Martin certainly wanted to say he was Mr. Negative.
But he hadn't acted under that identity in the New York underground for at least two years, and he had scarcely appeared in public.
Even back then, Kingpin only knew of a gang of masked men called the Heart Demon Gang. They had few numbers but exaggerated combat capability. In a firefight, no one was afraid; they'd either fight to the death or cover each other and retreat completely.
Head-to-head, they were like hard rocks. Corruption didn't work on them either: money and drugs couldn't tempt them, and without information, there was no way to threaten their families.
In summary, they fought like a group of professional militias—if they had enough firepower and tactical training, they might have been considered a regular army.
The Heart Demon Gang had disappeared two years ago after Lille took down Osborne, replaced by the well-trained Xin'an Security Company, which later merged into Atlas Group's urban defense department.
