Jiang Feng had not seen Song Heping for four days already.
He felt that sothing was wrong.
On the day that Song Heping went to Ba Country with Willie, Jiang Feng already felt quite uneasy.
After all, no matter how capable Song Heping was, he was still just one person.
The two of them ventured deep into Ba Country, and even planned to infiltrate Alta's territory to assassinate the target, which seed quite absurd.
He had never imagined that his old squad leader would actually take the initiative to do such a thing.
He was well aware that Song Heping was actually doing this to gain leverage for future benefits on the Afghan battlefield, and completing the mission would naturally give him a bargaining chip to negotiate with the military.
But to bet his life on it was indeed a risk.
By the fourth day, Song Heping still had not returned.
Jiang Feng had no choice but to inform Ferrari, who was far away in the Illigio Green Zone.
Ferrari was the second in command in the company after Song Heping.
Many things had been arranged by Song Heping, who had said that if he was not around, they could go to Ferrari for decisions.
Over the phone, when Ferrari heard that Song Heping had been missing for four days, and that Jiang Feng was just waiting at the Kandahar Police Station, he imdiately got furious.
"Jiang Feng, are you an idiot?! It's been four days, sothing must have happened, why haven't you gone to ISA to find out exactly what happened?!"
"That's a military camp, and the ISA is an intelligence agency with high confidentiality; even their camp is isolated. I can't even get in!"
"Can't get in and you don't think of a way? What do you use your brain for? To hold water?"
Ferrari was seething with anger.
"Who contacted Song Heping to take on this mission in the first place?"
"A woman, her na is Niki."
"That's the Commander of the Afghan ISA operations departnt. Find her!"
"I don't even have her phone number."
"If you ever die one day, it will definitely be from stupidity!" Ferrari said: "You undertook the mission on the sa night, didn't you get her contact details? Or does soone you know have it?"
That was a reminder for Jiang Feng.
"The interpreter has the contact details for the Arican ISA headquarters; he's the deputy director of the police station here, his na is Rabbani."
"Find him! A person like that can enter the US army camp, you have him take you to Niki! FUCK! I'm flying to Afghan right now, I guess I'll arrive tonight, you go to the camp to find Niki first!"
Even over thousands of kiloters away, Jiang Feng could still feel Ferrari's fury coming through from the other end of the electromagnetic waves.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Feng went to find Rabbani.
Rabbani did not decline, he directly drove him to the US military camp to find Niki.
Because he was the police chief here, and previously an undercover for ISA, he was of course well-acquainted with Niki, so it wasn't difficult to find her.
Upon eting her, Jiang Feng imdiately asked where Song Heping had gone.
Niki had a dark expression and frowned, gazing into the distance for a long ti before she said: "He's missing."
"What!?"
Jiang Feng nearly jumped three feet high.
"What do you an by missing?"
"I can't reveal too many details, the incident is not over yet, but as a courtesy of our friendship, what I can tell you is that the two-man team of him and Willie suddenly disappeared, all equipnt including our satellites can't find any trace of the two of them."
"What about the communication signals? Satellite surveillance? And don't you have drones? Can't you send a couple over there to check?!"
Jiang Feng was getting agitated.
Niki said: "That's the airspace of Ba Country, we can only coordinate with Bafang to search together, this takes ti."
"Fuck your grandpa, ti, it's been four days! Our boss is missing, why didn't you notify us imdiately, we are a Defense Company, we can send people to rescue!"
Jiang Feng's words made Niki's eyes suddenly light up.
"Makes sense..."
The ISA is a military departnt; using their own operatives to enter Ba Country carries certain risks.
It's not about fearing death but fearing being caught in diplomatic turmoil.
However, "Musician" Defense is definitely a PMC company.
They can function as rcenaries, without any constraints and do not represent any governnt.
"You an, you can organize your own force to enter Ba Country to find him?" Niki beca interested.
If the US Army is inconvenient to send a search party, letting a PMC do it is also a very good solution.
"Of course we're willing! That's our boss, our top dog!" Jiang Feng couldn't help but curse, "Who the hell knew you guys would be so unreliable? The guy's been missing for four days and you haven't even reported the situation to us? We currently have two special operations platoons in Kandahar, and since you can't handle it, let us be part of the search!"
Niki thought for a mont and said, "Give so ti, I need to ask for instructions from my superiors."
"Ask for instructions! Damn it, I just hate this kind of efficiency." At this mont, Jiang Feng also had great contempt for ISA's work efficiency and capabilities.
These damned fools claim to dominate Blue Star with this level of skill?
Niki explained, "We are the military, not a PMC, we have our procedures!"
Jiang Feng said, "No matter what the procedure is, I just need you to provide technical support, and we'll provide the manpower. We will enter Ba Country as a rcenary squad and then solve the problem in our own way."
Niki nodded and said, "Okay, if you're willing, I can arrange it. Give so ti to take care of the procedural matters."
Jiang Feng pressed, "How long will it take!?"
"About..." Niki gritted his teeth and said, "One hour, I'll give you an answer within an hour."
"Good! One hour, I won't leave, I'll wait right here. The incident has already been reported to our company's vice president, and he will be here soon. We will be responsible for the execution, and you provide intelligence support!"
"Then wait here, I'll get back to you soon."
After speaking, Niki turned and entered the temporary command post.
While Jiang Feng was seeking Niki for Song Heping's whereabouts, in the mountainous area of the Federal Tribal Area in Ba Country, Song Heping was crouching at the entrance of a cave, staring at a pit covered with a plastic cloth outside the cave mouth.
This piece of plastic cloth was cut from a waterproof plastic bag found in Song Heping's backpack, used for sealing equipnt.
It's standard for Special Soldiers to carry a few waterproof plastic bags with them during field operations.
The purpose of these bags is to seal equipnt that cannot be subrged in water for too long.
Although most military equipnt is waterproof, waterproofing also has its grades, and many sensitive devices cannot be imrsed in water for a long ti, such as reconnaissance caras.
These devices require sealing in waterproof plastic bags, especially when operating for long periods in humid and rainy jungle conditions, or when swimming long distances.
However, there is another clever use for it that many people are unaware of.
That is, it can be made into a drinking water collector.
The thod is simple: dig a hole in a cool and moist place, put a water container in the center, then completely cover the hole with the plastic film, seal the edges with stones, and put a stone in the middle of the plastic film to make it sag into an inverted cone shape.
After that, you don't need to do anything else. Wait for about ten hours. If the temperature rises and creates a temperature difference with the interior of the hole, or if the moisture in the soil evaporates due to the surrounding temperature rise, fine droplets will form on the plastic film.
These droplets might seem insignificant, but after a night or a day, the collected water vapor can still amount to one or two hundred milliliters.
Of course, this thod is difficult to apply in desert areas because there really is no water there.
But in places with so vegetation, where plants survive and there is groundwater, it's quite useful, and it can save lives at critical monts.
It's already three in the afternoon at this ti.
For the past three days, Song Heping and Willie have been moving during the night and hiding during the day.
During the day, they found secret places to hide.
Because it's unclear whether the US Army was friend or foe at this ti.
To avoid satellite reconnaissance, they had to hide their tracks as much as possible to prevent being detected by reconnaissance satellites.
The simple water vapor collector at the cave entrance had been set up since six in the morning, and it's been 9 hours now. Song Heping could see dense droplets forming on the surface of the plastic film and continuously sliding towards the center, eventually gathering at the cone's apex and dripping into the container in the pit.
"It's about ti, let check how much water there is."
Song Heping licked his dry lips, looked around to make sure no one was there before he cautiously ran over, gently lifted the film, and took out the plastic box inside.
Back in the cave, Song Heping handed the water to Willie.
"Half for you, half for ."
Willie took the plastic box, which contained about two hundred milliliters of water.
"The harvest is good today."
He just grinned and imdiately sucked in a breath of cold air.
Because his lips were so dry, the act of smiling tore open his cracked lips again, and they began to bleed profusely.
"Damn it!"
He quickly drank half of the water in the box.
Water was precious to the two n at this mont.
He controlled his greed and handed back the plastic box, now half filled with water, to Song Heping.
Song Heping had just taken a sip when he suddenly heard a noise outside the cave entrance.
"Soone's coming."
Song Heping swallowed the water in one gulp, made a hand signal, and picked up the HK416 with a silencer, quietly moving towards the cave entrance.
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