Battalion Commander Hou turned on a computer on the table, called up the monitoring records in the base, and introduced to us what happened in combination with the content of the displayed screen.

At 11 o'clock the night before yesterday, when the commander of the third company of the infantry company on duty was patrolling the sentry, he found that the sentry on the sentry tower in the ordnance area was missing. The company commander searched around the ordnance area again, but still did not find the missing sentry, and asked the sentries at other posts, but they did not see them.

Now he was a little panicked, because the sentry was missing with a gun, and it seemed that he was likely to escape with a gun. He was well aware of the seriousness of this matter, so he urgently reported it to Battalion Commander Hou in accordance with the regulations.

Knowing that the sentry was missing, and it was very likely that he had fled with a gun, Battalion Commander Hou was furious, you must know that this is a time of peace, and it is a serious political incident for a soldier to flee with a gun, not to mention the impact this may have on him, just the ridicule of the leaders of other troops is enough for him to endure. If the sentry were to hit someone with a gun again, the impact would be unpredictable.

As an old battalion commander who governs the army with an iron fist, Hou Lei's anger in his heart can be imagined. He urgently gathered a company of soldiers and began to search the base and the surrounding mountains, hoping that if he found this guy, he had to pick his skin.

As the troops searched around, he retrieved the surveillance records on the watchtower that night to see where the sentry had escaped.

I saw that the surveillance footage showed that the sentry was still on duty at 10:33 p.m. that night. Judging by his reactions and behavior, everything was normal, and there was no indication that he was about to flee. But at 10:35, the sentry suddenly glanced down the tower, as if he had noticed something. Because of the angle of the camera, I couldn't see what was going on below, and I didn't know what he was seeing.

The sentry craned his neck and looked downward, presumably because it was too dark for him to see, so he was trying to make out. During this time, he could be seen to say a few words, and then hurriedly ran down the guard tower with a gun on his back. Because the monitor does not have a recording function, we have no way of knowing what he said at the time, so we can only guess what happened at the time from the footage.

Judging from the whole process, this sentry should have seen someone under the tower, and was called away by this person. Although the sentry appeared to be in a hurry when he left, his steps were natural and calm, so it can be assumed that the person under the tower probably knew him.

At first, Battalion Commander Hou came to the same opinion as me, but he later called up other surveillance in the ordnance area, but he never found a picture of the sentry leaving. None of the paths were found, which meant that as long as the sentry wasn't invisible, it would have stayed around the tower. So he transferred a squad of people and searched all the tank warehouses around the watchtower, but he couldn't find the shadow of the sentry.

Subsequently, the troops who went out to search the mountains also reported the results, saying that they had found nothing, and the passers-by who asked them along the way did not see any soldiers with guns walking by.

Battalion Commander Hou has been in the army for many years and has experienced seven or nine years of counterattacks, so he has his own judgment on the current situation. The first possibility that came to his mind was that some spies or hostile saboteurs had infiltrated the barracks and lured and killed the sentries. Battalion Commander Hou immediately ordered the security of the barracks to be upgraded, and all the posts were increased from single posts to double posts, and at the same time two four-person patrols were organized to patrol the barracks.

I thought that this would be able to survive until dawn, and then organize people to search around, and maybe they would be able to find something. However, only three hours later, the two sentries guarding the side gate in the northeast corner of the barracks also disappeared with guns.

Those troops who had just returned from searching the mountains had only unloaded their equipment at this time, and before they had time to go to bed, they were gathered again and rushed into the mountains to search.

There is a sentry box at the side gate of the barracks, and a monitoring probe is installed on the sentry box, which is located at a good angle and can be photographed to a large area outside the door.

Calling up the surveillance footage at the time, I saw two sentries stamping their feet and swatting mosquitoes while chatting, everything was normal. The mutation occurred at 3:15 a.m., when one of the two sentinels suddenly looked back in alarm, possibly hearing something. That area was at the back of the sentry box, just out of the range of the surveillance, and I couldn't see what was going on there.

After the sentry took a look, he immediately raised the gun in his hand, and vigilantly stretched out his head as if he was looking over there, as if he had seen something very unclear, and was poking his head out to carefully identify it. Seeing this, the comrade-in-arms beside him also glanced back, and then also picked up his gun and made the same move. After looking at it for a while, the two of them walked in that direction with their guns in their hands, and then they never appeared again.

After reading it, Battalion Commander Hou was furious, slapped the table and scolded the two sentinels. After the first sentry went missing, he gave each sentry five rounds of ammunition, two empty cartridges and three live rounds, and told them several times to fire the warning as soon as they found any situation, and to avoid contact as much as possible. However, the two sentries did not follow the orders at all, neither fired a warning shot, but also went to track down the suspicious targets privately.

The rear battalion commander has always been strict with the army, and his soldiers have always been forbidden by orders, and his orders have always been unconditionally obeyed, and it is simply inconceivable that such a situation has happened, and he can't think of any reason why these two sentries gave up carrying out their orders.

He called the company commander of the two soldiers' companies to his office, and was about to reprimand them when the camp patrol reported that the sentry and a soldier from the patrol in the two ordnance districts were missing.

Judging from the feedback information and the footage in the surveillance, the way these soldiers disappeared was the same as before, they all saw something outside the surveillance area, and then walked out of the surveillance range. The most bizarre thing was the soldier on the patrol, with the reaction of the other soldiers in the same team, the missing soldier walked in the rear, the front foot was still normal and the back foot was gone, they went back and searched for the inflection points everywhere, but there was no trace.

There have been a lot of doubts when things have come to this point, if it were ordinary people, it is estimated that they would have thought of more possibilities, but this Camp Commander Hou is a staunch atheist, and he has always believed that this is a ghost. Since none of the missing soldiers had issued an alarm, and he walked out of the surveillance area by himself, it looked like he had been lured by an acquaintance, so he turned his suspicious eyes to the inside of the barracks and began to suspect that it was someone inside the army. (To be continued.) )