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    Hours later, the military truck arrives back to Valea Ia?ului, and are all looking stunned to see the entire place was attacked… once again, by the same group of psychopaths who injured a comrade earlier in Oe?ti. When the group arrived back to the community, and they were told by the guards what happened and who got kidnapped, Petre, Daniel and Gancea were angry when they found out Mihaela got kidnapped. Yes, they weren''t so close, but she was the one who helped them on that run in Curtea de Arge?.


    Petre is going to the tent where one member of this group is getting interrogated by three soldiers. He enters the tent, after he told the guy who is guarding the tent who is and what does he want, and sees the prisoner being beaten to a pulp by an injured soldier, who was treated by Mihaela yesterday.


    "Where is your hideout!?" yells that soldier to the beaten face of the terrorist.


    "I will not tell you." says the terrorist coughing blood.


    Petre notices how that terrorist, who is wearing only a pair of underwear is having the same tattoo as the dead people from Oe?ti, only this one is on the chest and is big enough to cover the entire torso. Petre cannot interfere in this interrogation, only to watch like his comrades how one of the attackers gets beaten.


    "I am asking once again. Where is your hideout?!" asks the interrogator after he throw three more punches to the face of the tied-up attacker.


    "No… Not… Telling you." says the attacker with his last breath.


    "You fuck!" says the interrogator who is throwing one hard punch, it hits the nose of the attacker, breaking it and making the person knock out of his senses while the blood drips out of the nose.


    "He''s unconscious?" asks Petre to an interrogator.


    "He is. I will interrogate him later." he says turning around and walks toward the exit of the tent. "Take care of it. If he wakes up. Call me for round two."


    "We will." responds a soldier who is occupying to stop the bleeding of the terrorist.


    Petre, the interrogator, with two other soldiers are leaving the tent and are walking toward another one to discuss their plan of retrieving their people from the hands of the terrorist group who have attacked them last night. The four soldiers are looking on a laptop that is monitored by a man wearing the clothes and the armour with the logo of "The Organization".


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    "How is the situation looking?" asks a soldier in English to the man working on the laptop.


    "You know I can speak Romanian, Radu." says that man in Romanian to the soldier named Radu. "The situation is the following. One drone of the three got spotted and destroyed. The other two haven''t spotted him."


    "What is the status of the drone that found them?" asks the interrogator.


    "They were spotted in Zigoneni, right at the blocked bridge that ties Zigoneni village to Curtea de Arge?. Here is the video it captured."


    The man shows the video of the drone that recorded the incident where it was last seen running. The footage shows a truck that stops in the middle of the road, the driver of that truck, being dressed as the one of the people they''ve captured. That driver aims his pistol on the drone and proceeds to shoot five bullets, the fifth hitting the turret. There the footage ends.


    "That is the end." says The Organization member to the soldiers.


    "Are you sure this where they are their last headquarters?" asks a soldier.


    "Probably." says the man. "The drone only captured the footage on that direction. I also sent a drone over there, and found out the car wheels track were on the downhill road that leads to an abandoned nightclub from the 2000s."


    "That''s where they should be." says the interrogator. "That zone is big enough to hold the hostages and be used as a base for these criminals."


    "Is it the same as the one where Ramus was hold?" asks the person at the laptop.


    "I don''t know." says the interrogator. "Last time when we asked he told us he was always wearing blindfold when he was transported by that group."


    "Means we have to go on Zigoneni." says Petre.


    "Sir." says the interrogator to Petre. "With all due respect, it would be better to take a break, after everything you''ve gone through the last days. And let us handle this."


    "But-"


    "Don''t worry, sir." says Radu. "We got this."


    "…Fine." says Petre who knows he had to stop arguing. "Be careful out there."


    "Don''t worry." responds Radu to Petre. "We will be alright."


    The two soldiers are leaving the tent, walking to the next tent to discuss with the soldiers from the safe zone to start a mission of rescuing the kidnapped people from the community. There aren''t so many soldiers in this community who could be fit to go into a fight. Most of them were injured from the attack of last night, only three have perished in this attack. And Petre, decides to go into his house, to rest after these last days, who were really tough for him.


    Later this day, a car leaves the community, a blinded car with three soldiers and a volunteer, Gancea. The soldiers have welcomed Gancea to this mission. One of the volunteers from there was in the last mission with him, and they recommend him to join this mission. Gancea is equipped like the other soldiers, with zombie bite proof armour, helmet with visor and an assault rifle type of gun, an AK model for the gun''s enthusiast. Like the other soldiers, Gancea has three magazines with thirty bullets.


    But they will not be alone, from Curtea de Arge? there is another squad of six soldiers and one volunteer, a man named Ramus, who yesterday came to Curtea de Arge? to deliver ammunition for the safe zone, and had to stay overnight here because he ran out of gas when he arrived at fifty meters from safe zone. And that guy named Ramus, when he found out who was the person kidnapped among the other five, he immediately listed as a volunteer for this mission