13. Ghost Dog
At 10 o'clock in the evening, a military vehicle drove out of Kandahar City.
Drunk Billy Russo tilted the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator, allowing the powerful military vehicle to run on the road with poor road conditions at an extremely fast speed. In the back seat of the car, the unconscious Frank was sleeping soundly.
In fact, they only drank 2 glasses of wine since they entered the bar and left now.
"Uh, I feel a little dizzy."
Frank was sleeping heavily, and in the continuous bumps, he opened his eyes. He looked blankly at the scenery galloping past around him, and then looked at Billy driving intoxicatedly, and he said:
"Where are we going? Billy, why do you have two heads?"
"You're drunk, hell."
The drunk Billy said without looking back:
"Lying there, I still remember the road, hell!"
In a scream, the galloping car was flying up by the stone pads on the side of the road and almost overturned. But Billy's driving skills were good. Under the current situation in Kandahar, no one would come to check his drunk driving.
In short, after nearly 30 minutes of staggering, the car parked outside a temporary camp in a hidden valley.
Drunk Billy didn't notice that, as he drove Frank all the way back to the camp road, a strange bird was hovering in the air and following them. Of course, even if he was awake, he could not see Victor.
"Swish"
Just after the two men were carried into the camp by sentries, Merlin's figure appeared quietly in the military camp in the twisted light of the shape-shifting spell.
He looked at the base in the valley, and his figure quickly disappeared in the gloomy dark night. Under the shadow cloak, the black mist quietly penetrated towards the direction of the military camp.
William Rollins is there.
Merlin could feel that tonight, he would gain all the answers to this mission.
But a few minutes after entering the barracks, Merlin soon discovered something was wrong.
According to the drunken Frank and Billy's speech, the assembly of Marines who were engaged in armed training for government forces in Afghanistan was a sudden move. They received the assembly order a month ago, and it is said that soldiers transferred from several other nearby countries joined the operation.
The size of this temporary gathering army should be around 400 people.
But the problem is that Merlin circled the camp at an extremely fast speed and found that even if the wounded soldiers were added to the camp, there would not be more than 100 people at most.
More than half of the soldiers disappeared on this night.
There was no strong smell of blood or corpses in the camp, which meant that this was not attacked, and the soldiers left voluntarily.
Judging from the scarce vehicles in the garage, the soldiers should have gone on duty overnight.
"What is the difference between secretly helping the government forces to eliminate jihadists and directly joining the war?"
Merlin shook his head. He really couldn't figure out the brain circuits of the generals of the Ministry of National Defense. But this was not the content of his mission, and he didn't care about these things.
He moved quickly in the huge camp, and after a few minutes, he came to where the Cia agents were.
What surprised Merlin was that there were no signs of life activities in this tent.
Those agents were also dispatched?
With this doubt, Merlin entered a tent.
It can be seen that the agents were not in a hurry to leave, the quilts in the tent were folded up, and there was not much in the table or the simple wardrobe. They should have left with a plan and left calmly.
Merlin found nothing of value in this tent, and he entered another tent and found an airtight box there.
He did not touch the password. For a wizard, unlocking a lock does not require a password.
Merlin pulled out the wand at her waist and released a spell on the box.
“alohora! (Lock-opening spell)”
The dark red light hit the black box, and the lock's gear automatically rotated. After 2 seconds, the sealed agent box in front of me opened.
In the darkness, Merlin picked up the documents stacked in the box and he quickly flipped through them.
But the contents of these documents have nothing to do with.
They are all summary of the internal intelligence work and general intelligence plans, and they are all the same things and most of them are not implemented.
He put the documents in place and left the tent. He looked around, shook his head, and decided not to search for those dark tents anymore, which made no sense.
He looked at the only tent in front of him with lights on, and after a moment, he quietly penetrated into it.
"Is there any news from General Skunov?"
As soon as he entered the tent, Merlin heard a sound full of energy. He looked at the inside of the large tent, which was like a temporary office. Under the bright light, three agents were typing on the keyboard, and one agent was observing the screen with pictures in front of him.
Finally, there was a guy who looked like a commander, looking in his 40s, his hair was short, his face was thin, and there was a trace of bruises on his cheeks.
Seeing this person, Merlin's eyes immediately narrowed.
William Rollins, I found you!
But Merlin did not act immediately. Instead, he stood on the edge of the tent and observed the actions of the agents.
They seem to be serving as supporters for the frontline soldiers and maintaining constant contact with the soldiers on their mission.
"The general and the soldiers are approaching the target, and there are still 2 kilometers!"
An agent replied to Rollins:
"The pictures sent back by the military satellites show that there is no abnormality in the canyon of the jihadists' base camp, and the lunatics did not find them."
"Very good, keep in touch every 15 minutes."
Rollins looked at the computer screen at hand and said:
"I want to get feedback from the front line as soon as possible."
Merlin looked curiously at the monitor visiting on the table. On the screen, there was a shaking lens, which seemed to be being carried on a soldier's helmet.
The soldier was sitting in a military vehicle. In front of him, there were many military vehicles full of soldiers advancing. In the dark sky, helicopters flew past the lights left behind.
This was obviously a large-scale raid.
But Merlin's expression became less and more beautiful. The desert terrain transmitted from the camera made him feel a little familiar.
He looked back at another display screen, on which the red dots representing the convoy were leaping on the map, representing that the convoy was carrying out the raid mission had already penetrated into the desert at night.
"It's the canyon base of the Ten Rings Gang."
Merlin saw the direction of the convoy and its destination. At this moment, Merlin had an indescribable absurd feeling.
It took him a long time to find the place where the Ten Rings Gang was through many clues, but these agents and soldiers actually accurately positioned that canyon in such a short time?
Is CIA's work efficiency so high?
No, not right!
Merlin quickly denied the idea.
He looked at the agent chief Rollins, who was sitting at the desk, frowned, and seemed to be worried about the situation.
The memory of the base leader Abbas will not lie. Rollins is indeed working with the Ten Rings Gang. He should not allow these soldiers to encircle the territory that the Ten Rings Gang had been running for a long time.
He did not stop it, which means that this raid had no impact on his cooperation with the Ten Rings Gang. But the Ten Rings Gang is not a lunatic, and he would not allow the soldiers to raid them so easily. This may be a scene where both sides act together. Wait, it's not right!
This is a trap!
Merlin's brow jumped suddenly, and a terrible guess appeared in his heart.
The email he saw was sent by the base leader and the letter written in English.
"Closing the eyes of Washington politicians in Afghanistan, locking them at our feet, and sucking them into the quagmire of war, leaving them unconscious of their own backs and making them unable to detect our arrival."
"Go, right in Kandahar. Everything you need is ready, sacrifice with blood and let the sacred war truly come."
Merlin also suspected that what was being said in the divine email sounded like some illusory prophecy.
But at this moment, Merlin understood.
All the information fragments collected in the previous months formed a complete puzzle in Merlin's mind at this moment.
He knew what Rollins and the Ten Rings were planning to do!
They were going to send the more than 300 soldiers and a major general to the death ground at one time, and they were going to create a horrifying massacre.
The members of the Ten Rings Gang in the canyon base must have been prepared for an ambush. The ignorant soldiers did not know that they were marching towards the open gate of hell.
The deaths of more than 300 soldiers, the horrific large-scale casualties, are the fuse that drives the rapid evolution of the war.
Mandalin of the Ten Rings Gang intends to use his dazzling blood to provoke those who have been active behind the scenes and urge them to go to the front. The cold-blooded and crazy conspirator forced the United States to launch a war against distant countries without being prepared.
But this war is not an end, but a means.
They want to shift the Americans' attention to the distant Afghanistan so that they have no time to care about behind them. The Ten Rings Gang will quietly penetrate the distant North American continent in the shadows behind the possible outbreak of wars.
It's like playing the "Speaking East and West" game.
But this game made Merlin's scalp numb.
Hiding in the shadow, he suddenly turned around. After seeing the terrifying plot, he couldn't help looking at the task code marked on the monitor screen.
"Dark Dog".
The legendary gatekeeper of hell, represents the signal of endless disasters and death, and the messenger of death.
It seems that even the name of this action is not casually mentioned.
This is a game that uses the war between two countries, the lives of more than 300 people as introductions, and the lives of nearly 10 million people as bets.
It is a game that Merlin can't imagine at all now. Just as Merlin still doesn't know what role Cia plays in this action.
Merlin came to Afghanistan to search for the joint venture between CIA and the Ten Rings Gang, but fate is so willful that it threw it to Merlin a shocking event that he could not stop at the moment.
This truth came too suddenly.
Ten Rings and Rollins
Chapter completed!