My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1126 - 1054: Utterly Insane! The Emergence of Qiong Tu Bi!_2
In the Baldet region, they’ve long been accustomed to lawlessness.
Shouting and yelling several times didn’t make them leave; they immediately started to drag people away by force.
Resist? Looking for death?
One by one, the armed militants raised their AK assault rifles and aimed at the heads of the five engineers.
Now, who would dare to move?
Although they were terribly frightened, the engineers had all received corresponding training before going abroad.
Human life is more important than money.
Especially so in war-torn conflict zones.
If money can solve the problem, don’t try brute force, after all, you only have one life.
Although they had undergone some training and each person had learned to shoot, and they also decided whether to be equipped with self-defense weapons according to the situation of the project site, more important than the use of force was to assess the situation.
Looking at the current situation...
How could these five engineers, who had only basic training, be a match for so many armed militants with loaded guns?
If these uncultivated and immoral armed thugs got provoked,
Being sprayed with gunfire and killed, no amount of condolence money from the group could bring back their lives afterward.
It’s better to stay alive and worry about other things later.
The engineers did not resist or shout, and cooperatively said they would bring the network maintenance equipment and materials and then go.
In the meantime, they discreetly sounded the alarm.
Of course.
This alarm was not to call the Nabiya police.
In such a chaotic and disorderly country, what good would it do to find them? Seeking psychological comfort?
The engineers, through the smartwatches on their wrists, sent out an emergency rescue signal to the security department and the headquarters of the subsidiary, with the most important data being the first sent out: the time and location.
At the same time, they tried to use the ultra-miniature cameras and microphones on the smartwatches to capture the current environment, whether for future armed rescue or negotiation with kidnappers, more intelligence was beneficial for the rescue.
Next, the five engineers cooperatively got on the armed trucks of the Cheetah Organization and left.
Unexpectedly...
The technician stationed at the communication base by Nabiya Telecom suddenly ran out.
Insisting that the network server was running normally, it was impossible for the network to go down in the affluent area.
He wanted the militants to spare these five engineers from Liuli Continent, but this kind-hearted technician was shot dead on the spot.
The rattle of gunshots from the mountaintop lasted a good while.
At the foot of the mountain, the women and children scavenging in the garbage dump were not panicked or scared away.
In a place like Baldet, with its war and turmoil, it would be strange not to hear gunshots any day.
Exactly.
Many people were actually waiting.
Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the militants’ trucks passed through the garbage dump and simply abandoned the technician’s body.
There was no need to take the trouble to bury him; those poor and hungry people would dismember the body in minutes.
Of course, they wouldn’t eat it but would sell it cheaply to the unsuspecting after minimal processing.
So...
Tragedy was unfolding in the darkness before dawn.
The five engineers who knew they’d been duped, of course, did not fight back.
Since they’d already sounded the alarm, they might as well wait calmly.
If these militants wanted to kill them, they would have shot them already.
The fact that they still needed to lie and arrange transportation clearly indicated they needed the engineers for their value.
Amid the humming of engines, several armed trucks navigated through sewage-ridden, pothole-filled roads, past rows of low and disorderly shanty towns and finally entered a heavily guarded affluent area that resembled a large estate.
...
Radio waves travel at the speed of light.
The news of the five engineers being forcibly kidnapped quickly alarmed the security department.
The Jiazhou security department, of course, also received the alarm signal and immediately activated the emergency response mechanism.
As the person in charge of security here, Hu Anbiao, was still in the air when he received the news.
There’s just too much happening tonight.
The War Statistics Institute’s special aircraft was shot down, Tang Xiao and others fell into the wilderness, Wu Jie flew to the rescue...
After everyone barely managed to escape from the predicament, they were now crowded in a small aircraft, flying back to Xikelse.
How could an engineer kidnapping incident happen in Baldet again while the plane hadn’t even landed here yet?
On the cramped plane, with the engine roaring continuously, Hu Anbiao felt annoyed trying to update Wu Jie and his wife.
So he simply ordered others to take action in accordance with the emergency response mechanism.
The current situation is still okay; it’s a hostage situation, not a massacre.
The five engineers weren’t treated brutally; their physical condition was fine, and their smartwatches hadn’t been removed, allowing for an accurate grasp of their detention location.
This is crucial for the rescue operation.
Of course.
Since it is a hostage situation, there must be demands for interests.
If possible, paying ransom to resolve the issue is the preferred option.
After all, the policy of the group is that employee lives are more important than money.
In over ten minutes, Hu Anbiao received the second update.
The five engineers were requested to fix the network, but they were confined in a room without being beaten or injured.
A person with a DV camera recorded them, asking them to tell their names, ages, employee numbers, ID numbers, and so on.
After recording, they even left behind some fruits and snacks.
Of course, there were also two armed militants with loaded guns left behind to guard the door.
I estimate that it won’t be long before the group receives a blackmail email with outrageous demands, including the video as evidence.
This kind of thing is not unprecedented.
Not just Tanglong Industrial Group, but many other companies have had similar experiences.
Especially during the years when piracy was rampant, several shipping companies suffered and had to pay ransom for their crewmembers.
After all, how can you mobilize police forces to storm and rescue hostages when you are thousands of miles from home in unfamiliar territory?
In war-torn and conflict areas, even children can shoot guns, and weapons are disastrously prolific...
Storming in to rescue hostages?
That’s more likely to not only threaten the hostages’ lives but also wipe out the rescue team.
Reality is not a TV drama; where are those incredible superheroes?
In this case, with five engineers kidnapped and confined in the affluent area of Baldet, with strict security, numerous armed militants, and a range of light and heavy weapons, how can they be rescued?
Disguised infiltration?
Are all those militants blind?
Parachute in with a forceful assault?
Do they think their weapons are just wooden sticks?
Actually, what should be done is to actively gather intelligence and strive to gain favorable negotiation conditions.
Early morning.
When the sunshine sprinkled across the earth, the severely overloaded small aircraft finally landed shakily on a stretch of road outside the bustling city.
Qian Le had arrived earlier with people to meet them and immediately reported the latest situation of the hostage kidnapping case.
By this time, the kidnappers had already made their demands clear, stating that Wu Jie should bring three particular items for the exchange.
As for what those items were, Wu Jie was fully aware.
Moreover, there was no time to delay; the items had to be air-shipped to Baldet by noon.
For every hour of delay, one hostage would be executed in a ritualistic manner, and the video would be posted online.
For the sake of nuclear warheads, some people have truly discarded all shame.
Since it’s come to this, brother naturally has to accompany them to the end...
