Now that Alaska has been developed for three years, the Port of Anchorage has become quite prosperous, even more prosperous than it was during the Gold Rush. After all, at that time, although there were a lot of people who came, these people only needed to bring a small amount of things. And now, with the construction of the oil field, not only more people have come, but also more large-scale equipment has been brought.

Many years ago, during the Gold Rush, Anchorage Harbor had two sleigh shops, two hotels, and a Japanese-owned entertainment establishment. as well as a grocery store and a food store that sells a variety of food items. Add to that the seafarers' restaurant, plus the dockers' restaurant and the dockmen's house, and that's just a short street. Later, after the gold rush was over, the port of Anchorage shrank even further, because there were no more travelers to go inland, the two sleigh shops were closed, and only one of the two inns remained, and the remaining one merged with the Japanese custom and tourism agency to do the business of the sailors on the whaling ships. Of course, the Japanese customs and tourism agency also made a big layoff, and the younger and more beautiful service workers left, and some of the remaining ones were either old, or too ugly, or old and ugly. Fortunately, the sailors are generally not too picky, and after a few months of drifting at sea, the sows have become Helen. So the business is still quite sustainable. Later, those who remained were either too old to be the grandmothers of the seamen, so they had to retire, or they died of some occupational disease in a foreign country far from home. So the boss recruited a few new ones, but still, they were either old or ugly, or old and ugly.

But since the beginning of the big development, the situation has been different, a large number of construction workers, a large number of ships, continue to arrive in Anchorage, the port town has expanded rapidly, in just three years, it has been from a small town, to a modern city. There are more than 1,000 port workers working at the cargo port alone, and the size of the terminal is growing. Cities have city halls, schools, power stations, police stations, courts and prisons, concrete-floored roads, and reinforced concrete buildings that are several stories high. Restaurants, hotels, all have to be counted in two digits.

And Anchorage's custom tourism industry is thriving. Although there are many women in Anchorage today, some people who have settled here, government officials, port staff, often bring their wives and children. But Anchorage is still a city where there are far more men than women, especially in the prime of life.

Such a city naturally brings a lot of security troubles. Although there were police stations, courts, and prisons in the city, they were of little use, but with the support of some particularly responsible citizens, order was quickly established underground.

However, this is only a palliative solution, and it is necessary to fundamentally address the ...... Well, even crimes against men who look a little more neutral have to be blocked and sparsely combined, and grooming is the main thing. As a result, the various customs and tourism industries have rapidly prospered. Brings a lot of profits. Of course, because of this, there are other new security problems.

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"Mr. Hannibal, there is another nightclub in the west of the city, which is run by the Germans." A minion is reporting to Hannibal.

"These Germans are too much!" Andrei Mayakov gently said from the corner of his mouth, "They have completely forgotten whose territory it is." ”

"Andrey, that place is their territory." Dalton replied with a gloomy face.

"So what? Steal our business, they are provoking! If you can't teach them a hard lesson, those Japanese will have to pay them protection money in the future. Boss Hannibal, let's do it, we can't let those Germans run rampant. ”

Hannibal furrowed his brows and removed the large pipe from his mouth.

"Andrey, those Germans who dared to steal business with us were mostly prepared. You also know some people in German-controlled ports, so you can check them out and see if those Germans are in collusion with the Germans. ”

"Did the Germans collude with the Germans?" is a very strange saying. But the fact that the second is not surprising at all. The "Germans" who robbed them of business with Hannibal were not really Germans, but gangs of German-Americans. And what Hannibal suspects, the German they colluded with, is the real German.

Today, there are only two big gangs in Port Anchorage, one is a German-American gang, and the other is a mafia dominated by Italian immigrants and Latin immigrants. As for the other gangs, such as the Japanese and other American gangs, they have long been wiped out in the firefights of the past few years. It's like those Japanese guys, who opened low-grade brothels for the lowest-ranking seafarers, and were still there to sell the sea. Lo. Because, he actually started a gang of his own and refused to honestly pay Mr. Hannibal protection money. Even with force. Scholar. The knife slashed Mr. Hannibal's little brother, who had kindly gone to provide them with safety.

As a result, those Japanese who did not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth soon learned that gangster confrontation is not something that can be played with a small knife. Mr. Hannibal quickly taught them how to mix with the underworld with submachine guns, machine guns, and infantry guns. At the end of the conflict, when the few remaining Japanese samurai were hiding in a very strong house and resisting stubbornly, Mr. Hannibal's men were out of range of their pistols, and in front of them, they slowly assembled an infantry cannon and fired a shot at the house. Then the Japanese immediately surrendered.

Mr. Hannibal was never a big-hearted man. After the surrender of those Japanese, they did not get any good results. Legend has it that these little Japan were taken by Mr. Hannibal to a quarry they controlled, and then thrown into a stone crusher. Mr. Hannibal has never admitted this legend, but he has never denied it.

In the dark world, the reputation for brutality is useful, it can make more people fearful. Hannibal loved to be feared. But this time the opponent is not only a few pistols and martial arts. Scholar. The Japanese gangsters of knives, the "Germans" are not easy to mess with, although they have no record of using infantry guns in gangster conflicts, but they do have a record of using flamethrowers to play barbecue. Once, a fire broke out in a nightclub, killing nearly a hundred people. The newspapers said that the fire was caused by the nightclub's mismanagement of open flames, but Mr. Hannibal knew that it was the good work of the "Germans" with flamethrowers.

Today, there are basically only these two forces left in the entire port. One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and the conflict between them is completely predictable.

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In winter, the night in Alaska comes early, and it is only five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky is already full of stars. Such a starry night is always exceptionally cold. So although there are already street lights on the streets of Anchorage, there are not many pedestrians. In addition, there is a notice from the municipal side that it is a routine maintenance of the power plant, and in half an hour, the electricity will be cut off for ten hours, so there are fewer people on the street.

However, the port has its own backup power generation equipment, which will not be affected too much, even in the urban area, some places also have their own power generation equipment, which is enough to cope with power outages from time to time. For example, the office building of the Northern Port Company, the tallest in the city, has its own power generation equipment.

Just minutes before the power outage, the Northern Port Company's diesel generators began to rumble, and then the lights in the building went out, but only a second or two later, the lights were on again. At this time, the whole city became pitch black, with only a limited number of buildings, still lit, like a few ships hanging navigation lights on the sea in the dark night.

"It's almost time to get off work, and after a while, the vehicle that picks up and drops off employees goes around from the north, not the south. There may be something going on on the south side. Malone, the manager of the port company, said to his assistant Terry.

"Yes sir, but there is a detour to the north, and the security situation in the north has always been not very good." Terry said.

"Tonight, it's going to be a little less safe to the south." Malone replied.

"Could it be that the gang is going to fight? But it's so close to the port, aren't they worried about the port guards interfering? "Terry was a little worried.

"Harbor Guards? If the port guards hadn't given them the green light, they wouldn't have been able to fight for it. Malone said disapprehantly.

Terry was immediately interested, who doesn't like to hear stories like this, especially stories of people who are not on their side who have died? He immediately asked: "Why are the harbor guards ......?"

At this time, there was a sudden sound of gunfire from the south, first the crisp snap of a rifle, and then the muffled thud of a submachine gun. Then there's a chainsaw-like sound.

"It's the sound of a MacDonald's air-cooled machine gun, hell, when did they have everything?" Terry had seen the heavy machine gun when he had seen them shoot at the Harbor Guard, and he was impressed by its chainsaw-like sound. One of the commanders of the convoy at that time told him that this was because the rate of fire of this machine gun was so high that the human ear could no longer distinguish between individual gunfires.

"Could it be that the Harbor Guard is also participating?" Terry thought that at this time, there was another roar of artillery, and it was not a crisp sound like the 75 infantry gun, but a much deeper sound.

"This is the sound of the 105mm guns of the harbor guards, what are the harbor guards doing?" Terry thought.