Zero's whole body tightened suddenly, but George hugged him firmly. Although Zero is not short, George is more like a hill. Standing with him, Zero only reached the Phoenix officer's chest. Now being hugged tightly by George, Zero's face was almost pressed against his chest, and Zero couldn't breathe.
After a while, George laughed and let go of Zero, and threw his palm on his back, making Zero almost unsteady. Only then did the heroic officer say: "I can't see it, Zero. You are quite capable, I haven't seen you for more than two months. You have already wandered from the wilderness to the Hall of Valor, and you are still the person in charge of this mission. Damn, you must buy me a few drinks tonight."
Recalling the scene of the two drinking in Phoenix City that day, Ling smiled knowingly. He said, "No problem, but let's get down to business first. Before that, let me introduce you to a few people."
Then, after Ling introduced Anthony and Rankine to George, he also introduced Su and others in his team by the way.
Rankin has always been dissatisfied with Zero's role as the person in charge of the operation this time. This time, seeing that the Phoenix officer seemed to be very familiar with Zero, he felt even more disdainful. So he didn't give George any good looks. What's more, in Rankine's view, George, who has no special abilities, is only slightly better than those refugees in the wilderness, and he doesn't deserve his respect at all.
George didn't take it seriously either. He had seen quite a few supernatural beings like Rankine who looked down on ordinary people. In all fairness, Rankine's attitude could no longer be considered bad.
As for Anthony, this perception domain ability user is quite polite. There is always a kind of gentle smile on the face of this Caucasian young man, that smile is full of sunshine and warmth. Zero always thinks that he is much more suitable to wear a priest's robe than this tactical uniform, although Anthony doesn't seem to believe it. The Catholic set.
Anthony's abilities are very special. His profession is "Explorer", and his main abilities are "Area Scan" and "Mind Chain". The former can perceive the movement of the entire area within a thousand square meters, and play the role of reconnaissance and deployment; the latter builds a spiritual rainbow bridge with the power of the mind, and realizes zero-barrier communication regardless of the distance of the area. With Anthony's current ability, the limit for building a spiritual Hongqiao is five.
It can be said that Anthony does not have outstanding offensive capabilities. However, these two abilities in the perception domain make him an excellent auxiliary attacker, and the consistent fighting style of the vanguard is based on these two abilities of Anthony to achieve efficient and flexible tactical arrangements on the battlefield. In the previous simulated actual combat, because the Pioneer didn't know Zero's ability, Zero used the "ping pong ball" to kill Anthony first, thus paralyzing the Pioneer's entire command system. Otherwise, the Windrunners would not be able to advance smoothly.
There is no doubt that in actual combat, Anthony's ability is often more important than a purely offensive ability user.
After getting acquainted with the more important people in Zero's team, George took their three captains to the vicinity of the supply vehicle and off-road vehicle. The off-road vehicle was stained with blood and was full of bullet holes. It is conceivable that the battle was fierce at that time. As for the supply vehicle, it was relatively intact, except that the tires were almost blown out. Near the two cars, there were large areas of blackened blood on the ground, which made people imagine what happened to the members of the two cars.
Zero walked around the two cars and asked George, "Have you cleared the ground around here?"
The reason why he asked this was because the ground was too clean. Not only were there no shell casings, but there were no footprints or any other traces.
"On the contrary, except for bringing the bodies of the victims back to the city for quick freezing. The surrounding area has been surrounded and protected by us, and we haven't touched anything at all." George smiled wryly, and said: "In fact , The robbers in this incident were very cautious. I had already done a preliminary survey when I arrived, but found nothing. They cleaned up all traces that might reveal information, which is really cunning."
When George finished speaking, the two captains who inspected the off-road vehicle and the supply vehicle respectively got out of the vehicle. Both the smiling Anthony and the stinking Rankine shook their heads at Zero, which meant that there were no traces left in the car for tracking.
Ling turned around and said to Su: "Su, call other people. Center on the incident, conduct a blanket search of the area within 500 square kilometers, and don't let go of any tiny clues."
The soldiers in the new barracks have all been trained in tracking and searching, and their average ability is around the third level, so they are naturally more qualified for this job than ordinary soldiers in Phoenix City. After arranging this order, Zero said to George: "Let's go back to the city and see if there are any clues on those corpses."
So George personally drove an off-road vehicle and brought Zero, Anthony and George back to Phoenix.
In the Phoenix Medical Center mortuary, eight flash-frozen bodies were laid out side by side in front of a few people. At the same time, George took out a tactical board and called up a set of photos. The photos were taken when the bodies of the team members were found, and the original positions of the bodies were kept without any changes.
The list of victims obtained by Ling included three firemen including the escort captain Sam and soldier Oni, the escort vehicle driver Skok, a driver on the supply vehicle, and two other soldiers. Now, these eight corpses are all in front of them. Zero took the tactical board that George handed over, and first looked at the photos taken from the off-road vehicle.
In the photo, in the driver's seat, the driver Skok is lying on his back on the steering wheel, with a clear bullet hole on his forehead. In the co-pilot position, the soldier Oni was lying on his side towards the door. On Oni's body, there was a gun.
George added: "When we found the body, judging from the situation at the scene, the murder weapon on the soldier should belong to the driver. The bullet hole in the driver's head was given by one of the soldiers in the back seat. Judging from this situation, there should be internal strife among the people in the car. Maybe the driver is the ghost, and he was killed after being discovered by his companions."
Zero listened, but shook his head: "This possibility should not be great. Judging from the robbers' methods, they acted very cautiously. If the driver is really an insider, the chance of him being exposed is very low, or even no risk of being exposed. .From the photos, it looks more like he suddenly attacked this soldier named Oni, and then he was shot dead by his companions in the back seat. And, look at his eyes."
Zero zoomed in on the photo, so Skok's face took up the entire screen.
Others gathered around, and Ling said: "Didn't you realize that the eyes of the deceased are too calm, and you can even say dull?"
In the photo, Skok's eyes are as Zero said, so calm that there is almost no emotion. This is impossible, especially after Skok killed Oni and was killed by his companions, there was neither anger nor fear in his eyes. But nothing, even if the pupils will expand after death, the emotions before death will be frozen in the eyes.
However, from the perspective of Skok's eyes, he died without any emotions.
"It's a hint of the mind." Anleni said: "One of the abilities in the perception domain can turn the target into a puppet in the hands of the ability user through the hint of the mind. The puppet has no feelings and will unconditionally obey the ability user during the time the ability is active. Order. This driver was under control at the time!"