"I need to report imdiately to Niki, it looks like we're in trouble."
Willie was about to report to the frontline command in Kandahar via satellite channel.
After all, an abnormal situation has now arisen.
He needed to ask Niki if they had deployed a response team on this side?
Or was there another US Special Forces team infiltrated here on a different mission?
All these factors needed to be verified.
If not, it strongly suggests the possibility of an enemy.
Just as he was about to open the channel and speak, a hand reached out and pressed down on his.
"Don't report!"
"Why?"
Willie, full of confusion, saw the firmness in Song Heping's eyes.
"Are you sure it isn't your own people trying to silence you?"
Song Heping's eyes were full of suspicion.
"Willie, you did cut off Curtis's head, this dirty job, are you sure your superiors won't want you dead to silence you?"
"Impossible! Our ISA operations are mostly secret, if they were to silence soone, no one would last more than a year in service." Willie imdiately denied Song Heping's idea, thinking it completely ludicrous.
It was originally a secret operations unit under a military intelligence departnt, how could the tasks perford not be highly classified?
And many tis, they had to do the dirty work by any ans necessary.
If it was really about silencing soone.
Probably no one on the team could survive beyond a year.
"Your paranoia is too strong."
"It's not paranoia, it's caution," Song Heping said: "Being cautious keeps you alive."
Willie was sowhat at a loss.
Song Heping's words made him sowhat waver.
If it had been a few years earlier, Willie might have thought that Song Heping's words were nonsense.
But having experienced this ti, he saw so completely revolutionary practices.
For instance, Curtis's father and the man in the White House could sacrifice an ODA team for a traitor.
"So what do you suggest we do?"
He lifted his hand from the call button.
Song Heping said: "Since we are here, we need to figure out who it is, now no one can be trusted, only we can rely on ourselves."
"They are in the dark, we are in the light," Willie said: "And we are only two people, how do we find them?"
Song Heping said: "Are all Aricans this stupid?"
Willie's face changed color: "What do you an?!"
Song Heping pointed at Willie, then at himself: "If it's people who are against us, what do you think their purpose here is?"
"Obviously to kill us!" Willie said: "If your guess is right, it ans they want to silence us!"
Song Heping smiled, seizing the opportunity to mock Willie: "Exactly, we are the targets, since we are the targets and they co to us, why should we look for them? Need to search? Just wait!"
Willie blushed.
Song Heping's view was simply perfect.
Right!
He and Song Heping were the targets.
If they really wanted to kill him and Song Heping, then it would be them who would actively approach.
"It seems... very reasonable..." Willie said thoughtfully: "But where should we wait for them to appear?"
"Right, it makes sense, doesn't it?" Song Heping laughed: "Let's find a place, I'll study the map first."
With that, the two n left the shadows and began looking along the edge of the mountain.
There are many caves here.
In less than five minutes, they found a cave.
Though not deep, it was good enough to block out light when entering.
Upon entering, they found themselves turning into a corner.
Song Heping confird that this place wouldn't leak any light and be discovered before he let Willie take out his phone and then brought up the map to start studying it.
"We are currently here..."
Song Heping stared at the electronic map, made his own location, and then started analyzing the terrain.
"I know where they will ambush us."
"Where?"
Willie was sowhat shocked.
The military prowess of this Chinese man was so strong that it even made this old guy feel ashad.
He suddenly had a premonition.
Song Heping is definitely not just a pig farr as he claid himself.
If a soldier who ca from a PLA pig farm was this formidable, then what are the US Army even playing at?
"Right here."
Song Heping pointed to a narrow pass.
It was a small road squeezed between two mountains.
And indeed it was the route they had planned before to return to Afghanistan.
The narrow pass was very suitable for an ambush.
Once the enemy steps into the trap, there would essentially be no chance of escape.
"This is our path back to Afghanistan, are you sure they know?" Willie felt a chill down his spine.
Because this was not a good thing.
The distance to Song Heping's theory of "silencing" had just co a step closer.
"I can't say soone told them our route, maybe they also have experts who can figure out which route we would take based on the terrain."
Song Heping gritted his teeth and fell into deep thought.
"But one thing I'm sure of is that they've moved ahead of us," said Song Heping. "They might think themselves clever, but it's given us a chance."
Willie said, "Should we sneak up behind them and wipe them out?"
"We have too few people, and I don't know how many they are; from the tracks and donkey hoof prints we saw, they shouldn't be less than ten people, maybe even more."
Song Heping stretched out his finger and pointed at a spot on the map: "Let's go here."
"Here?!"
Willie didn't understand.
Because the place Song Heping pointed to was still several hundred ters away from the ambush area.
"We're nowhere near the ambush area here; even with night vision gear and reconnaissance devices, it's hard to see how many enemies are hiding in the ambush area."
"Ah…" Song Heping sighed, "When you're in the wilderness and see a huge cave, and you need to feed yourself from it, would you reach in to grab a snake to eat, or would you wait at the entrance and trap it as it cos out?"
Willie instinctively answered, "Of course, it's safer to set up a trap at the entrance and act when it cos out. If you don't know what snake it is, recklessly reaching in could be fatal."
General Song Heping handed the phone back to Willie, outlined by a row of white teeth in the dark, smiling: "A teachable lad."
The two of them got to work imdiately, packing up and leaving.
This ti, they were much more cautious approaching the narrow pass, they even changed their route.
No longer following the original pathway.
After all, they could no longer trust even the people at the frontline headquarters.
Niki included.
Song Heping thinks it is unlikely that she knew, perhaps it was the decision of higher-ranking US military officials to help him and Willie.
But he had to be cautious, break off contact and disappear directly.
"Cut off all our communications with the frontline headquarters, maintain communication silence, and all our electronic devices should be switched off from now on."
"Alright."
Willie understood what Song Heping was saying.
Song Heping now speculated ISA as a suspect too.
If ISA, or soone like General Miles, or soone high up in the military was behind this silencing operation, then having electronic devices on and maintaining communication would be like fixing a light bulb on your head in a battlefield at night, telling the enemy exactly where you are, urging them to co and kill you.
After all signals were cut off, in the frontline headquarters in Kandahar, a technical officer suddenly stood up from the computer, turned his head, and shouted to Niki, "Ma'am, Willie's team has vanished!"
Niki was originally in a relaxed state.
She had just learned that the two-man team had successfully killed Curtis in Ba Country territory, and that he no longer posed a threat as a propaganda tool for the Ata Organization and the Al-Qaeda, allowing her to relax a great deal after gulping down a comforting cup of coffee, waiting to et the team as they crossed the border.
Now suddenly soone told her the team had disappeared, and she almost sprayed the coffee across the captain sitting opposite.
"What did you say?!"
Her face changed dramatically, she stood up abruptly and quickly approached the technical officer.
These technical officers were responsible for operational technical support; so were responsible for communications and satellites, drones monitoring, so for air dispatch and supports, others for instant intelligence monitoring and analysis.
"They've vanished." The officer pointed at the computer screen: "All signals are gone!"
"Vanished?!"
Niki was severely shaken.
Sothing went wrong...
She secretly shouted in alarm.
The signals disappearing ant either they were dead and their devices were seized and turned off.
Or they were destroyed or damaged during combat.
Niki quickly pulled out a secured phone and called General Miles.
"General, there's trouble with the two-man team, they just vanished near the Abba Border, all technical ans can't locate them now."
"I'm on my way."
Though it was already early morning, General Miles on the other end was wide awake, concisely inford Niki that he would personally co over then hung up the phone.
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