Chapter 17: The Abandoned Agent
The two who escaped all the way resumed communication with the headquarters, and as expected, the bigwigs of the headquarters were very unhappy. The two of them cut off communication without authorization, and went their own way. The first to bear the brunt was an intelligence officer on the Russian side named Boris, who loudly reprimanded the two for not following orders.
But the two agents who just escaped didn't care, neither of these two guys was a good baby, who hadn't done anything disobedient. At that time, the situation was urgent, and if they did not act decisively, the two of them would be lying in body bags at this time. After all, according to the situation at the time, it is likely that before the new plan of the command comes out, the two will be discovered and surrounded by angry soldiers and beaten into a sieve.
"Hey, Archer. After this joint mission, we will go to Moscow, and I will invite you to drink the best vodka. Custer said as he lifted Shen Chao against a section of the wall.
"Oh, then I'm going to invite you to Vegas to see a striptease." Shen Chao, who was dragged to the top, stretched out his hand and asked while pulling caster. He was also in a good mood at this time, and he couldn't wait to immediately shout two voices to the sky in celebration.
"Alright, you two. I want you to have a mission briefing as soon as you return. Valentina's voice came through the intercom again, with obvious anger in her voice.
"Don't be angry, Detective. We're just talking. Custer replied pretending to be a good baby.
"Hey, don't listen to him. Beauty, why don't you come with us? Vegas is definitely a paradise on earth, or I'll treat you to a few dancers......" Shen Chao continued to say unabashedly.
"Archer, hurry up and give me a briefing, or you won't have to go to Vegas for the rest of your life." Rhett's voice suddenly came, which surprised Shen Chao, and he had the impression that Rhett would only participate in the command at the end of this joint operation. How can I already get involved at this point?
"Yes, sir, we'll be at Scheduled Evacuation Point 2 soon. Shen Chao quickly changed into a stern tone and replied, he didn't want to make Rhett angry at this time, and he still held on to the hope that Rhett was rushing to pull him in. If that's the case, then I have a chance to follow Rhett to continue to be promoted and make a fortune.
In the past two years, Shen Chao has been following Rhett, not only accumulating a lot of mission experience and becoming a senior agent, but also making a few fortunes in the process of the mission, which are all given by Rhett, Shen Chao thinks that he is not an ungrateful person. So, he didn't want to go against Red until he had to.
At present, it is indeed the disobedience of the two of them, although the main task has been successfully completed, but at most it is a merit offset. Even if the bosses on both sides scold them like training their grandsons, it is understandable. Sure enough, as soon as they returned to the hotel, the two of them had just put away the big bags full of equipment when they were shouted by the bigwigs of the command headquarters and reprimanded them in front of the computer.
However, because it is an intelligence system, the words spoken are relatively concise, and there is not much emotional language. The leaders of both sides only criticized the two men for their recklessness and the danger of their unauthorized actions, and then moved on to the prospect of the next task. The tone changes so quickly that it will definitely make inexperienced people feel like they have just had auditory hallucinations. In general, the two still have to wait for instructions from the command and be ready to move at any time.
"Archer, I hope you can perform at your due level in the next mission!" That's how Red summed it up, his tone was flat, as if his previous anger was just an illusion. To Shen Chao's disappointment, Red still didn't seem to have any intention of pulling him in.
The two hung up the communication and played with rock-paper-scissors again. Of course, two big men playing this naturally won't be for fun. Instead, pick out an unlucky ghost to set up perimeter alarms and check escape routes. Both of them have been doing the work of licking blood from the knife all year round, so naturally they will not pin all their hopes on the arrangement of the headquarters. …,
This is also a common problem of all agents, and they can't trust any rear support. They only believe in their own preparations, and the first few times Shen Chao won, so it was Custer who was responsible for arranging the setting of the alarm for the first few days. But this time, I don't know if he ran out of luck when he ran away earlier, and Shen Chao actually lost to Custer in three games and three losses. At this time, I had to go out with a bunch of alarms to set up.
After Custer won, he didn't care about anything else, and went straight to the bathroom with a towel humming a song. I don't know why, Shen Chao suddenly felt alarmed when he looked at him. It's as if I'm going to be in danger today.
However, this feeling is too slight to be on the same level as the warning signs that often occur in my missions. So he didn't care. With a dozen rather pocket-sized alarms, they began to be set up at various key nodes of the hotel.
In particular, one-way alarms are installed at the exits on the roof and stairwells. In short, if only someone passes by, the police will not be called, but if someone enters the floor through the guò stairwell, the communicator connected to the alarm will call the police.
The alarm was set up, and the emergency channel was checked again. After making sure that there was no problem, Shen Chao returned to the hotel room. Custer had finished taking a shower, and was sitting firmly on the sofa in his big boxers, watching TV with a snack in one hand and a remote control in the other.
Looking at this scene, Shen Chao suddenly had a strong sense of immediacy. I suddenly remembered, isn't this what I looked like a few days ago? I looked around again, and sure enough, there was a sofa around. "I'll you" Shen Chao suddenly understood what was going on with his sense of alertness before going downstairs.
Skip this vignette. Four days later, Shen Chao and Kast appeared on the outskirts of a city called Mozdok in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alan. The two sat in a rented SUV. While chatting, they waited for their car to pick them up.
"If we're lucky, we'll be able to go home after this ticket." Custer, who was sitting in the carriage, said as he smoked a cigarette.
"Homecoming? Forget it, man, I'm going to invite you to Vegas. Besides, you owe me a bunch of good vodka. Shen Chao said with a smile. After these days of missions, he also knows Custer very well, and he doesn't have to worry about being cold when he jokes.
"You know that's impossible, man. After this mission, if I go with you to Vegas, or you stay in Moscow for one more day. The two of us will not be able to explain it, and the lightest punishment after returning is probably to be suspended for investigation. Custer's tone was also a little regretful, it was not easy to find a partner who cooperated with them in this business. I finally found one who didn't cooperate for a few days and had to separate.
"Don't talk too much, no one is sure what we will do when we complete the mission. Maybe we'll be able to go out and celebrate! Shen Chao still said with a smile. Speaking of which, he thought about the ending of the original AK duo, and although he thought he was fully prepared, his little plan was still at risk of failure.
The two were chatting, when suddenly, a bright light flashed on the road in front of them, and the truck that picked them up came.
"Let's go, I'm busy tonight." As he spoke, a large white truck slowly drove up the side of the road. Watching the two of them wave, they stopped on the side of the road. The two bald heads inside didn't care about the heavily armed two at all, and greeted the two of them to come up.
"Hurry up, you two, we'll clean the serum." Time waits for no one," shouted a bald head sitting in the cab. Shen Chao knew him, a newcomer to the third echelon, who had only joined the field department two months ago. At this time, he has already come to carry out such a heavy task, which shows how thoroughly Rhett's talent transfer has been carried out in the past two years. Too many field backbones have been transferred to the "Black Sword Mercenary Group", a peripheral organization of Raid Control. …,
However, if this is not the case, it is estimated that it will not be his turn to carry out this joint operation. Although Lambert's death and Sam's departure left some of the veteran players disheartened and went home to retire. But in general, the third echelon is still full of talents, and there are many generals. At least Shen Chao knew several veterans who were much more experienced than him.
Back to the moment, the two of them sorted out their equipment, and got under the chassis of the cargo box and hung themselves up. It's not a comfortable way to travel, but it's also a reluctant move on the part of the command. The location of their operation was a military weapons test site on the outskirts. Introductory inspections, especially for goods, are too strict. Therefore, the command came up with this "best" infiltration plan.
"The guy who came up with this trick to get into the base definitely has a problem with his head. Shen Chao commented again, and he complained after finally checking the lanyard that hung himself on the chassis. The most temporary hanging rope can fix them firmly under the chassis, and keep their bodies and the ground at a distance of more than ten centimeters, but the lack of force design of the rush products will make people have all kinds of back pain!
"You should be grateful that they didn't think of making us climb down the sewers like in The Shawshank Redemption!" Next to him, Caster, who was also hanging under the chassis, said sternly. The tone, as if he had really crawled himself.
"You're not really going to crawl down the sewers, are you?" Shen Chao asked sternly, he had never heard of anyone in the third echelon who was so sad that he had to climb down the sewer pipe to do the task.
"Never underestimate the scale of the sewer system under the city of Moscow. Custer just turned his head and said coldly. Then he stopped talking.
In this way, the two endured several minutes of jolting under the chassis, and finally arrived at the checkpoint on the periphery of the Mozdok weapons test site, where several soldiers in charge of inspecting the cargo tossed for several minutes without finding anything unusual. So, the two people hiding under the car went through the checkpoint without any suspense.
It wasn't until after entering that the headset came another mission objective announcement that the command must have before each mission, although the two had received several updates on the mission location before, but this announcement before the mission began. On the one hand, it is to inform the two of the latest information that the command has obtained, and on the other hand, it is also to remind the two of the main mission objectives.
"The information you have obtained at the Astreb weapons base has allowed us to pinpoint the location of the EMP. Gentlemen, they have been hiding their weapons in the most conspicuous place, right at the Mozdok weapons test site in North Ossetia. ”
"Although we have already recorded armed strikes against a number of important locations in the Asterib arms smuggling network. Successfully shut down most of their establishments. Unfortunately, the remnants of Astreb have already found a buyer for the EMP and are ready to sell it in the next 24 hours. ”
"That's why our informant within them, Andrey. Cobain is now escorting several EMP bombs inside the base. Custer, Archer. We need to turn off the power grid at the Mozdok weapons test site to prevent their ground-based air defense systems from hindering our operations. ”
"In other words, we can't let their precious warheads be shot down by anti-aircraft missiles on the ground as they fly away." Right. Shen Chao answered. In fact, in his opinion, at least on the surface, this action is completely unnecessary. Ostensibly, the two sides were protecting evidence of the joint operation in order to respond to inquiries from their superiors. But in reality, this is completely a grafting trick by Rhett.