The Death List Novel - Chapter 130

Chapter 130 Missing
Qin Lun straightened his back and sat upright on a soft chair covered with wool cushions in a standard military posture, his pupils only reflecting the train window.

“He hasn’t changed his position in more than two hours! Captain Burke, are all your soldiers as cold as a piece of granite as Second Lieutenant Heinrich?” Baron Weidenbaylor shook his glass and asked softly.

“The German Mountain Hunters are the most elite soldiers of the empire!” Burke hesitated for a moment and explained softly, “See the Edelweiss specimen on Gerthard’s chest? It grows on the steepest cliffs of the Alps, and no other unit than the German Mountain Hunters will conduct military training there!”

Captain Burke had actually learned about Gerthardt from Skorzny and knew that his relatives had just passed away. However, the captain did not explain all of this to Weidenbaylor, only vaguely attributing it to the military posture requirements of the mountain hunters.

“I’ll bet you that Lieutenant Heinrich can keep sitting like this until dinner starts at night!” The baron joked.

“Sir Weidenbaylor, betting with your colleagues is not a gentleman’s behavior!” Mrs. Monica waved her smooth chin, revealing her slender, swan-white neck.

Grant’s eyes flickered with a complicated gaze. Only he knew that Qin Lun’s face was cold and stiff. He wasn’t faking it. This was probably the most real expression in the heart of the Decomposer.

Without mentioning the [Decomposer], how could he not be like this! Interrogation expert! The clown lowered his head and concealed the expression on his face. He carefully looked at his hands. It was as if the painful and twisted faces that had been peeled off by him had appeared in front of him again.

The Moonlight Fairy bloodline greatly enhanced his hearing. Everyone’s whispers entered Qin Lun’s ears without hesitation.

The soft discussion seemed to come from another world. Qin Lun rolled his eyes. For the first time, he did not use a fake smile to conceal his indifference and numbness. Instead, it was attributed to the result of military training.

Is it difficult to maintain this posture? In a single room in a psychiatric hospital, in the solitary confinement room of the prison … He had curled up in the corner of the wall countless times with his knees crossed, and he could not change his posture, eat, drink, or excrete for three whole days. Right now, it was nothing more than opening his body and straightening his spine.

“Gentlemen, we are almost at the canyon bridge. After crossing this mountain, we will enter the plains!” Scorzini came over from the front of the car and reminded everyone, “After dinner, please rest early. We will arrive at Hamburg tomorrow morning and sail straight for the sea!”

“Sir, since time is of the essence, why don’t we use the Air Force’s transport aircraft?” Borg asked doubtfully.

“Our battle in France is not going smoothly. We abandoned Paris the day before yesterday … The domestic air corridor is not very safe!” Skorzny said worriedly, “Because the mission is urgent, there are too few experts we can recruit. There must not be any losses!”

“Paris has also fallen?” Everyone was a little absent-minded. Their information was not as well-informed as Skorzny’s, and they did not know the latest battle situation for the time being.

“The current situation in the empire is not optimistic. However, according to intelligence analysis, the allies are no longer able to support it. If the unconventional forces cannot be effectively integrated this time, the United States may be forced to withdraw from the war under domestic pressure!” “We can still win without America’s strong industrial power,” Skorzny said confidently. “Work hard, gentlemen!”

“Boom!” Just as Skorzny was passionate, the carriage trembled violently without giving face, causing almost everyone standing to fall to the ground.

“Enemy attack!” Scorzini pressed down on the floor with one palm and his large body jumped up again with disproportionate agility. He rushed to the window and looked outside.

“The’fire breathing ‘of the British!” Borg, who was born in the Air Force, was the first to recognize a fighter jet in the air. “Has our information been leaked?”

“No, it shouldn’t be specifically targeting us. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be ‘Spitting Fire’. Instead, it should be ‘Lancaster’ or ‘Sky Fortress’.” Skorzny waved his hand. “Berk, Gerthardt, follow me to the machine gun carriage. The rest of you go to the front armored carriage.”

(Jetfire is a fighter jet, Lancaster and Skyfort are British and American bombers.)

The expressions on everyone’s faces were somewhat grim. They were right in the middle of the bridge. If the bridge were to be blown apart, no matter how powerful their abilities were, they would be buried in the ravine torrent.

Kieran followed Skorzny and Burke into the carriage and pressed the control button on the carriage. The top and sides of the carriage slowly opened, revealing four 12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns attached to the base of the train.

There were two machine gun carriages before and after the armored army that carried the train cannons. Behind Qin Lun and the others was the huge train cannons. A 650 mm shell weighs five tons, but it’s useless for a plane.

“There are only two planes. Gerthardt, take care of the one on the left. Let me see the hunting spear skills you trained in the mountain troops!” Scolzny’s blonde hair floated in the strong wind and he shouted heroically at Qin Lun.

Qin Lun jumped into the machine gun position, his hands supporting the grip of the machine gun, but his heart was filled with a bitter smile. Gerhardt remembered how to operate an anti-aircraft gun. However, half of using an anti-aircraft gun to shoot an airplane depended on luck. It really didn’t have much to do with marksmanship.

“Da da da!” The rumbling of the anti-aircraft gun and the jet fighter interweaved.

“Dang dang dang dang!” The machine gun baffle in front of Qin Lun sounded like a rain hitting a banana. Seeing the baffle rapidly deform and two rows of bullet craters bulge out, Qin Lun couldn’t help but hang two strands of sweat on his face. If he was hit by a machine gun bullet from an airplane, there would probably be no difference between the body of Laws!

The front and rear machine gun carriages of the armored train interweaved a tight firepower net in the air. The bomblets carried by the fighter jet failed to hit the bridge. After shooting for two rounds, it pulled high and left.

When they returned to the luxury carriage, everyone was silent. Half a year ago, there were few enemy fighter jets in Germany, but now it has become the norm. This knowledge makes everyone feel that this mission has a great responsibility.

After a day and night of flying, the armored train finally arrived at Hamburg Station the next evening. As soon as he entered the disguised guesthouse, Skorzny received a piece of very bad news.

“He’s missing. How could he be missing?” The lieutenant colonel roared at the German gendarmerie who had come to report.

In addition to the combatants, the Special Operations Team’s Heracles Plan required an expert who could read the high-tech information of the Allied Powers. Dr. Keller, who had come from Berlin to join the German secret research team, was not only an outstanding biochemical expert, but also had great attainments in physics and mechanical engineering. He was the most indispensable core figure in this operation.

But now, Dr. Keller and his assistant had disappeared from the villa, disappearing without a trace in front of the German gendarmerie.

“Lieutenant Colonel, let’s go take a look at that villa. Perhaps we can find some clues!” Baron Weidenbaylor said with a smile.

“Take us to Doctor’s villa!” Skorzny ordered with a cold face.

The German gendarmerie led the group to a villa on the outskirts of Hamburg. The garden villa looked inconspicuous on the outside, but beneath it was a secret German research facility in Hamburg. After arriving in Hamburg, Dr. Keller stayed here for a short while, waiting to meet up with the others.

“Lieutenant Colonel, the doctor was here last night. We thought he was reading in the study.” The gendarmerie captain of the villa said dejectedly, “It was not until this morning that we discovered that the doctor had disappeared. He and his assistant were nowhere to be found in the entire villa, as if both of them had disappeared into thin air!”

Everything in the study was in order. Books were arranged neatly in a corner of the desk. A notebook was spread out on the desk, and beside it was a pen and a cup of cold coffee. It showed that the master did not struggle and struggle too much before leaving. It was as if someone had called him out of the study and disappeared into the air.

“Apart from the doctor and his assistant, are there any other missing persons?” Monica walked to the table with the corner of her skirt and flipped through the contents of the notebook. However, she quickly gave up. These were essentially notes from scientific research, and they were useless in finding a doctor.

The gendarmerie captain hesitated for a moment before replying, “There are two more gendarmes missing. However, they are both the most loyal German warriors …”

Kieran’s heart skipped a beat. He turned around and looked in a certain direction. Scolzny, Grant, and Baron Weidenbaylor were doing the same thing.

The baron frowned as they exchanged glances. He walked to the fireplace and squatted down to pluck the ashes. There were mottled moist dark patterns on the unburned charcoal in the furnace.

“It’s human blood!” Weidenbaylor twisted the wet ash with his fingers. As soon as his head reached into the fireplace, he retracted his head like lightning. He pointed at the chimney of the fireplace with an ugly expression and said, “The two missing gendarmes have been found …”

The gendarmes dragged out two of their comrades’ corpses from the bloody chimney, where they were hung with charred sticks from a fireplace.

“I know who did this!” Scorzini’s face was ashen, and his pair of iron fist knuckles cracked.

“Doc, do you still have your clothes here?” After hesitating for a moment, the lieutenant colonel asked the gendarmerie captain.

“Yes!” The gendarmerie captain took a pair of white gloves from his subordinates and handed them to Scorzini. “These are the gloves the doctor wore!”

The lieutenant colonel leaned his nose against his gloves and sniffed twice. A bright light flashed in his eyes as he flew past the window and jumped down from the study on the third floor. His shrill shout came from outside, “Follow me!”

“Haha, Lieutenant Colonel, you are truly swift and fierce!” Weidenbaylor turned his cane and walked to the window, gracefully turning down.

Qin Lun and Grant exchanged glances and jumped out of the window with a bitter smile. With their physical fitness, they wouldn’t be injured even if they were more than ten meters tall.

“This is too ugly!” Monica reached out to cover her face and shook her head helplessly. She was dressed in her best clothes, but she could not jump out of the window like those rude men. She could only walk up the stairs with the corner of her skirt in hand.