Donovan approached Pitt after looking at the situation around the circle and whispered. “Go ahead and take a look.”

Pete nodded slightly, turned his muzzle and slowly followed Donovan along the road. After walking about a hundred meters, the woods on both sides became denser and denser. Looking into the woods, it was no longer possible to see clearly. Not only was the light inside very dark, but the dense branches and leaves completely obscured people's sight.

Donovan did not dare to continue moving forward, but stopped and looked around. After confirming that nothing was going on, he whispered to Pete: "Let Eric and the Georgians come over. I'll be here to wait for you, be careful not to be careless on the way."

"I understand!" After agreeing, Pete turned around and quickly returned to Eric's side. After seeing Eric, he immediately whispered: "Come with me. The front is quite safe."

Eric didn't say anything, and immediately stood up and followed Peter. After coming to Donovan, Donovan immediately said to Eric: "We can't go along the road anymore. You look at the woods on both sides, which are too dense, and even if you stand inside, you can't see it. So we should leave the road and go straight south and pass through the woods. We just saw that the terrain south is downhill, and it's quite flat to walk. But it's hard to say how far a gentle terrain can be."

"Don't care about that." Eric waved his hand and said, "Now, as long as you can leave Tskhinvali and hide in a place where no one will notice, it is already much safer." As he said, he looked back and forth and said, "Then are we waiting for others to come here?"

"No." Donovan shook his head and pointed to the west, which is the fork in the road, and said, "We should go back to the intersection. If there are people around here, they may not be here, but the fork in the road is likely to pass by. So we must be there. If there is a situation, we must control the place first and wait until everyone arrives and fight and retreat."

"Okay." Eric nodded immediately after hearing Donovan's words, "That's it. Then let them go back and bring people here." As he said that, he looked at the Georgians and said, "Len Loria, please arrange for people to go back and report and bring other people here."

Just when Eric and the Man-Eater Shark Squad had a platoon of Georgians trying to leave Tskhinvalli from the mountainous area west of the city, the Russians who came specifically for Eric had already arrived in the mountainous area west of Tskhinvalli two hours ago. Although they were outsiders and were not familiar with this place, they had an advantage, that is, they had the help of the Ossetians.

After they arrived here, they immediately gathered several people led by the Osaiti people who were hiding in the mountains through the Russians who had already contacted the Osaiti people here. The meeting place was in a small hut in a small mountain village northwest of Tshinvalli, where the man named Ashraf met with the three Osaiti people.

There was no light in the house, and only a few candles were lit on a table. Through the light of the candles, Ashraf could see these three Ossetites, two wearing camouflage, one wearing only casual clothes. The two wearing camouflage were a little big and bearded, the other was younger, while the one wearing casual clothes was a middle-aged man.

After introducing each other through contacts, Ashraf directly explained his purpose, "Everyone. My purpose here is to find a team of Americans. To be precise, a team of mercenaries. They are likely to be in the mountainous land west of Tshinvalli. The number of people in this team is not large, about ten people. The weapons they hold are also the common Kalashnikov rifles we have. And there is one person among this team. I am really looking for." Ashraf said as he took out a photo, which was the photo of Eric and handed it to the older person of the three. "It's this person. I hope to capture him alive."

The old Ossetite man took the photo and handed it to the middle-aged man beside him, then looked at Ashraf and said, "Can you know what this American does?"

Ashraf nodded and said, "Of course, there is no need to keep it a secret from you. This person is from the CIA, and here he provides intelligence support for the Georgians. For example, the deployment and defense intelligence of your army, as well as our intelligence. This is also the reason why we arrest him."

"What should we do if we find them? Contact you?" asked the middle-aged Ossetian in casual clothes while looking at the photos.

"That's right." Ashraf looked at the man and said, "These Americans are not easy to deal with. They come from a security company in the United States. Many of their employees have practical experience. So if you find suspicious people, don't act without permission."

"Can you notify you?" asked the Ossetite man with a beard. "The range here is not very large, and I think since they are running for their lives, they will definitely not leave slowly. If they really find out that they will notify you again, will they be in time?"

Ashraf smiled and said, "Good questions. We have considered this. So on the way I came, I divided the areas about several activities provided to me by the contact person." He said, taking out the map and unfolded it on the table and waved to several Oscenaries to signal them to come.

"I divide the western mountain areas into three pieces according to the areas you are active in, and distinguish them by areas 1, 2 and 3 respectively." Ashraf said while pointing to the areas that had been divided with pencils on the map. "In fact, you don't have to divide the people too much, because no matter what, as long as they walk from the west, they will definitely be able to leave the city and enter the mountainous area. Then the main search range of the few people is the mountainous area around these roads."

After hearing Ashraf's words, all the three Ossetites looked at the area marked on the map. Just as they looked at the map, Ashraf continued: "Because the other party is not easy to deal with, I brought enough people to come here. I will send a team for each of you. If you find suspicious people, all you have to do is to take the people I sent to you to entangle the other party and tell me that when I arrive with you, your mission will be completed. So there is no need to worry about speed."

After hearing what Ashraf said, the three of them looked at each other. After a brief discussion, the older man in camouflage spoke: "It doesn't look difficult. We can act immediately." He said, pointing to the map, "Let's search by the areas you marked. But I want to remind you that if they really escape south, maybe there must be some people in the mountains in the southwest. Although it is a bit far from Tshinvali, if no one can find the target in the area you marked, then I think there is the last hope there."
Chapter completed!