Chapter 72 He Is the Owl
The dark muzzle was aimed at Lloyd and Ebony.
Among the three armed criminals with different skin colors, one man from Asia, spoke ruthlessly to Ebony and Lloyd in Cloabian, "Don't move!"
Looking at each other, Ebony and Lloyd raised their hands obediently and didn't move.
The gangsters communicated with each other in Portuguese again.
"They are wearing Ostesh military uniforms?"
"Are they here to arrest us? But they seem to have no weapons on them."
"You ask them in Ostesh."
The one from Asia asked them again in Ostesh fluently this time, "You are Ostesh marine soldiers?"
Out of the corner of her eye, Ebony noticed that the drone in the sky had flown farther, hiding behind the trees.
She narrowed her eyes and said, "We are from the International Wildlife Rescue Association. We have received a report that a jaguar, which has been implanted with an observation chip when it was a cub, was in distress in the northwest of the jungle. It is weak now, so we go to help it."
The Asian frowned and translated to his two companions.
Ebony listened to their conversation carefully.
Each of them was speaking Portuguese awkwardly. Ebony quickly referred that Portuguese was not their native language and they were not from the same country.
Then what was it that brought them together? Ebony thought to herself.
At this time, the brown one came over with a submachine gun on his shoulder and used it to lift Lloyd's cap.
Ebony clenched her fist secretly, ready to attack them at any time.
Lloyd suddenly grabbed her wrist, and glanced at her, implying that she should not be impulsive.
The brown-skinned man frowned, staring at Lloyd's face, looking back and forth.
Then he said to his companions, "Don't you think he looks familiar?"
"They Ostesh all look the same."
"Monkey, look."
The man called Monkey is the only Asian among the three.
He looked at Lloyd up and down, and said uncertainly, "It's a bit like..."
"Lloyd!" Behind the two, a short-haired woman in a gray-blue vest suddenly called out his name in nonstandard Ostesh.
Then she came over with a gun and aimed the muzzle at Lloyd's neck.
She turned her head back and said to her companions excitedly in tongue-twisting Portuguese, "He is the protagonist of No Man's Land!"
Hearing her words, the brown man and the Asian man frowned. Apparently, they had hardly watched a movie because they just earned a bare living.
The short-haired woman had deep eye sockets in her chiseled face. She greedily fondled Lloyd's face with her gun, which was full of provocation.
In the end, she said with satisfaction, "I like him very much."
Hearing it, Ebony looked at the woman in a grim way.
Lloyd noticed that Ebony wanted to have a fight with them again. He frowned and held her wrist even harder.
Ebony glared at Lloyd, but gritted her teeth and didn't move.
The Asian man stepped forward and forcibly pulled the slutty short-haired woman away. Amidst the woman's dissatisfaction, he said to the brown-skinned man, "Kill them to save trouble."
"Of course, we have to kill them, but..." the brown one walked to Ebony and grabbed her chin.
Lloyd's eyes turned ruthless suddenly and tried to fight with him. Ebony didn't expect his action. This time she held Lloyd's wrist and stopped his actions.
She glanced at him at the same time.
"Aren't you always calm? What are you doing now?" Ebony thought.
Lloyd squinted his eyes. His face was black with rage.
"She looks good," the brown-skinned man grinned and said, "Take her back first. It's been a long time since my last sex."
The Asian was a little dissatisfied but didn't say anything. He walked to Ebony and Lloyd, pressed their backs, and rudely pushed them forward.
These three criminals seemed to have come out to fetch water. After fetching the water, they escorted people and walked into the rainforest.
In the sky, a drone followed them secretly.
Inside the camp outside the rainforest.
"Should we turn off the live broadcast first? Should we pick up other people first?" The director asked anxiously.
The officer frowned and thought for a second. "I'll make a call," he said.
He went to a distance to make a phone call. After a moment, he came back and asked the soldier who was operating the drone, "Where is Tristan Gibson?"
The soldier changed one into another monitoring screen, which showed that Tristan was in an extremely awkward situation that he was stark naked.
The officer asked in surprise, "Why is he like this?"
The soldier said, "He was hit by wasps at first, then sharks, and then pythons. Last night, he slept on a tree but was bitten by poisonous mosquitoes so that he had several pustules on his skin. In the process of escaping, he lost his backpack and his clothes. Now, he is looking for a source of water to clean the wounds."
The officer looked at the CCTV silently. The strong young man squatted cautiously by the river, watching the surroundings vigilantly.
From time to time, he held up a little water and poured it on his wound.
"He was so poor," the officer sighed.
"Notify Tristan to rescue the hostages," he said.
"No, it's too dangerous," the director objected.
"He is different," the officer waved his hand. "Although he is still a new recruit, he has already gone on special missions with the Second Owlwolf Team. He is a good commando, and..." The officer turned his eyes to another monitor, which showed Lloyd who was hijacked as a hostage. He said, "Someone will help him."
The director asked in surprise, "Who will help him?"
Lloyd's past was not a secret. The officer pressed his temple miserably and said, "The chief has ordered in the call that the live broadcast should not be stopped and we should continue to observe them through drone secretly. Lloyd will act as the main attacker while Tristan will give him support. They should arrest all these criminals. And then, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will make use of this affair to communicate with the Brazilian diplomat at international conferences."
It meant that this issue would be escalated to the national level.
But there was something wrong.
"Lloyd is the main attacker!?"
The officer glanced at the director, "As a veteran, you should have heard of the first captain of the Owlwolf Team, Owl."
"I've heard of it, but..."
The director's voice stopped abruptly, and suddenly there was silence in the small temporary camp.
The director looked at the officer incredibly, and then at the cold face in the camera. "Lloyd," the director stunned, "you mean... he, he is..."
"Yes. He is Owl."
The officer said in a deep voice, "Otherwise he can't participate in the military project as he wants. Not to mention that he replaced another famous participant abruptly even though the participant had arrived at the airport. Because of him, that participant had to go back and the finance department had to pay him liquidated damages."
The director was dumbfounded, "If he is Owl... Well, then why is he...?"
"Why is he an actor now?"
The officer explained briefly, "He has retired. His grandmother is a national first-class performing artist. He began his career as an actor at a very young age. Later he quit show business to become a soldier. However, a few years ago, he was asked to film again for a latent mission. And because of that movie, he accidentally won the Oscar winner that time. Since Ostesh has not yet produced an Oscar winner, the leaders cherished his talents and forced him to retire, so that he could concentrate on exporting national culture and bringing Ostesh movies to the world."
The director, "? "
This answer made the director speechless for a while!