Chapter 158: Bringing Money to the Door
The old apartment had two elevators, but each floor had 7 households...
Perhaps because it was too old, there were no surveillance cameras installed inside the apartment, including the elevators.
Mountain Eagle took the elevator to the 8th floor, then turned left with his suitcase, heading towards the apartment at the far left.
As he approached the room where Carlos was staying, Mountain Eagle suddenly heard a faint sound of a rope breaking, followed by the noise of a can rolling inside an apartment to his left.
Through Golden Cicada’s detection, Mountain Eagle clearly saw two men jump up from the sofa inside the room, each grabbing a submachine gun resembling Uzi to the door, and then pressing their eyes against the peephole looking into the corridor.
Meanwhile, Carlos, who lived next to that apartment, seemed oblivious to everything, sitting on the sofa watching TV while feeding a cat with takeout food.
Mountain Eagle glanced at the door number, then pulled out a key and inserted it into the main door of the room on his left, stirring it a few times...
Suddenly the door opened, and a man with apparent South Asian descent fiercely looked through the crack in the door at Mountain Eagle, asking: "What do you want?"
Mountain Eagle paused for a moment, raised the key, and said, "I rented room 802, the landlord sent me here..."
The South Asian man glanced at Mountain Eagle’s three large suitcases, pulled the door open slightly, and said in English with a strong curry accent: "This is 806, 802 is at..."
Before the South Asian man could finish his sentence, two bullets struck his chin and penetrated his head, forming two bulges on his crown...