197 Ambrosia Cartel: Part 4

The night went darker and darker to the point where the dark orange sky was no longer visible. The vision of those two contractors was green with the combination of yellow spots that appeared due to the fact that there was a living creature there.

They actually had arrived at the predicted area of the Ambrosia HQ on Mexico. The ruins of buildings could be seen in that area. Brick walls that were filled with bullets, the house that was roofless, and the number of spent bullet casings in that area. All of those indicated that there used to be a great gunfight there. The casings match the bullet that those two contractors brought.

The casings were certainly from the FN FAL that the Mexican military used. It was clear that the Mexican military was there, but the remnants of the cartel were hard to be seen due to the sheer darkness and the fact that they had no blueprint of the cartel hideout.

The cartel hideout was a building that had an appearance similar to an administration building than a building where a cartel might reside. It really looked like an office building that was misplaced in the middle of the jungle. The wall of the former headquarter was covered in moss and greeneries from the nearby jungle.

There was also this computer where plants had grown from inside of it. It really indicated that this place had been abandoned for so long since the bullet casings and the computer of the headquarter itself had shown its age. The plants had overtaken that place. If one wanted to gain intelligence from those things, it would be hard since the hard disk would probably have rotten.

"Lynn, we come at the wrongest of time. It's just weird since this place used to be a place where the cartel managed their entire operation in this country. We might have to search for a bunker." Patrick stepped on the rubble of the building. The stones fell down from a hill of concrete pieces that Patrick stepped on.

He went for the second floor while Lynn went for the first floor of that headquarter. The second floor was filled with printers and computers. There were several packs of untouched HVS papers. Those papers might be used for printing the Ambrosia cartel signature logo so they could pack their cocaine with that logo.

Patrick opened one of the printers that were having a jam in the middle of printing. The jam was caused by a bullet that hit and destroyed the printer into pieces that were unrecognizable anymore. However, Patrick opened the printer to retrieve the paper that was stuck in the printer.

The paper was a half-printed Ambrosia cartel logo. Patrick was right, this place used to be the place where the cartel printed their logo. All he had to do was to find a functioning aka anything that could be salvaged for parts. Patrick was positive that there would be a computer that had a functioning hard drive.

"Shit, SPIDERS!!!" Patrick grabbed the AA-12 from his back and shot those spiders with his assault shotgun. The slug round immediately turned the spider inside out. The abdomen of the spider got out of its body and wet Patrick's boots. It was gross as hell and Patrick just lost a possible salvageable computer.

He was right. The computer was salvageable if not for the number of explosive shotgun slugs being fired at the pc. The hard disk turned into scrap metal and disappeared entirely from the computer itself. 

'Damn, now I have to find another one,' Patrick said inside of his heart. Patrick kicked the computer and searched for another computer inside the room. There was a room that seemed to be unscathed. That room seemed to be used by one of the bosses in the cartel since the room was filled with files inside of cabinets.

The room was still well furnished with the addition of thick dust here and there. With a bit of cleaning, this room should look like new if not for the number of bullet holes that were there. Lynn hadn't said anything downstairs, Patrick hoped that she wasn't attacked by animals or anything dangerous at all.

Patrick closed the door of the room and there was a computer inside of that room. The computer seemed to be dusty, but it should be functional since the computer wasn't shot by bullets or anything. The computer simply didn't have any power powering it since the generator had been disabled by the Marines of the Mexican Army.

Patrick looked at that computer and he grabbed the swiss knife from his tactical rig. The swiss knife had a screwdriver that could be used to open that PC. Patrick started unscrewing those screws that were attached to the panels of the PC. The screws seemed to be very rusted. It was expected. The roof was nonexistent and a rusted casing was more than expected.

Patrick unscrewed three of the four screws since the last screw was welded into the case of the PC due to the intense amount of oxidation in that screw. Patrick tried his best to open that screw, but it was too hard and it would be a waste of time to open it. Besides, the casing could be opened by using that rusted screw as some kind of hinge.

Patrick opened the casing of the PC and pulled it with his hands to deal with that rusted screws. The casing detached from the PC with the screw flying in the air due to the massive amount of force that Patrick had put in taking off that casing.

Patrick inspected that PC. The spare parts of that PC were fine with the exception of the power supply unit since it was exposed to elements from outside. The hard drive could be easily accessed and Patrick packed the hard drive inside of his backpack.

"Damn, GTX 1080 TI, this boss has quite a taste for his gaming rig," Patrick said as he observed the PC. There was another hard drive inside the computer. It was an SSD that was placed on the bottom parts of the computer. 

Patrick must open the other side of that PC so he could access that SATA SSD. He flipped the PC and opened the PC casing. The casing was rustier than the other side and the crew seemed to be non-existent since the casing was colored orange instead of the ordinary black.

The casing seemed to be fragile. Patrick hit it with the back of his battle rifle multiple times and it cracked. The method of bashing it with the buttstock of his battle rifle would work. Patrick bashed the casing with the back of the battle rifle multiple times until a bigger crack was formed.

At that point, Patrick pulled the casing from the crack and it opened easily as if it was made of bread. The casing was crumbling like bread crumbs with orange flakes from the steel oxidation. 

The first immediate thing in that PC was the wiring The wiring was bad that it hid the SSD that was placed on that PC. Patrick moved those messy wirings, even to the point of cutting it with his very sharp combat knife. 

The SSD was placed inside of the pc and Patrick pulled it away from the PC. He put the SSD inside of his backpack and Patrick searched for another storage unit inside of that PC. There might be another hard disk on the PC since there should be another slot on the bottom side of the PC.

Patrick flipped the computer and his guess was right. The PC had another two hard disks on the bottom part of the PC. Patrick pulled those hard disks and put it inside his backpack. There should be around twenty terabytes of data on that hard disk since those hard disks had the capacity of 6TB each. The SSD was a 2TB SSD that might have a lot of data inside of it.

The PC didn't have any GPU so it was safe to say that it was a server for the whole building most of the Ethernet wiring led to that room. Patrick threw that PC away and he got outside of that room with a smile on his face.

Patrick went downstairs and she could see Lynn inside of a room. Lynn was looking at something inside of that room. From what Patrick had seen from the other side of that room, Lynn was looking at the wall, but well, it wasn't the case, was it?

Patrick entered the doorless room. Lynn wasn't looking at the wall after all. She was looking at a table. A table that had a map on top of it. "Wow, are these dots?" Patrick stuttered as he saw those dots.

"Yeah."