Richard. Thorpe is now the CEO of Brehman Mining, although it is only a shell company, but he can control hundreds of millions of dollars, and his fruitful work has made him praised and rewarded by the boss behind the scenes.

It's close to the Jjmeka Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, with its many islands, meandering rivers that sparkle in the evening, beautiful scenery, and most of the people who live here are upper-class politicians, wealthy businessmen, movie stars, etc., and the security is far safer than Brooklyn.

Thorpe was a vigilant man, Thomas's death made him feel a little dangerous, in fact, as early as three weeks ago he hired a group of bodyguards to protect his personal safety, four of them were hired from a professional security consulting firm in New York, the leader is McCain, a retired agent of the Treasury Secret Service, who used to be a bodyguard for President Bush, and the other three are former New York police officers, Marine corporal and retired Army Ranger sergeant.

The bodyguards are experienced and equipped with state-of-the-art security equipment and weapons, including GL automatic pistols, MP5K miniature submachine guns, and M700 sniper rifles equipped with infrared scopes, four of them, in McCain's words, worthy of an army.

Friday was the nineteenth birthday of his daughter Demi, and as an incompetent father, Thorpe decided to make amends for his daughter, and he asked a professional performance company to plan a birthday party, with singer performances, fireworks displays, and plenty of beer and soft drinks for his daughter's friends.

Thorpe's garden was large enough to accommodate hundreds of people, most of the people who came today were Demy's high school classmates and Broadway friends, young people gathered and burst into laughter from time to time, while the adults were chatting in the house, Thorpe had not yet returned, and it was his girlfriend, Emily, a shrewd and capable female lawyer in her early thirties, who was in charge of the reception, and Demi's mother, Lydia, attended her daughter's birthday party with her boyfriend, a famous producer, and expressed her displeasure at Thorpe's tardiness: " Richard probably won't come until the cake is finished. ”

Emily smiled, "He's gone to prepare a present, it should be there soon." ”

"Isn't there already a gift?" Lydia said.

"Richard thinks that cars are just tools, not real gifts." Emily said with a smile.

As soon as the words fell, a Mercedes Benz stopped at the door of the house, the bodyguard stepped forward and opened the door, Mr. Thorpe got out of the car, looked at the lively scene in the garden, and said with satisfaction: "McCain, how are you feeling today?" ”

"Very good, sir, the company heard that you are going to have a fireworks show, and specially sent three people to support, I think we can deal with any unexpected scene."

"That's good, thank you, McCain." Thorpe patted the fifty-year-old former White House agent on the shoulder, straightened the collar of his evening gown, and walked into the back garden.

"Mr. Thorpe has arrived, everyone pay attention." McCain whispered into the microphone in his sleeve, walked up to the rooftop, picked up his binoculars and began to look around, this is a noble residential area, every house has perfect security facilities, if the killer wants to disadvantage Mr. Thorpe, there are only two options, one is to dive ashore with frogmen to attack, and the other is to shoot from the empty house on the other side of the river with a sniper rifle.

The frogman attack plan is so unbelievable that even assassinating a presidential candidate doesn't need to be so troublesome, so the biggest threat comes from the empty houses on the other side of the river, for which McCain has arranged for some sensors to be there and send back feedback in time if someone breaks in.

Thinking of this, McCain shrugged his shoulders, the security level of the boss of this mining company is almost the same as that of a gubernatorial candidate, and there are seven professional bodyguards to protect his safety, is it possible that killers all over the world are going to take his life, although he thinks so, he does not slack off in the slightest, and professional bodyguards will not let their guard down at any time.

On the other side of the river, Alexander put down his binoculars and grinned: "Our Mr. Thorpe has arrived." ”

Liu Ziguang looked through the scope of Luger M77, and saw that a handsome middle-aged man walked over between the crowds. Thorpe.

There were too many people in the back garden, Thorpe's head was blocked from time to time, and Liu Ziguang's finger was on the trigger several times and then released.

Thorpe, unaware of the fact that he had been locked onto the scope, came to his daughter's friends with a smile and a smile, saying, "Okay, we can cut the cake." ”

The staff pushed a three-tiered cake with a small cart, and everyone gathered together, turned off the lights and sang a birthday song, the candlelight was glowing, the atmosphere was warm, and the cross-light of the scope was aimed at Thorpe's head, and as soon as the trigger was pulled, this sinful brain melon would become a ripe rotten watermelon.

But at this moment, Liu Ziguang couldn't pull the trigger no matter what, not only because of the strong father-daughter relationship on the scene, but also because he finally saw that the protagonist of the birthday party turned out to be Demi, who had a dewy marriage with him. Thorpe.

Killing someone else's dad at a birthday party seems a little inhumane......

Alexander bit a grass stalk in his mouth, and the light machine gun in his arms had already been loaded, and he looked at Liu Ziguang, his eyes full of inquiry.

"Okay, we'll let him go for now." Liu Ziguang said that he conveniently closed the lens cap of the scope.

On the roof of Thorpe's house, McCain suddenly noticed a strange reflection on the other side of the river, although it was only fleeting, he still twisted his eyebrows, picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Jack, what's the movement of the sensors on the other side." ”

Jack is the bodyguard in charge of monitoring the equipment, at this time he was listening to music in the basement and shaking his head, there was still a can of beer on the table, and when he heard the call of the head, he remembered that he didn't turn on the sensor at all, so he quickly jumped up and scolded shit, turned on the display and stared at it for a few seconds, grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Boss, there are two people in the empty house on the other side!" ”

"Fack!" McCain scolded, rushed down the stairs, and quickly gave an order to the cuffs, at this time Thorpe was cutting the cake with his daughter in the garden, the staff lit fireworks at the same time, and one by one fireworks rushed into the sky, Demi happily hugged her father, happy like a little girl.

"Demi, Daddy has another gift for you." Mr. Thorpe beckoned, and the staff was about to present the gift, when suddenly the bodyguard rushed over and threw Mr. Thorpe to the ground, and the people around him were stunned, not knowing what kind of program was arranged.

Several other bodyguards rushed to the dock, jumped onto Mr. Thorpe's speedboat, untied the cable and started the motor to rush to the opposite bank, while the snipers upstairs also entered the battle position, and the infrared scope locked onto the empty house on the opposite bank.

"Oops, found out!" Alexander quickly aimed at the speedboat and fired, the heavy fire of the machine gun hit the speedboat, and countless bullet holes immediately appeared in the fiberglass hull, "It's a machine gun!" McCain, who was a Marine and had served in Iraq, plunged headlong into the river, and McCain gritted his teeth and persisted, but when he looked back and saw that his snipers were not moving, he knew what was happening, so he jumped into the river as well.

The fireworks were still going off, the brilliant fireworks were blooming in the air, and the boys and girls watched Mr. Thorpe flee into the house escorted by the bodyguards, and the speedboat dragged the waves to the opposite shore, and then suddenly the gunshots rang out, and the speedboat turned into a fireball under the dense rain of bullets, and they were stunned for a moment, and then they scattered screaming.

Thorpe, who was hiding in the house, turned pale, his birthday party was a mess, and Thomas's murderer came to the United States, and it seemed that he had underestimated his opponent.

Alexander sank Thorpe's yacht with red-hot machine gun fire, Liu Ziguang knocked out the sniper on the roof, the assassination has turned into a firefight, and it is useless to continue, Liu Ziguang gave an order, the two threw away their weapons and walked away, fortunately, the fireworks of Thorpe's house covered up the gunfire, and the short exchange of fire did not cause much chaos.

Five minutes later, the patrol officers of the police station arrived at the scene, and half an hour later, more reinforcements arrived, the front and back of Thorpe's house were full of police cars, red and blue police lights flashed constantly, the police pulled up a yellow cordon, all the participants in the party had to record confessions, the bodyguards who fell into the water were wrapped in blankets and drinking hot coffee, being questioned by the police, and the sniper on the rooftop had been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment because he was shot in the shoulder.

A government license plate sedan pulled up at the door, and agents with an FBI badge pinned to their waists pulled up a cordon and crept in, hoping that the officers had shown their ID and found Thorpe.

"Richard, it doesn't seem good, I heard that they even used heavy weapons." The FBI officer said that he was an old acquaintance of Thorpe and knew a lot about his friend's ability to get into trouble.

"Edmund, I want you to keep me and my family safe." Thorpe gritted his teeth and said that Demi's mother and daughter, as well as Emily, sat beside him anxiously.

"The police will protect them, but I would suggest you go abroad and hide for a few days," Edmund said. ”

Thorpe gritted his teeth and said: "I'm not going anywhere, it's not a way to escape, I'm going to pull out these raisers, break their arms and stuff them!" ”

Edmund shrugged his shoulders and left, but Lydia said uneasily, "Richard, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't agree to let my daughter live with you, it's too unsafe here." ”

Thorpe couldn't help but be furious: "She is my daughter, she is nineteen years old, and she has the right to choose for herself!" ”

"I'm her guardian, you're not!" Lydia shouted-for-tat.

Demi was teary-eyed on the side, not knowing what to say, it was too sudden, and the good birthday party turned into a catastrophe, fortunately no one died, otherwise he would really feel guilty for the rest of his life.

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"If I didn't succeed today, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult next time." Alexander said with some frustration as he drove his car through the night in New York.

"There's no next time for the time being, let's leave the United States." Liu Ziguang said.

"Why? Why don't you kill him? ”

"Yes, if you kill a Thorpe, there will be more Thorpe, and this Thorpe, at least we know him better, if we change to a more difficult opponent, everything will have to be restarted, but it will be more troublesome."

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