Chapter 140: Dueling Through the Air
The suicide of a United States Soldier at the hospital was a big deal...
Mountain Eagle, accompanying Tessa, ran to the ward where the incident occurred and saw a nurse slumped beside the door, a body lying on the bed with a gaping head wound, and an all too common Glock 17 placed beside the corpse.
The deceased soldier’s calf was wrapped in gauze, his upper body tilted towards the end of the bed, while his rigid legs hung off the bed’s edge.
It looked as if he had been sitting on the bed’s edge when he took the pistol to his own head and fired.
Mountain Eagle watched as Tessa put on gloves to examine the scene, then he pulled Gru aside and whispered, "Seal off all hospital exits; this isn’t suicide, there’s an assassin hiding in the hospital."
Gru, upon hearing this, nodded gravely and began to summon other officers over the radio...
Although he still focused on searching for the assassin, Mountain Eagle had already roughly realized the crux of the problem...
Now, with Yellow Shirts surrounding the hospital, pressure from the United States could not penetrate the hospital.
But the continuous stream of videos leaking out from the hospital were like repeated slaps to the face of the United States, dealing a tremendous blow to the legitimacy of their overseas military operations.
If they waited too long, things would become more and more uncontrollable; the United States needed a pretext to pull their people out, even if it was to extract them for execution, rather than leaving them here to be pestered by journalists reveling in chaos.
The assassin’s actions were somewhat contradictory; he staged a suicide scene, but the very presence of the gun defied logic.