: The Night Sky's Shocking

"The lonely smoke in the desert is straight, and the sun sets in the long river is round."

Standing at a height of 1,000 meters above the ground, looking at the magnificent scenery of the desert at dusk, Lin En silently reads famous quotes that he will never forget in his life.

A sunset slowly sank into the sea of ​​sand, and the sky gradually darkened. The stars in the sky were dotted with nightfall. The gentle cool breeze replaced the warmth of the day. Lin En leaned against the hanging basket and looked away. It turned out that quietly floating in such a night sky was such a pleasant enjoyment. If it weren't for the unfinished battle, he should have lived an ordinary and peaceful life, worked hard to make money, worked hard to support his family, and tried to see the most beautiful scenery in the world in his lifetime, so...

“The scenery here is beautiful!”

Xiao Hughes held the grilled sausage in one hand and the beer bottle in the other, allowing the breeze to blew his short hair, sometimes looking away, sometimes looking down, everything here seemed to be in his heart.

"Well, it's so beautiful!" Lin Neng told his feelings truthfully. For nearly half a year before that, he either fought desperately with the Russians on the cold Eastern Front, or honed his body and mind in the training camp of the "Vampire" commando. Although his later trip to Nordic Europe also enjoyed the magnificent scenery of the steep mountains and deep fjords, his mood was always immersed in a kind of despair and tragic despair of decline. Even at this moment, he could not understand the mystery of man and nature, let his mood get rid of the influence of trivial matters in the world, and truly feel the broadness and lenientness of the world.

Hughes said proudly: "Hey, this night view is enough for you to earn the travel expenses. When the sun rises tomorrow, you will really be worth the trip!"

If it were just to see the scenery, Lynn should be satisfied, but the real intention of this trip... the American young man around him may never understand it.

After eating and drinking enough, Hughes determined the wind direction and told Lynn that if there was no change in the wind direction, he didn't have to wake him up. If he was sleepy, he could sleep for a while, then shrank into the hanging basket, and snored in a short while.

Being able to eat, sleep, play and have fun is also simple and happy. Lynn gave himself a bitter smile and picked up a telescope to continue looking for light sources in this vast desert. The desert in New Mexico is different from the desert that is deserted thousands of miles away. There are towns and villages at several distances along the railways and roads. Before the night is late, Lynn also has to pick up the map from time to time to check. After midnight, this trouble will naturally be reduced. In addition to the twinkling stars in the sky, there are "meteors" that occasionally slide along the horizon along the horizon in the distance - the lights of the locomotive.

Over time, it will become a kind of distress. After smoking half a pack of cigarettes and drinking half a cup of cold coffee, Lynn's eyelids became heavier. People can hold on and not sleep, but their vision is difficult to maintain normality. As the stars dim, the sky and the earth are the same. Not to mention the secret base in the desert Gobi, even a huge red rock wall cannot be distinguished. The body's fatigue did not affect Lynn's consciousness. He tried his best to keep his mind clear. In order to refresh himself, he recalled that cold and snowy night in the farm

The graceful time of the stable, the introverted enthusiasm of the mature woman is like a charcoal fire covered in dust. As long as the surface can be removed, the inner heat is enough to melt. But as she thinks, her thoughts float to another scene without hesitation: rose-red silk clothes, black waist-length braids, loose velvet brides, and the deep eyebrows, bright eyes, and thick lips. Whenever she thinks of the indifferent and unforgiving that is condensed on her face, Lin En always feels a dark cloud in her heart...

Suddenly, Lynn saw the lights of vehicles on the ground ahead. There was nothing strange about driving late at night, but this place was already a very desolate desert. Lynn immediately had a kind of intuition judgment: these vehicles must be closely related to the goals he was looking for.

In order to see clearly, Lin En made a fuss to turn the kerosene stove with a stubborn act - it only retained a faint flame, which was difficult for people on the ground to discover without careful observation. After he adjusted it, the stove almost completely went out.

After the fire was reduced, the hot air in the airbag did not cool down rapidly. At the beginning, the height of the hot air balloon almost did not decrease much. After several minutes, it began to slowly decline and slight shaking followed, but Hughes, who was already asleep, obviously did not realize this.

As the height continued to decrease, Linn could already recognize that this was a convoy of more than ten trucks. They were driving northeast along a relatively straight road, looking forward along this road with almost unobstructed outlines. There were scattered spots of light shaking. That must be the indicator light of the base, maybe a duty post, but it must not be an ordinary civilian facility. At this time, Linn was slightly excited and calculated. He thought of buying agricultural aircraft in the name of buying land and farming, and then deliberately went off the line when sowing pesticides, but he never thought that using a hot air balloon could actually approach the target of high alert so quietly!

When he noticed that the height of the hot air balloon had dropped to an excessively low level,

Seeing that the American's secret base was right in front of him, Lynn quickly took out the map to calculate the direction and distance of the last itinerary to confirm its exact direction. When the wind blew the basket and shook violently, Hughes finally rubbed his eyes and got up. When he looked out, he almost shouted loudly.

"My God, why does it fly so low? It's troublesome to install a sand dune or mountain bag!"

Although he didn't scream, Hughes complained and went to adjust the kerosene stove. When Lin Neng reacted and wanted to stop him, it was too late. The flames on the kerosene stove suddenly jumped up, which did not cause any harm to the hot air balloon itself, and strictly speaking, it did not violate the operation safety procedures. But now most of the stars in the sky have finished their work and returned home. Under the dim night, a ball of flames rising in the air was very conspicuous.

"Oh no..."

Lynn sighed bitterly. Although Hughes immediately turned the flames down, his negligence caused them a lot of trouble. Soon he heard the sound of car brakes and talking from below. Then, the harsh gunshots pierced the peaceful night, and a few dark red bullets flew past.

"Oh my god, they actually fired, they actually fired!" In front of the invisible bullet, Hughes threw all his calm, sophisticated, worldly rogues out of the sky. He paniced at the edge of the hanging basket. At this moment, he was probably worried that he had not put an iron plate at the bottom of the basket before setting off, so that he could still withstand the bullets shot from below. At this moment, the two of them were hanging in the air and not down, and they had completely become living targets for the other party's guns.

The gunshot broke the tranquility and awakened everything hidden in the desert. The dazzling searchlight beams rose from the ground and quickly locked the uninvited guest in the night. Lin Neng's fatigue, confusion, and trance had already been wiped out. He looked at the light beams that were shot from not far ahead in surprise. At the beginning, there was only one, and then a second and three appeared. Looking at the extremely striking lights under the night, he patted his head hard: So stupid, why didn't he think of this?

Most of the time, combat operations need to avoid alarming the enemy, but sometimes the opposite is true. To find the location of the opponent's hidden base, Lynn can hire uninformed people to fly the aircraft at night to create sounds, thereby attracting searchlights and even defending firepower around the opponent's hidden base. In a relatively flat and open desert area, the location of these light columns can be found from dozens of kilometers away, so as to determine the exact location of the test base, so that there is no need to bear the risk of losing troops and losing generals, let alone taking action in person like now.

It's too late to understand now. Several high-power searchlights have made Lynn and his hot air balloons illuminate. I'm afraid that many anti-aircraft guns are quickly turning the gun mouth. Just after the superior's order, they shot down the hot air balloon that was approaching rashly. Facing the dazzling light column, Lynn could not see the situation of the base ahead at all. He could only roughly estimate his current distance from the ground - it should not exceed 200 meters. Not to mention machine shells, even the bullets could not escape. At this critical moment, Hughes finally acted that was consistent with his age and experience. He took out a white handkerchief, lay on the edge of the hanging basket and waved his hand desperately, saying, "Don't fire, I'm a civilian."

At this time, Lynn calmed down. Isn’t this the situation he had always considered? Since it happened, follow the plan steps, pick up the eraser calmly, wipe off all the numbers, lines and illustrations left by the pencil on the page just used to calculate and mark the position, wiped them cleanly, and finally blow a breath, blow the debris of the eraser, close your eyes and think carefully, take out the match box marked with the origin in Boston from his pocket, and burned the matches to ashes. After Hughes’s efforts, the people below did not continue shooting, but instead shouted "landing" in loud voices. After completely closing the kerosene stove, the hot air balloon continued to float forward while slowly descending. It was confirmed that there were no "dangerous items" on his body.

En stood up, lying on the edge of the hanging basket like Hughes, pretending to be terrified, but his eyes were seizing the last chance to observe the environment. The kind airflow blew their hot air balloons in the direction of the searchlights, and soon passed the convoy parked on the way. They were some six-wheel or eight-wheel heavy trucks. When he first rushed to the temporary camp of the Soviet armored troops with the "Vampire" commando, he seemed to be the same type of truck. Searchlights hundreds or thousands of meters apart from each other outlined a rough square. Against the extremely strong light, Lynn could only vaguely see a base with barbed wire and walls there. Most of the buildings standing on the surface were short houses. I guess the real content was located underground - it was not difficult to build land digging and crafting in the desert.
Chapter completed!