00868 DEAD SEA GATE (4)
In the next month or so, the child who suddenly appeared and disappeared strangely tormented Li Shaoan like a nightmare, making it difficult for Li Shaoan to sleep.
It was not until noon on December 9 that the survey plan jointly formulated by experts from many countries officially entered the practice stage, and Li Shaoan, as the commander of the front line, was slightly relieved of his state of confusion and lack of consciousness in a highly tense atmosphere.
Due to the first rash action, which led to the death of a total of 7 people, including Wu Shutong, this time the survey of the "gate" was all transferred to drones and other remote control equipment.
However, the reconnaissance operation was not as smooth sailing as imagined, and the failure of the detector in the hands of Wu Shutong and others appeared again, so the result can be imagined......
Dozens of drones and hundreds of remote-controlled detection devices lost control shortly after they drove into Lake Don Juan.
"What's going on?" Jon asked, annoyed.
The relevant staff in charge of remote control was very aggrieved: "I don't know, I was fine just now, but I suddenly disconnected, as if I was attacked by EMP (1)." ”
"EMP attack?" Jon looked at the display on the other detection device, everything was normal near Lake Don Juan, there was no energy fluctuation of the situation at all, where did the EMP attack come from?
But here the facts are, Jon's face is pale, the last action was carried out at his behest, which resulted in the death of seven people, and now he has learned to behave, but it is clear that the "door" is not intended for him to take advantage of the loophole.
There were many people in the command room, including Chen Jingrui and Li Shaoan from China, as well as several high-ranking officials from Russia, Japan, and the European Union.
After a while, Jon said in a deep voice, "Let the first team prepare." ”
"Yes."
The order was given, and a group of people outside the blockade began to get busy.
Dressed in white hazmat suits with the Stars and Stripes on their chests, the U.S. Sector personnel began to prepare to enter the lockdown zone.
There were also more than 100 people waiting on the Chinese side, but the number they drew was 03, and they were behind the Canadian special operations company.
The first formation, consisting of NSS soldiers and specialists from the United States Division, was quickly assembled.
Jon didn't take the form of a lecture, and directly gave the order to set off.
However, after the departure order was given, the group did not rush forward, but first dispersed, and then stood in a row, followed by the relevant staff members who stepped forward to assemble a kind of parachute-like backpack on them.
After Li Shaoan saw this kind of backpack, he whispered to Chen Jingrui: "Minister Chen, this is an emergency individual escape device designed by Jon and his team, I went to see it in the experimental stage, it is to use a device that can produce high compressed gas in a very short time as an explosive device, and then it can be opened to form a parachute-like device at a critical moment, through which it can pull people up to a height of tens of meters in a very short time, and then as long as the user can still stay awake, The rest of the gas jet on the backpack can be used to leave the danger zone. ”
Chen Jingrui nodded, he didn't ask how this strange sounding device performed, but asked, "What about our warriors, what good way have you come up with?" ”
Li Shao'an was stunned when he heard this, he has been thinking about how to protect his own people when danger arises for the past month, but whenever he feels that the idea is feasible, he will go to watch the picture of Wu Shutong's murder again, and then he will find that those silent monsters are too fast, even if he ties everyone who goes to the survey door with a "fishing line", and then pulls back violently when they are "hooked", it may only be a corpse that is pulled back.
So...... Li Shaoan directly rejected all the plans for people to go directly to the "door", but now that the drone program has proven to be useless, how should Li Shaoan deal with this situation?
Chen Jingrui was a little unhappy when he saw that Li Shaoan was slow to speak.
Fortunately, Li Shao'an was only distracted for a short time, and after thinking about it, he replied: "Minister, most of the work we have done in the past month has been to prevent possible dangers, but in fact, that door did not create a greater disaster, which is a good thing, but it also reminds us of it." ”
When Chen Jingrui heard this, how could he not understand what Li Shaoan wanted to say.
He said coldly: "But if the Americans return in vain this time, and even a large number of people are sacrificed, can we still watch the fire from the other side?" ”
Li Shao'an's heart sank, what he said was very true.
Oh, yes...... There is not much room for concessions.
Thinking of this, Li Shaoxin's newly stable mood became restless again, and he desperately wanted to unlock the secret of the "door", but it was really too mysterious.
Any long-range observation device is ineffective against it, but it is not far away, but it seems to have rejected the whole world.
Chen Jingrui was also distressed when he saw Li Shaoan's tired appearance, after all, he was a talent cultivated by himself, and he didn't want to see Li Shaoan go crazy.
So he patted Li Shao'an's hand and said softly: "Shao'an, sometimes, some things, not all our efforts will definitely have results, but as long as we do our best and don't regret it, it's enough." ”
Li Shaoan looked at Minister Chen and was grateful, but he understood that this sentence was by no means to allow him to slack off.
While the two were talking, the first squad in the United States was ready.
The blockade line was pulled open, and a group of thirteen people lined up in a row, led by the captains on the left and right, and walked into the blockade area.
Looking at their backs, the atmosphere in the command room became more and more calm.
There was no conversation, all the voices came from the communicators carried by the thirteen people, and their special front-facing cameras were also transmitting the front-line footage to the command room in real time.
Before entering Lake Don Juan, the team had been quiet, and no one spoke, including the captain.
It wasn't until they reached the lake and saw the "door" in the distance that looked like a black mountain range from the side, that the captain spoke, "Let's check your equipment and give you ten seconds." ”
The screen began to shake, some people were organized, but several people were visibly flustered, and their breathing became heavy.
Li Shaoan looked at the information of those people, and sure enough, they were all experts in scientific research, and they would inevitably be nervous in this environment, but their psychological quality was already very high, at least no one escaped at this time.
Ten seconds passed quickly, and a few people were still busy calibrating the readings of the detector, and the captain gave the order to "move forward".
The team of thirteen began to march towards Lake Don Juan.
The water level in some areas around Tang Juan Lake is very shallow, only a few centimeters, but when these people entered Tang Juan Lake, Li Shaoan found that the lake water had overflowed their ankles, and it looked like the tide was rising, but it had not rained in this month, how could the water level of Tang Juan Lake rise?
It was not only Li Shaoan who noticed this, but Jon, as the commander-in-chief, also found out, and he reminded the captain: "Rachel, pay attention to the water level, something is abnormal. ”
The captain is a white woman named Rachel Galvin, a former senior U.S. Army officer in a theater who joined the Department of National Security last year.
Although the thirty-nine-year-old Rachel is a woman, she has a lot of experience in the field, and has participated in nearly 100 special operations including rescue, decapitation and other missions, and is a real combat expert.
So when Jon was choosing someone, the first thing that came to mind was her.
The blonde Rachel is 1.75 meters tall, and she still can't cover her chic figure in protective clothing, after being reminded, Rachel raised her hand to signal everyone to stop, and then squatted down to measure the water level and water salt concentration.
It was found that the water level had indeed risen by four centimetres compared to a month earlier, but the salt concentration had not decreased, but had risen even higher, and even exceeded the current salt concentration of Gaet'ale Pond, the world's largest saltwater lake.
These anomalies make the atmosphere a little tense inside.
Jon was the same, he had never forgotten the tragic deaths of those who had died before him.
Therefore, even if it is the slightest abnormality, he has to think carefully about the possible consequences.
"Commander, can we move on?" Rachel wasn't so scared, she stood up, shook the submachine gun on her chest, and looked very calm and calm.
But Jon hesitated for a moment and then replied, "No, you get out of here until you find out why the lake is rising." ”
Such a result made everyone in the command room can't help but talk about it, Li Shaoan and Chen Jingrui glanced at each other, the two didn't speak, but they were also a little surprised.
It's rare to be able to deter an American who is the number one in the world in terms of adventurous spirit.
However, Jon's caution is also justified, after all, these data are present, plus those strange pictures before, who can guarantee that there will not be another one-sided "massacre" in the future?
Rachel was a little surprised, but it was a soldier's duty to obey orders, and she immediately said to the team: "Everyone retreat the same way, pay attention, the range of movement is not too large, just retreat at the previous speed." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and led the group to the way they came.
A group of people outside the blockade line didn't know what was happening ahead, but they could see every move of the first squad, and when they turned around, a somewhat white and fat Korean showed a disdainful expression and said to the team members next to him: "Ah Yigu, what's the matter with these American soldiers, why did they turn around?" It can't be scared, right? ”
The team member shrugged: "Who knows what they encountered, maybe they found a problem, let's be careful." ”
But the one who spoke first said: "What are you afraid of, we are the 13th, the last team!" ”
The team member didn't speak, and a white man behind him smiled: "Then do you know that 13 is an unlucky number?" ”
This is said in fluent Korean.
The Korean who was choked was obviously unhappy, but when he was about to turn around and reason with the person behind him, the team member suddenly let out an exclamation: "Ah!! Captain, look! Something happened! Something happened!!! ”
The white fat man turned around and saw an American officer in a white protective suit flying into the sky, but he had just flown up less than a second before he exploded about five meters above the ground!
The bloody scene is terrifying!
The crowd outside the blockade line soon fell into a commotion.
In the command room, Jon was stunned, because just a few seconds earlier, Rachel had reported to him that everything was normal, and that they had gone ashore!
But as soon as the voice fell, someone exclaimed, saying that the equipment he was carrying was out of control.
And then ......