Luke listened with great interest and set up a tracker on Pedro's car.
Soon, Pedro and the head of the guards got into the car and left.
Luke followed them unhurriedly.
They soon entered a villa in a wealthy district and saw a middle-aged man in the office.
Luke, who had followed them here, couldn't help but murmur when he saw the man on the drone screen. "Another guy with slicked-back hair? Are there not many good people in swept-back hair nowadays? "
On the screen, the man with slicked-back hair had a red face, a big nose, and narrow eyes. He wasn't very good-looking.
But the people in the room were extremely afraid of him.
After the head of the guards told Pedro about the attack on the vault, the middle-aged man laughed. "Nothing? They didn't steal my money? They just burned it? Haha. "
As he spoke, he walked past the desk and tapped the decorations on it. "You're just going to watch the five million dollars that belong to me burn?"
Nobody said anything.
The middle-aged man suddenly grabbed a metal statue and swung it at the guard.
Thud!
With a dull thud, the head of the guards instantly fell to the ground. Blood gushed out of his forehead and stained the beige carpet red.
Pedro trembled all over, but he didn't dare move.
The two bodyguards had been staring at him since he came in, their hands on the guns at their waists.
The middle-aged man casually put down the metal statue that was stained with blood. "Pedro, you work for Christophe. I won't touch you."
Pedro heaved a long sigh.
The middle-aged man, however, continued, "But it was you who led those people to my place, wasn't it?"
Pedro was tempted to say no.
As a matter of fact, he could tell.
The masked men had a personal grudge against Hernan, which was why they had targeted Hernan's vault. But Pedro didn't dare say anything at that moment.
"Five million. I don't care how you do it. Make up for the money, and you'll be able to continue living your life in Rio, "said the middle-aged man.
Pedro's face darkened as he cursed Hernan for being too greedy.
There had only been three or four million dollars in the vault earlier, but now it had turned into five million?
He stammered, "Sir, this …"
The middle-aged man raised his hand. "If you have any objections, you can leave."
Sweat popping up on Pedro's forehead, he hesitated for a long time before he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, yes, Mr. Hernan. I'll make up for it."
The middle-aged man nodded and turned to his two bodyguards. "Find Dominic and Brian, I want them dead …"
On the other side, Pedro silently left the room. He heaved a sigh of relief and left with a bitter expression on his face.
After listening to the news from the drone for a moment, Luke also left.
This middle-aged man was Hernan Reyes, a famous bigshot in Rio. He was also involved in all kinds of underground transactions in Rio, including but not limited to illegal drugs, weapons, sex, and smuggling.
This bigshot had long been on Luke's blacklist, but now wasn't the time to deal with him.
Luke recalled the drone and quietly retreated.
He'd better take care of Christophe's problem first.
Following the tracker, he returned to the Wild Jungle bar.
Just as he was wondering if he should sneak in and force Pedro to confess, he found that Pedro had come out again.
With a big bag in his hand, Pedro got into a car with his two bodyguards and left the Wild Jungle bar.
Luke's heart skipped a beat. Was he … raising money?
Twenty minutes later, Luke saw a small villa not far away. Two bodyguards were standing guard at the door of the villa.
Pedro had already entered the villa.
Suddenly, his expression changed.
He saw a person walk past Pedro's backyard, push open a small iron door in a corner, and enter the courtyard next door.
Then, the person walked to the entrance to the basement next door. Looking around, he opened the basement door and went in.
Luke smiled and disappeared from the rooftop.
In the basement, Pedro blocked the basement door with an iron bar. Bypassing the junk, he walked to a corner, opened the buckle, and pushed a cabinet aside.
The door of a safe that was half the height of a man was revealed.
With trembling hands, he entered the password and opened the door. Looking at the bags of money inside for a long time, he finally took them out.
As he took the money, he mumbled, "This is all my f * cking money. My hard-earned money!"
Then, his face stiffened, and he stopped moving.
A cold blade quietly pressed against his throat, and a sweet female broadcaster's voice sounded behind him, "No, now it's my hard-earned money."
A moment later, a muffled scream rang out in the basement.
After getting the intelligence he wanted, Luke restored the basement to its original state, as if nobody had been there.
He then leisurely slipped into the side yard and collected the big bag of money in Pedro's bedroom. The two bodyguards were also pulled into the villa by two hands.
"Is Rio so easy to make money?" Luke remarked as he strolled down the mountain half an hour later.
Pedro had secretly bought the bungalow next to his villa and left it to be abandoned, only using its basement as a secret vault.
Apart from the cash that Pedro was going to hand over, there was also a small amount of gold and gems in the safe.
There were two million dollars in cash alone, and three to five hundred thousand dollars in the gold and gems.
The bag in Pedro's bedroom, on the other hand, contained seven to eight hundred thousand dollars. That was Christophe's temporary income from Wild Jungle.
It was obvious that Pedro couldn't care less under Hernan's threat.
Maybe he had other ways to fool Christophe for now, and then find a way to make up for the loss.
The fact that Pedro hadn't touched the gold and gems in the safe proved that the guy still had some personal stash.
After interrogating him, Luke learned that there was almost two million dollars worth of cash in a private safe at a certain bank.
Pedro's assets were enough to pay back Hernan's money, which was probably why Hernan let him go.
The leader of the guards clearly didn't have much money, so Hernan killed him without any hesitation.
Money was what Hernan valued most.
Of course, all the money was now in Luke's inventory.
Luke didn't plan to touch the money in the bank's private safe. It would be a good idea to keep it as a backup plan.
Checking the items in his inventory, Luke couldn't help but sigh. "It's too small."
Even though he had stored most of the black money and gold in secret locations in Los Angeles before he came, the cash that he had just received still took up a lot of his inventory.
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