Jing Quan was stunned as he watched Guan Dehou disappear before his eyes. He sat there for a long time before he realized something had happened.

But when I looked around, I couldn't find Guan Dehou anywhere.

The mysterious cube in front of me flickered a few times and then returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

"Brother De?" Jing Quan called tentatively.

no respond.

"I'll go...what...what's going on here?" Jingquan panicked.

Lao Peng, who had just finished setting up the defenses below, heard the sound and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Jing Quan swallowed hard and said, "Something happened... Brother De is missing!"

"Ah?" Lao Peng was stunned, and then hurriedly went upstairs.

When he saw Jing Quan, Jing Quan was trying to open the "mysterious cube" in front of him with a dagger, but the "mysterious cube" was so hard that no matter how hard Jing Quan tried, it failed to leave even a trace.

Lao Peng saw this scene and hurried over and asked, "What are you doing? Where is Brother De?"

Jing Quan replied without raising his head, "Brother De was sucked in by this thing! Didn't you see that I was trying to find a way to open it!"

Lao Peng frowned, "What the hell? Was he sucked in by something!?"

Jing Quan gave up. He thrust the dagger to his side and raised the "Mysterious Cube" with trembling hands to show Lao Peng, "This is it! This thing is very weird! Brother De was sucked in after touching it!"

"

Lao Peng came closer and took a closer look at the "mysterious cube".

It is completely black and full of texture. Judging from Jingquan's posture, it shouldn't be too heavy.

So Lao Peng asked, "Then why are you okay?"

Jing Quan put down the "Mysterious Cube" and said, "I don't know... I felt something was wrong with this thing before Brother De came up, but I touched it and felt that it was not threatening, but who would have thought..."

Hearing this, Lao Peng looked around and said, "Tsk...what should we do? Brother De is our backbone. Now that something happened to him, where should we go?"

Jing Quan thought for a while and then said, "Since Brother De brought me back, it means there must be a 'good show' worth watching in this town, so... I think no matter what, we must continue to carry out the tasks assigned by Brother De."

"

Lao Peng nodded when he heard this, as it should be.

but……

"But Brother De's life and death are uncertain now. If he was sucked in by this thing as you said, then we have to keep it safe. When things here are over, we have to take it back."

Peng said and pointed to the "mysterious cube".

Jing Quan looked at the "Mysterious Cube" in front of him and felt very unhappy. He said angrily, "If I hadn't been too reckless, Brother De wouldn't have..."

Lao Peng's face became serious, "Okay, let's not worry about mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Our current situation may not be much safer than Brother De. Let's get things settled quickly."

"Um……"

…

It's about 2 o'clock in the morning.

A motorcade came outside the town.

The convoy consists of ten vehicles, all of which are printed with the long sword emblem of the Special Service of the National Security Department.

After the observer discovered these convoys on a high-rise building, he ordered his subordinates: "All units must obey the order and not have contact with the National Security Department personnel. Let them pass."

"receive."

…

The motorcade stopped outside the town, and there was a muscular man sitting in the front car.

After he got off the passenger seat, he took out his walkie-talkie and said, "Confirm the marked location. It should be those people in China."

"Copy that, everyone gets off the car and walks into the town."

"clear."

As he spoke, more than 40 people got on and off ten cars.

They are all heavily armed special service personnel, and they are half male and female. This is a major feature of the special service establishment of the National Security Department.

Although there is often a serious imbalance in the gender ratio of Secret Service personnel elsewhere, within the Department of National Security's establishment, the ratio of men to women is always one to one.

It's just that Guan Dehou's team, which originally belonged to the North China Military Region, is a little special.

After the people got off the bus, the team leader began to assign tasks.

Soon the group of forty people was divided into five teams, each led by two cars entering the town from five directions.

Their advance was slow, but their investigation was very careful.

When passing the old church, Jing Quan and Lao Peng thought they were about to be exposed.

Unexpectedly, a pastor who prayed late at night appeared out of nowhere and stopped these "uninvited guests" in front of the door.

This allowed Jing Quan and Lao Peng to avoid disaster.

After the team passed through the town, they found blood stains on the other side of the town and confirmed that Guan Dehou and others had left for a long time.

So they hurriedly got in the car again.

At three o'clock in the morning, these elite National Security Department officers who came to "support" left the town.

After Jing Quan and Lao Peng took a deep breath, they also began to pay attention to the surroundings, especially the priest who suddenly appeared...

…

"You said...have we been exposed?" Jing Quan asked.

Lao Peng shook his head, "I don't know. The defenses I set up are very secretive and have independent judgment functions. Since this priest did not trigger it, it means that he is not a threat target... However, this town is indeed weird enough, and

It's almost dawn, and if the good show that Brother De mentioned doesn't start, we have to consider going back with this thing."

Jing Quan nodded, "Yes, I also feel that something is abnormal, especially when those Americans passed by the church. With their equipment, they should have discovered us, but why didn't they even enter the church door?"

"I don't know... maybe they don't want to disturb their master when the pastor is praying late at night."

"Haha, hey, forget it, we will definitely be there by the time dawn comes.

If you want to leave, who will care about these things then?"

Lao Peng: "Well, but Brother De is not here now, do we have to think about where we should go after dawn?"

Jing Quan said, "I have thought about this. Now we are in the United States after all, and the previous incident must have made the Americans very angry, so... I think we should try to keep a low profile and find another equipment supply point first.

Then contact Director Li, I believe that as long as we can contact Director Li, everything will be easy to handle."

"Well...that's all we can do now."

While the two were talking, several more cars came outside the town.

However, compared to the special vehicles of the National Security Department, these vehicles are much more ordinary.

They drove slowly into the town and stopped in front of the only bar in the south of the town.

Jing Quan and Lao Peng could clearly see the situation in front of the bar and on the second floor of the bar from the church bell tower.

After Jing Quan and Lao Peng looked at each other, Lao Peng immediately took out the infrared monitor and long-distance monitoring equipment.

Both of these items are the most sophisticated reconnaissance equipment from the military factory of the National Security Department, and are generally only licensed to be carried and assembled during special missions.

After Lao Peng set up the over-the-distance monitoring equipment and adjusted its position, he connected it to the power supply in the church bell tower.

Jing Quan observed the crowd with a telescope and briefly recorded with a voice recorder.

Jing Quan, who has received special training, is not only proficient in multiple languages, but can also recognize some simple lip readings.

However, these people all communicated in English, which greatly reduced the efficiency and accuracy of Jingquan's lip translation.

but……

"These people... seem to be here to participate in a game?" Jing Quan put down his telescope and looked back at Lao Peng.

Lao Peng is still debugging the infrared monitor.

The sophistication of this thing is far beyond that of a single soldier e-device, and its debugging is also much more complicated.

While carefully calibrating the distance, he said, "How many people do they have?"

"Let me count...one...two...tsk...eleven."

"How many men and women?"

"Seven men and four women."

"average age."

"Most of them are young people in their twenties. There are only two older students, who look to be around 50 to 60 years old."

"Well...I've done the debugging here, thank you for your hard work."

Jingquan put down the telescope, turned off the recorder and said, "Tsk... What do you think these guys are doing here in such a remote countryside after staying up so late at night?"

Lao Peng took out another box, opened it, took out two small bags, and handed one bag to Jing Quan.

"Refresh yourself."

"Thank you." Jing Quan bit open the bag and drank it all, then grinned and said with a hiss, "Why is this stuff getting worse and worse?"

Lao Peng smiled and said, "You can write a report and see if we can make it strawberry flavored for you."

"Haha, I think so too." Jing Quan smiled and sat down, then picked up the monitoring headphones and put them on his head.

Lao Peng didn't drink so fast. After he drank half of the bag, he frowned and said, "You said...if the situation gets out of control, will someone come to save us?"

While listening to the intermittent monitoring feedback, Jing Quan continued to debug the equipment and said, "Out of control? How could it be out of control? I feel that all of this is still under control."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Lao Peng asked.
To be continued...