United States.

Ministry of Defense Strategy.

Several high-level officials returned from a meeting at the White House, and in the car, the assistant whispered a word in the minister's ear.

The minister's face changed drastically: "What did you say? ”

The assistant said: "This time, the first batch of soldiers who infiltrated through the Blackwater Company Group received an attack, and they were basically defeated, and only thirteen people were left in the whole army to return home, and they are now at the headquarters." ”

Minister: "I just reported the strategic goals to the president, and you immediately told me that the whole army was defeated?" I'll go back right away, I'm going to ask what's going on. ”

The car drove directly towards the Strategy Department and came to the more private reception room.

There were twelve people sitting there, all of them feeling a little sluggish and sluggish. When they saw the minister come in, they didn't salute immediately.

The minister had a hard time believing that the momentum of these people had been beaten like this.

"Why, all the basic military rules have been forgotten?" The minister snorted.

At this time, only a reasonably reasonable soldier stood up and saluted: "John of the 6th Squadron of the 28th Army has seen the minister. ”

The minister nodded, looked at the soldiers sitting behind him with their heads bowed and looked blank, and asked this John, "Aren't they 13 people?" Why are there only 12 of you? ”

John smiled bitterly: "That person couldn't hold back the blow and collapsed and went crazy, we took him to the hospital first after we brought him back, for fear of missing the best rescue time." ”

The minister was surprised for a moment, then looked at the other 11 people and asked, "Then you 11 are not crazy, are you?" If you're not crazy, just give me a mental boost and report why! You are the elite of all the 6 armies, how can you ...... Why are you all left? ”

At this time, among the 11 people with their heads bowed, one of them directly took off his hat and said, "Sir, if you question that we still want to choose to enter the land of mercenaries, I think I will think about my future." ”

The minister was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

At this time, the other 1o people also raised their eyes to look at him, and said in unison: "We choose to retire!" ”

"What the hell happened?" The minister felt that this was inexplicable.

John said faintly, "Do you believe in ghosts? It's that kind of very mysterious and weird thing, frankly speaking, sir, you must be very curious or don't understand, why our elite division will be completely defeated, almost overnight, there is no power to fight back, if we stay in that ghost place again, maybe we will also die, there are too many people who have died in the land of mercenaries, and there are so many strange things that there are many complaints. ”

"Ghosts?" The minister raised his eyebrows: "Are you telling a story?" Is this the reason or excuse for your defeat? ”

"Sir, we're not going to make excuses for defeat, but if you want us to go to that hellish place, we'd rather be court-martialed." The other soldiers said.

Someone excitedly echoed: "That's not a person at all!" We didn't see what the other party was from beginning to end, but our people were controlled, and the other soldiers suddenly short-circuited their brains and shot at their own people, and some directly and inexplicably detonated the bombs on their own bodies, and the human body wanted to die with their own people! Sir, would you believe a tank that does not have any driver and operator in it, but it will aim itself at people and bomb? ”

"Three commanders, two military experts, two officers, a total of seven people, died from the bullet of one officer, and then this officer suddenly took a pistol and aimed it at his head and committed suicide! Immediately after that, people detonated their bombs everywhere in the barracks, some with guns in their hands, aiming at their own people's heads as if playing a game of cannibalism! Almost everyone is crazy, we don't know what the hell is all this about, the 5 patrolling tanks outside will automatically bomb at their base camp, and when we go around and look inside, there is no one at all! That's a ghost tank! ”

As a few soldiers spoke, they shook their heads in fear and felt very excited.

The minister was stunned for a long time and looked at John: "Is this true?" ”

John nodded tiredly: "There were more than thirty brothers who could have retreated, but we also wanted to know who was playing a prank, so we surrounded the ghost tank, but there was no one at all, when we wrapped up one tank, the other tank would start bombing us for no reason, I swear by the glory of my soldiers over the years, all this is true!" We didn't want to be deserters, and we resisted, but when we knew that resistance was just a superfluous fight against death, we chose to come back sensibly and tell the country all this, and we were willing to accept any punishment. ”

After listening to this, the minister paced back and forth for a long time and asked other subordinates of the strategy department.

"What do you think about this?"

After a few strategic military strategists pondered for a while, they still didn't quite believe what these 11 soldiers said, feeling that it was too unbelievable, at least they had never encountered such a bizarre thing in their lives for half a hundred years.

"The strategic deployment of the mercenary land is very important, this part must still have a firm foothold, let's not talk about whether this matter is true or not, how about giving you another battalion of troops here at the headquarters?"

John didn't speak, but the others were very emotional, and they heard that the military experts didn't believe them at all, and one by one they stood up and said, "Listen to the commanders, we'd rather choose punishment than go to that damn place again." ”

A couple of military experts: "Then you have to go and bring back the bodies of your comrades, right?" And those supplies, do you know how much money was lost? Two fighter planes, five tanks, plus all kinds of guns and ammunition, the total loss is 30 million US dollars, and this money has not been earned back, even if you have to find oil fields or minerals, right? Just come back like that, like words? ”

The 11 soldiers were speechless.

John raised his head at this time and said, "I'm not reconciled, I'm willing to go in and see again, I don't believe that there really is something unclean in all this." ”

The minister nodded: "Very good, then you will be rearranged into another battalion to prepare to go in, you are the second time to go in, you are more familiar with the place, it will be better for you to lead the way." ”

John nodded in agreement.

After the other 11 comrades-in-arms followed him out of the Strategy Department, they all looked at John and scolded: "It's rare for us to leave from there to avoid doom, and you still want to go in?" ”

John sighed, "Don't you want to find out the truth?" ”

The other comrades-in-arms sneered: "The truth? Do you want the truth from death? Like that night, it was you who wanted to know the truth, and as a result, more than thirty other brothers died! ”

John said to these comrades-in-arms: "I'm helping you, this kind of defeat, we have violated a lot of military regulations, if you choose to retire at this time, you will only face jail time, we have to continue to create our value, otherwise you will carry this halo even if you retire and go to Blackwater to work as a security guard, people will not want it." ”

(End of chapter)