Chapter 5 Tungsten Mine Crisis

Hugh stepped into the spotless oak floor of the living room, and the scene of the interior jumped into view, the interior decoration is also in the Mediterranean style, and on the main wall of the living room, a miniature oil painting of the panorama of the heart of the sea is painted: the rolling Andes mountain is shrouded in wavy clouds; The rippling mountains and forests sway in the wind; Crowded urban areas, full of traffic; Houses of similar style, bustling markets and marinas; The blue seashore, colorful shells, and the smoke of cruise ships in the distance, and whales spraying water jets, harmonious and beautiful artistic conception arise spontaneously.

Hugh walked to the kitchen at the back of the living room, opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of steaming blackcurrant rum, held a wide-mouth crystal cup between his fingers, bit off the cork, poured out the purple-gold liquid, and drank it in small sips while returning to the living room, his tired body slowly landed on the soft white leather sofa behind him, enjoying the moment of relaxation and comfort.

Accompanied by a familiar melody, Hugh's watch screen, a video call prompt beating, hang up the connected button, one red and one green are clearly visible, Hugh frowned: "Don't give me time to rest at all."

Hugh reluctantly pressed the green button to connect to the video conversation, only to see a three-dimensional image of a watermelon-sized piece of bright blue light, projected into the air above from a small hole in the watch.

In the image, she is a temperamental beauty with a beautiful face: long black hair, tied into a ponytail, fair skin, thin eyebrows like willow leaves, red phoenix eyes, a towering nose bridge, sexy lips, wearing a pair of gold wire glasses, a light gray uniform, and a white collared shirt underneath. The left chest of the uniform has a circular pattern: a sharp sword held in the hand, piercing through a North American bald eagle, piercing through the chest and exiting the back, which is the insignia of the organization, the sword represents the organization, and the bald eagle represents the CIA. It indicates that on the road to confronting the CIA, the final victory will be won.

She is Hugh's colleague Melinda, five years younger than Hugh, who works in the Organizational Intelligence Center, responsible for forwarding the tasks assigned by the organization to the agents, and providing necessary and timely assistance with the help of the organization's powerful information resource platform when carrying out the mission.

"Thank you for the timely and accurate mission text message this morning." Hugh looked into the beauty's eyes.

"It's my job, I'll enjoy it, save some rum," Melinda saw Hugh sitting deep in the lazy couch, sipping rum wine. "Watch out for Katyusha, it's her favorite, and the next time she comes back here and finds an empty bottle, she hums......"

"Haha, the next time it's her turn to call the shots here, I don't even know where to fly, let her chase her." Hugh teased unabashedly.

"Don't forget that you also have a bee eye implanted in your arm, although according to the organization's regulations, I can activate it during the mission to track the implementation of the mission and send reinforcements if necessary, but I can also set it to open 24 hours a day to authorize Katyusha to check your geographical location." The beauty smiled slyly.

"Well, you win." Hugh made a gesture of surrender with his hands raised in front of the image.

"Let's get down to business, what is the situation of the hostages taken in the morning?"

"I came to you to talk about it, and that guy recruited him in less than 1 minute." Melinda replied.

"Huh?! Yes, the interrogation record has been refreshed? Hugh was incredulous.

"Truth be told, your two brave and warlike hounds have choked him so much that our interrogator has not put on his gloves before he is crying. Shaking his head and begging for mercy, that guy is not from the CIA, but just a civilian with a real estate development company under his name, according to the content he confessed, three months ago, an American geology enthusiast who came to China for a vacation and traveled found several pieces of tungsten ore in a valley in the heart of the forest twenty-five kilometers away from the northwest corner of the city, bringing this news back to the United States and arousing the strong interest of their relevant departments. Melinda explained.

"The authorities?" Hugh took another sip of rum.

"Our old adversary, the CIA, tungsten and its alloy is one of the most important functional materials in modern industrial, national defense and high-tech applications, widely used in aerospace, nuclear energy, ships, automobiles, electrical and electronics, chemical and many other fields. In particular, tungsten-containing superalloys are mainly used in gas turbines, rockets, missiles and nuclear reactor components, and high-specific gravity tungsten-based alloys are used in anti-tank and anti-submarine armor-piercing warheads. Melinda gave a popular science explanation.

"It seems that the other party knows very well that tungsten ore is buried here. What does our government say? Hugh asked.

A month later, his company approached the local government and proposed to invest in a large-scale themed tourism resort there, and a two-way agreement had been reached, and the government could not refuse the conditions they offered. Melinda looked at Hugh.

"Speak up and listen." Hugh lowered his glass.

"They invested $2 billion in land for construction, and they split the land to build a forest road to it, and they quickly got the government's land use permit." Melinda sighed. According to his confession, they have already transported the construction materials there and are ready to build the construction on a large scale; At the same time, the US CIA agents and the US geological exploration personnel have already intervened in it, disguised as people from the construction unit, and they have concealed this matter from the government, and they have unified their voices and declared to the outside world that all the people on the construction site are from their own companies. ”

"Sure enough, the plank road is repaired in the open, and the warehouse is in the dark." Hugh took a deep breath.

"The organization previously sent an agent Andrew to investigate the area, but he has lost contact for 24 consecutive hours, and his bee-eye sensor shows that he has never moved a step in these 24 hours, and the only sound of insects, birds, and beasts in the recordings sent back is also gone." Melinda was upset. "The organization has decided to send you to this place tonight to find out the missing agent, and further find out the other party's movements and report back."

"Roger, what are you going to do with the hostages?" Hugh stood up.

"Confinement until the end of the mission, feed the sharks at the end". Melinda said in a joking tone.

"......." Hugh was speechless

"Look at the subsequent development of the situation, if you need anything, just tell me." Melinda encouraged.

"Anything with Andrew's breath on it." Hugh demanded.

"The organization will send someone to the mansion in the afternoon, please be patient." With that, Melinda hung up the video call.