The Wolf of Los Angeles.

After determining the target, Adams and his team immediately took action to search for the architectural drawings of the location of the Butterfly Security Defense Company.

This place is so big and has so many buildings.

By figuring out in advance where people might be imprisoned, such as in the basement, they can think of ways such as building inspections and pipeline repairs to enter the Butterfly Company and investigate relevant circumstances.

If you want paper blueprints, you need to go to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety to retrieve files, which is a complicated process that can easily alarm people.

When Caragiono, who was good at computers and the Internet, came back, Adams asked him to check the Internet to see if he could find an electronic version.

The American computer industry started early, and a lot of information is archived electronically.

Caracciono checked and found that electronic files had been created for all the buildings in this area of ​​Venice.

But not everyone can browse the electronic files of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety at will.

Adams stood behind Carragiono, looking at the computer screen, and reminded: "Can we enter the database and get the blueprints?"

Karajono was quite confident in his skills: "It's easy. I can use a bot to hack in. With the skills of those people in the Building and Security Bureau, they won't be able to find any traces even after ten years."

Adams had been away from North America for a long time and often watched Caragiono play with film and Internet technology. He trusted him very much: "Then do it."

Caracciono tapped away at the keyboard with both hands. In just a few minutes, he had exploited a loophole in the firewall and hacked into the electronic database of the Bureau of Building and Security. He quickly found the design drawings of the Venice Private Yacht Marina Club.

Adams had been watching from behind and said, "The address is correct, and the direction is right. This is the one."

"I'll pour it out," Caragiono said.

Using a zombie machine, he transferred an electronic blueprint through several disguised nodes to his own computer, and then cleared all traces one by one.

There seemed to be nothing left in the realm of his skill.

Karagiono got rid of all the zombies and did not open the electronic drawings immediately. Instead, he ran them through antivirus software and a homemade protection program three times to make sure there were no problems.

Scar was a little impatient and asked, "Can I see it now?"

"Hold on." Carragiono opened the electronic drawing and said, "It's OK now."

Adams had originally worked as a city special police officer and could understand architectural drawings. He immediately stepped forward and quickly scanned them, saying, "Print them out."

Carragiono connected the printer and the drawings were quickly printed on paper, which seemed more convenient.

A total of five people gathered around the dining table in the living room to look at the blueprints together.

Adams pointed at the main building on the blueprint and slid his finger downwards. "Look here. This building has a basement. It's very large. There are notes on it. It needs to be connected to water, electricity, ventilation pipes, and drainage pipes. It's very likely that people live down there."

The driver said: "We are too few in number. If we were outside North America, we could just organize people to rush in, kill all the men, and keep the women as slaves..."

Scar glanced at him and said, "Shut up."

The driver shrugged and said nothing more.

Adams looked at the blueprint carefully and asked Caragiono, "Can we hack into the network system of Butterfly and cause network or power failures?"

Caragiono said: "I can only try, test it a little."

Adams said to Scar again: "Find the right channels and see if you can disguise yourself as a network or power maintenance worker. Money is not a problem."

"I'll find a way." Scar pulled the driver away.

Caragiono said to Bruno, who was working with him, "Come with me to Melrose Square. I need to buy some electronic equipment."

The two men left in a hurry, and only Adams was left in the villa studying the architectural drawings.

Meanwhile, in Venice, the location of the Butterfly Security Company.

Fernandez from the Electronic Technology Security Department ran out of the monitoring room and directly pushed open the door of his immediate boss, Hierro, and said, "Boss, the network alarm has appeared!"

Hierro threw away the mouse in his hand and immediately went to the electronic monitoring room. After taking a look, he picked up the phone and dialed Campos' number: "The network perimeter warning we set up has just been triggered."

Campos asked, "Which part?"

Hierro looked down, reconfirmed the target, and said, "The electronic file specially set up in the Construction and Safety Bureau should be the company's electronic version of the architectural drawings."

Campos didn't hesitate: "Go to the Coast Building right now."

The two hung up the phone almost at the same time, and when they went out, Campos did not get into his own car, but instead got into an ordinary car belonging to an employee.

They are in this line of business. The network warning has been triggered, and the Butterfly Company is likely to be targeted.

It just so happened that the garbage truck at the dock was about to leave, so the two of them simply got on it.

After leaving the company, at the garbage transfer station, Campos and Hierro got into the car sent by Edward and soon arrived at the Coast Building.

Hierro directly explained the situation to Hawke and emphasized: "It should not be a mistake. The person who hacked into the electronic database of the Building and Safety Bureau directly copied a copy of the drawing."

When the Butterfly Company chose the Ackerman family's former Venice private pier club as its location, Hawke considered that the series of events targeting the Ackerman family might be traced and settled.

After all, the results are here. With a little analysis by people or groups who are well versed in political struggles, it is not difficult to see who the biggest beneficiary is.

This is not a case handled by the police or the FBI; speculation is enough and no evidence is needed.

What's more, the three main members of the Ackerman family ended up missing.

Buddy Ackerman was burned to ashes by a fire he set in the Mexican wilderness and is still missing.

If someone is tracking down and wants to find these missing people, they must look for their hiding places.

Through the influence of Mayor Brian, Hawke had the Department of Building and Safety convert the blueprints of several buildings, including the Coast Building, the Hilltop Estate in Beverly Hills, the Butterfly Company and the former Twitter Building, into electronic versions.

In order to confuse people, all the nearby buildings were converted.

A tracking program created by Twitter's network experts was also embedded in the electronic version of the drawings.

As the largest Internet media company in the United States and even the world, Twitter faces hacker attacks from all over the world every day, but its servers have never been paralyzed, so its network security department naturally has a certain degree of protection.

Many of them are not only good at defense, but also good at tracking and attacking.

There are already dozens of hackers who have been tracked down and sent to prison by the FBI.

Hawke immediately called Belin, the director of the network security department, and Gaust, the technical director, to the small conference room.

A few minutes later, a meeting was held.

Hierro briefed Bellin and Goster on the details.

Hawke made a direct request: "Start a reverse trace and find the person who copied the electronic drawings as quickly as possible."

"I'll assign a team to do it." Belin could tell that this matter was very important, and said, "If we use a supercomputer, we can find it quickly."

Hawke said, “Okay.”

Gaust selected a three-person team to connect to the company's supercomputer.

The implant program was originally designed by Behring, with five technical experts and a powerful tool like a supercomputer behind them, but the other side was completely unaware of it.

Hawke believed in their strength and called Campos and Edward to another room: "Do you suspect that the company club is under surveillance?"

Campos thought for a moment and said, "Nothing unusual has been found yet, but the other party may be monitoring from the outermost perimeter like us, instead of getting close."

Hawke nodded slightly and said to Edward, "Notify Raul, Guti, Morientes, and other bodyguards to follow Campos later."

These manpower were not enough, so he said to Campos, "Don't move the people in the company. Draw elite personnel from other places and gather at the No. 3 warehouse of West Coast Environmental Technology Company after putting on makeup."

This warehouse was originally set up to deal with emergencies.

Campos even changed his cell phone and called the backup numbers of his companions. Juan, Garcia and others who were resting immediately went to the designated location to gather.

Hawke notified Erica from the Special Operations Bureau. After the location was determined, Erica would find a reason to send an air support team to patrol near the target.

If an unexpected situation occurs, air support will arrive immediately.

In addition, the Butterfly Security Company and the Ferguson family's security company were also on standby and could be deployed at any time.

Not long after, Beilin knocked on the door and came in: "Found it."

Hawke led a group of people to the small conference room and saw that the alloy screen on the wall had been lowered. Goster connected his computer to the projector.

With the help of supercomputers, they determined the final location of the target in less than ten minutes.

Goster opened the electronic map of Santa Monica, zoomed in directly to 14th Street, circled a single-family house with a yard, and said: "We can be absolutely sure that the final IP address of the person who stole the electronic files is located in this house."

Hawke said: "Enlarge the map to the maximum and gather information related to the property." Someone executed the order, and information about the villa soon appeared on the projection screen.

This is a villa for rent represented by a real estate agency. It was rented out a few months ago. The registered tenant is named Smith, a businessman who came to Los Angeles to invest in Hollywood movies.

In addition to these, there are also many photos of the interior and exterior of the house, all of which were put up by the agency when it was listed for rent online.

Hawke quickly reviewed it and ordered Campos: "You lead the team and take care of them."

Campos responded and told Hierro to go out immediately.

Hawke looked at the people in the cybersecurity department and said, "This month's bonus will be doubled, and there will be a special subsidy from the chairman."

The three of them were a little excited.

Hawke added: "You guys rest here for now."

With generous rewards to be had, it would not be a problem for the three of them to sit here for a few days.

On the other side, Campos drove a Ford Mustang of Twitter Security Department, joined the bodyguard team led by Raul, and headed straight to Warehouse No. 1 of West Coast Environmental Technology Company.

Garcia, Juan and others also rushed over one after another.

There were several containers in the warehouse. Raul came to one of them, opened the door of the container, and turned on the light inside.

The containers were filled with weapons, mostly Russian-made weapons that were difficult to trace.

From pistols to automatic rifles to light machine guns, even rocket launchers and grenades, smoke bombs, stun bombs and so on are all available.

Campos began to arrange the tasks: "Juan and Hierro, go to the target villa now and do preliminary reconnaissance. Don't alert anyone."

"Understood." The two men only carried pistols and quickly walked out of the container.

Campos added, "Garcia, this community has a community committee. When I came here, I asked Edward to help contact Inspector Julian of the Western Division. He will accompany you to the community committee and start some work in the name of the community committee."

Garcia nodded slightly and led his men away.

Including Raul and other three, everyone changed their clothes, selected guns and ammunition, and brought grenades and stun grenades.

In addition to conventional weapons, Campos specifically asked people to carry more stun guns and tranquilizer guns.

After a while, Juan and Hierro came back first.

The former said: "The villa has doors in front and back, and the walls are relatively high, so there shouldn't be many people inside."

Hierro then said: "There are basic monitoring equipment. I conducted a preliminary investigation and found no infrared alarms or anything like that."

He thought for a moment and said specifically: "They didn't realize they were exposed."

"Get ready." Campos picked up the phone and called Garcia. With the cooperation of Julian, they had already communicated with the community committee in the name of LAPD.

Ten minutes later, more than a dozen cars of various types drove out of the warehouse and approached the target community from different roads.

Campos selected two white and Latino mixed-race team members, disguised as community committee staff, and a female community worker who had dealt with people there, and went to the vicinity of the target house with a notice.

After Julian communicated with the community committee, he learned that the community holds a Neighborhood Festival every year to promote communication among members of society.

Everyone living in this relatively wealthy community has a large network of relationships, and neighborhood socializing often brings opportunities.

The notification letter printed by the community committee was originally planned to be sent out next week, but it is just in time to be used now.

There happened to be social workers here, so Campos asked some people to disguise themselves as social workers.

Campos completed the arrangements and the operation began.

Everything starts as normal with the distribution notification.

Raul and Guti led their men to attack the villa from the back door.

Hierro interfered with the surveillance signal.

Garcia checked the community surveillance and found that people often came in and out of the villa. Many people left during the day and came back at night.

Campos used this to formulate his plan of attack.

Two cars drove over in advance and parked in a nearby roadside parking space.

In one of the vans, Morientes, who had the best marksmanship, set up his sniper rifle through the shooting hole opened in the van.

Campos sat in the passenger seat of the car and was in charge of the entire journey.

People dressed in social worker uniforms were divided into several groups and would knock on the door or ring the doorbell of every house. If there was someone at home, they would deliver the notice to that person and warmly invite them.

If no one is at home, the mail will be put in the mailbox.

In the living room of the villa, Adams found a route to sneak into the Butterfly Company through the blueprint.

A drainage pipe in Venice runs out of the city, passes under the Butterfly Company, and discharges into the sea from a pipe outlet near a private dock.

You can definitely use this road to get in.

The only problem is that what's inside this pipeline may be a little hard to accept.

Adams felt that as long as he added money, it wouldn't be a problem.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Adams came to the window of the villa and looked outside. From his position, he could see a woman in community work clothes standing outside the wrought iron gate.

He glanced at the surveillance screen again. On the monitor controlled by Hierro, he could not see the people hiding on both sides of the door.

Adams touched his pistol, adjusted his mentality slightly, walked out of the villa, walked towards the iron gate, and asked, "Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"

The female staff member took out the invitation and said in a routine manner: "Next month, the community will hold a Neighborhood Festival."

Adams heard about it when he went out to buy something at a neighborhood convenience store. He opened the door, took the invitation, and said, "Thank you. I'll attend."

Figures flashed out from both sides, using Tasers at the same time.

Even if Adams was prepared, he couldn't avoid it at such a close distance.

The electric shock bullet from the Taser gun hit Adams accurately.

He convulsed and fell down.

The female community worker quickly stepped back and moved away from the area.

Four people rushed down from a nearby car and controlled Adams as quickly as possible.

Almost at the same time, Campos gave the order to attack.

Raul and others broke in through the back door, entered the villa, quickly checked the first and second floors, and found no one.

Campos had Adams taken into the villa and followed with his men.

Garcia had seen the community surveillance video and suggested via radio: "The first step went well. We can stay here and wait for others to come back. The surveillance video shows that they did not come back at the same time."

"Okay." Campos entered the villa and began to set traps.

Julian negotiated with the community committee again, and the committee quickly took the person back.

Campos ignored Adams for the time being and had someone throw him into the basement and keep him under guard while he quickly deployed personnel to prepare for the arrest.

The villa chosen by the other party was great. The tall walls separated the views from inside and outside, and people could hide on both sides of the door and could not be seen from outside at all.

Campos had several men lying in ambush on both sides of the front and back doors, just waiting for people to come back.

In the basement, Adams struggled desperately, but he couldn't make a sound because his mouth had been sealed with duct tape.

The people guarding him were Raul and Guti. They held guns and pointed them at Adams, leaving him no chance of escape.

On the main road of the community, the driver parked the car in front of the villa. Scar got out of the car with a stack of documents and walked to the door. He entered the command to open the door on the code device of the wrought iron door.

The driver came from behind and followed him into the gate.

The two suddenly heard a sound, as if something had pierced their bodies, and their bodies twitched uncontrollably and they fell to the ground.

"Catch him!"

Following Garcia's order, several people rushed forward, handcuffed the two men's hands behind their backs, sealed their mouths with strong tape, put black hoods on them, and dragged them into the villa. (End of this chapter)