America.
Department of Defense Strategy.
Several high-level officials came back from a meeting at the White House. In the car, the assistant whispered something 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 sneaked in through the Blackwater Company Group received an attack. Basically, the entire army was defeated. Only thirteen people returned home. 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? Go back right away, and I'm going to ask what's going on."
The car drove directly towards the strategy department and came to a relatively secret reception room.
Inside, there were twelve people sitting there, each of them a little depressed and depressed. Seeing the minister coming in, none of them saluted immediately.
It's hard for the minister to believe that this group of people has been beaten like this.
"Why, you forgot the basic military regulations?" The minister snorted.
At this time, only one reasonable soldier stood up and gave a military salute: "John of the 28th Squadron of the Army has met the minister."
The minister nodded, looked at the soldiers sitting behind him with their heads lowered, and asked John, "Aren't there 13 people? Why are there only 12 of you?"
John smiled wryly: "That man couldn't bear the blow and collapsed, and he was a little bit mad. We took him to the hospital first after we brought him back to China, for fear of missing the best time for emergency treatment."
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 are not crazy, please cheer me up and report why! You are the elites I have randomly checked from all the armies, why... Why are you left alone?"
At this time, among the 11 people who lowered their heads, someone directly took off their hats and said, "Sir, if you doubt that we should 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 10 people also raised their eyes to look at him, and said in unison: "We choose to retire!"
"What happened?" The minister felt inexplicable.
John said quietly at this time: "Do you believe in ghosts? It's that kind of mysterious and weird thing. Frankly speaking, sir, you must be curious or don't understand why our elite army was defeated almost overnight. If we stay in that ghostly place, we may die too, too many people died in the mercenary land, so many people complained and many weird things happened."
"Ghost?" The minister raised his eyebrows: "Are you telling stories? Is this a reason or an excuse for your defeat?"
"Sir, we won't find excuses for our defeat, but if you want us to go to that ghostly place, we would rather choose to be punished by a court-martial." The other soldiers said.
Someone echoed excitedly: "That's not human at all! We didn't see what the other party was from the beginning to the end, but our people were controlled, and other soldiers suddenly short-circuited their brains and shot at their own people. Some directly Inexplicably detonated the bomb on his body, and he wanted to die with his own people! Sir, would you believe that a tank, without any driver or operator inside, would target and bomb people by itself?"
"Three commanders, two military experts, and two officers, a total of seven people, died under the bullet of an officer, and then the officer suddenly picked up a pistol and pointed it at his own head and committed suicide! Immediately afterwards, people detonated everywhere in the entire barracks Bombs on their bodies, some with guns in their hands, aiming at the heads of their own people is like playing a game of cannibalism! Almost everyone is crazy, and we don’t know why all this is from the beginning to the end, outside The 5 patrolling tanks will automatically aim at their own base camp to bomb, when we go around and look inside, there is no one at all! It belongs to the ghost tank!"
While talking, several soldiers shook their heads in fear and felt very excited.
The minister was surprised for a long time, and looked at John: "Is this true?"
John nodded wearily: "There were more than 30 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 packed a tank In the past, another tank would start bombing us for no reason. I swear by my military glory all these years, all this is true! We don't want to be deserters, we have resisted, but when we know that resistance is just unnecessary, it is a fight with death When the time comes, we choose to come back rationally and tell the country all this, and we are willing to accept any punishment."
After the minister finished listening, he paced back and forth for a long time and asked other subordinates of the strategy department.
"What do you think about this matter?"
After a few strategists pondered for a while, they still couldn't believe what the 11 soldiers said. They felt that it was too unbelievable. At least they had never encountered such a bizarre thing in their half a century of life.
"The strategic deployment of the mercenary land is very important. This area must still have a firm foothold. I don't want to say whether this is true. How about giving you another battalion here at the headquarters?"
John didn't speak, but the others were very emotional. They heard that the military experts didn't believe what they said, and they stood up one by one and said: "Listen to the officers, we would rather choose punishment than go to that damned place again. "
Several military experts: "Then you have to transport the corpses of your comrades back, right? And those supplies, do you know how much money was lost? Two fighter jets, five tanks, plus various guns and ammunition, the total loss is also Thirty million U.S. dollars, and none of this money has been earned back. Even if you want to find oil fields or minerals, right? Just come back like this, is it plausible?"
The 11 soldiers were speechless.
John raised his head at this time and said: "I'm not reconciled, I'd like to go in and have a look again, I don't believe that there are really unclean things in all of this."
The minister nodded: "Very well, then you will be rearranged and entered into another battalion to prepare to go in. This is the second time you have entered, and you are more familiar with it. It would be better for you to lead the way."
John nodded.
After the other 11 comrades followed him and left the Strategy Department, they all looked at John and cursed: "It's rare for us to leave from there to avoid bad luck, and you still want to go in?"
John sighed: "Don't you want to find out the truth?"
The other comrades sneered: "The truth? You want the truth from Death? Just like that night, just like you wanted to know the truth, but half of the more than 30 other brothers died!"
John said to the comrades: "I am helping you. When such defeats happen, we have violated many military regulations. If we choose to retire at this time, we will only face imprisonment. We must continue to create our value, otherwise Even if you have this halo on your body, you will retire and go to the Blackwater Company as a security guard, and they will not want it."