Spark 2003

Chapter 432 Weird state of affairs

Inside the VP13 armored personnel carrier, Qiu Mai was wearing a body armor and looked at the data on the mobile terminal screen with some nervousness.

According to the data annotation, this large-scale attack caused a total of 7 breakpoints on the gas pipeline, with the physical length of each breakpoint being more than 30 meters.

It must be said that this is quite serious damage.

You know, the total length of the entire gas pipeline is only about 110 kilometers. Even if she knows nothing about military or combat, she can completely understand that it is necessary to organize so many attacks at the same time in such a short distance, and We have achieved results, no matter how difficult it is.

What’s even more frightening is that part of this gas pipeline passes through the interior of the city, less than 400 meters underground from the local police station in Ras Laqueira. The attacker also successfully carried out the explosion, and the police were completely unaware of the explosion. After reacting, he quickly evacuated the scene.

Although Qatar relied on cameras on the street to locate the suspicious vehicle license plate, it was obvious that they would inevitably come up empty-handed after tracing all the way.

It can be said that the level of professionalism demonstrated in this attack is definitely not what Qafang initially claimed as a "certain terrorist force".

There must be someone behind the scenes directing and dispatching, and there must be intelligence and technical support specifically for this pipeline.

Except for the mole, there are probably only a handful of people in this world who can do this.

Thinking of this, Qiu Mai's brows relaxed.

The officer on the side looked at her performance curiously and asked:
"Are not you afraid?"

“I was a little scared at first, but after I figured it out, I wasn’t scared anymore.”

Jimmy replied.

"Oh? Did you figure it out? How did you figure it out?"

"This is what I think. People who are capable of blowing up pipelines must only aim to blow up pipelines, not cause greater casualties."

"Those who want to cause casualties have no ability to blow up pipelines."

"So, at the end of the day, this incident is more of a harassment than a declaration of war, am I right?"

After hearing his words, the officer laughed and said with admiration:
"Otherwise, how can we say that all of you who are doing research are smart people?"

“You know everything, you really know a little bit about everything.”

"From what we can see so far, the situation is indeed similar to what you think. This attack is definitely not a simple anti-humanitarian attack, but a harassment operation with a clear purpose targeting the Ras Lakhela base. "

"Qatar's forward investigation report has been sent back. The other party used extremely professional directional blasting technology, but in order to cover up their 'professionalism', they deliberately used homemade explosives to create a large amount of fire and smoke."

"Obviously, they just want to muddy the waters."

"As soon as the previous explosion went off and the pipeline was broken, their goal was achieved."

"The possibility of another attack on our personnel is almost zero."

Qiu Mai nodded slightly, and then asked:

"Then how do you guys know? I mean, how do you know it's a directional blast?"

In her concept, the shape of each explosion is basically the same. Without a special identification report, it would be impossible to draw a conclusion in such a short time, right?
"It was good luck this time - one of the seven explosion points happened to be located on open ground, and the traces of the first explosion left on the ground were not covered up."

"I guess those people originally planned to use the shock wave of the secondary explosion to destroy the evidence, but they underestimated the special nature of the desert geographical environment."

"To put it simply, the footprints in the sand were not wiped clean. This is the only mistake we have seen them make so far."

"understood."

Qiao Mai nodded again, and at this time, the personnel carrier had arrived at the explosion point closest to the Las Lakaila base.

After parking, the military left to carry out the planned battle plan. Two wheeled armored vehicles went out on alert.

The area with a radius of 5 kilometers seems to be covered with a big net. Within this net, it is absolutely impossible for any disturbance to escape the eyes of the military.

After making sure that everything was ready, Qiu Mai stepped out of the personnel carrier under the leadership of the officer. When she saw the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but take a breath.

The destruction was too complete.

Like most desert natural gas pipelines, the Ras Lakhela Gas Pipeline adopts an overhead laying design due to the complexity of the terrain and the variability of surface temperatures.

On both sides of the pipeline, there are two steel structure supports every 10 meters to hold up the pipeline.

According to normal logic, the easiest way to destroy a gas pipeline is to blow up the bracket directly. In this way, under the influence of the pipeline's own weight, the entire pipeline will fall and break, and the purpose of the saboteur is also That's it.

But what Qiu Mai sees now is not this idea at all.

The saboteurs directly blew up nearly 100 meters of pipeline. Those collapsed supports were probably just a chain reaction caused by the violent explosion——
But does this really make sense?
Obviously, the purpose of these people is not to slow down the repair process to the maximum extent. Otherwise, they can use all these explosives on the bracket.

Looking at this posture, not to mention 100 meters, if you plan well, two kilometers will be enough, right?
Qiu Mai looked around in confusion, and then she walked towards the center of the explosion.

There were still blown metal fragments scattered on the ground. She carefully avoided the debris and raised her head to look at the relatively intact pipe break on the west side that was leaning to the side.

Then, she subconsciously stretched out her hand and pressed it against the exposed inner wall of the pipe that was hot from the sun.

"How about it? Is it difficult to repair it?"

The officer on the side asked.

Qiu Mai shook his head and did not answer immediately.

She continued to walk forward for a while, until she reached a position where the shock wave of the explosion was completely digested and the pipe structure was not affected in any way, and then she finally stopped.

Looking back, we saw that it was only 150 meters away from the center of the explosion.

In other words, the explosion in this section affected the function of the pipeline for a total of about 300 meters.

Three days to replace them all?

If you go slower, a week would be enough.

You must know that the current record of Huaxia Oil and Gas Group's single-day footage is 160 meters, and that was a record set on the China-Russia gas transmission line with complex terrain and freezing weather.
Things are getting weirder.

Qiu Mai looked away and then said to the officer:

"It's not too difficult to repair."

"I can only make a preliminary judgment. The length of the affected pipeline at this point is not long - the specific number needs to be evaluated by relevant personnel."

"But what we have to consider now is not how to fix this problem."

"It should be said, do we want to repair it or not?"

"We definitely didn't do anything!"

"How can we blow up their gas pipelines? What does this have to do with us!?"

"It's not within our scope of activities at all, and it doesn't have any impact on our interests?"

"So what about the Arab Commonwealth? They won't come to the mountainous area right away!" "What's more, even if they really come to the mountainous area, we won't blow up any pipelines, right? We will at least pick one closer. What’s the deal with targets like Kabul or Ras al-Raqila in Riyadh? What’s the value of that crappy place to us?!”

"Really, absolutely not, sir, you must believe us!"

"No, I am sure that my men will not do such stupid things. Not only my men, but also our other brothers will definitely not do such stupid things!"

"What moon landing plan? What? The voice of Allah?? Where did this rumor come from?!"

"Sir, we are just extremely pious, not extremely stupid!"

"Nuclear fusion has been born, who would be stupid enough to think that Allah lives on the moon!?"

Somewhere in AFghan, in a camp deep in the mountains, Ahonchad almost shouted angrily at the heavily armed white man in front of him.

There was a completely incomprehensible expression on his face, and this inexplicability was mixed with the very obvious anger after being wronged.

Opposite him, the white man looked calm.

He fiddled with the speed of the rifle in his hand, and the clicking sound was particularly harsh in the silent camp.

A full 2 ​​minutes passed before he finally broke the silence and said:
"Now, you are the most suspect, there is no doubt about this."

"And, to make matters worse, you dragged us into the water."

"According to our intelligence, China has not even expressed its position, but Qatar has already begun to doubt us."

"They suspect that we provided technical and command support and assisted you in launching the attack."

"Do you have any idea how serious an accusation like this is? Do you have any idea of ​​the unmanageable consequences we're going to face?"

"I can only advise you, never lie to me."

"Otherwise, I don't know what happened to your brothers, but it is absolutely impossible for you to leave alive."

Upon hearing his words, Ahomchad clenched his fists.

threaten me?
It doesn't matter, after working as an informant for so long, being threatened is a common occurrence.

He didn't know how many times he had been forced to ask the truth of something with a gun pointed at his head.

Neither his "brothers" nor the forces represented by the white men actually regarded him as a human being.

But at least in the past, they were still reasonable.

And now?
What's going on now? ?
Ask me for confirmation on something that doesn't exist at all. How do you want me to answer you?
Yes, we did it, and we are responsible for it.

Is that so?
Ahongcha took a deep breath, suppressed the curse that rushed to his lips, then stabilized his mind, spread his hands piously and said:

"I swear to God, this matter has nothing to do with us."

"At least, to the best of my knowledge, I had no idea that this had anything to do with us."

Hearing this, the white man frowned.

Ahongchad dared to say this, which shows that he is indeed confident in the information he has.

It's possible that the attack really wasn't initiated by them.
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Indeed, such actions do not mean much to them, and the so-called "preventing evil forces from approaching Allah" seems extremely absurd.

But the question is, if not them, who else could it be?
According to the man's own intelligence, it is impossible for him to be related to this matter, otherwise his superiors would not have been able to issue such an urgent order and grant such a high-level authority, allowing him to find out the truth as quickly as possible.
Europe?

This is indeed one of the suspects, and their oil and gas groups and power groups do have motives for launching attacks.

But no matter how you look at it, this motivation is too weak.

Russia?

Well, they seem to be people who can do this kind of thing. In addition, Russia and Qatar initially competed for gas pipelines and metallic hydrogen technology. It is possible that they can use such actions to expand their position on the negotiating table. advantage.

But this time is not very suitable.

Too late, too early.

Either start when construction is just beginning, or wait until the fusion power plant is completed and the industrial complex is ready to start operating.

Now, at this point where the two are completely unrelated, why do you want to do this?
Headache.

The man scratched his head subconsciously, and his mind quickly flashed through all the forces on the list that might be related to the attack.

But after several laps, he didn't get the answer he wanted.

It was really weird that this thing happened, and according to the currently public on-site information, the "destructive significance" of the attack itself is really not great, but the intention of "demonstration" is more obvious.

How many organizations are there that fit this approach?

The United States is behind us, but we really didn’t do anything.

Even the organization behind the informant in front of me said they didn't do it.

Ah San is also capable of doing such stupid things, but their hands can't reach here.

Could it be a native chicken? ?
The man instantly became alert.

Yes, when the Arab Commonwealth was first established, the local chickens were clear-cut opponents.

Their power can indeed achieve the desired effect of this attack.

But are they really that stupid?
In any case, it must be confirmed clearly.

Thinking of this, the man put away the gun in his hand, stretched out his hand and patted the shoulder of Ahong Chad opposite him, and then said:
"I believe you."

"After all, you have never lied to us in the past time."

"However, I still want to remind you that the investigation against you will not stop."

"During this period, you'd better stay calm. It's not just us. The eyes of the East are also staring at you."

"You can't stop DF-21 from cherishing your life."

Ahongcha finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the current hurdle is over.

However, what the man said did make sense.

The Arab Federation is the general trend.

The organization behind him is naturally contrary to this strategy.

Maybe
Is it true that I should become a good person?
(End of this chapter)