The commander didn't say anything more, but handed a document to Gou Cao, some of the information on which had been blacked out, and it seemed that the old fox had prepared for the outcome of this conversation.

Mission Name: Project Blade

Date of Assignment Initiation: ██/██/████

Authorized Body: ███████████, the authorization documents are shown in Appendix 1 - Authorization Record

Directly responsible: Branch Commander, ████████), ███ (████████, ████)

Mission time: April 12, 2023 - N/A

Executives: He An (on-site commander), He Songliang (mission supervision), ███ (mission planning and scheduling), ███ (████), etc. (see Attachment 4 - Executive Personnel File for details)

Classified: Classified (revoked) Changed to "Top Secret" on 2023-4-17

Background of the mission:

██/██/████: 1 "lair" sighting. 701 temporary military airfield in the east of Yutong County. Witnesses: ███, etc. (See Attachment 24 - Sighting Log 1 for details)

██/██/████: Confirmation of the existence of the "Lair". Marked as the No. 2 and No. 3 "nests" in the northern part of the northern capital. Confirmed Personnel: ███. He Songliang authorized the drone to continuously monitor the target location. (For details, see Attachment 7 - Minor Authorization Record 1, Attachment 25 - Video Data 1~15)

██/██/████ ~ ██/██/████: 4 "Impalator" sightings. Witnesses: ███, ███ verifying that the footage is true. Confirmation of the presence of the "Impaler". (For details, see Attachment 7 - Secondary Authorization 2, Attachment 24 - Sighting Record 4, Attachment 25 - Video Data 16~27)

██/██/████ ~ ██/██/████: 5 remote-controlled robot sample collections. Operative: ███. Oversight: ███ (see Annex 7 - Secondary Authorization Log 3, Annex 9 - Secondary Action Log 7)

██/██/████: The "Nest" substrate has been confirmed to be longer than "Nest" 4 in the southern part of North City. Identification Institution: ████, Identification Personnel: ███, ███ (see Attachment 10 - Identification Log 3 for details)

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Mission Briefing: ...... Therefore, it was determined that the No. 2 and No. 3 "nests" in the northern part of the northern capital posed a real threat to our organization's operations in the northern metropolis...... Permission to attack......

Objective: Clear the "Lair" No. 2 and No. 3 in the northern part of the Northern Capital and the nearby "Impalator".

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Mission Log:

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On April 13, 2023, at 10:15 a.m., the cluster munition attack was approved by He Songliang.

On 10:20 a.m. on 04/13/2023, the cluster munition attack ended, and ███ authorized the entry of enforcement personnel to enter the search.

At 10:30 a.m. on April 13, 2023, the last communication, He An reported safety. At 1:00 p.m. on the same day, it was confirmed that the personnel carrying out the task were missing.

At 2:00 p.m. on April 13, 2023, He Songliang approved the search operation. (See Attachment 7 - Minor Authorization Log 5, Annex 9 - Minor Action Log 9)

At 10:45 a.m. on April 14, 2023, the search and rescue personnel lost contact for the last time in safety report, and the on-site commander confirmed that it was safe and no search and rescue targets were found. At 1:00 p.m. on the same day, it was confirmed that the search and rescue mission personnel were missing.

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At 10:45 a.m. on April 15, 2023, the search and rescue personnel lost contact for the last time in safety report, and the on-site commander confirmed that it was safe and no search and rescue targets were found. At 1:00 p.m. on the same day, it was confirmed that the search and rescue mission personnel were missing.

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At 10:45 a.m. on April 16, 2023, the search and rescue personnel lost contact for the last safety report, and the on-site commander confirmed that it was safe and no search and rescue targets were found. At 1:00 p.m. on the same day, it was confirmed that the search and rescue mission personnel were missing.

At 2:00 p.m. on April 16, 2023, the ███████████ order terminated the issuance of a new search and rescue mission.

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The rest of the content is rather boring, or the document is as boring as some other specialized documents in the first place.

The whole operation can be summed up as follows: Someone from the National Front found what they had found at the airport in the northern metropolis, and the area covered with black silk threads, piled up with corpses and densely populated with bud-like tissues was called the "nest".

Then they found the kind of bone-throwing javelin-throwing zombies they had encountered, which they called "Impalators".

Coincidentally, the National Front has seen such "nests" in other places where they have influenced. In order to study the origins of such nests, they sampled and analyzed all the "nests" they could find. Before the discovery of the airfield lair, the earliest nest they found was the South 4 "Lair". Therefore, the airport nest has become the object of their research.

Later, the National Front realized that something was not quite right with the airfield nest and that it could be quite dangerous, so it decided to clear it, even using cluster munitions. As a result, not to mention the people who went to the clearance, not to mention the people who went to the search and rescue, also lost contact. Seeing this, one of the agencies above called off the search and rescue operation

As the situation deteriorated, the National Front was no longer able to infiltrate the vicinity of the airport, and the task that had to be carried out but which the National Front was no longer able to carry out was postponed indefinitely.

After reading the document, Gou Ke raised his head and asked, "This lost He An is your relative?" "Since they are all straightforward personalities, it is better to go straight to the main body and figure out the other party's motives first.

The commander sat upright across from him, still unable to see what his expression was: "It's not a relative, but it's almost like a relative." It was the son of the chief of my army when I was in the army. Before he died, he entrusted He An to me. But I ......"

Grim and silent.

After pondering for a while, Gou Cao spoke, "I want you to provide me with some support to bring my former companion here, and in exchange, I will help you find news about He'an." After all this time, he didn't think that Zheng Hean was still alive. As for that task, even the National Front could not complete it when it was at its strongest in the north, so he did not intend to try it.

"By the way, just help me find it, it's a private request. The main thing is to rescue your companions, and now the southern stronghold needs everyone's manpower. The commander said: "If you can't find any information, don't force it, don't risk your own life or the life of the National Front soldiers assigned to you." As for the task, leave it alone. ”

"Deal." Gou Cao nodded in agreement.

"Your car won't be repaired for a while, I can get you another one." The commander said: "But I can't waste too many public resources for personal reasons, so you have to change the car back after picking up people." ”

"Give me five days, and I can fix my car," Gou said. The commander surprisingly did not doubt this.