Chapter 3229: Desert search

On the second day, the O2 team set off to the desert near the incident site for a search operation.
"We currently have two main targets. The first is the mobile base that the Americans once found in the desert. Although the Americans once again used satellites to search, it has been shown that there is nothing in this area. However, satellite inspections must be too much. There are many limitations, so we must go there again and check on the spot to see if there are any traces left by the other party." Lin Rui said solemnly. "The other location is not far from the coordinates of the mobile base. A terrorist organization called the North African Liberation Front used to operate there. We have to go over and check it again. Is the mission clear?"
"Understand the boss." Sergey and the other mercenaries nodded.
"You'd better be vigilant, I feel that this action should not be that simple." Lin Rui whispered. The vehicle drove all the way out of the city until it entered the desert area. After reaching the first destination, Lin Rui got out of the car and looked at the long desert. Crazy Horse frowned, "This is the location of the mobile base that the Americans found on the satellite? It looks like nothing."
"Yes, but according to satellite images, it should be a small temporary base consisting of vehicles. If it is really to be evacuated, it will not leave anything." Lin Rui turned around and said, "Attention everyone, search this carefully. Area, according to the display of satellite coordinates, the error will not exceed 100 meters. Search carefully, you should find something."
"Damn it, there's nothing here except sand. Maybe those people ran away long ago, leaving no traces." Sergey shook his head.
"It is absolutely impossible. As long as someone has been active here, they will definitely leave traces." Lin Rui shook his head and said, "Search carefully!" After searching this desert area for nearly half an hour, they finally found something. The first person who discovered the problem was the black Azeri, this guy followed the French Foreign Legion, often in the desert. He first noticed an anomaly and greeted Lin Rui and others to go over.
"What did you find?" Lin Rui walked over and whispered.
"I cleaned the surface sand and found this place is a bit unusual." Azeri whispered, "Look at it! What is this?"
"Isn't this still sand?" Sergey frowned.
"Yes, this is still sand, but this sand is different from other places. You see, the color of this sand is very dark, what does this mean?" Azeri pointed to the sand on the ground.
"The sand is dark?" Sergey was startled.
But Lin Rui crouched down, grabbed a handful of sand with his hand, pinched it in his hand, then let go, and said in a low voice, "This sand is dark in color and can be squeezed into a ball, indicating that the sand has a high water content."
"Yes, there is no such sign in other places, only here." Azeri nodded, "This shows that there is water in the ground, and someone has drilled a well here."
"Well in the desert?" Sergey said in amazement.
"The desert is not as dry as you think. It is just because of the large amount of evaporation on the surface, so the surface is very dry, but there are a lot of groundwater in many places, and some places even have underground rivers and underground lakes. It is in the desert all year round. The Tuaregs who live here know more about these." Azeri whispered.
"This is what you found?" Sergey shook his head. "What we are looking for is the traces left by someone here, but what underground water source are you talking about?"
"Why don't you understand? This water comes from an underground aquifer. Someone used a machine to drill a well here, reaching the depth of the underground aquifer, and then buried a pipe to make a mechanical well. Just use a pump to pump water. It must be man-made to be able to pump groundwater to the ground through a pipe. This damp sand is because although they have gone, the well left by them still exists. So the sand here is wetter than other places." Ai Zelli explained.
"He was right. If there was a temporary base here. Then there must be a water source, and there is no oasis nearby. Extracting groundwater has become the most feasible way." Lin Rui nodded, "The base should be there. Inside. Look around here, there should be discoveries."
"But what should we look for?" Sergey frowned.
"Any trace, there used to be a base here, and some people lived here. Some people will produce and feces. These things are usually buried in situ. Finding these things can help us judge what we used to stay here. People. For example, the food packaging bags left after the food is used up. Based on the origin date, we can roughly judge where the other party came from and how long they have been here. As long as you are careful, you can always find some clues." Lin Rui shook his head.
The crowd continued to scatter and search, but this time it was Sergey who found it. He found a pile of empty cans buried in the ground. "Canned ham, French goods." Sergey threw the empty can to Lin Rui. Lin Rui picked it up and took a look, "Very well. This at least shows that the extremists in this camp are not. They don't eat ham."
"Boss, these people are very ghosts. I guess I can't find other useful information here." Sergey shook his head, "They are all buried in the empty cans. It is even more impossible to leave other things."
Lin Rui nodded, "Regardless of who was here, they are very organized and disciplined, and they act very carefully."
"Boss, we also found them there, but they all looked like burned things, some melted together, like plastic products, and some burned paper products. And the burning was very thorough, and there was no complete word left. "Crazy Horse came over and said, "It should be that there is a dedicated garbage incinerator in their vehicle. To ensure that no garbage will be left behind."
"Interesting, large command vehicles, butterfly communication antennas. There are also special garbage incinerators." Lin Rui frowned, "and they also eat canned ham. These people are definitely not terrorists. But they may be better than terrorists. It is also dangerous. Because they have the financial resources, and they have quite strict execution ability. They evacuated immediately after being found, leaving almost no useful traces."
"Do you think it is our old friends, those in the secret society?" Crazy Horse asked Lin Rui in a low voice.
"This is not yet certain. Although some of their characteristics are indeed similar to the secret society, they cannot be speculated at will." Lin Rui shook his head, "We need more evidence to make such a judgment."
"Apart from them, I really can't think of anyone else with such a well-organized and rich financial resources." Crazy Horse sighed.