"You mean, six heavy trucks loaded with weapons and ammunition, and sixteen mercenaries with them, sent you a distress signal twenty hours ago?"

"Yes!"

"After that, you didn't notify us, who are only an eight-hour drive away from the location of the accident, or even closer, but organized a group of people to go to the accident site to rescue?"

"Yes...... That's it! You know, our company's business scope is narrower and our staff is smaller...... Well, I don't want to alarm you guys, I just want to smooth this thing out! The armed escort business doesn't make much money in Africa, so I can't afford to hire additional rescuers, so I'll have to do it myself! ”

"Hmm....... Well, I accept your explanation! But after that, your rescuers repeatedly searched the road that is said to be the site of the accident, but found nothing, not even a trace of battle? ”

"That's true! We extended our search to within five kilometers of the accident site, but we found nothing! No cars, no traces of battle, no corpses....... Nothing! ”

"So according to you, the six trucks and the supplies they carried, as well as the sixteen mercenaries you said were loaded with guns, just disappeared out of thin air?"

“...... I know it sounds illogical, but it's just the way it is! Just after dawn today, we expanded the search area again, and at the same time repeated the search of the area that had been searched, but we still found nothing! I'm not one to shirk responsibility, but it's a ....... It's too weird?! ”

The corners of his mouth unconsciously flashed a sneer, and Madison, who was gently holding the satellite phone, listened to the hurried words coming from the phone, and chuckled with a little sarcasm: "Is it weird? Why do I think this was a premeditated black box operation? ”

As soon as I heard Madison's 'black box operation', there was a clear sense of panic in the voice on the other end of the phone: "This can't be! Although we are only a small security contracting company, our reputation has always been ......."

Without allowing the other party to finish speaking, Madison had already preemptively whispered into the satellite phone: "Then tell me, who would be interested in a few truckloads of weapons and ammunition in Africa, especially in the Golden Dunes region?" And to be able to loot the entire convoy without leaving a trace? And then you tell me, even if there are such good players, what is the price of their shot? Will it be more expensive than the weapons and ammunition they grabbed? At last...... If your security contracting company is really credibility-oriented, as you say, then I should have seen six trucks full of weapons and ammunition parked in front of my base within twenty-four hours! ”

Hung up the phone casually, and before Madison had time to catch his breath, Clinder, a technical sergeant standing beside Madison, had already looked at Madison with a frown: "Black box operation? Can they have the guts? ”

Also frowning, Madison picked up a glass of water and took a sip, but was not in a hurry to respond to Clinder.......

Although they are also paid to do things, the difference between high-end mercenaries and low-end mercenaries is very different. Some low-end mercenaries, especially those who undertake the business of armed escorts, often change from escorts to looters because of the high value of the escorted materials. Some low-end mercenaries with more sophisticated means will even deliberately create an attack incident, as much as possible to delay the owner of the goods to understand and recourse to the whereabouts of the goods, so as to seize the time to realize the goods. Similar to this kind of move, in the mercenary industry, it is commonly known as - black box operation.

Naturally, in order to maintain the credibility of the mercenary industry, mercenaries who conduct black box operations usually leave a notorious reputation in the mercenary industry. Some wealthy shippers will even spend far more than the value of their goods to hunt down low-end mercenaries who have carried out black box operations to make an example. But since ancient times, wealth has moved people's hearts, even if they know that they will face hunting, many low-end mercenaries who are poor and red-eyed will still make desperate moves.

Slowly sipping the water in the glass, Madison didn't shake his head at Clint who was looking at him until he had drunk the glass of water, "I don't think so!" Almost all of the security companies that undertook the transportation business knew that the people behind us were not so easy to deal with, and a few truckloads of weapons and ammunition could not be sold at any price in the Jinsha Dune area, and they could only be trafficked in the distance, which was not something that low-end mercenaries in Naxi could do! ”

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and Clint exclaimed in surprise, "So this attack does exist?" And a group of good hands? Could it be those Chinese?! ”

After thinking for a moment, Madison shook his head again: "This doesn't make sense! If it was those Chinese who did it, then this is a clear provocation. But those Chinese...... They are not aggressive, especially when we are not in the range of their defenses, they will only go to great lengths to consolidate their defensive circle to a surprising point. ”

Clinder: "Maybe it's an exception this time?" ”

Madison: "Hardly! Think of their Great Wall, they'd rather have countless people like that one under that massive wall than arm those people and attack their enemies! Thousands of years....... They have always been like this, using high walls to increase their sense of security! But....... Maybe you're right! ”

Putting down the glass of water in his hand, Madison whispered to Clinder, "I need two long-range search teams to scout along the highway where supplies are transported. In particular, the location where the convoy was attacked, as they mentioned, focused on the search. Not only the road, but the road stretches for five kilometers on both sides, and I want you to turn over every stone and look at it, lest there be anything hidden under the stones that I don't know! ”

Just roughly estimating the scope of the search, Clinder suddenly whistled lightly: "Lieutenant, this is not an easy job?" If it is two regular armed reconnaissance teams, then at least twenty-five to thirty people are needed. With this amount of manpower, it can take ....... time to carefully search such a large area."

Before Clint could finish speaking, Madison had already whispered, "Twenty, two days!" Before the transfer base is fully constructed, it is impossible for me to send too many people out, especially those who really have high-intensity combat capabilities, and they can't leave easily! Meantime...... Where's McDone? ”

Raising his hand to a small two-story building reinforced with prefabricated reinforced concrete not far ahead, Klinder responded, "There it is!" Ever since he entered the transfer base, he hadn't left the room except for eating, and had been fiddling with his sniper rifle. ”

Glancing at the empty window of the small two-story building, Madison said in a deep voice, "I hope he's rested enough!" Let him come to me, he has a job to do! ”