Fort Irwin, desert region of California, western United States.

Fort Irwin was once a desolate town, but it flourished during the American Gold Rush in the century, but then became a desolate and remote area as the gold rush faded.

Fort Irving was one of the declining towns, and later as the townspeople gradually left, the U.S. military set up a tank training base here, and after the outbreak of the first Gulf War, when the U.S. military in Iraq shifted its combat mission to deal with the erratic militants, the U.S. military built 12 simulated Arab villages and towns in Fort Owen, where the tunnels were the usual lines of communication used by Iraqi militants.

The centre has deployed 1,600 "role participants" in villages and towns, including migrants from Iraq, who play the roles of snipers, suicide bombers, police officers and citizens.

All special forces entering Iraq to fight are subjected to pre-war acclimatization training here before departure. During the three-week training, the special forces will live in simulated villages, where conditions are even tougher than in real Iraqi towns and villages, with night and night shelling, and frequent raids that keep the recruits awake and nervous. Recruits are exposed to real Iraqis or counter-terrorism instructors in Arab robes on a daily basis to learn about the real situation on the ground in Iraq.

It can be said that the situation on the battlefield here is no different from that in Iraq.

In the middle of the night, several dark shadows touched the barbed wire fence on the outskirts of the town, and the skull warning signs hung above the barbed wire, indicating that this was a dangerous area and no idlers were allowed to enter.

Long Yun crouched beside the barbed wire, pressed the communication button, and asked the potato chip girl in the communication command vehicle a few miles away about the situation at Fort Irwin.

"Lena, the Doctor and I have reached the outskirts of Fort Irwin, what's going on with you?"

"Something ......strange," said the potato chip girl, "don't move for now, I've found something unusual here, and I have to verify it." ”

"Okay, wait for your news, hurry up, the night is long and you have many dreams." Long Yun let go of the call button and glanced back at Dr. Finch.

This old guy came in person this time to deal with Walker, who is not an ordinary Presbyterian member, he is a pure-blood, and he was already the leader of the North American Operations Division of the Presbyterian Church before Finch took over the North American Branch.

However, a failed Blackstone program pushed Walker into the abyss, and after the end of the Blackstone program, Walker has been working as a lieutenant colonel instructor at Fort Banning, ostensibly training members of the American Rangers and Delta Force, but in fact being in charge of the North American Division's operational personnel training.

In this operation, Neo did not participate in it, and the elder Habs was worried that Neo would be too impulsive because of Selena's affairs, so he chose to let Finch lead the team, and Long Yun was responsible for the specific command.

"Long Yun, before you went to Afghanistan, I promised you that if you entered the Holy Church and came back alive, I would provide all the resources you needed to reorganize the ghost team for you." Finch suddenly brought up the old story.

"But I didn't go to the Sanctuary, I went to the Divine Domain." Long Yun said.

"The nature is the same, as long as you go to the Well of Destiny, you can obtain the qualification to officially join the canopy." Finch said: "After this operation is over, we still have a lot of things to do, such as the task of killing several sect masters, it is very urgent, I believe that now the Restoration Society is also busy locating the resurrection places of those sect masters, if they preempt it, we will be very passive." ”

Long Yun didn't want to be asked by Finch about what happened in the Well of Fate, so he moved away from his topic: "Actually, why are you so nervous about the Sect Master, I found that Favenir's lethality is very average, and it is not as powerful as the strange special forces I encountered in the Divine Domain. ”

"You just see the fragile side of Fafnir, each suzerain has a period of adaptation after resurrection, as short as three or five days, as long as a first half a month, and when they really regain their strength, they will not retain the appearance of animals like Fafnir, but turn into human form, and some suzerains will even possess the host's body, so, when the suzerain matures, it will be difficult for us to find their traces, and it will be a lot more unnecessary difficulty for hunting operations."

"Humanoid? Just look like us? Long Yun was very surprised and asked, "If this is the case, what will they do next?" Just living in obscurity? ”

"Of course not, each suzerainty represents a kind of power, and when all seven suzerains are resurrected, it means that the old king of Atlantis is about to return, and that is not an easy guy to deal with." Finch said.

Long Yun was about to continue asking, when suddenly a sizzling sound came from the barbed wire, which jumped him, and he subconsciously drew his gun and loaded it to aim at the place where the sound came from, thinking that he had been discovered.

"Don't shoot! It's me! "The voice is so familiar that you don't have to look at a person's face to know who it is.

"Hayabusa, how did you get in!?" Long Yun was taken aback, he hadn't cut the barbed wire yet, no one would cut the barbed wire rashly, because he didn't know if these barbed wires were linked to the alarm system, if there was a connection, then he had to wait for Lena to invade Fort Irwin's security system and hack those sirens.

"Over there, there's a hole over there!" The falcon pointed to his right.

Long Yun looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, he saw a cut in a piece of barbed wire being torn open.

"What's going on?" An ominous omen crossed Long Yun's mind.

"Lena, we found that a section of barbed wire has been cut, and from the metal cut of the fracture, it seems that it has just been cut, and it has not yet rusted, and it seems that someone is one step ahead of us."

"It can't be a little thief, right?" Said the sailor.

Gege shook his head and said, "How is it possible! This is the training center of the special forces, and the special forces who enter here are all trained in actual combat mode, all of which are real guns and live ammunition, first, there is nothing to steal, and secondly, no thief will be blind and eat the bear's heart and leopard gall to steal things here. ”

"It's a strange situation." Lena's voice came from the communication headset: "There seems to be no signs of life in Fort Irwin, I released an unmanned reconnaissance plane, and I spared the town, but I didn't find a single living person." ”

"No one alive?" Long Yun chuckled in his heart, sure enough, his premonition had come true, something must be wrong here. The entire Fort Irwin maintains a certain number of special forces training in it all year round, how can there be no one? Even if there are no troops to come to train here, there are resident "actors" here, these are special forces instructors and soldiers of the unit, and there are some specially hired Iraqi immigrants, how can there be no one?

"No living person has been found for the time being, but there may be, but the drone hasn't found it yet." Lena said.

"We won't wait, let's go in now, you pay attention to the situation in the town, and provide us with the real-time situation at any time." Long Yun raised his wrist and called up the camera on the drone on the PAD, and the aerial reconnaissance footage was transmitted to the PAD in real time.

Sure enough, no trace of a living person was found.

Amazing!

"Hayabusa, you unleash your talents, pay attention to the situation around us, and you are in charge of taking on the role of spearhead." Long Yun said.

Falcons' pupils began to turn blue, and soon, his talent "borer" had been released into the air, collecting all sound resources in a wide area, and then feeding it back into the ear drum in the form of ultrasound.

"No sound, except for some bugs barking, Lena is right, this town is empty......"

"Impossible, I guess something happened." Long Yun said: "We all wear night vision devices, don't use tactical flashlights, otherwise we will become targets, I estimate that someone has taken the lead, if they don't go, we will meet them." ”

"It's getting more complicated." Finch frowned and said, "When you see Walker, tell me that I'll deal with him." ”

There are a total of seven people in the team, in addition to Long Yun and Finch, including Gege, Sailor, Falcon, Murphy and Man's Wife.

Everyone entered the town from the broken barbed wire fence and began to divide into two groups, one left and one right in a search formation, and the night vision devices attached to the helmets were all pulled down to the eyes.