Scouting Mission (2)

The drone sent from Birmingham would take a while to arrive, but everyone was surprised that a military unmanned vehicle was used in this operation.

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"Zz... We are over their position, checking closer. Targets found, there's a shelter less than five hundred meters from their position, showing them images."

On the screen, a shelter appeared before their eyes guarded by armed men, and it could be seen that there were many people living in that place.

"It can't be..."

A very large shelter with numerous people appeared in this place. Furthermore, nothing prevented them from imagining that this group was the one that attacked Airon's group.

"Zz... Central, what are your orders?"

"Zz... You have to wait, over."

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"Captain, look!"

A soldier, who had been paying attention to the surrounding situation, immediately noticed an anomaly when he saw a large group of people coming and ran towards Jack and shouted.

Upon hearing the shout, Jack immediately straightened up, his brow deeply furrowed, not understanding what was going on.

At that moment, in the parking lot, they were the only convoy preparing to leave the area. Needless to say, everyone knew that this group of people could somehow come after them.

"Are we exposed?"

This idea flashed through his mind instantly, but was quickly rejected by him.

Jack had already made it very clear with others about the points of this operation. If they were suddenly exposed before the commander's group arrived, it would not be good for anyone.

"They're coming straight at us, possibly they discovered us on the way to this place." Emma said nervously as she put on her gear.

"Listen, the enemy knows where we are but doesn't know how many we are, that's our advantage! Besides, we have air support that can be very helpful in buying time and escaping if things go bad."

"Yes, sir."

In addition, he believed that he had some understanding of the character of these people from what he had seen.

Even Emma, who was in the group, had been observing the behavior of these people for at least three hours and they had never done anything wrong.

"Now all we have to do is say that we're not enemies and we're just passing through..."

As he saw the team gathered for unknown reasons approaching, Jack couldn't help but get nervous, and even his palms began to sweat.

The others weren't much better, all stunned, not knowing what to do at this moment.

"Relax, they may not be here to catch us!"

Perhaps because he noticed the changes in other people, Jack thought to himself that he couldn't scare himself at this moment, he had to calm down even more at this moment and quickly made a sound to remind other people around him to be careful.

Upon hearing his soft cry, Emma and the others immediately recovered, adjusted their state immediately, and continued to do their own things as if nothing had happened.

The car leading the convoy from that unknown shelter slowly stopped in front of the house where Jack and his people were, and the armed men orderly stopped from left to right, surrounding the front of the place where Jack was.

These actions put Jack's people on high alert, who were already holding their weapons on the second floor ready to shoot if there was any sign of enemy attack.

Emma and the others immediately dropped what they were doing and quickly walked to stand behind Jack.

But no one noticed that when the convoy surrounded the front of the place, the soldiers' faces were a little nervous.

"Stay here, Emma and you come with me." Jack only took two people including himself and walked towards the door which was being knocked at the moment.

Click!"

After a while of opening the door, a middle-aged Caucasian man with colorful clothes jumped out of a car when he saw the door was open, casually looked at the place, and walked towards Jack.

Jack observed the middle-aged man coming towards him, looked at the colorful uniform that the old man was wearing, and then knew that underneath that uniform were military badges, and Jack never thought this old man was a military man.

Although Jack was a bit surprised, it was only for a moment. After all, he was on a mission right now and had to act normally.

"Greetings, sir!"

When the old man approached him, Jack immediately made a military salute and then remained silent, waiting for the other party's next words.

With his hands behind his back, the middle-aged man scanned Jack and then looked at Emma and the others behind him. He didn't speak slowly until he saw the vigilance on the soldier's face behind Jack and said, "I'm Reginald, hello, soldier. I heard a rumor circulating these streets, so my curiosity is very great. Who are you?"

Not understanding why the other party would say such a thing, Jack responded expressionlessly and formulated, "It seems that you are confusing us with other people, sir. We were just resting in this place to leave later. If anything happens, I hope you don't make a mistake."

"Well, I like what you're saying."

As if he didn't expect Jack to say that, Reginald nodded with satisfaction and said appreciatively, "It would be great if other people thought like you, but there's a mistake that I want to resolve peacefully..."

"Get out of the way, get out of the way."

At this moment, a sharp voice suddenly sounded from outside the crowd, and then five or six soldiers squeezed in from outside. The leader was a short, flat-headed white man named Julio, one of those who led the people from outside.

Julio was originally dominant in the community he belonged to.

But long ago, one of the squads under his command was attacked and most of them were killed, and now he just heard that a group was resting in this place, so he came to ask some questions.

So, without even thinking, he hurried with some "loyal" men under his command.

"Hello, gentlemen, I'm Julio and I live in a community not far from here."

Julio, who had arrived at the scene, saw Reginald. 

Not wanting to cause more trouble than they already have with other groups, and now seeing the arrogance of Julio who had heard rumors that he had allied with a certain special group, Reginald frowned, his eyes full of disgust, but his voice did not change at all.

"Is there something you need?"

Perhaps because he was used to being dominant in the past, and was protected by his immediate superiors. He was very good at observing words and deeds, and the very cunning Julio at this moment seemed to see Reginald's expression, so he said, "I received a report that some strange group was seen in this place, I just came to see if it was safe."

Reginald didn't even look at Julio, he just glanced at him. He didn't know how such a person became a captain under someone else's disposition. It seems that after returning, he will have to let the people under his command check it safely.

But as he came here today with a mission, he didn't want to cause trouble, so he said lightly: 'We live in the same community, but you should focus on your work and not cause me more trouble and go do your job.'"

"Huh?"

Julio didn't expect his "good intentions" to be so consciously perceived by the other party. He should know that when he played arrogantly, Reginald didn't say anything, but now it's different since he knows that his group was almost eliminated.

"Sir, you don't need to be polite to these unknown men. Anyway, we don't know if they are friendly or our enemies. Nowadays, we have to be careful of strangers."

Jack didn't expect Julio to be so obsessive about causing trouble after seeing Reginald's clear attitude of rejection, and he thought that these people weren't bad.

"It seems like you didn't take my words seriously!" Julio was a man who killed people. Rumors were numerous in the community to which they belong. But after all, he only leads because of his brutality, and now he has lost power since his group was mostly eliminated.

Therefore, having enough enemies, Reginald didn't want more trouble with forces he didn't know. "Captain Julio, you really are a man with a lot of guts!"

Upon hearing that cold voice, Julio shuddered all over his body, and his mind instantly came to his senses. Looking at the solemn situation around him, he suddenly realized how stupid his behavior was at this moment.

By pretending to be a little reasonable, he pretended to be calm, forced a small smile, put his palm on his chest, rubbed it back and forth several times, and said, "Sir... sir, I'm not seeing the real situation we're in. I'll leave right now."

As he said that, he looked up and coldly stared at Jack.

"I told you to leave!"

Seeing that Julio had made his own decision, Reginald, who originally only wanted to give him a small lesson, became angrier. The group of armed men looked at each other and all nodded.

Upon hearing the voice behind him, Julio, who originally wanted to gather more information about these people whom Reginald was visiting so openly, turned around and said, "Sir, we don't know them, they could be dangerous... Wait! What are you doing?"

But before Julio could finish speaking, two men who were standing next to Reginald had already approached him, each of them grabbing his arm and pressing his body down without any explanation.

The force used was so great that Julio, who generally boasted of resisting pain, immediately screamed, his legs softened, and he rolled directly onto the ground with a plop.