Chapter 2: The Knotta Family
The sound of silver bell-like chains shaking pulled Hugh back to reality, it was gunpowder and projectiles, these were two adult Prott dogs, with dark brown skin, towering forward-leaning heads, determined and confident eyes, and streamlined slender bodies, like bullets out of the chamber, from which they got their names.
Their ancestors are pure German blood, as early as the middle of the 18th century, on the banks of the Rhine River in Germany, followed the owner to hunt wild boars, and later migrated to the North American continent with the owner, because there are no wild boars there, it is mainly famous for hunting raccoons, in addition, it is also very efficient in the pursuit of hunting mountain dogs, bobcats, wolves, and even can challenge the tall and fearless king of the North American jungle - brown bears in groups of three or five.
They are extremely capable of tracking their prey, even in very remote places. He is very tenacious and hardworking, has full endurance and extraordinary hunting instincts, and can still maintain a high fighting spirit even when he is hungry, and continues to travel long distances, over mountains and mountains to chase prey until he takes his last breath, and his bravery and tenacious endurance are highly praised.
Over the years, the breed has incorporated the genes of the native dogs, but this has not diminished their exceptional talent, but has made them more adaptable to the climate and terrain of the Americas. After a long period of careful cultivation, it becomes stronger and more stable. Although in most cases, it is mainly used as a hunting dog, but here in Hugh, there is another use.
Speaking of which, we have to mention Hugh's organization, a secret intelligence agency that performs intelligence gathering and analysis, infiltration, rebellion, assassination, and kidnapping, and works for the Khnotta family - in order to escape the flames of World War I, a mafia family that immigrated from Italy to the small South American country of Kuleman in 1916, started out in the arms trade, and with the alertness, courage and wisdom of the family patriarch, he did not disappear in the local gangs' firefights and the government's encirclement and interception, and as the years passed, The wealth of the family is increasing day by day, and for the stability of the family's foundation and the long-term peace and stability of future generations, the patriarch realizes that he can no longer be satisfied with seeking development from the turf competition in the streets and alleys, but should focus on industries with higher goals, larger scales, and more respected in the society (referred to as Gaodashang); By chance, the family received a generous gift from the Second World War: the family received two Jewish scientists who fled from Germany in World War II, and the two have long been engaged in the research and development of military sensors and nano equipment. Later, branches and new factories were set up in dozens of countries on these continents, with an annual output value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and won many awards at international exhibitions, which not only solved the problem of local employment, but also greatly boosted the dying national economy, and was deeply appreciated by the country's leaders.
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Vulcan's rapid progress and outstanding achievements in the field of international military sensors and nano-equipment research have aroused great concern and extreme anxiety among the US intelligence agencies on the other side of the ocean, and in the foreseeable future, the leading position of family businesses in this field will threaten the security of the United States itself.
Since then, a series of disasters and changes have followed, first the company's security guard on night duty was shot and killed, the meeting video data disappeared, the company's surveillance cameras in various areas failed, and the head hung weakly; The assistant chief scientist was killed in a bizarre car accident, his home was turned into a mess, and his computer hard drive was missing; This was followed by a fire in the company's R&D building; Not long after, a number of workers in the factory dormitory disappeared unknown, and most of them received such a text message on their mobile phones: "Serve Vulcan again, you will be next." "The panic caused people to be full of wind and rain, which caused a large number of workers to leave the company that month, and they fled the place, production stalled, and factory orders could not be delivered for a while.
The company's top management held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures, first choice proposals, and contact the local government to solve the problem, but after seeing the incompetence and lack of progress of the local police, the Kernotta family realized that the power of the opponent was far stronger than expected.
Is it time to get back to the old business and cut through the thorns and root out the troubles in the style of the Italian mafia? Considering that the opponent came without a trace and went without a trace, so far, the family does not know where the attack came from and who is behind it. The only way to do this is to outwit it, all the actions of the other party are carried out around Vulcan Company, the intention is very obvious, stealing confidential information, disrupting the normal operation of the company, and wanting to strangle the rising star of Vulcan on the way to the pinnacle of the industry.
Don't be afraid of thieves stealing, just afraid of thieves, after the other party's several attacks succeeded, the next target will sooner or later fall on the company's chief scientist Heisenberg, instead of strengthening the security force around him, it is better to let the bodyguard disguise himself as his domestic servant, integrate into his daily life, wait for the rabbit, and carry out trapping.
On a stormy night, a dark shadow sneaked into Heisenberg's mansion in the night, and a group of nine people, including a gardener, a nanny, and a housekeeper disguised by bodyguards, had just discovered the figure of the comer, and before they could draw their guns, they fell into a pool of blood with the deep rhythm of the silencer.
However, when the horse also missed the front hoof, just when this man of extraordinary skill pulled the trigger in his hand and fired the last bullet in the chamber of the gun at the chef who fell to the ground and was about to raise his gun to shoot back, because of the angle, the bullet catapulted onto the door of the stainless steel cabinet behind the cook, refracted back, and hit the knee of the left leg of the comer impartially, and the great pain in his heart immediately made him lose the ability to stand, and he fell to the ground, and was subdued by the bodyguards who arrived later.
After three days of torture to extract a confession, the other party still refused to reveal a word, and responded to the torture again and again with a firm and provocative look. Thinking about it, the patriarch did not hesitate to pull out the Browning GP35 pistol from the waist of the bodyguard, opened a big hole in the palm of the opponent's hand, and when the other party passed out, he ordered his subordinates to use a large dose of anesthetic to prolong his coma time, and in the depths of the wound in his palm, implanted a high-tech crystallization of Vulcan Company - bee eye sensor, a military-grade sensor the size of a mung bean, which can use satellite signals to automatically lock the latitude and longitude of its location and send it to the server of Vulcan Company. Through the online map, the location of the other party is displayed in real time. And it can record all voice calls within a radius of 10 meters. Upload it to the server.
The rest of the time is to wait for the wound to heal, then release it and return to his world, through the bee eye, let it tell the Knotta family everything they want to know.
One day half a month later, the target appeared in Langley, the headquarters of the CIA, on the other side of the world, and the sound of a failed mission was reported, and a thunderous roar from a superior was heard.
It seems that everything is clear, the enemy that the Knotta family faces is the largest secret service intelligence agency in the world.
Last time, in order to trap the agents sent by the other party, the Knotta family lost nine of their men, seven of them were seriously injured, and they will not be able to take care of themselves in the future. And the other party is alone.
Such a big contrast in strength made the patriarch fall into deep thought. It seems that instead of waiting to be killed, let the other party gradually pull out the thorn in the side of the Vulcan Company, a thorn in the flesh. It is better to take the initiative to attack and use the existing wealth and resources of the family to cultivate and develop their own intelligence agencies, not for anything else, but to defend their hard-won development achievements in this world where the weak eat the strong and the fittest survive.
In order to realize this vision, the Knotta family, relying on the relationship between its patriarch and the senior military generals of Ukraine during the former Soviet Union, purchased a large number of combat materials from an arsenal left over from the Cold War in Ukraine at a low price after the collapse of the Soviet Union, from MiG-29 fighters to T80 main battle tanks, from SAM19 anti-aircraft missiles to kennel phased array radars, from the famous AK47 assault rifles to SVD sniper rifles, NSV heavy machine guns, and everything.
However, the most important thing for the Knotta family is light and practical light weapons, tank missiles and other heavy firepower, which are useless in the projectile land of Vulcan, not only to spend a lot of money to transport them from Northern Europe to South America, but also to establish a special warehouse to store these big guys, maintenance, personnel training is a lot of expenses, the purchase of them can be said to be worth the loss.
In the end, the Knotta family decided to do a favor and sell these strategic materials to Kuleman, a country that had suffered from the invasion of British and French colonialism, the country was ruined and the people were poor, and after a hundred years of the national independence and liberation movement, it still suffered from the trade blockade of the Western powers and had not yet recovered. The country's government army is extremely short of weapons, and the standard equipment is still stuck in the World War II period. These aircraft missile radars can greatly improve the country's border defense equipment and raise the security factor of territorial waters and airspace to a new height. The country's defense minister naturally accepted all the military equipment, laughed at it, and held a high-level state banquet to commend the Kernotta family's contribution to the cause of national defense.
In terms of the training of intelligence personnel, the family spent a lot of money to absorb a group of veteran agents who had retired from the KGB of the former Soviet Union, as well as mercenaries with outstanding achievements in South America, and recruited a large number of local school-age teenagers. It's a long-standing adage that has been circulating within organizations.
On the abandoned islands left over from the Cold War period of the former Soviet Union, the organization trained new members in psychology, physical fitness, military tactics, weapon use, blasting, survival in the wilderness, anti-tracking, intelligence gathering, etc., and screened them layer by layer, and almost all of them who could pass were elites, and Hugh was one of them.
On the government's side, taking into account the military and the Krota family's partnership in the field of sensors, coupled with strong support in armaments, the military has been able to obtain a large number of advanced Ukrainian equipment. The Crota family has taken a blind eye to the cultivation of its own intelligence agency, and the two sides have been at peace.