Chapter 98 - Could there be trouble? (2)

28 December, Military Base, City K & Terrorist Camp, south of City K

Picking up the phone on his desk, Major Hung dialled the special forces group in the capital.

"This is Major Hung, in City K. My intelligence group have received intermittent signals on one of the mission channels, and we need to clarify what is happening?"

The voice on the other end of the phone said, "Major Hung, please wait a moment and I will transfer you through to the duty officer-in-charge, who can answer your question." With that his call was placed on hold. That immediately made him realise that there was something happening, as usually a call to this number would get an answer from whoever answered the call.

The voice returned "Major Hung, I am transferring you now."

A few seconds later a new voice came on the line "Major Hung, I am the colonel in charge presently. What is your question?"

"Colonel …?"

"Major, you do not need to worry about my name, what is your question?"

Hearing this, he realised that something was going on. He needed to know what. "Colonel, my intelligence group have received intermittent signals on one of the mission channels. Can you clarify if there is a mission going on? Presently, I am the officer-in-charge of special forces here in City K, and we stand ready to help how we can."

"Major, there is a mission on, but its location has meant that we have had to boost communications equipment for communications. There is nothing that you can do. As we are telling other groups, just ignore those signals, as there is nothing any of you can do. Now excuse me I have to get back to what is happening."

Before Major Hung could respond the call was ended. In the Capital, as the call ended the order was given "Alert Majors Dang, Wang and Pang on the secure phone that Major Hung knows something is going on, so they need to be careful in using military communications equipment until their mission is underway." With a nod, one officer picked up a secure phone to make that call.

However, sitting in his office Major Hung was worried. Something did not seem right about this. Missions for special forces team in country were never undertaken without all groups knowing about it, to enable them to deal with the police and the consequences that may have. That made him view that it was likely that this was a border action, mainly in a neighbouring country but potentially spilling internally.

If that was the case, it could be concerning as David's current base, while inside the country's borders, was close enough to a border. But, from what David had told him, its location was close enough to City K, that military communications equipment was such that it would not need boosting for communications.

Deciding that he needed to speak to David further, he sent a message through a cutout that he would be calling in twenty minutes, before picking up a phone and sim card to make the call. While he hated burning another sim card, it was necessary given the real potential that something could be happening. As he left the intelligence headquarters, he went for a walk towards his favourite smoking area to make this call.

Right on twenty minutes, he rang David's number letting the phone ring three times before hanging up, and then immediately re-dialling for another five rings before hanging up. Now he just had to wait for David to return his call.

Less than two minutes later, the phone rang. As Major Hung answered it, he heard "Why the signal? Why in the world are you calling me?"

"Are you secure? We might have a problem."

"I would not have called if it was not safe and secure for me to call. Anyway, you know with problems, when I am here you need to solve."

"Damn it, this is something out of my control, and I only have pieces of information."

"Stop talking in riddles and tell me what you know."

"A few pieces of information only, but if you take them all together that spells trouble and I view that you might have to get out of there quicker than you hoped in the absence of the material that you need."

"You know I need at least three or four more days before I can get out of here without burning too much. But before I make a decision tell me what you know."

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