Chapter 489 Countermeasures

"Captain, look!" A meteor team member suddenly shouted in surprise.

The meteor team members, who had been exhausted for a long time, cheered up when they heard this sound and all came over.

A dead body! To be precise, it should be a corpse sitting on the edge of one side of the passage, with its back against the stone wall of the passage. It looks like a person fell asleep against a stone wall.

In the three days of entering the underground palace, although Luo Xiang and others were still unable to detect the law of the maze and could not find the entrance and exit, no less than 30 dead bodies were found. And after a rough observation of each body, it is concluded that these bodies have died for more than ten years. Although it is underground, it is not humid at all, but very dry and sultry. These corpses have existed for more than ten years, and almost all of them have become mummified corpses.

The reason why the meteor team member was surprised is that the body was different from the one found before, because the body looked extremely 'fresh', and the preliminary estimate of death was no more than 10 days.

"It looks like the same as those corpses were dressed before. But why did the previous bodies die for more than ten years, but this body died recently? Luo Xiang frowned and examined the body in person, puzzled.

"The deceased's face is yellow and thin, and his body is seriously dehydrated... It looks like he has been starved to death!" A meteor team member squatted down and looked at it for a while and said.

Everyone basically detected the cause of the death of the deceased.

"That is to say, the deceased and the previous dead bodies were in the same group before they were alive, but for some reason, the deceased survived in the maze for more than ten years?" As soon as Luo Xiang's words were said, the other team members' eyes lit up.

In this labyrinth of lack of water and food, it can survive for ten years, which is enough to prove that the deceased must have found some places with food before, and the deceased's clothes are clean and complete, and his hair and beard have been obviously trimmed, indicating that there is not only food here, but also other daily necessities. .

"There must be a place near here that leads to the place where the deceased lived for ten years, but I don't know if it is the target we need to look for, and our food and water can only be guaranteed for four days!" Luo Xiang looked up at the dark passage around him, both nervous and excited.

"Captain, do you think of these bodies? Are they the people who came in with Egarh?" Xiao Liu's eyes flashed and asked with some hesitation.

If the gall tribe hadn't provided information in this maze, they wouldn't have found it at all. Who would have thought that there would be an entrance under the pit where they used to rest as temporary strongholds? They could rest and eat there at that time, but they didn't find it.

Luo Xiang also had this guess in his heart. At this time, after listening to Xiao Liu's saying, he nodded and said, "It's possible. Now let's assign it. Xiao Liu, you take five people over there, and I and others will look for it on the other side. Everyone must note that we only look for half a day, that is to say, we can only go forward for half a day at most. If we don't find it, we will return. Because we don't have enough food and water, we must leave enough food to ensure that we can go out alive!"

Food and water are now the biggest problems they face. Although everyone has been trained to survive in the wild. But those trainings are very different from here. In the field survival training, you can also find all kinds of food, at least there is grass root bark, and here, you can't even find a small stone!

A day later, when Luo Xiang returned to the position of the dead body again, he found that Xiao Liu's group of members did not return. A bad feeling immediately appeared in my heart.

It will take two days from here to the entrance of the maze, and they only have three days of food left, that is to say, they can stay here for a day at most and have to return. Otherwise, they can only stay here completely and become part of the dead bodies found before.

Just as Luo Xiang and others were waiting anxiously, there was a lot of trouble outside.

Li Mo was very anxious after Luo Xiang and others were surrounded by Somaliland troops. Stone, Hussein and others were immediately called for a meeting to discuss the strategy to deal with it.

At the time of the formation of the Somali National Defence Force, it is obvious that it does not have the strength to compete with the Somali Armed Forces. And at this time, no one is willing to fight with Somaliland again. No force at home or abroad is willing to start another war in Somalia.

The previous strong reunification of Somalia has aroused the vigilance of neighboring countries and the dissatisfaction of the United States and other countries. However, this unification is the internal affairs of Somalia. Other countries can only take corresponding precautions, and cannot directly draw their hands and feet. But Somaliland is a little different from the current Somalia. The Somaliland political axe is a political axe elected by the Somaliland people. Although it is not recognized by the world, it is a 'legal' regime. Somalia, without any reason, has a direct war with Somaliland, which is bound to cause attacks from other countries. Countries like the United States will certainly not miss this opportunity to interfere in Somali affairs. Other neighboring countries, such as Ethiopia, will not sit back and watch Somalia's real unification and strength.

So it is obviously impossible to directly use the National Defense Force to rescue Luo Xiang and others. Even Li Mo knows that the chances of success are very slim. Then rescuing Luo Xiang and others can only be a private action.

After discussion, the meeting reached a resolution on this matter. He Xiaoqiang, deputy captain of the Meteor Commando, will lead the 15 members who can be assembled at present to Lake Gargarh to support Luo Xiang and others. At a specific time, he can directly carry out special operations against the armored brigade in Somaliland. Including the assassination of commanders at all levels of armored brigades and the destruction of their armored vehicles and logistical reserves. As the Chief of Staff of the Somali Defence Forces, Hussein publicly reacted to the large-scale mobilization of troops in Somaliland.

The next morning, a spokesman for the Somali Ministry of Defense pointed out in a statement to the outside world that Somalia was deeply disturbed by the large-scale troop mobilization of Somaliland, believing that Somaliland was maliciously undermining the peace situation in Somalia and creating a tense atmosphere to achieve its ulterior purpose. At the same time, a spokesman for the Somali military gave a serious warning to the relevant departments of Somaliland, saying that Somaliland must immediately stop military movements around the dividing line, otherwise Somalia will take further severe measures to counter the 'military pressure' brought by Somaliland.

This hard-line warning or ultimatum of the Somali military once again brought a cloud of war over the Somali peninsula.

President Yusuf of the Republic of Somalia soon received a call from several heads of state to express concern about the situation in Somalia, including Konare, the current Chairman of the African Union Committee and President of the Republic of Mali.

The Ministry of Defense's hard-line statement to Somaliland was naturally requested by Chief of Staff of Yusuf and convened the Somali Defense Commission to adopt it. Although President Yusuf and others did not know the real purpose of Chief of Staff Hussein, the mobilization of the most effective 2nd Tank Brigade in the eastern part of the border in Somaliland is indeed there. The Somali political axe must respond to this abnormal movement.

In the afternoon of the same day, Somaliland's political axe reacted in the attention of the outside world. Somaliland's diplomatic spokesman said in an external statement that the mobilization of Somaliland's troops is only a normal military training and is not intended for any country. And on the grounds of military secrets, he refused to answer the 'training purpose' of mobilizing the army.

Li Mo had expected the reaction of the outside world, and he also knew that Cassin would not simply withdraw from the army under the pressure of the outside world.

However, Li Mo's purpose is to make the outside world pay attention to Somaliland and this 'moving' army, so that Cassin dare not act casually. If Cassien doesn't want the outside world to explore the reasons for the military's movements, he must temporarily stop all actions and wait for the limelight to continue to search for the secret and publicly attack Luo Xiang and others.

"Boss, there is only so much we can do, unless we really fight a war desperately. Moreover, I don't think Luo Xiang and others are so easy to be killed by the Somaliland Army!" Looking at the worry on the boss's face, Wang Ning had to comfort him.

"Well, if I had known this, I shouldn't have let A Xiang and the others perform that task now!" Li Mo regretted very much after hearing that Luo Xiang and others were surrounded; for him, Luo Xiang and others were obviously more important than Egar's secret. Without that secret, the Star Organization can still develop and grow. But Luo Xiang and others can't be exchanged for anything.

Wang Ning naturally knows the status of Luo Xiang and others in the boss's mind. It can be said that in the organization, even Stone and others can't compare with Luo Xiang and others. Because Luo Xiang and other talents are the most loyal people to Li Mo.

"Boss, the people sent from Afghanistan are now in Iran and will arrive in Somalia in a week at the latest. Do you need to meet them then?" Wang Ning knew the entanglement in the boss's heart and cleverly changed the topic.

Only then did Li Mo remember what Wang Ning reported to him yesterday. Omar sent several secret representatives. At that time, Li Mo was anxious about Luo Xiang and did not pay attention to it. Now Wang Ning raised it again, and he paid attention to it.

"How's the situation over there?" Li Mo frowned and asked. Omar sent someone to Somalia, and he could also guess the other party's purpose, but Li Mo hasn't decided what to do yet.

Wang Ning's intelligence department also has a secret site in Afghanistan. Although the speed of intelligence transmission is slower, it often receives intelligence from there.

"Not so good. A month ago, the Taliban were forced to abandon Kandahar and retreated to the southern mountains again. The U.S. military is now suppressing the 'suspected Taliban militants' in Kandahar City and is mobiling troops to prepare for a carpet-like clean-up in the southern mountains.

Li Mo was stunned and asked in surprise, "Does the U.S. military want to kill them all? Aren't they afraid of falling into the same situation as in the Vietnam War? And they won't ignore the lessons of the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan, will they?

(to be continued)