Zuwara, a small city of 40,000 people, close to the Mediterranean Sea and only 60 kilometers from the Tunisian border, is an important supply center for the Libyan capital Tripoli.

The city is still in a state of fighting, tensions are high, and the anti-government rebels and Qaddafi's supporters have exchanged fire frequently, gunfire can be heard everywhere, and the fighting has nearly destroyed the small city.

After driving through the bumpy dirt road and finally onto the road to Zuwara, it was getting dark, and after about five kilometers along the road, there was a checkpoint set up by government troops in front of me, and I stopped at the turn and took a night vision binoculars to observe the situation ahead.

"Why don't you leave?" Heidi looked forward and asked suspiciously, "I used fake documents to easily fool the government soldiers when I was in Zawiyah before, and she thought that we could do it again, and it would not be a problem to pass through the checkpoint in front."

"Is this the only way to Zuwara?" Instead of answering her question, I asked rhetorically.

Heidi called up the electronic map, looked it up carefully, and after confirmation, nodded, "Yes, this is the only way to get into the city." ”

"Looks like we're on the wrong track." I put down my binoculars and said lightly.

"What do you mean?" Heidi didn't understand what I was thinking.

"Look, there are so many government troops in front, and there is no sign of firefighting around, what does it mean?" I put on reverse gear and asked as I reversed.

"You mean, the mercenaries didn't pass through here?" Heidi was still smart and reacted immediately.

"That's right, there are so many armed people, it is impossible to pass through the checkpoint safely, unless they are in a group." I shrugged my shoulders and quickly turned around and disappeared from view of government troops.

"It's not impossible!" Heidi frowned.

"Do you think government forces will order them to kidnap foreign hostages? All they want is a ransom, and they have nothing to do with government forces. "I say with absolute certainty.

"So what do we do?" Heidi ran out of ideas again.

"Libya is not safe for them, and if I'm not mistaken, Mark wants to cross the border to Tunisia and find the closest way to the coast." I analyzed it while driving, it didn't work by land, and their only option was water.

"OK, I see!" Heidi immediately searched the map, and soon found that five kilometres away, not far from where we had taken the road, there was a fork in the road that led to the shores of the Mediterranean.

"That's right, they must be there!" I smiled very confidently, slammed on the accelerator and accelerated.

Soon we found the fork in the road marked on the map, and I drove into the path, then slowly slowed down, turned off the lights, and drove forward with the help of the moonlight in the sky.

The path is unusually quiet, with a few large trees on both sides from time to time, and beyond that, there are large areas of wild grass and bare loess, and the places that have been devastated by the war always look gloomy, because so many people have died.

Heidi was a bold woman, and instead of being afraid, she was excited, as if she had a premonition that she was approaching her goal, and had begun to organize her gear.

There is an uphill slope ahead, and according to the map indications, through this ramp, there should be a village below, and the road to the coastline passes through the middle of the village.

Slowly climbing to the top of the slope, the village below can be seen clearly, less than 500 meters away from us, seeing the situation ahead, I put the brakes on the brakes to stop the car, quickly put on the reverse gear, and retreat the car to the back.

"Get out of the car!" Pulling the car to the side of the road, I turned to Heidi and said a word, then pulled my backpack from the back seat, turned and jumped out of the car.

"Found them, didn't you?" Heidi jumped out of the car from the other side and trotted in front of me with a pistol in hand.

"See for yourself!" I squatted on the ground and opened my backpack, took out the case of the M200 sniper rifle from it, quickly assembled it together, and then took my military spur, pulled it out of the knife holster and took a look, the familiar smell of blood came to my face, the snowy blade emitted a cold glow under the moonlight, it had not been stained with blood for a long time.

Heidi obediently ran to the top of the slope and looked at it with a telescope for a long time, not even knowing that I walked behind her, and I was really worried that fighting with such a teammate would kill me together.

"What do you see?" The sudden voice startled her, and she almost threw the telescope out.

"Why do you walk without a sound? Scared the hell out of me! Heidi blamed angrily.

"It's because you're not alert enough, if I'm an enemy, you don't know how to die." I gave her a blank look and looked at the village below, it seemed that it had been baptized by war, the houses had been almost destroyed, there were dilapidated earthen walls everywhere, there was hardly a complete house to be found, the people here had either gone to the refugee camps or been slaughtered, that was not my concern, the important thing was that there was a fire behind those earthen walls.

The familiar truck was parked on the side of the road in the village, and two off-road and three pickup trucks were also parked next to it, and when you saw these cars, you could be sure that the group of people who were resting in the village were Mark and his gang, absolutely right.

"There are at least thirty of them, what do we do?" Heidi looked at the mercenaries at a loss, and didn't know what to do, just how could the two of us fight against dozens of heavily armed mercenaries, she had no choice but to ask me for help.

"Do you know how to use a sniper rifle?" I asked, gesturing to the M200 in my hand.

"I fought in training, but I wasn't as accurate as you." Heidi said embarrassedly.

"It's okay, just use it, don't compare with me, I'm a monster." I secretly said in my heart, you little girl really dare to say it, I can't find a few snipers in the world who are more accurate than me, the name of the assassin is not called in vain, if you can be more accurate than me if you shoot a few shots, I can only die headlong to thank the world.

"But I think you're a genius!" Heidi had an adoring look on her face.

"The title of genius is taken by a guy called the Grim Reaper, and I prefer monsters." As I spoke, I handed Heidi a sniper rifle and two magazines full of bullets.

"What do you want me to do?" Heidi took the sniper rifle blankly, not understanding what I meant.

"You only have one mission, cover me, and if someone shoots me, you're going to use this sniper rifle to kill him, understand, ma'am?" I patted her on the shoulder and said.

"But......" Heidi was about to speak but I waved her hand to interrupt, "No, but, now you are a soldier, you must obey orders, listen to Sergeant Heidi, if I die, you drive away immediately, this is the order." ”

Heidi was silent, staring at me with big eyes and tears, as if she had gone back to the time when she lived and died together in Afghanistan, when I was still her boss, and after a long time, she nodded vigorously, bit her lip and said, "Yes, sir." ”

(End of chapter)