Time trickled by in anxious anticipation. As the early morning hours arrived, everything fell silent.
The operation began.
Yang Qi brought Xiaojiu along, boarding a disguised command vehicle with Xiao Jun and a few key technicians. They slowly drove out of the abandoned factory, approaching the Kangda factory.
Wang Mengguo was stationed at the temporary command post in the rear abandoned factory, directing the entire operation via encrypted communications.
The command vehicle stopped in the shadow of a dense thicket a few hundred meters from the target factory.
This was the very edge of the signal reception range and also a secure, concealed observation point.
Inside the vehicle, a technical officer took out specialized micro-devices.
A button-sized, ultra-high-definition night-vision camera, and a nearly invisible bone-conduction micro-earpiece.
Yang Qi gestured to Xiaojiu.
Xiaojiu sat quietly.
