Chapter 804 Gold Mine Town
The natural ally of the "tamer" is not as convenient as the magic pet. When not in use, it can be stored in a demiplane called the "familiar pocket".
The mutated mantis was so big that there was no room for it in the car, so Qi Tian had to send it back to the Tiangong base first, and then bring it back during the battle.
The road had been cleared, so Tangning restarted the engine and drove his teammates on their way.
Thank God, there were no more accidents in the second half of the journey.
In the evening, the SWAT team arrived safely in Hitti Town.
This town is actually a family area of the "Hitty Gold Mine" with less than 10,000 residents, mostly women and children. The men work in the mine 40 miles away and can only go home to reunite with their wives and children on weekends.
There are very few tourists visiting the town, and the vehicles that come and go are all large trucks carrying daily necessities.
Tangning's Land Rover stood out among the many cargo trucks. As soon as it entered the town, it attracted crowds of children to watch, their innocent eyes full of curiosity.
The Hiti Gold Mine is the largest gold mine in southern Merauke and is also a major customer of Vanderwal Security Company.
There are more than 200 professional mercenaries serving as security guards at the mine. In addition to fighting against mining gangs, another important mission is to guard against journalists and spies.
Journalists are keen to expose scandals involving illegal mining, environmental damage and labor exploitation.
Spies may be employed by rivals or rebels.
There are many checkpoints on the road to the gold mine. If you try to force your way through by car, you must be mentally prepared to withstand machine gun fire and even rocket launcher bombing.
In this lawless place, mercenaries kill people just like killing dogs, and there will be no psychological burden.
The Tiangong SWAT police were not afraid of machine guns and rocket launchers, but Tangning's jeep was not immune to them.
The purpose of everyone's trip is to capture the "apostles" and "angels" stationed by the Knights of the Holy Blood at the Hitti Gold Mine. There is no need to fight with the mercenary team, so we accepted Tangning's suggestion and parked the car at a gas station in the town. , just stay in a small hotel nearby.
Considering that the owner of the hotel may be an informant of Van der Waal's party, for safety reasons, everyone only eats the food and drinks they bring.
There were only four rooms in the small hotel. After some discussion, everyone decided to allocate them like this: Tang Ning lived alone in one room, Jiang Feng and Ma Yun shared a room, Ma Tao, Wang Daqing, and Gao Fei and Qi Tian each stayed in the other two rooms.
Xiao Ma was very attentive. He searched every room carefully to make sure there were no hidden cameras. If he was still worried, he put a piece of tape impregnated with "magic alarm" under the bed board.
If someone sneaks in at night, the alarm will be triggered immediately, waking everyone up.
It was both Ma Yun and Qi Tian's first time participating in a special service mission to capture mutants. Compared with several veteran drivers in the team, they seemed particularly nervous.
Before going to sleep, Qi Tian specially recalled the mutated mantis and asked him to stand guard at the door.
Gao Fei looked at the giant mantis raising a pair of serrated machetes and couldn't help but complain:
"My God, to be honest, I'm more worried about being frightened by your Madam Mantis when I get up to pee in the middle of the night than the enemy's night attack."
"Brother Fei! Can you still sleep?" Qitian lay on the bed without taking off his coat, with a serious look on his face, "I think the hotel owner is looking at us wrong. That guy is probably a member of the Vanderwal mercenary team. I’m afraid the whistleblowing call has been made to the mine now!”
"If nothing else happens, two hundred mercenaries armed to the teeth will surround this small hotel tonight. They will first bomb it with RPG rocket launchers, and then rush in with AKs and shoot wildly!"
"If we can't be eliminated in this way, it will be the turn of the apostles and angels of the Holy Blood Knights to come out and deal with us personally!"
"Brother Fei, do you think my premonition will come true?"
Gao Fei straightened the pillow, crossed his hands behind his head, and yawned widely.
"My dear, you don't call this a premonition, it's purely neurotic!"
"The Knights of the Holy Blood are not gods, so how could they foresee that we are special police from Tiangong looking for trouble?"
"As for the hotel owner, even if he is an informant of the Knights of the Holy Blood, he cannot become suspicious whenever he meets a foreign tourist and call them to scare him away. Otherwise, he will do a hammer business!"
"I advise you to relax, have a good sleep, and recuperate."
"Brother Fei! Don't be careless when you are out. It's always good to be more careful." Qi Tian insisted.
Gao Fei smiled helplessly and stopped trying to persuade him to relax.
In fact, he had just used "divination" to calculate the fortunes of himself and his companions tonight.
The hexagram indicates good luck and everything is safe.
Of course, the results of divination may not be 100% reliable. Since Qi Tian is so vigilant, let him worry about it.
Gao Fei slept peacefully that night and woke up refreshed the next morning.
Qi Tian, on the other hand, yawned profusely and said with a sad face that he had been sleeping and waking up all night, and he had endured huge mental pressure in vain, but nothing serious happened, and it was a false alarm.
"So, we can only see well-organized, foresighted, quick-response, and interlocking criminal organizations in fictional works such as novels and movies, and these are mostly from the author's imagination. The organization of human society in reality Ability, whether it’s a government, a company, an institution or a criminal gang, everyone is better than anyone else!”
Gao Fei complained while washing his face.
Qi Tian nodded with the same feeling, and suddenly responded: "Brother Fei, according to what you said, our Tiangong's organizational ability is quite impressive, isn't it?"
This made Gao Fei speechless. He slapped the wet towel on Qi Tian's face and blocked his mouth.
After a simple meal, the seven young special police officers left the town and walked to the valley where the gold mine was located.
If they took the road, it was only 40 kilometers from the town to the mine.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Tang Ning abandoned the road and led her teammates to cross the hills covered with dense forests and go to the mine through a hidden mountain road.
More than half a month ago, she had walked this path and sneaked into the gold mine for reconnaissance.
"If there are no accidents on the way, we can reach the mine around two o'clock in the afternoon." Tang Ning said to her companions.
The mountain road covered by weeds and shrubs was rugged and difficult to walk, but fortunately the weather was rare and clear, at least they didn't have to endure the pain of wind and rain.
Before setting off, everyone consciously increased their physical attributes to at least 16 points, and also configured the "Perseverance" specialty that is most suitable for long-distance travel to reduce physical consumption.
The first section of the road was quite easy for everyone to walk, and they stopped to take pictures from time to time, just like they were participating in a team-building activity or going on a picnic.
Along the way, they saw the unique natural scenery of Irian Island, especially the unique local flora and fauna and insects, which broadened the young special police's horizons.
"Huh? Come and see, what is this?" Ma Yun suddenly exclaimed from the front.
