentle attitude towards neutral players. You only need to abide by three points, and then you can ignore us and continue to complete the game mission. But first, there is one thing worth stating. Any seemingly concealed disguise is actually just self-righteousness. Everything ultimately depends on whether it is worth investing resources."

"Supernormal is an exception."

“True, but it’s a collision of the old and the new.

Dong Bing's voice sounded again: "First: Do not harm innocent people. Second: The existence of the extraordinary must be hidden. Third: Do not publicly use heavy weapons or guide the extraordinary to vicious evolution. A friendly bonus piece of information, the killer who fired the gun, codenamed Spade Ten, committed suicide a few minutes ago. In fact, a stable order is also beneficial to you and me, and even the entire player group..."

"We'll talk about it later."

Dong Bing: “…”

Bro, you really think you are a leader.

Jiang He hung up the phone perfunctorily, his attention completely focused on the villa not far away. He remembered the intelligence he got at Xuanbin Hotel. Rodlev chose to leave his hometown because he was frustrated, and turned from a professor to an arms dealer. Xinwan Group was his first business, so theoretically he should not live in a villa area, even if it was just in the suburbs.

The call from Dong Bing of the Order Bureau increased the possibility of the next battle.

“Pull over to the side of the road.”

Felix turned the steering wheel and said suspiciously, "You are not going to leave me here, are you? The card club wants my life."

"I can only wish you good luck."

Jiang He dropped a pistol and walked towards Rodlev's villa.

"It's bitter." Felix sighed and staggered after the other person.

……

Villa Rodlev.

The three-story underground space is like a large library with a completely open ceiling.

The blond young man who had participated in the cocktail party before sat in the main seat and frowned when facing the action report.

"The Ten of Spades was hunted by the Order Bureau. His death is understandable, but why did the Ten of Clubs also have problems? Will it be my turn as the Ten of Hearts next? Are you guys really playing poker? Play one card at a time!"

The dozen or so peripheral members were trembling with fear. Every time the Poker Killer took action, there would be observers. However, because the Ten of Spades was surrounded by the drones of the Order Bureau in the factory base, the Ten of Clubs, who was going to take action next, lost trust in their own intelligence system.

At the same time, black screens appeared on the surveillance cameras all around the villa. Some of these surveillance cameras came from military videos on the sentries. The abnormality meant that the stronghold was under a security threat.

The blond young man immediately became alert and took out an assault rifle from the equipment box.

"Follow me, there's something going on."

……

Half an hour after getting off the bus, we arrived at the villa garden.

A secret sentry with a gun hidden on his waist fell backwards to the ground, blood gushing out of his throat. After a violent struggle, he fell into hemorrhagic shock, and because the blood blocked his trachea, he was soon suffocated to death.

Jiang He put away the tactical dagger he got from the utility room, and his color gradually darkened, blending perfectly into the night. Two minutes later, the blond youth led a team to arrive. A dozen of the peripheral members were well-trained, aiming their guns at the curtains, rooftops, doorways, bushes and other locations to issue fire warnings.

The peripheral member who also served as the emergency doctor came forward to check, his face changed slightly, he inserted his fingers into the wound to stop the bleeding, then used the vascular clamp in the first aid kit to tie it up, inserted the rubber tube to suck out the foreign body in the mouth, and turned around and said:
"It can still be saved. We need to prepare for surgery immediately."

The blond young man fired a shot directly, blowing the victim's forehead apart.

"Don't waste time, find the person for me!"

The emergency doctor was at a loss, his expression uncomfortable and distorted, as if he had swallowed feces.

Everyone put away their guns and pointed them, and in the next moment, the blond young man felt a strong sense of crisis and he instinctively hid behind his teammates.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gun flames rose in the night. Jiang He, who was standing at the foot of the wall, held the gun in both hands and poured bullets madly at the blond young man. He first killed the peripheral members who were used as scapegoats, and then shot the target behind him into a hornet's nest. After emptying the magazine, he let go instantly, and when he tightened his grip again, two more pistols appeared.

The counterattack began as soon as the gunshots were heard.

More than a dozen people pulled the trigger, and a fierce barrage of bullets fell on someone. The invisible defense provided by the dragon scale armor in the equipment bar lasted less than five seconds before it collapsed, and the pure green armor took over.

Jiang He opened fire on the enemy. Within five seconds, his high agility gave him enough time to aim. After killing six people at close range, his counterattack collapsed and the peripheral personnel retreated with the help of cover.

By the time Felix stumbled over, the battle was over.

Jiang He drank a bottle of small healing potion. After the damage stopped, his invisible defense slowly recovered. He felt his physical strength decreasing. The intensive shooting just now had left serious damage in his body just from the shock and impact. The dragon scale armor did not have a significant energy absorption effect.

He found the playing cards skillfully. The blond young man's code name was Ten of Hearts. At this point, spades, hearts and clubs had all surfaced.

"The only thing missing is the Ten of Diamonds. Or rather... I am the Ten of Diamonds. Rodlev and the blond youth are both members of the card club, and so is Rhine Augustus."

Jiang He walked into the villa to search, and took out a briefcase from the item bag. There was a red diamond pattern on the surface with a cross engraved in the middle. It was the original item on the park bench when he arrived.

"The Card Club attempted to murder Felix as requested by their employer. The people who carried out this mission were Rhine and Rodlev. They planned to use the weapons information to approach the target privately at the Xuanbin cocktail party and achieve their goal. This method is in line with the style of the assassin organization, rather than shooting in broad daylight."

"But Rhine disappeared for unknown reasons and was actually a death row inmate. His information was lost, and Rodlev couldn't offer any bargaining chips for cooperation. Even his identity was exposed, so the blond youth, the Ten of Hearts, took his place and became the new Rhine. The two continued to work together, so there are photos with the same background but very different roles. Everything is a fabricated illusion, including the information on the school's official website."

"At the banquet, I reappeared. Rodlev refused to acknowledge me because the new Rhine had been publicly revealed, but he did not resist the attack. After all, I was a killer, on the same level as the Ten of Clubs, who was capable of destroying a team of bodyguards."

"If you disappear for a month without any reason, you will lose the trust of the organization. But the shooter didn't shoot me first because I might have the weapons information in my hand."

"But why did they choose to kill Rodlev first rather than aiming for the second shot? Logically, it was my appearance that caused him to be abandoned by the organization, otherwise he would not have attended the reception."

"The results of streamlining are that killing Rodlev took priority over the mission objective. As for the reason..."

Jiang He found the passage to enter the underground library, and the answer already came to his mind - traitor.

"Dealing with the traitor is more important than the mission. Rhine is missing, and his partner Rodlev is the primary person responsible. During his disappearance, they must have launched a search for members of the organization. But before I summarized the four elements of surveillance, I appeared openly on the streets of the Magic City."

"Unfortunately, the reasoning without a complete chain of evidence is meaningless, but I have come to a conclusion: I want to kill Felix."

Jiang He discovered a personal safe of a member of the organization. There were signs that it had been opened recently. The input field showed eight digits, and the first note did not record a birthday, but a password.

1999.07.25
"Dangdang!"

The safe was opened, revealing necessities such as gold bars, US dollars, pistols, ammunition, and a file bag containing action reports. The file records mentioned that Rhine had arbitrarily changed the plan drawn up by the organization before his disappearance, and claimed that he was completely confident.

Felix walked down the stairs guarding them.

Jiang He turned around and symbolically took out the Glock 17 he carried with him. Although there were several more modern pistols in his bag, he was already familiar with this one.

"A letter. Hand it over."

Felix did not panic, he raised his hand and answered, "I swear I didn't know about this. Since I came to the Magic City, I have received at least 800 letters or invitations, if not 1,000. These are all taken care of by my assistant. Give me a call time, and the letter you want will be delivered to the designated location before dawn, provided that it really exists. And I don't recommend that we stay here any longer."

Jiang He nodded. There were ten bundles of US dollars in his personal safe, each bundle contained one thousand bills with a face value of US$20, totaling two hundred thousand. They were obviously for emergency use. Now they were all taken away by him. At this time, there were a large number of guns and ammunition scattered in the bag of belongings, like a mobile arsenal.

(End of this chapter)