At dawn.

The city of Balard, which is extremely chaotic, is still shrouded in darkness.

However, in this city, where the gap between rich and poor is huge and there are many slums, many people have already risen early.

In a col to the west of the city is the landfill of Balard.

At four o'clock in the morning every day, those comfortable and high-end rich areas will be cleaned in advance, so that the owners can be clean and clean in the new day.

And hotels, clubs, villas, etc. in the rich area, all kinds of garbage will be transported to landfills.

Many poor people are waiting there early in the morning, waiting for the garbage trucks to dump their garbage.

The most popular of those leftover meals, of course, is a variety of meats.

Chicken, pork, duck ...... As long as it's meat, I don't dislike it.

Many women and children with children rummaged through the garbage heaps, cleaned up the meat and vegetables, took them home and washed them with water, and boiled them in boiling water, which was the best meat for the poor.

In this volatile and chaotic region, not having enough economic income means going hungry.

Many poor people are satisfied with two meals a day, and they can fill their stomachs, who dares to expect big fish and meat for every meal?

Next to the garbage mountain.

As usual, there are a lot of poor people gathered here.

Some children who are chronically malnourished have large heads, bulging eyes and bulging bellies.

Their clear, dark eyes are full of cravings for food.

However......

Today the situation is exceptional.

Because many young adults have gone to participate in a military operation.

Therefore, the garbage dumped by garbage trucks is significantly less leftovers.

Some people who are so hungry that they can bear it? They just stuff their mouths and eat on the spot.

Not far from the garbage hill is a mountain in the city of Baled.

The mountain is steep, there is not much vegetation on it, and it is almost all rocky.

This mountain is extremely special.

There is a lot of barbed wire around it, and there is also high-voltage protection.

There are warning signs everywhere telling people not to trespass.

The reason for this is that on the top of the mountain, a communication base station was built.

This communication base station, which belongs to Nabia Network Communications Company, was built by Huaxia Tang's Communication Africa Branch.

Previously, there were no armed guards and no protection, and they were repeatedly visited by thieves.

But everyone knows that those thieves are nothing more than poor people with no income.

They don't know that in a communication base station, the communication integrated board is the most technical and valuable.

They will only dismantle and steal backup generators, cables, cabinets, and even communication base station towers.

Each time it is stolen, it will cause Barrard's communication to be cut off, as if it were an isolated island.

But......

Many local wealthy people and various forces, large and small, also have communication needs, and no one wants to make mobile phones an ornament.

Eventually, the various forces issued an ultimatum that no one was allowed to steal or destroy the communication base station.

And also take turns to send people to guard this communication base station to avoid being unable to make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, and surf the Internet for entertainment.

However......

With the influx of more and more cheap mobile phones, there are also more and more mobile phone users in the Balard area.

Except for the wealthy areas, where fiber optic networks have been laid, so that every household has wired broadband and wireless WiFi, most people use mobile phones to access the Internet wirelessly.

The capacity of a communication base station is limited, and the more users, the easier it is to freeze and data delay.

For this.

Huaxia Tang's Communication Africa Branch provides paid upgrade and expansion services at the request of customers.

After all, in the field of communication technology, the group has realized the full autonomy of core technologies and equipment, broken the patent barriers of international giants, and avoided the risk of being sanctioned and suppressed by those developed countries.

Therefore, customers are also willing to spend a small amount of money to do big things, and complete a big improvement in equipment performance at a small cost.

Recently, there happened to be a team of five engineers to upgrade the software and hardware at this base station.

Coming to Africa, especially in this war-torn and troubled region, is risking your life.

Before dawn.

Cheetah, the largest armed force in the Balard region, dispatched three armed pickup trucks to the foot of the mountain.

It is said that the network in the villa area is not connected, so please ask these five highly skilled engineers from Huaxia to hurry over and have a look.

It's not dawn yet, and the network is off and needs to be repaired, so you don't have to be in such a hurry, right?

Even if the network is disconnected, if you want to repair it, you have to find Nabia Network Communications Company.

These five Huaxia engineers are only responsible for upgrading the software and hardware of the communication base station.

Working in Africa, everything has to be done with care.

The company is fixed, unless it is particularly necessary, under normal circumstances, the personnel stationed abroad are not allowed to go out at night.

If you want to go out, you must also ask for instructions and report, detailing the reason for going out, the purpose of the trip, the accompanying personnel, etc.

In short, strict processes and regulations, which may seem cumbersome and cumbersome, are actually for the personal safety of employees.

Traveling in Nabia's notoriously war-torn region, the five engineers were of course more cautious.

They didn't stay in the Ballard area for a long time, how could they be familiar with the cheetah organization?

A few people and a few cars come at night and follow them, who dares to guarantee 100% safety?

And so!

The five engineers did not refuse on the spot, but politely said that they would report according to the company's regulations.

Otherwise, if you go out without permission, the consequences will be very serious, and fines and bonuses are trivial matters, and you may even be dismissed.

However......

They had come and taken captives on the orders of al-Abrahi.

It's good to be able to make up a lie, where is the time to wait for the report and other approvals?

In the Balard region, they have long been lawless.

yelled and yelled a few times and didn't leave, and immediately began to pull hard, ready to forcibly take people away.

Resist?

One by one, the black militants immediately picked up their AK assault rifles and aimed them at the heads of the five engineers.

Now, who dares to move?

Although I was scared enough, the engineers had been trained accordingly before going abroad.

Human life is more important than money.

This is especially true in conflict-torn areas.

If you can solve the problem with money, don't try to do it brutely, after all, there is only one life.

Although everyone has received some training and has learned to shoot, and will decide whether to equip themselves with self-defense weapons depending on the location of the project, it is more important to judge the situation than force.

That's what happened right now......

Can so many heavily armed men, five engineers with only simple training, be their opponents?

If you provoke these militants who are old and coarse, and have no cultural and moral qualities to speak of.

was killed by sudden strafing, and no matter how much pension the group gave to the family afterwards, it could not save his life.

Where there is life, there is hope.

The engineers did not resist or shout, and were very cooperative, saying that they would take the network maintenance equipment and consumables and leave.

Taking advantage of this gap, he quietly called the police.

Of course.

This call is not for the police in Nabia.

In such a chaotic and disorderly country, what is the use of looking for them? Looking for psychological comfort?

Through the smart watch worn in the hand, the engineer sent an emergency distress signal to the group's security division and branch headquarters, and the first thing that was sent out in the signal was the most important data, time and location.

At the same time, as much as possible, use the ultra-miniature camera and radio on the smart watch to film the current environmental situation, whether it is to rescue by force in the future, or to negotiate with the kidnappers, more information is more conducive to rescue.

Next, the five engineers cooperated very well and got on the armed pickup truck of the Cheetah Organization and left.

Surprisingly......

Nabiya Network Communications Company, a technician stationed at the communication base station, suddenly ran out.

Insist that the network servers are working normally, and it is impossible for the wealthy area to be disconnected.

Let these militants let these five Huaxia engineers go, but he was kind-hearted, but he was shot and killed on the spot.

The sound of gunshots on the top of the mountain rang out for a while.

At the foot of the mountain, the women, children and children who were digging the garbage heap did not panic and run away.

In a war-torn region like Balard, it would be strange not to hear gunfire on any given day.

It's not.

Many people are still waiting.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the militants' pickup truck to drive past the garbage dump and abandon the technician's body.

There is no need to bother to bury them, those who are poor and hungry will divide the bodies in minutes.

Of course, they don't eat it, but after the initial processing, they sell it at a low price to others who don't know the truth.

So......

In the pre-dawn darkness, tragedy is happening.

Knowing that the five engineers who were pitted, they naturally did not rise up to resist.

Anyway, the police have already been called, so it is better to wait calmly.

If these militants had wanted to kill them, they would have shot them long ago.

The reason why they still have to lie and arrange a car to pick them up is that it is clear that they are forcibly abducted, and there is another use value.

With the hum of engines, a handful of armed pickup trucks drove through sewage-ridden and potholed roads, through rows of low, cluttered slums, and finally into a heavily guarded wealthy neighborhood like a deep mansion.

......

Radio waves travel at the speed of light.

The news of the forcible abduction of the five engineers quickly alarmed the Security Division.

Of course, the Africa Security Service also received the alarm signal and activated the emergency response mechanism as soon as possible.

As the person in charge of security here, Juan Biao was still in the sky when he received the news.

There's so much going on tonight.

The special plane of the Military Intelligence Bureau was shot down, Tang Xiao and others fell into the desert, and Wu Jie flew to the rescue......

With great difficulty, everyone escaped from the predicament, and was squeezing a light plane and flying back to the West Corse.

The plane hasn't landed yet, so why is there another incident where the engineer has been kidnapped and kidnapped by Barrard?

On the crowded plane, the engine roared, and Juan Biao was annoyed when he wanted to report to Wu Jie and his wife.

So he simply asked people to act quickly according to the emergency response mechanism.

Fortunately, it was hostage-taking, not brutal killing.

The five engineers were not treated roughly, they were all in fine health, and their smartwatches had not been removed, so they could get a very accurate picture of where they were being held.

This is crucial for the rescue effort.

Of course.

Since it is hostage-taking, there must be a demand for interests.

If you are not forced to do so, the first choice is to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

After all, the purpose of the group is that employees' lives are more important than money.

In more than ten minutes, Juan Biao received a second briefing.

The five engineers said they were invited to repair the network, but they were placed under house arrest in a room and were not beaten or hurt.

Someone took a DV to record and asked them to report their home, name, age, work number, ID number, and other information.

After the recording, I also left some fruit snacks and the like.

Of course, there were also two armed men with loaded guns, who stayed behind to watch the door.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the group will receive a blackmail email with a lion's big mouth, which includes video as evidence.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

Not only Tanglong Industrial Group, but also many other companies have had similar experiences.

Especially when piracy was rampant, several shipping companies suffered and had to spend money to ransom their crews.

After all, they are thousands of miles away and they are not familiar with the place, how can they mobilize police forces to attack and rescue the hostages?

In areas of war and conflict, children can shoot and shoot, and weapons are rampant......

Storming and rescuing hostages?

I am afraid that it will not only be easier to kill the hostages, but also to wipe out the entire rescue team.

Reality is not a film and television drama, where is there such an awesome superhero?

In this case, after the five engineers were taken captive, they were placed under house arrest in the rich district of Balard, where there are heavy guards, many armed men, and all kinds of light and heavy weapons.

Camouflage infiltration?

When those militants, are they all blind?

Airborne assault?

Their weapons and equipment, are all burning sticks?

In fact, the most important thing to do is to actively collect intelligence and strive for favorable conditions for negotiations.

Early morning.

When the sun fell on the earth, the seriously overloaded light plane finally swayed and landed on a section of the road outside the Overseas Chinese Town.

Qian Le brought someone to answer in advance and hurriedly reported the latest situation of the hostage kidnapping case.

At this time, the kidnappers had already put forward very clear conditions, and clearly said that Wu Jie would take three things in exchange.

As for what it was, Wu Jie knew it.

In addition, it must not be delayed too late, and before twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the things will be flown to Balad.

For every hour overtime, a hostage was executed in an execution-style manner and a video was posted online.

For the sake of nuclear warheads, some people are really completely shameless.

In this case, of course my brother has to accompany him to the end......

(End of chapter)