Chapter 1395: Fortress
At two o'clock in the afternoon on November 15, a middle-aged housekeeper from Shah and two followers appeared at the yacht rental office of Banus Marina in Marbella City, and offered to rent a high-speed yacht that can accommodate more than 10 people to go to sea for half a month.
The requirements are still relatively harsh, the speed should be fast, the boat should be luxurious enough, and not too small.
At high speed, even the yacht with a maximum speed of 30 knots recommended by the rental staff at the beginning was too slow, and finally recommended a monster with a maximum speed of 45 knots and a maximum cruising speed of more than 40 knots.
Their owners will arrive in Marbella in two days for a holiday, and they will probably need to use a yacht, so they have to be prepared in advance - obviously their owners love the thrill, and the average rich man would not require such a yacht to have such a high speed.
The speed is noisy and vibrating, and timid people are panicking when they sit, super burning oil, and definitely burning money!
However, this kind of low-end requirements are not uncommon here, and the people in the yacht management office have long been surprised - although it is now past the peak of summer, the off-season here is only relatively speaking, and tourists from all over the world arrive here all year round, and the locals are most welcome from the Middle East.
The standard of the local tyrants is that people are stupid and have a lot of money, and when they come here for vacation, they generally arrive with a housekeeper to arrange everything in advance, and then the team will be killed, just like today's situation.
Fortunately, there are plenty of yachts in Margara, and there are many yachts that can be rented out, such as this ultra-speedy yacht with a top speed of 45 knots belongs to a Kuwaiti oil tycoon.
There are many kinds of wealthy people, and the Kuwaiti tycoon is not the richest one, he lives in Marbella for two months a year, and at other times he hands over a villa and private yacht to a special escrow company to manage and rent out.
A very economical way can not only offset a lot of annual management fees, maintenance fees, dock docking fees, and even make a little money, but the depreciation of the house and the yacht is also back - in addition to the top and most money-burning super-rich, the average large yacht owner here will often entrust their yachts to an agency to rent out during their vacation time, so as to maintain a good balance of expenses.
Big monsters have high costs and are relatively difficult to rent out, but you can make a lot of money by renting them out once, and it is more objective to rent them for half a month. Because of this, the requirement that the renter has a lot of entries is not a problem.
The charterer was very serious, not only checking the yacht inside and out, but also making a lot of requests for flowers, fruit arrangements, daily necessities, food supplies, etc.: once his owner wants to use the yacht, he must be fully prepared in advance.
None of this is a problem, the manager of the yacht rental office and the staff are experienced in this kind of request, and there have been more Arab tyrants who have received them over the years, and they have seen all kinds of strange requests, such as the other party's request that only the crew is needed at that time, and the service staff is not needed.
The Arabs, in this way, preferred to use the servants they had brought to Spain, not only by habit, but also for some inhumane reasons.
For example, these local tyrants seem to be honest in their country, a person of five or six maintains a demeanor, the royal family members have to show a sense of luxury, and many of the women have to dress like a courier package.
But these guys often come to Spain with a big makeover, regardless of whether you are a prince or a prince or a nameless, as long as you have money, some of them can often be more debaucherous than you can imagine!
The crew living area of the yacht is basically separated from the guest area, and there is a passage in the middle, but in this case, the crew will deal with the servants in the service area at most, and basically do not communicate directly with the local tyrant guests.
No matter how the guests messed around, the crew was basically invisible.
Of course, the crew here also briefly stated that they had a confidentiality agreement, and they generally didn't talk nonsense about what they saw, but in case, those local tyrants all put this.
The Middle East steward also asked three crew members to drive a high-speed yacht to the sea outside the port to ensure that the boat was ready to use, and also felt the actual comfort level of the yacht when sailing, which was considered satisfactory.
Even so, the people at the rental office were finally reminded that from tomorrow there will be two security personnel who will be on board at any time to ensure the safety of the yacht.
Business talks are normal and harmonious, no problem, nothing is a problem.
The rental agreement was signed, and the butler paid a small deposit in advance, and then gave the final checkout address - this is also normal, when the Middle Eastern tycoons and old European aristocrats make such large purchases in Marbella, they never pay a large deposit or anything first, and then let people go to their housekeeper or financial staff to settle the bill after the total amount of consumption is out.
The half-month rental of the yacht is constant, but other expenses will vary greatly, such as oil, fruits, flowers, wine and food, etc., which will not be calculated at all, and can only be settled at the end.
Besides, this is Marbella, a vacation place for aristocrats and wealthy people, and it would be very rude for you to ask your family to pay a large deposit in advance, especially when facing these big Middle Eastern dogs who want to save face.
Once this gang of big dogs comes, they may have several women with them, and it is also common to find high-level call-girls, and the fruit bill can reach thousands of dollars a day, although most of them will not be eaten at all, so they will be used as decorations.
This is not an exaggeration, there are a lot of things like preparing thousands of dollars of flowers every day, and it is all money!
As for those women shopping in Marbella, it is common for them to buy tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars of fashion in luxury stores in a day, and they are all paid by special personnel, and they will never swipe their cards or pay on the spot, and they all ask the store staff to go to the designated place to pay later.
The same is true when buying jewelry, for those who are relatively well-known and rich, even millions or tens of millions of dollars of jewelry, they also use this kind of payment.
What people want is this fan, paying on the spot is a faceless and identical behavior, so you have to find the business person to come to the door to settle the bill.
The people who do the business of these local tycoons, celebrities, and nobles on the Costa del Sol will not be unhappy about this, and whoever has let this tradition have been handed down since the 50s have long been accustomed to it.
Of course, this payment method is only limited to real luxury consumption here, and there are always ordinary people in Marbella who come on vacation, plus so many entourages, friends, and subordinates of the local tyrants, these people are not afraid of finding a place when they consume themselves, but this kind of relatively civilian consumption places and supermarkets have to be checked out before leaving.
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When the matter was done, Pavel, the "butler" in an Arabic robe, left with Alexander and Kirill, and got into a black 126 Mercedes 300SEL at the door of the rental office, a car that matched their status.
Pavel's current status is one of the housekeepers who come to the front station for the owner's vacation, and if it is a little inappropriate to travel in a Mercedes-Benz flagship model or a higher-end car, this quasi-luxury car is exactly what the entourage of the local tyrants who come here for vacation needs to travel and run errands.
This car is also rented, and it was only done in the morning, and there are seven or eight other cars of various models that are rented together, and the super tyrants who bring their own cars here are a minority after all.
After the car drove out of the pier and went east along the road, the south side of the road is lined with luxury villas, five-star hotels and beaches, and the terrain on the north side gradually rises, and the straight-line distance of less than one kilometer can be lifted to 100 meters, and the altitude of 2.5 kilometers away is already more than 200 meters.
It's a super long and narrow city, built on the side of a mountain, and that's the case with the entire 100-kilometre-long Costa del Sol.
The mountain is quite high, starting from less than 3 kilometers from the coast in a straight line, and the mountains along the northern shore of the Mediterranean suddenly become steep, rising sharply to more than six or seven hundred meters, and many of the mountains are more than a kilometer high, like a high wall blocking the northern shore of the Mediterranean.
Look outside this car is a variety of holiday villas and hotels near the seaside, from tens of meters above sea level to more than 100 meters above sea level, there are all kinds of manors on the slopes, and there are many hotels dotted among them, but the houses of local residents are rare.
The income of the locals is also good, this area is one of the highest income areas in Spain, but compared to the local tycoons who have spare money to come here for vacation, the locals have become relatively poor, and the houses are either in the old town or near the commercial area, because the mall does not need super invincible sea view houses.
As for the multi-storey commercial houses built for locals, they are basically those places between the hillside and the coast where there is no sea view.
The best place is basically occupied by the hotel and the rich people from outside, but it is estimated that the locals here do not care, born and raised, they have long been tired of the local scenery, even if they want to see the sea, they can still see it after walking a few steps.
The scenery is okay, and Alexander, who is driving, will say: "The scenery is really good, and the big guys who come here will really enjoy it." ”
He wasn't just talking about the natural scenery, but also the people - there were a few Bikini girls walking by on the side of the road, the outdoor temperature was more than 20 degrees, today was a sunny day, it would be hotter under the sun, it would not be too cold to go to the sea and sunbathe, and it would be very cool in a shady place.
This section of the road is close enough to the beach, and the hotel girls can walk back to their residence and cross the road in slippers, just like in Miami Beach, there is no embarrassment at all, and the enthusiasm is very unrestrained.
The "view" is good, anyway, it is quite eye-catching, and Kirill, who was sitting in the passenger seat, followed the words: "If you don't have a task, you can enjoy it for a few days."
It is said that along this coastline, there are more than 40 high-grade golf courses, 27 famous beaches, countless entertainment venues, and many legal casinos.
I said, you can bring your wife and children to play in the future, it's not that you don't have money, you can't rent a manor, and you can't afford to live in a five-star hotel. ”
As soon as he heard this, Alexander shook his head slightly while driving and said, "Forget it, it's just talking, I might as well go to Sochi to fill my uncle in this place."
It's at least comfortable to listen to over there, and the consumption is cheaper than this, and we don't let the Spaniards earn money by spending money..."
said very easily, and then Pavel, who was sitting alone in the back seat, interjected: "Don't talk nonsense, you can go wherever you want when you take a break, now you are all serious, Spain is not muddy, beware of capsizing in the gutter."
Drive a little slower when you pass by that manor, and then observe, you will have to move in the middle of the night at the latest, and you haven't figured out how to get in yet, and the trouble is still to come..."
Pavel was an old man and a former military rank, and he would also be the head of those who arrived early, and as soon as he said this, the gossip of the two was no longer distracting.
Pavel continued: "By the way, let Elena and her cooperate in the evening, and Kirill will go to the hill on the north side of the target to have another look, and identify a few sniper points.
Choose a good place, don't just think about a good position, but when you evacuate, you have to walk a few hundred meters on the mountain in the dark. ”
Kirill, who was in the co-pilot, immediately said, "Okay, General.
But, Comrade General, am I such an inexperienced person?"
Pavel laughed "haha", he has been a housekeeper too much recently, and he deliberately didn't control his thinking, and it seems that there are a lot more words.
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Outside the car window is a paradise for the rich, the villas and manors of the rich are more beautiful than the other, but this security is not easy to say - there are good and bad, the terrain and architectural characteristics cause the rich manors in this area to often have security flaws and advantages.
It's all because the north side is like a walled mountain!
Soon the car began to climb along the winding mountain road, and the narrow city below and the Mediterranean Sea two kilometers away in a straight line were in full view, and the road was dotted with villas and mansions.
As the altitude gets higher and higher, the density of mansions on this roadside quickly decreases, but the single scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the buildings look more and more luxurious.
One can see the mansions below from a high vantage point, and you can even see some of the situation in many yards, which is a security loophole, and as for the advantage, these houses are basically fenced, and they are quite sturdy.
When it reaches an altitude of about 150 meters, the road begins to stretch eastward in a basic horizontal manner, and after a while, the road takes a U-shape in the middle of the road, because it has to go around a small hill with a horizontal width of 110 meters and a longitudinal length of about 150 meters.
Alexander slowed down before entering the U-turn, and if other cars were passing by, he would think it was because of the big bend ahead of him.
Actually, it needs to be observed.
This is the mountain, but the middle part of this "small mountain bag" is slightly higher than this U-shaped road a few meters, the north part of the mountain bag is basically horizontally connected to the mountain behind, and there is no particularly concave place, and the slope of this hillside will increase after continuing to the north for more than ten meters.
The target, Abdulaziz bin Nasser Saud, lives in the small hill of a fart – and after arriving here yesterday, some of the Red Devils were already pretending to be outdoor enthusiasts and making an observation from a higher northern slope two or three hundred meters away.
There is a lot of grass on the hillside, and the trees are not dense, but there is no problem with the placement of snipers, and yesterday I also observed two large villa buildings in the hill.
There were a lot of people, there were security guards with guns, and even hounds were seen - a mansion can be observed from the mountains by outsiders is a disadvantage, but the terrain here is such that most estates cannot escape this flaw.
But you can't see through it at a glance, because the green plants in the mountain pack are very tall, especially on the north side, plus the barrier of the house, they all run to the hillside seven or eight hundred meters away in a straight line, and use their glasses to find out where the swimming pool of the manor in the mountain bag is located.
As for wanting to see the pool in its entirety?
I'm sorry, unless I use an airplane, no matter how far and high the sniper runs, I can't see it, and I'm blocked.
The terrain is flawed, but the manor inside the mountain pack is a tough target: not only is it designed to prevent the important people who live inside from being sniped, but the surrounding fence is a nuisance for potential attackers!
This is the southern coast of Spain, and the inhabitants here have always liked to use stones mixed with lime to build houses and fence houses, which is considered to be an architectural feature here.
The target building also has a fence, which is also made of large boulders, at least from the outside, so it is not known what the structure is inside, whether or not there is a reinforcement mesh.
This inverted wall does not seem to be inconsistent at all, that is, after combining the topography, the height of the wall has reached more than 5 meters!
The wall is high, and it is built around the terrain, because it is a small hill with a height of a fart, and the wall blocks the view of passers-by on the road, and even those sitting on the tall buses cannot get a close look at the southwest, south and southeast of the manor.
As for the people inside, because of the height, this wall will not prevent the people who live inside from getting up in the morning to see the scenery, and even people can see the beautiful scenery down the mountain when they stand by the pool.
The height of the stone fence on the north side of the manor is also more than five meters, and the effect of blocking the view is also good, at least people in close proximity cannot see the situation inside.
Pavel had observed these walls, the facades were flat and slightly sloping, not entirely vertical. This means that the thickness of the wall may be very large: narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the thickness of the part below two meters high is likely to be more than 1.5 meters, because from the top of the hill it is found that the width of the top of the wall can be walked, at least sixty or seventy centimeters.
It's almost a simplified wall!
The gate of the manor is open on the east side, and the design is concave into more than ten meters, that is, the gate is not directly opened on the side of the road, but there is a small section of road in the middle, and the north side of this small section of road is also blocked by the hillside.
The height of the large iron gate of the manor is nearly 4 meters, the horizontal opening and closing of the door, nine times out of ten is still an anti-collision and explosion-proof door, and there are mobile barricade signs on the connecting road of ten meters, coupled with the characteristics of the winding mountain road outside, it is impossible to drive a large vehicle to crash the gate.
This is an improved version of an Arabian tycoon-style fortress!