What's a mercenary? Let me look this up. Okay, there are two main definitions. One is a soldier hired to do work for another army

and the second is a person who works purely because of monetary gains.

I'm gonna guess that they don't have allegiance other than whoever is paying them. They're higher links.

They get paid to do a job and to get it done and they're not supposed to ask why.

Mercenaries are people and people are complex.

They're filled with emotions and they actually do have allegiance even if they're paid to forget about that.

And if you pay a mercenary to do something that goes over their moral line they've got internally, conflict happens.

Everything falls apart.

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

I'm Jack Recyder. This is Dark Net Diaries.

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