Chapter 170: Catch them all
Joshua served as the "Executor" in Semuria's largest mysterious organization, the Snake of the Body, specializing in undercover, assassination, and group operations, designated XIII, codenamed "Dark Fang". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Joshua broke away from the association and became a guerrilla under the influence of his adoptive father Cassius and his stepsister Estelle (who was actually Joshua's older), the skills he honed since childhood were deeply ingrained in his bones and integrated with him.
The reconnaissance and early warning missions for more than a month have only been a small test, and now Joshua has to show his real skills.
"I won't let you get hurt, and I won't let Hamel repeat the mistakes of the past!" Joshua glanced in the direction of his hometown, and hurried to the place of the incident as fast as he could.
Just as an intelligence agent is looking for shelter, Joshua has to use the clues left by the intelligence officer to find the companions and even the leaders of these people.
The location of the incident was a mess, and it seems that the hunter team encountered very stubborn resistance in the process of carrying out the capture.
The traces of the battle between the two sides were not confined to one place, but were intermittent and extended in three directions at the same time, which shows that the intelligence officers immediately retreated to dispersion after being attacked, and it is not that veterans could not have made such a decisive decision. Fortunately, the team of hunters sent out by "Nidhogg" is also veterans, experienced and outnumbered, so the enemy did not succeed in escaping.
Joshua was not anxious because of the messy traces of the battle and the complicated route of the battle, on the contrary, he was calm, terrifyingly calm, and the "Dark Fang", which was chasing the enemy in the dark, woke up at this moment.
After surveying all the places of battle, Joshua opened the map and marked them one by one.
After some observation, he circled three locations on the map, all of which happened to be on the abandoned road leading to Hamel in the village of Ravennu.
"I see, from the supply line? That's really a place where it's easy to show flaws, just in case it's right to tilt the defense forces in this way...... Next ......"
Joshua's face was indifferent, and his eyes were cold.
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At the same time as Joshua was running wild, Kidion gathered his team.
There were a total of 15 intelligence officers who followed Kidion to the border, exactly five teams, corresponding to the five directions of the southeast, north, west, and middle -- the "center" here refers to the protection commander Kidion.
Seeing the signal flare from the northern group, Kidion was surprised and delighted. The good thing is that the target has finally been found, and the surprise is that there is such a powerful defense force around the target, and even the best intelligence officers of the "League of Nobles" are forced to release signal flares that can only be used in critical moments.
The purpose of the flare is not to call for help, but to inform the other teams to retreat quickly. The struggle on the intelligence front is brutal, and once nothing can be done, it is common to abandon one's companion and escape alone, and there are even extreme cases of killing one's companion with one's own hands to prevent intelligence leakage. Every intelligence officer is ready to be abandoned at any time when he embarks on this path.
After confirming that it was almost impossible for the northern group to escape, Kidion immediately ordered the remaining four teams to retreat and go to the pre-set location B to meet to discuss the next course of action.
In a dense forest in the hills southeast of Hamel, four teams arrived one after another.
Seeing that all the staff were there, Gideon didn't talk nonsense, and directly spread out the map and summarized the existing information.
"It is not found in the southeast, west, south, west, direction, that is, the target is within the range of the center due north of the center and the angle between site A and the angle to the north plus or minus 45 degrees."
"According to international practice, the cordon generally does not exceed 50 cels from the target. Combined with the reconnaissance area of the northern group, the distance between the target and point A should be between 60-70 selpoles. β
"If you want to settle the people of a township, you must have a place that is open enough, not too far from the water source, and not an area where demonic beasts frequently appear......."
"Where these conditions are met...... There are, here, here, here, and here, there are four of them. β
"Wait, such a unique environment is enough to develop a border city, why is it a no-man's land?"
Kidion couldn't help but laugh at himself when he realized that he had committed an occupational disease. He taught politics and economics in school, and in the process of action, some ideas would pop up from time to time, probably deep down he still had the heart to be a teacher.
"Forget it, now is not the time to dwell on this. Time waits for no one, the fourth group has been exposed, and the target may shift at any time. With a little time, he can muster enough airships to transport people away. In that case, all the work we have done so far will be in vain. β
"Now I command. The first and second teams remained to monitor the movement of the target, while the third and fourth teams went to the nearest area covered by the guide wave, reported to His Excellency the Duke, and requested that you mobilize all the mobile forces that could be mobilized in the vicinity. β
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"Your Excellency, what about you?"
"I stayed with the first and second teams. I made the plan and had to be witnessed by me to the end. β
"Your Excellency!"
"Don't say anything more, I've already decided, carry out the order!"
"Yes!"
The third and fourth groups really didn't say a word, silently put away the map, and left quickly.
I don't know if it was a moment of negligence, or an instinctive trust in the area that had been reconnoitred beforehand, the two groups of six people did not form a battle formation, and only cared about hurrying as fast as possible, completely unaware that a figure had quietly hung behind them.
While passing through a turning crossing, the figure suddenly burst out of the shade of a nearby tree, and the black light in his hand flashed continuously, quickly sweeping over the bodies of the six intelligence officers.
The intelligence officer standing at the front of the line only had time to see a head of flowing black hair and two short black knives before he lost consciousness.
Joshua slowly stood up, and with a flick of the black twin knives in his hand, the six people behind him fell to the ground.
After skillfully removing the joints of the six men and tying them up with the lock hook he carried with him, the black shadow looked in the opposite direction to the path of the six, and his body once again retreated into the shadows, leaving only one sentence-
"There are seven more people."
Fifteen minutes later, six other intelligence officers lost consciousness in the same way, and their commander, Kidion, was held against a knife by a young man with black hair and amber eyes.
"You, who the hell are you?" Kidion's face was as dead as ashes.
"The Gray Knight friend you call you."
I'm a friend of Lane and that's it.
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