Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 472 Bee Swarms in Africa

Just when Xu Shenxue brought his children to Qiongzhou Island, enjoying a seaside vacation and waiting to watch the rocket launch of Nanmen Aerospace.

In a chaotic region in faraway Africa, a small convoy of three pickup trucks and two SUVs is moving quickly on a dirt road.

In one of the SUVs, several white men wearing camouflage uniforms and holding guns were sitting in the car. One of them, who looked a little younger, seemed a little nervous.

A man with a full beard but a relatively young face said, "Tony, don't act like we are going to die. Relax, this is just an ordinary mission!"

"We'll go all the way over there, get off the car when we get nearby, find a suitable spot to fire a few rockets at them, and then use machine guns to shoot at a few ammunition boxes. This mission is basically over!"

When the fight is over, they don’t even know who attacked them!”

A young man driving in front joined in the conversation after hearing this: "That's right, relax, this kind of mission is very simple, we don't even need to get close, we just need to harass from a distance!"

"This is a rare mission, easy and well-paid!"

"And you are just our translator. You won't even be needed on the field when the time comes. You just need to communicate with the locals. We bring you along just to be on the safe side so you can relax a little!"

"After completing this order, the money you get may not be enough to pay off your tuition loan this year, but at least you can go back home and hang out with some girls for a few days!"

The young man said, "To be honest, I'm curious, Tony, is your tuition loan really that expensive? You know, in France, tuition fees are not that high."

Tony looked up with a nervous look and whispered, "I have paid off the loan for three years, but I still have $300,000 left. I may be able to pay it off before I am forty...if I can keep doing this job."

The bearded man was speechless after hearing this: "I sympathize with you. In fact, you don't have to go to college. After all, we don't need a high level of education to do our job!"

Tony looked helpless. If he hadn't been unable to find a job, if he hadn't been suffocated by the pressure of tuition loans and rent, he would have been crazy to come and be a translator for the mercenary team!"

Of course, it was also fortunate that I learned several languages ​​in college and also knew several local languages ​​in Africa, so I was able to apply for the job of translator in this security company after I became unemployed.

However, even a translator like him who seems to have a civilian job is not free from danger... When the bullets from the opposite side are coming, they will not care whether you are a translator or not!

So, for a moment, he couldn't figure out whether his decision to go to college was right or wrong!
Carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition loans, he learned a lot of languages, and then worked as a translator for a security company to repay the tuition loans...

Sometimes, he even thought he was crazy...

At this time, the bearded man said again: "Don't worry, I will protect you when the time comes. I used to serve in the Foreign Legion, and my shooting skills are accurate and fast. To be honest, I can complete most of this simple task by myself!"

While the three of them were chatting, Wilson, a middle-aged beardless man sitting in the back seat, closed his eyes slightly and did not participate in their discussion!

But he was not optimistic about these three new subordinates: maybe in half a year, or a year, he would probably welcome a few new subordinates, because the three people before him would most likely not live to see that time!
But it's the same for all newbies!
Over the years, Wilson has seen too many people who dreamed of getting rich and thought that being a mercenary was just playing games disappear in front of him.

Among them are many people from special forces of various countries!

It’s not because there is a huge difference in the fighting style between regular troops and mercenaries!

What’s more, their opponents are not ordinary people, but the Galaxy Security... a group of lunatics among lunatics!
Of course, there is no need to tell these subordinates about this!
Wilson's subordinates don't even know who they work for!
Wilson himself, as the company's operations commander, only knew some basic information.

Their security company appears to be just an ordinary security company that undertakes some commercial orders in Africa, but Wilson can generally tell through his own information collection and judgment over the years, especially the various tasks he has performed over the years.

There must be a financial consortium behind this company... and it must be a top-tier consortium.

Otherwise, their company wouldn't have been fighting with those crazy people at Galaxy Security every other day.

In the security industry, many senior people in the industry can mostly guess that there must be a certain consortium behind Galaxy Security, and some people also speculate that Xu Shenxue is behind it, but there is no actual evidence.

But many things don’t require evidence!

After all, many of Galaxy Security's businesses are related to some of the companies under Xu Shenxue... As long as we make this clear, we can basically guess that there must be some kind of relationship between Galaxy Security and Xu Shenxue.

Wilson guessed that the life-and-death fight between them and the Galaxy Security was just the aftermath of the business competition between those bigwigs.

Whenever he thought of this, he felt helpless!
The lives of these people, and the many people who died and were injured over the past few years, are probably just a small cost of business competition in the eyes of those bigwigs, and this cost is not worth mentioning to them...

Just like this time... He didn't know why his superiors ordered him to lead a team to attack a factory. His superiors only told him that the security company guarding the factory was Galaxy Security.

Facing those crazy people from Galaxy Security, this attack will not be as easy as the subordinates say!
Even after a successful attack, subsequent successful evacuation would be a hassle, as Galaxy Security is not a pushover.

After he led his men to launch an attack, within half an hour the armed helicopters from the enemy's nearby base would take off and rush over quickly.

It would not be easy to evacuate smoothly at that time, even though he brought a few portable anti-aircraft missiles just in case.

But it is not necessarily possible to shoot down the enemy's armed helicopter.

Therefore, he also prepared a safe house and ordinary vehicles in the follow-up vehicles in the small town near the attack point in advance, and they would disguise themselves as ordinary civilians and evacuate in batches.

If they were to retreat in these vehicles in a swagger after the attack, they would be discovered by the incoming armed helicopters from the opposite side and blown to ashes in a matter of minutes!

However, Wilson didn't know that when his convoy approached the target, the whereabouts of the small convoy had already been detected by a small drone flying in the sky.

After all, in such a chaotic, urgent and backward place, there are not many vehicles on the roads in the wilderness, and such small convoys are even rarer.

Soon, the image information of this small convoy was transmitted to the distant Galactic Security Base.

When the people in the base saw it, they immediately ordered the drone to continue monitoring, and at the same time asked their drone team to get ready.

If it is just an ordinary small convoy, then it naturally has nothing to do with them, but if they come with malicious intent, then they must be dealt with properly.

As a result, a drone flying at more than 2,000 meters in the sky continued to track and send back information, which soon attracted greater attention. "Their route is not normal. They have deviated from the main road and entered a small road. There are only a few small villages ahead of this small road. What are these convoys doing in those remote villages?"

"Also, this path is too close to the Candela factory. Look here, the straight-line distance is only more than five kilometers!"

"In addition, our high-definition cameras discovered that these pickup trucks are equipped with weapons. Look here... This is a fire launch tube, a machine gun, and these two cylinders, which are very similar to portable anti-aircraft missiles!"

"The Candela Factory?"

A middle-aged man looked at the high-definition images fed back by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, pondered for more than ten seconds and said: "Send an early warning to the Candela factory, let the people stationed there be vigilant and activate the electronic jamming equipment in advance!"

"Then keep a close eye on this little convoy!"

"Send a patrol team here in advance and set up an ambush at this location. If the enemy has bad intentions, we will strike decisively!"

"The drone team will send three more Black Swallow drones into the air to conduct reconnaissance and early warning in other directions!"

"Whether it is or not, it's always right to be prepared in advance!"

As the order was given, drone pilots quickly took off several fixed-wing drones that were several meters in size.

Wilson in the team still didn't know anything about this...

After all, he didn't know that the people from Galaxy Security attached so much importance to the Candela factory that they actually had reconnaissance drones flying in the air all day long!

After all, generally speaking, drones that can cruise for a long time for reconnaissance are all medium and large military drones. These things are now high-end products and are high-end equipment in some countries.

No matter how powerful Galaxy Security is, it is just a security company. It can still obtain light weapons and some conventional heavy weapons, but high-end equipment from the regular army is still relatively difficult to obtain.

However, he was not aware that Galaxy Security had recently acquired a small fixed-wing reconnaissance drone called the 'Black Swallow'.

This Black Swift UAV has never been announced to the outside world, but if there are people from Dongning Technology, they should be able to recognize it: Isn’t this the non-stealth version we made when we were developing the Swift UAV system?

At first, it was felt that the non-stealth Swift UAV had poor stealth capabilities in high-threat environments and could be easily shot down by portable defense missiles, so development was stopped and instead development of a stealth aircraft with a diamond-shaped layout without a vertical tail was developed.

However, although the stealth capability and artificial intelligence system of the Black Swallow UAV are far from the level of the Swift UAV, its endurance is still very good and its reconnaissance capability is also acceptable.

Due to their long flight time of more than ten hours, only a few Black Swallow UAVs are needed to maintain medium and low altitude reconnaissance and early warning throughout the day.

It also comes with core artificial intelligence systems such as automatic flight, as well as intelligent imaging and infrared analysis systems, which can give early warnings to some potential threat targets. For example, when sensitive targets such as armed personnel and dense convoys are detected, early warnings can be given.

Although this small plane looks small, with a size of only a few meters and a load capacity of only a few dozen kilograms, it has a slow speed and poor maneuverability, but it still has great value due to its excellent endurance, reconnaissance and analysis capabilities.

So although Dongning Technology stopped developing the Black Swallow UAV, it still produced a batch and sent it to Galaxy Security, mainly to test the effectiveness of the artificial intelligence system and the reconnaissance system in actual combat.

After Galaxy Security recently acquired the Black Swallow UAV, it deployed it in several important bases for daily patrol and surveillance purposes... In fact, it was mainly used to provide Dongning Technology with various practical experimental data.

Some projects of some secret project teams under Xu Shenxue are often tested by Galaxy Security.

The main thing is that Galaxy Security fights with people every day... Although they are all low-intensity fights between militants, which are very different from regular troops, they can still experiment with various weapon systems to a certain extent and then provide feedback on actual combat effects.

The Black Swallow drone, painted in sky camouflage, continued to track Wilson and his convoy at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters.

As the convoy turned into the small road and gradually approached the Candela factory, the small convoy once again deviated from the road and went directly into the wilderness.

This is obviously an abnormal behavior... No one would drive off the road and run wildly in the wilderness.

More importantly, the convoy was clearly heading towards the Candela factory.

As for the Candela factory... ordinary people naturally don't know what it is used for. They only know that it is a small local machinery factory that assembles and produces some simple mechanical products.

However, several senior members of the Galaxy Security in the base knew at this time that this factory was actually a weapons assembly factory within their Galaxy Security.

Many of the medium and large weapons purchased by Galaxy Security and transported to Africa through various channels are transported in loose pieces in order to avoid scrutiny from various countries and unnecessary trouble.

After these parts enter Africa, they will be gathered in the Candela factory one after another.

Finally, it is secretly assembled here to become the finished product.

In addition, this factory will also modify some equipment. For example, the Black Swallow UAVs currently flying in the sky all met civilian standards when they were purchased. After arriving here, they will undergo necessary modifications before they can perform their missions.

By the way, some simple ammunition is also produced on site, such as grenades used by drones.

Galaxy Security has not just one such secret factory, but several...

Now, these people who came from nowhere obviously noticed the existence of this factory, so they sent armed personnel over.

No matter who the enemy is, Galaxy Security will not allow them to destroy this secret assembly factory.

Someone in charge immediately said, "Send out our newly arrived bee colony to provide feedback on actual combat data to the country!"

As his order was given, a pickup truck from the base soon drove onto the open space, and then the seal of a large box at the rear of the pickup truck opened, followed by small drones being ejected one after another!
The ejected drone quickly spread its wings in the air and then flew quickly into the sky.

If you observe carefully, you will find that the flight path of this batch of drones is very clever, and they seem to be flying in formation towards the front.

(End of this chapter)