Ultimate Firepower -
Chapter 392 - 374 Scorpion
Chapter 392: Chapter 374 Scorpion
What the hell is a Scorpion?
Gao Yi knew about Sand Scorpion, it was just one of Sherkin’s many aliases, but he had never heard of this Scorpion.
Was he really that ignorant?
Gao Yi turned his pleading gaze towards Luca, hoping that perhaps Luca could provide some support and let him know what this Scorpion was all about.
But Gao Yi found that Luca was also stunned.
"Scorpion is a special operations division of the Military Intelligence Sixth Department."
It was John who explained himself, not without regret, "Since you’ve been with the people from the KGB, I thought you would know that the name Sand Scorpion was a homage to Scorpion."
More confused.
Gao Yi frowned, "KGB? A homage to Scorpion?"
John nodded and said earnestly, "As the ceiling of military capability within intelligence agencies, and the real-world inspiration for the 007 stories, Scorpion is, of course, the model and exemplar for every intelligence organization. To be ranked alongside the United States’ Three-headed Dog and Butter Knife, as well as the Soviet Union’s Black Devil, despite being a special forces unit within an intelligence agency, already signifies Scorpion’s strength."
Gao Yi was still completely bewildered.
So was Luca.
"Alright, I’ll explain in detail. Three-headed Dog is a special forces unit of the United States Navy, Butter Knife is a special forces unit of the US Army. These two forces represent the United States’ national strength. Black Devil..."
John paused for quite a while, and Gao Yi said, "What happened with Black Devil?"
"Black Devil is the Soviet Union, it is the Soviet Union’s national strength and fate."
John spread his hands, speaking very seriously, "The entire Soviet nation went to the effort of creating an inhuman team, belonging to the KGB. However, this force cannot merely be regarded as a KGB unit, but as a manifestation of Soviet power. They horrifically pooled all of the Soviet Union’s geniuses starting from their youth, training to create an invincible special forces team. This was an enormous waste, a squandering of national strength. Although this team did achieve extraordinarily outstanding feats, waste is still waste."
Why describe a force as a waste?
John sighed, saying, "We would give code names to enemy units, Black Devil was a name we came up with, and Scorpion, was the code name Black Devil gave us!"
Well, looking at John, it seemed he took great pride in having a code name given by Black Devil.
John indeed said with pride, "Thus, Scorpion later became an alias for the special operations division of MI6, and furthermore, we even have a Scorpion arm badge and a Scorpion insignia."
"How powerful must Black Devil have been, to make you treat the code name Scorpion as a badge of honor?"
"Black Devil..."
John tilted his head in thought, and said, "Black Devil is the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is Black Devil. Without the Soviet Union, Black Devil also ceased to exist. On the flip side, as long as Black Devil existed, so did the Soviet Union. Because if it weren’t for the internal split within Black Devil, the Soviet Union might not have disintegrated."
Pointing at his own chest, John smiled, "The most dazzling military decorations are given by the enemy, a single curse from the enemy is worth more than ten thousand praises from our own."
Gao Yi nodded, "That makes sense."
By this logic, like how Gao Yi had many nicknames, in the end, people still called him Hammer God.
John said calmly, "Restricted by national powerhouse, Scorpion couldn’t compete in size with Black Devil, and in military prowess, it couldn’t compare with Butter Knife or Three-headed Dog. But from the nickname Scorpion, which Black Devil gave us, you can see our characteristics. We’re small, but we can sting."
Gao Yi nodded, "So Scorpion must be quite formidable."
"Not just formidable, but legendary. During the Cold War, there was a reason Scorpion could stand in for the SAS and SBS as the UK’s military prowess. "
John was unabashedly proud, "If it weren’t for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the disappearance of Black Devil, Scorpion would still shine brightly to this day. However, with the Soviet Union gone, having lost their biggest enemy, the UK no longer invested resources into Scorpion. But Scorpion has only aged, not died. Unlike Black Devil, we’re still here, so, the ultimate intelligence combat unit, in the end, is Scorpion, not Black Devil."
John spoke with great pride, but Gao Yi felt this sentiment had a subtle sense of an underdog having come out on top after many years.
Gao Yi couldn’t help but ask, "What kinds of things did you all do?"
"Confidential."
Gao Yi was taken aback for a moment and said, "Confidential? Then why did you say so much?"
"I don’t tell, you won’t know how formidable Scorpion is."
John was very frank, then he thought for a bit, and said, "I’ll mention a couple of things that have been made public: the predecessor organization of Scorpion carried out the operation to assassinate Heinrich and it was also Scorpion’s predecessor that executed the mission to delay the German Army’s armored groups on the Western Front during the Normandy landings."
Gao Yi was somewhat speechless. Was John fobbing him off with these stale stories?
"These are all things from World War II."
John nodded and said, "Cold War operations are top-secret. As the Gardener, I can tell you anything, but as the Captain of Scorpion... I’m sorry, I won’t say anything that hasn’t been declassified."
In order to divert Gao Yi’s attention, John immediately said, "Whether it’s Golden Scorpion, Sand Scorpion, Sky Scorpion, Red Scorpion, all these forces and Mercenary Groups named after scorpions are tributes and imitations of Scorpion, because you’ll find that all these teams named after scorpions are related to intelligence units. Why is that? Because those outside the intelligence community don’t know."
After all that, what John wanted was to explain to Gao Yi how formidable Scorpion is.
Although Gao Yi didn’t really feel they were all that formidable.
John sighed and said, "I, as the Captain of Scorpion, for about eight years, that is something our ally the CIA knows, and Andic Group has close ties with the CIA. That’s why, after I retired, they made every effort to invite me to join Andic Group."
Here, it started to come full circle.
Gao Yi suddenly realized and said, "So that’s how it is."
"But what Andic Group could never dream of is that I’m still the Gardener."
There was a strange expression on John’s face as he gave a self-deprecating smile and said, "I decided to infiltrate Andic Group to dismantle them, take them down. I thought all I needed was to attend one high-level meeting to achieve this. I alone could take them down. I handed the Garden over to Sean, severing all ties with the Garden, just to gain the trust of Andic Group, and then..."
"And then what?"
"I succeeded, but I also failed."
Without Gao Yi having to press him, John voluntarily continued, "It took me years to finally earn the trust of Andic Group, but Andic Group never held any meetings with high-level participants. They simply don’t hold meetings."
Gao Yi couldn’t help wanting to laugh.
John continued, "Then, I discovered that Andic Group couldn’t possibly be supported by just one family. The forces behind Andic Group are very complex, very vast."
At this point, Gao Yi felt that he might know more than John did.
"Yes, behind Andic Group is the Dark Web, and behind the Dark Web are the CIA, FBI, NSA."
Gao Yi spread his hands and said, "If you take down a puppet of Andic Group, they’ll just replace them with someone else."
John nodded, speaking lowly, "You’re right, but not entirely. Sure, Andic Group can be replaced, but whoever replaces it definitely won’t achieve the same height. You underestimate the decisive role of a key figure."
Gao Yi looked surprised and said, "Oh, so you mean that by taking down the boss of Andic Group, the Dark Web could be dismantled?"
"Andic Group and the Dark Web are now one and the same, but Andic Group is not the Dark Web. Without Andic Group, the Dark Web still exists. The Dark Web could replace its people, but at least not the Andic Group."
After finishing, John looked at Gao Yi, very seriously saying, "Now, I believe you are the only one who can take down Andic Group because only you could replace Andic Group’s position and gain the trust of the CIA and NSA. Only you could replace Andic Group!"
That was the underlying meaning.
Indeed, at least for now, only Gao Yi could do these things.
So that’s why John had shown up on his own initiative, why he had said that he could give up everything just to protect Gao Yi.
Gao Yi understood what John meant; he nodded, then suddenly said, "Why are you telling me all this? I mean, your honesty now makes me a little wary of believing you."
John had recently been all mysterious and aloof, and now he suddenly switched his demeanor, which naturally gave Gao Yi cause for suspicion.
To Gao Yi’s question, John answered just as frankly, "Because I found you don’t play by the book, so I decided to change the usual tactics I use. Sincerity for sincerity, I’m offering my own sincerity in exchange for yours."
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