Chapter 10: The Final End

"Found" We were all attracted by Shi Hao's voice. Shi Hao pointed to the screen: "There is already a cross-match, and there is also fingerprint registration, Team Xiao, I have already sent my fingerprints to my colleagues in the Physical Evidence Identification Center." According to Li Jing's previous prompt, this man named Lauren is in line. But instead of running the company, he was affiliated with a small mercenary company, which collapsed in 2003. ”

"Getting to the point." Team Shaw reminded him.

Shi Hao dared to stop his mouth, shrugged his shoulders and continued: "He has been training as a mercenary in South Africa since 1994, and was sent to West Africa to participate in peacekeeping missions in early 1995 until 2000. Later, he was sent to the Middle East as a helicopter pilot and intelligence officer, but during this time, Lauren appeared as a lone mercenary and did not find the company behind him. The trail was then interrupted after 2005. In the comparison of the avatars of the entry data, Lauren reappeared in 2007 from France to China, and his name has been changed to David Patrick. ”

"Registered address in China?".

"Room 904, Building 18, Chunyu Apartment, No. 25 Lide West Street." Shi Hao pulled the page to the bottom, pointed it out to us, and then made a regretful expression, "But unfortunately, in my impression, Chunyu Apartment seems to have been demolished the year before last." ”

"First send what you found to the Ministry of Information, and tell the few callers we screened out just now who may be the target of the suspect, wait for the police to rescue, and let them not go out at will and open the door for other people before receiving the safety information. I'm going to contact the Immigration Office to see if I can find out where this person is. Team Xiao commanded and stepped out of the office directly.

Li Jing sat in the office and continued to look through Lauren's information with Mr. Lu, and from the photos found at the immigration department, the man named Lauren had deep facial features. Just looking at this man's experience before he became an adult, it is not difficult to think about why he later gave up the privileged living conditions in France and chose to go to Africa for mercenary training.

"At the age of 15, Lauren was sent to a juvenile detention center for robbery, and at the age of 18, he came out of the juvenile detention center and worked as a construction worker in Paris for one year, and then joined the French Foreign Legion, but was dismissed from the legion because his style was too violent and he could not get along with the rest of the legion. Later, he moved to South Africa and joined a mercenary company in South Africa. In addition to his missions for bounties, he also served as an instructor for the armies of several European countries. After South Africa signed an anti-mercenary citizenship law, the company he worked for was closed, and soon he was in contact with his employers on the battlefield. Shi Hao read along with the information.

"If Lauren's employment company had been dissolved in 1998, who had sent him to the Middle East in 2000?" Li Jing pointed to the two times in the information and asked.

"A new hiring company?" I asked.

Shi Hao shook his head: "I didn't find it, it shows that there is no hiring company." However, during this time, the Middle East became a gold rush for mercenaries, and in order to reduce the mortality rate of their own armies, the warring countries would recruit mercenaries from South America, Africa and Europe to deal with dangerous airports, checkpoints and buildings suitable for bunkers, and their casualties would not be counted in the death lists of the regular army. In order to avoid the troubles caused by high death rates, the participating countries will spend a lot of money on mercenaries. Perhaps, Lauren took advantage of the craze to go to the Middle East. ”

Li Jing pointed to one of the English passages: "Note that this is talking about sending, not going." That is, he still had a company background at that time, and Shi Hao checked the mercenary companies that sent troops to the Middle East at that time, not limited to Africa, and tried to find connections from them. If there is a company that does, see who else is going with him at that time. ”

Shi Hao made an OK gesture, and Li Jing called me aside: "Xiaozhi, I hope you can do me a favor in a while." ”

Need my help? I looked at him in amazement, and he leaned down and whispered a few words in my ear. After listening, I looked at him hesitantly, and he patted me on the shoulder to make me think about it.

The man looked at his watch, it was still very early, it was not the best time to hunt, he wanted to smoke a cigarette, he took out one, thought about it and didn't light it, just held it in his mouth, and put the cigarette case back. Now that he thinks about it, it's where he lives, this small temporary shelter, and counting him, there are less than fifteen people here, and more than half of them are wounded like him, except for the middle-aged man who spoke before, the others are people with completely different skin colors and appearances from him. At a fixed time every day, the Oriental man and the older man would give everyone here food. The food was very coarse, most of the time it was expired bread, it should have been found by the middle-aged uncle in charge of this "refugee camp" from the abandoned military garrison nearby, the bread was hard to swallow, but everyone was still satisfied with eating, after all, it was the support for their survival.

In addition to the wounded, there were also the old man and three children he saw when he woke up that day. The youngest was less than three years old and was a pretty doll-like girl with big deep eyes and thick eyelashes. The other two were two boys, one older and one younger, the older one looking a lot like the one he had killed. He had been shy from making eye contact with the children, and every time his gaze swept over the eldest boy, he felt like he had seen the boy's empty eyes again. The old man took care of the children and the wounded soldiers.

As the fighting spread, bombardments in the vicinity became more frequent, and the location of the shelter was no longer safe. The middle-aged uncle decided to evacuate here with them, the biggest problem was not the wounded but the old man and a few children, almost all of the wounded were soldiers, after recuperating for a period of time, although they did not fully recover, but the perseverance and escape skills they had cultivated during the hard training period could support them to take the next road. The old man saw the hesitation in their eyes, and talked to the middle-aged uncle in a low voice in the local language. He vaguely heard the words "stay" and "child". But he probably guessed from the old man's expression Uncle He that the old man wanted them to leave here with the children, and he insisted on staying and waiting for death to come.

According to the situation at that time, the old man's decision, although cruel, was the most realistic method at that time, he guessed the conversation between the old man and the middle-aged man from everyone around him, and he caught a glimpse of Lauren, who usually looked ruffian, lowered his head with red eyes, and the people around him also silently turned their heads away. In the end, at the insistence of the uncle, the old man left with everyone. In order to take care of the elderly and children, they travel slowly. On the one hand, they had to find food, and on the other hand, they had to avoid the pursuit of the soldiers, and they had no way out to flee to the border restricted area, which was once the bombing area of the BLU-97 ethnic bomb, and there were still bombs that had not been detonated at that time 30 centimeters underground, this kind of bomb was extremely sensitive, and there was a possibility of a second explosion, and the consequences were unimaginable. They had no idea when they came here, and when they were at the end of their rope, the old man made a decision that surprised everyone.