In the small conference room, through a video call, the base commander, General Lidder, reported all the findings of the night to the commander of the European Theater of Operations, Richardson, and officials of the Ministry of Defence.

"Gentlemen, I don't care what methods you use or what means you take, it is the sole purpose of this operation to prevent these things from flowing out of this land, we must stop this action of the enemy by any means, gentlemen, please quickly find these things for me again, even if they dig three feet into the ground, dig them out for me."

Halfway up the mountain, hundreds of meters away from the uninhabited village below, the two intelligence detectives under Gru's subordinates, who followed closely, hid in a gap at the bottom of the rock almost covered by plants, holding binoculars and looking at the village, with Gru's strict orders and seeing the tragic situation of the Ionov team being blown up, so that the two intelligence detectives who followed over did not dare to be careless, and the two followed cautiously all the way here, they saw the whole process of the armed men of the convoy covering their tracks and arranging the guard, a few minutes later, All the details here were passed on to Gru's command post.

At dawn, armed with some satellite imagery and findings that had just been obtained, the head of the Information Department, Major General Kirby, and his assistant, Major Henry, knocked on the office door of the base commander, General Reed.

"Lead, we've sorted out some of the latest photos from the satellite and found some traces."

In Commander Lead's office, Major General Kirby, director of the Information Center, and his assistant, Major Henry, handed Leader some of the latest satellite photographs.

"These pictures were taken earlier last night, when it was already very dark, but a reconnaissance satellite located over Kovo still scanned part of the scene in the base, in this picture, we captured a very blurry image of a convoy in the base, according to the time presume, the time when the convoy appeared was the time when we first received the positioning signal, although we made this map clear, but still can't discern too many details, And what caught our attention again was the clearer image taken in other locations after the 'keyhole' arrived, you look at this ......"

Kobe Bryant said, handed over the other photos in his hand, turned his head to his assistant Henry and said:

"Henry, it's better for you to report to General Lead."

Henry nodded, pointed to the satellite imagery and continued:

"In the early hours of this morning, we urgently coordinated the requisition of a high-definition satellite, which is this temporary maneuvering 'keyhole', which rushed to the designated area at dawn today, and this image is the position we attacked after catching the signal for the second time, and we can clearly see that our strike is strong enough, but it has not achieved the effect and purpose we want."

As he spoke, Major Henry pointed to a few more photographs and said:

"This is centered on the location of the attack, combined with the speed of movement of the signal that we deduced earlier, we expanded the search for the scanned photos, in this location, near this riverbed, our satellites caught the anomaly, we found a convoy walking through the dense forest, this time the 'keyhole' sent back a much clearer picture, and basically transmitted in real time, although the convoy was deliberately hiding its tracks, our satellites still caught it."

Leader took the two satellite photos and looked at them carefully, and said without raising his head:

"You go on."

"If it is a coincidence that the convoy that appeared at the base coincided with the time when we first received the signal, then it is very suspicious to catch a picture of a convoy moving again in the distance calculated from the speed of operation, and our satellites only caught this convoy in the middle of this barren and populated mountain."

Henry handed over another satellite map, which had been marked with a string of dots, and Henry explained:

"On this satellite map, we can clearly see that from the initial discovery of the location of the signal, to the second capture of the signal, to the disappearance of the signal after our attack, to the location of the convoy that we have recently discovered, it is the location of this small triangle here......

Henry pointed to a triangular symbol on the diagram and said:

"We can clearly see that although the route they are traveling is slightly turned, the general direction of travel is the same, and the marker points are connected almost in a straight line, and then go back to when we first found the signal, when we deduced its speed from the distance the signal traveled, where we were from the base and where we carried out the attack, we calculated separately from these two different time starting points, all with the time when our satellites found this convoy in the early hours of this morning as the cut-off point, Now let's assume that this signal has not disappeared, how far can it go in these two different time periods that we have divided, according to the speed of the signal we calculated before, we have calculated the distance taken by these two different base points as the starting point, and the distance traveled in these two different time periods, we get two sets of distance numbers, with these two sets of numbers as the radius, and these two base points as the center of the circle, we get an interval range of two driving distances, you pay attention. ”

Major Henry said and took out a compass like a trick, and drew two circles on the satellite map in proportion, this time Leader had a more intuitive feeling, on the map, the two are not concentric circles, the big circle is covered with a small circle, and the closest position outside the two circles is just stuck on the triangular coordinates that Kobe Bryant marked on the map before.

"The outer circle is the distance we calculate based on the assumption that the signal moves normally and is not interfered with by the subsequent strike, while the small circle is centered on the position where we last locked the signal and struck it, including the distance measured after the time delay caused by the strike. That's the convoy we captured. ”

As he spoke, Henry took the blurry satellite image from earlier, and put it alongside another, clearer photo:

"What I said above is just theoretical inference, but these two drawings provide direct evidence for my inference, from this blurry photo, we can't see any details, but we found the general outline of an object carried on the car in this car, and in this clear photo we can intuitively see that in one of the cars carrying a wooden box, through the details of comparison, determination and calculation of the external dimensions of the box, we get the same volume value, The comparison between the two allows us to conclude that the object found in the base is the same as the wooden box on the car we captured near the riverbed, and to be bold enough to infer that this wooden box contains the very likely thing we are looking for. ”

Colonel Henry said his inference about the incident almost in one breath, and then stared intently at the supreme commander of the base in front of him, and Bryant on the side patted his assistant on the shoulder, which implied a kind of encouragement and approval.

After a long time, General Leader nodded:

"Major Henry, you're doing a good job."

Then General Reid turned to Kobe Bryant and asked:

"Kobe, what are your next follow-up plans, anyway, we can't let them run out of our sight again this time."

"I've sent a reconnaissance plane to that area, which will allow us to monitor the movement in that area more intuitively, and the task force that was sent to the strike position to confirm it has also found traces of those people evacuating in that area, and they have tracked and chased it, but we are not sure when they will catch up with that convoy."

"Good job, we must control the situation there, I will report your judgment to the theater commander, based on the data you marked, I guess their final destination should be here......"

Leader pointed to the coordinates of a city on the map and said:

"According to the direction they are traveling at the moment, I think the foothold of these things is likely to be this city, but it should not be the final destination of these things, one of the many foreign consulates in this city will be a transit point for these things, but once these things get into that kind of place, we will completely lose effective control of it, so we must take action within the scope of our control, Kobe, once we lock down their exact location again, we must immediately carry out a second long-range strike on them, We will do whatever it takes to destroy it in that no-man's land. ”

Not long after this report and analysis, the reconnaissance planes that rushed to the place captured the convoy looming between the mountains and dense forests, and locked on the small mountain village where it was hiding in the early morning.

In the afternoon, Vincent led his task force and tracked all the way to a high ground on the outskirts of this mountain village.

Before climbing over this mountain beam, Vincent and the others faintly heard some gunshots, and soon, a new situation was transmitted from the base headquarters.

"Vincent, our reconnaissance plane has found that a group of armed men has approached that town, we don't know for what purpose these armed men arrived here, but now they have exchanged fire with the escorts who arrived there early this morning, we need you to get there as soon as possible, confirm the target to guide our long-range strike, we want to make sure that these things are not obtained by outsiders, so we must ensure the accuracy of the strike, lieutenant, you have to hurry."