Chapter 954: Save when you can, spend when you can
Until I woke up the next day, my phone was silent and my dad never contacted me.
This "peace and quiet" made me feel a little better. The fact that he didn't look for me showed that he still had a bottom line in his heart.
Xiao Shiqiu got up earlier than me. When I was washing up, he was already sitting at the dining table drinking coffee and looking at his tablet.
Seeing me come out, he put down the cup and looked at me gently: "Boris's plan was approved. He is very efficient and has already started to assemble personnel and prepare equipment.
Boris promised that the elite vanguard would arrive at the outskirts of Avar and be on standby by tomorrow night at the latest.
I'll have someone transfer the deposit today."
I sat down with the milk in my hand, thinking about the quotation on the plan, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Um... the quotation is not negotiable? No discount at all?" As soon as I said it, I felt a little silly. I was afraid that I would never be able to get rid of the label of being stingy.
As expected, Xiao Shiqiu was amused by me, and he laughed very loudly.
I looked at him resentfully, and he put down the tablet with a mischievous smile in his eyes: "Little money-grubber, are you still thinking about this?
That's Boris' style, especially when it comes to hostage security operations, he likes to use saturation attacks.
This money buys a higher success rate and the guarantee that our people will come back alive."
He paused, as if wanting to explain how well the money was spent, and added, "Moreover, a large portion of weapons and equipment are not purely consumables. Only ammunition is gone once it's fired.
Good equipment, properly maintained, can be used again on the next mission.
This is much more cost-effective than those luxury goods that can only be worn once.
We should save when we can and spend when we can.”
It sounds nice, but in his eyes, everything should be spent, and I don't know what he thinks should be saved.
I laughed dryly twice: "Okay, okay, Mr. Xiao is right, you are still quite good at living."
But in my heart I had to admit that his logic was irrefutable.
Human life cannot be measured by money.
After quickly finishing my breakfast, I went to a nearby place to pack breakfast for my colleagues at the operations center and drove over immediately.
When I pushed open the door of the monitoring room, a strong smell of coffee hit me in the face.
The large screen on the wall showed that it was still past two in the morning in Avar, and the view was dim.
But it was not the fixed picture I imagined. On the screen, the picture from Fang Dongmei's glasses was moving, in night vision state. She was still awake at this time, and she was definitely not wandering around outside.
Luo Yong, Xu Wenjie, and two other technicians gathered in front of the main console, their eyes red from staying up late, but their minds were highly focused.
Xu Wenjie's messy hair became even more messy, and blue stubble appeared on Luo Yong's chin.
They stared intently at the multiple split screens in front of them, their fingers occasionally tapping rapidly on the keyboard, or whispering into the headset: "Turn left, there's no one within a hundred meters ahead."
They didn't even raise an eyelid when I came in with the fragrant breakfast.
The tense atmosphere in the monitoring room made me subconsciously slow down my breathing.
I quietly placed my breakfast on the table next to me, found a place to sit down, and quickly glanced at the home screen.
On the screen, Fang Dongmei was using the cover of night to sneak silently inside the base like a nimble cat.
She moved swiftly, making full use of shadows and obstacles, as well as Luo Yong and Xu Wenjie's surveillance of the base's cameras, to avoid the occasional patrol lights that swept through the corridors.
The image transmitted back was a little shaky, but clear enough.
I didn't know what Fang Dongmei was going to do now, and the others were so focused that I didn't dare ask them.
I sat quietly by the side and watched the screen, feeling like I was watching a live broadcast.
She cautiously entered the building where she was having the medical examination and quietly went down the stairs. Luo Yong reminded her, "The main underground corridor is safe."
Fang Dongmei went down to the basement. At the end of the corridor was a locked iron door. Fang Dongmei took out a tool and tried to unlock it. Luo Yong hurriedly stopped her: "Snowy Owl, don't unlock it. There are three guards inside."
Fang Dongmei stopped, took out something that looked like a small insect from her backpack and stuffed it through the crack in the door. There was a thin black rope trailing behind the insect.
The other end of the string was a mobile phone interface. She plugged the interface into a mobile phone, and then her vision became the mobile phone screen.
It turned out that the thin rope was a miniature camera, and the scene behind the iron gate appeared on the screen.
The images transmitted from the micro camera made the air in the monitoring room freeze instantly.
Behind the door was a large basement with a high ceiling, lit by a few pale light tubes, and the light was cold.
There are two rows of prison-like doors on both sides of the corridor. A preliminary count shows that there are about thirty doors.
Fang Dongmei controlled the insect-like micro-monitor and continued to move forward. When she reached the first door, she inserted the camera through the crack in the door.
Although I was mentally prepared, the scene before me still made me gasp.
There were four bunk beds in the small space, making it look like an old-fashioned school dormitory.
The difference is that there are no windows, no bathroom, no tables, no wardrobes and other things.
There is a toilet in the innermost corner and a small sink next to it.
prison!
This was my first reaction when I saw it.
The camera moved upwards, and there was a person lying on each bed. Fang Dongmei looked at five or six such cells in a row. Some were fully occupied by eight people, some by five or six people, and the smallest one had only three people.
Since it was around three in the morning, most people were still asleep.
It felt dead everywhere, with only the sound of breathing coming and going, occasionally someone couldn't help coughing, and from time to time someone would let out a painful groan.
The camera moved slowly, scanning across faces that were still frowning even in their sleep.
Suddenly, the picture stopped at a lower bunk near the iron gate. A very young girl, who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, was lying on the bed.
She curled up in bed, her body shaking.
When the camera was facing her, she seemed to feel something, and turned her head suddenly, staring at the crack in the door, which was right in front of the camera!
She opened her mouth, her cracked lips moved, but no sound came out. Her eyes were full of fear, and there seemed to be a little hope.
"Oh my God, there are so many people locked up here! There are even children!" Xu Wenjie finally couldn't help but exclaimed.
Luo Yong was much calmer than him and said calmly, "Snowy Owl retreated. We have discovered that there may be a large number of detainees in the underground level. The number is estimated to be over a hundred."
Fang Dongmei made an OK gesture with her hand, but she did not withdraw the camera immediately. Instead, she let the camera slowly crawl towards the only room with lights on in the middle of the corridor.
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