Rescuing Allen

Mr. Boni gave all three of them a suspicious look.

"How did you survive a shot to the head?" He asked Shelly who was disguising as Gaia.

Although he remembered the dagger and the woman's demeanor was the same as his former right hand woman, he still could not believe that she was alive.

"Damn! All of you guys want me to die that much? Why is everyone asking the same question?"

Shelly answered in an exasperated tone as she snatched the dagger back from Mr. Boni's hand. She gave it to him for a while so that he could see if it was authentic.

Mr. Boni frowned because a dubious person was holding a weapon in his office. Normally, the guards at the door would check for weapons from every guest and would confiscate them before letting them enter into their base. However, this time, Shelly's actions terrified them and made them forget thier duty.

"And you're vulture?" Mr. Boni removed his gaze from Shelly and looked at Ryan.

When vulture went missing, he was still a newbie in this cartel and had only seen him from afar. He had no means to certify the man in front of him was vulture.

"You can bring me to your main leader if you doubt my identity," Ryan said with a grin, showing his golden tooth.

"May be tomorrow," Mr. Boni said. It was already late at night and he did not want to disturb his leader for this.

"Where have you been all these years?" He asked.

"I almost died on my last mission. It took years to heal all my injuries and even after that, I had no intention to come back. That was till I met Gaia again," Ryan answered.

"How did you meet Gaia again?" Mr. Boni was not going to easily let go of his suspicions.

"It's gonna cost all night and I'd have to explain it to our leader again tomorrow. Can't you give some face to an elderly person who used to be your boss and not tire him out?"

With the last words, Ryan face turned darker and his face turned into a chilly expression. Although a corner of his lips was still curved upwards, it did not give off a friendly smile but a dangerous air.

That made Mr. Boni remember that although the man sitting in front of him looked no better than a beggar right now, he was once a top-dog of this organization.

"Please understand me as I'm just trying to steer away my suspicions so that no problem would arise in the future. I'm doing this for the sake of my cartel," Mr. Boni asnwered.

Although he still had doubts he could not offend the man in case he turned out to be the real deal. He would be skinned alive by the main leader if that was the case. Every member of their cartel knew how much their big boss care about Vulture. Even after 20 years had passed, he did not stop searching for the old man.

"I'm reassured to know that my former group is now in capable hands. If you don't mind, I wanna rest up now and hope that you would accommodate me for one night. You can ask away any question tomorrow when we go and meet your leader."

"Of course. But please leave all your weapons here before going," Mr. Boni said as he made a gesture towards the guards in the room.

When they approached the three people to take their weapons, Ryan gave a glance to Shelly. In the room, there were six people on the cartel's side including Mr. Boni and the middle-aged man who seemed to be the current right-hand. Ryan had been watching their positions and planning the attack as soon as he had entered the room.

He stood up from his seat and nimbly hopped over the desk to get to Mr. Boni's side and aimed a gun at the latter's temple. His hunched back was already straightened by this time. Shelly got behind of the right-hand and placed the sharp dagger across his throat. Julian got next to Shelly and readied his gun.

Their swift actions happened within a few seconds and all the six people did not get a chance to retaliate them.

"Put down your weapons," Ryan ordered.

All the guards looked towards Mr. Boni and only put down their guns after he nodded.

Julian searched for the weapons in the right-hand's and Mr. Boni's bodies and placed all of them in one place after putting away the cartridges. He also picked up the guns the guards dropped and put them in the same manner.

"Make a sound and the bullet would pass through his head," Ryan threatened.

"You think you'd be able to walk out of here alive after killing me?" Mr. Boni asked.

"If we dare to infiltrate your base, do you think we'd be afraid of death," Ryan chuckled.

"What do you want?"

Before Ryan could answer, they heard Allen's voice from the special earpiece.

"The basement."

"Move," Ryan dragged Mr. Boni and left the room.

By that time, Julian and Shelly had already tied the other five people and gagged them. They left them inside and closed the door but not before leaving the canister with sleeping gas.

Then, they pointed their guns towards the other members outside the room.

"Don't make a sound and put down your weapons," Shelly said in a cold tone.

All the cartel members were dumbfounded by the state their group leader was in and hesitantly dropped their weapons. At the time, the men nearest to the door tried to sneak away to warn the guards outside the building. However, his movements attracted Shelly's attention and was shot in his leg ruthlessly. The gun did not made a loud noise as its muzzle was covered by a silencer.

"Next time, the bullet would pass through your leader's head instead of your leg. I hope you'd be able to bear the consequences," Shelly said.

Because of her words, all the members looked at Mr. Boni and faced with his furious glare.

"Don't make any unnecessary move."

His warning make his subordinates trembled with fear. Who doesn't know how underworld organizations deal with the members who had no complete obedience to their leaders?

"You... you... and you... help him tie up the others," Ryan chose three weakest looking men to help Julian tie up the people.

After all the people have been gagged and bound, Ryan said to Mr. Boni, "Take us to the basement."

Hearing his voice, Mr. Boni was startled.

"How do you know that..."

"Say more unnecessary words and I might accidentally pull the trigger," Ryan grinned showing his gold tooth.

Mr. Boni stopped his question and quietly led them towards the basement.

Just then, a person rushed out from the basement and before he could scream as he saw Mr. Boni's state, he was knocked unconscious by Shelly.

They opened the door the person came out from. While the people inside the room were still startled, Shelly shot them in non-vital areas to warn them. They could already see Allen lying on the table where all his limbs were strapped to. Julian freed his lieutenant while his other two seniors were busy trying to control the situation.

While Allen finally heaved a sigh of relief, he heard his friend say regretfully, "Damn! Rookie untied you very quickly. I should have snapped a picture of you if my hands were not so busy. You looked like a pig ready to be slaughtered."

Allen rolled his eyes at him and grabbed a gun he saw.

"That's body-shaming, you know? And what took you so long? You are not competent at all."

Ryan led them towards the exit as he still dragged Mr. Boni by his collar and his gun muzzle never moving from the latter's temple.

Although the cartel's members wanted to save their leader, none of their movement escaped Shelly's and Ryan's hawk eyes.

Ryan turned towards them and said with his voice full of authority, "Try to follow us and you'll find your leader's corpse before you could get us."

With that, they successfully reached towards their cars and brought Mr. Boni with them.

Mr. Boni looked at Ryan with red eyes said with a tone of menace, "You're never gonna get away with this."

Ryan laughed out loud as Allen drove the car towards the abandoned factory they found.

"Do you think someone who'd be scared by your threats would make this move."

Then, he removed the mask full of wrinkles to unveil his handsome face. Then, he strongly held Mr. Boni's head still with his hands and looked into the latter's eyes with his deep green eyes of his and said with full of challenge yet serenity.

"Remember my face. It was me, Ryan Carlos, the captain of City X Central Police Department, who infiltrated your base and took you hostage. If you dare, face me head-on rather than dealing with small fries like Detective Parker."