Over the desert at night, a twin-engine turboprop military transport plane flew by like a night owl, and the roar of the unique turboprop engine could be heard far away in the desert.

In the dark desert night, even if someone notices the transport plane flying by, it is difficult to see dozens of black dots of various sizes, jumping from the open cabin door at the back of the transport plane

Soon after the transport plane flew away, a lot of parachutes appeared over a large desert flat sand, and the parachutes fluttered and successfully landed on the sand, and a sandy place soon gathered more than a dozen people who had put away their parachutes and were fully armed, and several men and women wearing head-mounted night vision goggles scattered around, going to the surrounding sand to look for airdropped light off-road vehicles.

Soon after, the four airdrop light armored off-road vehicles with the signal source were found, and there were no driving lights converged, and after a dozen men and women carrying umbrella bags got into the car at speed, the light armored off-road vehicles left the flat sand of the desert farther and farther away

In the early morning, in the desert north of Gao, four light armored off-road vehicles were parked in the bushes behind a certain sand dune, and the rut marks on the sand had been swept away with special tools.

On the top of the sand dune, Song Xiaoshuang, wearing a desert digital camouflage training uniform, was lying on the sand pile and holding binoculars looking at the oasis tribe village two kilometers away.

In the telescope lens, you can see several mercenaries wearing desert digital camouflage training uniforms and holding weapons, the mercenaries are evacuating alternately from several earthen wall bungalows abandoned due to the war, Song Xiaoshuang understands that the mercenaries have not found valuable clues in the village, this is already the fourth, and the last one that the nearby desert oasis tribe village needs to find out.

Several small oasis villages have been empty, and Mali has been at war for a long time, and many of the oasis natives in the crossfire desert region have become refugees, leaving their homes and flocking to the big cities, and these small oasis villages in the desert were originally occupied by extremist rebels.

Although they did not see anyone moving in the village, the few mercenaries who entered the village to find out the situation were very cautious from entering the village to leaving, lest the armed members of the extreme rebels shoot from behind.

Now the only way to talk about it is to rush to Gao, the commander of the tribal armed detachment who was locked up after surrendering is either lying or hiding a lot of key details!

Song Xiaoshuang's mind turned to analyze the situation, and now it seems that things are becoming more and more complicated.

Song Xiaoshuang felt very speechless about this, he was airborne and maneuvered by off-road vehicle, and he reconnoitred four small oases in a row in one night, and searched all over the village buildings established by the oasis aborigines, which also used metal detectors and other small professional equipment, but did not find useful clues with gold, and originally wanted to have a fierce exchange of fire with the extreme rebel forces occupying the village, but they all withdrew!

According to the known intelligence clues, a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted but useless, and Song Xiaoshuang knew that the commander of the tribal armed detachment must have done this on purpose, and what was it for, and only after arriving in Gao could he have a chance to figure it out.

During dinner last night, Liang Li mentioned that he and Sima Yuru were temporarily serving as mercenaries under the XXX military contractor, and they flew to Gao with her on a military transport plane that took off from Timbuktu Airport to complete gold-related mercenary tasks.

Although Sima Yuru felt that Song Xiaoshuang's involvement in the mission of the mercenary company was an irrational act, Song Xiaoshuang insisted on going, and she had no choice but to follow, and the task order given by her superiors was to monitor Song Xiaoshuang's every move.

Later, Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru, who were fully armed, boarded the cabin of the transport plane parked in the desert airport without the slightest difficulty, and the Malian government soldiers stationed at the airport could not arouse their curiosity about the Asian faces of Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru at all, and the French Foreign Legion had a reinforced battalion staffing in a certain camp in Timbuktu, and these foreign legion sergeants often drove military vehicles to the airport to pull various supplies, and it was too normal to have Asian faces.

Besides, the transport plane was not even a soldier at all, just some mercenaries of different skin colors, and Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru successfully concealed the identities of the two Air France passengers.

The reason why it is necessary to land in the hinterland of the desert is because the destination of the transport plane on the flight mission is to fly back to Europe and will not land at the Gao airport, and after coordinating the flight flight crew, the flight route is redrawn and airdropped in a certain place after the route passes north of Gao (light armored off-road vehicles with various weapons and equipment can only be airdropped), and after making various preparations, a capable mercenary team under the XXX military contractor successfully landed in the desert hinterland north of Gao.

After the parachute landing was successful, Sima Yuru, who was sitting in the armored off-road vehicle, felt that Song Xiaoshuang's landing control was very poor, and found an opportunity to ask Song Xiaoshuang in a low voice, Song Xiaoshuang smiled and said that this was the third time to use a parachute, and the first time was to jump off the plane tied to Liang Li's body.

When Sima Yuru heard Song Xiaoshuang say this, he felt that this guy was a strange thing, which could only be explained by the boldness of an artist, he had just done a parachute jump alone, but he was as calm and calm as a paratrooper who had jumped many times in the cabin, if it weren't for his unfamiliar technique of controlling the parachute, even Sima Yuru would have been deceived

"Song Xiaoshuang, what are you doing, are you a researcher at some research institution?"

Song Xiaoshuang was still using binoculars to observe the few mercenaries who had withdrawn from the village, and Sima Yuru, who was carrying a modified AK74 assault rifle on his back, approached from Song Xiaoshuang's side, careful not to expose his body too much to the top of the sand dunes, and said in a very low voice.

Sima Yuru said this because Liang Li and the remaining few mercenaries were responding to the retreating mercenaries, and only Song Xiaoshuang and her were left guarding four light armored off-road vehicles, and no one would hear the conversation between the two at all.

Liang Li's arrangement is also because she has enough understanding of Song Xiaoshuang's ability, with Song Xiaoshuang staring at the point behind, the mercenary team also has a chance to escape when it encounters a strong enemy, and a strong person with abnormal abilities presses the formation, Liang Li feels very relieved.

"You won't forget the rules of secrecy, will you? Why don't you say I'm a wizard and an informant anymore? ”

After seeing more than a dozen mercenaries converge from the binoculars, Song Xiaoshuang put on the protective cover of his glasses and hung it on the belt of his training uniform, and saw that Liang Li and the others were not far from the sand dunes, and turned his head to look at Sima Yuru and said disapprovingly.

"Because when you and Liang Li were talking about the French chef Henry, I wasn't drunk, and I obviously heard you say that the Institute of Human Sciences, even if it is not a staff member of this research institute, it has a deep relationship with the research institute, and it is definitely not an intelligence agent on a special mission, as for whether it is a wizard or not, I can't guess!"

Sima Yuru was lying on the sand and talking, her voice was a little erratic.

"Don't follow me anymore, after you arrive in Gao, use the channel resources of the military intelligence system to go back to China, some things are not known to be good things, so you still have the possibility of retiring normally, Sima Yuru, your state is showing a downward trend, and this downward trend is difficult to reverse, that is to say, it will not return to its peak state, it is no longer suitable to be an intelligence officer, I guess it may have something to do with your too much snake venom, snake venom is sometimes similar to stimulants, Even if you're practicing a special kind of Guwu Internal Gong Technique, it's not of much use! ”

Song Xiaoshuang said with a cold expression on his face.

However, his words made Sima Yuru's face change, Song Xiaoshuang knew so many secrets about her just by visual observation, Sima Yuru tried her best to restrain her impulse, and saw that Liang Li was still some distance away from more than a dozen mercenaries, and whispered very quickly: "Is there any way, I"

"Sima Yuru, you are in your early thirties, find a man to marry after returning to China, it is possible that the sequelae caused by snake venom will disappear, and it will not make you age faster, but your personal ability state cannot be made up."

Before Sima Yuru finished speaking, he heard Song Xiaoshuang say in a low voice.

Sima Yuru wanted to say something, but saw Liang Li, who was wearing a training uniform and carrying a modified AK74 assault rifle, walking quickly from the side of the dune, Sima Yuru bit her lower lip tightly, turned around and walked down the dune in a low posture. At this time, more than a dozen mercenaries and men armed with weapons had already hurried towards several light armored off-road vehicles in the bushes.

"Song Xiaoshuang, now we only have to go to Gao, we were all tricked by the commander of the tribal armed detachment who was locked up, what is the idea of this damn guy? Well, Sima Yuru looks very bad, are you bad again? ”

Liang Li's attention was removed from Sima Yuru, and she saw Song Xiaoshuang sliding down a few steps from the top of the sand dune and then stood up and walked down, and soon arrived at her side without stopping, Liang Li frowned slightly and hurriedly followed and walked to the armored off-road vehicle, and said softly as she walked, even if it was a scolding statement, there was not much sense of disobedience.

"This matter is not as simple as you think, after arriving in Gao, pay some money to recruit informants to collect relevant information, you can't be used as a gun, if the situation is really bad, it's better to give up the mission!"

Song Xiaoshuang stopped and turned to look at Liang Li as he spoke, his face showing a serious expression.

"You're saying it's a serial set, a plan within a plan? What is the purpose? ”

Liang Li was stunned for a moment and then blurted out.

"It's very likely, now I think so, maybe there is really a batch of gold products buried in the ground in the desert area, there are quite a few peacekeepers in Gao, and there are Malian government forces and extremist rebel forces and tribal forces hiding everywhere, and there are frequent exchanges of fire from all sides, but the peacekeepers have always been relatively restrained, which may make some people feel very unhappy and cut off their intention to mess up the situation in Mali and fish in troubled waters!"

Song Xiaoshuang said the words that made Liang Li's eyes light up.