Chapter 80 Dangerous Things
Two passports, one pistol, twenty thousand US dollars, twenty thousand Euros, and a metal canister the size of a small vacuum flask.
One passport was from South Africa, the other from Australia, bearing different names, but the photo on both was Vilter Jackson.
The pistol was a compact Walther PPK...
Mountain Eagle picked up the gun and toyed with it, then, with distaste, set it aside.
The design of the Walther PPK did not meet his aesthetic standards. Apart from being small and easy to carry, nothing else about the gun aligned with Mountain Eagle’s pursuit for weapon functionality.
There was nothing much to say about the cash; both stacks of US dollars and Euros were carefully selected older bills, easy to spend.
The last item, the iron canister, was a bit more intriguing. Mountain Eagle initially suspected it contained some sort of valuable, like gems...
After all, everything in the box seemed prepared for an escape.
But after fiddling with the canister for a while, Mountain Eagle discovered it was actually a pretty high-end vacuum container.
The canister was sealed shut, and Mountain Eagle used the Sergeant System to fabricate a small handsaw, laboriously sawing away until a crack was opened...
When he turned the canister over, he saw through the crack some silver-white metallic crystals...