Chapter 948 Security Resource Integration Planner
Great! He started with a friendly Chinglish. It seems he has been interacting with Chinese people a lot.
"Haha, long time no see, Boris." It sounds like Xiao Shiqiu is quite familiar with this Boris.
"It seems that we have another opportunity to cooperate. Tell me, where are you planning to go this time? As long as you are still on Earth, we can guarantee your safety." Boris spoke slowly, and I could barely understand his broken English.
Xiao Shiqiu made his request clear in one breath, "This time it's not about protecting me, there's a security operation to be competed for, the location is in the western Avar forest area in Eastern Europe, hard target clearance and personnel rescue, the highest priority.
The target intelligence is detailed, and the client has an official background but requires an unofficial solution.
An elite tactical team is needed, preferably with a Gwana background or equivalent credibility, proficient in Russian or the local language, able to handle complex building environments, and requiring the fastest response speed.
How much can you offer a team of this caliber in three days?"
When it came to business, the other party's tone became noticeably more serious. "My friend, I need more mission intelligence. Also, tell me your budget, and I will come up with a reasonable plan for you."
"Okay, budget isn't a problem. Everything is based on ensuring the mission is completed. I'll email you the details later."
He put down the phone and looked at me with starry eyes and half-open mouth, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Can I say he looks handsome when he's rich?
I blinked, came to my senses, and asked reservedly, "Is Boris an agent?"
Xiao Shiqiu laughed, "Agent? Haha, if this line of work also requires certification, he must be a 'Security Resource Integration Planner' at the very least, which is called a middleman in this industry.
But if you say he is an agent, it’s not wrong, it just seems a bit…” He raised his eyebrows and didn’t continue. I understood. To say he is an agent seems a bit low.
"He knows a lot of mercenary organizations?"
Xiao Shiqiu nodded and said casually, "He has a wide network of contacts, a good reputation, and is very professional. He will develop the most appropriate plan based on the difficulty of the task, and then find the most suitable team."
This once again enlightened me. "He still needs to make a plan? He needs a plan for hiring mercenaries?"
The image that comes to my mind is that of a real estate agent bargaining with a small notebook in hand, which doesn't seem to fit in with the terms "hard target clearance" and "elite tactical team".
As a wealthy client like my Lao Xiao, shouldn’t he say generously, “As long as you have enough money, I’ll do the job well!” Isn’t it the right thing to do simply and bluntly?
Xiao Shiqiu seemed to see through my thoughts, a meaningful smile playing on his lips. "Do you think just 'name a price' will do? That's like a street thug looking for thugs."
Boris is not the kind of black-hearted middleman who will take orders for money. He cares about the lives of mercenaries.
What he did was more than just matchmaking.
After receiving detailed intelligence from his employer, he will come up with a detailed battle plan."
"Battle plan?" I was even more shocked. Has the real estate industry become so corrupt these days?
"Isn't he... an agent? Why does he also need to be able to come up with a battle plan?" The threshold for this line of work is a bit high.
"Do you think he's just an ordinary middleman? How could Boris gain a foothold in this top circle without real skills?"
Xiao Shiqiu's tone was filled with admiration, "His background is very mysterious, and no one can fully explain his past.
But the rumor is that he was once a top Marine Corps prosecutor in a major country, responsible for the planning, coordination and real-time command of complex combat operations.
Later, he was seriously injured during a mission and his body could no longer withstand the intensity of frontline combat, so he retired."
"Prosecutor?" I began to imagine a scene from a Hollywood anti-terrorist war movie. "Sounds pretty cool..."
"He's truly amazing," Xiao Shiqiu affirmed. "He's commanded truly high-risk operations and knows that every oversight in a decision means someone else's life will be the price.
This is why many top retired special forces soldiers and former agents trust him very much and are willing to take on the missions he recommends - they know that the plans Boris handles are deduced by professional military brains and are not random. "
"I thought I just had to tell him how many people he needed." I feel like I have a lot more useless trivia in my head.
The computer prompted that there was a new email. It was Wen Congwu who had compiled the information they had learned about the "training base" into a file and sent it to them, and also listed the action goals.
After Xiao Shiqiu forwarded the email to Boris, he patiently explained it to me.
In fact, many employers, especially those who are dealing with this kind of business for the first time or those who want to save money by luck, often seriously underestimate the complexity and danger of the task.
They might think, "Isn't it just a matter of rushing in and killing or rescuing people? Ten people are enough."
But Boris will make a professional assessment based on the intelligence - terrain, enemy numbers and firepower, building structure, retreat routes, timeliness of intelligence, etc.
The reality is that if ten people go in, the probability of success is less than 30%, and the risk each person takes will soar to the limit.
This means that customers need to pay an extremely high 'risk premium', and the price of a single soldier will double or even more.
In the end, the total cost of ten people might be only slightly lower than that of twenty people.
I roughly understood what he said, "It's possible that he would recommend using more people to solve the problem, reducing the risk and unit price, but the total price would be higher."
"Yes, that's possible." He nodded approvingly.
I fully understood. "Wholesale and retail prices are definitely different. When I buy one bottle of sunscreen and three bottles of sunscreen on Pinxixi, the price per bottle is quite different."
Xiao Shiqiu smiled again. "You have a pretty good understanding, so your online shopping experience shouldn't be a problem here. But Boris's value lies more in the fact that his battle plans have been tested in actual combat over the years, not just on paper."
I nodded vigorously. "I understand. On the surface, it seems like I'm just buying the cosmetics he recommends, but he not only sells me the products, he also gives me a complete skincare and makeup tutorial!"
As soon as the roles were exchanged, I immediately understood Boris’s value!
Xiao Shiqiu was very satisfied with my ability to understand. "So the name Boris itself is worth a lot of money."
I suddenly understood why he had described this guy to me in such detail, and I couldn't help but blurt out, "You went through so much trouble just to make this Bao guy look expensive and charge a huge agency fee, right?"
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