Chapter 83 Retreat
Everyone immediately searched every corner of the munitions warehouse, looking for possible passages or backup warehouses.
After searching for a while, they found nothing. The warehouse had a cement floor, which was completely solid after being knocked, so there was no possibility of a tunnel. Besides, the terrain here was not suitable for building a tunnel, and the soft yellow sand could not withstand the pressure.
"not found."
"not found."
"not found."
“…”
Soon, the mercenaries reported the results of their search, and they did not find any passages to another place.
"Maybe here." Pandora muttered to herself as she stared at the hollow wall where she found the heroin, and walked forward to touch the wall.
"Pandora, there won't be anything here. I just knocked on all the walls." Rifling reminded Pandora.
However, Pandora ignored him and went into the hollow wall to clean up the bricks and soil below, and then carefully explored it. Pandora took out the saber and slashed it along the bottom of the wall space, making a sound of metal interlacing.
The mercenaries who heard the sound gathered around and watched Pandora's actions. They saw Pandora scrape off the thin layer of cement on top, revealing an iron plate. The iron plate had a retractable handle, and when it was pulled, the iron plate made a creaking sound.
With a "clang", the iron plate was pulled up and thrown out by Pandora, revealing a passage leading to the bottom.
"I'll go in and take a look first."
"careful."
Pandora nodded, holding a flashlight in her mouth, a pistol in her right hand and a saber in her left hand as she walked down.
After about five or six minutes, Pandora's head emerged, spit out a flashlight and said, "Next."
The group carried Omo and the devil downwards, entered the underground passage, and walked down the narrow steps for nearly ten meters to the bottom.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, the road ahead was clearly visible: this was a carefully constructed tunnel, and the top of the tunnel was equipped with anchor cables like a coal mine tunnel to stabilize the ground above and ensure that it would not collapse.
"No one has entered this passage for many years." Zhao Ziyang made the judgment by observing the spraying on the top and the smell of the air.
The air smelled of decay and corruption, which was unpleasant. It was probably caused by the vents being blocked when no one used them for many years. The air was not flowing smoothly, and I wondered if there would be methane and carbon monoxide gases produced over the years if I went deeper.
"It's okay. Although the smell is bad, the air is fine." Pandora saw the mercenaries' concerns and gave them a special reminder.
As long as the air is fine, then there is no problem. The group quickly walked through the dark alley and entered a relatively spacious hall.
This hall was built rather roughly, with several large wooden boxes neatly stacked in the corner. The boxes were covered with dust, but the wood was still as hard as new, with no signs of decay.
Rifling walked up to the wooden box and looked at it for a while, then sniffed it twice and said with a relaxed look, "It's not munitions."
He took out his military knife and inserted it into the sealing ring of the wooden box lid, pried open the top cover of the wooden box, and used a flashlight to observe the contents stored inside.
"Hehehe, guys, you're blessed, hahaha..." Rifling laughed loudly. He took out a bottle of rum from the wooden box with his left hand and shook it, saying loudly: "This is good stuff. It was produced by the Cuban Mulata Company in 1982. It's hard to find this kind of traditional handicraft brewing in the world now. Hahaha..."
As he spoke, Rifling forcefully pulled out the cork of a bottle of rum, sniffed it comfortably, and enjoyed the sweet aroma of the rum.
A smell wafted out, but it was not the aroma of alcohol, but a very strange smell. It was certain that this was not real rum, but something else that was poured in using a rum bottle.
"It's drugs!" Blade was delighted. He snatched the rum from Rifle's hand and poured some on the ground, then rubbed the transparent liquid with his hands a few times.
"Yes, it's drugs." Blade, who made the judgment, stood up and said to the mercenaries, "This is a liquid made by mixing high-purity heroin with kerosene. It looks no different from liquor from the outside, and it is sealed so that even police dogs can't smell what's inside. After it is transported to the destination and extracted, high-purity heroin can be obtained. In the drug trade more than ten years ago, this was the least noticeable and the safest."
“Snap! Snap! Snap!…”
Rifling opened all the boxes in one go, revealing the rum inside. All of this rum was not alcohol, but drugs.
"Oh my God..." Blade suddenly exclaimed and looked at the passage ahead in disbelief.
The passage was filled with wooden boxes. If they were full of drugs, that would be a huge amount.
No, these are not drugs, they are money, an unimaginable amount of money!
The mercenaries opened the wooden boxes one by one, revealing the neatly arranged drugs inside. There were tens of thousands of bottles of drugs, and it was unknown who had collected so many drugs.
"Boss, what should we do?" Tiger Shark asked Zhao Ziyang. He seemed eager to try, but he had to ask Zhao Ziyang's opinion first.
Mercenaries don't sell drugs, but they don't mind their employers paying them with drugs. Of course, they will immediately dispose of the drugs after receiving them and exchange them for money. Although the price is low, it is always higher than the fixed commission. Drug dealers also like to deal with mercenaries in this way, because mercenaries are very trustworthy and they don't have to worry about being cheated in the transaction. If mercenaries cheat with them, these drug dealers will die without knowing how they died.
Another point is that every mercenary group will have contact with drug dealers to a greater or lesser extent, and they are often hired by transnational drug dealers to protect their personal safety. In other words, in the dark world, most professions are interconnected.
"Destroy it." Zhao Ziyang snapped his fingers and said to Blade: "Put the explosives."
"Understood." Blade nodded and took several mercenaries to place the explosives.
Many mercenaries showed regret, but there was nothing they could do. What they had to do now was to retreat. Money was important, but the lives of their teammates were more important. They couldn't take the drugs with them.
After placing the explosives, the lurker continued to move forward along the alley. After walking for about two kilometers, he encountered a staircase leading upward. On both sides of the staircase were some sawdust that had been there for who knows how many years, indicating that the drugs should have been brought in from this exit.
Tiger Shark was walking upwards, reaching out to push the top plate above the passage.
"Bang! Bang!" "Rustle..."
As the tiger shark pushed, fine sand kept flowing down from the cracks in the iron plate, but no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't be shaken. Over the years, the iron plate had been completely sealed by yellow sand, and it was impossible for human power to shake it.
"Look for the explosion." Pandora nodded to Tiger Shark and took out a piece of CS and a uniform water bag from her bag.
Tiger Shark took the water bag and C4 and first placed the water bag in the center of the top plate, and then fixed the CS under the water bag with tape. After adjustment, he walked down the steps.
The directional blasting they used was hydraulic directional blasting. The moment the C4 exploded, it pushed the water bag upward, using the power of water to punch a gap in the top plate, thus achieving the purpose of directional blasting.
"Is there a moving sand hill above?" Tiger Shark grinned.
"You're such a jinx." Rifling cursed, and took the controller from Pandora. He said casually, "If it was a sand mountain, we would be dead, but our luck shouldn't be that bad."
As he spoke, Rifling pressed the button.
"boom!"
The C4 made a loud explosion, directly blasting a large gap in the iron plate upwards. Yellow sand rushed downwards, instantly submerging the steps, and was still flowing downwards, as if it had really hit a sand hill.
"Retreat! Retreat! Quick, quick, quick!" Rifling shouted loudly and retreated quickly with everyone to avoid being buried by the yellow sand .
Yellow sand poured in from the gap frantically until it submerged half of the passage, and then slowly eased. Under the wind, the terrain of the desert will change at any time, and the sand hills will move little by little under the influence of the wind. Maybe the place you are staying today is flat, but it may become a sand dune in three days.
It must be said that Zhao Ziyang and his men were lucky. Although it was covered with yellow sand, it was at most a sand dune. If it was a sand mountain, they would not be so lucky. Tens of thousands of tons of yellow sand would crush the exit, and then completely crush the passage along the exit, burying them all under the sand.
"Clean up." Zhao Ziyang waved his hand and took out his engineer shovel.
The mercenaries behind him also took out their engineering shovels and dug the yellow sand, clearing a path to the ground. They led Omo and the devil out of the tunnel and successfully reached the ground.
"Attempting a radio connection."
"clear."
“Sizzle…sizzle…”
The sound of electricity coming from the radio told them that they were not far from the base. This should be the nonlinear electromagnetic interference created by the defenders using the radio. They used signal amplification to amplify weak signals and amplify large signals through amplifiers to produce distortion effects, resulting in interference caused by nonlinear amplification of the receiver during radio monitoring, such as harmonics and intermodulation.
At this time, the lurker was directly north of the desert base, about two kilometers away from the base, and the outline of the base could be vaguely seen in the darkness.
Turning around and staring at the base, Zhao Ziyang frowned.
"Pandora, escort Omo and the other man back to Kufra for emergency treatment." Zhao Ziyang ordered Pandora.
"Madman, Squid, the four of you escort Omo and the other two to Kufra." Pandora gave orders to the four mercenaries.
Zhao Ziyang looked at Pandora deeply without saying anything. Everyone has the feeling of being sniped. Now that they have successfully escaped from the military base, why not launch a counter-encirclement?
The four crazy men quickly escorted Omo and the other two to retreat. Once they were out of radio interference, they could call for Arc'teryx to come and pick them up to ensure that the two were rescued.
The rest of the mercenaries launched a murderous counterattack towards the desert base, just like their roar: We are madmen, we are beasts...
