[COD] Newbie's Rise to Power

You excitedly grasped his hand: "Wow, that's amazing! Then I'm counting on you for my hidden weapons, bro!!!"

Wang Zhiqiang readily agreed: "No problem, no problem. Since you need it, of course I'll help."

After resolving a worry, you feel more cheerful.

A short while later, Keegan and Lowe returned and replaced Wang Zhiqiang and Will.

Rowe picked up his phone and started clicking; Blizzard must have woken up and was chatting with him.

Keegan remained standing to the side, seemingly trying to blend into the night.

Okay, now it's your turn to become the silent trio.

Just as you're getting so bored you're thinking of closing your eyes and taking a nap, someone sits down next to you.

Next came Keegan's hushed voice.

"Kid, I think I'll choose your zombies."

Chapter 84: Capabilities and Safety

You suddenly open your eyes and turn your head to look at Keegan sitting not far from you.

"Why? Wait, do you know what a zombie is?"

What happened while you were gone that made Keegan choose the zombies?

Keegan nodded: "Love told me."

This makes you curious: "Then why did you choose the zombie?"

Keegan: "Because it's powerful, hard to kill, and very strong. If I became a zombie, I could do even more than I do now."

You nodded, that's true.

Although zombies are a bit ugly, they are incredibly powerful in combat, and strong zombies are very difficult to kill; they can even recover from serious injuries.

Unlike vampires, which can be dealt with by garlic, holy water, or crucifixes, they are completely destroyed by sunlight.

In this respect, zombies are probably better than vampires, except that they are a bit uglier and lack consciousness.

but...

You ask Keegan, "But if you become a zombie, aren't you afraid the Taoist priests will catch you?"

Keegan: "Then I'll just avoid him."

You jokingly tease him, "The Taoist priest is very powerful, he even has tracking devices, how are you going to hide?"

Keegan's voice was deep and tinged with a hint of mockery:

"Don't worry, concealment is my forte."

Is he making fun of his own profession?

Well, you can't argue with that.

You quickly change the subject: "Although zombies are ugly, they are indeed quite powerful."

Keegan looked at you, his voice slow but firm:

"When it comes to ability, appearance is secondary. Only by being strong enough can you survive, and only by surviving can you have infinite possibilities. Remember that, Kid?"

You can't read the emotions in his eyes, but you agree with what he says.

"I'll remember that, Sergeant, you're absolutely right."

But you still wouldn't choose to become a zombie, because it's just too ugly!

However, you will strive to become stronger, no matter the cost or how many corpses you have to step on, you will do your best to survive!

Two hours passed quickly, and you and the next shift went back to your rooms to rest.

After another five hours of sleep, you got out of bed feeling refreshed.

By this time, several male soldiers had already gotten up and were sitting at the long table eating a simple breakfast.

Looking at the dry bread and fried eggs in front of them, you have absolutely no appetite.

You head to the kitchen, pick through a pile of ingredients, and since you rarely have a kitchen, you might as well cook something you want to eat.

As for whether it tastes good or not... well, it's for my own consumption, so who would criticize my cooking skills?

You selected some vegetables, eggs, chicken, and rice from a pile of ingredients.

It seems that people in Turkey don't eat pork. The refrigerator only had chicken and beef. The beef was too tough, so you chose chicken.

Their rice is also different from what you've encountered before; it's longer and feels like it might be a bit dry to cook.

You open your phone and search for recipes for chicken congee.

Boil water in a pot, put the rice in and cook it. While it's cooking, you can slice some ginger to marinate the chicken and remove any fishy smell. You cut the chicken into larger pieces so it will be easier to pick it out later.

Then chop the greens; we can make a light cold salad to go with the porridge later.

Just as you were busy, you heard Wang Zhiqiang's voice from behind you.

"Hey sis, making breakfast?"

You turn to look at him and politely ask, "Would you like some? If so, I'll make more."

Wang Zhiqiang certainly wouldn't refuse: "Of course!"

At that moment, Keegan also came down the stairs and walked towards you, probably also looking for food.

You ask as usual, and then one more taster joins.

As you put the chicken and salt into the pot, Vita appears, and the taster adds another.

You had no choice but to fry a few more eggs, and fearing that Keegan and Vita might not like it, you also fried two slices of bread.

Before long, chicken porridge, cold vegetable salad, fried eggs, and fried bread were placed in front of the four of you.

The chicken porridge was very hot, so you told them to be careful to cool it down.

Wang Zhiqiang was very kind and praised your cooking skills.

You felt a little embarrassed by his exaggerated praise.

After trying it, Vita didn't give it exaggerated praise, but she still gave it a good review.

Keegan... ah, he took the plate and carried the food away.

Yes, he always wears a mask, probably because he doesn't want others to see what he looks like.

After eating, you went for a walk outside the house. Once everyone was up, you immediately got ready to leave.

Local police received information from a neighboring district that another group of drug traffickers had clashed with police in the previous district five days earlier, and then disappeared after fleeing into this district.

Police in the area had been conducting a thorough investigation for several days, but to no avail; the drug dealers seemed to have vanished from the area.

It's not hard to deduce that they have a rendezvous point in this area, or to put it more precisely, a drug manufacturing site.

After all, no one can carry a large amount of drugs across a country, not just once but multiple times. How lax must the country's security be?

Therefore, the most likely explanation is that these drug traffickers set up a drug manufacturing site here.

In this way, all that's needed is to bring in some materials.

As for why the drug production site was set up in this area, it's naturally because this area is a necessary transit point for them and an important transportation hub.

After all, the most dangerous place is the safest place, and people tend to overlook the most obvious answer.

Setting it up here is convenient and quick; as much as needed can be produced and sent away directly, and the drug production site is difficult to detect.

This is your inference.

Now that the drug dealers have entered the area, it's time to start manufacturing the drugs.

Five days is exactly the time required to manufacture drugs, and it's also the time it takes to deplete police resources.

"They'll probably start taking action in the next couple of days."

After Gates finished speaking, he took a pen and circled a location on the regional map.

"This is where the target enters, and they need to reach this border."

Then he circled a location on the far edge of the map and drew a straight line between the two circles.

"Two out of the three points of a criminal's psychological safety zone have already appeared, so as long as we find the last point, the next step will be to find their drug production site."

A person's behavior is influenced by their psychology, no matter what they do, good or bad.

The psychological safety zone refers to the area where a person is most familiar with and feels safest.

Whatever he wants to do, he will prioritize this area and then gradually expand outwards.

Once you know the psychological safety zone of drug dealers, your next step is to investigate their drug production sites.

Therefore, your primary objective now is to catch the next batch of drug traffickers transporting drugs across the border!

However, the distance between the starting point and the destination is too long, and you cannot waste time on meaningless searches.

"We'll stay here and wait for them!"

Gates took the pen and tapped it on the circle at the border.

Waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump takes time, but it's better than searching for a needle in a haystack, since they have to pass by there anyway.

"But the border stretches for over two hundred kilometers. How can we intercept them?"

Lo Wei raised a question.

Gates pursed his lips, seemingly considering the same question.

This is also why the local police have been unable to accurately intercept them.

The distance is too great; it's impossible to determine where the target will enter the border.

Wang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "Then we'll force them to narrow down their search area!"

ch.85: Lollipop

Narrow down the scope?