Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

February 2, 2000.

middle East.

Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

Local time: 11:11.

For residents of stable countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Middle East is always associated with chaos, war, refugees, or terrorists.

In fact, despite the above-mentioned labels, the environment in the Middle East can be regarded as beautiful.

The area along the Mediterranean coast is comfortable and pleasant, and it can be called a real blue sea and blue sky, with green and clear oceans and clear skies.

Otherwise, people would not have discovered ancient cities and ruins with a history of 5,000 years in Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and other countries.

The weather in Beirut today is comfortable and sunny, and the temperature is about eleven or two degrees.

In the northernmost port of Beirut, many cargo ships can be seen docking.

Workers at the port are busy driving forklifts and cranes to unload or load goods.

However, cruise ships in civilian ports are very rare.

After all, countries including Lebanon are really chaotic. Even if tourists know the beautiful environment here, they dare not come here easily.

at this time.

A cruise ship sailing around the Mediterranean coast is slowly entering a civilian port.

Lower the passenger and freight elevators.

The workers who have been waiting for a long time use the freight elevator to carry living materials for the cruise ship.

People who stayed on the ship for a long time disembarked through the passenger ladder, visited, rested and had meals near the port.

The cruise ship is only docked for half a day, so guests and workers are hurrying.

However, there is also a destination for the people on the boat in Beirut, and they will leave separately after disembarking.

This also includes Lyon.

With parted blond hair, he wore a light black jacket, sand-colored overalls and military boots, and carried an army-green backpack on one shoulder.

After leaving the cruise ship, Leon, who walked out of the port, looked around and carefully observed this city with a strong Middle Eastern style.

Eventually, Lyon set his sights on a red coupe.

He approached quickly, came to the side of the car and knocked on the passenger window.

After the driver lowered the window, Leon asked in some broken Arabic: "Yada...Jhanbu (going)?"

The middle-aged male driver with a thick beard wearing a red and white checkered turban, looked Leon up and down, and replied in very standard English:

"boarding."

"Thank you." Seeing that the other party could speak English, Leon opened the car door and got into the co-pilot.

"Where are you going?" the driver asked while starting the engine, shifting gears and releasing the handbrake.

"Go to the U.S. air force base outside Beirut." Leon said, pointing to the southeast.

After the vehicle started to drive into the street, the driver held the steering wheel with his left hand, and gestured to Leon with his index and middle fingers with his right hand: "Beautiful knife."

"Heh~!" However, Leon showed an expression that you don't want to scare me and said: "One hundred, otherwise I will get off now, don't think I don't know the market here!"

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The driver found that Leon seemed a bit difficult to slaughter, and immediately said angrily: "One hundred and three, otherwise I won't be able to get back my money, and you still went to the US military base!"

"Deal." Leon readily agreed.

driver:"…"

The rest was silent all the way.

Lyon happens to be able to take a clean picture, so as to appreciate the unique architecture in Beirut.

When the vehicle drives out of the city to the suburbs, there is an endless desert scenery.

Now Lyon has already become a regular, and is no longer the "rookie intern" like before.

Moreover, Lyon has unique experience in taxis.

Ordinary drivers really can't trick him, and it's no longer the Lyon that took a taxi from the airport to the Venice police station for 77 euros.

Although the company gave him enough travel subsidies, he could save as much as he could. After all, it was the company's money.

Although he still doesn't know why his superiors never let him touch the company's vehicles, he is used to it.

Come to the suburbs.

across the desert.

During the drive, Lyon also saw several US military convoys on patrol or performing other tasks.

After about half an hour, the air force base located on the south side of the highway gradually came out of Lyon's view.

When they were only about one kilometer away from the base in a straight line, they encountered a checkpoint set up by the US military on the road, so Lyon could only check out and get off.

The driver turned around and returned, while Lyon walked towards the US military checkpoint on foot.

"Stop! Please keep your current posture and accept our inspection!"

Before approaching, a heavily armed U.S. Marine Corps tightly shook the gun in his hand to remind Leon loudly.

Seeing this, Leon also replied loudly: "CIA!"

Seeing that Leon had voluntarily revealed his identity, and that there were already several "CIAs" in the base, the marine immediately stepped forward and said:

"Show me your credentials."

"Okay." Leon took out the relevant documents from his pocket and handed them to the other party.

After receiving the documents, the marines reported the information of Lyon to the base, and soon got the order to let them go.

Then the Marine Corps returned the documents to Lyon, and asked his comrades to drive a Hummer to send Lyon to a base not far away.

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13:02.

The border between Lebanon and Syria.

Angel Air Force Base, USA.

The base command building, a small combat conference room.

"Gentlemen, eighty kilometers south of Damascus, the capital of Syria, a town called Sheheba has encountered an emergency."

A US Army lieutenant colonel in his mid-fifties stood at the front of the meeting room, speaking to everyone present with a very serious face.

On the soft screen on the left-hand side of the lieutenant colonel, there is a satellite bird's-eye view of each area marked.

Among the more than 20 people sitting here, more than half are green beret lieutenants of the US Army, and the other six are "CIA" in civilian clothes.

Lyon is among them.

In fact, the Red Queen immediately detected that the US military here had suffered an accident.

So she immediately intercepted the U.S. military's report to her superiors, and pretended to be her superiors to communicate with the U.S. military.

As a result of the exchange, CIA investigators disguised as intelligence personnel were sent here to assist the US military in their investigation.

The identities of Lyon and others are said to be disguised, but they have actually been recorded in the US filing system after being red.

Before the Red Queen confirmed the details of this abnormal phenomenon and took the initiative to delete the information of Leon and others, they were all "genuine" CIA investigators.

The lieutenant colonel paused for a moment, then continued: "According to the report, Sheheba was shrouded in thick fog last night.

However, in the early morning of this morning, the patrol convoys of the two marines lost contact with the base one after another after entering Shehba to perform security maintenance tasks as usual.

Until now, we have not seen any civilians or marines come out of the thick fog, and any electronic detection equipment cannot allow us to spy on Sheheba's situation.

Therefore, the main task of the beret is to protect the investigators sent by the CIA to enter Sheheba to collect intelligence, and the secondary task is to find and rescue the two lost contact marines. "