Chapter 1702: Curling
Thanks to the countless demons guarding the door, this building should be completely free of human visits, and the scale of hundreds of rooms in total is not something that can be found in a moment.
So Buck had a good night's sleep.
In the silence, he was awakened by the alarm on his chest phone.
The familiar state of comfortable sleep, the unfamiliar silence, made Buck open his eyes and quickly remember where he was.
In the hotel room, which looked fairly clean, Buck jumped up and leaned over to the window, so that he could see the whole city across the road in front of the hotel without the help of a telescope!
In this small city of 100,000 people on the flat banks of the Euphrates River, this 20-story building does have an overview.
There were cars moving on the road, people walking on the edge of the streets, and it sounded like a normal morning in every city, but the moving pickup trucks were covered with Arabic slogans, and masked IS militants were sitting in the bodies.
Most of the people walking along the streets are hurrying with their heads down, and those who can walk more freely are all carrying guns!
Buck couldn't tell how the IS militants in the city could tell the difference between masked and unmasked, so he didn't think about disguising himself on it, maybe just a sentence or two would expose himself, so he stayed quietly in the room.
Opening the telescope and the tablet to confirm each other, from the pre-stored satellite map, the area where the last night was lit was found, it should be in the middle of the city, about three kilometers away from the hotel, the central block of the city, where there is a mosque, the original state capital of the city hall, all in the very center of the city.
And in front of the hotel is a substation, with Buck's overlook is very clear that the rows of substation facilities and substation rooms have experienced explosions, and there is no possibility of continuing to supply power, so the IS army still tried to light up the central area of their capital in what way, which Xiang Wan gave her husband a clear response: " After they took control of the city of Reka, they used high salaries to deceive some municipal personnel to stay and maintain some urban facilities, and also left a large number of relatives and families of IS fighters in the city, because the IS army can choose their wives at will in the occupied areas, so many of their armed personnel have four or five wives......
Buck leaned against the window more relaxedly: "Oh, from this point of view, the inferior nature of men is really the same as mine. β
Xiang Wan tried to be as serious as possible: "The information about Reka is actually told by the citizens who escaped, and they said that the most difficult thing there is to get out, including those Europeans who were deceived into joining the IS Army, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out, you must be careful." β
Buck laughed twice: "For me, I can walk thousands of kilometers to walk home, what's so difficult about it, as long as I think about home, nothing is difficult." β
Xiang Wan's voice involuntarily softened: "Pay attention to food safety and hygiene, sleep well, and don't catch a cold...... The quantum phone made by the country's top technology was used by these two people to talk about missing family affairs, and it was not charged anyway.
However, at present, there is indeed no image and video transmission function, Buck described the tragic situation he saw in the hotel, Xiang Wan was surprised, but he couldn't figure out the faint uneasiness expressed by Buck, so he could only record it as fine as possible and pass it on to his superiors.
After all, China has also invested a lot of construction in Syria, and now it looks like it is in vain.
During the worship time, Buck pushed open the bathroom window to leave a gap, and seemed to faintly hear the sound of the whole city singing, as an extreme religious sect, especially emphasized strict adherence to the teachings, and then at noon the vitality of the whole city reached its peak, many streets seemed to be more pedestrians, and all kinds of large trucks arriving on the periphery were basically accessible from the suburban roads, and many people came out of their houses.
Looking at the patrol pickup trucks that frequently circled around the periphery of the main city, Buck realized that the city was still not something he could approach during the day, and now what he could do was to use an angle almost looking down on most of the city, compare the satellite map in his hand, and slowly simulate entering on it, looking for a road to approach the city center at night, avoiding areas that are inhabited in the dark although there is no electricity, and minimizing the possibility of contact with anyone in the city.
Xiang Wan is an unprincipled trust, and she takes for granted any action of her husband on the front line, and if someone else, including Natasha, she might persuade Buck to simply leave.
He's alone in this city, what can he do?
What specific information can you get?
Spying on firing points as a front-line scout?
Hua Guo will not organize armed forces to attack the capital of the IS Army, and it seems that Buck's stay here is completely useless.
Buck used one of the most famous brainwashing quotes in China to persuade his wife: "It's so far, it's all here......"
So after eating a compressed vitamin pill at noon, two tubes of energy gels with different flavors and an energy bar, Buck felt that it was too high, so he found two chairs overlapping on the higher side of the bed, and used the selfie stick to fix the monocular and continue to observe, while still doing work in his hands.
Unlike what the hyena made, Buck pulled out a piece of stainless steel the size of a credit card from his wallet, two or three millimeters thick, narrow with a sharp edge on one side, and a sharp tip from the middle on the other side, and then the long side was covered with serrations, and he sat there and whistled a little, and he trimmed the stick he picked last night, adjusted it to the length of a baseball bat, saw a hole in his head and stuck it in, and then tied it with a strong banding, and the stick became a small axe with amazing lethality.
But at this time, when the whistle had already blown to the fashionable tune of square dance like "Little Apple", Barker's movements froze there, slowly put down what he was holding and stood by the window again, using the selfie stick as a monopod to stabilize the telescope, and began to adjust the magnification, looking more closely at the figure on the street.
It was just after three o'clock in the afternoon.
Fixed-point observation is a habitual job for scouts, the last time Buck and Natasha were in Canada to get rid of the boss of the Shen family, he squatted for a lot of time, and observed the key points and rules in his daily life, this is the role of fixed-point observation, at least this time in Italy, hyenas and others have also successfully completed this work.
But in addition to looking around earlier in the morning, Buck's observation range is still concentrated in a relatively lively cross street in the western part of the city, there are restaurants, shops, and stalls, and there are not a few people coming and going, Buck can observe what those people probably bought and then walk back to which area, so that he can deduce which areas are less inhabited, didn't his wife say that there are less than 30,000 people left in this city of 100,000 people, out of the habit of ordinary people gathering together, the rest of the people should live more concentrated, and there are many vacant places in the cityγ
So in this kind of observation, Buck has a little impression of the repetitive characters that appear in that street area, and usually the observers will also casually give each other code names such as Xiaohong, Aunt Flower Turban, Uncle without Gun Butt in their hearts, etc., to make it easier to identify.
At this time, Buck suddenly inadvertently noticed that several characters who had looked relatively ordinary before were now curled up under the wall, hugging their bodies with the flush on their faces!
One of the bearded old men was still leaning on it and vomiting.
Buck pulled the magnification of the telescope hard, but he couldn't see too specifically, only to see a few dogs wagging their tails around, as if they were concerned about their master's condition!