Two hours ago, the sun had risen, and the dirt roads near the village of Pingba, which ran north-south to the river valley, were lined with leafy thorny tall shrubs and various wild grasses with small flowers, which are characteristic of the arid valley of the desert.

A civilian modified Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle is not slow to drive on the dry sandy road, straight to the river valley Pingba village two kilometers away, after the car rolled up the old high dust, the shrubs and grass on both sides of the sandy road are covered with rapid rolling up of the dust, there are several sections of sandy road directly is the dry riverbed of seasonal water, the off-road vehicle is not slow to drive on the riverbed without water is very bumpy, the tires are crushed on the dry riverbed with a lot of small stones to make a dull sound.

Men and women wearing simple robes and using farm tools to work on the slightly flat sandy land near the village, and children in the same robes driving donkeys and goats grazing on the green grassy slopes, have long noticed this off-road vehicle driving from the sandy dirt road in the southern mountain pass, when they see that it is a civilian Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle, the male and female villagers working in the field and the children grazing in the field do not care at all, they do whatever they should do, and let the off-road vehicle drive along the sandy road to Pingba Village.

The off-road vehicle is getting closer and closer to the village, and the villagers who work with hoes in the fields near the dirt road see that in the off-road vehicle driving by reducing the speed, there are only two men and a woman wearing simple gray and white robes, neither of them has a scarf to cover their faces, obviously Asian faces, and the driver is a mature woman in her thirties with black hair coiled behind her head, and her eyes are charming and natural, but the appearance of the man sitting in the passenger seat is extremely ordinary, which further sets off the beautiful face of the mature woman driving on the side.

The man and woman on the off-road vehicle are Liang Li, who left Africa to work for the xxx military contracting company and concurrently serve as the captain of a mercenary team of the company.

Considering the complexity of taking over the mercenary reconnaissance mission, in order to avoid unnecessary losses as much as possible, Liang Li decided to adopt Song Xiaoshuang's proposal and directly set up with the Tuareg tribal armed detachment, intending to find out the real situation behind the reconnaissance mission of gold products and armament depots.

As Song Xiaoshuang said, the mercenaries of the xxx military contracting company are not leeks, and they will soon grow out after cutting a stubble, as a high-level employee of the xxx military contracting company, Liang Li has the responsibility to try not to let the mercenaries of the mission lose in the various layout traps of meaningless forces.

XXX military contracting company, which is still in the initial development period, needs most is to train out experienced mercenaries who have experienced the iron-blooded battlefield, from a certain point of view, the old fritter mercenaries who have experienced many battles and are still alive are the intangible wealth of the military contracting company, as a high-level employee of the company, Liang Li is very wise, and this truth is naturally understood.

According to the summary of various information learned in advance, it has been known that the Tuagre tribal village located in Pingba in the river valley is the base camp of a frequently active tribal armed detachment, with this tribal armed detachment guarding the village, and the Tuareg villagers, who are already fierce and good at fighting, have successfully withstood more than one attack by the extremist rebel forces, and let the extremist rebel forces occupy the entire north-south and north-south seasonal river valley area go bankrupt!

If we cannot occupy this important node in the river valley area, the military layout of the extremist rebel forces in the urban agglomeration area of northeastern Mali will be effectively checked and balanced by the tribal forces and the Malian government army and the French army.

Based on this reason, the tribal armed detachment can only continue to guard the Pingba village, and the information obtained by Liang Li from the United Nations Mission is combined with the information obtained by the informants developed by the military contracting company itself.

In order to get on the line with the tribal armed forces, Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang made the necessary preparations, using several unarmed civilian off-road vehicles to drive hundreds of kilometers straight into the valley area with complex terrain overnight to rest in hiding.

On the mountainside of the gentle mountain, which is several hundred meters high at a relative height, Liang Li arranged for the mercenaries of the mercenary team to observe the movements near the river valley on the top of the mountain, and the camera dealt with various unexpected situations.

When Liang Li had reduced her speed by only a few kilometers when she was on the sandy flat dozens of meters away from the big tree at the entrance of the village, she stopped directly under the shade of the big tree, and under the shade of the tree, the old lady wearing a robe and wrinkled on her face and forehead sat on a stone bench, leaning against the trunk of the tree and smoking a homemade cigarette.

The car has not yet turned off, several tribal warriors wearing robes and scarves covering their faces and carrying the original AK74 assault rifle, quickly walked out of the corner of the earthen wall bungalow on the side, when more than ten meters away from the off-road vehicle, one of the tribal warriors gestured at speed, whispered Arabic, signaled Liang Li to drive the car to follow him, and the eyes of the other tribal warriors flashed with a vigilant look, and the muzzle of the gun in his hand intentionally or unintentionally pointed at the off-road vehicle that did not turn off.

Song Xiaoshuang, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, although he couldn't understand what the tribal warrior who covered his face with a scarf said, but the meaning of the tribal warrior's gesture Song Xiaoshuang understood it in seconds, and motioned with his eyes to Liang Li to drive the car to keep up with the tribal warrior who turned around and left, and saw that the off-road vehicle was very slow to keep up with the tribal warrior, and the rest of the tribal warriors carrying assault rifles quickly disappeared behind the earthen wall bungalow near the entrance of the village, and hidden their bodies beside the tall bushes, leaving only the old lady sitting on the stone bench smoking an earthen cigarette, Continue to smoke a cigarette leisurely.

When Liang Li drove at a low speed to keep up with the tribal warriors who were walking forward at a low speed, and walked through the passages naturally formed by the flat rooms in various parts of the village, Song Xiaoshuang, who had already released his spiritual power with all his strength, used his spiritual power to probe such an ability, and found that there were hidden tribal warriors with guns everywhere in the village.

These tribal warriors hid in bungalows made of sand, behind earthen walls, beside bushes, and in earthen ditches behind mounds of earth, and the off-road vehicles were always within the fire range of the tribal warriors.

What makes Song Xiaoshuang very interesting is that there are excavated tunnels and basements all over the village, and some of the tunnels can be connected to each other, and many tribal warriors hide in the tunnels and basements that can be reinforced by wooden planks in a single low posture, and refract the sun's rays through special designs, as well as small lights with battery pack power supply, although the tunnels and basements look dimly lit, but the tribal warriors quickly enter and exit through the tunnels and basements to the ground, without the slightest problem.

Judging from the level of the entire tunnel and basement earthwork, Song Xiaoshuang knew that the tunnel and basement construction time was not long, and it should be specially constructed to prevent the extreme rebel army from occupying the village, and the layout of the tunnel and basement was completely different from the stone underground secret room of the abandoned village guarded by Zahid. Just a backup facility to defend against counterattacks.

Song Xiaoshuang's mental power exploration is used to explore the situation underground, it has always been a shortcoming of spiritual power exploration, the effective distance of spiritual power exploration, in the air and in the water body can reach a radius of tens of meters, and the effective depth radius distance of exploring the earth is only a few meters deep at most when Song Xiaoshuang is at the peak of his ability, but this is enough for him to know the situation under the village.

Liang Li is a person who is very familiar with Song Xiaoshuang's different abilities and skills, and while driving the car to follow the tribal warrior who led the way in front of him, he and Song Xiaoshuang communicate with Song Xiaoshuang with hidden eyes.

Seeing that Song Xiaoshuang did not speak, his lips continued to close slightly, and he also signaled with a look that only the two of them would understand, Liang Li, who was proficient in lip reading, quickly understood that in the underground of Pingba Village in this river valley, there were tunnels and basements, and at least hundreds of armed warriors of the tribe were hiding in the tunnels and basements.

Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang quickly unified their understanding, what the tribal armed detachment was planning, otherwise there would be no need for hundreds of tribal soldiers with guns to enter the tunnels and basements to hide their whereabouts, it seems that the two of them just caught up!

A few minutes later, Liang Li's SUV came to a halt in front of an earthen bungalow surrounded by a few tamanine trees, and several tribal warriors in robes with scarves over their faces guarded the bungalow.

Seeing Liang Li turn off the engine and Song Xiaoshuang jumping out of the off-road vehicle, the two of them walked straight to the earthen wall bungalow as if no one was there, the eyes of the tribal warriors were clearly full of scrutiny and doubt, but they had already received orders in advance and did not make a stop move.

In the bungalow room, a tall and bearded Tuareg man in his forties wearing a camouflage sweatshirt, trousers, and a tactical pistol holster hanging from his waistband, stood at a wooden table and leaned down slightly to stare at the part of the topographic map spread out on the wooden table, and turned his head to see Song Xiaoshuang and Liang Li striding into the room, and spoke in Arabic with a puzzled expression: "How did the employees of the xxx military contracting company find us here?" I don't welcome mercenaries who do black work for the government and the French army"

"Harisi, we are not here at the behest of the government and the French army, but from the relevant mission of the United Nations Mission in Malay!"

Liang Li stood at the wooden table and spoke Arabic without humility or arrogance, and directly said why she came to him.

"Oh, the United Arab Emirates? I see, it's for the gold products of the Songhai Empire and the arsenal of the extreme rebel army, right? It's not that simple, those officers of the United Nations Mission are kept in the dark, how many people are in your mercenary detachment in the nearby mountains? I think we have a basis for cooperation! ”

The bearded Harisi spoke Arabic very quickly, and it was clear that he had a special source of information and knew more information than the UNMAE officers.