7 hours ago, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines.

Balafis ended the local mayor's banquet and, after declining Mayor Duterte's invitation for the next few days, got into his luxury Mercedes and drove towards the hotel.

At the banquet just now, the most valuable thing was not the agreement with Duterte, but the meeting with the legend of Davao City, the former mayor of Detaut. In 1987, after former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was coup d'état, he went from a gangster in Mindanao to become mayor of Davao City.

For decades, Davao City, under the iron grip of Detaut, has purged violent criminals and dealt a powerful blow to the rampant forces of Abu Sayyaf and the Moroy Slan Liberation Front (MILF) near Davao City.

The strongman enjoyed great prestige among the people of Davao City, and after his term as a councillor in Manila expired in 2001, he returned to Davao City as mayor and was re-elected in 2007. Even if he is not in office at the moment, let alone Davao City, not many people in the whole Philippines dare to ignore his opinion.

It's not easy to get along with this big guy, especially since he's old, and he doesn't like a lot of things that young people like.

Fortunately, Balafis was also in his sixties, and after obtaining a lot of information, he grasped Detait's preferences, and after a few weeks, he successfully entered Detait's sight.

Once in Detet's sight, things were much easier.

Thinking of this, Balafis smiled contemptuously, although he is a hero, he is old after all, not to mention how much vision can he have if he is confined to such a broken place as the Philippines?

He lives in a luxurious five-star hotel. Located on the outskirts of the city, it is not subject to the noise of city vehicles and air pollution, which is quite a good place.

The country is not rich, with a per capita national income of $2,843, which is a low- and middle-income country in the world. But this per capita income can only be known by knowing the country in depth. This is not true either. On the island of Mindanao, Balafis has traveled a lot and seen a lot of civilians who have not even been fed and clothed, as well as a considerable number of people living in rotten sheds that can be destroyed by a typhoon, with an average annual income of just over $1,000.

Of course, even in backward places, the quality of life between the rich and the common people are two different concepts. Countless people live in slums and bamboo huts. When eating pig food from nowhere, the rich can still spend tens of thousands of dollars on a meal, yes, just a meal.

Balafis had no pity for this, he also climbed up from the bottom of New York when he was a child, and without personal effort, he did not know which sewer the body was stuffed into.

In this world. There has never been a kingdom of heaven, only the rich in heaven.

The car drove through the city. Entering a road in the suburbs, looking out from here, a kilometer away is the slum where the homeless and the poor live, and the garbage and shacks everywhere are the biggest feature there. If a well-dressed gentleman with good cultivation. If you walk in without a bodyguard, the consequences are absolutely regrettable.

Before that, Balafis had heard of a female reporter from the local television station who went deep into the slums. However, the next day, along with the photographer, the naked bodies of the two were dumped in the garbage heap, their bodies bruised and black, and they were horrible.

However, the police in the Philippines did not even catch the shadow of the prisoner after the investigation...... Maybe it's because there are too many suspects involved in the crime.

But it's not a bad country.

Compared to some countries in the Middle East and Africa, this country is already okay.

Balafis, who closed his eyes and recuperated, the car slammed into the brakes, almost making him hit his head in the front seat.

"I'm sorry, sir, are you alright?"

The bodyguard next to him hurriedly supported Balafis, and the driver quickly turned around and apologized.

"Why did you brake suddenly?"

Balafis motioned for the bodyguard next to him to let go of his hand, took a cigar and lit it, and asked unhurriedly.

"Sir, the car in front has stopped."

In front of the luxury Mercedes-Benz, there is also a local "tour guide" car, the flattering black monkey, which has some connections in the local area, and can be used as a "tour guide" to deal with some officials and local forces very well, and there are many unnecessary joints that do not need to run in person, but only need to pay a little money for it.

The skinny black monkey's car seemed to have hit someone, and when he got out of the car, he began to shout at several men, scolding them to quickly lift the fallen motorcycle away.

When the thin black monkey subconsciously turned his head and saw Balafis sticking out his head and glancing at this side, he hurriedly ran over, stood outside the car door with his head bowed and said, "Sir, I have delayed your time, the motorcycle suddenly ran out of the fork and almost crashed into it." ”

Balafis thought of the monkey's name, the Filipinos because of their colonies, although they had Asian faces, all had a Spanish surname.

"Salvador......" said Balafis slowly, "nothing else, right?" ”

"No, no, just a few pariahs."

Salvado doesn't care about the life and death of his compatriots, not to mention that it's okay, even if he really dies, as long as he is not seen by too many people, it is just a small thing that can be solved with a little money.

"If there are no accidents, then let them leave quickly."

Balafis raised his wrist and looked: "I don't want to waste my precious time here anymore." ”

"Yes, yes, sir."

Salvaldo, the thin black monkey, nodded vigorously, and when he returned to the scene of the accident in front of him, several of his men had already lifted the motorcycle and smashed it to the side of the road canal, ignoring the pleading of the two men.

One of his men scolded them mockingly, and when he saw Salvardo come back, he kicked one of them out and told them to get out of here.

Salvado looked down impatiently at the two men on the ground, and instead of stopping his men's movements, he shouted, "If you don't leave, break their legs for me......"

Before he could finish speaking, Salvardo's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the two men who were begging for mercy just now, and together they took out their pistols from their clothes and shot them at his men.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

I never thought that the two civilians on the ground would suddenly pull out their guns, and several of their subordinates had no power to resist, one was shot in the heart, and the other was pierced in the head, and those who died on the spot could not die again.

It has to be said that Salvado's reflexes are amazing, or his instinct to fear death is too strong, as soon as the gunshot rang out, he rolled on the spot, dodged the subsequent shot, and hid next to the car.

But the driver in the car was very unlucky, and the two gunmen who stood up fired continuously at the window of the car, and shot the driver directly in an instant.

"Bang bang!"

In addition to the driver in the Mercedes-Benz, the two bodyguards who protected Balafis were both retired Army elites from the United States, and later entered the security company and were trained, with professional security skills, the first reaction was to press Ballefis's body, and then the second person burst the windshield without hesitation, and only used two shots to instantly kill the two gunmen six meters in front of him.

However, in just a moment, the bodyguard's face suddenly changed, and in the woods on the right, more than a dozen armed men armed with AK74s ran out in a swarm, and the car swept towards this side.

No matter how elite a soldier is, it is impossible to fight a dozen rifles with a pistol in the car, and the entire Mercedes-Benz car was beaten into a chaotic sound, and in the crackling sound of metal breaking, it was only for a while, and there was no movement to resist.

It wasn't until a minute later, when Salvaldo, who had rolled and hid in the canal, that he trembled and stuck out his head to see that the scene was in shambles, the corpse's blood splattered all over the ground, and the original luxurious Mercedes was almost scrapped.

"Mr. Balafis!"

The armed men came suddenly and disappeared quickly, and when he saw that the armed men had retreated into the woods, Salvardo screamed. (To be continued.) )