Chapter 36: An awkward stalemate
Louis looked at Elena and didn't say the answer she wanted to hear: "My target is indeed Reyes." ”
"That's Hernán Reyes!" "When Elena heard Louis say it himself, she was all bad: "You actually want to deal with him?"
"I know this guy has a lot of power!" interrupting Elena's words to continue, Louie soothed the other party in a tone as relaxed and calm as possible: "So I've been careful and have been waiting for the right opportunity, haven't I been doing anything during this time?"
"But that's Hernán Reyes......"
"It's not against that huge organization, my goal is only Reyes alone...... "No matter how powerful Reyes is, he is just an ordinary person, as long as he has the right opportunity, he only needs a bullet to complete the task.
"So, do you think the right opportunity has arisen?" Hobbs turned back after explaining his men, wondering what Louis was going to do. "Because O'Connor and Toretto stole Reyes's accounts?"
Louis took the worried Elena into his arms and gently stroked her back so that she didn't have to worry, while briefly explaining his thoughts: "Those two people have obtained all the account details of Reyes, know where all Reyes's funds are, and there is still a feud between the two sides, what do you think they will do?"
"You're saying the two of them will find a way to steal Reyes' funds...... No, the two of them couldn't do that. Hobbs turned his head to look at Forsco, who had just been idle: "Go and get the information of all the accomplices who worked with Toretto and O'Connor, and see who will enter the country in the next few days!"
By this point, Hobbs had already guessed Louie's plan: to have Brian O'Connor and Dominic Toretto go to the death with Reyes, and he would watch the play and wait for the opportunity.
Whoever wins on either side, he just needs to find the right opportunity to kill Hernán Reyes, who has no idea that anyone is staring at him.
"If you say this, aren't you afraid that I will stop you?"
"You don't work for Brazil...... What's more, a guy like Reyes, you don't care at all!" Hobbs is an agent for the US Diplomatic Security Service, and his scope of work definitely does not include protecting the underworld boss in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And Hobbes wasn't the kind of rigid Madonna either, and Louis didn't think he would stop him.
Especially when Hobbes and Reyes clashed, this guy would even help him with his tasks: "In some ways, we're in one camp now. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Reyes won't let you arrest those two back!He won't let anyone know about the chip accounts!" In the original plot, Reyes paid attention to Hobbes and his party, and didn't care about the identities of Hobbes and the others at all, and after determining that his target was in Hobbes's hands, he launched an attack without hesitation and killed Hobbes's men.
Even if he had his own participation, it was impossible to change Reyes's mind, that guy would do something to Hobbes sooner or later, and his own reminder might have spared the next few people.
"You're saying he's going to do something to us?"
"It's inevitable!"
Hobbes wasn't convinced, but in a foreign land, facing the biggest snake, he felt that there would be no harm in being careful.
"Boss, do you want to bring in some support?" Chateau, who was next to him, listened to the conversation between the two and realized that the situation of his brothers was not so safe, and immediately made his own suggestion.
"Not for now, so as not to alarm the guy. Hobbes didn't immediately agree: "It seems that in addition to trying to catch Torreto and O'Connor, we also have to watch out for this guy named Reyes...... Elena, how powerful is this guy?"
Elena had wanted to continue to persuade Louis to give up on the idea of dealing with Reyes, but the current situation made her realize that unless she and Louis left Brazil immediately, they would have to fight Reyes.
"Huge!"
After figuring out the situation, Elena immediately told what she knew: the influence was all over Rio, both official and underground.
After learning from Elena how powerful Reyes was in Rio, Hobbes's first decision was to transfer.
The place couldn't stay any longer, and they needed to find a safer place to act as a makeshift base, and if possible, even the local police wouldn't know where they were.
In the end, an abandoned factory in a dilapidated industrial area with no residents around was selected as a new temporary base.
Louis went back to his lodgings and fetched all his weapons and equipment.
Hobbes had enough weapons here, but he wouldn't give them to Louie, he had to use his own equipment. It would have been easier if you could get a weapon like a bazooka from Hobbes.
In the days that followed, the partners recruited by the two protagonists came to Rio one by one, and the Hobbs team, which had been keeping an eye on the people coming in and out, immediately locked on these people.
"Are you sure Reyes will do something to my team?" Hobbes had roughly circled the area where Toretto and his accomplices were currently hiding.
But he didn't rush to make a move, and asked Louis next to him again.
"It's inevitable!"
Even if Louis didn't answer, Hobbes would be sure that he wasn't an idiot. On the contrary, he is a very good agent, and he suffers when he doesn't know the situation, and now that he realizes the problem in advance, Hobbes has already conducted a secret investigation and found that someone in the dark is constantly monitoring his team.
He didn't need to be sure if it was someone sent by Reyes, it was enough to know that someone had bad intentions towards him!
And this period of investigation has some unexpected results, Hobbs realizes that the federal agent who died in the train robbery was actually killed by Reyes's men.
This makes things interesting, and Hobbes's dislike for the two Toretto and O'Connor is significantly less, and if it weren't for the other two of them, he might have gone over and discussed with Toretto and O'Connor about the possibility of working together against Reyes.
Now, Hobbes wants to wipe out Toretto, O'Connor, and his accomplices, and by the way, get Reyes, who underestimated him, back, if not killed by Louie.
During this time, he didn't go anywhere, so he stayed here to make all kinds of preparations: to determine where Toretto's group was, and to keep an eye on each other's movements.
The scene in the original plot where he ran to the drag racing arena to besiege Torreto naturally did not happen, and Elena did not pick up the cross pendant that Dom had lost at all this time, and it was even more impossible for Dom to chase Elena to his house and take things back.
Dom was able to find the pendant that meant to him, Louis didn't know, he only knew that he had helped Elena avoid a big hole, and he got carried away with some overwork, causing his face to show obvious tiredness, and the next day he was ridiculed by the likes of Wilkes and Fosco.
"I can understand why you're the way you are, but don't you have important work to do? What is the age of the two? They just eat melons and don't care about those details.
"There won't be any problems!" Hobbes didn't tell Louis what kind of plan he had secretly devoted, but he had already guessed - this guy took his plan to use, and waited here for Toretto to attack Reyes, who would definitely ignore the situation on his side while Reyes focused all his attention on Toretto.
When the two sides are in a mess, he suddenly kills people with them, whether it is Toretto or Reyes, in which case it is very likely that Hobbes will be wiped out.
Louis speculated that Hobbs must have secretly transferred a group of people over, and he didn't know where those people were hiding, most likely it had been arranged, and the Fosco and others in front of him stayed here not only to attract the attention of Reyes and others, but also to stare at himself by the way.
At this point, the plot didn't make sense, Louis just said a few words, and things went in the other direction, and he didn't know what things would turn out next.
Just when Louis was thinking about whether he was going to adjust his plan, Hobbes appeared with a frown: "Things are deadlocked!"
Through Hobbes's explanation, Louis understood the meaning of Hobbes's words.
Hobbes hid and waited for Toretto and Reyes to fight together, but Toretto was also jealous of Hobbes, and they deliberately exposed themselves several times to lure Hobbes out so that they could lock Hobbs's location and launch a robbery plan when Hobbes was far away from them.
However, Hobbes never appeared, and at this time, the reckless execution plan was likely to be attacked by Hobbes, the Rio police, and Reyes, which is not what a person in his right mind would do.
Toretto and Hobbes didn't move, and Reyes didn't know what to do? He couldn't find Toretto and the others, and he still hoped that Hobbs's side would make progress, and of course he wouldn't send someone to trouble Hobbes at this time.
So all three parties were deadlocked...... As for the Rio police, they just need to keep Reyes' safe, and if nothing happens, it's the best situation for them.
"I'm not going to wait any longer, I'm going to get Toretto now!" Hobbes decided, he wanted to break the deadlock.
"What about Reyes?" If they act first, Reyes will become a third party who will be a bargain, but Hobbes is unconcerned about the question asked by Chateau: "Then solve all the problems at once!"