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February 2, 11, 03:27 EST

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Raphael, who was constantly under fire, had no chance to see the telegram.

Now she just wanted to keep some distance and let her sisters spread out, to build a stable defensive fire line, or get a chance to retreat with alternating cover.

However, the members of the BEAR combat group stuck together tightly, and fought with a desperate attitude, as if no one else could do it but them.

They also had the assistance of Eastern European refugees. Although they were all skinny and shivering in the cold, unable to run or shoot accurately, they were always able to delay their retreat.

Following a routine can make life easier, or it can make it shorter.

They expressed their dissatisfaction with fate through their actions and were willing to give it a try with their last bit of strength.

A few minutes ago, Lingyin used a grenade launcher to kill the refugee militants who were blocking the retreat, thus clearing a retreat route.

But immediately, gunshots were heard from the right wing, which scared Lvhui, who was in charge of that direction.

"Don't block my way," she turned and leaned against a thick tree trunk, raised her gun and fired three shots rapidly, killing the gunman who took advantage of the chaos to get within a hundred meters.

Chapter 35 The Function of Branches

The breeze brought drizzle, washing away all the sins that had happened in this nameless forest.

Raphael wiped his face with his hands.

"Don't touch those branches."

She saw Fei Niao scolding Lu Hui, a child who only had rich theoretical experience and was interested in anything he had not seen with his own eyes.

"Why?" Lu Hui asked in confusion.

"A fresh break will become an indicator of the enemy, telling the tracker that someone has been to this area before."

This is something you must pay attention to when you are in the forest. These inconspicuous branches look very natural at first glance, and there is nothing strange about them.

You can see that there are many black areas at the far end of the branches, which is because the fracture surface has been oxidized.

But if someone passes by it roughly and accidentally breaks those fresh branches, someone will become unfriendly.

The key lies in the cross-sectional window of the branch. If you observe carefully, you can see the white-green core of the tree.

As a tracker, when you see the broken branch while walking, you will realize that it is fresh and know that it is a good indication that someone has just passed by here and is not too far away.

Maybe it was an animal, maybe not. The breaking of the branches would have been caused by an elk rushing past.

At this time, other reserve knowledge is needed. For example, Raphael now knows that no wild elk can be seen in this forest area in Frankfurt.

In addition, if the person being tracked is on the run and is eager to create distance, he or she will be running madly and it is easy to leave such traces.

Especially when tracking someone's footsteps, such traces are enough to show that the two parties are very close.

So if possible, try to avoid breaking branches when walking through woods and forests.

Asuka was absolutely right to scold Luhui harshly for his rash behavior just now.

But it will happen eventually, so make a conscious effort to avoid it.

But in some places stepping on branches is a good idea.

The branches of some shrub species are very resilient. People who step on them need to be aware that they will not break, and stepping on them at this time will bring unexpected benefits.

When you step on them, you don't create footprints on the ground.

The branches of those thick shrubs will break unceremoniously if they are too heavy or poorly chosen.

More often than not, this very vigorous, thick bush, they'll go back to where they were.

This makes it difficult to find footprints.

This is especially useful in snowy environments, as walking in the snow leaves footprints, which are almost impossible to cover up.

Snow has the property of leaving traces no matter what you do.

So in an environment like this, especially when you step on bushes that don't have much snow on them, the branches will return to their original state.

This can make someone's life very, very difficult.

However, don't be impulsive and try to go through the thick bushes directly, as that will leave traces of all the vegetation falling in one direction.

Such fresh and large-scale traces will make the tracker excited - he is about to catch the prey.

There are also some methods that people often talk about, such as the "reversing the soles of shoes" method, which is discussed as a curiosity in daily conversation to create the illusion that they are walking in the opposite direction.

But overall, these are just little tricks that are not presentable.

An experienced tracker can deduce a lot from footprints.

Raphael and the other four were all wearing a certain kind of boots, or in other words, everyone was wearing the same type of boots, so the marks left by the soles on the ground should be the same.

If she found something unfamiliar, she could point to the fact that jungle boots are rarely worn in the United States today—they were common during the Vietnam War—and are also common among foreign powers.

If Raphael had seen this type of shoe, the boot print with the Panama sole, which is very recognizable, she would have known that this was most likely not her teammate.

This means someone has been here recently.

If it has just rained and the footprint is still fresh, OK, you win; but if it is deeply embedded in the soil and has been dry for a while, there are more things to pay attention to.

Based on this kind of footprint, you can also observe what its owner was doing when the foot landed.

Running and walking footprints are completely different, so it is easy to tell them apart from one another. You can also measure their stride length to figure out their running or walking speed, and thus deduce their approximate range of activity.

"Xiao Si still has a lot to learn."

Lingyin leaned against a towering tree, half-knelt and held a gun in her hand.

In terms of physical strength, she can easily handle the XM250 even if it is decorated as a Christmas tree.

She tilted her head slightly and glanced at her somewhat dejected sister out of the corner of her eye.

“This is a necessary process, isn’t it?”

"Raphael, please report the surrounding border conditions."

"Lingyin and I are on guard and providing cover. There are no problems at the moment."

"Today's field teaching mission is over. We will be right back. Don't fire at the 4 o'clock direction. That's us."

"Don't go too fast, this forest area is very open," Raphael reminded.

Bang, bang, two gunshots came from the direction Fei Niao reported.

"what happened?"

"There is a machine gun position here. They were firing just now." Fei Niao looked around and said, "The KSK Brigade of the National Defense Forces died two days ago."

She casually flipped through the things around her and scolded with a smile: "You bitch, this position is set up very beautifully."

"It's a pity it didn't work."

Fei Niao picked up a piece of the broken fragment, examined it for a moment and said, "Russian-made RGD-5 grenade."

Seeing Fei Niao speaking like Sherlock Holmes, Lu Hui asked in surprise, "How did you recognize him?"

I saw the bird flipping over the fragments, which had "D-5" and some unrecognizable Russian letters written on them.

The machine gun team was destroyed very quickly. The RGD-5 grenade will produce about 350 fragments after detonation, but the radius of ascension is very short, about 3 meters.

The two KSK brigade soldiers and their MG5 general-purpose machine guns remained where they were, and their equipment and supplies were not turned over.

This means that the attacker's grenade hit the target and the attacker is not interested in their enemy.

"...Oh, it's okay." Xiao Si was silent. Okay, being good at observation is equally important.

"But we are still very lucky. If this place had not been attacked before, this machine gun team would have definitely beaten us to a pulp."

"It seems we have the Russians to thank for this lucky attack."

"No, I don't want to say thank you to them." Lingyin refused.

Raphael agreed absolutely: "I don't want to either."

Two minutes later, accompanied by rustling sounds, Fei Niao brought Xiao Si into the safe zone.

"Okay, stop complaining about anyone." Fei Niao said, throwing out a package, "Recycled hard drive, do you want to collect data?"

"Let's go back to our hiding place."

Chapter 36 Satellite Anomalies

Fort Meade, Maryland.

Bob Stanley frowned at the fruit cake. I shouldn't have dessert, the intelligence analyst reminded Byte.

But the NSA restaurant only serves this cake once a week, and the cake made with various fresh fruits is his favorite.

Besides, it’s only 300 calories, no big deal. Can’t you just exercise on the exercise bike for another half an hour when you get home?

"Bob, what do you think of the comments in the newspaper?" asked one of his colleagues.

"Are you talking about the Frankfurt incident?" Bob looked at the confidential badge on the man's chest again. He was not qualified to understand the on-site intelligence. "It seems that they have to face a disaster, which is purely caused by humans."

"You haven't seen the official report yet?"

"I can only say that the information disclosed in the newspaper came from someone with a higher level than me."

"Top secret - top secret revealed by the newspaper?" The two laughed.

"That's about right. I haven't seen the information revealed in the news reports." Bob said, and what he said was basically the truth.

The appearance of such a large number of refugees in the central states is itself a strange phenomenon.

Like when there were a large number of refugees at the Texas border in the past, the state government paid for them to be sent to New York, California and other places using McDonald's coupons, buses, planes and other means of transportation.

He wanted to say that the Germans should really pick up their rigorous and meticulous style again and figure out what was going on.

People in his department have been talking about why the Germans let the refugees in.

"Judging from their reactions, this humanitarian crisis will not have much impact on them. I mean, at most, no one will be willing to accept refugees anymore."

"Of course. How does the cake taste?"

"Not bad," smiled Bob, who was already considering spending some extra time on the exercise bike.

Compared to this, the satellite control department has been in trouble recently, which has also affected the work of the satellite intelligence analysis department.

Bob found it very strange. Since it was confirmed that the satellite control key had not been stolen, the problem must lie with the onboard system itself.

The soft control systems of those Keyhole satellites in the same series may have malfunctioned.

Two months ago, NASA appeared to have fixed the error by remotely flashing the system, but the problem recently reappeared.

Engineers on the ground even saw it spend 17 hours turning over, using its sensors and high-precision lenses to take pictures of the universe...

This is why satellite intelligence agencies always receive useless photos.

It’s just that those satellites are still very young, so the consideration is to save fuel and extend their lifespan.

Before the cause of the control system problem was figured out, all the Keyhole satellite systems in this batch received sleep commands sent by the ground control center.

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In the forest northeast of the institute, Raphael set up a camouflage net after confirming that the surrounding area was safe.

To her surprise, Lingyin and the others arranged their temporary residence in an orderly manner.

Ammunition depot, food storage, rest area, and even two powerful professional laptops powered by solar panels.

The cables and solar panels are handled so well that they won't be visible unless you look closely.

Asuka sat in the corner, resting with her eyes closed. Suzune fiddled with her 6.8 machine gun belt, hesitating between 300 rounds and 200 rounds, not knowing which one to choose.

Raphael walked over and put the two hundred rounds of ammunition into the ammunition box.

“带两条300发的，剩下的全带100发弹链。”她左右看了看，说道：“嗯，这枪用不了XM5/M7的弹匣……你那3Day背包记得用2/3的容量携带备用弹链。”