American Celestial Master

Chapter 223, restricted area

Yuri walked over, opened the door, got in, put the suitcase on the floor in front of the passenger seat, inserted the key, started the engine, then released the handbrake, raised the brake, and left. Mexico is a very dangerous place. If you can leave early, leave early.

Garcia had prepared well for him. The gas tank was full, enough for him to drive back and forth a dozen times between the United States and here. Coming out of the hotel's underground garage, Yuri drove this inconspicuous, semi-old Corolla onto the highway leading to the U.S. border. After walking only a short distance along the highway, he had to stop the car first - the road ahead was crowded with people.

Xian Yuri honked his horn in vain, trying to get everyone to give him a pass, but people ignored him.

"Damn it, you can't keep this thing with you for more than five hours." Yuri suddenly remembered this warning.

Under normal circumstances, five hours would be enough for him to drive the car back and forth between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, but now, the situation was really hard to tell.

Yuri is a person who has seen the world, including many worlds involving mysterious powers. He knows that the warning must not be taken lightly. The warning said that the thing should not be kept with you for more than five hours, so it must not be more than five hours. Don't even say more than five hours. Even if it is just close to five hours, it is extremely dangerous. This kind of thing will gradually erode the holder next to it as time goes by. The so-called "five hours" is just a theoretical limit. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for anyone to last for five hours. Yuri even felt that staying next to such a thing for two hours was his limit. After three hours, he might be ready to bear a huge price.

Yuri quickly dialed the emergency contact number and asked about the situation.

"There was an extraordinary attack on the bridge. The border crossing is now closed. You must take a detour to the Piedras Negras crossing. We will send you a new location and we will cross the river there." On the phone, CIA The person gave him such instructions.

"Hell, send me the new route. In addition, you must give me a 10% risk subsidy for this operation. Otherwise, I will leave the car here and run away on my own." Yuri said. This was an opportunity for a price increase that came to your doorstep, and Yuri would not let it go.

There was no bargaining on the amount. The two sides quickly reached an agreement and sent the map over. Yuri took a look at it. Now he needs to get off the highway first, bypass this section, and then Then get on the highway, walk along the highway for a while along the boundary river, and then stop somewhere by the river, where CIA guys will pick him up. Yuri honked the horn fiercely, turned the steering wheel, and turned around on the highway. Anyway, no one cares about traffic rules now.

Yuri drove the wrong way on the highway for a while, got off the highway at an intersection, and drove the car onto a small road according to the navigation guidance.

The road conditions on this road are really incomparable with the highway. Although according to the navigation, it only takes a few kilometers to get back on the highway. It doesn't even take 20 minutes, but Yuri But every minute feels extremely long. He could even hear his heart beating loudly. He knew that this was not because he was nervous. Although encountering these things did make him a little nervous, Yuri had done too many dangerous things, so this time it was very dangerous, but it was not dangerous enough to cause Yuri. Rui went bankrupt, so it is said that this level of nervousness would not make his heart beat like this. It's most likely a combination of my own mentality and the thing in the box.

"How could it be possible that something started to go wrong after just a little more work?" Yuri was surprised. The severity of the matter seemed to exceed his expectations.

Yuri continued to drive for a few more minutes, his heart beating harder and harder, even the field of vision in front of him began to become narrower, and the surrounding light seemed to be getting darker. Yuri knew that the dimming of the light and the narrowing of his field of vision were probably not the actual changes in the surrounding light environment, but probably just the effect of changes in his physical condition.

"We can't continue. If we continue like this, something will happen to me soon." Yuri immediately made this judgment. Almost in an instant, Yuri made the decision to give up that thing. Although money is important, and may even be more important than life in many cases, at this moment, the money involved in this transaction is not enough for him. Don't die for this.

Yuri first looked at the rearview mirror, then stepped on the brakes, parked the car on the side of the road, then opened the door and jumped out.

As soon as he jumped out of the car, Yuri felt relieved. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the car, but was suddenly surprised. Why did the car he just parked here, such a big car, suddenly disappear? ?

Yuri felt as if he had fallen into a snow cave, his whole body became cold all of a sudden, and even his frantic heartbeat just now was frozen. He quickly looked around, only to find that not only was such a big car gone, but also the road the car was driving on was gone. After he opened the door and jumped out, it was not like he jumped out of the car, but like Opened a portal and jumped into another world.

Surrounded by empty wilderness, it was empty and monotonous. As far as the eye could see, it was all flat land. There was not even a single blade of grass to be seen, not to mention trees. Although it was so flat that there was no obstruction, but looking into the distance, it was all gray and it was impossible to see far at all.

"Damn it, there is a forbidden area hidden here! It's not marked on the map!" Yuri immediately made this judgment. Although he has not heard of such a forbidden place from anyone else, forbidden places have different manifestations. There are even forbidden places like Alice's Rabbit Hole in the United States, and everything in them is very strange. Fun--except, of course, for the Queen of Hearts who likes to chop people's heads off.

Forbidden areas are always different. If they have anything in common, there is probably only one thing in common, and that is: they are not normal. From this point of view, what Yuri is encountering now really fits this characteristic.

At the same time, the CIA also noticed the changes here. Yuri's car had a radio tracking device, which would continuously send its location to the CIA via satellite. But just now, the signal suddenly disappeared.

"Director, target 0174 suddenly disappeared. I request permission to call satellites and drones." A man with glasses sitting in front of a large display screen raised his hand.

"The satellite will have to wait for five minutes, and the drone will be in place in two minutes..."

In order to combat the illegal trade of dependence drugs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has many drones at the U.S.-Mexico border that can be deployed at any time. This even includes large drones like the Predator.

Two minutes later, a Predator sent a photo. The photo was of the location where the Corolla last signaled before it lost contact. The Corolla was not in the photo.

(End of this chapter)