Hollywood Hunter

Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Late at night in the harbor, surrounded by a group of subordinates, Antonio Danieli quietly smoked a cigarette until a cargo ship slowly approached the dock, then dropped his butt and greeted it.

Giovanni Danieli, the third son of the Danieli family, jumped down from the ship's deck first, smiled and embraced his older brother, feeling the strong smell of tobacco on his body, and then persuaded him: "Anton, you should smoke less." x

Antonio just tapped his brother on the shoulder, "How much did you bring this time?"

"Five tons," said Giovanni, seeing that his older brother had gone to the ship's board and had to keep up, "Also, I met the Ukrainian one, Boris Ollevich, in Albania, and they have recently opened another plantation in the mountains south of Fararo. "

Albania is located directly west of southern Italy, across the sea from Italy, and the closest distance between the two countries is only 80 km.

As a former Soviet ally of the Warsaw Pact, Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe, and its economy has been further weakened by the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the past few years. The Albanian mafia has risen to prominence in the past few years, due to the country's poverty and easy access to the Mediterranean coast.

And that's not all.

Closely related to the three Reggiodanelli brothers, an honor society family, was the rapid establishment of an underground presence in Albania from the Rovno region of Ukraine. Although this made cooperation on drugs, arms, etc. more convenient, this close proximity, in Antonio Danieli's opinion, was the deliberate work of a super tycoon.

Although the three Danelli brothers had long ago resigned themselves to their puppet status, someone was apparently still saying, I'm still watching you!

At this point, hearing his brother say a certain name, Antonio paused in his steps and quickly moved on, asking, "How many people do you think they have over there?"

Giovanni understood his brother's meaning and looked around subconsciously before shaking his head slightly and whispering, "I can't judge, but one thing is for sure, the people they've gathered are the same as those two years ago, most of them are veterans, the kind who went to war and killed without blinking an eye."

Antonio fell silent at the words.

Giovanni, however, was not so thoughtful, hesitated and said, "Anton, it's actually nothing, as long as we don't betray ...... that person, it's fine, we didn't want to betray, right?"

Antonio nodded his head almost subconsciously this time.

In the past two years, while developing their own power, the three Danelli brothers received from time to time indirect orders from someone, including some of their businesses, from whom they would receive a percentage.

It was clear that they were treated as subordinates.

Understanding that they could not resist, the three Danieli brothers unconsciously accepted their status as almost puppets.

The brothers said so, and went to the ship together, and the boys who had just followed Antonio, except for two who were following their boss, spread out in an orderly manner, on guard, so that if a connoisseur had been here, it would have been easy to tell that these people had been specially trained.

And so it was.

Some of the direct subordinates of the three Danieli brothers have been called to Eastern Europe for the past two years and received a lot of professional training.

This also made the three brothers more trembling with fear.

It was not difficult to imagine that if they had a different mind, perhaps they would be replaced overnight, just as the Stefano family had been two years ago.

Something has been going on for more than two years.

In just over two years, Reggio Calabria, a small town in southern Italy where the Glorious Society had once been entrenched.

After the overnight destruction of the Stefano family and the warning from Simon Westeros, the entire Glorious Society system was in a state of panic for a long time, fearing that their family had also been killed overnight.

However, when things calmed down and it was discovered that the big man seemed to have no follow-up, some people became restless again.

In particular, some forces that were previously close to the Stefano family or even had a marriage relationship with them, even if they were unable to travel across the ocean to confront the increasingly large Westeros system in private, it was not a problem to bring the matter to light. It is impossible for the Italian government or even the international community to stand idly by as dozens of citizens are murdered overnight.

Only, the operation of certain people had just begun, and the nightmare was upon us once again.

Although this time it was not as violent as the decapitation of the Stefano family, the violent deaths of six leaders of two other Glorious Society forces overnight made the entire Italian underground realize once again that the shadow of Simon Westeros had not disappeared from the land.

The Italian government, on the other hand, has been rather indifferent to the Stefano family tragedy, with most news reports characterizing it as a mob vendetta.

However, a young prosecutor with a strong sense of justice did appear on local television to suggest that an investigation should be launched, and directly implied that a certain mogul was behind the killing.

This was clearly a person who knew about the case.

As a result, the young prosecutor was removed from his post the next day and was subsequently criticized by the media for suggesting that the Italian justice system should be pursuing mob abuses, not protecting them.

With the violent death of Judge Giovanni Falco, who was killed by the Mafia using a ton of explosives, still fresh in their minds, there was little sympathy from the general public for the Stefano family's plight, and more applause than applause.

In any case, the dark underworld is still going on.

In just over two years, the three Danelli brothers, who were once attached to the Stefano family, not only took over all the power of the Stefano family, but also eliminated some of Reggio's other rivals, and quickly grew into one of the most powerful gangs in southern Italy.

In the process, of course, there were those who doubted them.

Unfortunately, in the face of absolute power, others could only keep quiet, and even had to actively seek cooperation because of the rapid rise of the three Danelli brothers.

Under the secret support of the Westeros system, although their roots are still in the remote areas of southern Italy, the three Danelli brothers have extended their influence to all parts of Italy, and even to France, Germany, England, and Spain, where a branch of the Glorious Society of Danelli has emerged.

At the same time, this part of the Western European underground forces, and another Eastern European underground force, which has its roots in Ukraine and is also controlled by the Westeros system, are dovetailing more and more closely, and are gradually covering the whole of Europe.

Rivne, Ukraine.

As mid-March approaches, the weather has become less bitter, as if the city's brief hibernation has been revitalized.

Sergei Komorov had just spent the morning walking through the resettlement communities in the northeastern part of the city, which had reopened in early March, and the afternoon participating as a business representative in an important city government meeting to discuss the forthcoming population control bill in Rivne.

The population of this frontier state capital in northwestern Ukraine has officially surpassed one million, nearly quintupling in less than three years.

Although still a long way from the capital city of Kiev's 3 million, even Rivne's miraculous economic expansion over the past two years, the influx of such a large number of people has begun to cause some indigestion for a while.

Therefore, it could only be limited.

Next, Rivne plans to control the influx of people through residence permits and other forms of control, so as to let in as many people as are needed, and to absorb only as much of the young labor force as possible.

Despite these restrictions, the whole Rovno gang is excited about Rivne becoming a city of millions.

Of course, no one lost sight of the fact that the foundation that held it all together was, in the end, one word: money.

After the merger of East and West Germany, in just a few years, the former West Germany poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the East Germany, which stimulated the rapid economic recovery of the former East Germany.

Similarly, in the last two years, the Westeros system spared almost no effort to spend money on Rovno, which, together with the fast-forming Rovno clan's strong control over the region, avoided wasting resources, and all the money was spent on the right things, which also created the miracle of the region's development.

Nowadays, in Rivne, the Westeros system companies such as Nokia, Cisco, Tinkerbell, Melisandre, and even Dell, Mars, IKEA and other world class enterprises, all have set up factories here, and together with the Rovno gang's own enterprises involved in furniture, food, wine, building materials, farming, etc., they have created more than 300,000 permanent jobs.

This is not to mention the jobs in the surrounding chains, service industries and municipal infrastructure that these companies have created.

For Ukraine at this time of economic depression, when unemployment in most parts of the country is as high as 30%, one job is enough to feed a family. This makes Rivne now one of the best destinations for Ukrainians, other than smuggling to Western Europe.

Therefore, even the authorities in Kiev are paying close attention to the news that Rivne is about to restrict the inflow of people into the country.

Everyone understands how important a large number of jobs are for maintaining social stability. Even though Rivne can only contain one-fiftieth of the country's population, the country itself is quite accommodating, and Rivne is an extra 'accident'.

A straw can break a camel's back, and the reverse is also true.

Livni's accident was crucial in cushioning the country's internal conflicts.

Grozny, Chechnya.

The city is still devastated after the signing of a truce last year.

Nils Vico, a 27-year-old Frenchman, arrived in the war-torn city three days ago with his girlfriend, Isabelle, and a French humanitarian aid organization.

Earlier this year, after receiving a large donation, Nils' organization began a continuous relief effort in war-torn areas of Eastern Europe, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chechnya, as well as lobbying the French government with other humanitarian groups.

Under strong public pressure, the French government passed a proposal in early March to accept 10,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Chechnya into France.

This time, Nils' organization will assist the government team in selecting the refugees to be accepted.

His girlfriend, Isabelle, was in tears as she took pictures of the refugees who had been waiting in line on the street where the remains of a bomb crater remained, and planned to take the pictures to the French domestic media for publication so that the authorities could provide more help to the poor people.

There were only 10,000 refugees in all, which was far too few in the eyes of the volunteers.

As for the Russian government's resulting protests, to hell with the politicians, the devil who started the war can't see the world getting any better.

Moscow.

Entering 1997, Vladimir's position at the Kremlin was once again elevated, and his heavy workload made him feel like he had less hair on his head.

The morning session on state economic policy felt like a farce.

The reason was that Berezovsky had lost to Potanin in the battle for the Russian Telecom Investment JSC, and Berezovsky, who boasted that he was the most important contributor to Yeltsin's re-election last year, had been angering almost everyone, not even the President, and had even been smearing Potanin through the media he controlled.

The two oligarchs, the Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council and the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, denounced each other like shrews, so angry that Yeltsin got up and left with his sleeves, and Vladimir only tried to persuade him, but Berezovsky yelled at him to shut up.

At one point, Vladimir, who has always been a man of great composure, could not resist the temptation to put a bomb in the conference room and send all these oligarchs flying.

This country is being dragged all the way down by these people.

Especially recently, regarding the French government's acceptance of Chechen refugees, Berezovsky, who is also the chief negotiator for Chechnya, not only did not try to save the country's face, but also took the initiative to add to it, which is a gloating bystander's attitude towards the country.

Damned oligarchs.

It was a farce, and the meeting, of course, came to nothing.

After lunch, Vladimir was summoned to his office again by the president, but Yeltsin, who was obviously also very angry, had to make a decision to withdraw his position as first deputy prime minister from the Potanin cabinet.

The Kremlin had to answer to the public because of the recent public outcry against Potanin.

The Kremlin could do nothing about Berezovsky, and all Yeltsin wanted was for himself and his family to be able to get out in a few years.

A farce in the morning made Yeltsin feel a certain urgency again.

After more than half a year of study, Yeltsin became more and more aware of Vladimir's loyalty and reliability.

As for Simon Westeros, it was impossible to worry too much about his side, and even compared to those oligarchs in the country who were eating more and more ugly, but were just oligarchs, Yeltsin found Simon Westeros more reliable.

In the end, it was decided to promote one of his subordinates again and put him in charge of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which was reorganized from the KGB.