Spark

Inside the VP13 armored personnel carrier, Qiao Mai was wearing a bulletproof vest, looking nervously at the data on the screen of the mobile terminal.

According to the data, this large-scale attack caused a total of 7 breakpoints on the gas pipeline, and the physical length of each breakpoint was more than 30 meters.

It has to be said that this is pretty serious damage.

You know, the total length of the entire gas pipeline is only about 110 kilometers. Even if she knows nothing about military affairs or combat, she can fully understand that it is necessary to organize so many places at the same time in such a short distance. How difficult it is to attack and still achieve results.

What's even more frightening is that a part of this gas pipeline passed through the inner city, just below the ground less than 400 meters away from the local police station in Ras La Keira. After reacting, he quickly evacuated the scene.

Although Qatar relied on the cameras on the block to lock the license plates of suspicious vehicles, it is obvious that after all the tracing, they will inevitably fail.

It can be said that the degree of specialization shown in this attack is definitely not what the "terrorist force" that Qatar claimed at the beginning can achieve.

There must be someone commanding and dispatching behind the scenes, and there must be intelligence and technical support for this pipeline.

Except for the inner ghost, there are probably only a handful of people in this world who can do this.

Thinking of this, Qiu Mai's brows relaxed.

The officer on the side looked at her performance curiously, and asked:

"Are not you afraid?"

"I was a little scared at first, but after I figured it out, I'm not afraid anymore."

Jimmy replied.

"Oh? Figured it out? How did you figure it out?"

"This is what I think. Those who have the ability to blow up pipelines must have their purpose limited to blowing up pipelines, rather than causing greater casualties."

"Those who want to cause casualties have no ability to blow up pipelines."

"So, at the end of the day, this incident is more of a harassment than a declaration of war, am I right?"

Hearing his words, the officer laughed and said in admiration:

"Otherwise, how can you say that all of you who do research are smart people?"

"Know everything, really know a little bit about everything."

"At present, we see that the situation is indeed similar to what you think. This attack is absolutely impossible to be a purely anti-human kb attack, but a harassment operation with a clear purpose against the Ras La Kaila base. "

"Qatar's forward investigation report has been sent back. The other party used extremely professional directional blasting technology, but in order to cover up their 'professionalism', they deliberately used homemade explosives to create a lot of fire and smoke."

"Obviously, they're just trying to muddy the water."

"As soon as the previous explosion sounded and the pipeline was broken, their goal was achieved."

"The possibility of launching an attack against our personnel is almost zero."

Qiao Mai nodded slightly, and then asked:

"Then how do you guys know? I mean, how do you know it's a directional blast?"

In her conception, every form of explosion is basically the same. If there is no special appraisal report, it is impossible to draw a conclusion in such a short time, right?

"This time I was lucky—one of the seven explosion points happened to be located on open ground, and the traces of the first explosion left on the ground were not covered up."

"I guess those people originally planned to use the shock wave of the secondary explosion to destroy the evidence, but they underestimated the particularity of the desert's geographical environment."

"To put it simply, the footprints on the sand were not wiped clean. This is the only mistake we have seen them make so far."

"Understood."

Qiao Mai nodded again, and at this time, the personnel carrier had arrived at the explosion point closest to the Las Lakaila base.

After parking, the military left to carry out the planned battle plan. Two wheeled armored vehicles went out on alert.

The area within a radius of 5 kilometers seems to be covered with a large net. Within this net, it is absolutely impossible for any disturbance to escape the eyes of the military.

After confirming that everything was ready, Qiao Mai walked out of the troop carrier under the leadership of the officer, and when she saw the picture in front of her, she couldn't help but gasped.

It's too utterly ruined.

Like most desert natural gas pipelines, the Las La Keira gas pipeline is designed to be laid overhead due to consideration of the complexity of the terrain and the variability of surface temperature.

On both sides of the pipeline, there are two steel structure supports every 10 meters to support the pipeline.

According to normal logic, the easiest way to destroy the gas pipeline is to directly blow up the support. In this way, under the influence of the pipeline's own weight, the entire pipeline will fall and break, and the purpose of the destroyer is also reached.

But what Qiao Mai saw now was not this way of thinking at all.

The saboteurs directly blew up the nearly 100-meter-long pipeline, and those collapsed brackets were probably just a chain reaction caused by the violent explosion——

But does it really make sense to do so?

Obviously, the purpose of these people is not to slow down the repair process as much as possible, otherwise, they can use all the explosives on the brackets.

Look at this posture, let alone a hundred meters, if you plan well, two kilometers will be enough, right?

Qiao Mai looked around suspiciously, and then she walked towards the central area of ​​the explosion.

The blown metal fragments were still scattered on the ground. She carefully avoided the ruins and raised her head to look at the relatively intact western pipeline fracture that was lying on the side.

Then, she stretched out her hand subconsciously, and stuck the exposed inner wall of the outer pipe scalded by the sun.

"How is it, is it difficult to repair?"

The officer on the side asked.

Qiao Mai shook his head, but didn't answer right away.

She continued to walk forward for a while, until she came to a position where the shock wave of the explosion was completely digested and the pipeline structure was not affected in any way, and finally stopped.

Looking back, it was only 150 meters away from the center of the explosion.

In other words, the explosion in this section affected the function of the pipeline for a total of about 300 meters.

Three days for all replacements?

If you take it slow, a week is enough.

You know, the current record of Huaxia Petroleum Group’s single-day footage is 160 meters, which is still a record set on the China-Russia gas pipeline with complex terrain and freezing weather.

Things are getting weirder.

Qiao Mai looked back, and then said to the officer:

"It's not too difficult to repair."

"I can only make a preliminary judgment. The length of the pipeline affected at this point is not long-the specific number needs to be evaluated by relevant personnel."

"But... what we have to consider now is not how to fix this problem."

"It should be said, should we repair it?"

"We definitely didn't do anything!"

"How could we blow up their gas pipeline, what does this have to do with us!?"

"It's not within our scope of activities at all, and it doesn't have any impact on our interests?"

"What about the Arab Commonwealth? They're not going to hit the mountains right away!"

"What's more, even if they really hit the mountains, we won't blow up any pipelines, right? We will at least pick a closer target, such as Kabul, such as Riyadh. What's the matter? What is a place worth to us?!"

"Really, absolutely not, sir, you must trust us!"

"No, I'm sure my subordinates won't do such a stupid thing, not only my subordinates, including our other brothers, will definitely not be able to do such a stupid thing!"

"What is the moon landing plan. What? The voice of Allah?? Where did this rumor come from?!"

"Sir, we are only extremely religious, not extremely stupid!"

"Nuclear fusion has been born, who would be stupid enough to think that Allah lives on the moon!?"

Somewhere in AFghan, in a camp deep in the mountains, Ahongchad yelled at the heavily armed white man in front of him almost angrily.

There was a completely inexplicable expression on his face, and in this inexplicable, there was an extremely obvious anger after being wronged.

On the other side of him, the white man had a calm expression on his face.

He fiddled with the speed switch of the rifle in his hand, the clicking sound was especially harsh in the silent camp.

After two full minutes passed, he finally broke the silence and said:

"Now, you are the most suspected object, there is no doubt about it."

"And, to make matters worse, you dragged us into the water."

"According to our intelligence, before Huaxia even made a statement, Qatar has already begun to suspect us."

"They suspect that we provided technical and command support to assist you in launching the attack."

"Do you have any idea how serious an accusation like this is? Do you have any idea of ​​the unmanageable consequences we're going to face?"

"I can only advise you, never lie to me."

"Otherwise... I don't know what happened to your brothers, but it is absolutely impossible for you to leave alive."

Hearing his words, Ahongchad clenched his fists.

threaten me?

It doesn't matter, after being an informant for so long, being threatened is a common thing.

He didn't know how many times, he was pointed at the head with a gun and forced to ask whether it was true or not.

Neither my "brothers" nor the power represented by the white man actually saw himself as a human being.

But at least before, they were all reasonable.

And now?

What's going on now? ?

Ask me for proof of something that doesn't exist at all, how do you want me to answer you?

Yes, we did it, and we are responsible for it.

Is that so?

Ahong Chad took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the curse that rushed to his lips, then stabilized his mind, spread his hands reverently and said:

"I swear to God, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with us."

"At least, as far as I know, I have no idea that this matter is related to us."

Hearing this, the white man frowned.

Ahongchad's daring to say this shows that he is indeed confident in the information he has.

Most likely, the attack was not really initiated by them.

——

Indeed, such actions do not mean much to them, and the so-called "preventing evil forces from approaching Allah" seems extremely absurd.

But the question is, if not their words, who else could it be?

According to the man's own intelligence, it is impossible for his own side to have anything to do with this matter, otherwise his superior would not be able to issue such an urgent order and grant such high-level authority to let him find out the truth as quickly as possible.

Europe?

This is indeed one of the suspects, and their oil and gas groups and power groups do have motives to launch attacks.

But no matter how you look at it, such motivation is too weak.

Russia?

Well, they seem to be able to do this kind of thing. In addition to the competition between Russia and Qatar in gas pipelines and metal hydrogen technology, they may use such actions to expand their position on the negotiating table. on the advantage.

But this timing is not very suitable.

Too late and too early.

Either start at the very beginning of construction, or wait until the fusion power plant is completed and the industrial complex is ready to start operating.

What's the point of doing this at a node that doesn't have anything to do with it now?

Headache.

The man scratched his head subconsciously, and quickly flashed through his mind all the forces on the list that might be related to the attack.

But after several laps, he didn't get the answer he wanted.

This incident happened really weirdly, and according to the currently public on-site information, the "destructive significance" of the attack itself is really not great, but the intention of "demonstration" is more obvious.

How many organizations are there that conform to this way of doing things?

The United States behind us counts as one, but we really didn't do it.

The organization behind the informant in front of him counts as one, and they also said they didn't do it.

Ah San is also capable of doing such stupid things, but they can't reach here.

Could it be a chicken? ?

The man instantly became alert.

Yes, when the Arab Commonwealth was established, the chicken was a clear-cut opponent.

Their strength can indeed achieve the effect needed for this attack.

But are they really so stupid?

In any case, it must be confirmed clearly.

Thinking of this, the man put away the gun in his hand, stretched out his hand and patted Ahong Chad on the shoulder, and then said:

"I trust you."

"After all, you have never lied to us in the past time."

"However, I still want to remind you that the investigation against you will not stop."

"During this period of time, you'd better be quiet. Now it's not just us, the eyes of the East are also staring at you."

"You can't stop DF-21 from cherishing your own life."

Ahongchad finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the current hurdle is over.

However, what the man said was indeed very reasonable.

The Arab Commonwealth is the trend.

And the organization behind him is naturally contrary to this strategy.

Maybe

I really should, be good?