Chapter 329 Attack
After listening to Duanmu's explanation, Cui Jian turned to Gui Yi and said, "It seems that this project is purely for vacation."

Duanmu hurriedly said: "Don't take it lightly."

Cui Jian nodded perfunctorily: "I understand."

Duanmu said: "Okay, let's check the room again. This damn suite is too big."

The three of them divided up the work and dispersed. Duanmu went to check the swimming pool. Cui Jian, who was checking the doors and windows, wandered to the side of the swimming pool and asked, "Why did Luke want to kill Letty, even though he knew that Letty was not the real captain?"

Duanmu said: "Perhaps after considering the cost and effort, Luke will give up the assassination."

Cui Jiandao: "Will I die if I tell the truth?"

Duanmu came up from the swimming pool and started to drain the water, saying, "Letty is a weak spot."

Cui Jian was puzzled.

Duanmu said: "Letty is indeed not the captain of the special service, but she is directly under the leadership of the captain of the special service. She is equivalent to the CEO of a company. All the decisions she makes are made by the board of directors, that is, the captain of the special service. Do you understand?"

Cui Jian shook his head.

Duanmu was speechless and said more bluntly: "Letty has mastered countless resources."

Cui Jiandao: "The captain is the one who controls countless resources."

Duanmu said, "You idiot, let me ask you, what will happen to the company after Letty dies?"

Cui Jian: "Choose a new CEO?"

Duanmu said: "What about the work that Letty had arranged before? The first method is for the special service captain to take the lead himself, because only he knows Letty's strategic goals, and through a running-in period, he will slowly master the work in Letty's hands. Many people know that they are the special service captain's people, but they only recognize Letty, not the captain, because they cannot be sure that the special service captain is the real captain. This is the weak point of this system. In order to protect the captain, the captain will try not to touch the actual work."

Duanmu said: "The second way is to upgrade the department head to CEO. But department heads only manage the affairs of their own department. They have no idea what other departments are doing or why they are doing it. In addition, it is not as simple as just one department. For example, the top leader of the Wanderers is Letty. Once Letty dies, who will take over the Wanderers department? Eggman? Eggman only knows about the Korean business. He doesn't even know what other businesses the group has."

Duanmu said: "Before we are ready and have a plan in place, Letty's death will be a huge blow to us. At the very least, it will shut down our business, and at worst, we will suffer a heavy loss."

Cui Jian understood and asked, "The special forces captain doesn't actually hold the real power."

Duanmu replied: "That's not the case. The captain controls the economic and personnel power. He knows and understands every staff member. Dan Lao is a staff member, and most of his subordinates are his hired staff. However, if the captain wants to do something, he must arrange it through Letty."

Cui Jiandao: "Luke originally planned to let the CIA control Letty, use her power to defeat her, and swallow up your organization. After you and the CIA reached a cooperation, Luke's only goal was to eliminate Letty."

Duanmu did not deny: "So we need time, not only to arrange time for Letty to hand over her work, but also to establish response measures to avoid being clamped down when similar situations occur."

Cui Jian asked: "Is your cooperation with the CIA actually a delaying tactic?"

Duanmu said: "No one can threaten my captain. Even if they want to cooperate, they are the ones begging us to cooperate, not us being forced to cooperate with them under threats."

Cui Jian said: “I don’t quite understand.”

Duanmu said: "Take you as an example. Is there any difference between someone forcing you to be a bodyguard and you volunteering to be a bodyguard? If someone threatens you and you have a choice, will you fight back or accept the threat? My captain is like this. Being controlled by others will make his efforts worthless, because his goal happens to be not to be controlled by others."

Cui Jiandao: "Your captain would rather destroy his own organization than surrender to any country or organization?"

Duanmu replied: "That's right. This is the meaning of his life, but perhaps it is not understood by others."

Cui Jian asked suspiciously, "Why do you know your captain so well that you even know the meaning of his life?"

Duanmu said: "He said so."

Cui Jian: "That's why you admire him?"

Duanmu asked back: "Isn't that right? Who are you willing to submit to?" A proud soul will never surrender.

Cui Jian: "But don't the captain's subordinates obey the captain?"

Duanmu denied: "No, they have the right to choose. As long as they abide by the principle of confidentiality, they can leave the organization at any time. Take you as an example, you can work, you can change jobs, you can resign. Now Manager Li tells you that if you dare to change jobs, he will break your legs. How do you feel? I always think that the right to choose is a very important power of human beings. Only with the right to choose can human beings be forced to make progress in competition."

Cui Jian listened and thought for a while: "Don't do this, just tell me how much Luke will spend to kill Letty."

Duanmu replied: "No matter the cost."

Duanmu saw Cui Jian was puzzled again, and Duanmu said angrily: "Value, value, Luke's value. The fact that he can accomplish this shows that Luke still has a high value to be used. At least he can fight against the captain of the special forces, and there will be people supporting him. If Luke completely fails in the confrontation with the captain of the special forces, then everyone will abandon him."

Cui Jian thought for a while, he wanted to digest it, and asked another question: "Why did Luke lose so quickly?"

Duanmu said: "It's very simple, he also has weaknesses. He relies on the support of the CIA and the United States behind the scenes to control a lot of resources, but they can easily take back his resources at any time, and it is difficult for him to use these resources to develop his own strength. Beiyao and Ghost can be said to be his assets that he spent many years accumulating. On the other hand, my captain is different. He earned everything by himself."

Duanmu said: "The sharpest sword must be assigned to the most heroic general. One day, when a general is defeated, the sword will naturally be assigned to the most heroic general now."

……

Nothing happened on the first day, everything was calm. As a presidential suite, there is a dedicated area, and the exclusive elevator and exclusive escape ladder are the only entrances and exits. Letty does not need any room service, so no staff can enter the presidential suite area. The special service team will deliver food on time every day. As for what the food is, it is purely a blind box.

Cui Jian thought it was unnecessary to be so careful, and if things didn't work out, he could cook, but Duanmu, the sponsor, insisted, so Cui Jian had to give up. Fortunately, the Special Service Team had normal tastes, and they didn't buy any food that they couldn't swallow.

Leti and Duanmu spent most of their time in the bedroom area, so the responsibility of keeping watch was handed over to Gui Yi and Cui Jian. In fact, there was nothing to guard. Although there were no bodyguards outside, the Special Service Team 31 had already controlled the surveillance rights of the elevator that could reach the 24st floor, and the surveillance of the corridor was also under their -hour monitoring.

The next day, Duanmu seemed to have finished his work, leaving the bedroom area and taking the initiative to take on the shift. But Letty was still busy. She continued to work as the captain of the special service with the technical support of the special service team.

At breakfast time on the third morning, Letty explained that the matter was basically over, and Luke sent Fidi to the United States to negotiate with Letty's envoy. Luke was willing to provide some gray resources in exchange for the captain's help in getting him out of the current White House investigation.

After Luke handed over most of the Harriers and Ghosts, someone still kept asking him to hand over all his financial account records. He also wanted to check whether he had infiltrated the White House. Simply put, organizations like the CIA cannot have too much contact with congressmen. In addition, the military is neutral and cannot participate in any D-faction fights. This is a red line for them. Although Luke was not an overseas agent in the strict sense, he had no reason to refute if he was convicted for this.

This was the result of a joint effort by the president, Zheng Yu, the captain of the special forces and other parties. Luke was already facing the fate of being retired. Under such circumstances, he finally gave in and agreed to send his first confidant, Fidi, to negotiate with Letty's people.

At one o'clock in the morning of the third day, Duanmu's phone vibrated wildly. When he answered the call, Hailan's voice came: "Two gunmen disguised as guests have taken control of the five staff members on the first floor of the lobby."

Duanmu was half awake: "Control them? Are there any abnormalities in the dedicated elevator and stairs?"

Hailan: "No. The gunmen tied the hands of five staff members behind their backs and made them sit in the elevator corridor."

There are eight elevators in the Double Shrimp Hotel, located in the middle of the hotel. The six elevators on the right are ordinary elevators. The first of the two elevators on the left is the exclusive elevator for the presidential suite on the 29st floor, and the second is the exclusive elevator for the luxury business suites on the 30th, 31th and 31st floors. The 5st floor is divided into two areas, one area is the presidential suite, and the other area has three luxury business suites. Five staff members blocked the passage to the eight elevators.

The Shrimp Hotel also has two staircases, one on the east and the other on the west. The presidential suite's exclusive staircase leads down to the 30th floor staircase, with a door in the middle that can only be opened from the inside without a key, not from the outside. Going up directly leads to the rooftop, which also has an iron door.

Duanmu got out of bed, woke up Cui Jian, went to the living room to meet Gui Yi who was on duty, and explained the current situation.

Gui Yi asked: "Two gunmen?"

"Yes, I don't know the specific situation now." Duanmu took out a tablet computer, which contained images of the lobby, the 31st floor corridor and the main elevator sent by the Special Service Team.

Cui Jian yawned and said, "Just let your people handle it."

Duanmu said: "If they come in and kill the gunman, they will be shot dead by the police when they turn around."

Lei Di received a call from Duanmu and came out of the master bedroom. Cui Jian took the hotel layout map on the table and asked, "Are we going to withdraw?"

Duanmu said: "I have called a helicopter, it will arrive in about fifteen minutes."

Gui Yi reminded: “Look.”

In the lobby surveillance, a gunman wearing a ski cap dragged a middle-aged man to the front desk. The man fumbled around at the front desk for a while and took out a card and handed it to the gunman. Duanmu said: "The universal fire card can open all the electronic locks in this building." This card is standard equipment in the hotel and is also a hard requirement for fire protection.

Letty said: "It looks like they are not coming for us." Otherwise, there is no need to get the fire card. We can just go to the door and use the door-breaking bomb to blow open the door lock.

Duanmu contacted Hailan: "Can I go to other floors to monitor?"

Hailan asked: "Which floor?"

Duanmu: “The third floor.” The second floor is the restaurant and hotel administrative offices, and the guest rooms are located above the third floor.

Hailan turned on the surveillance camera of the third floor corridor, but saw two gunmen standing in the corridor with pistols in their hands. The gangsters with the master card went up the stairs to the third floor and opened room 301. The two gangsters entered the guest room and quickly took the two men in pajamas out of the room, leaving through the fire door and disappearing after entering the stairs.

Everyone was confused and didn't understand the criminals' intentions. Gui Yi asked, "Could it be terror? They gathered all the guests and staff together and then made demands."

Hailan reported: "The police are here."

Three police cars arrived outside the hotel one after another. One went to the east gate and one went to the west gate. The police car at the main gate was about 50 meters away from the hotel. Two patrolmen got out of the car and reported the situation with a walkie-talkie.

At this time, the gangster who was guarding the hostages on the first floor pushed the door open and walked towards the two patrolmen. The two patrolmen were quite nervous when they saw that the other party had a pistol in his right hand. Fortunately, the gangster did not walk far. He took out a piece of paper wrapped in a plastic bag, shook it at the patrolmen, put it on the ground, pressed a stone on it, and turned back to the hotel without looking back.

A patrolman came forward and got the paper. The content on it was roughly that if the police entered the hotel without permission, they would start executing the hostages. If the police shot their members, they would execute the hostages on a large scale. Finally, their first request was that Li Dao come to the scene to negotiate with them. They would not talk to anyone else.

Lee Do is the director of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Department and the chief of public security, second only to the chief of public security in charge of police stations across the country. Upon hearing the criminals' request, the Hancheng Police Department instinctively decided not to attack rashly, so they dispatched personnel while contacting Lee Do.

At this time, Cui Jian received a call from Shengzi. He walked aside and answered the phone: "Hello."

The two-headed dog's voice came: "Did the Hancheng Shuangxia Hotel have a hostage-taking incident?"

Cui Jian: “Yes.”

The two-headed dog said, "I need you to go to the scene to get some data. The first data is the armed strength of the local police station. The second data is the speed of the arrival of the combat police. The third data is the size of the echelon of police officers who arrived, including personnel and weapons."

Cui Jiandao: "I was at the scene."

Two-headed dog: "Just in time."

Cui Jian: "Unfortunately, I was at the real scene."

The two-headed dog was silent for a moment, then asked, "Are you in the hotel?"

Cui Jian said: "Well, maybe it's for my VIP."

Two-headed dog: "Okay, go ahead and do your thing. Be safe."

Cui Jian: "Hang up."

Duanmu saw Cui Jian coming back and asked, "What's the call?"

Cui Jian: "None of your business." It's better not to answer than to lie.

Duanmu answered the phone: "Go ahead."

Hai Lan reported: "The helicopter pilot reported that there were gunmen on the rooftop firing flares, and there were suspected explosives on the ground."

Duanmu frowned: "How did they get up there?"

Hai Lan replied: "Half of the 31st floor is for master suites and the other half is for commercial suites. They must have gone up from the other half. The driver reported that one of the gunmen was a woman wearing bright and revealing clothes. I guess she infiltrated the hotel earlier and occupied the rooftop as soon as possible."

Duanmu said: "It's coming for us."

Duanmu said to Leti: "Let your negotiating envoy withdraw. They will definitely kill you tonight."

Cui Jian asked: "Didn't we check for factors before?"

Duanmu said: "Northern Circle."

Cui Jian: "You said that some people in the northern circle will be without guns in the short term."

Duanmu said, "What about the cemetery? I forgot Luke's trump card. He is very familiar with East Asian politicians. We previously determined that Jin Changqing was related to the cemetery. I guess the people in the northern circle took the weapons of the cemetery and used the tenants as hostages to resist the police, preparing to storm and take us down."

Duanmu pressed the Bluetooth button and said to Hailan who was online: "Contact Yiyi, we need to control all the surveillance."

Hailan said: "They are destroying the surveillance, including the elevator surveillance."

Duanmu asked: "How many people are there on the other side?"

Hai Lan said: "We have seen twelve people so far. There are criminals on the 30th floor heading towards the stairs." The staircase on the 30th floor is connected to the staircase of the presidential suite, separated by an iron door.

(End of this chapter)