Chapter 1261 The belated Team B (Two-in-1 chapter)
The diesel floating on the sea burned, forming a substantial sea of fire, even under the water nearly one meter deep While swimming, Jack still had the illusion that he was about to become a salted shrimp.
This illusion mainly comes from the fire light refracted into the water, as if the endless and endless ends cannot be seen.
Trying to suppress the panic from physiological instinct with reason, Jack grabbed Harry's arm and pointed to the front left, signaling him to follow him.
Harry bulged his mouth and spitted a few bubbles, indicating that he understood what he meant, so the two of them swam towards the darkness that Jack could sense the nearest.
It was not until he was sure that there was no burning fire above his head and the surroundings became dark again that Jack stuck his head out of the water, and took a deep breath while opening his mouth, feeling that he was alive again.
Although the smell of this "fresh air" is very bad, with an unpleasant burnt odor and the salty fishy smell of sea water evaporated, it is still so tempting.
Harry also emerged from behind Jack, gasping for breath. The two of them looked at each other, and both saw the glory of surviving the disaster in each other's eyes.
The two of them were not far from falling into the water at this time, and they were about forty or fifty meters away. The helicopter that fired rockets at the two of them was still hovering over the sky, as if they wanted to confirm them. corpse.
Fortunately, the oil tanker was powerful when it exploded. The lightweight diesel spilled out formed a large combustion area. The hot air was swept upward with thick smoke, making the helicopter dare not get too close.
It was still early at dawn, and the burning fires around the pier formed a strong visual contrast with the dark sea surface, with extremely bright and extremely dark appearing very clearly.
The helicopters brought by these terrorists are all ordinary civilian goods, and are not equipped with high-power searchlights and infrared detectors standard for police or search and rescue helicopters. In the end, they just circled for two rounds and rushed in a hurry. Leave. "We're in trouble." Jack looked at the loot on his wrist, the garbage watch he had seized before, had stopped working due to water intake, and the pointer stopped at 12:55.
Harry was sitting on the reef beside him taking off his shoes and pouring out the sea water inside. He heard him say this and just smiled bitterly, "I'm very worried about Helen and Jessie."
The pier was still swelling up to the sky. Even if it was hundreds of meters away, you could still feel the heat waves coming to your face, which also means that the speedboats that were originally parked near the pier were no longer needed to be counted on.
So a fatal problem was placed in front of the two of them. They were trapped on the island, and in five hours, it would become a nuclear test site like the famous Bikini Atoll.
"Aziz is a rational guy. He knows that he needs hostages and should not do anything to them for the time being."
Jack wrung his clothes and planned to put them on again, but I found that the shirt and the T-shirt inside were not torn, so I simply wore naked like Harry.
"So the helicopter just now was not so much looking for our bodies, but rather confirming the damage to the dock."
Harry threw away his socks and put them back barefoot with them." The leather shoes were whistling, and they stood up and looked towards the warehouse. The fire at the doorway was extinguished. "There are still some equipment and tools in the warehouse. Maybe we still have time to dismantle a useful engine and put it out."
"A 15,000 tons of TNT equivalent nuclear bomb has an effective killing radius of less than two kilometers, and even paddles should be too late." Jack said and pointed to the north, "I remember that the ships and helicopters were heading north. "
Harry heard the hesitation in his words, and his eyes looked down his gradually raised arms toward the starry sky, asking in confusion, "What's wrong?" The ones that flashed red and green were the plane navigation lights? "
Squinted his eyes and barely stared at the sky at night for a long time, and even had the illusion that he was about to fall into the starry sky. Harry was a little uncomfortable Rubbing your eyes with certainty, "Is that right?"
Jack did not answer because several flashing spots suddenly appeared in the sky, but they were no longer the plane navigation lights he had seen before, but the indicator lights on the wing umbrella.
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Sonny Quinn, who was dragging the rubber boat hard, pulled up the diving eyepiece, wiped the water stains on his face, and waved his hand to Jack who was waiting on the beach. , greeted him with the iconic greeting of Texas guys. "Howdy, I should be more than the only one here. I feel this scene seems familiar, right? Everyone seems to have experienced it more than once." Jason usually is serious when performing tasks. But when shaking hands with someone, I couldn't hold back the corner of my mouth. "The CIA said that there was an agent and a federal agent that needed rescue this time. Sonny asked directly if there was a guy named Jack."
When Jack thought about it, he seemed to be true. Except for the time he went to Mexico to deal with drug lords, every time he encountered these seals, they performed rescue missions, and the rescue targets seemed to include him.
"I need to know immediately where we are now." Harry interrupted the "greetings" of the crowd without hesitation, "There is a nuclear bomb on the island that has been activated with a timing device."
"This is Tse Island, located in the south of the Florida Islands." Jason did not show much surprise, "So what the fat man said is true? Is there really a nuclear bomb on the island?"
< br>"We watched the horror with our own eyes The molecule activated the timer. "Jack grabbed Jason's wrist and looked at the time on the watch. "There are about four and a half hours left. It is necessary to evacuate nearby residents immediately. It is a W with an equivalent of more than 15,000 tons. -80 nuclear warhead."
The seals who were originally hilarious and suddenly became serious. Jason signaled "all metal" Scott Carter and team doctor Trent followed Harry into the warehouse to confirm, and he pulled him Jack walked to the side.
"The helicopter has 10 minutes to arrive. Do you mind telling me what happened?"
Omitting some oolong scenes, Jack briefly told them about their last night's experience, and then Summary, "'DarkJihad' must have a follow-up attack plan.
This nuclear bomb was just a preview. They took the video and asked Harry and I to confirm the authenticity of the three nuclear bombs, and then use helicopters and The cargo ship transported the remaining two. "
"Map." Jason waved to ask Sonny to come over a plastic map, find the island where everyone was at this time, and use an oily pen directly I drew a circle with it as the center of the circle, and then I felt a little relieved. "Fortunately, Key West, the nearest inhabited island is 10 nautical miles (20 kilometers) away."
"Notify the residents on the island to evacuate first, remember to ask all nearby ships to stay away." Although he did not expect the execution of the US official, Jack still reminded. Although the terrorist threats against local nuclear bombs are the highest level of alerts in the field of national security and are called "Catastrophic Threat", he doubts whether the official will push instructions through the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to require the public to evacuate immediately.
After all, now it is not as good as before. After the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it has integrated a large number of departments including customs, borders, coast guards and even secret service, but its actual role is only It can be described in one word.
Faced with various natural disasters and accidents, the incompetence of various federal departments under DHS in preventing, responding and even recovering after the event can be described as fully demonstrated.
Not to mention that this nuclear bomb is still a long safe distance from the inhabited Florida Islands, even if it is about to be bombed in downtown Miami, Jack doubts whether the official has the courage to issue a nuclear threat alert immediately.
The bigger possibility is to spend two or three hours arguing about the authenticity of the information, and to argue between departments first and shirk responsibility, and then wait half an hour before the explosion, and then announce that the time is not enough.
In the end, the disaster occurred, and the federal and local governments would start to pass the blame in a conventional manner, and finally rose to bipartisan disputes, etc. As for the lives and deaths of the people
It was just equivalent to the past " "It's just the equivalent of a little boy, and the nuclear bombs are clean and hygienic. The residual radiation dose is not the same as before, not to mention that in 1945, the people of Hiroshima also took it.
Anyway, it wasn't bombing on Capitol Hill. At that time, it would provide the public with an emergency loan of $770, so that they could buy iodide drugs and prescribe a $200,000 cleaning for each family The bill is over.
After all, dealing with nuclear radiation requires quite professional skills, which is much more difficult to deal with than the broken bricks and rotten tiles left after the wildfire.
While Sonny informed him on the radio, Harry, who was full of undried cement, walked back with "all metal" and team doctor Trent, who was also holding a Geiger counter in his hand.
Jason knew the answer when he saw the solemn expressions of the two teammates. After confirming, he couldn't help frowning, "You said the remaining two nuclear bombs have been transported away. Do you know where they went? ”
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Jack looked at Harry, and saw that he was a little absent-minded. He knew that he must be worried about his wife and daughter being taken away. He replied directly, "One was loaded into the truck and sent to the freighter, the other one was taken to the cargo ship. The item was transported away by helicopter.
I don't know their final destination, but I can probably guess where the nuclear bomb on the freighter was going."
He said that, he took the map from Jason and drew a line on the Florida Islands.
"'The Road to Heaven'?" Jason looked puzzled.
Harry, who came to his senses, nodded and explained, "If they plan to transport it to the port on the east coast, just load it directly, no truck is needed.
They know that the nuclear bombs are Once it explodes, the coastal ports will be tightly blocked, and the Coast Guard will also send all its strength to search for the whereabouts of the ship, so there is only one possibility. "
Harry pointed his finger on Key West, "They will use it If you calculate the time of this cross-sea expressway on the archipelago, maybe they have already landed at this moment."
The "road to heaven" that Jason mentioned is what Harry calls the Florida Islands cross-sea expressway.
The southernmost part of the Florida Peninsula, known as the "Tintin" in the United States, is a broken and long island chain, known as the Florida Islands.
This is an archipelago, which is a narrow chain of islands that contains about 1,700 small islands.
The southernmost end of U.S. Route1 (U.S. Route1) is after leaving the peninsula. This section of the maritime highway consists of 42 sea bridges, which connects nearly 100 major islands in the archipelago. It is called the "road to heaven" with the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Because the Florida Islands are less than 80 nautical miles (145 kilometers) from Cuba, in the 1980s, the Immigration Bureau set up roadblocks and checkpoints at the northernmost end of this highway to search for illegal activities in the ban. and illegal immigration.
This behavior has been complained by the residents of the archipelago, and the Key West City Council also believes that the Immigration Bureau has seriously affected the economic pillar of the archipelago, the tourism industry.
After several failed attempts to cancel the checkpoint, the then Mayor Chiwest made a fuss, dragging the city council to declare the independence of the archipelago and establish the "Conch Republic".
The mayor, proclaimed himself president, announced a war with the United States, and led the way to rush into the local air base with a group of people, launching an "attack" on the soldiers in the base with water-piping guns and bread.
This "rebellion" lasted only one minute and was declared defeat. The mayor, who proclaimed president, led the surrender of the people, was regarded as an extremely humorous way of protest.
Interestingly, although the Immigration Bureau later removed the roadblocks and checkpoints, the federal government never made any official response to the rebellion statement, and the result was regarded as accusation of the fact that the "Conch Republic" was established. .
So in the Florida Islands today, the "Conch Republic" has become a tourism gimmick. Chiwest has its own "national flag", "national emblem" and even "passport", and everyone who comes here can buy it. Fill in your name with a blank passport.
It is precisely because of this historical reason that the current maritime highway is unobstructed and has no barriers, which also means that once a truck loaded with a nuclear bomb runs through the 182 kilometers of journey and enters the Florida Peninsula. Lu, it would be a very troublesome thing to find.
After a while, two MH-60R "Seahawk" helicopters that fought with seals on Alcatraz Island flew to Tse Island to pick up people. Gibson was wearing a heavy bulletproof vest and holding the first M4A1. Jump out of the plane.
Seeing Harry, who was bare-spoken with big muscles, the middle-aged fat man was about to say something, but his eyes fell on Jack of the same shape, and he couldn't help but blew a hooligan whistle. "I bet Jack's muscle lines must be more popular with girls than you."
Harry glared at him and walked towards the helicopter without looking back, "Go away quickly, I want to communicate with the situation immediately."
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Put on your headphones to isolate the noise of the propeller Outside, Gibson said loudly, "The Air Force has sent an 'E-7A wedge-tail' early warning aircraft to search for the helicopter equipped with nuclear bombs, hoping that the other party has not had time to land.
You said that the terrorists may carry heavy firepower Therefore, we did not use the police force on the island, and temporarily set up a blockade line at the northernmost end of the trans-sea expressway.
A helicopter belonging to the DEA has discovered a convoy of suspected terrorists, consisting of two trucks And a Lincoln sedan, Helen and Jessie are likely to be in the Lincoln car.”
(This chapter ends)