Mercenary's War

Whether you call it principle or stubbornness, it doesn’t matter if you say it’s brainless, Gao Yang will never leave Tarta behind.

As long as Tarta followed Gao Yang to Italy, he absolutely will not leave Tarta behind.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that all members of the Black Demon group are absolute geniuses, selected from hundreds of millions of people by the Soviet Union and trained over many years, becoming Black Demon only after passing a high elimination rate; otherwise, calling them geniuses would be a joke.

Black Demon are geniuses, but from the age of teens to twenty-somethings they’ve been gathered together, trained day in and day out, losing much of the humanity of normal people, such as lacking empathy, passion, not getting excited over anything, feeling no fear, not retreating under any circumstance.

Black Demon can kill anyone, and when needed, they can kill themselves without hesitation.

Thus, Yarebin can unhesitatingly send Tarta to carry out a mission destined to fail, and then abandon Tarta without a second thought.

Would Yarebin want Tarta to die? Of course not, but if Tarta’s death is needed to ensure Gao Yang’s survival, Yarebin would choose to sacrifice Tarta for Gao Yang’s life.

Yarebin’s choice is not surprising because everyone in the Black Demon is very clear about their role — they are tools.

As tools, they cannot contemplate their own fate.

Since the birth of Black Demon, their sole allegiance was to the Soviet Union, but now that the USSR has collapsed, Black Demon as a tool has lost its master, and no country or person is worthy of their loyalty.

For now, Black Demon still doesn’t choose to pledge allegiance to anyone; they just want to do what they wish, and Gao Yang is a good option for them to achieve this goal. Since Yarebin chose Gao Yang as his successor, Gao Yang’s status is more important than Tarta, making Tarta’s sacrifice worthwhile.

Thus, Tarta was sacrificed by Yarebin and himself, if the Italian Government feared to act against Tarta, it meant he was lucky, if Tarta could escape on his own, that was his skill, but Yarebin would not rescue Tarta again.

But Gao Yang is not Black Demon; as Yarebin’s student, he simply can’t learn Yarebin’s cold-blooded side, and never will.

The key is that Gao Yang does not want to learn it either.

Yarebin’s way of thinking is about worth, while Gao Yang’s is about responsibility.

If something needs to be done but isn’t worthwhile, Yarebin will absolutely not do it, if something is not worthwhile but needs to be done, Gao Yang will definitely do it.

Thus, Gao Yang must save Tarta, even if he risks death, he must save him.

He started the helicopter, took out his phone, and directly said, "Justin is gone, now I’m flying the helicopter to pick up Tarta, Octopus will cover us, Teacher, you surely know how to coordinate with me, right?"

Yarebin sounded very angry, he sternly said, "We’re not doing all this for Justin!"

Gao Yang immediately replied, "I have a helicopter, which means we’ll be fast, Teacher, just execute well, we have a chance."

Yarebin calmly said, "Understand, we’ll coordinate, change contact methods, communicate indirectly through a third party, setting a limit of one hour, if no contact by then, it means one of us has fallen."

There’s no need to say meaningless words, Yarebin won’t get excited nor enraged, if he appears angry, it’s an act, a façade to make people change their minds.

Gao Yang’s piloting skills aren’t particularly great, so he must focus intently on flying the helicopter, trusting Yarebin and the others to handle everything else.

Finding the Colosseum in Rome from the air isn’t too hard, but to save time, Gao Yang directly activated the helicopter’s radio, letting ground command guide him to hover above the Colosseum. As long as Yarebin and the others carried chemical weapons, the Italian Government would comply with almost anything, so Gao Yang let himself learn

Directly flew the helicopter above the Colosseum, visually observed for a moment, then descended the helicopter into a vacant square surrounded by cars. Once the helicopter shook and landed heavily in a not so successful manner, Gao Yang directly beckoned to Tarta from inside the cabin.

Tarta quickly ran to the helicopter, surrounded by a few individuals, each showing anger and helplessness, but no one stopped Tarta.

Tarta took the co-pilot’s seat, put on headphones, gestured to Gao Yang to take control of the helicopter, which soon took off gracefully and flew straight away. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

After the helicopter flew for a while, Tarta looked at Gao Yang and loudly asked, "Where are we going?"

Gao Yang loudly replied, "No specific destination, wherever you think it’s convenient for us to escape, that’s where we’ll go, what about the others? How are things arranged?"

Tarta loudly answered, "Twenty-six explosive devices were made, eleven trigger points, manual and remote dual methods of triggering, once others are confirmed safe, the exact locations of the bombs will be notified to Italy, if anyone acts rashly, they will be detonated, resulting in mutually assured destruction."

Tarta was definitely talking big, Gao Yang knew this well, because there were surely tracking devices on the helicopter and possibly listening devices too, so he loudly said, "Understood."

The two stopped speaking, starting to fly circles above Rome, even if eventually found out where to land, at least stalling the time for the Italians to deploy ground forces.

After circling a bit, Gao Yang controlled the helicopter to fly to the real destination, at this moment, he worried most about the possibility of Yarebin having fallen completely, in which case Italian Air Force planes would for sure appear in the sky.

But no other planes appeared, and when Gao Yang landed, everything remained calm.

Some plans always encounter various problems during execution, but some plans just execute smoothly without any obstacles.

As the helicopter landed, Gao Yang and Tarta quickly ran away from it, while a car drove towards them.

Communication was cut off, after prolonged cell phone usage, their numbers and locations were surely tracked, so upon leaving the helicopter, the two immediately took out their phones. First, after attaching a gun to the phones, Gao Yang put a grenade on them, completely destroying the phones.

After finishing all this, the two got into the car driven by Number Thirteen, first changing clothes, Gao Yang then whispered, "Hope they’re alright, I think their position should’ve been tracked long ago, right?"

Tarta calmly replied, "Have faith in Black Demon."