Chapter 488: Tracking (Please Add to Collection, Recommend, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) Please Vote for Recommendation!!!

When Stark's escape plan was about to be completed, Kai also arrived at a US military base near Kabul. It was this US military base that was responsible for receiving Stark before, and the US military's command in Afghanistan was also inside this military base.

This time, Kai certainly didn't come here with a head on his shoulders. He also had the identity of a congressional investigator on his head, and this identity was obtained by Pepper through connections. How to say the power of this investigator?

If you say it's big, it's big, you can handle everything. If you say it's small, it's also small, after all, the identity of an investigator can't scare those US military commanders far away from home.

In the US military base, a black major named Rod received Kai. In Rod's office, Kai put forward his request to him.

"I need all the information you investigated after Tony disappeared, whether it's useful or not."

Major Rod didn't like Kai's attitude. "I don't think it's necessary. We will rescue Tony."

"If you are really as good as you say, I wouldn't come here. Isn't it? Let me solve this trouble quickly and let everyone relax a little, okay?" Kai can actually understand this emotion. It's like, you investigated a case, you firmly believe that you can find out the truth, but the higher-ups suddenly asked you to transfer the case. Of course, you will be unhappy. But Kai really doesn't have time to argue with a soldier there. He is very busy.

Rhodes' face darkened... Well, he is black, a very pure black, and it is hard to tell whether his face is dark or not.

"You don't think that you can solve the problem that thousands of our soldiers can't solve by yourself, right?"

"Why not? Isn't this the reason why I came here? Soldiers, professional matters should be left to professionals. You should go and deal with those human bombs. You can't play this kind of technical work." Kai has performed missions in Afghanistan and has been there for a while.

So he knows very well what kind of virtue these American soldiers are in Afghanistan.

War-torn Afghanistan is a lawless place. In such a place where order has collapsed, you can't expect these American soldiers to have strong discipline. Kai even found that the US military traded opium with the enemy. In short, Kai didn't like these US troops stationed in Afghanistan.

And Rhodes was very keenly aware of Kai's attitude.

He frowned and said very unhappily: "Please pay attention to your words. Your words are very unfair to those soldiers who sacrificed for their country! It's also very disrespectful!"

"Tsk... Rhodes... Major. I was a soldier, so don't say such diplomatic words in front of me. You and I know very well the difference between fighting for the country and killing civilians!" In fact, Kai didn't have any special feelings about the United States' attack on Afghanistan. After all, Afghanistan did support terrorist activities, and there was nothing wrong with the attack. But what really makes people uncomfortable is what the US military did after entering Baghdad. What they say is to bring a smart tour, but in fact it is a predatory exploitation of the occupied areas. →

After the US attacked Afghanistan, 90% of Afghanistan's private enterprises disappeared. The reason why Afghanistan's share of global opium production soared from 19% in 1986 to 90% now is that warlords are divided and the people are suffering.

Has the US really cared about this country?

No! Every year, the US spends tens of billions of dollars in Afghanistan. According to a survey report released by the US non-governmental organization "National Priorities Project", the US military expenditure for every hour of operation in Afghanistan is about 4 million US dollars. But has any of this money been spent on the construction of people's livelihood in Afghanistan?

No!

On the contrary, American companies have entered this country in large numbers and controlled more than 80% of the country's national production resources! This country is being squeezed out of its bones!

In short, no matter how lofty the reasons for the US attack on Afghanistan were at the beginning, they basically all changed later and were definitely not justified.

Major Rhodes' face turned black.

There is really no way to say this kind of thing. The US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan. Is it really for justice and fairness? Don't be funny! If there were no benefits, the masters on Capitol Hill would have withdrawn the American soldiers long ago. The military-industrial complex alone cannot really control the US military operations. That is to say, Afghanistan has really become a quagmire, and the input and output are not proportional. The government plans to withdraw troops, otherwise President Benjamin will be useless even if he is a pacifist.

Let's get back to the point.

Even a pure soldier like Rhodes can't refute Kai's words. Because what he said is right.

"Besides... so many of you have been kidnapped by Stark... so what's the problem with me coming?"

Rhodes was very unhappy with this remark, but... he was still speechless.

As a responsible officer and a friend of Stark, he still applied to access Kai's information, but found that most of Kai's information had been sealed and he could not access it with his authority. This strange phenomenon gave Rhodes a little confidence. After all, Pepper endorsed him in this matter.

"You get what you want." Rhodes turned and left.

But Kai stopped him immediately.

"Give me a car, fill it up with gas, and preferably some spare gas and food. I'll be on my way soon."

"No problem, the supplies you need can be prepared today. You can take a day off and set off tomorrow morning. I have detailed satellite images here, I think this may be helpful to you." Major Rhodes looked at Kai, thought about it, and reminded him according to his duty, "Do you need some weapons? You know, this is not a safe place."

Kai shook his head and smiled and said, "No, I brought my own weapons. You just need to provide me with what I just said. I will set off overnight to clean up your soldiers."

Rod waved his hand angrily and said to a soldier in the office, "Help this gentleman find a car and prepare things according to his requirements."

Kai didn't care about Rhodes's dissatisfaction. Instead, he patiently looked through the information provided by the US military.

In fact, the information is very scarce, because the US military has not yet determined who kidnapped Stark. But Kai didn't count on them. What he needed was the distribution map of those forces in Afghanistan.

While the war has caused suffering to this country, it has also created a large number of warlords!

For now, Afghanistan is a situation of one superpower and many strong forces. The Taliban is far ahead and the undisputed boss, but there are also many factions inside. Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic country, mainly Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, etc., and the people are extremely tough. Afghanistan has no tradition of great unification. The tribes fight each other, so that the central government cannot command all tribes. The tribal chiefs still have supreme authority over their tribes. Even if the capital falls, the armed forces in various places will continue to resist. Although there is no unity between ethnic groups, as long as there is an invasion by foreign enemies, they will be surprisingly united.

These things are what Kai really cares about. He needs to know who his enemies are.

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The Gobi and mountainous areas in Afghanistan are very large, and one person can never search such a large area. But Kai also has his own way.

Remember the smart watch Tony gave Kai?

The watch was originally connected to Tony's smart butler system "Jarvis". After giving it to Kai, although it was cut off from Jarvis, because the artificial intelligence of the watch "Friday" is one of Jarvis's subsystems, it still has the authority to contact Jarvis.

Kai relies on this authority to directly connect to Jarvis. Originally, Kai hoped that Kingsman's people could directly hack into Jarvis' system through this link to get Tony's location.

As a high-tech geek, Tony has a lot of smart devices on him, while ordinary people have things like mobile phones. Butler Jarvis can locate and connect these smart devices.

As a result, Kingsman was embarrassed. They couldn't do anything to an artificial intelligence, and they almost suffered a loss and were tracked back by Jarvis. In the end, Merlin was awesome and resisted Jarvis's tracking.

But because of this incident, Kingsman's senior executives felt very embarrassed.

It was so hard for Kai to ask them to do something, but they messed it up. So Kingsman decided to support and allocate funds in this regard, and strive for the next time... Not to say win, but at least not lose.

In the end, Kai contacted Jarvis directly and made a request to Jarvis.

Artificial intelligence is artificial intelligence. After understanding Kai's needs, it did not refuse, but took the initiative to help Kai lock the location of those smart devices.

However, Jarvis could only determine the approximate location because those smart devices were destroyed not long after the attack.

But this was enough.

At night, Kai drove the car to the back of a hill and planned to camp here. This is also the place where the equipment was finally destroyed.

This afternoon, when driving past a market, Kai bought some things needed for the evening ceremony at the market.

After dinner, Kai sat on the roof of the car to rest. Although this country is suffering from an unparalleled disaster, the people on this land are still strong and alive. It must be said that the Afghans are really tough enough.

Afghanistan is really a magical country. In the history of ancient and modern wars, Afghanistan is used to being called "the graveyard of empires", "the sad place of powerful countries" and "the meat grinder of great powers". It has experienced the invasion of almost all great powers in human history, but in the end it failed and dragged down the other side! The British colonists invaded Afghanistan in the 19th and early 20th centuries for the strategic need to compete with Tsarist Russia for control of Central Asia. There were three large-scale battles between Britain and Afghanistan. The Afghans used backward weapons to defeat the British Empire, which was in its heyday, and declared independence in 1921, breaking away from British control. In September 1979, Amin in Afghanistan launched a coup. The Soviet Union, which was at the peak of its history at that time, immediately sent troops to Afghanistan. As a result, the Soviet Union paid a painful price. In 1989, the Soviet Union could not bear it. Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed, which became one of the reasons for the final collapse of the Soviet Union.

Now the United States also has this trend.

Sometimes Kai also wonders, what is supporting the people of this poor land from ancient times to the present to continue to resist aggression?

Looking at the still clear starry sky under the war, Kai emptied his mind and relaxed himself.

It was about eleven to twelve o'clock.

Kai finally started to do business.

He used a wooden stick to draw a huge magic circle on the Gobi Desert, and then took out the cow blood and sheep blood bought at the market today. The blood had been processed and did not coagulate. Blood has a very special status in many civilizations, and the same is true for cattle and sheep. Many ancient civilizations believed that cattle and sheep were necessary sacrifices to communicate with gods, such as the ancient three animals, also known as Tailao, that is, when ancient emperors sacrificed to the land and grain, cattle, sheep, and pigs (shǐ, pigs) were all prepared as "Tailao".

Some civilizations even believe that cattle are messengers of gods, such as India, and ancient Chinese legends say that cattle can see ghosts and gods.

So their blood has always been a necessity for many magic rituals. Of course, as the spirit of all things, humans are more effective, but as a policeman, Kai still instinctively refuses to use that thing.

Kai poured the cow blood and sheep blood into the drawn magic circle.

Then put down copper basins in various corners of the magic circle, and then lit some spices.

Finally, Kai walked into the magic circle, opened the King's Treasure House, and took out a large black metal book from it!

This is the Book of the Dead, a treasure that Kai robbed from the ancient Egyptian priest Imhotep in Egypt during World War I. It was once the artifact of the ancient Egyptian gods. This book records countless spells and secrets to drive the power of darkness and death.

Unfortunately, it is a waste of money to put it in Kai's hands. First, compared with complex and mysterious spells, Kai trusts more simple and crude power, such as the battle spells learned from Asgard, which are simple and clear. Just do it. For example, his own body, Kai is a martial artist, and he has always been confident in his skills.

What's more, after waking up again, Kai's power has declined significantly, and he can't use the spells in the Book of the Dead at all.

However, after so many years of "brushing" experience, Kai can already use this artifact. He didn't use it before, but it was mostly out of habit.

Kai recited the spell on the surface of the Book of the Dead, and the Book of the Dead gently floated up from his hand. Then Kai waved his hand, and after a mechanical sound, the heavy, dark, and cold Book of Death opened and began to turn pages.

Soon the page automatically turned to the page Kai needed.

Kai recited the spell on the page and took out a bag.

The bag contained ashes.

This was also bought from the local market, from some corpses in ancient tombs.

Since the Taliban took the lead in destroying the Bamiyan Buddha, Afghanistan has always been rude in its attitude towards cultural relics. As long as the cultural relics that do not conform to the teachings of the Taliban are destroyed. This has led to rampant reselling of cultural relics in Afghanistan.

These corpses were dug out from Buddhist tombs and have a history of hundreds or thousands of years. But in the market, this kind of corpse is not much more expensive than beef and mutton.

After Kai bought it, he ground it into powder.

Sin, sin.

When the spell was finished, Kai grabbed a handful of ashes and blew them out.

The ashes fluttered gently, and then began to fly into the magic circle under the influence of a mysterious force.

Then a gust of wind blew.

Countless sand and gravel were swept up by the wind and mixed with the ashes.

In less than a minute.

A pair of ragged mummy warriors appeared in the magic circle.

They lined up neatly in the magic circle, holding their hands in front of their chests.

"Go find Tony Stark!"

Boom!

All the mummy warriors put down their hands in unison, knelt down and saluted Kai, and then the painting blew sand in all directions.

And Kai continued to stay in the center of the magic circle, waiting silently.