CHAPTER 12
Everything went as calculated. We only had to wait two days for our enemies to try to reach the bomb.
The bulletproof vest covered the soldier well. The soldier guarding the tanks had orders to drop to the floor and hit the alarm installed on his belt. That would give us the required time so they thought they were alone and show us where the bomb was hidden. Since the silent alarm sounded, we were following every step they took, at this time there were only three. They went quietly.
Two of them went to the pond where a few days earlier I had been shot, where the whale was. The other guy walked further back to where dolphins circled around and jumped without stopping in a few cubic meters of salt water. In the the bottom of the tanks were some kind of running basement where connections and piping needed to keep the animals alive. They uncovered panels giving access to those spaces beneath tons of water. We let them act. One of them stood out in the hallway watching, but one of our well prepared Shinde acted quickly, a martial arts expert in defense, neutralized them with only two movements of his hands, others followed and responded to the alert.
A few seconds later, the two men who had entered the basement tried to leave. It was relatively easy to catch them with the panels uncovered. The five other men were also arrested. The operation was a success. Now in custody, the small enemy group in a small makeshift jail inside the ship, I went to the central control room to report what happened to the commander Singh. I waited impatiently.
- Excuse me, Commander. I told him to get his attention.
- Go on, Brigadier. Report what happened.
- Everything went as planned. They themselves took us to the bomb, two ponds were under two explosives that were hidden inside the pipes that run the wires that fed power to the venting of the tanks. They tried to remove the pump. The pump was able to enter the ship and it was decommissioned in three parts. But where the dolphins were was a conventional explosive charge and a wedge smaller to act a striker.One of those arrested worked in the repair shops of NIRMANA 394 and I thought that this way build a bomb of plutonium needed to put it together, we are currently reviewing every millimeter of the whole place.
- Did you try to interrogate detainees? The General asked, crossing his hands behind his back.
- Yes, I tried, but they did not say anything and I doubt they will, given the degree of fanaticism that these men possess.
That night, we slept so calm, the threat had passed, we had in our power the pump and its detonator, our enemies were arrested and would be tried when we got to our next destination.
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