Chapter 21: Pablo's Abacus
A few moments later, there was a knock on the door of the room, and Mr. Butler entered, followed by John, Walker, Drag Bottle, and Pablo's sister. After Mr. Butler whispered a few words in Pablo's ear, Pablo sneered, picked up the napkin on the table, wiped his mouth and hands, stood up and said, "Everyone, I'm sorry. I need to get out of here, the person I want to see has arrived. My sister will entertain you now, and I hope you enjoy your meal. โ
After Pablo finished speaking, after the butler poured the wine for John and the others, he walked out of the dining room with the butler's support, while his sister sat down at the head of the table after hugging him.
She poured herself a glass of wine, then stood up and raised her glass, and said in a much more pure English than Pablo: "Thank you for rescuing my brother, to all of you." โ
I looked at John, and after seeing that John and the others were also raising their glasses, I stood up with the juice and took a sip. After that, I continued to eat mine, and John and Walker were similar. But the whole atmosphere was not cold, because the oil bottle seemed to have a good conversation with the woman named Miranda, and the two exchanged words in Spanish from time to time.
After everyone had eaten and drunk, Pablo's butler came to us again. After he whispered a few words to Pablo's sister Miranda, Miranda looked at us and said, "My brother's meeting is over, and he invites you to his conference room." Raou, the old butler, will take you there. After saying that, she said something to the oil bottle, probably to tell him that he didn't have his share in the meeting, because I saw the oil bottle that had already stood up and sat back down.
We followed the butler Rau out of the dining room and soon to a conference room on the second floor. The meeting room had apparently just ended, and it was filled with the smell of smoke and people.
Pablo sat at the main seat at the long table in the conference room, and his face was not good-looking. Judging from the beads of sweat on his forehead and the changed but slightly soaked shirt, it was clear that he must have been very emotional before.
"Everyone, please sit down." Pablo's expression widened when he saw us coming, and he gestured to the chairs that had not yet been put back in place.
"Mr. John, have you been in contact with your people?" As soon as we sat down, Pablo looked at John and asked.
John glanced at Walker and me and said, "My people already know what's going on here. They will send someone to replace the previous connector, Svis. The connector will meet with you and he will answer many of your questions. โ
Although there was no clear answer to John's words, Pablo seemed pleased with such an answer. After all, as long as he can send someone, it means that the other party still has hope for him.
"When will the new connector arrive?" Pablo continued.
"Soon. It should be there tomorrow morning. John looked at Pablo and said, "How's your meeting?" Has the traitor been found? โ
"Huh." Pablo first smiled bitterly, shook his head, and then quickly said with a cold face: "Found it." โ
"Where's the man?" John continued.
Pablo shook his head again, "I don't know yet. But it will soon be found. They thought I wouldn't be back, haha. I'll show them what happens if they betray me. โ
John smiled a little unscrupulously when he heard Pablo's words: "Can I understand that you are going to take revenge?" โ
"Haha." Pablo smiled and said, "Look at me my friend, I was taken and tied up like a brute. And then I was chased like a sheep all night, and if it was you, wouldn't you want to retaliate? No, that's not enough to tell, it's Colombia, I'm from the Balcas family, and no one before me has been able to make my family like a lost dog. โ
"Okay." John waved his hand, "Then let me tell you, the guerrillas have had a big deal lately. Deals in the purchase of arms. โ
Pablo heard John's words and was silent for a moment and said, "Is the news reliable?" โ
"Of course. Because the people who sell arms to them are equally unliked by my country. John said.
"Mexican drug dealers?" Pablo raised an eyebrow.
"Pretty much. If you are interested, you can talk to the connector after meeting him. He will tell you more detailed information. John replied.
"Good. Very good. Pablo clapped his hands twice, "Then let's wait until the new connector arrives." Gentlemen, please rest well today, I now have a hunch that I will have a long cooperation with several of you here. โ
The meeting ended quickly, and I actually thought that such a meeting would only require John to come alone, and there was no point in letting me and Walker come together. When we left the meeting room, the butler Rau took us to the higher rooms to rest.
When I woke up the next morning, I washed up and went out of my room to find John. I found out that John had left his room one step ahead of me, and when I found Walker who was having breakfast in the room because of a leg injury, I learned that the new connector had arrived early in the morning, and that they should have discussed with Pablo in the conference room yesterday. Walker told me that their meeting wasn't going to end in a while, and he told me to go to breakfast first, in the same restaurant where I had dinner yesterday.
When I opened the door of the restaurant, the oil bottle was already eating and chatting happily with Miss Miranda. When he saw me coming in, he stood up and said to me, "Good morning." โ
This sentence suddenly struck me as strange, and not just because he said it to me in Chinese. What's more, since I've been doing this, no one has ever gotten up in the morning to greet each other, either scolding each other and making vulgar jokes to find something to eat, or preparing guns and ammunition to get ready to play with their lives.
I glanced at him and casually replied, "Morning." Then he sat down and prepared to eat. In fact, it is very rude for me to behave like this, after all, there is a lady Miranda present, according to the habit, the person who comes in should take the initiative to say hello, especially a guest like me should take the initiative and warm to greet Miranda, who is equivalent to the hostess here, even if it is the simplest emotionless greeting. But I don't seem to care so much anymore, so I want to develop some kind of bad habit, that is, to do this business outside, not to say even a word to people I don't know well, just like the profiteer I met in Chechnya, although the profiteer ran out of Grozny with us all the way, but until I left for home, the number of conversations I had with the profiteer and even the number of words could be clearly counted.
But Miranda didn't seem to mind me doing that very much, and she took one look at me and then started chatting with the oil bottle.
After breakfast, I walked out of the big house and got ready to walk around. Because I noticed that the sun was shining outside today, but I had not walked far when John's voice came from behind me.
"What? Do you like the environment? John said as he walked over to me, and there was another man beside him.
This man should not be young, with white eyes and beard, wearing a suit and tie, and a somewhat fat figure, at first glance he looks like an old man who is ready to retire. But from the look in his eyes, you could tell that this was a shrewd man.
"Gypsy, this is Karl. is our new connector person. After John finished introducing him, he said to Karl, "This is the gypsy." I told you. โ
"Nice to meet you." After we exchanged greetings. Karl said to John, "I will bring you the people and things you need soon." If you do anything before this, please be sure to let me know in advance. โ
John nodded, "Yes." โ
"Finally." Carl looked at John solemnly, "Listen to Svis, don't do this after this is over." Even if you have the same job as me and Svis. We've done enough for the country, and I don't think you're short of money. With that, he patted John's arm, "Think about it." With that, he smiled at me and nodded, walking towards an SUV parked in the compound.
"Have you discussed the results?" I watched the car leave the compound, looked at John, and asked.
"Don't you see that?" John asked rhetorically.
I smiled helplessly, "It seems that I don't have a chance to go home early." โ
"Haha. Come on, we have to do something to get home early. John said and took me with him and walked into the house.
When we got to the conference room, it was not only Pablo, but also his guard captain Cรณdoba there, his face was so swollen that his eyes were almost slit, and he had medical tape on his eyebrows.
As soon as we sat down, Pablo said, "I'm glad we're working together again, like I said yesterday." I know you've been unhappy with me and my side. So now I want to tell you that I will take action to restore your trust. โ
I don't really care about what Pablo said, because his strength has nothing to do with me, he is not my friend, I don't care about his business, I only take money to fight, I care about who I am going to fight next, how to fight, that's all. So I listened to him and was about to start singing, and turned my head to look at John beside me.
John looked at me, quickly understood what I was thinking, and then Pablo said, "That's right. Now there are two targets, one is the traitor who betrayed Pablo, and the other is the arms deal of the guerrillas I mentioned earlier. He asked us which target should be attacked first. โ
"I want to do both at the same time, but you know the actual situation. My strength has been battered, and for a moment I can't meet the need to implement it at the same time. Pablo said helplessly.
I looked at Pablo and then at Cรณdoba with a swollen face, and I couldn't help but laugh in my heart. Because Pablo said that his strength was hit hard, it seems to me that he did not tell the truth completely. It seems to me that he is also facing a crisis of position within the organization. After all, they are like a kingdom full of princes, and if the king is weakened, then the princes below will be restless and even have dangerous thoughts. So he was so anxious to start the operation, even his captain of the guard, who was beaten like this, couldn't open his eyes, not only could he not wait, but there was no one available, it is likely that those princes had a wait-and-see attitude, and it was up to Pablo to see what Pablo was going to do.