Within buildings in the Middle East, structures that lead underground represent the highest risk.
Ray and Bullock were the frontline soldiers of the team. After Bullock took the Cerberus, who also wore a gas mask, and walked down the stairs first, Ray followed behind and prepared to go down as usual.
However, as soon as Lei approached the door, he was squeezed away by a burly body.
It's Jason!
"Leave it to me, Ray."
Jason pushed Lei aside and took his place. As soon as he finished speaking, he followed Bullock in front and formed a new two-man vanguard with Bullock.
Normally, the captain, as the team commander, should not face the first risk of the operation.
But now it happened.
Long Zhan, who was standing behind, saw this scene, with a hint of envy in his smile.
He understood that Jason was protecting Ray, and he didn't want Ray, who was about to become a father, to be injured or even die unexpectedly at such an important time.
As the captain, Jason took on his responsibility and took the risk on Ray's behalf.
Long Zhan, an outsider, can see the reason. As Jason's best partner on the battlefield and best friend in ordinary life, Lei also understands Jason's deep meaning.
Lei didn't say a word, but his eyes were filled with strong gratitude when he looked at Jason for getting to know his junior.
As the two vanguards entered one after another, everyone in Team B maintained the standard CQB team advancement formation and walked along the stairs to the basement.
"Whirring whirring--"
It was very quiet in the basement, the only sound was the heavy breathing of Team B under their gas masks.
After walking down the stairs for about one and a half floors, after passing the last corner, the view suddenly opened up.
A spacious basement appeared in front of you.
The room is more than 100 square meters, and there are six lights on that are not dim.
The room is also filled with many long experimental tables, with various bottles and cans placed messily on the tables, and various discarded shells and experimental containers randomly placed on the ground.
It looked like it had not been used for a long time and had been damaged to some extent.
Suspected of eliminating evidence!
"Safety!"
After some inspections by Team B, it was determined that there was no danger in this basement hall.
Jason said to Long Zhan: "B6, go and bring the expert team down. It's their turn to do their work."
"receive."
Long Zhan nodded, turned around and walked towards the stairs.
A few minutes later.
After being specially reminded by Long Zhan to put on gas masks, the three-person expert team all arrived in this basement that was not simple at first sight.
"Damn it."
Dr. Lucian frowned as soon as he went down to the basement: "The damage is more serious than I thought. It will be more troublesome for me to get samples like this. I need to clean the instruments and tidy up the place first."
"Does it affect our plan?" Jason asked.
"I can't say the specific impact, but it's not a good thing." Dr. Lucian was helpless.
"Okay, then I'll leave this place to you, Lei. Come with me. The others will stay here to help and check the surroundings in detail."
Jason was not an expert in biochemistry, so he didn't pretend to be an expert and asked questions here. He simply handed over the task to the expert team.
The purpose of calling Lei out was not a special concern. It was just that Lei was carrying the team's communication equipment. If he didn't come out of the basement, there would be no signal, and Jason would be unable to communicate with the headquarters.
Jason took Lei out of the basement, returned to the first floor of the hospital, and closed the sealed door of the laboratory.
He took off his gas mask and called: "Combat center, this is B1. We have secured the laboratory, and foreign aid experts are collecting samples. We expect to be able to evacuate within an hour."
Iraq.
Sykes forward military base.
After receiving the communication from Jason, Mandy, who was in charge of the team's evacuation, shouted: "The combat center has received it. We have prepared some local transportation for your evacuation, but there is bad news.
A recent passing satellite night vision image shows that the engagement to your east is not looking good.
The FSB troops are retreating rapidly, but the Syrian army is not pursuing them. Although they have not made any movements for the time being, this is not a good sign.
If they turn around and attack you, you may only have 20 minutes to get out of there before you're trapped by the Syrian army.
It is recommended that you act as quickly as possible. I will notify you immediately if there is any new situation. "
Hearing the bad news from Mandy, Jason did not panic at all. He just frowned and replied: "B1 received it, the problem is not big, we will go far before then." ."
As soon as Jason finished the call with the command, a call came from the earpiece.
"B1, I am B6. You need to come to the second floor. I discovered a new situation."
"Second floor?"
Jason was stunned for a moment and asked: "The stairs leading to the second floor have been destroyed. How did you get up there?"
"There is an exit at the other end of the basement. You can go straight to the second floor along the exit. The situation here is not good. You need to come over and deal with it." Long Zhan said.
"almost there!"
Jason felt the seriousness of the matter from Long Zhan's tone.
Putting on the gas mask again, He Lei re-entered the basement, passed through the busy laboratory hall of Dr. Lucien and others, passed through two doors and came to the end, where he saw an upward staircase.
The two of them walked up the stairs, passed through the same sealed iron door, and entered the corridor on the second floor.
The scene in the corridor made the two of them feel terrified.
On the floor of the corridor, which was more than one meter wide, lay many corpses that had been dead for a long time and started to smell, as well as corpses with pale skin that had just died.
Under the corridor lights that flickered from time to time, those who didn't know it thought it was the scene of a horror movie.
And through the limited dim lighting, it can be distinguished that these dead people are all civilians, not militants or terrorists.
The entire hospital has been evacuated, and the stairs leading to the first floor have been blown up. There are also six armed "security guards" guarding the inside and outside of the first floor of the hospital.
How could there be so many civilians in the hospital under such a complete lockdown?
Jason and Lei looked at each other. Although they didn't know what was going on, their instincts reminded them that things here were by no means simple.
