Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 550 Insomnia Sanchez
For two consecutive days, Sanchez felt as if a huge stone was pressing on his heart.

His mental state became worse and worse, and he often woke up in the middle of the night. Even if he called his beloved mistress, he still could not get a good sleep after the violent outburst.

Lascano's defeat was unimportant.

What’s important is why Mr. Song allowed Lascano to return to Victoria City safely.

He also tried to believe Lascano's explanation that Song Heping was taking advantage of each other's suspicion to divide the relationship between himself and the Los Zetas organization.

However, no matter how Sanchez tried to convince himself to believe it, he still couldn't calm down.

The Los Zetas organization played a major role before the Gulf Group became the dominant force in northeastern Mexico.

They act cleanly and efficiently, and are extremely ruthless. They are good at eliminating enemies and threatening officials. They are the sharpest knife in the hands of the Gulf Group.

But this sharp knife is a double-edged sword.

Capable people are never willing to be inferior to others forever.

When Arturo, the first generation leader of Los Zetas, was still around, Cardenas, the then boss of the Gulf Group, had already felt that Los Zetas had begun to gradually gain more independence and power in secret and establish its own territory.

Because of this, he airdropped a man codenamed Z2, Gonzalez, into Los Zetas with the sole purpose of keeping an eye on Arturo.

However, because Gonzalez had no special forces background, Arturo and others did not take him seriously at all, and it was difficult to control Los Zetas.

As a sinister old drug lord, Cardenas is no match for Arturo in terms of fighting ability, but when it comes to strategy, Arturo is not on the same level as him.

Finally, in order to help Gonzalez take power, Cardenas directly arranged for an informant to reveal Arturo's whereabouts to the Mexican military.

Poor Arturo was surrounded by hundreds of military police when he went to a restaurant for a candlelight dinner with his mistress.

Because he was going out to meet his mistress, Arturo did not bring his men with him and went alone.

His fate was sealed the moment he was betrayed.

In the end, in the exchange of fire, Arturo was outnumbered and was shot to pieces.

Since then, Arturo, the first generation leader who founded the Los Zetas organization, died at the hands of his mentor Cardenas.

This matter is top secret within the Gulf Group, and only a few people know the truth.

After all, if this truth were to be leaked, Los Zetas' betrayal would be inevitable.

At that time, Z2 Gonzalez successfully ascended to the top position of the Los Zetas organization and became the helmsman of the second generation.

But the good times didn't last long. Just half a year later, Gonzalez was arrested in a police anti-drug operation and eventually sent to prison.

As a result, Lascano, codenamed Z3, succeeded to become the leader of the organization.

After the new president came to power last year, Cardenas was listed as a key target and was eventually imprisoned.

Sanchez was a very competitive candidate for the top position in the Gulf Group at the time. In order to obtain the position of boss, he won over Lascano and promised him greater power and participation in more group affairs. Only then did he bring him under his wing, assassinate his competitors for him, and put him on the throne of the boss of the Gulf Group.

In theory, Sanchez and Lascano are a new partnership, relying on each other and being like grasshoppers on the same rope.

However, after Sanchez came to power and secured his position, he began to fear the Los Zetas organization.

The most powerful killer organization and the boss at the highest position in the group seem to be under a curse with each other, and the enthusiasm on the surface cannot cover up the suspicion in their hearts.

All the buildup erupted when Lascano's attack on Song Heping failed and he was released unharmed.

"Spencer, are you asleep?"

Sanchez woke up from his dream at three in the morning and drove away his mistress. After watching her leave the room in a hurry with her clothes in her arms and naked, cursing, he picked up the phone beside him and called his confidant in the group.

"Boss, what happened so late at night?" Spencer knew that Sanchez would not wake him up from his sweet dream at three in the morning for no reason.

Asking yourself whether you have slept is actually nonsense.

Even if you sleep, you have to do things immediately.

"I can't sleep..."

Sanchez sighed, picked up the half-smoked cigar from the ashtray on the bedside table, put it in his mouth and lit it.

After exhaling a puff of smoke, his mood calmed down a little.

"Boss, I've noticed you've been very worried lately." Spencer cautiously probed, "Is it because of Lascano?"

"Um……"

Sanchez was very pleased.

Spencer is his brother of many years, and they have known each other since childhood.

He had been working under him for so many years, and after he became the boss, his position in the Gulf Group rose to fourth.

Although he is called the fourth, in fact, in terms of closeness, he is the person Sanchez trusts most in the entire group, no doubt about it.

When Sanchez doesn't dare to entrust many things to outsiders, he will think of Spencer first.

Therefore, Spencer controls all the group resources and capable people who are most loyal to Sanchez.

"I just can't figure it out. Why would Song release someone like Lascano alive instead of sending back his body? If he had just executed Lascano and the others, it would have been much easier to establish his prestige..."

"How does Lascano explain it?" Spencer continued to ask tentatively.

"He said it was a conspiracy, that Song was trying to sow discord between him and me," Sanchez said. "But the more he explained, the more worried I became."

Spencer asked, "Boss, do you need me to do something?"

Sanchez was silent for a moment, puffing on his cigar.

At the end, he said, "I plan to parachute you into Los Zetas as second-in-command, just like Gonzales before him."

"Boss, it's not that I don't want to, but I have no roots there, so it would be pointless for me to go. Gonzalez tried to control Los Zetas back then, but they ignored him! It was like sidelining him. Also, when Gonzalez was arrested, there were rumors that Lascano was behind it, leaking his whereabouts to the military and police... You know, Sanchez is from the special forces, and they have connections in the army, so it would be easy for them to deliberately leak information."

"I've heard about this," Sanchez said. "Even though the top leaders of Los Zetas are all retired Army Special Forces or defected, they've always been in contact. Who can tell? That's why I'm so worried. Will they..."

Having said that, Sanchez stopped talking.

He changed the subject and returned to the previous topic. "You still have to keep an eye on them for me. Although you can't control their members, their financial power is still in our hands. You only need to control their organizational funds. After all, the little drug business they have now is given to them by me. We have all the resources in our hands. This is easy to do. When I find an opportunity to take him out like I did with Arturo, I will then thoroughly reorganize Los Zetas and consolidate your control."

Seeing that Sanchez had said this, Spencer had no room for rebuttal. He could only nod and agree: "Okay, I'll follow your arrangements."

"One more thing. Didn't I tell you to use our insiders in the Sinaloa Cartel to find out what exactly happened during Lascano's stay at Song's place? Haven't you found out yet?"

"Boss, the Song guys are all their own people. We don't have any insiders in their organization. We do have undercover agents in Sinaloa, but for now, I can't do anything about the intelligence they provide. But don't worry, I've mobilized all my resources to investigate and offered a high reward. I think there will be some clues later."

After listening to Spencer's report, Sanchez was helpless and could only sigh: "We can only wait. Be careful recently. I'm worried that the Song guy will launch a counterattack against us. Don't run around if there's nothing to do."

"I know, boss."

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)