An Eye for an Eye (Part 1)

Rio de Janeiro, inside a Brazilian military camp.

Major Hawes took off his hat and flicked away the droplets of seawater the ocean wind had left on its brim.

"I don't like this place. Calling it a military camp would be generous—it's not even as good as a National Guard recruit training camp!"

Several Cemetery Wind squad commanders exchanged knowing smiles.

"Major, you can't judge these Brazilians who only know football and samba by our standards!"

Major Hawes forced a smile, nodded, and said nothing more.

More than half a year had passed since Cemetery Wind's first military operation after fully absorbing all the equipment of the former NEST forces and purging the former NEST soldiers.

For the past half year, Cemetery Wind had basically remained in Africa.

With the full support of the United States Government and military, along with the vast intelligence network the CIA had established in Africa during the Cold War—

Over the past six months, Cemetery Wind had achieved results in Africa that were fairly satisfactory to domestic politicians.

They had carried out eleven operations: eight successes, one failure, and two fruitless efforts.

Cemetery Wind had killed nineteen Replica Soldiers from the Decepticon Corps, severely wounded two Autobots, and severely wounded four Quintessa soldiers.

Although they had also suffered more than 170 casualties among their squad soldiers, along with the expenditure of military equipment and ammunition worth hundreds of millions of dollars—

In the eyes of American politicians and the monopoly capital behind them, such a price was practically negligible.

To the military and those in the United States who knew the truth, Cemetery Wind were nothing more than mercenaries paid to get the job done.

Their deaths merely meant paying somewhat more compensation than for ordinary American soldiers, which was entirely acceptable.

Thus, amid