Chapter 23: Afghanistan
The long-range delivery capability of the U.S. military is really not covered, more than ten hours later, Kane and Frank have already come to Afghanistan and boarded a transport helicopter, accompanied by a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. field troops, not agents like Coulson, but real special forces, which are recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. from the world's top special forces, of course, so they are also arrogant, and they expressed their dissatisfaction with letting an outsider command from above.
"Hey, boss, I remember you went through the Iraq war and the Libyan war, why did you send a psychopathic killer who slaughtered unarmed hooligans in comfortable New York every day to lead the team?" A special operator deliberately asked aloud, almost everyone knew the name of the punisher, but few knew about his previous experience in the army.
Frank closed his eyes as if he hadn't heard, but the leader of the special operations team, Bullock. Rumlow shouted at his teammates, "Shut up, because he used to be a special forces instructor in the Navy SEALs and won the Medal of Honor, and you didn't have any hair when he fought in Afghanistan!" ”
Frank still didn't open his eyes, but no one in the cabin dared to say anything cold, but Kane asked curiously, "Frank, did you fight here?" ”
Frank finally opened his eyes, "Yes, I fought here during the Cold War, when the enemy was still Soviet, and my boss was Nick. Fury. ”
"Oh, no wonder you call him sir, but I don't think your relationship seems to be very good."
“... It was the last mission, and we were ordered to destroy a secret base of the Soviets, but left some traces behind, and in order to eliminate them, Nick. Fury ordered the entire village to be blown up, and there were dozens of local residents in there... Since then, I have retired from the front-line troops and started training ...
Kane was silent, this trauma of war was probably one of the reasons why he became a punisher, "This cold-blooded guy. ”
“... He was a pure soldier who would sacrifice his life to complete his mission, but he was nice to me, and he helped me a lot to survive all these years in New York, but when I saw him, I remembered the innocent villagers..."
"Help? Yes, you were so badly injured that night and you didn't see anyone help you. ”
"He can't keep an eye on me at all times, he will only take action on some major matters, otherwise why do you think there were no police on the night of killing the puzzle, those gunshots are enough to alarm them."
"Oh, no wonder I think something was missing that night, it turned out to be their shot." Kane suddenly realized, his appearance also caused Frank to curl the corners of his mouth, he now regards Kane as a younger brother more and more, for him, he can even accept Nick. Fury's mission, his relationship with Nick is not as simple as he says.
"Sir, we're already there." Bullock leaned over and said loudly, the helicopter had slowly landed on a dirt road, although it had been searched by the US military once, but there were still some shrapnel and blood stains left on the side of the road.
Frank jumped off the plane with a gun on his back, carefully observing the traces, Kane was wandering around like a nobody, it had been nearly 60 hours, and there was no way to leave any souls here, so he had no role here, not even as good as the members of the special forces team behind him.
"Let's go." It wasn't long before Frank got up and walked towards the plane.
"Where are you going?" Brock asked.
"Mountains."
"Mountains? They are capable of attacking convoys with missiles, they are definitely not ordinary bandits, they are certainly the elite of terrorists, shouldn't they be hiding in a certain city? Brock was afraid that Frank would be away from the battlefield for too long, so he hurriedly asked.
Frank glanced at him and shook his head, "The Afghans have been fighting since 30 years ago, and they know better than you where it is safe, especially after provoking people who can't be provoked, although they have been controlled by the Ten Commandments Gang, but I believe that these experienced Ten Rings Gang people will definitely take advantage of it." ”
Although he was noncommittal about Frank's judgment, Bullock still faithfully carried out the order, after all, the instructions given to him from above were to follow Frank's command, and Tony could not be found. Stark wasn't up to him either.
The helicopter turned and flew towards the mountains, and Frank continued to close his eyes and recuperate, Afghanistan is a mountainous country, the mountains are their most common landform, and the rest is up to Kane.
"Fly east." Half an hour later, Kane suddenly came to the cockpit and gave the pilot an order.
"What's there?"
"A lot of dead air." The pilot was stunned for a moment, looked back, and met Kane's all-white spirit eyes, the pilot swallowed and spit, and immediately turned the nose of the plane without saying a word.
This time they did not fly for long, and soon found a small village in front, and the plane landed outside the village, and all the special combat personnel immediately picked up their guns and formed a battle formation after getting off the plane.
Kane ignored them and strode towards a large house at the entrance of the village, his soul eyes never closed, and he could see the sky-high death coming out of it.
Boom, kicked open the door, Kane's face immediately turned blue, this was supposed to be a warehouse, but now it has become an execution ground, blood, dead corpses, countless flies flying here, Frank and the special forces team who followed him closely saw this scene, and their faces all changed color.
"Men, women, children, this is not like the method of terrorist organizations to recruit soldiers..."Although the special combat team did not continue, Kane also knew a little bit of what he meant, now it is different from the past, although Afghanistan is quite poor, but not many people are willing to do the kind of terrorists with their heads, so these terrorists came up with a new trick, when they need soldiers, they go to the village, kill all the adult men there, abduct women and children, women can work for them without resisting, and the children will be brainwashed by them to become their new blood, but here it is different, it seems that the whole village has been slaughtered.
The flames of anger burned in Kane's chest, there were too many people who died here, and in Kane's sight, countless resentful spirits were entangled together and wailing, complaining about the injustice of the world, especially those children, who were mercilessly killed before they could appreciate the excitement of this world, which made Kane, who had never really seen this scene, rise in his heart with infinite killing intent.
With a big hand on Kane's shoulder, Frank turned his body over, "These things happen every day here, even in a world with a sound rule of law, when the law and justice are useless, only the punishment of death can prevent such a thing from happening again, which is also the value of the existence of people like us." ”
Frank's words suppressed the evil fire in Kane's heart, turning it into a determination to uphold justice, and just as Kane wanted to nod, he suddenly found a trace of life in his eyes.
He immediately ran there, it was a very ordinary house, and through the guidance of the Spirit Eye, Kane came to the backyard, pushed away the pile of firewood and grass piled there, he searched carefully, and finally found a pull ring hidden in the ground.