Chapter 66: Failed Tracking
Just when Li Shanglong led his subordinates to carry the things they found from the security zone into the car little by little like ants, several people were lying on the roof of a building more than ten stories high outside the security zone, observing their movements with binoculars.
"These people are really not simple!" Li Xiangqian muttered to himself while silently counting the number of ammunition boxes that the other party had brought into the car.
"Chief, what do you think they are doing with those cannons?" Weng Zhongtian, who couldn't see the situation without a telescope, asked Wang Xun beside him.
"How do I know?" Wang Xun was biting a cigar in his mouth, so that his speech was a little slurred. "It's not going to be used against mutants anyway."
Seeing that the group hung the cannon behind Steyr and prepared to go home, Li stood up, patted the dust off his body, and beckoned his men to get up. "Go, follow them, and see what medicine they sell in their gourds."
※※※※※
Today's harvest is a full load for the material collection team, hundreds of boxes of shells in the carriage, hundreds of sets of military uniforms, armed belts, steel helmets, dozens of tents, and four guns hanging behind Steyr's body, so that everyone's mood is indescribably open, someone started to sing. "The sunset is red and the sun flies, and the soldiers shoot the target and return the camp to the camp. The red flowers on the chest reflect the colorful glow, and the happy singing is flying all over the sky......"
I was in a happy mood, and the time passed quickly, more than an hour away, and I only felt that it was there in the blink of an eye. It was only three o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy returned to Shenzhen, although the situation of finding the artillery had already been reported to the headquarters, after entering the security warning area, Li Shanglong again reported the itinerary to the headquarters, and Ma Angelica, Shen Xingshi, and others who received the report all returned from the new time and space, preparing to receive this batch of "big killers."
The security zone of the Liberation Army was established in the Overseas Chinese Town in Nanshan District, where there is a large artificial lake in the south and Yanhan Mountain in the north, forming two natural barriers, one south and one north; To the east is the window of the world, and to the west is the splendid Chinese Folk Village, both of which are areas with a relatively wide field of vision. The so-called "safety warning zone" refers to the periphery of the safety zone, the middle zone between the safety zone and the danger zone. The survivors of this area have been "cleaned" back and forth several times, and the mutants are basically extinct, and it has been at least three months since they found any mutants in this area. In order to better achieve early warning and detect the activities of mutants earlier, the survivors also used the original urban traffic monitoring system and the monitoring of various public places to build a new monitoring system, which can monitor the situation in this area 24 hours a day. This system has found the traces of mutants in time many times, and has played a positive role in the early warning of the safety zone. Today, the system has found the tail following the material collection team in time.
When the convoy was still ten meters away, the gate of the safe zone opened, and the convoy rushed in, and four Steyrs parked side by side in the parking lot, and the survivors who had been waiting around immediately surrounded them. With these artillery, whether it is a marine unit of more than 10,000 people of the British and French coalition forces, or a dozen warships of the Royal Navy, the Liberation Army has the confidence to deal with them.
A few artillery pieces were unloaded from the hooks on the back of the car by the survivors who stayed behind, and five or six people lined up in a row pushing the guns in an open field.
Li Shanglong was stunned, and Ma Angelica and Shen Xingshi greeted him, and Ma Angelica grabbed the hand of the chief of staff and shook it vigorously. "It's hard, it's hard, this is really a relief for the urgent need of the Liberation Army." As a former soldier of the People's Liberation Army, Commander-in-Chief Ma has a special affection for the "God of War".
"It's not hard to talk about the work." Li Shanglong was modest in his mouth, but there was no shortage of smiles on his face.
The two flattered each other hypocritically, and Shen Xingshi interjected. "Chief of Staff, did you meet anyone today?"
"Yes!" Li Shanglong said in surprise, wondering in his heart, when did Granny Shen have the ability to predict the future? So he told the two about the fact that he had met another group of survivors in Dongguan and found this batch of artillery with the information provided by them.
"They seem to have come back with you." Ignoring the survivors who were busy in the parking lot, Ma Angelica pulled Li Shanglong into the monitoring room, pointed to the monitor, carefully observed the situation in the security zone with a telescope, and asked, "Is it them?" ”
In the display were Li Xiangqian and the others, who had been secretly following the convoy in the wheeled armored car. Because the roads are now empty, the same traffic as before can no longer be seen, and the tracking method mixed in the traffic can no longer be used, so they dare not appear in the sight of the target at all, so they can only stay far behind, following the rut print. It's a pity that they can't prevent it, and they still reveal Xingzang under the copycat version of the Tianyan system.
Five trackers stopped a kilometer from the safety zone. Although he doesn't know the specific location, looking at the surrounding environment, Li Xiangqian can also guess that this security zone should be built in OCT. The two cities of Dongguan and Shenzhen are close at hand, and Li Xiangqian often traveled between the two cities when he used to run business, so he is still familiar with the surrounding environment. He first drove the armored car into the window of the world, found a hidden place to hide the car, and then led people to touch the upper deck of a Dutch windmill, and continued to use the telescope to observe the situation in the safe area.
Their every move fell in the eyes of everyone in the monitoring room, and Ma Angelica raised his chin. "How? Ask them to talk? ”
Shen Xingshi frowned slightly. It's no wonder he's worried, it's not a good thing to mess with a survivor with an official background, and it makes him feel like he can't control the situation. "If you want to deal with them, it's better to do it peacefully, and it's not good to alarm the government."
"Then I'll meet them." Ma Angelica turned around and walked out the door, and Li Shanglong chased after him. "I have a relationship with that company commander, and I know him well and talk well."
※※※※※
Li Xiangqian stood behind the window of the windmill attic, observing the situation in the security zone. The rules of this safe zone are not large, and the main building is a seven-storey clubhouse on a small peninsula jutting into an artificial lake. A five-metre concrete wall is built over a passage connecting the land, separating the safe zone from the outside world. Only two barbed wire fences were erected on three sides of the lake, which also facilitated Li Xiangqian's observation. On the shore is a small pier with several yachts docked.
"The terrain is really nice. The wall was less than fifty meters wide and could be defended by a platoon. Wang Xun, who was also observing, exclaimed.
"Surrounded by water on three sides, isn't this a Jedi? Once you can't hold it down, there's nowhere to run. Weng Zhongtian disagreed with Wang Xun's statement.
"This artificial lake has a waterway leading to Shenzhen Bay, and if they can't hold it, they can take a boat and retreat to the sea." Li Xiangqian, who is familiar with the environment, can see more clearly. "Looks like they don't have a lot of people! There were only a hundred or so, all in camouflage uniforms, as if there were no women. ”
"There are no women," Weng Zhongtian smiled, "then how do they solve their physical needs?" Stir the base? A black-bellied man guessed viciously.
Weng Zhongtian's words were directly exchanged for the contempt of everyone, and Li Xiangqian continued to recount the analysis of the observed situation. "The militants, though a little scattered, were able to follow orders, indicating that they had a clear superiority and superiority relationship, which is not quite like that of the rabble of armed thugs. Hey! Why did someone come out again? Li Xiangqian saw dozens of heavily armed soldiers get into five pickup trucks, and after the convoy left the safe zone, it headed east. Seeing that the other party was not coming for him, Li Xiangqian didn't take it to heart.
The survivors in the safe zone continued to be busy, and Li Xiangqian observed for another twenty minutes, but did not see anything unusual. The survivors are doing their jobs, and the armed mob spends the rest of their time collecting supplies, and the disciplined gangs have not seen a single one. Weng Zhongtian, who was bored, urged beside him: "Let's go back quickly!" Otherwise, you won't be able to get home until dark. ”
At this time, an exclamation suddenly came from the walkie-talkie, "Company Commander......" was the voice of Sun Suofu, who stayed behind in the armored car, and he only called "Company Commander", and then it stopped abruptly. Li Xiangqian was shocked in his heart, and said secretly: It's not good, it's windless.
The voice came over the intercom again, but it was a different person. "Company Commander Li, now please come out of there, we need to talk!"
"What about my people? I warn you, if you dare to hurt them, I will not die with you. Li Xiangqian yelled.
"Don't worry! They were all fine, just a little frightened. The voice continued.
Li Xiangqian looked at Wang Xun and Weng Zhongtian, the three of them looked at each other, the matter is big now, and they can't leave Sun Suofu and Du Ziteng alone, and maybe the net has been laid outside. The three of them sighed and had to go downstairs and go out.
There were already a few people waiting there at the door, and the leader was Li Weizhi, the platoon commander who had met him. He saw the three men come out and stretched out his hand to lead him. "Company Commander Li, please come here!" The others did not confiscate the weapons of the three people, but they still closely monitored the movements of the three people, and the weapons in their hands were also faintly pointed at the three people.
The place where the armored car was parked was not far away, and Li Xiangqian walked over to find that it was the group of people who had just left the security zone who came to arrest them, and they should have made a detour. What a trick to secretly cross Chen Cang! Sun Suofu and Du Ziteng were watched and squatted on the ground, looking depressed, but it seemed that they should not be injured.
Seeing Li Xiangqian coming over, Li Shanglong immediately greeted him. "Company Commander Li, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." He spoke as if he had been friends for many years.
"Director Li, what do you mean by this?" Li Xiangqian was unmoved by the other party's smiling face, and asked indifferently.
Without waiting for Li Shanglong to answer, Ma Angelica preemptively asked: "Sneaking to track and monitor us, what do you mean?" ”
Li Xiangqian looked at the people who were questioning him with the rank of colonel on their uniforms, and looking at the fact that they were only in their thirties, he was even more convinced that this group of people was not really soldiers, at least not an army commanded by the government. Li Xiangqian didn't speak, and the scene fell silent, and there was a faint smell of gunpowder. In order to prevent the two sides from getting into a stalemate, Li Shanglong hurriedly suggested: "This is not the place to talk, let's ask Company Commander Li to go to our safe zone as a guest!" Li Xiangqian didn't know the identity of the other party, and he was afraid that it would end badly, so he didn't express any objections.
At that moment, the five people were arranged to get into two pickup trucks, and the armored car was driven by Ma Angelica himself, and the group returned home. After returning to the safe area, Li Xiangqian was invited into the conference room, where Shen Xing had been waiting for a long time. Seeing a colonel again, Li Xiangqian was even more confused, is this group of people playing in the army? Self-appointed so many high-ranking officers? The two sides sat on either side of the long conference table, faintly in the form of a negotiation. After waiting for tea, Li Shanglong asked straight to the point: "Company Commander Li, why are you following us?" ”