The Martial Unity
chapter-168

Author's note: Hey priv readers, sorry for the mistake, please reread this chapter, uploaded an old one by mistake. Thank you for your continued support.

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Rui spent quite some time pouring through the data available to him. He wanted to make sure he knew this case inside out and backward front. The more familiar he was with this case, the better he would handle this mission.

The mission bill first provided a general background of the case to ensure that the Martial Artist accepting the commission would have context as to what the mission was about.

The child-trafficking centered in Hajin wasn't small or old. Hajin was a huge commercial trade hub in addition to being residential town, there were many huge industries for a huge market and an unfathomable amount of good and services were exchanged every day.

Not all of those goods and services were legal, of course. Drugs, forbidden esoteric resources, illegal services and other more nefarious goods and services were offered.

Among the more heinous of them, was the child-trafficking industry. There were plenty of sick disgusting people with money and power that had an extremely perverted nature. These people were regular clienteles of the child-trafficking industry, and their patronage was what sustained this horrible industry.

This mission was commissioned by the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation, as per the protocols established in the Kandrian Martial Convenant. When the difficulty of any operation exceeded a certain threshold, the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation need merely commission the Martial Union and within a stipulated time period, they would have a Martial Artist aiding their operations.

In this case, the intelligence that the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had obtained over this particular investigation was that the ringleader of this particular child-trafficking gang was likely a Martial Apprentice and, in turn, they had immediately commissioned the Martial union for a Martial Apprentice, as well.

The intelligence that they had over the child-trafficking ring came from previous operations centered around the child-trafficking underworld industry based in the town of Hajin. In the past there had been many busts, but the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had failed to capture the ringleader because of his Martial Prowess.

The reason they had commissioned for a Martial Apprentices ahead of time this time was because they had strong reason to suspect that the ringleader of the particular child-trafficking ring that was the target of the operation, was likely the same ringleader of the previous child-trafficking operations that had existed in the past in the town of Hajin.

The mission bill even elaborated on why this was the case.

The child-trafficking ring had first been detected when the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had received intelligence from their infiltrated spies in certain high-profile companies that certain wealthy merchants in the town of Hajin were likely holding children in capivity. Soon after, the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had obtained a warrant and upon conducting a raid, they had successfully rescued multiple children held in captivity. The wealthy merchants inquestion had been arrested on six accounts of child abuse.

Upon a strict thorough investigation and interrogation, the criminals confessed and disclosed the means by which they acquired these children.

That was when the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had noticed patterns very similar to what they had seen in the past from this particular wanted felon.

The delivery of the children, the means of payment, the means of communication and other parameters of the entirety of the modus operandi from the intelligence they had obtained from the confession of the convicted child offenders strongly matched the operations they had dealt with this particular child trafficking ring in the past.

This immediately led them to strongly suspect that the ringleader in question was the same Martial Artist felon who had evaded capture in the past. Although there were strong differences in the modus operands of their current target and the child-trafficking rings of the past, these fell within the expectations of the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation of someone who was clearly switching his or her game up to shake the scent off them, but the intelligence department strongly suspected that this known child trafficking criminal was connected to the case.

The mission bill then proceeded to expound upon the suspected identity of the ringleader.

[Known aliases: Martha Myers, Jenna Jill, Ciara Carter

Sex: Female

Estimated age: 30-35

Martial Art Realm: Apprentice

Known felonies: 136 accounts of child trafficking, 81 accounts of kidnapping and 28 accounts of child abuse.

Bounty: 100 gold coin

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Rui actually widened his eyes in shock when went through her criminal record which was more extensively documented in the next few pages. This bitch was an actual predator of children unlike anything he had ever seen. She would give even a certain American financer whose name rhymed with Heffrey Jepstein a run for his money.

She was a veteran in the child-exploitation industry in the underworld, from what Rui could see, capturing her would save many potential victims in the future. Who knew how many children would end up falling prey to her in the future?

The mission bill then spoke about the operation itself. The Kandrian Bureau of Investigation had managed to narrow down the range of locations that potentially were the child-trafficking bases of the child-trafficking ring via evaluating the known information of their operations and applying logistical constraints and the high need for covertness, they were able to shortlist the set of potential locations and over time managed to obtain a key set of locations that would be the target of their operation.

What surprised Rui was that the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation actually had an internal Martial Artist from the Bureau that would also be participating.

He had forgotten that the Martial Union wasn't the only entity to have Martial Artists working for them, but this mission had reminded him of this fact. After all, this operation involved a Martial Artist from the Martial Union, a Martial Artist from the Kandrian government and a Martial Artist from the underworld.

Rui grew more and more engrossed into the planned operation of the Kandrian Bureau of Investigation, he hoped they knew what they were doing!