Chapter 97 - Could there be trouble? (1)

28 December, Military Base, City K

Despite knowing the reason that Colonel Rong was absent, Major Hung was playing along with General Man's story of him being with his ill brother. Who in their right mind would believe that excuse?

However, this gave him the reason to reaming in his office and sleep, rather than heading back to his quarters when he was off duty. Despite the need to know what was happening and if they had found Colonel Rong, the other aspects of his role had not changed. There was intelligence that needed to be dealt with both for internal threats but those linked to outside forces. Yes, some of them needed to be dealt with to prevent incidents and help David, but others were real threats to the country and then needed to be dealt with.

The one concern that he had was how much did the police knew. The contact that General Man was having with them was interesting. Did they know something? He was getting nothing from his sources at the police station as the Police Liaison Officer and five other staff members were in their office, while the rest of the team had been assigned to general duties for a few days.

That, he realised meant that they had a closely held investigation of something, but the question was what it was? It could be something totally unrelated to the situation but given that Colonel Rong was with John Nang the previous night, the General was using him to make up the cover story to account for his disappearance. But equally they could be investigating his disappearance without letting the military know.

While, for David's sake he hoped the latter was not the case, in some respects he also hoped it was the case as that would ensure that he could get rid of Police Liaison Officer Nang form his position and have put in place someone who would do what he wanted and allow better information to be fed to David.

They were at the critical point in their plan but were stalled given the military were refusing to promote him. He needed the position as head of the special forces group here in City K even if it was only for a few months. It would allow David to launch all his attacks and cripple City K and the national economy before allowing David in his businessman persona could come back in not only to stabilise the economy, but then run for office. Then they would have their total revenge on a country that threated them nothing more than a piece of trash that could be thrown away and ruined the family to the point most of the elders felt that there was no option but to commit suicide.

There was a knock on his door and calling out a subordinate entered the room. As the door shut Major Hung stated, "Yes Lieutenant."

"Sir, just an update. We have no knew intelligence in relation to the suspected kidnapping from any source. In reviewing the intelligence, some people now view it as a hoax. As to the current threat board, we have nothing that we can add to those matters. There are two somewhat unusual matters though. Firstly, there is intermittent noise on one of the know frequencies that teams on deployment use, but none of the teams based here are out nor is their nothing from national headquarters that any other teams have been deployed in our area. I cannot get any information from national headquarters if there is anything going on. Secondly, we have received some intelligence, and no one is willing to make a call on this presently, that the terrorist mastermind called the Devil has plans to make a massive infrastructure attack. There is no more information on that."

Pausing, Major Hung realised that there were three concerns in that information. Firstly, the false information was not holding up as long as they needed it to. Secondly, there was some special forces mission happening, could it be in the area? He needed an answer on that. Finally, there was information leaking from somewhere about David's actions.

"Lieutenant, thank you. I will contact national headquarters and get an answer on the first concern. As to the Devil, there is a specialist team at national headquarters working on him. Let me review what you have and if I believe it is actionable intelligence you can upload it into the database for that team. If it is not, we will not upload it until we have more information. Dismissed."

The Lieutenant snapped a salute and exited the room. Major Hung realised he needed to make a formal call before calling David to pass on information.

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