Chapter 1343 Mixed Blood Old Gun

"The Green Crocodile of the Caribbean" is Cuba's nickname, which comes from its topography. It is also known as the "Sugar Bowl of the World" because of the local sugar industry.

Compared to cigars, Cuba’s sugar industry was actually more famous. Jack had heard the previous generation talk about “Cuban sugar” in his previous life. Many people born in the 50s, 60s and even 70s may still have some impression of it.

From today's perspective, "Cuban sugar", which is similar to brown sugar, is actually far inferior to the wide variety of candies on today's supermarket shelves in terms of appearance and taste.

Because these black sugar blocks are just the primary products of the sugar industry. Not only are they black in color, but they also have a slight bitterness and some indescribable strange taste in their sweetness.

However, for the Seres at that time, this was a rare luxury. Not only did it require tickets to be supplied, it was even regarded as a "tonic" in rural areas.

Only during festivals or when someone in the family is sick will people reluctantly take out a few pieces of dark brown sugar or "Cuban sugar" to make sugar water to drink.

In fact, due to ideological issues, Cuba is still facing an economic blockade by a certain country, so Seris has been importing large quantities of "Cuban sugar" in a way similar to aid.

However, those black sugar cubes have long disappeared from the tables of ordinary people. This primary sugar product will undergo deep processing and become the sugar products of different colors and flavors on the supermarket shelves today.

It would be a lie to say that Jack is not curious about Cuba, the only country in the Americas that is isolated from drugs. It has been under economic blockade for more than 60 years, but it still insists on maintaining its independence with an ideology that is very different from the world's first "lighthouse" next door.

Unfortunately, this trip to Cuba is destined to be short, and he even has to deliberately avoid the attention of the locals. If he wants to truly experience Cuban customs, he probably has to wait until the day Jack retires from the FBI.

To this day, if Americans want to travel to Cuba, they must check the box "helping the Cuban people" when filling out the reason for leaving the country, rather than "travel and sightseeing" or the like.

In addition to the three "R.E.D."s, Frank, Marvin, and Victoria, the main fighters also included the brothers Chris and Braxton.

Two former CIA agents who have a lot in common - Brian Mills and John Reese, as well as former Navy SEAL Clay who strongly demands to participate in the combat operation, and of course Jack and Anna.

In addition, Cassell, Hannah, Jiejie, as well as rookie John Nolan, Angela and Tim, three LAPD officers, served as auxiliary personnel.

They will be the second group to land on the island after the combat operations are over, and will be responsible for helping to evacuate the victims and innocent people on the island.

This operation is different from any one Jack has ever participated in. In fact, even an experienced old agent like Frank has never had a similar experience.

What they have to do is not just to eliminate the armed security on the island. After killing the designated target, they just need to activate the nuclear bomb timer and retreat in time.

It is still unknown how many poor people there are on the island who have been trafficked and forced to serve the rich and famous. How to identify and take them away is also a big problem.

Fortunately, they are not fighting alone this time. This group of "R·E·D" actually has helpers in Cuba.

Also because of the blockade, there is almost no trace of modernization in Cuba. Even the cars running on the road are all extremely retro cars left behind by the colonists (mainly Americans) after they withdrew more than half a century ago.

The "Skylark" convertible that Victoria and Ivan drove was produced in 1954. It was a classic car that was in very good condition. From time to time, you could even see horse-drawn carts transporting fruits and vegetables on the bumpy road.

Two buses with hissing exhaust pipes, which Jack suspected might be older than Frank, took everyone to the port of Matanzas in north-central Cuba.

This place is known as the "Athens of Cuba" and is also the revolutionary holy land of Cuba. A big-nosed old man with a beard and a green military uniform was waiting happily on the roadside.

The old man's nose was very big, even a little exaggerated, which reminded Jack of the old man Carl in the cartoon "Up".

Behind the big-nosed old man is a rusty barbed wire fence, next to which stands a sentry box that looks long abandoned, and surrounded by the barbed wire is a gray warehouse building with a Soviet-style feel.

"Welcome, old friends." The big-nosed old man walked forward tremblingly, hugged Frank and Marvin, and kissed old lady Victoria on the cheek.

"Your little friends are already inside, checking and cleaning up my 'old guys'. So what are you planning to do? Although my 'old guys' are old, they can still handle another 'Bay of Pigs Incident'."

Jack unexpectedly learned from the conversation between the two parties that the big-nosed old man in front of him, who looked at least 80 years old, was really called Carl, and the little kids he mentioned were naturally Chris and Braxton who had arrived here earlier.

Old man Carl led a group of Americans dressed as tourists into the warehouse while chattering. The two brothers who were busy in front of a pile of wooden boxes heard footsteps and turned back. The sharp-eyed Jack saw Braxton holding a strange-looking SVD sniper rifle in his hand.

"Are you interested in trying this thing? I bet you've never seen a gun like this." Braxton laughed when he saw Jack.

Jack took the sniper rifle and looked at it carefully, only to be shocked to find that it was not an SVD at all, but a patchwork product modified from the Mosin-Nagant.

The famous Mosin-Nagant rifle was born during the First World War. It was nicknamed "Water Pearls" in Serbia. At that time, the sniper god Zhang Taofang killed 32 enemy soldiers in 214 days using such an old gun with only a machine sight.

The patchwork rifle in front of Jack looked much more "advanced" than the Mosin-Nagant used by Mr. Zhang.

Because this great-grandfather-level old gun is equipped with a Soviet-made "PSO-1 optical sight" that is almost of the same generation as our father's, the originally long barrel has been shortened and a conical double-chamber muzzle brake that only SVD has has been welded on.

That's why Jack mistakenly thought it was an SVD at first glance, but he suddenly realized it after seeing the fixed magazine that could only hold five bullets.

"Although I can understand that for security and confidentiality reasons, we cannot use weapons whose sources can be traced, but isn't it a bit too much to let us use an old thing like this?"

Clay scratched his head in frustration. Even though he used to be a "DEVGRU" and could easily handle both NATO and Warsaw Pact weapons, he was really worried about using this thing.