Chapter 112 - Rescue and Escape (10)

29 December, Terrorist Camp and unknown location, South of City K

Lexi, was confused. She was certain that she had never met the solider in front of her.

Matthew however could see the look of confusion on her face. She did not remember faces very well. Pausing, Matthew added "Lexi, remember your final year final dance? Joseph, Ben who will stay with you and David who you will meet later were the three soldiers I co-opted to help when those boys came in. Protecting you from harm is something that they have already done for you, and you know how that turned out. Now, I promise I will explain everything to you when we are out of this mess, and safe."

With that Matthew gave her a brief kiss on the forehead, before grabbing an offered weapon and ammunition and heading down the corridor to where he could hear the gun battle continuing. It was only then, Lexi finally observed, that without her noticing Matthew had dressed in the uniform that he had been provided.

Having been give his order, Joseph turned and said, "You heard Colonel Rong, start escorting people out, I will escort the Imam and Madam Rong, to Lieutenant Akur. As soon as the are safe outside, come back in, as we need to deal with the situation here."

With the chorus of "Yes Sir", they headed out of the room, slowly working their way back along the corridor, carefully helping the captives out of the cells, and grabbing the two terrorists they had previously incapacitated.

Matthew, himself headed straight down the corridor, passed the landing to where the balance of the team were engaged in what could only be described as a ferocious gun battle. As he arrived, he heard "Kill them all" from down the corridor. Those three words told him that all those down the corridor were willing to fight to the death. With their limited numbers and increasingly limited ammunition due to the gun battles already, this was a fight that they had no hope to win.

Meanwhile around fifteen kilometres away, the Devil and his minions having already pulled their boats onto the riverbank and dismantled them to allow for easier destruction away from here, gathered everything that provided any indication they had been at the site ready for loading into the vehicles, once they completed altering their appearances. The Devil, now clean shaven and his hair trimmed and dyed back to its natural colour, looked around his men.

Pausing he said "I have to apologise to all of you for pulling you out of there in the manner I did. I had information from my source that we were about to be raided by special forces personnel, so I had to throw all the plans out"

"Boss we all knew we were going to get rid of them soon, as they were becoming a hindrance to our ultimate goal" one man said.

"We were. We all know that their usefulness was gone. They had dragged us closer to the final goal, but were never the group that would allow us to reach it. The only problem it causes is we have to adapt our plans on the transition. That impacts each of us and will not be as easy as we had intended."

"Boss, what are we doing?"

"You all know the original plan was that the initial group would move in the next couple of weeks to the new group, we then systematically would ditch those Islamic extremists to allow the balance of us, including myself to move a couple of weeks later. The initial group will make that move now, but the balance of us will have to delay acting. With the special forces being involved, we all know that means the intelligence expert dubbed the Devil Hunter, or something similar, will be involved."

"That means for us, we have to be strategic. The initial group will move as planned to the new organisation we are using. But the balance, which will include me, have to delay our planned move for a few months. That will minimise our risks of detection. So, those who do not make that initial move, will move with me into my company. I have maintained a mysterious role with the company, and allowed managers to publicly represent the company. I can come out of the shadow for a while, using the fact that I am looking for a partner for a new project. I will be vague on that project so I do not have to commit. Those who remain will surround me, in various roles, including my assistant, secretaries and security. While doing that will delay our move and actions for a few months, we cannot be detected so close to our goal. As an added bonus we can monitor the Rong and Yao families, to see if they know of our involvement in what happened."

"You think we may have a problem Boss?"

"No, but we have not gotten to this stage of our plan without being cautious. We need to be over-cautious now so that we are not detected, hence we must take every piece with us from here and destroy it carefully. You all know the goal we have in mind, and we are so close to achieving it, so why would we take an unnecessary risk?"

"True boss," came the echo of voices.

"Now, let us get out of here. Communications will be through dead drops in City K, until just before the move when we will reactivate out cut-outs for that purpose. The only thing that will take a few days to sort, is the one-use sim cards and disposable phones. When they are organised, those of you in the first group will be notified through a dead drop where they can be collected."

After a few seconds of silence someone spoke "Boss, I forgot to remind you that I also set the explosives at the entrance to the facility. We know that those ISX idiots would not even look to do anything for few hours, so I set the delay to explode 2 and a half hours afterwards, unless they did the one thing we know they will do, which will start a five minute countdown."

"Perfect, while we should stay until that explosion, the last thing we need is to be anywhere near here."

With that The Devil and his minions finished the loading of everything for destruction into vehicles and they headed out, with a few minions headed towards the new group they were using and the Devil and his key personal heading towards City K

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