Battlefield Contractor

Tripoli has a long history as a city name. Tripoli is an ancient city with a long history of more than 2,700 years, and has been a trading center and strategic location since ancient times. It is precisely because of this that it was occupied by the ancient Romans for 600 years before being invaded by the Vandals and ruled by Byzantium. In the 7th century, Arabs came to settle here, and since then, Arab culture has taken root here.

This ancient city has gone through various disasters. The Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks, Italians and British occupied Tripoli successively, and left many ancient buildings and cultural relics of different styles here. The ancient Arabian Oriental colors blend with the thriving modern urban scene, but this land is still full of tragic colors.

After the Libyan war, the city has not yet fully recovered.

It has been several years since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, and Libya has become a country like Afghanistan and Somalia. Following the fall of Gaddafi, a national internal conflict broke out. Of the total population of 6 million, 400,000 have been internally displaced; more than a million have fled abroad. Many levels-tribal, regional, ethnic, religious, and conflicts between supporters and opponents of the old regime are now superimposed. Now here is a country with multiple governments. However, although these hostile entities all have grand titles, the National Unity Government, the National Salvation Government, and so on.

There are no arbitrary checkpoints on most streets, and they pop up inadvertently in neighboring countries that are more stable than Libya. You can move around in Tripoli without any trouble, but militias of various factions are everywhere. They wore fake Barber jackets on their upper bodies, U.S. Navy combat pants on their lower bodies, and carried rifles.

The National Transitional Council, which was in power under the support of the Western powers, was forced to use the then still sufficient state treasury funds to pay for the militias responsible for counterinsurgency work. The type of salary they paid triggered a huge increase in the number of "revolutionaries." In Libya, there are countless people detained in militia prisons.

Lawlessness has its own benefits—there is no repressive regime, but these benefits are losing their appeal. Tripoli is no longer the capital of an authoritarian country. There is indeed no fear of being monitored by intelligence personnel or being arbitrarily arrested by secret police. Instead, it is not known on any given day who the actual controller of the street is, the constant threat of kidnapping, rumors of impending fighting, and common sense that violence can happen at any time.

Even if Lin Rui and others were fully armed, no one would come over and ask when driving on the street. Although everyone was wary of them, no one dared to intervene. Even the military police and militiamen just pretended not to see them. They are just getting a salary, no one wants to cause trouble to provoke these people who look like a mercenary organization.

The car was parked in an alley in the city. This is a temporary place designated for them by the company in advance. Because of the prior arrangement of the intelligence group Vitalk, someone here would answer them. The respondent was a local Libyan, and after leading them in, he left wisely.

Lin Rui saw from the window that the Libyans did not move away, but instead sat nearby to guard them. It seems that this person should also be a member of the Vitalk Intelligence Group, not a temporary hire.

"How do you feel?" Jiang An whispered beside him.

"This place is okay. It's only two kilometers away from the meeting place, and it can be reached on foot. Moreover, it is hidden away, and Vitalk will really find a place." Lin Rui returned from the window and sat in a chair.

"I mean your opinion on this mission." Jiang An smiled slightly.

"Isn't it just to find that person and solve the troubles facing the company?" Lin Rui shrugged. "There should be no pressure, at least it's much easier than in Anmore."

Jiang An shook his head and said, "I think this thing is very weird."

"Oh?" Lin Rui looked at him and said, "What is weird?"

"Very few people will get their ideas on the heads of private military companies." Jiang An said slowly, "This person has spent such a big price invading our interior and stealing confidential information. Just to force us to kill someone? He has With such a great ability, I can do this by myself, so why go around such a big circle?"

"It makes sense." Lin Rui nodded, "This person can steal information from the black island and escape from such a tightly defended island of St. Caesar. It doesn't seem to be difficult for him to kill one person. There is no need to fake us."

"One more point. All the characteristics of this Rhea on St. Caesar Island indicate that this person may be a professionally trained professional agent. However, he has repeatedly emphasized that this is his personal behavior and did not reveal him. The true identity, this is what I care about most." Jiang An said in a low voice.

"Anyway, when we find this person and have further contact, everything may have an answer." Lin Rui sighed. "For now, don't think about these headaches."

"This is your problem. You obviously have a good mind, but you still don't bother to use it." Jiang An wryly smiled, "Compared to thinking, you are more willing to do it yourself."

"That's why you are the best think tank in the team, and I only need to think a little bit." Lin Rui also smiled. "If I start using my brain, what are you doing?"

Jiang Jian shook his head, and said sternly, "Listen to me, this time may be more dangerous than when we were in Anmore. In Anmore, we at least know who we are facing and what their purpose is. But This time, we don’t know who we are facing, or what his true purpose is. With the complicated situation here, we might encounter unexpected troubles."

Lin Rui was silent for a while and said, "I've always been afraid of trouble, but when trouble really comes to us, avoiding it is useless. No matter who this person named Leia is, this has already happened, we I can only choose to face it."

"I understand what you mean, but what I mean is that the person who came is not good, we have to have many preparations." Jiang An whispered.

Lin Rui nodded, "I know the stakes, and I will be careful. Tomorrow you will take someone to look at the surrounding environment, and then you will find Vitak's people to understand the situation, and see if this Rea is there. If you find this person, watch it immediately, but don't disturb him."