The Held team is an eleven-member professional kidnapping team that became famous throughout Baja California four years ago.
The Held brothers who first started this team have already returned to the West. One was shot dead in the street by law enforcement, and the other was poisoned and assassinated by the gang's third member because of uneven distribution of the spoils.
There are now seventeen members in Held's team. Except for the two bosses who are former first-generation members, the rest have all been replaced.
In Baja California, the Held team is considered the most famous kidnapping team and the top target of various law enforcement agencies. They have committed two crimes every year for three consecutive years and made more than 200 million federal dollars. No one has ever been arrested alive.
The Held team was a standard technical team when it was first established. The Held brothers themselves were very high-level hackers, so they were able to thrive in this era.
In their most successful kidnapping, no action team was dispatched during the entire process. The Held brothers only relied on controlling the kidnapped person's personal terminal, network account and smart device, allowing the target person to voluntarily leave the protection of the security team.
When the victim realized this, the vehicle's manual driving function had been locked, and he ended up driving on the highway for nine and a half hours, crossing six states, and ultimately caused the target to miss an extremely important acquisition meeting.
The Heywood team not only received payment from the task publisher, but also received a high ransom from the target.
The core of the Held team is the technical staff. They all have their own professional jobs as cover, and the profession itself also pays a lot of money. If the Held brothers had not accidentally exposed their identities, they might have been in the industry until now.
legend.
As the Held brothers died one after another, Rafael, the third person in the team, took over the entire team and transformed the team from part-time to full-time, ignoring all the rules of the team.
In the past, the first goal of Held's team was not to harm people's lives and not to spend most of the proceeds on ransom, but Rafael didn't have that many avenues and didn't want to be subject to so many restrictions.
Within three months after he took over the entire team, he kidnapped thirteen targets in a row, seven of which were superhumans.
With the high-profile appearance of the Losas organization in Night City, more and more organizations are focusing on superhumans, and many people have issued commissions on the dark web.
The Held team completed these commissions with astonishing efficiency and did not care about the accidental casualties caused during the operation.
The remaining six targets are basically boys and girls in their prime, and there is always a hungry demand for this group of people on the dark web.
Rafael is quickly transforming the Held team from a high-profit team to a volume-driven team, but members of the team are not too dissatisfied.
The reason is that in the past, the technical team with only three people took the big head, while the more numerous action team could only take the small head. Now it is much more balanced. Rafael and the action team share all the profits equally.
Among all the seventeen teams, Alia focused on tracking the Held team, because the other team had been hunting superhumans without consequences recently, and they had the technical foundation to evade the corporate power that was secretly tracking them.
When heading to the location provided by Aria, this genius superhuman, who was less than eighteen years old but whose level had exceeded the limit of Tang Ji's understanding, kept emphasizing to Tang Ji how talented the Held brothers were.
As well as their attitude towards being in darkness and being kind-hearted in this industry.
In short, Aaliyah was obviously full of resentment towards that Rafael, and these resentments finally converged into one sentence: "Don, help me kill Rafael! He is simply a bastard!"
No, he was just a bastard, everyone in this industry was a bastard, and Tang Ji finally had to temporarily order Aaliya offline.
He couldn't understand the realm of heart-to-heart communication between hackers over programs and codes, and he couldn't see that there would be any bright-minded aliens in this industry.
Tang Ji now only cares about whether the Ice and Snow Princess is in their hands. Wu Qianying always thought that she was secretly detained by a laboratory, but now judging from the attitude of the Military Technology Group, this possibility is very small.
No affiliated laboratory of any group would fall out with a military technology group for a metahuman, and it is completely unnecessary.
In front of the military technology group, no one can monopolize the results. As long as it wants it, no matter what the process is, it will eventually get what it wants.
Even Tang Ji knows very well that if everything goes well, he may be able to take the Snow Princess back to Wu Qianying's laboratory first, but all research results will eventually be shared with the Military Technology Group.
They will even directly send researchers to work with Wu Qianying.
Tang Ji didn't care about the profits Ice and Snow Princess could create. He just wanted to get mature products as soon as possible so that Tang Anran could persist longer.
What he was most worried about was that the gang that kidnapped the Ice Princess came from the blind spots of the major forces. Last week, news came out in Kentucky that extreme enthusiasts with supernatural powers shared a super human in the form of food in the hope of early awakening.
"We're almost there, sir, you'd better get off the car here." Martin looked at the brightly lit nightclub sign in the distance and parked the car in a small alley on the side of the road: "I brought some heavy firepower, it's best to stay here."
This is just in case, if there is no one in the car, all our stuff will be lost in ten minutes."
Tang Ji nodded. He left all his body armor and weapons in the car, and only brought a pair of plastic fingertips. When folded, this thing looks like a lighter and can pass the security check.
The Saint also took off his body armor and left various small items on his body in the car one by one. However, he left behind his cross necklace, which was a deadly weapon in the hands of the Saint.
With his face alone, no one can stop him from bringing this thing in.
Soult reluctantly left his body armor here and stood behind Tang Ji eager to try.
"Can he enter that place?" Martin chewed gum and blew a big bubble: "Why don't he stay with me?"
"No!" Although Soult didn't know what the nightclub was about, nor did he know the words on the sign, the explicit holographic projection was enough to explain everything.
He thought of the old people in the Skull and Bones Party who loved to reminisce about the past, and the poster in his room, and he was sure in his heart that it was the legendary Chicken Yard!
Tang Ji glanced at Surte's shining eyes and knew that a man of this age was full of hormones, but Surte was indeed useful.
When your enemy is a superhuman, you have to rack your brains to guess and predict his abilities, but it is very convenient when you have a superhuman at your disposal.
"Will you obey my orders inside?" Tang Ji leaned down and looked at Sirte: "When I give an order, you must execute it unconditionally. Can you do it?"
"I" Soult looked at Tang Ji, at the brightly lit signboard in the distance, then at the bubbles Martin blew, touched the chewing gum in his pocket, and whispered: "Yes."
"Very good, tonight's consumption is all mine." Tang Ji patted Sirte on the shoulder: "It's time to let the child see the world."
Martin laughed and spit the gum on the ground: "Bullshit consumption, boss, just lie to children!"
C4 sat on the bar and watched those plump dancers dancing on the stage with the pole. The highly modified DJ almost turned himself into a sound system, constantly enhancing the atmosphere in the crowd.
Although it is almost dawn, the crowd here has been partying all night long, but they are still crazy about enjoying everything here, music, drinks, women
On the high ceiling, traces of atmospheric smoke containing elements of paradise are constantly falling from the sky, affecting the human mind.
The bartender behind the bar was smiling and refilling C4's drink again, seemingly not affected by the atmosphere at all.
The same is true for C4. There is a micro filter inserted in his nasal cavity, which is enough to keep him awake. He dare not stay awake. Last night, someone from Held suddenly contacted him and wanted to find a way out. He was a little flattered and anxious.
I couldn't wait to seize this opportunity.
He is the leader of another kidnapping gang, but his team is smaller and his methods are simpler.
To put it simply, they will find handsome men and beautiful women who have long-term cooperation to seduce those tourists, and then take advantage of them when they think they are lucky. It is simple but effective.
C4 also knew that the only reason why his small team was favored by Held was that they were locals. In order to avoid being pursued by San Diego law enforcement, they spent a lot of money to build several safe houses in the desert.
There has been a lot of buzz recently. I don't know why Military Technology and United View Group suddenly appeared in this city. Not only did they personally send people to torture their group of kidnappers, but they were also put under pressure by the Law Enforcement Bureau and local gangs, causing the entire city of San Diego to get wind of the news.
They are now like fireflies in the dark. The slightest movement will attract attention. In the past few days, many 'celebrities' in this industry have disappeared. Of course, their bodies will appear in a corner soon.
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C4 tried to escape out of the city, but the military technology drones were like flies, staring at every vehicle trying to leave the area.
Some people have already proven with their lives that this road will not work. Their information has long been mastered by military technology people, and now they are just trying to catch a turtle in a urn.
The invitation from Heywood's team is undoubtedly a life-saving straw. Everyone on the road knows that the other party has hacking technology that far exceeds the industry level and is fully capable of avoiding the eyes of military technology.
C4 drank his own wine slowly, not moving too much. His face was a one-time fake face. Although he could make many expressions with it, there would still be flaws if he wasn't careful enough.
He was sure that if he hadn't disguised himself, the bartender would have reported his location without hesitation.
C4 glanced at the time anxiously. There were still eight minutes left before the agreed meeting time. The reason why he chose this place was because it can block the signals of most electronic instruments and cannot bring weapons in. Moreover, the light is dim and there are enough people to provide a certain level of security.
cover.
Of course they can't trust each other's character, but in order to survive, they can only approach each other cautiously and test their sincerity.
At this time, Tang Ji had already led Soult into the nightclub, and Saint entered a few minutes after him, moving in another direction to expand the search area.
The local gangs have sold all the information on the kidnappers. Tang Ji has all the information that Military Technology has, and he also has the information they don't have.
For example, Alia obtained the phone number used by Held's team for external communication and the phone number used by another group he contacted.
Tang Ji's eyes swept across the noisy crowd, ignoring the crowds of people who were so crazy that they were almost exhausted, and focused his gaze in the direction of the booths and the bar.
He was sure that the two groups of people who wanted to meet did not dare to enter the private room because they also could not trust the nightclub operator. Only in this noisy environment could they dare to communicate quietly.
Soon Tang Ji found a suspicious target near the bar, but he soon found a few people not far away who were obviously not coming to the bar to stare at his target.
They also discovered Tang Ji. Both sides had a strong marching momentum, which was as conspicuous as a candle in the dark in a place like this.
Of course, Tang Ji is more conspicuous, because he should be accompanied by a minor whose eyes are about to pop out.
C4 also sensed the abnormality, but it was already too late. The incapacitating agent was added to the drink he drank three minutes ago. At this time, his whole body was slumped on the table like mud.
At this moment, he looked no different from other drunk people.
Two strong men appeared from different directions, sandwiched C4 in the middle, and carried him away quietly. The other three men put their hands deep under their armpits in a demonstrative manner, staring at Tang Ji.
But Tang Ji just ordered a glass of wine and watched them disappear.
With Soult here, Tang Ji was not worried that he would be lost, he just wanted to wait to see if Helder's people would show up.
With the caution of Held's team, Tang Ji had no doubt that they had already sent people to observe in secret. Once there was any sign of trouble, the idiot who had been captured would be the target and bait.
Tang Ji snapped his fingers and said to Soult: "Follow that group, be careful not to be discovered, find their lair, and tell me."
Soult curled his lips with some reluctance. In his eyes, this place was the embodied version of the so-called paradise. Not only was his young mind greatly shocked, but his heartbeat also surged with the music.
He didn't want to leave here, but under the pressure of Tang Ji's stern eyes, he still chose to obey.
Tang Ji looked around unhurriedly, looking at each face with great patience, and got a few middle fingers. Some people expressed their anger at Tang Ji staring at him and his female companion.
There was even a strong man who stood up and planned to come over and 'talk' to Tang Ji, but in the end he was persuaded to go back by his companions.
But Tang Ji smiled instead. He was a law enforcer and he was familiar with this routine. Helder's people went too far. They stayed here all night, drinking and passively inhaling addictive chemical gases.
, if his temper is so bad, no one can hold him back.
Tang Ji stood up and winked at the saint not far away, then walked directly towards the group with the wine glass in hand.
There were seven people on the other side, three men and four women. One man was lying motionless on the table, looking like he had drunk too much.
Tang Ji didn't waste time on women. There were no women in Held's team. He directly poured the drink into the eyes of the man who stood up first, reached out and slashed his throat. The man sat back down without even making a sound.
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Another man who was awake was pressed against his waist with a cross from behind by the saint, and then he did it together with the saint.
The man lying on the table suddenly raised his head, holding a pistol in his hand, but the next second he was pulled over by Tang Ji and hit his nose with the butt of the gun.
The girls then realized something and wanted to scream, but the sound was quickly covered by an even louder background sound.