Chapter 102 - Readying to evacuate

29 December, Terrorist Camp, south of City K

The Devil hated having his plans thrown into disarray. Given all of Robert's hard work, and the information he fed through, in the recent years it was a rare case that he could not outmanoeuvre the police, military and the intelligence apparatus of the state when he wanted to. Naturally, on select occasions he acted to play that they were lucky as he knew otherwise it would tip that he had someone inside. The only time he had little success was when the so called "Devil Expert" was involved. Robert, despite even all his efforts, had not been able to find a lead on who it was.

David paused, and realised the situation felt like one of those cases where the Devil Expert was involved. If that was correct, it meant that Colonel Rong was important to the military. If he was certain that his loyal men could control him, when they left, they would drag him with them. But, despite everything, he believed that the only way they had him under any control was from Miss Yao. There was no way that they could drag her with them.

His men could handle her, but the problem was that the ideologs would all want to drag their favourite woman with them with their so-called evacuation. They could not do that, as when they left, the did not want to tip off to the lower level people that they were leaving.

That he did not need. They would use the women as a shield, making it impossible for them to kill the lot at their desired location.

Looking to his IT specialist, he said "Have you got everything sorted?"

"I have. The data is split into multiple different batches over what everyone will carry out. I am working on the encryption of the data in case someone is captured to minimise the risk of the authorities breaking into the the data. The base encryption phase will take me another twenty minutes. The second phase will not be completed until around 5am. The final step that I want to do, will take until about 8am to be completed."

"I suspect we do not have that time. After each phase, download the data onto the devices in case we must pull out quickly. And you have …"

"I have the data for ISX done for them. It is clear only to incriminate the members of ISX, none of our men. That will be the data left on the computers when I complete the encryption."

"OK, pass the word out to our men, the plan is we will leave either at 8am through the escape tunnel, with the ISX men ten minutes after us. We know that it will take us fifteen minutes to get through the tunnel. When we leave, we will start the explosives circuits, which we will complete when the group come into sight at the far end of the tunnel. As that circuit will take a few minutes to complete, we will use suppressed weapons to kill anyone we can. That should get them all. But get the message to them they need to be ready to go at a moment's notice."

"Will do. What else do you need?"

"Get the ideological and spiritual heads of ISX into my office. I need to get everything else in place."

Nodding the IT expert left the office, indicating to the senior ISX members that the military head wanted to speak to them, before heading off to tell their men the true plan.

Five minute later four men entered the Devil's office, before one spat out "You are not in charge here. You are a member of the faithful and know that our religious men are our heads."

"Gentleman, if you want to play that game you risk too much. We have a military problem, and that is my responsibility. Through my contacts with the faithful both in City K and in the capital I have information. I suspect that the military have located this location, meaning that we will need to evacuate it …"

"We have to get all our men out quickly then, as without them we will not achieve our glorious desired outcome that will please Allah…"

"You will listen to me. We must be careful about this. The plan is, my elite team will take the escape tunnel when I indicate it. You and the key members, and that is to be no more than twenty people, will leave ten minutes after us. We will secure the exit to protect your departure. Everyone else will remain here for twenty-four hours, keeping the base safe, before leaving in groups of ten to fifteen through the tunnel. If this location is attacked, they will do what they can to defend the base to give my elite team enough time to get the key personnel away. Securing the safety of you, means we can continue and rebuild. Those who sacrifice themselves will always be remembered as martyrs for the cause and receive everything they should."

"We need to take our wives and some female with us for added protection."

"Absolutely not. We need to move quickly to protect you, and they will be a hindrance. Your wives, can head into the tunnel five minutes after you, but as to hostages we will secure new hostages and women for your pleasures when we get to our next secure base."

The Devil looked around the room, realising that each man in here knew that he was being realistic about what they needed to do.

"Now pack yourself a pack and organise your wives quietly. I will talk to the others to get them ready for what they need to do. They will understand why we are doing this."

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