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He kept going until he reached a refrigerated container near the stern of the Triton Star It looked coned to On the manifest, the reefer unit buried at the bottoes, le made it stand out from the thousand other containers on board Even if it were opened, inspectors would find nothing but fruit crates in the first twenty feet of the forty-foot-long unit The concealed rear section, however, served a different purpose

Rasul took a look around the corner and saw the aft end of the Goreno across the water She was steadily righting herself fro that should have been ihter The tendrils of s from the hull

Based on their skill in crafting a plan to take the Triton Star so easily, Rasul was sure this wasBesides, they were too far off thelanes for the attack to be a chance occurrence

The Goreno had intercepted them on purpose And Rasul knehat they wanted

He ran his hand along one of the reinforcing corrugations His finger clicked on a hidden button, and a section of the wall slid aside He slipped inside and pressed the button to close it behind hien lamps came on

The interior of the reefer unit had been modified to serve as a decontae red button on the opposite wall, the light would turn red and nozzles in the ceiling would douse him with a concentrated hypochlorite solution that would neutralize nerve agent particles When the decontareen, at which point Rasul would exit through a door opposite the entrance

During his first night on board the Triton Star, Rasul had brought his duffel to the chamber to make sure he kept the contents away from the curious hands of the crew All they’d been told was that he had paid to be a passenger Only Tao kneas acco two containers to their destination

Instead of the near-freezing teerated container, the air-conditioning unit kept the cha tropics A rade filter purified the air

He knelt down and loaded the teapons he’d brought with him: a Glock 40 caliber semiautomatic pistol and a Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle with suppressor

Next to the guns was aa cylindrical device pressed into a foa handle on top, a small spout on the bottom, and a touchpad on the front

Rasul unzipped the duffel and removed the last item he would need for his mission

It was a ht combat suit, coainst nuclear, biological, and ches of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Rasul checked the equip order It looked like he’d have to use them sooner than expected

He took a seat on the floor and clicked on his phone’s encrypted texting app that was piggybacking on the Triton Star’s shipwide WiFi signal

We have a problem, he texted