10. Memory Murder
The base of the Ten Rings Gang is actually not difficult to find.
The premise is to cross the vast desert first.
This group of militants of chicken thieves placed their old nests in the canyon in the center of the desert. Under the shade of the surrounding yellow sand, almost no one could approach the canyon without disturbing them.
Moreover, this area has a complex terrain. Even if it is subject to military satellite monitoring and plane photos, it is difficult to distinguish the people moving in the canyon.
The most important thing is that although it is in the desert, this canyon is not short of water.
Under the shadow cloak, Merlin walked at the entrance of this large canyon. He squatted beside the rock, put his finger on the surface of the stone, and the dark senses went down the stone. Sure enough, deep in the canyon, there was an underground river full of water.
The existence of this underground water source makes the interior of this winding and rugged Grand Canyon, which is nearly 10 kilometers long, not as harsh as the external desert. There are even trees and vegetation in it.
No wonder those militants were able to open fields in this canyon to grow poison x.
Merlin turned into fog and flew through the canyon quickly. On both sides of the canyon, there were many artificial caves, and there were also tents on the ground.
“So many weapons”
Merlin stopped beside a tent, and before him was a huge number of weapons, various guns, boxes of bullets were piled together, and anti-tank bazooka painted in black.
Merlin took out his portable camera and recorded everything he saw. These will be used as evidence and will be submitted to Nick Fury after the mission is over.
Merlin's body was hiding in the shadows of the stone walls under the sun. He quickly adjusted the focal length of the camera. On the hillside on the other side of the canyon, in front of the high-powered lens, there were several desert-colored camouflage nets, disguising several small-caliber rapid-fire cannons.
Those terrifying firepower weapons form a simple defense system on the left and right sides. If someone wants to rush in from the front of the canyon, they have to deal with these rapid-fire cannons first.
In front of Meilin, there were armed militants holding guns patrols, and some people were waiting for lunch. Meilin could hear their chatter, but the language used by those people was very confusing. He probably distinguished the language of the locals, as well as Arabic, and even weird Mongolian. It seemed that this was still an "international" armed base.
Merlin was floating in the smoke and stuck to the higher part of the canyon. He looked out and in the open space on the other side of the canyon, some people were receiving military training.
Those should be recruiting recruits locally by the Ten Rings Gang. It seems that they will also absorb some people who meet their requirements.
Meilin spent nearly half an hour walking through the canyon of the base. He stored hundreds of photos in his camera, which could directly prove the existence of the Ten Rings Gang.
And in the past half an hour of experience, if the militants' uneven dress and slightly messy arrangement were ignored, this place looked like a real and heavily regulated military base.
This gave Meilin a new understanding of the hidden energy of the Ten Rings Gang.
This group of people inciting war behind their backs is completely different from ordinary fanatical jihadists. They have a very complete internal system, not some scattered soldiers. They are truly organized, targeted and powerful warriors.
As you can see from the arrangement of this canyon, these guys must have been operating in this area of Afghanistan for a long time. And, most importantly, they have rich experience in war.
Meilin roughly estimated that as far as he has seen, there are at least 500 people in this canyon.
In such a complex terrain in front of you, it is almost impossible to eradicate all militants at once. Without understanding the situation, even if the Afghan government forces use aircraft to bomb, it will be difficult for them to deal with everyone at once.
After Merlin finished collecting intelligence, he manifested his body in the stone cave nearest to him. He walked in the darkness and relied on the spread of perception, and found that the cave where he was was filled with jars of grain, and deeper in this cave filled with grain, there were several running generators.
After the generator, there is a passage to other places. It is not difficult to imagine that the terrain in this cave must be well-connected.
Mei Lin observed the rocks of the cave. He did not find too many traces of artificial excavation. These caves were very likely to be naturally evolved. After the Ten Jie Gang discovered this, they transformed these caves, thus turning them into a maze in the mountains.
“There must be other entrances and exits here.”
Merlin frowned and looked at the intricate cave in front of her.
"Just the poison in the canyon is definitely not enough for North American addicts."
Merlin thought:
"In other words, the Ten Rings Gang are in other places in Afghanistan, and even near Kandahar, and there must be other strongholds. This is just one of them."
Meilin stood in the cave and frowned.
He could not find one cave at a time, it would be a waste of time. Now he urgently needs to find some evidence of the "cooperation" between the Ten Rings and Cia, which would be best recorded.
"It seems that some abnormal measures are needed."
Merlin pushed his disguised eyes and his figure disappeared into the darkness. A moment later, he appeared at a sentry guard in the canyon. When it was time to have lunch, there were also loyal sentry guards observing the surroundings on the sentry guard, but he was only one person.
Merlin sensed that there was no one else nearby. He approached the guy standing guard in the shadow cloak, then reached out and cut it on the guy's neck. The moment before the sentry fainted, he saw a pair of eyes shining with light.
It was like a vortex of spirit, which involved all his will.
Merlin was searching for this sentry's memory, and as he became more skillful in using the soul-catching curse, Merlin's search for information became much faster. After a few seconds, he found what he needed.
The leader of this base lives in a heavily defended cave east of the canyon.
Merlin stood up, and he threw a forgetful spell on the sentry, kicked him, and then disappeared into the air.
The unconscious sentry opened his eyes blankly. He completely forgot what had just happened. He rubbed his painful head and stood up, looked around, and then looked at the sky.
He felt that he might need a break
Hell, I fainted from heatstroke just now. Fortunately, the captain was not discovered by the captain, otherwise I would have been whipped again tonight.
Merlin didn't care about the sentinel's psychological activities.
The Shadow Cloak, combined with the Soul-Seeing Spell, and the Forgotten Spell, gave him the ability to invade any military base without being discovered at all.
It was like a wandering ghost, no one would find him at all.
He quickly passed through the heads of the resting militants below, and quickly found his target among hundreds of caves. To be honest, the cave was really inconspicuous. If Merlin asked him to find it himself, he had a high chance of skipping here directly.
At the top of the cave, a row of light bulbs were connected in series with wires, reflecting the dry cave interior like daytime. Several militants holding weapons and covering their faces were guarding the entrance of the cave. In theory, no intruder could hide them.
But Merlin walked into the cave with such a swagger, and he walked beside the vigilant guards, not worried that they would find it.
After walking forward for more than ten meters, Meilin discovered a large space at the end of the cave.
In front of him was a bed, and several weapons were hung on the stone wall, and there was no decoration at all. However, on the wall, a blanket with the emblem of the Ten Rings was hung.
On the other side of the cave, there was a running computer, and the leader himself was sitting on a stone-made chair, typing something on the computer.
He was wearing a white robe and a headscarf, looking like he was in his 40s, and had a pair of glasses on his nose. At first glance, he was filled with a gentle bookish atmosphere, and it was difficult to equate the four characters of the militants.
Merlin quietly walked behind the leader and looked at the computer in front of him. On the screen was an email being written, but surprisingly, the leader was writing emails in English, not Arabic.
This saves Merlin a lot of time.
He looked at the email and read the message.
This is a letter.
A letter to "partners".
"My dear brother:"
"I talked with Mandalin a few days ago about the current situation. The situation is very bad. The continuous strangulation from the Tianjian Bureau has caused our plan to completely collapse in recent years to enter the Eastern Kingdom. The strangulation of those fierce warriors with dragons as their totems continues. In the foreseeable future, we dare not even look to the East."
"But Mandalin told me that we have new goals."
"Mandalin has made a decision to launch a vast western expedition like his great ancestor Genghis Khan. What we followers can do is to fulfill all his expectations for Mandalin in the shortest time."
"But any infiltration requires opportunities. We will not passively wait for opportunities to come. We will actively create opportunities. You and your companions need to continue working."
"We need to lock the eyes of Washington politicians in Afghanistan, on this land that will not be conquered. We want to get them into the quagmire of war, let them be unwilling to take care of themselves, and make them unable to detect our arrival."
"The land of América shining in the sun will become the new church of Mandarin, where he will teach the truth of the Ten Precepts for those foolish lives."
"Go, right in Kandahar, right here. Everything you need is ready, sacrifice with blood, and let the sacred war truly come."
"That's where Mandarin's will."
The leader finished typing the last character, then read the letter again, changed several syntax errors, and sent it out.
Behind him, Merlin took the scene with a silent camera.
He also remembered the address of the email. After doing all this, Merlin reached out and patted the leader on the shoulder. The latter turned around subconsciously, and finally heard a deep chanting sound.
"legilimens!(Soul-capturing Curse)"
Merlin's spirit, like a sharp dagger, pierced into the leader's spirit along the eyes of his leader.
Under the urgency of time, Merlin did not hold back and used the greatest oppression to force the leader's spirit to be weakened in an instant.
Among the floating memory fragments, Merlin saw the guy talking to a group of white men in uniform, and also saw him meeting Mandalin, the leader of the Ten Rings Gang in a secret place, as well as the scene of him "playing games" with some hot girls.
Um
This guy's private life is actually quite chaotic. He looks like a decent person on the surface, but in fact he is also an inappropriate old man.
But the point is not here, the point is that Merlin finally determined the vague connection between the Ten Rings and Cia. Because he recognized the identity of the white agent who had appeared several times in the leader's memory.
Fury once told Merlin that Cia sent an agent supervisor to Afghanistan to manage intelligence gathering work. He also gave Merlin a photo of the guy.
And that photo is exactly the same as the person Merlin saw in the memory of this leader. Judging from this memory alone, the guy and the leader of the militant had only met secretly a few days ago, and the two of them also discussed some important things. Unfortunately, Merlin did not find those important memories.
William Rollins.
CIA Field Agent Supervisor.
All the clues are connected together.
A few seconds later, Merlin reached out to hold the shaking leader, threw a forgetfulness and sleeping spell on him, held him on the bed, and reached out to pinch his expression.
Disguised as a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.
In fact, the will of the soul being destroyed by the soul-capturing curse will cause some blood vessels in the brain to explode due to too much pressure, which is almost exactly the same as the symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage.
After doing all this, Merlin did not leave immediately.
He inserted a carry-on USB drive into the leader's computer, and then transferred everything in the computer to the USB drive.
After more than ten minutes, Merlin, who had completed the mission, was suspended above the canyon, spreading in the dusk sky. He looked down and saw a sudden chaos in the canyon. It seemed that the guards finally discovered that their leader had fallen under the raid of illness.
But what does this have to do with Merlin?
"William Rollins"
Merlin said this name, and he looked back at Kandahar, and said:
"Next"
Chapter completed!