Chapter 532: Clues
On the endless Gobi Desert, the Hummers roared past, kicking up a cloud of dust, and compared to the location on the map, the land full of mounds in front of them was the desert road that the pandas had once walked.
This new highway was built by the engineer corps of the United Nations peacekeeping force, and it has become a 90-degree intersection with the previous team of soldiers who rescued the hostages.
"Go left!"
Looking at the undulating place of the hills, Yun Tian pointed to the location of a canyon, if they really changed their route after meeting the special operations soldiers of country M who did not have helicopter rescue, it was only this entrance.
"Good!"
Niu Boyu slammed the steering wheel, and the Hummer turned again, drove away from the road, drove towards the uneven mound, and in a blink of an eye, disappeared on the road.
All the way into the barren no-man's land, within a radius of thirty kilometers, there are no oil fields, no strongholds, but it is still the hinterland of the enemy.
Judging from the map in Zhiweng's hand, the firepower of the strongholds on the left and right sides is very poor, and if they really encounter them, they can definitely be easily dealt with with with the panda's equipment.
So if they really go from this side, even if they encounter the enemy, they can retreat with their whole body, but why is it that until now, there is still no news.
"You said they were going here, were they going there?"
Tang Xi looked at the map, the hills were very complicated, it stands to reason that they were the team sent by the third base.
Even after losing contact, they should return to the third base, but this road is the opposite of the third base, are they going in the wrong direction?
"I don't know, it's weird that from the map, this road leads to the fifth, seventh, and eighth bases."
Yun Tian also shook his head, there is no road here, why do they want to enter this area, if they have been walking along the road before, they can easily return to the tenth base, or rush to the third base.
But why is it here, where are they going? Do what? What happened in the end, this really made Yuntian incomprehensible.
The car went all the way forward, fortunately, there was no fork in the road, and Yun Tian also sat in the car, although the right foot is still not very flexible, but after a day and a night, it is also much better, the swollen position, after Yun Tian's massage, has also disappeared a lot, it seems that this ancient boxing method for the cognition of acupoints, there is also a certain healing effect.
Lying on the car, looking around, soon they came to a three-way intersection, there was no trace along the way, after all, the Gobi was windy, and the wheel marks had long been washed away, facing the three-way intersection, Niu Boyu could only stop.
"What now?" Niu Boyu turned his head and looked at the three-way intersection, whether he was going straight or turning around now, but he had to listen to Yuntian.
"Wait a minute, I'll get out of the car and see!"
Looking at the three-way road without a trace, Yun Tian's eyebrows were tightened, and he struggled to sit up, but he couldn't determine the specific location, and now he could only get closer, looking for some clues.
"I'll hold you!"
Tang Xi hurriedly jumped out of the car from the co-pilot, and limped forward with Yun Tian, but in her opinion, there was no trace of it except for stones and stones.
Yun Tian came to the front of the three roads step by step, looked left and right at the cliffs around him, and then walked to the intersection step by step, looking at the stones scattered all over the place, as if looking for something.
"Why don't we just go!" Tang Xi looked at Yun Tian, although she also knew that she might really pass by the panda if she walked casually, but now no one could do anything.
"Found it, found it, they really walked through here!"
At this moment, Yun Tian suddenly shouted excitedly, and he was as excited as if he had found a treasure, and he was already kneeling on the ground.
"What did you find?" Tang Xi looked at the rocks in front of him suspiciously, these scattered stones were the same as those in other places, he didn't see any difference, how could Yun Tian be sure that the pandas had walked from here.
"This is a code word, specially responsible for conveying messages to teammates behind you, you see, these stones are obviously a regular shape."
Yun Tian pointed to a small pile of stones stacked on top of each other, not to mention that this chaotic pile of stones is quite inconspicuous, but it represents their unique means of leaving a message, and it is also to ensure that if they stumble into the trap, the support forces behind can follow this mark.
"The passage on the right, go quickly!"
Yun Tian had already identified the direction, the triangle of the mark, pointing to the rightmost passage, and he immediately beckoned to Niu Boyu excitedly, and the Hummer came, and the two jumped into the car again.
The motor roared, and some of the latest discoveries Yuntian immediately picked up the phone, wanting to inform the red dragon of the news as soon as possible, but found that his phone was in a state of inaccessibility.
This is a satellite phone, and it is definitely not a signal problem, either his satellite phone is broken, or he is in a signal shielding area.
Although the red dragon was not contacted, the small stone pile in front of them gave the three people greater confidence, although the road was rugged, Niu Boyu still slammed the accelerator, and the roar of the car echoed in the hills all the way.
On the undulating dirt road, looking for traces in a zigzag way, and at each intersection, you can find the point stone piles left by the pandas, and Yun Tian knows that they are getting closer and closer to the truth.
"Looks like there's something up ahead!"
Just when night fell, something that suddenly appeared in front of him immediately attracted the attention of the three people, Niu Boyu hurriedly turned on the searchlight on the roof of the car, and the light suddenly shrouded the suspected object.
When the light made the gloomy mound as bright as day, these objects could be clearly distinguished, and they were actually two trucks that had been burned to the skeleton, which made the three of them startled and hurriedly drove in front of the truck.
With the strong light from the roof of the car, Yun Tian also came to the car with only the skeleton left with Tang Xi's support, although there was only the skeleton left, but it was not difficult to see that the two cars were attacked by a shootout.
In the cab of one of them, the huge pothole was still from the impact of the rocket launcher, while the other was hit by the rear box.
"What a terrible battle."
Niu Boyu looked at the trucks full of bullet marks in front of him, these trucks originally belonged to the tenth base, and they were loaded with daily necessities, and this operation, that is, the engineer regiment that escorted this batch of materials to the front, but he didn't expect to be wiped out after deviating from the route dozens of kilometers away.
"No bodies!"
Just when Yuntian and Niu Boyu were still checking the cabin, Tang Xi jumped out of the cab, this kind of heavy truck is seven or eight meters high and more than twenty meters long.
After carefully inspecting the inside, although there were traces of bullets, no corpses were found, which made their hanging hearts let go.
"It looks like they've been attacked by a lot of firepower, and judging by the blast marks and bullet marks, it's no ordinary weapon."
Looking at the gun holes, there are traces of heavy machine guns in them, and the big hole on the front of the car is definitely not something that RPG can form, although Yuntian can't judge what kind of firearm the other party is by relying on the traces, but thinking back to the group of militants he encountered before, it is impossible for the weapons in their hands to fight like this.
"Will they get caught here?" Niu Boyu looked at the scarred frame, judging from the ashes inside, all the materials were also burned, so to speak, the other party did not do it to rob the materials this time, it was just desperate when it came up, and it was completely ruthless, and it was necessary to kill them.
"Probably not, these bullets are basically fired from the left, and not from the right side, which also proves that the opponent's attack is on the hill over there, and with the skills of the pandas, they should be able to avoid it."
Although he is not a ballistic detector, the general situation in front of him can still be judged.
Carrying a bright flashlight, Yun Tian limped to the right, carefully looking at the traces left ten days ago.
Although most of them have been worn out, there are still potholes.
This is definitely not a trace left by nature on the mound, judging from the bullet marks in front of them, the pandas used the front and rear of the car as cover to return fire on the high ground on the left at the time of the attack.
And there are also people from the mound on the right, using military shovels to dig out the place to step on, to the right of the high ground, according to this deployment, it should be the sniper husky and falcon to do.
The husky is very capable and has excellent sniping ability, as for the falcon, it is the observer of the night owl before, and it has a certain sniper ability, and the two of them, plus the fire cover below, should suppress the other party's attack.
"So where are they going?" Tang Xi climbed to the top of the mound with Yuntian, and when the vehicle was destroyed, they obviously gave up the vehicle, so in order to find it, they had to give up the vehicle.
Yun Tian couldn't explain this problem, he spread out the military map and looked at the qi in front of him, Yun Tian continued to outline a road line.
"We were all wrong, they didn't rush to the base, they wanted to get straight to the headquarters!"
Suddenly, Yun Tian realized that this route would not only avoid many enemy strongholds, but also avoid the three bases they had previously thought they had, and all the way forward, their ultimate goal should be the headquarters 700 kilometers away, which was the headquarters of the entire United Nations peacekeeping force.
"Why would they want to bypass their base and go to the headquarters!"
This inference made Niu Boyu and Tang Xi stunned, and they couldn't figure out why they did this.
"I don't know, but it's likely that it has something to do with the person who was captured by country M, and the reason why he didn't contact any base ......"
Yun Tian's eyebrows were tightly locked, looking at the vast night sky, he guessed the roughly, but this matter made his heart cold.
"Because there are ghosts!"
Yun Tian didn't say it, but the clever Tang Xi had already guessed it, and it was obvious that this was the only reason that would make them suddenly cut off contact with Yi Qiqi outside and venture into the enemy Forte to shuttle.