Beyond All Limits

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Jing Fenghe sighed as he rested back against his olive-green truck and lit up a cigarette.

He watched the commotion around him as he puffed away at his noxious, but mercifully cheap, Hongtashan. His body sagged with relief; this was no longer his responsibility. He was just the driver, after all, a lowly corporal within China’s Second Artillery Corps. What happened now was not his concern.

And yet, he was interested. He had been driving this truck around the country for months now, from one secret location to another. The convoy of vehicles — the transporter Jing drove himself was just one of a fleet which included various command and control elements, supply trucks, and an armed escort — usually patrolled the major coastal roads between Wenzhou and Fuzhou, covering thousands of miles of the People’s Republic’s southeast provinces.

But in all that time, during all those interminable miles, the convoy had not once stopped to perform its ultimate function. Well, not until now, Jing reminded himself. Now the convoy had stopped on a hard, rocky plateau on a piece of remote high ground just off the main G15 route, west of the harbor town of Ningde.

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