770: Chapter 770: Layout (Super Long Chapter for Monthly Votes) 770: Chapter 770: Layout (Super Long Chapter for Monthly Votes) “Novis Security Company has 37 non-cooperative individuals, 25 of whom died resisting in battle, and 12 were executed…”
He Ao gazed at the copied data displayed on the bracelet by Eve, looked up at the sky, and then lowered his head, sighing.
This was actually not the first ti he had heard this figure, as Eve had told him this crucial piece of information even before he had left the villa, including the fate of these ‘subordinates of his father’.
Yiluo was indeed a man of great prestige and charm.
Apart from his father and brother, there were a total of 50 employees at Novis Security Company, and counting Galod, only 13 chose to betray.
Most of the traitors had followed Galod, participating in the battle that besieged He Ao.
By these accounts, what was once Novis Security Company had been completely wiped out.
Apart from a shell registered with the Federation’s municipal governnt, its mbers and its founder had all disappeared from this world.
‘Yiluo’ might be the last person left from the company.
He Ao continued to flip through the information in his hand.
The Eternal Secret Teachings’ thod of dealing with things was exceptionally simple and brutal, especially when the subjects were not believers of the Eternal Radiance, it was particularly bloody and cruel.
Their reason for executing those who did not die in battle but were loyal to Yiluo’s father’s security company was straightforward, ‘to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.’
These docunts clearly showed the attitude of Kate and the upper echelons of the Eternal Secret Teachings, which was ‘killing’.
They used the most brutal and bloody thods to deter other security companies, advancing the control of the Security Union at the hands of the Eternal Secret Teachings.
Of course, the Eternal Secret Teachings also had ‘gentler’ thods, but their primary ans of appeasent was that after joining the Esoteric Teachings, one had the chance to enter the Eternal Divine Nation, enjoying an eternally hunger-free ‘life’.
The next was lifting the interference that the Eternal Secret Teachings had previously placed on these security companies.
The individuals who could beco the heads of security companies were generally quite confident and lived comparatively good lives; they didn’t much believe in the so-called Eternal Divine Nation.
Rather than the idyllic life of that fantasy Kingdom of God, they preferred freedom and independence in real life.
Thus, Kate’s attempts to pull these security companies into the sect were not very successful.
Of course, this was also influenced by Yiluo’s father, Novis.
According to the information from Kate’s villa, Novis had helped many security companies when they were first established and was fair and upright himself, so he had a high reputation within the Security Union.
Novis keenly perceived the greed and brutality of the Eternal Secret Teachings, as well as their ‘pillage’ of the already impoverished people of the Storm Zone under the guise of the Eternal Radiance faith, so he always opposed cooperation between the Security Union and the Eternal Secret Teachings.
Through these docunts, He Ao actually gained a more ‘recent’ understanding of the organization known as the Security Union.
Wint City’s pillar industry was mining, and in the Storm Sea near Wint City, there existed an abundance of helium-3, while the water’s content of deuterium was also higher and easier to enrich.
Helium-3 and deuterium are the Federation’s main fuels for nuclear power stations.
Although mining is risky, it is also very profitable.
Before United Industries was established, there were nurous mining enterprises in Wint City, and to cope with the dangers of the Storm Sea, these mining boats needed systematic security forces.
Therefore, security companies composed of civilians sprouted like mushrooms after rain.
These security companies generally consisted of ard individuals from a few neighboring blocks coming together, pooling money or taking loans to buy weapons, and then continuing to buy more weapons with the money they earned.
Because of their local nature, the mbers of the sa security company mostly ca from one or two fixed blocks, naturally endowing the company with the need to maintain local order.
Thus, security companies instead of gangs that should have erged in chaotic regions beca special organizations in-between black and white, setting up various gang operations while accepting employnt from mining companies to provide security services.
In a sense, these security companies could also be understood as gang organizations providing scaled, comrcialized security services.
Of course, not all security companies operated on this model; there were purely legitimate security companies, like the one owned by Yiluo’s father.
There were also purely gang organizations in Wint City that did not provide security services, although most of these gangs were inconsequential.
So, the Security Union ford by these security companies was essentially equivalent to the ruling power of the entire underworld of Wint City, especially in the most chaotic Storm Zone, where their influence was trendous.
By taking control of the Security Union, the Eternal Secret Teachings essentially gained the ability to transition from the shadows into the light, further boldly ‘proselytizing’.
Clearly, the entire Eternal Secret Teachings were now in ‘transformation’; they were no longer content with existing as a secretive Sect and began to pursue a broader dissemination of their teachings.
In fact, over the years of erosion, the Eternal Secret Teachings had also taken control of quite a few small security companies, but the large ones were not willing to so easily surrender the power they had in hand.
However, the Eternal Secret Teachings had always been sowhat restrained.
This ti, they finally tore off the mask, attacking Yiluo’s father, the ‘opposition leader’, to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, using the most bloody and brutal ways in an attempt to intimidate and control the Security Union.
And from the looks of it, their plan was clearly successful.
This absolute display of force intimidated all the bosses of the Security Union, even to the point of being willing to attend Kate’s banquet.
The ones invited this ti were those who hadn’t quite accepted the Eternal Secret Teachings before.
If things were to continue, Kate really had a good chance of taking full control of the Security Union.
The Eternal Secret Teachings could also successfully transform.
Well, if things were to continue.
He Ao leaned back in the driver’s seat, looking up at the snowy road ahead.
The SUV’s wheels slowly crushed the white ice crystals in front of it.
He Ao had thought he would see the big shots of the Security Union at the banquet, but it seed like they had so private agreent not to arrive early.
Nevertheless, He Ao had still left a ‘small arrangent’ in the villa.
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Outside Kate’s villa
The front door of the lead SUV opened, and a burly, muscular man stepped out.
He looked up at the big iron gate.
“This is Kate’s place?”
One by one, n in security uniforms ca out of the car, standing behind him.
The burly man glanced at the guard booths on either side and grinned.
“How co there’s not a single guard?
Is this guy really that badly off?”
“Be careful; that bastard Kate is full of tricks,” another one cautioned.
The door of the second SUV was pushed open, and a tall, slender man with gold-rimd glasses, looking very refined, stepped out and spoke in a low voice.
A group of n dressed similarly to him also got out of the car.
At that mont, the door of the third SUV was pushed open.
A woman with auburn, wavy hair, dressed in a red asymtrical long dress, black high heels, and most of her snow-white thigh exposed, walked out from the back seat.
She glanced at the two n ahead without a word, took a deep breath, pulled out a golden box with a rose pattern, and with her slender fingers painted with red nail polish, she drew a golden cigarette with a filter from the box, placed it in her mouth, and lit it with an electronic lighter.
“Look at you, all skittish,”
As the fourth SUV door opened, a lean, short man with a glint of gold in his eyes leaped out.
He glanced at the full-figured woman in red and then at the man with glasses, laughing, “What’s there to worry about?
Why don’t we just go in and see for ourselves?”
Though he said this, his steps did not move an inch.
More and more SUVs and people erged from the cars.
“It’s six fifty-five,”
The man with glasses lifted his watch to check the ti, “Everyone’s pretty punctual.
This ti we must unite and stick together.
Otherwise, that guy Kate will definitely tear flesh off our backs.”
More people kept arriving, until everyone got out of their cars, and the huge iron gate was still not open.
The silent stillness spread through the air along with the falling snow.
“There’s the sll of blood,”
The fourth man out of the car, the lean one, loosened his nostrils and then turned his head to the man with glasses, “Jato, do you want to open the door and check?”
The man now known as Jato, with the glasses, his face darkened, but before he could speak, the first man out of the car, the burly one, walked up to the gate and then forcefully slamd it open with a ‘boom’—the large gate hadn’t been locked electronically, and with a thunderous noise, it swung open to reveal the deserted garden inside.
With the obstruction of the iron gate gone, the strong sll of blood was almost overpowering.
The four in front exchanged looks.
“Everyone, on guard!”
The burly man pulled a heavy pistol from his waist, crouched down, and slowly approached the open gate.
The man with glasses, Jato, and the lean man drew their guns almost simultaneously, crouching and leading the way.
The woman in the red dress put away the lighter, lifted the skirt concealing her thigh, and pulled a delicate red pistol from the holster strapped to her leg and followed slowly.
The people behind them also took out their weapons and followed them in.
An eerie silence spread throughout the entire space, the only reminder of people’s gradually deepening entrance into the villa was the increasingly intense scent of blood.
Everyone’s nerves were stretched taut.
Slowly in the snow, long footprints were drawn out, and soon, the burly man at the front reached the doorway of the ground floor hall.
The hall’s door was ajar, and nurous bloodied corpses lay in disarray in the middle of the hall.
The horrific scent of blood nearly solidified in the air, assaulting everyone’s nostrils.
The burly man exchanged glances with the few people behind him, then looked toward an ard subordinate at the back and made a gesture with his eyes.
The subordinate nodded, crouched with his submachine gun, and quickly approached, cautiously entering the hall.
He crouched down, checked a few bodies, then raised his head looking toward the burly man, “Boss, they’re all dead.”
“Hmm?”
The burly man was taken aback, then stood up and walked briskly with his people into the hall.
“Cold weapons, one-hit kills.”
Jato crouched on the ground, examining the bodies in the hall clutching guns.
He looked up at the wet bloodstains in the hall, “They must have encountered the enemy here, and then were killed without being able to make any effective attack.”
He examined several more bodies, “The assailant was very fast, these people must have been killed almost simultaneously, it’s hard to imagine just how terrifying an enemy they encountered.”
“A few of you, go check upstairs.”
The burly man motioned with his hand.
Imdiately, several people walked up the stairs on the side of the hall.
“These wounds are very fresh, the enemy is probably still here, everyone be careful,”
The burly man looked at the people around him, “It seems they ca for Kate, tsk tsk tsk, this Eternal Radiance isn’t as great as they claim it to be.”
Soon, those who went upstairs to check ca running back down, looking at the burly man, “Boss, no survivors.”
“I’m a little curious who did this,”
The burly man grinned, “But he did us a big favor by dealing with Kate.”
The woman in a red dress leaned in the corner, scanned the bodies on the floor, holstered her gun, and lit another cigarette to put in her mouth.
At this ti, Jato, the man with glasses, stood up.
He turned to look at the door that was open inward, saw the blood on the edge of the door, walked over, and pulled the door.
“There’s writing behind this door!”
A subordinate following behind him exclaid.
“Close that other door too.”
Jato imdiately gave an order.
Another subordinate imdiately walked over and closed the other door.
As the two doors ca together, slightly ajar, a line of words written in blood was revealed.
“Blood debt, blood repaynt,”
The burly man read out the phrase, then his gaze lowered to see the signature below the words, “Novis Security Company.”
“Novis?”
The skinny man standing beside him was stunned, “Didn’t he die?”
“Blood debt, blood repaynt…”
Jato standing behind the door also muttered the phrase, then his face changed instantly, “Damn it, we need to get out of here imdiately!!!”
And at that instant, the roaring sound of brakes stopped outside the door, followed imdiately by dozens of n in black quickly rushing into the yard.
Several grenades were thrown from the hands of the n in black at the front, landing in front of the door.
“Close the door!!!”
Jato struggled to shout as he completely sealed the door, then leaped backward, “Find cover, fall back!!!”
Boom—
Explosions one after another roared in front of the door, blasting a large hole right through it.
“What the hell is going on?”
The burly brute, dragging a submachine gun, sprayed bullets through the large hole at those outside, “Are those outside from the Eternal Secret Teachings?”
“We’ve been set up as scapegoats,”
Jato’s face was like still water as he quickly explained, “Clearing out the people in this villa, they figured the support from the Eternal Secret Teachings would arrive soon, leaving us a gap for the Eternal Secret Teachings to deal with us.”
“Can’t we just go out and explain things clearly to those outside?
Don’t they want to absorb us?”
The skinny man glanced at the large hole where mbers of the Eternal Secret Teachings had already found cover, and he fired off several shots quickly.
“Look at the words above,”
Amid the intense gunfire and the explosions, Jato glanced at the blood-written words overhead,
“Do you think they’ll believe us?
The attacker chose today, the day of the banquet, to act?
And it just so happens to be the people from the Security Union?
All of Kate’s people are dead, and we’re unhard?”
He paused, then continued, “Even if this group believes us, they won’t stop their assault.
This counts as failed support, they need to claim so ‘results’, and with the way the Eternal Secret Teachings operate, do you think they’ll let us go after knowing the truth?
They have just found a perfect excuse to eliminate us.”
“Damn, is this a trap set by Novis?”
A boss from a small security company provided cover while firing outside.
He looked at the blood-written words on the door, “How could he do such a cruel thing?
Does he want to use the hand of the Eternal Secret Teachings to get rid of us?”
“It’s probably not Novis,”
The burly brute leaned against the wall and changed his magazine, “Novis is indeed dead; his body was dragged away by Kate’s n, it could be one of his subordinates who escaped or soone using Novis’s na to do this.”
Not far away, several more grenades were thrown over, detonating with booming sounds, further shattering the whole door.
“If it was Novis’s people, that’s too ruthless,” the skinny man stated, leaning against the wall behind the door, “Didn’t he have any regard for the camaraderie of the past?”
“You used Novis as a human shield up front to test the thods of the Eternal Secret Teachings.
When trouble arose, not a single one of you sent support for Novis,”
A mocking and charming female voice rose from behind everyone, “How co now you feel that Novis’s people are being too harsh.”
“Lena,”
The skinny man spit in disdain, “We’re not alone here, with so many brothers behind us, who can withstand the wrath of the Eternal Secret Teachings?
You’re making snide remarks here now?
Didn’t you also fail to send help?”
“I’m just a seller of information, how many people would I have?”
Lena smirked with a cigarette in her mouth, “So let’s prioritize benefit then; there’s no need to discuss feelings.”
“Lena, now’s not the ti to talk about this,”
The burly brute looked back at Lena, “Do you have a way to deal with the people from the Eternal Secret Teachings outside?
If we can’t handle them, we’ll all die here.”
“Whoever set up this play wouldn’t let us die here; it doesn’t serve their interests,”
Lena’s fiery lips pursed around the cigarette, her smile slight.
Drip drip—
The piercing sound of alarms ca from outside, the sound of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s sirens.
Everyone’s expression changed.
“There’s no ti to reach out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation now, but if soone contacted them ahead of ti, that’s a different story,”
Lena removed the cigarette from the corner of her mouth and leaned against the wall, exhaling a puff of white smoke, “Look, now we’re completely on the opposite side of the Eternal Secret Teachings.”
Intense gunfire ca from outside, the sound of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Eternal Secret Teachings exchanging fire.
This is the Cloud District, the area with the strongest municipal governnt and Federal Bureau of Investigation forces and also where the public safety of Wint City is best.
At this mont, everyone fell into silence.
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