Chapter 20 - The Battle On The Docks
At 11:45 a.m., fifteen minutes before the official board meeting was set to convene, alarms began to sound across the Weber estate grounds.
Four dark speedboats pulled up to the private stone pier below the castle, landing twenty armed men wearing unmarked black tactical gear.
Baron Friedrich Weber stood on the wide stone terrace overlooking the pier, holding a satellite phone as his private contractors moved up the stairs.
He had realized that his legal claims were destroyed, choosing instead to execute a violent, total takeover of the estate to seize the servers.
“Destroy the vault access doors!” Friedrich shouted into his phone. “Eliminate Mark Sterling and take the flash drive!”
Mark and I stood inside the high-security vault chamber, watching the perimeter camera monitors as the tactical team breached the lower courtyard.
Klaus von Bernstorff reached into his coat pocket, pulling out a heavy remote activation device equipped with a single red switch.
“What is that, Klaus?” Mark asked, watching the elderly attorney step toward the main vault control console.
“Your father built a defensive protocol into this facility thirty years ago, Mark,” Klaus explained with a quiet, icy smile.
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“If an unauthorized force attempts to breach the vault, the lower chambers automatically flood with water from the Elbe River.”
Klaus flipped the red switch, and a deep, thundering mechanical roar began to vibrate through the heavy stone walls of the subterranean complex.
