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struggling to spot the sniper location, a call came to him and to his surprise it was the sniper

who had intercepted the radio signal of his headquarters and started teasing him. He then wants
to grab water from his bag and realises that his water bottle has a hole in it and almost all the

water has seeped from it. He realised that the sniper had intentionally shot down the bottle.
This shows the pure skill of the sniper and simultaneously how evil he is. James then confronts

the sniper saying he is the famous Javi, the legendary sniper in the desert and the sniper (Javi)

seems to ignore him. Javi then went on to recite a story about the time he was in the military
and his friend that was his spotter and how your country killed him and now he is taking

revenge. James then got an idea after spotting the backpack of a fallen soldier that it may have
food and water. He got up and tried to run to it. He got successful in it but the sniper had

destroyed the water in that backpack as well as he had done in his backpack. James realises

that this is not the first time Javi is doing something like this. After some time, with absolute
thirst and hunger, he (James) got his courage and started to make calls to Robert that had fallen

a little in front of the wall. They made a plan of James distracting the sniper and Robert taking
the shot at the right time when he will spot the sniper. After a lot of back and forth looking and

talking to Javi, James came to a conclusion of the location of Javi. He then communicated that
to Robert which on count of 1, 2, 3 turns and was about to shoot the sniper but in vain as Javi

is too quick for him and he shot him dead straight in the eye. Javi then says to him (James) that

he cannot be killed this easily. James got shattered and lost all hope about him surviving.
Then, James fell asleep due to sheer tiredness and woke up to a call, after 2 hours, from the

headquarters. He picked up the call but in vain, he heard Javi talking to them disguising himself
as James. Then again Javi contacted James to tease him more.

James remembered his father about the sacrifice he made in WW2 to save his country and

fellow men. He for the last time regained some of his strength and located the sniper by a
reflection from the scope of the rifle of Javi. He looks for an opportunity to shatter the wall and

run to Robert's body to recover his rifle and shoot his shot.
After a considerable sand dune started, he did the same and shot his shot to the location and

there was no backshot at him after that meaning the sniper Javi is dead. He then rejoices and

contacts his headquarters for evacuation. A helicopter lands and picks him and Robert’s body
up for evacuation. To James’ surprise, A SNIPER SHOT shot down the helicopter.

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