Chapter 95: with translation of chapter title

On this side, Maotouying hesitated slightly, then spoke again: "Alright, I'll step back."

I know you have a team that has boarded the Culture Forest and killed several of my subordinates.

But that's fine; as long as you let them leave now, I won't pursue this matter, nor will I treat it as a condition.

My demand is simple: withdraw your people and let me go.

Before Deputy Commander Gao could speak, Maotouying continued:

"Just as you're certain I won't detonate the Culture Forest, I'm equally certain you dare not let me go."

Deputy Commander Gao fell silent again.

In fact, his bottom line is to leave that CVX2 poison gas bomb behind.

As for Maotouying, if he lacks absolute certainty, he can only let him go.

After all, compared to that CVX2 poison gas bomb, whether or not to capture Maotouying is less important.

Tang Xinyi disappointed him greatly; now he can only wait for news from the Red Blood Cell Group.

If, within the 20 minutes Maotouying demanded, the Red Blood Cell Group makes no breakthrough, Deputy Commander Gao can only order the Red Blood Cell Group to retreat, using the surrender of the poison gas bomb as condition, and let Maotouying go.

However, although he thought this in his heart, he absolutely could not say it like that.

After about five seconds of silence, Deputy Commander Gao spoke again, as expected with a hint of mockery: "Maotouying, actually I'm negotiating with you now simply because I sense you've lost your patience."

To be honest, I also don't think you dare detonate that CVX2 poison gas bomb.

Because I know, someone like you wants to live more than anyone else.

In our words, this is called cherishing one's life.

Although, your worthless life isn't worth anything; it can be said to have no value at all.

I admit, you do have a few chips in hand now, but trying to exchange them for your worthless life still seems somewhat insufficient.

Listen carefully; I will only say the following once.

Having said that, Deputy Commander Gao deliberately paused for a moment.

In more professional terms, this is called negotiation tactics.

Grasp the opponent's most urgent point, then pause at the most critical moment; the time need not be long—seven or eight seconds suffices—to arouse the target's anxiety.

One could say Deputy Commander Gao's use of this method is as easy as riding a familiar bike.

Exactly at the ninth second, Deputy Commander Gao's voice rang out on cue: "One thing you said is correct—your ship indeed has my people, and they are the strongest special forces unit under my command."

Now I want to make a bet with you—I don't know if you have the guts or the interest.

"How do we bet?" Maotouying's breathing began to grow heavy.

"Hehe..." Deputy Commander Gao's laugh carried a hint of "old sly and crafty": "I bet you won't dare detonate this ship within half an hour, and I also bet my people can find you within that half hour and successfully capture you."

If I lose the bet and you detonate the ship, then there's naturally nothing more to say.

But if my people fail to find you within half an hour, then, as you said, leave the CVX2 poison gas bomb and I'll let you go.

Deputy Commander Gao said all that in one breath and then fell silent.

Maotouying didn't speak right away; he was thinking, weighing the pros and cons of this bet.

As Deputy Commander Gao said, that's merely adding ten minutes to the twenty minutes he demanded.

And the risk lies in whether the Eastern soldiers who boarded the Culture Forest can find him within those twenty minutes, or actually capture him.

Now he can basically confirm that, aside from Zha'erbi guarding outside, his remaining subordinates are either dead or captured; otherwise they wouldn't have remained silent for so long.

Of course, he doesn't care.

Besides Zha'erbi, he doesn't care at all about his brother Zabuka's life or death either.

Anyway, they were hired for money, and that payment already included their lives.

That's how mercenaries are: if capable, they earn money to survive; if not, they take the money and buy their own coffin in advance.

But Zha'erbi is different.

One could say Zha'erbi is Maotouying's gall; without Zha'erbi beside him, Maotouying wouldn't even dare go out alone at night to urinate, fearing someone might seize the chance to kill him.

Maotouying has been around so long that his enemies naturally far outnumber his friends—this is a truth, or rather a theorem.

As the saying goes: "Mix in society, and sooner or later you'll have to pay up."

Maotouying hired Zha'erbi as his bodyguard at great expense precisely because he doesn't want to repay his debts.

Thinking of Zha'erbi waiting outside, Maotouying finally felt a bit more confident, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice: "Good! It's settled!"

On the other end of the phone, Deputy Commander Gao's face showed a faintly strange smile as he silently hung up.

Of course, this is also one of the negotiation tactics.

Doing this, even if the opponent felt they had the upper hand a second ago, the next second they would doubt their own judgment.

That's exactly how Maotouying is now.

Hearing the dial tone from the phone, Motorbike Eagle's face instantly turned grim.

He angrily tossed the satellite phone aside, turned to look at Tang Xinyi standing nearby, and shouted furiously:

"It's all your fault, you hateful woman!"

Tang Xinyi: ……

Speaking of which, this really can't be blamed on Tang Xinyi.

Now, more than two years have passed since Tang Xinyi last went undercover beside him, and that time Mao Touyin suffered no loss either.

This time he managed to get hold of such a Culture Forest; Tang Xinyi originally didn't know about it, and his being tracked here has nothing to do with Tang Xinyi or Qin Yuxi.

They had just sent the news back to Wolf Fang when Maotouying came under international police surveillance—who could blame that on?

Tang Xinyi said nothing; she also didn't know what else she could say at this point.

How to put it? Tang Xinyi, aside from his expertise in electronic engineering, is really lacking in other areas, especially in handling emergencies, by no small margin.

Even sometimes, even He Zhijun and Fan Tianlei didn't know why the higher-ups wanted Tang Xinyi to carry out the mission.

To be frank, even that mission two years ago was not ordered by He Zhijun and Fan Tianlei.

Their views on Tang Xinyi are actually not much different from Liu Xiaotian's; they just express them differently.

After all, one is a Brigade Commander and the other a Chief of Staff; they can't just speak their minds as bluntly as Liu Xiaotian does.

Besides, in the field of electronic information engineering, before Liu Xiaotian appeared, Tang Xinyi was indeed a genuine 'big shot'.

Seeing Tang Xinyi not picking up the thread, Maotouying didn't say anything either.

But he still doesn't know that now, and soon he won't have a chance to say anything else……

(End of chapter)