Chapter 137 Preparation
Nieto was having lots of fun in his room before finally coming out, disheveled. Hailey was not wearing any clothes as well when she came out of the room with Nieto and she kept kissing his face. Meanwhile, Sofia, who was sitting in the living room and praying in silence, woke up and asked, “Are you going out?”
“Lord Los Zetas wants to establish the Republic of New York and we’ll be celebrating the founding ceremony with him this afternoon,” Nieto was tidying up his shirt as he spoke.
Sofia hurriedly walked towards Nieto to buckle his clothes. She then kissed him on the cheek and said, “Be careful, may God be with you.”
However, Nieto only replied her with ‘got it’ before leaving the room. He was not really fond of Sofia. He felt that the thirty years old was a bit too old for him. In contrast, he liked Hailey a lot as she was young and pretty.
Nieto walked out of his room and yelled at all of his men to come out from their respective rooms. Then, they headed to the town hall square. A high platform was being built on the square. The scene was quite chaotic as no one actually knew exactly how to carry out the founding ceremony.
“Nieto!” Someone yelled behind him once again. Guzman gradually strode towards him, “Bring your men and follow Mr. Koval. Listen to all his orders, do you understand?”
“Understood, Mr. Guzman.” Nieto was extremely obedient and he did not ask for reasons.
Koval, who was carrying an assault rifle behind his back, walked out from behind Guzman. The cold-blooded man had quite a delicate and pretty face, but he gave people the feeling that he was as dangerous as a snake.
“Are you still worried about Victor Hugo?” Koval was looking at the buildings that surrounded the town hall when he talked to Guzman. In a sniper team, the snipers were usually the ones who showed their faces. However, the spotters were the ones who controlled the situation. In general, the rank of a spotter was much higher and he would be more experienced as well.
“I bet that he’ll definitely come,” Guzman replied confidently. The bearded man had cultivated an instinct after fighting on battlefields countless of times. “I’ve watched his killing footage repeatedly in the past few days. I have a feeling that he was born a killing machine.”
“But look at our surroundings… they’re all our men. Our defense this time around was much tighter than the past few days. We even used some barricades to block the streets and hence he can’t use his backhoe loader to attack us anymore.”
It seemed like Koval did not really consider Zhou Qingfeng as a threat.
However, Guzman remained confident about what he said, “I don’t believe that Victor Hugo would actually retreat so easily. We still need to be prepared even if he was not attacking us. But, I won’t be able to set a target for you today as I need to stay by Lord Zetas’ side. That’s why you’ll be on your own today.”
“Alright then,” Koval nodded. He then walked to Nieto and spoke to him in a deep tone. “Follow him, you guys will be my spotters today. I’ll need you to pay attention to every single movement in the surroundings of the town hall.”
Koval had chosen St. Paul's Church that was located in front of the town hall as his sniping spot. Ten men, including Nieto, were placed on top of the building and they served as spotters for Koval.
“Report to me if you guys spot anything abnormal,” Koval handed several pairs of binoculars into the hands of Nieto and the others. “You guys better watch out. If Lord Zetas’ founding ceremony were to face any problems because of your errors, I guarantee that you will die a dog’s death.”
Nieto was very sensitive to that. He shivered even when he listened to him. He quickly sent his men to look after each point of the town hall’s surrounding. He also patrolled the area conscientiously.
However, after the first few boring hours of patrolling, they did not observe anything except for the high platform that was slowly built and the town hall square that remained chaotic. Nieto, who had been running back and forth the whole day, was already exhausted. He hoped that time can instantly skip to dinner so that he can bring some food back to his room and have sex with his two women.
However, at that moment, Nieto, who had been staring at the town hall all the time noticed something abnormal, “Mr. Koval, Mr. Koval……”
Nieto was truly impressed with the man named Koval. He had been lying prone behind the glass window the whole afternoon and he did not move even once during the whole process. When Koval heard his yelling, he instantly climbed up from his camouflage netting and asked in a deep tone, “What happened? Don’t tell me that you only wanted to pee.”
Koval’s joke brought a great guffaw from the others and it seemed that Nieto’s men were still not quite convinced with their new leader. They were unsatisfied with Nieto, especially when they got scolded and hit before dinner.
“I…… I saw a dog.” Even Nieto himself felt that he was just joking around after he finished speaking as spotting a dog was nothing too special at all. This time around, their guffaw was even louder and someone even whistled.
Bang! The guy who whistled got shot to death by Koval. The entire building instantly went silent. All the men who were laughing just moments ago were now sweating and panicking.
Koval stood up from his sniping position and threw several glances at the people who had terrified expressions on their faces. He then walked towards Nieto and said, “I’m very satisfied with your hard work, but you need to be more merciless. Just shoot them if they dare to disrespect you.”
“Yes, yes.” Nieto felt his heartbeat accelerate to the extent where his heart had reached the same position as his throat. His whole body was soaking in sweat.
“Where’s the dog that you mentioned?” Koval too, felt strange. He felt that a dog should not appear in the current Manhattan. Even if the dog still existed, it would have been killed and eaten by the refugees ages ago.
“It just walked past the town hall a few seconds ago. I think it’s a German Shepherd. It ran extremely fast and it disappeared in just the blink of an eye.” The dog was no longer in their sights anymore. Hence, Nieto could only try to explain his situation to Koval.
Koval lifted the binoculars and looked at the direction which Nieto mentioned, but he did not see any German Shepherd. However, he felt that a dog was not too big of a deal. He then pat Nieto on the shoulder and said, “Well done, keep it up.”
It turned out that DogMeat was using its natural camouflaging ability to scamper around in the square. On the other hand, Zhou Qingfeng was using the radio to issue orders to DogMeat, “Stupid dog, I’m looking for a sniper team. There’s probably one or two people in each team.”
“I don't know what they look like, but you need to pay special attention to those who carry sniper rifles or professional sighting equipment. They would most likely be at the top of the building around the town hall. You need to pay attention to the places that have a clear vision of the entire town hall square. ”
Although DogMeat did not have any voice system pre-installed, it could send digital information using its wireless radio. With the armband computer on his wrist, Zhou Qingfeng would then be able to easily receive and decode the information sent by DogMeat.
Although DogMeat’s intelligence was just on the level of an eight-year-old kid, its electronic eyes possessed sharp eyesight. Not only did it have an infrared and low-light vision, its vision also had an extremely high resolution.
With the help of an image analysis software, DogMeat was able to find the spotters that scattered around the town hall square from various angles. However, there were too many spotters and they were almost on top of every single building. Therefore, DogMeat could not identify who was the actual sniper.
“Victor, we’ll be leaving now,” Butcher’s voice could be heard from the one-to-one soldier radio.
“So, how’s the gain?” Zhou Qingfeng pressed the push-to-talk switch and asked him.
Butcher replied to him with laughter, “I regret a little now for not bringing more men with us. We have so many stuff but we can’t even take them with us anymore. The others will definitely take advantage of our leftovers."
“Just take the most important items. We don’t have time to care about the leftovers anymore.” At that instant, Zhou Qingfeng received an image on his armband computer. It was an image sent by the drone which he just released a few moments ago, “It seems like Los Zetas is planning for a gathering… Should we go and visit them?”
“Hahaha……” Butcher laughed and said, “Is it the gang that almost took my life? Mox and I are more than happy now to give Mr. Zetas a big surprise.”