The scorching sun beat down mercilessly on Libya's war-ravaged lands, and the skies were darkened with billowing smoke from countless fires. Buildings were left in ruins from the constant bombings, leaving behind a landscape of despair and desolation. Winds carried the fine sands of the sprawling Libyan desert far and wide, adding to the woes of travelers and ever threatening to turn into sandstorms.
A tight convoy of five military vehicles was making its way through trunk roads of Libya's interior, no more than 20 meters apart from the first vehicle to the last. To a pilot looking from high above, it would appear like a furious snake winding its way through the vast desert, as dust clouds trailed behind it. They were the Special Operations team that Xiao Luo was embedded in.