death of hope

Chapter 259 "Corporate Warrior" (175) Terrorist Attack

Omega Libra, Human Colony, New Frankfurt
The new Frankfurt Finance and Trade Building has 230 floors and a height of 1774 meters.

Inside, there are large comprehensive shopping malls, intelligent parking lots, ice hockey rinks, IMAX cinemas, artificial landscape lakes, standard swimming pools, big data analysis centers, and office areas for various enterprises above the 100th floor.

Cost: 20 billion federal standard currency.

At 16:22, the alarm was received. On the 201st floor of the Finance and Trade Building, the McMillan Group office in New Frankfurt was attacked by unidentified armed men. Gunshots were heard on adjacent floors and the police were called. The monitoring system was interfered by microwaves, and the wireless camera could not collect video information.

At 16:35, five police vehicles from the New Frankfurt Police Department arrived at the building and tried to use small drones to collect information. The drone was shot down by militants on the 149th floor. The opponent used a military-grade fully automatic assault rifle. The police officer called for support.

At 16:40, a van parked on the second floor activated the EMP electronic warfare bomb on board. When the security guard went to check, the occupants of the van were nowhere to be seen. The power system of the building was shut down, and the police officers in the elevator were trapped.

At 16:55, the police evacuated people from the safe passage, set up a cordon around 200 meters, and searched every person who left.

At 17:01, people on floors above 201 began to flee to the roof spontaneously. Some people heard screams, gunshots, and explosions. The short video shot by Ms. CrazyCat, an online celebrity blogger, received 5 views within 10 minutes, and was later blocked. Report for deletion.

At 17:04, unidentified militants threw grenades into the elevator shaft, and all five members of the armed police Brave team were killed.

17:10 The power of the building was restored. Judging from the situation, it was impossible to launch an attack from the elevator. The New Frankfurt SWAT Special Weapons Tactical Force dispatched two teams to try to land on the roof of the building in two helicopters.
The helicopter of the SWAT Condor Squad was shot down with a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile by the militants who were waiting for a rabbit. The body hit the street and crashed, causing five cars to explode. Three of the 5 members of the Condor Squad were killed. The captain and the breakthrough man successfully landed in the wing suit , 11 citizens died in the explosion and fire caused by the falling helicopter.

17:12 More than 300 people joined the battle, mainly including the Terra Federal National Guard, New Frankfurt Militia, Blackwater Company mercenaries, and several other small-scale civilian armed groups,

The SWAT hare team used an aircraft-mounted heavy machine gun to kill two militants on the top of the building. After accidentally killing three civilians, they realized that hundreds of civilians who had fled to the top of the building had all been taken hostage. The militants were well-equipped, well-trained and large in number. Just drive out of the crossfire area.

At 17:15, the new Governor of Frankfurt declared the incident a terrorist attack, and all militants were defined as terrorists, who could be legally deprived of their right to life at any time.

17:19 The power of the building was fully restored. Two FBI agents were killed by a directional mine in the corridor, and all seven elevators were blown up. The terrorists controlled the area from the top floor to the 190th floor of the building. A large number of bombs, landmines, automatic turrets, hundreds of hostages are unknown.

At 17:32, the two kidnapped hostages were pushed down from the 200th floor and fell to their deaths. Judging from their identification documents, the two were senior employees of the McMillan Group and financial consultants.

At 18:05, more than 50 people were killed in the exchange of fire. Due to poor command, the on-site commander, the new Frankfurt Police Chief Carlos Sturtek, was dismissed on the spot. The governor requested the help of the federal army, and a battalion-level rapid response force was coming , the scene stalled.

19:00 Terrorists posted a video on Twitter. The masked man cut off the heads of three McMillan managers with blunt knives. Because it was too bloody, it was deleted after 3 minutes. The first batch of federal troops arrived at the scene, the Federal Airborne Barracks Major Blake took over the post of commander-in-chief and began to try to negotiate.

19:27 The identity of the terrorist leader emerges,
Bellwood Elfast, male, home planet Terra, native of Virginia,

A 41-year-old worker leader of the Metallurgical Industry Federation and a member of the Federal Rifle Association. He has served in the Taila Federal Marine Corps for five years. Most of the terrorists he leads have military backgrounds.

Bellwood claimed that the reason for the terrorist attack was that he and his friends bought financial products under the McMillan Group.

Due to the impact of the economic crisis in the Libra colonial star area, many middle-aged people over the age of 35 have been laid off and unable to pay social insurance and medical insurance.

In order to pay high medical expenses for the elderly and children at home, they can only make online loans and credit cards.

Therefore, they wanted to redeem the real estate fund they invested in, but unfortunately, the McMillan Financial Fund they bought lost money and owed the investment bank a sum of money.

To make matters worse, these poor people still need to pay back the mortgage on time, otherwise they will be homeless,

Sick relatives see themselves as a burden, and many choose to kill themselves.

During the whole process, the investment brokers of McMillan Group tried to shirk and argue, the investment bank consultants ignored them, the lawyers only took the money and did nothing, and the banks kept coming to the door to collect debts.

All this pushed Bellwood to the brink of collapse.

His cancer-stricken wife hanged herself at her home over the weekend, the final straw for the veteran.
After a night of drinking and a hangover,

Bellwood gathered companions who had experienced similar experiences, made a plan, collected weapons and equipment, and created a murder in New Frankfurt.

The masked terrorist chief bellowed during the negotiations:
"I have 311 hostages, mostly bastards from the McMillan Financial Institution! They are devils in suits and ties, children of Satan! Evil heretics!
I am a devout Protestant, in the name of God, I will wield the blade of heaven to uphold justice in the world!

Our condition is that the financial department of McMillan Group must bear all the losses of our real estate trust fund, give 10 billion spiritual compensation, and permanently withdraw from the financial market of the Libra colonial galaxy, and the CEO himself resigns voluntarily.

Otherwise, we'll kill all the McMillan employees in the building and send these fund swindlers back home
--hell! "

(End of this chapter)