Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 207 10. Memory Murder

The base of the Ten Rings Gang is actually not difficult to find.

The premise is that you have to cross the vast desert first.

The militants of this group of chicken thieves placed their lair in the canyon in the center of the desert. Under the cover of the surrounding yellow sand, almost no one could approach this canyon without alarming them.

Moreover, the terrain of this area is complex. Even relying on military satellite monitoring and plane photos, it is difficult to distinguish the people moving in the canyon.

Most importantly, although it is in the desert, this canyon is not short of water.

Under the cover of the shadow cloak, Merlin walked at the entrance of this large canyon. He squatted by the rock and put his finger on the surface of the stone. An underground river with plenty of water.

The existence of this underground water source makes the ecology inside this rugged, nearly 10-kilometer-long Grand Canyon not as bad as the outer desert.There are even trees and vegetation in it.

No wonder those militants were able to open up fields in this canyon to grow poisonous X.

Merlin turned into mist, and quickly passed through the canyon. On both sides of the canyon, there were many man-made caves, and there were stretches of tents on the ground.

"So many weapons..."

Merlin stopped by a tent, with a huge number of weapons piled up in front of his eyes.All kinds of firearms, boxes of bullets stacked together, and anti-tank rocket launchers painted 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 created by the stone walls under the sunlight.He quickly adjusted the focus of the camera. On the hillside on the other side of the canyon, in front of the high-power lens, there were several desert-colored camouflage nets, which were disguising several small-caliber rapid-fire guns.

Those weapons with terrifying firepower formed a simple defense system on the left and right sides. If someone wanted to rush in from the front of the canyon, they had to get rid of these rapid-fire guns first.

In front of Merlin, armed men with guns were patrolling, and some people were waiting for lunch. Merlin could hear their chatter, but the language used by those people was very confusing. He probably recognized the language of the locals. , and Arabic, and even weird Mongolian, etc., it seems that this is still an "internationalized" armed base.

Under the wafting smoke, Merlin stuck to a higher place in the canyon. He looked out. In the open space on the other side of the canyon, some people were receiving military training.

Those should be local recruits recruited by the Ten Rings Gang.It looks like they'll also take in some who fit their requirements.

It took Merlin nearly half an hour to walk through the canyon of the entire base. The camera in his hand saved hundreds of photos. These things can directly prove the existence of the Ten Rings Gang.

And in this half-hour's experience, if one ignores the untidy attire and the slightly messy arrangement of the militants, this place looks like a real, tightly controlled military base.

This gave Merlin a new understanding of the hidden energy of the Ten Rings.

This group of people is secretly instigating the war, completely different from the general fanatical jihadists, they have a very complete internal system, not some wandering soldiers.They are truly organized, purposeful, and powerful fighters.

And just from the layout of this canyon, it can be seen that these guys must have been operating in this area of ​​Afghanistan for a long time.And, most importantly, they have a lot of war experience.

Merlin made a rough estimate. Based on what he has seen so far, there are at least 500 people in this canyon.

In such a complex terrain in front of us, it is almost impossible to eradicate all militants at once. Without understanding the situation, even if the Afghan government forces use planes to bomb, it is difficult to eliminate everyone at once.

After Merlin finished the work of collecting information, he manifested his body in the stone cave on the mountain wall closest to him.He walked in the dark, relying on the diffusion of perception, he found that the cave he was in was full of urns of grain, and in the depths of the cave full of grain, there were several generators in operation.

And after the generator, there are passages leading to other places.It is not difficult to imagine that the terrain in this cave must extend in all directions.

Merlin observed the rocks of the cave, and he didn't find too many traces of man-made excavation. These caves are very likely to have evolved naturally. After the Ten Commandments found here, they carried out some modifications to these caves, thus Turn this place into a maze in the mountains.

"There must be other entrances and exits here."

Merlin frowned, looking at the intricate cave in front of him.

"Just the drug X in the canyon is definitely not enough to supply the addicts in North America."

Merlin thought:

"That is to say, there must be other strongholds of the Ten Rings in other places in Afghanistan, possibly even near Kandahar. This is just one of them."

Standing in the cave, Merlin frowned.

It is impossible for him to search from cave to cave, that would be a waste of time.He urgently needs to find some evidence of "cooperation" between the Ten Rings and the CIA, preferably recorded.

"It seems that some unusual means will be adopted."

Merlin pushed his camouflage eyes, and his figure disappeared into the darkness.A moment later, he appeared at a sentry post in the canyon. When it was time to eat lunch, there were loyal sentries watching the surroundings, but he was alone.

Merlin sensed his surroundings, and there was no one else nearby. He approached the guy standing guard in the shadow cloak state, then stretched out his hand, and cut the guy's neck. Just before the sentry fainted, He saw a pair of shining eyes.

Like a spiritual vortex, all his will is involved in it.

Merlin searched in the sentry's memory, and as he became more proficient at using the Dementor Curse, Merlin's speed of searching for information became much faster.After a few seconds, he found what he needed.

The leader of this base lives in a heavily fortified cave on the east side of the canyon.

Merlin stood up, he threw an Oblivion Curse on the sentry with a flick of his hand, then kicked him, and then disappeared into the air.

The comatose sentry opened his eyes blankly, he completely forgot what happened just now, he stood up rubbing his aching head, looked around, and looked at the sky.

He sensed that he might need a break...

Hell, I fainted from heatstroke just now, luckily the captain didn't notice, otherwise I'd be whipped again tonight.

Merlin didn't pay attention to the sentry's mental activities.

The Shadow Cloak combined with the Dementia Curse and the Oblivion Curse gave him the ability to invade any military base without being detected.

Like a wandering ghost, no one will find him at all.

He quickly passed over the heads of the resting militants below, and in hundreds of caves, he quickly found his target.To be honest, that cave is really inconspicuous. If Merlin was asked to find it by himself, he would have a high chance of skipping it.

On the top of the cave, a row of light bulbs were connected in series with wires, illuminating the dry interior of the cave as if it were daytime.A few militants armed with masks and covering their faces stood guard at the entrance of the cave. In theory, any sneaker could not hide from them.

But Merlin walked into the cave so swaggeringly, and he walked beside the vigilant guards, not worried about being discovered by them at all.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, Merlin found a large space at the end of the cave.

There was a bed in front of him, and several weapons were hung on the stone wall. There was no decoration at all.But on the wall, there is a blanket with the emblem of the Ten Rings painted on it.

And on the other side of the cave, there is a running computer, and the leader himself is sitting on a chair made of stone, typing something on the computer.

Wearing a white robe and a headscarf, he looks about 40 years old, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. At first glance, he is full of a gentle bookish atmosphere. It is difficult to distinguish him from the four militants. Calligraphy and painting equal signs.

Merlin quietly walked behind the leader and looked at the computer in front of him. What was displayed on the screen was an email being written, but what was surprising was that the leader was writing in English, not Arabic. mail.

This saved Merlin a lot of time.

He looked at the email, reading the message.

This is a letter.

A letter addressed to "partners".

"My dear brother:"

"A few days ago, I discussed the current situation in detail with Mandarin. The situation is very bad. The continuous strangling from the Heavenly Sword Bureau has completely collapsed our plan to enter the Eastern Kingdom in the past few years. Those who use dragons as their The strangulation of the fierce warriors of the Totem continues, and we dare not even look east for the foreseeable future."

"But Mandarin told me we had a new purpose."

"Mandalin has made a decision. He will launch a vast western expedition like his great ancestor Genghis Khan. What we followers can do is to achieve the goal for Mandalin in the shortest possible time. All his expectations."

"But any infiltration requires opportunities. We will not passively wait for opportunities to come, we will actively create opportunities. You and your companions still need to continue to work."

"We need to keep the politicians in Washington's eyes locked on Afghanistan, on this unconquerable land, and we're going to keep them in the quagmire of the war, so that they don't care about their own backs, so that they don't know we're coming. .”

"The land of America illuminated by the sun will become the new church of the Mandarin, where he will teach the truth of the Ten Commandments to those ignorant beings."

"Go, it's in Kandahar, right here. Everything you need is ready, with blood sacrifices, let the holy war really come."

"That's where the will of the Mandarin lies."

The chief typed the last letter, then read the letter again, corrected a few grammatical errors, and sent it off.

Behind him, Merlin held up a silent camera and captured the scene.

He also memorized the address from which the email was sent. After doing all this, Merlin reached out and patted the leader's shoulder. The latter turned around subconsciously, only to hear a deep chanting sound.

"Legilimens! (Instigmatism)"

Merlin's spirit, like a sharp dagger, followed the leader's eyes and pierced into his spirit.

Under the pressure of time, Merlin did not hold back, and used the greatest degree of oppression to force the spirit of the leader to be weakened in an instant.

In those floating memory fragments, Merlin saw the scene where this guy was talking to a group of white men in uniform, and also saw the scene where he met the leader of the Ten Rings gang, Mandalin, in a secret place, and he and some hot guys The scene of the girls "playing games".

Um...

This guy's private life is actually quite chaotic.On the surface, he looks like a decent person, but in fact he is also a dishonest old man.

But the point is not here. The point is that Merlin has finally confirmed the ten rings gang and the CIA.Because he recognized the identity of the white agent who appeared several times in the leader's memory.

Fury had told Merlin that the CIA had sent a special agent chief to Afghanistan to manage intelligence gathering.He also gave Merlin a picture of that guy.

And that photo was exactly the same as the person Merlin saw in the leader's memory now.Judging from this memory alone, that guy and the leader of the militants only met secretly a few days ago, and the two discussed some important things. Unfortunately, Merlin did not find those important memories.

William Rollins.

Chief of CIA field agents.

The clues, all connected together.

A few seconds later, Merlin reached out to support the crumbling leader. He threw an Oblivion Curse and Sleeping Curse on him, and some supported him on the bed, and stretched out his hand to pinch his expression.

Pretending to be a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

In fact, being overwhelmed by the Dementia Curse will cause some blood vessels in the brain to burst due to too much pressure, which is almost exactly the same as the symptom of a cerebral hemorrhage.

After doing all this, Merlin didn't leave immediately.

He inserted a USB flash drive he carried with him into the leader's computer, and then transferred everything in the computer, whether useful or not, to the USB flash drive.

After more than ten minutes, Merlin, who had completed the task, was suspended above the canyon, in the sky filled with twilight light. He looked down, and there was some sudden chaos in the canyon. It seemed that the guards finally found out. Their leader has fallen under the onslaught of disease.

But what does this have to do with Merlin?

"William Rollins..."

Merlin said the name, he looked back to Kandahar, he said:

"Next..."

"You are the one!"

(End of this chapter)