Chapter 19 Southern Neighbors
Just as Pete was thinking about his little thoughts, Matt, who had been staring at time, suddenly shouted loudly: "Haha. He was late. We got our beer."
"Okay." Donovan looked at the time and said with some disappointment: "It seems that he really wants to wipe the child's butt."
"So will we start?" said Morris, who sat aside without saying a word.
Donovan glanced at Morris, took out the phone and dialed Ochoa's phone. The phone was quickly connected. Donovan said dissatisfiedly, "How long will it take?" After getting the other party's answer, he hung up the phone and said to everyone: "He is coming up." After that, he pulled a chair and sat on the edge of the table and signaled everyone to sit down.
Everyone sat down and no one spoke until Ochoa hurriedly opened the door and walked in. After looking around, the guy immediately said, "Sorry, everyone... at home..."
"No need to explain." Donovan immediately interrupted him, "Sit down and buy each person here a box of beer."
Ochoa did not chew anymore, lowered his head and quickly found a seat and sat down. After sitting down Donovan looked at everyone and said, "Tell everyone good news. Mr. Lennon, John, arranged a job for us. This job is not difficult, it is just an ordinary armed defense. The goal of the defense is a rich man and his team. The location is Mexico." As Donovan said that, he looked at Ochoa, "the hometown of peppers."
Ochoa sat there without saying a word, just waiting quietly for Donovan’s following. After reading Ochoa, Donovan continued: “The place we are going is not peaceful. The people we want to protect have some industries or businesses there. The most important thing is that this guy offended a local tyrant. This local tyrant threatened that if the person we want to protect dares to go to Mexico, he will definitely stay there forever. So our task is very clear to armed defense, so that our customer can come back as he goes. To be precise, it should be the entire team, a total of five people. Do you have anything to ask?”
"I want to know how long does this guy need us to go?" Morris asked immediately.
"A week," Donovan said immediately, "the time to decide is a week."
"Can I know where I go? Where in Mexico?" Ochoa asked.
"Chihuahua. a place close to Juarez." Donovandao.
After Ochoa heard the place name, Pete noticed that his face looked a little ugly, and he looked like he was eager to speak. Donovan obviously saw this, and he looked at Ochoa and said, "Say whatever he wants to say."
When Ochoa heard Donovan say this, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "Actually you should know."
"What do you know?" Morris spread his hands and looked at Ochoa with a questioning look on his face. "What the hell do you want to say?"
"I mean the place we are going." Ochoa looked at Morris and looked at Donovan, "The place is very chaotic. Gangsters and drug lords. If you want to protect a person from entering there as you said, and to offend someone who is powerful in the local area and regard it as an enemy, it is completely going deep into the thief's nest."
"It seems that the person we want to protect is also a character." Matt asked and looked at Donovan, "What are the person we want to protect doing? Since everyone else has threatened death and he is still going, it means that there must be something very important, right?"
"It has nothing to do with us." Donovan waved his hand, "but I can tell you that it is about business practices such as investment."
"Where are you investing?" Ochoa asked in surprise and smiled, "Are you investing in drug trafficking together?"
"I said that these are not what we should care about. Something useful is said." Donovan said.
Pete looked at Donovan and Ochoa again, then raised his hand and signaled: "I want to know, if we go there, how likely is the other party to take action? Just scare people or do it just by saying that? In addition, if we really take action, what kind of way will the other party take to launch an attack?"
Donovan looked at Ochoa and signaled to him. Ochoa adjusted his sitting position and looked at Pete and said, "It depends on who it is. If it is a real powerful local person, there will be no concerns against a foreigner. The method is also very simple, it is to blatantly murder. On the street, there are some public places in the latter. One or two gunmen suddenly surrounded him, and then there was a burst of guns. That's it."
"Isn't anyone in charge of this...?" Pete asked in confusion. "What you said makes me feel like this place is a war-torn place."
"Share?" Ochoa smiled bitterly and said, "Those guys are very rampant in the local area because the police and the local government cannot effectively curb, let alone stop them. And many people in the government are with those people. However, the war is not enough, and they will not attack ordinary people because it is meaningless. But if someone infringes on their interests, it will be different. Being killed may be just the first step, and will be publicly displayed, such as falling under an overpass or a conspicuous place. It is impossible to solve the case later, and no one will mention it soon."
"That means they won't have any particularly clever means. They just hire gunmen to attack, right? Who are these gunmen? Ordinary people, or are they like us? Can we enter Mexico with guns? There will be no problems when crossing the border?" Pete's question also made everyone sit up straight and lean forward slightly waiting for Ochoa's answer.
"This is not necessarily." Ochoa shook his head, "Many gunmen are ordinary people and have no service experience. But there are also some policemen and retired soldiers. It depends on what the people who are going to do it, and there are specific arrangements. As for my weapons, I think there will be arrangements for this." Ochoa suddenly smiled bitterly, "In fact, people carrying guns are not new to the locals."
Pi Te nodded and said, "I understand. That is to say, we can't count on others and rely on ourselves at that time, right?"
"Yes. That's it. Because no one else is reliable." Ochoa looked at Pete and looked at Donovan and said, "Many policemen have no choice. They are locals, and their relatives and friends are there. Let them help an irrelevant foreigner? If it were you, would you dare to take risks? Do you understand what I mean? If we are on the opposite side of a powerful local person, then we are in the thief's nest. The locals will be the other's eyeliner, as if they were on radar or satellite, and we know nothing about the other's actions."
Chapter completed!