Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 218 Inside
"Mr. Han."

Rabbani finally raised his hand in a salute.

Song Heping breathed a sigh of relief. He returned the greeting and said, "Mr. Rabbani."

"long time no see!"

Rabbani opened his arms like an old friend who had not seen each other for a long time.

"The acting is really good."

Song Heping muttered to himself, but also forced a smile and gave him a hug.

As the two hugged each other, Song Heping heard Rabbani whisper in English in his ear: "Despicable."

Song Heping was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was scolding ISA for abducting his uncle's family.

But this was not the time to argue with him.

That's right.

From a moral point of view, kidnapping someone's family to blackmail them is indeed despicable.

But it depends on where you look at it.

If you look at it from the perspective of Black Ops, this is totally normal!

Forget kidnapping your family. In the eyes of the black operations department, they can kill the target's family one by one in front of him until the target compromises.

In this underground world, morality is worthless.

The group returned to the original house and sat down one by one on the huge carpet again.

After the woman served tea, Rabbani asked the village chief and others to leave, saying that he wanted the guests to rest early.

After everyone left, the smile on Rabbani's face disappeared, replaced by a murderous expression.

"If even a hair on my uncle's family is lost, I will chop off your heads with my own hands!"

His tone was unfriendly, and Song Heping could hear the sound of his teeth gnashing from more than a meter away.

"You should consider your own retreat first."

Song Heping hates being threatened by others the most.

Especially such a pale threat.

If he was a little worried when they met that the local armed leader of the revolutionary brigade would suddenly turn against him and kidnap him, now he has completely put his mind at ease.

If a dog really wants to bite someone, it will pounce on you when you approach it. It will not wait until you touch its head and lead it to a secluded place before it attacks.

"If Azar knew that you betrayed him, do you think you and your uncle's family would still be able to survive?"

Song Heping deliberately brought up what Rabbani feared most.

Sure enough, the other party immediately softened.

"I will retreat with you then. Adrian will arrive in Helmand Province in three days. Azar will then notify me to take you there to meet him. I need to know what you will do then."

Rabbani's tone was filled with worry.

He does have to worry.

Because even he couldn't figure out what the Americans were going to do.

Send two people over, locate the location, and then use laser bombs to accurately flatten the processing plant during an airstrike?

Or did these two people take action themselves and directly shoot Hazard, Adrian and the other three?

But how can you get away with this?

After ISA contacted him, Rabbani racked his brains but could not think of a way to escape.

In the end, he could only negotiate with Nikki. If he cooperated, Nikki would arrange the procedures for his uncle and others to go to a third country and let them leave Afghanistan to live.

In his opinion, he was beyond help and was doomed to die.

The worst that can happen is that I can exchange it for the safety of my uncle's family, which can be regarded as a way to repay his kindness in raising me.

"Don't worry about what we do, just listen to me." Song Heping said forcefully, "Listen to me, and maybe you'll have a chance of survival. Also, behave yourself these few days and don't try to play tricks. I want to survive just as much as you do. If you still want to leave Afghanistan alive and live somewhere else, then obey all my orders. We have no grudges against each other. I'm doing this to complete the mission, and you're doing this for your family's safety. We shouldn't have any conflicts, understand?"

"understand……"

Rabbani was persuaded by Song Heping.

The next morning, Song Heping woke up early.

He never oversleeps when sleeping in a strange place.

After getting up and washing up, Song Heping went out to walk around the village.

Song Heping himself couldn't predict what would happen three days later. Since he couldn't predict it, he decided not to try and just relax.

Everything had been planned long ago. In order to avoid being exposed, even though Song Heping had a satellite phone on him, he would not contact Afanti, Nicky and others.

It is necessary to ensure that no abnormal traces are left on all electronic devices. No one knows whether they will be searched when they go to the opium processing factory three days later.

He would not cause himself such unnecessary trouble.

The most troublesome thing is the positioning problem.

Guiding air attacks requires positioning, and electronic equipment must be brought in for positioning.

For example, laser guidance, or sending coordinates for guidance.

Before setting off, Nicky discussed this issue many times with the ISA action team members.

If Rabbani takes Song Heping to see Azar three days later, the other party's guards will definitely search Song Heping.

All the armed groups in Afghanistan are now more cunning than ghosts.

They know how to deal with Americans who have advanced military equipment.

In their eyes, all electronic products are extremely sensitive devices and are absolutely not allowed to enter sensitive areas.

The US military has not been able to catch La Deng since the war began. It is said that this is because La Deng never uses any electronic products that can be connected to the Internet.

Even if he was going to give a speech, he would record it in advance with a video recorder, and then a messenger would take the content out and give it to someone else to distribute it on his behalf.

This almost primitive behavior pattern also gave an inspiration to the leaders of all armed groups here. If they want to survive longer and avoid being discovered by the US military, they must not allow electronic products and Internet-connected items to get within one kilometer of themselves.

How can I locate it?

Song Heping thought about this question and walked all the way to the top of the hill.

Before he knew it, he had reached the top of the slope.

Several villagers were cleaning up the debris and bodies left behind by last night's firefight. They were pulling the bodies away on a donkey cart, probably intending to drag them to a remote area and bury them in a random hole.

What interested Song Heping the most was that there were several children at the scene. They were just watching, laughing and chasing each other while watching, and they didn't take the horrible corpse seriously at all.

This made Song Heping feel emotional again. In Afghanistan, war and bloodshed had hardly stopped. It had been going on since the late 1970s, with either foreign invasions or internal strife. The common people could not live in peace for a few days, as all they saw was death and killing.

Children who grow up in such an environment have a terrifying numbness in their hearts that is unimaginable for children in the normal world.

Standing on the hillside and looking to the south, the area below is covered with poppy fields.

It is the flower season in May, and poppies of various colors such as red, blue, green and purple are blooming all over the mountains and fields, like a colorful ocean, which is incredibly beautiful.

If Song Heping hadn't known about the harmful effects of these things, he would have admired the beauty of these flowers. Poppies have many nicknames, such as "peony" and "a hundred kinds of beauty." Seeing is believing, and the name is indeed well-deserved.

The growth cycle of the poppy plant is extremely fast, and it only takes three to four months to harvest a crop. The sea of ​​poppies in front of us now will probably be able to be harvested again by the beginning of next month.

The juice of their fruits is collected and then simply boiled into a paste, then sent to the processing plant to be processed into No. 4 white flour, pressed into brick-like blocks, stamped with the unique Golden Crescent cargo mark, and handed over to drug traffickers to be sold all over the world.

There is really nothing worth mentioning about life in a place like Jabad Village. Song Heping has someone special to take care of his food and drink here. Rabbani has also been living in the village these days. The three of them eat and sleep in the same house, and they see each other every day.

Rabbani was very cold towards Song Heping and Mist, and Song Heping could see his dilemma.

Perhaps in his eyes, he and Mist were both his enemies, but at the same time, they were the straw that kept him alive.

He didn't like himself and Mist, but he had to cooperate with them.

In the few exchanges they had, Song Heping learned that Rabbani was actually somewhat different from the local Afghan young people.

Although he is now a local leader of a revolutionary brigade, four years ago he was still a student studying abroad at a university in the Middle East.

But the war changed everything.

When he returned to his hometown after returning from abroad, he found that his original home no longer existed, and he could do nothing, neither stop the war nor save his country.

He had no choice but to join the revolutionary brigade, at least to protect his surviving family members.

Hearing about his experience reminded Song Heping of Samir.

Both their personal experiences and family circumstances are very similar.

But he could not express any sympathy for Rabbani.

In this environment, sympathy is worthless. What matters is survival. Doing your job well and staying alive is the right thing to do.

On the third day, everything Song Heping had expected happened.

In the morning, Rabbani came to find Song Heping early and said that he had received a notice from his superiors, asking him to take Song Heping and others to Rudbar and set off immediately.

Rudbar is located approximately 90 kilometers south of Hannihin.

Without saying goodbye to the villagers, the few of them took their things and left the village, got in the car, turned the car around and drove south.

Before getting in the car, Song Heping subconsciously looked up at the sky.

Nicky promised himself that there would be drones patrolling the sky 24 hours a day during this operation, keeping an eye on his and Mist's locations.

There are many things about myself that can be located at the moment.

For example, satellite phones, laptops, and that Lexus all have hidden positioning devices inside.

The most secretive feature is a miniature GPS positioning device hidden in the belt head. The design is very sophisticated. There is a circuit board in the metal head and copper wires hidden on both sides of the belt, which are equivalent to two gain antennas.

This thing has a switch, and Song Heping hasn't turned it on yet.

After arriving at the processing plant, the guards of the revolutionary brigade will search you and ask you to leave behind all your communication, electronic equipment and personal belongings before they open the door.

The battery inside doesn't last very long, it can only provide power for 6 hours at most.

Once the battery runs out, it means that Song Heping's team will lose all contact and can only rely on the drone that has been tracking several people to provide ISA with their location.

"The processing plant is in Rudbar?"

Song Heping in the back seat opened the map and asked Rabbani who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"do not know."

Rabbani answered Song Heping's questions coldly.

Perhaps worried that such an answer would anger Song Heping, he added an explanation a few seconds later: "The processing plant moves every few months because US military reconnaissance satellites and aircraft often operate here. Staying in one place for too long will easily expose you. The Revolutionary Brigade has more than a dozen branches in Helmand Province, each with one to three armed groups under it, and I am only the leader of one of them. If I hadn't been fluent in English and the contact point was not in my territory this time, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to contact the processing plant."

Song Heping believed that he was telling the truth.

If the processing plant was so easy to find, Mist and I wouldn't have to take such risks.

He then asked, "How do they usually collect the opium from the villages?"

Rabbani replied, "I was responsible for collecting the raw materials and sending them to the delivery location for people to take away. The revolutionary brigade would usually set a purchase price and pay me accordingly. I would then take the money back and use part of it as funding and distribute part of it to the village."

After Rabbani's explanation, the operation model of the entire Venus Moon drug network seems to have shown its unique pattern.

This model seems to be quite loose and each unit works independently.

But it is actually very safe.

Song Heping finally understood why the US military could not completely end it all by bombing and mopping up.

Because if they capture any of the poppy plantations below, they will not be able to reach the core. The drug trafficking network of the Revolutionary Brigade is like a centipede. Breaking one or two legs will not affect the main body at all.

What's more, the situation here is fundamentally similar to that in Mexico and Colombia. Farmers have no way to make a living, so they have to grow opium or coca, which have higher economic value, in order to survive.

This is not only a legal issue, nor is it only a political issue, but also an economic issue.

The off-road vehicle drove on the country dirt road for two hours and finally arrived at the designated meeting point - Rudbar.

This is a small town in southern Afghanistan close to Pakistan.

Following the instructions, everyone arrived at a valley in the wilderness outside the city and parked the car in the most conspicuous place.

"Do they know we're here?"

As Song Heping spoke, he couldn't help but look up at the sky.

If Nikki wasn't lying, there should be a drone in the sky staring at him right now.

But he couldn't see the drone, probably because of the altitude.

After they had been waiting there for about ten minutes, Mist, who had been leaning against the front of the car, suddenly straightened up and warned Song Heping, "Someone's coming."

After saying that, he walked to the driver's side, opened the door and took out the AKM assault rifle.

"do not worry."

Rabbani stops Mister.

"Those are our people. The contact person is here."

Trails of dust were rising on the distant hillside, and four Nissan SUVs were speeding towards them.

Mist was still leaning against the driver's seat, the door open, his AKM assault rifle placed behind it.

If anything goes wrong, he can raise his gun and shoot as fast as he can.

Song Heping also slowly retreated to a position where he could hide quickly - he leaned next to the right headlight of the car.

Once the gun opened fire, he would hide behind the engine and tires and return fire with a pistol, while also getting the AKM assault rifle in the car.

Several Nissan SUVs quickly arrived in front of the group and stopped five or six meters away.

Song Heping's heart was pounding and his blood was flowing faster.

His biggest concern was where Adrien was at this moment.

If he were in one of these cars...

That would be really bad...

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)