"It's no use whatever profession they are in."
Willie seed uninterested in Song Heping's suggestion.
"Are your company's n a match for the Seal Team? Besides, even if you have enough people to co and assist us, we don't dare to turn on our equipnt now. How can we contact your people?"
Song Heping said: "Willie, we have no choice."
Willie said: "Do you an to take a risk and try to turn it on?"
"Listen to , do as I say," Song Heping said, "Whether we can make it back alive depends on our luck now."
Ten minutes later, in the US Army ISA temporary headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Ferrari's satellite phone suddenly began to vibrate.
He quickly picked it up and his eyes lit up.
It was Song Heping's number!
Ferrari almost shouted out, but his instinct suddenly suppressed that desire. He remained silent, glanced around to make sure no one noticed him, and walked directly out of the tent.
"Song! Is that you?!"
"It's , where are you?"
Indeed, it was Song Heping's voice coming through.
"I'm in Kandahar, I've arrived in Afghanistan."
Ferrari inford truthfully.
"Where are you right now? Everyone is worried about you, saying your signal disappeared?!"
"I don't have ti to explain, first, the US Army might be chasing us, second, imdiately use all ans to dispatch people to cross into the border. We are currently near Leizi, we intended to cross the border line to the west back to Afghanistan here, but found the route completely blocked. What you need to do is bring people imdiately to the coordinates I sent you, I'll wait for you there. After ending the call, to hide our tracks, I will also turn off the satellite phone and cut off communication. You must arrive near the Leizi region pathway to Afghanistan before 4 AM. There's a possibility of encountering a special operations squad of about twenty or more people, likely the Seal Team, be careful not to be detected, search and attack from west to east upon hearing gunfire, cut their retreat."
"How can I keep in contact with you?"
"At exactly 5 AM, I will turn on the device, and I will contact you then."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"
"Rember!" Song Heping urged, "Don't trust anyone."
"Understood!"
The call ended, lasting less than two minutes.
Ferrari returned to the headquarters, only to see it was already bustling with activity.
Niki ca over to Ferrari and said: "Song's signal has reappeared, near Leizi."
Ferrari feigned surprise: "Then what are you waiting for?! Hurry and send people to reinforce, just telling here doesn't help?"
Niki said embarrassedly: "It's not as simple as you think. That area is within Ba Country territory, we need to go through the military and governnt of Ba Country, to get their permission and support. But don't worry, we'll have the Ba Country Special Forces go there right away to find Song."
As they were talking, a military officer ran over.
"Colonel, our signal has been lost again."
"What?!"
Niki's brows furrowed deeply.
"Did they deliberately cut off the communication?"
"Likely, this situation couldn't have happened if the equipnt had fallen into enemy hands, the signal source was only maintained near Leizi for a short two minutes, and then it disappeared."
"Is there a fix on the location?"
"We can't pinpoint it exactly, but we estimate it's within the tribal autonomous region of Ba Country, just less than ten kiloters from the Afghan border. There's a Maler Valley there, if you follow the valley westwards, after crossing Maler River, it leads to Afghanistan."
"Damn! What the hell happened!"
Niki pinched his nose hard and paced back and forth.
"You guys keep watch, I'm going to report to General Miles, to push for imdiate dispatch of the Special Forces for rescue."
"Yes!"
Ferrari had been watching from the side.
Song Heping said that no one could be trusted, a simple statent yet profound.
Not trusting anyone, of course, included the Colonel Nikki standing before him now.
Although Song Heping did not specify the reason.
But how clever was Ferrari?
He faintly realized that Song Heping had cut off all communications because of internal problems within the US Army.
Could there be an insider working against them?
"Colonel, Song is our company's boss and runs a legitimate PMC that has signed defense training contracts with the British Army. Now, due to participating in your mission, he is in a dangerous situation. You must dispatch the US Special Forces or your own action teams imdiately. Don't tell your ISA doesn't have personnel ready for action!"
"I understand." Nikki turned around, picked up her camouflage jacket from her seat, hurriedly put it on, and rushed out of the tent.
Ferrari simply continued his act, chasing after Nikki while pretending to be very anxious, demanding her to send troops imdiately.
As expected, there was no result.
Nikki jumped into a vehicle and drove away from the headquarters, and as the dust settled where she had been standing, a cold smile crossed Ferrari's face.
Then he did not delay either, directly finding Jiang Feng and telling him to co with him.
"Where are we going? Aren't we staying here to wait for the news?"
"Just follow , no more talk."
Ferrari hurriedly walked toward his own SUV.
Ever since the plane landed, he had been staying in ISA's temporary headquarters and refused to leave.
Through the US Army connections in Illigio, he managed to get a transport plane to fly him here. He rushed to the headquarters and was constantly directing Henry and his team in Illigio Green Zone to use all resources to find Song Heping's current location.
Henry even reached out to a Colonel in the Ba Intelligence Bureau whom he had t during his intelligence days to inquire if anything unusual had happened at the Abba Border recently.
The answer was no, it was quiet.
This left Henry and Ferrari even more confused.
But it wasn't sothing they could disclose plainly.
They couldn't tell the Ba Intelligence Bureau that their boss and a US Special Soldier had just taken down a traitor within their territory and then disappeared in the Western Federal Autonomous Region.
Now that Song Heping had finally made a phone call, Ferrari felt as if a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders.
The priority now was to imdiately organize the special operations team to head to the border and from there infiltrate through, catching up with Song Heping at the designated ti and place to launch an attack at dawn.
Ferrari never doubted Song Heping's plans.
Whatever he said, he could make it happen.
If he said to arrive in the Leizi Region by five o'clock, then they must arrive. By five o'clock, he would surely issue new orders.
"Where are we headed now?!"
Once in the SUV, Jiang Feng, looking at Ferrari who seed as anxious as if rushing to be reborn, couldn't help but ask: "We must stay here waiting for Song Heping's latest news."
"No need to wait anymore, he is still alive."
Ferrari kept his eyes on the road, steering the SUV rapidly out of the US Army camp.
"He just called , and now we must make a trip to Ba Country. And yes, don't reveal this matter to anyone outside our company, just act as if you don't know."
"Okay..."
Jiang Feng was not clear about what happened.
But he knew Song Heping was still alive.
That was enough.
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