Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 534 Z3's Third Generation
The organization called Los Zetas that Leyva was willing to hire for $30 million is no simple organization.

Los Zetas is a newly emerged criminal organization with a very special nature.

Mexico's drug trafficking groups can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the old-school forces represented by the Gulf Group and the Sinaloa Group.

Most of them are centered around family members, have a strong popular base in their respective areas, build roads and schools for the local area, and get along well with local officials.

There are high-level protection umbrellas in Mexico City. Although gangs often fight with each other, the intensity is not high and they barely follow the rules of the underworld.

It wasn't until the rise of Los Zetas that the bloody and brutal index of violence between Mexican criminal organizations was raised to the maximum, changing the landscape of the underworld.

The history of Los Zetas can be traced back to 1999, when the Gulf Group, one of Mexico's old-school criminal organizations, ran into some problems. The then boss Abrego was arrested by the police and extradited to the United States to play the soap-picking game with the black brothers.

After a period of internal strife within the group, Kanas became the new leader. However, he was not a member of the founding family of the Gulf Group, so he felt very insecure after taking over, fearing that he would be assassinated by insiders or arrested by the police outside.

Faced with internal and external troubles, he came up with a clever trick - paying a high salary to Arturo De Sena, a lieutenant of the Mexican special forces, and letting him find some special forces soldiers who were not satisfied with their income, and then forming a team to serve as his personal bodyguards.

Arturo de Sena was only 23 years old at the time, but he was already a veteran. He had received professional training in the special forces and participated in the battle to suppress the Indian peasant uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994. He was known for his calm mind and ruthless means.

He was later assigned as chief of federal marshals in Tamaulipas, the Gulf Cartel's stronghold.

Arturo was soon bribed by drug lords to provide them with security, a common occurrence in Mexico.

During his dealings with drug lords, Arturo, who had been poor since childhood, witnessed the luxurious life of drug lords. In the end, he could not control himself and chose to retire and join the Gulf Group.

After Canas came to power, he asked Arturo to form a special forces bodyguard team. This was not difficult for Arturo as long as he was willing to pay.

He quickly recruited more than 30 Mexican Army special forces to form Los Zetas.

The name comes from the radio code Z when Apollo was the head of the Federal Marshals, so the organization's initial 30-plus core members were arranged in order starting with Z and followed by numbers.

The only exception in the entire organization is Z2 Gonzalez. He has no military or police experience. He is just a confidant sent in by the new boss of the Gulf Group, Canas, to supervise the operation of Los Zetas. He is equivalent to a director.

All members of Los Zetas have received professional training, and the Gulf Group is rich and has equipped them with equipment comparable to that of members of the US Special Forces. Naturally, their combat effectiveness is extraordinary.

Relying on the powerful fighting power of Los Zetas, Canas quickly consolidated his position as the leader of the Gulf Group.

However, it was a waste to spend so much money to support these special forces and have them serve only as bodyguards for himself. Soon, Canas expanded the duties of Los Zetas, allowing them to participate in various criminal activities of the Gulf Group and become a separate and institutional organization under the group to make profits for himself.

This group of special forces quickly got the hang of things and became Canas' most capable assistants. Many people who disobeyed Canas and government officials and police who threatened him died at the hands of Los Zetas.

However, those who do evil will eventually perish.

In November 2002, Z11 Arturo was shot dead by the Mexican military in a restaurant in Matamoros. It was said that he was going to meet his father at the time, so he did not bring his subordinates with him. In the end, he was outnumbered and was swept into a hornet's nest.

After Z2 Gonzalez took over the Los Zetas organization, he was not able to convince the public because he had no special forces background, so he was quickly sidelined and Z3 Lascano was actually in power.

After 04, Z2 Gonzalez of Los Zetas and Canas, the boss of Gulf Group, were arrested and imprisoned one after another. The newly appointed boss of Gulf Group, Sanchez, officially handed over the control of the entire Los Zetas organization to Lascano, formally establishing a new superior-subordinate relationship.

This is why Leyva del Carmen is willing to pay a large sum of money to hire Los Zetas.

There is no more ruthless and aggressive gang on the ground in Mexico than Los Zetas.

Of course, there is no wall that is completely airtight.

The same night that Leyva and Sanchez reached a cooperation agreement, Kelly called Song Heping's cell phone.

"Ms. Kelly, you're calling me so late, surely it's not because you miss me so much that you can't sleep, right?"

Song Heping did not have much courtesy and respect for the director of the secret operations department. After all, everyone knew what role each other played.

It's just mutual benefit. No one should really regard themselves as superiors or subordinates or friends regardless of age difference.

"Song, I heard that you subdued the dwarf?"

"That's right, ma'am, you are well-informed. I can't say that I have conquered the dwarf now, but at least he still listens to me." Song Heping said, "Everything is progressing in an orderly manner now. In a few days, I will bring Barrett to Monterrey, and he will officially take over the sales and smuggling network of the Barrett organization." Kelly was actually quite unhappy when she heard this.

She originally wanted Song Heping to take this position, but she didn't expect Song Heping to change the situation and directly send the secret agent she had placed beside him to the top of the volcano.

This seat is not so comfortable.

Especially now the situation in the Mexican underworld is so complicated, with tensions permeating every corner and gang fights potentially breaking out at any time.

Once a fight breaks out, whoever takes Barrett's place will be the target of public criticism, not only from rival gangs, but also from his own subordinates who are ready to make moves. Even the Mexican police will put Barrett on a list of people to watch out for.

The CIA cannot tell the Mexican police that the person is their undercover agent. If they do so, wouldn't that confirm the rumors that the CIA has been trying hard to control the Mexican drug market for many years?
"Ma'am, why don't you praise me? Look, your money wasn't wasted. I took down Mexico's largest drug cartel and its largest smuggling and distribution network without a single blow. How come you don't feel excited at all?"

Seeing that Kelly didn't answer immediately, Song Heping teased her with a hint of meaning.

Kelly could only utter some insincere praise: "Well done, really well done..."

Then he added, "Song, you are a talented person. Are you interested in officially joining the CIA? We can allocate funds for you to set up an independent operations department."

The second half of the sentence is absolutely sincere and comes from Kelly's heart.

"No!" Song Heping immediately refused, because some things are acceptable and some things are not.

There is benefit in cooperation.

Joining that is called working together.

The former is based on money.

The latter, the CIA, at least claims to be patriotic.

I am a Chinese, how can I love the American country?

"I don't want to join you."

Kelly was a little unhappy: "Why? Do you think joining us is unfair to you? There are so many people who want to join us, but they don't have the qualifications."

Song Heping said, "I'm not looking down on the CIA, but I'm all about money. If I want to cooperate with you, I can openly propose conditions. Join you? Become your subordinate? And then I ask you about money? Submit a report and wait for your application? Or do you secretly control the drug market in Mexico to make money like you do? If it's the former, I can't stand it. If it's the latter, what's the difference from now?"

Kelly was speechless.

What the other party said sounded very reasonable.

I couldn't refute it all of a sudden.

"Well, since you're not interested, I won't force you," Kelly said. "I'm not calling you tonight to invite you to join the CIA, but we've received the latest intelligence. Leyva and Sanchez have reached a cooperation agreement. Judging by the current situation, the other two major families have also joined them. I think you're going to face a bloody storm next."

Song Heping sneered, "I don't intend to fight them to the death, but I have a habit of not provoking trouble but not fearing it. If they want to use force, I will accept it; if they want to negotiate, I welcome it. If they want to fight, I will accompany them to the end; if they want to talk, the door is open!"

Kelly said, "This isn't going to be easy. It's said that Los Zetas, part of the Gulf Group, has their sights on you. Someone's offering them a high price to kill you. Be careful, those guys are perverts. Our people have fought them before, and they're not easy to deal with."

"Los Zetas?" This was the first time Song Heping had heard of this organization. "What the hell is this?"

"This is a criminal organization made up of former Mexican special forces members. They've received training from our country's special forces, so their skills are quite high," Kelly said. "They're all desperate criminals who don't play by any rules. Many assassinations of high-ranking Mexican officials in recent years have been linked to them. Shortly after the organization's top figure, Arturo, was killed a few years ago, the current Los Zetas leader, codenamed Z3, Lascano, led his men to kill four officials from the Mexican Attorney General's Office, publicly declaring it revenge. They're different from the old-school cartels. Old-school drug lords generally bribed government agencies and only resorted to violence against their competitors. Los Zetas, on the other hand, prefers to use violence to achieve their goals, no matter who they are. This time, they've targeted you, and I'm sure you'll be killed."

"I understand. But it's not that easy to kill me..." Song Heping didn't feel the slightest bit of fear after hearing this. Instead, he felt a little excited, eager to experience that excitement with the other party: "I'll wait for them to come to me."

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　　Looking back at the chapters today, I found that many chapters had no titles or content. They might have been censored due to sensitivity issues. Many times, the detection system is sensitive and some words will be automatically censored after they are sent out. Please forgive me.

　　
　
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