In the next more than a month, the child who suddenly appeared and disappeared mysteriously tortured Li Shaoan like a nightmare, making it difficult for Li Shaoan to sleep or eat well.
It was not until noon on December 9 that the survey plan jointly formulated by experts from many countries officially entered the practical stage. As the frontline commander, Li Shaoan, in a highly tense atmosphere, slightly eased his confused state.
Since the first rash act resulted in the death of a total of 7 people, including Wu Shutong, this time all the investigation of the "Gate" was conducted by remote control equipment such as drones.
However, the survey operation did not go as smoothly as imagined. The detector failure in the hands of Wu Shutong and others reoccurred, so the results can be imagined...
Dozens of drones and hundreds of remote-controlled detection devices all lost control shortly after they sailed into Tang Juan Lake.
"What's going on?" Jon asked angrily.
The staff responsible for the remote control felt aggrieved: "I don't know, it was fine just now, but suddenly the connection was disconnected, as if it was attacked by emp1."
"emp attack?" Jon looked at the display on another detection device. Everything was normal near Don Juan Lake. There was no energy fluctuation at all. Where did the emp attack come from?
But the facts are here. Jon's face is livid. The last action was carried out under his instruction, which resulted in the death of seven people. Now he has learned his lesson, but it is obvious that the "door" is not going to let him go.
He took advantage of the situation.
There were many people in the command room, including Chen Jingrui and Li Shaoan from China, as well as several senior officials from Russia, Japan and the European Union. Everyone looked at each other, and the situation fell into an awkward silence.
After a while, Jon said in a deep voice: "Let the first team prepare."
"yes."
The order was issued here, and a group of people outside the blockade began to get busy.
Wearing white protective clothing and with the Stars and Stripes on their chests, personnel from the U.S. District began preparing to enter the blockade area.
There are also more than a hundred people waiting in the Chinese area, but the number they drew is 03, which ranks behind the Canadian special operations company.
The first formation, composed of soldiers and experts from the U.S. District of the National Security Department, quickly completed its assembly.
Jon did not give a lecture and directly gave the order to set off.
However, after the departure order was given, this group of people did not rush forward. Instead, they dispersed first, then stood in a row, and then relevant staff came forward to assemble a parachute-like backpack on them.
After Li Shaoan saw this kind of backpack, he whispered to Chen Jingrui: "Minister Chen, this is an emergency individual escape device designed by Jon and his team. I saw it during the test phase. It uses a device that can
A device that generates high-compressed gas in a very short time is used as an explosive device, and then in critical moments it can be opened to form a device similar to a parachute, through which a person can be lifted to an altitude of tens of meters in a very short time, and then just use
The patient can still remain conscious and can leave the danger zone by spraying the remaining gas on the backpack."
Chen Jingrui nodded. He did not ask how this strange-sounding device performed, but asked: "What about our soldiers? Have you come up with any good ideas?"
Li Shaoan paused after hearing this. For the past month, he has been thinking of ways to protect his own people when danger arises, but whenever he feels that his idea is feasible, he will watch the scene of Wu Shutong's murder again, and then he will discover
, those silent monsters are so fast, even if everyone who goes to investigate the door is tied to a "fishing line", and then suddenly pulled back when they "take the bait"
, maybe what was pulled back was just a corpse.
So... Li Shaoan directly rejected all plans for people to go directly to the "Gate", but now that the drone plan has been proven to be useless, how should Li Shaoan deal with this situation?
Chen Jingrui was a little unhappy when he saw that Li Shaoan didn't speak for a long time.
Fortunately, Li Shaoan was only briefly distracted. He thought for a while and replied: "Minister, most of the work we have done in the past month has been to prevent possible dangers, but in fact, that door did not create any greater danger."
Disaster, this is a good thing, but it also reminds us."
How could Chen Jingrui not understand what Li Shaoan wanted to say after hearing this?
He said coldly: "But if the Americans return without success this time, and even a large number of people die, can we still watch the fire from the other side?"
Li Shaoan's heart sank, what he said was very true.
Yes... there's not much room for concession.
Thinking of this, Li Shaoan's newly stable mood became restless again. He desperately wanted to unlock the secret of the "door", but it was really too mysterious.
Any long-distance observation equipment is ineffective against it, but it is clearly not far away, but it seems to reject the whole world.
Chen Jingrui felt distressed when he saw Li Shaoan looking exhausted. After all, he was the talent he cultivated, and he didn't want to see Li Shaoan go crazy.
So he patted Li Shao'an's hand and said softly: "Shao'an, sometimes, some things will have results without putting in all our efforts, but as long as we try our best and don't regret it, that's enough."
Li Shaoan looked at Minister Chen and was extremely grateful, but he understood that these words did not allow him to slack off.
While the two of them were talking, the first team in the United States was already ready.
The blockade was opened, and a group of thirteen people lined up in a row, led by the captains on the left and right, and walked into the blockade area.
Looking at their backs, the atmosphere in the command room became increasingly quiet.
There was no conversation, all the sounds came from the communicators carried by the thirteen people, and the special front-facing cameras they were equipped with were also sending the frontline footage to the command room in real time.
Before entering Tang Juan Lake, the team had been very quiet, and no one, including the captain, spoke.
It wasn't until they reached the lake and saw the "door" in the distance that looked like a black mountain from the side that the captain said: "Everyone, please check your equipment. I'll give you ten seconds."
The screen began to shake. Some people were in an orderly manner, but a few people were obviously panicked and their breathing became very heavy.
Li Shaoan looked at the information of those people. Sure enough, they were all experts in scientific research. They would inevitably be nervous in this environment. However, their psychological quality was already very high. At least no one ran away at this time.
Ten seconds passed quickly, and with several people still busy calibrating the detector readings, the captain issued the "forward" order.
The team of thirteen people began to march towards Lake Don Juan.
The water level in some areas around Tang Juan Lake is very shallow, only a few centimeters. But when these people entered Tang Juan Lake, Li Shaoan found that the water had reached their ankles, and it looked like a high tide. But in this month,
How could the water level of Don Juan Lake rise if it hasn't rained?
Not only Li Shaoan noticed this, but Jon, as the commander-in-chief, also noticed it. He reminded the captain: "Rachel, pay attention to the water level, there is something abnormal."
The captain is a white woman named Rachel Galvin, a former U.S. Army officer
A senior military officer in the war zone, he only joined the National Security Department last year.
Although the thirty-nine-year-old Rachel is a woman, she has rich battlefield experience and has participated in nearly a hundred special service operations including rescue and beheading missions. She is a solid combat expert.
So when Jon was choosing someone, she was the first thing that came to his mind.
The blond and blue-eyed Rachel is 1.75 meters tall, and even wearing protective clothing cannot hide her handsome figure. After being reminded, Rachel raised her hand to signal everyone to stop, then squatted down to measure the water level and salt concentration of the water.
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It was found that the water level had indeed risen by four centimeters compared to a month ago, but the salt concentration not only did not decrease, but was higher, and even exceeded the salt concentration of Gaet’ale Pond, the world’s largest saltwater lake, in readings.
These abnormal phenomena made the internal atmosphere somewhat tense.
The same goes for Jon. He has never forgotten the tragic death of those people before.
Therefore, he had to consider the possible consequences of even the slightest abnormality.
"Commander, can we move on?" Rachel was not that scared. She stood up and held the submachine gun on her chest, looking very calm and calm.
But Jon replied after hesitating for a while: "No, you guys should withdraw first and wait until you figure out why the lake water is rising."
This result caused everyone in the command room to talk about it. Li Shaoan and Chen Jingrui looked at each other. They said nothing, but they were also a little surprised.
It's really rare for an American, the most adventurous person in the world, to be deterred.
However, Jon's caution is justified. After all, with these data and the weird scenes before, who can guarantee that there will not be another unilateral "massacre"?
Rachel was a little surprised, but obeying orders is a soldier's bounden duty. She immediately said to the team members: "Everyone retreats the same way. Be careful not to move too much. Just retreat at the same speed as before."
After saying that, he turned around and led everyone towards the way they came.
The group of people outside the blockade didn't know what was happening ahead, but they could see every move of the first team. When they noticed that they turned around, a somewhat fat Korean showed a disdainful expression and said to the team members next to him.
: "Ayigu, what's going on with these American soldiers? Why did they turn around? Isn't it because they are afraid?"
The team member shrugged: "Who knows what they encountered. Maybe they found a problem. Let's be careful."
But the one who spoke first said: "What are you afraid of? We are No. 13, the last team!"
The team member did not speak, but a white man behind him chuckled: "Do you know that 13 is an unlucky number?"
This was said in fluent Korean.
The choked Korean was obviously unhappy, but when he was about to turn around and argue with the person behind him, the team member suddenly exclaimed: "Ah!! Look, captain! Something happened! Something happened!"
!!!”
The fat white man turned around and happened to see an American personnel wearing a white protective suit flying into the sky. But less than a second after he took off, he exploded about five meters above the ground!
The scene of blood flying everywhere is extremely terrifying!
The people outside the blockade soon fell into a commotion.
In the control room, Jon was also shocked, because just a few seconds ago, Rachel reported to him that everything was normal and they had landed!
But as soon as he finished speaking, someone exclaimed, saying that the equipment he was carrying was out of control.