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Mission REF 16: Johannesburg

• OBJECTIVE: Persuade Lucy de Saxo and bring her back alive.
  
  BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
  The woman that abducted Professor Drennan has been located in Johannesburg. Her name is Lucy de Saxo . This information was provided by an old agent, called Wu. He is going to try to persuade her. If he succeeds, Wu can become one of us again.
  
  MISSION TACTICS:
  This Mission is quite hard because you only have one agent to work with. And he is only equipped with a long-range rifle and a persuadertron. Fortunately a local weapon provider is coming to Wu when the Mission starts. It's a Church member who is going to try to take him out. Use the long-range rifle (it's the only weapon you have for now). Pick up the weapon of the dead Zealot . At least you have a minigun now. It's quite good, but we shall need a better weapon to win this mission.
  
  What about a rocket launcher? Walk to the motorcycle with the two dead Unguideds. Take the street going northwards. At the end of it, at the crossroad,  you'll see two agents guarding an entrance on the right. They will provide you with the launchers, but they are not just going to give them to you. You will have to fire two long-range rifle shots at each agent to take him out. Just keep on moving as they fire back with their launchers: they are not using the automatic target button so their rockets can be easily avoided. Pick up the rocket launchers when they are dead.
  
  Our target Lucy is in a guarded area. Three tubes provide the only entrance to it. You cannot use the middle one: that's only for cargo. Then there's one to get in, and one to get out. Don't try to fight the Zealots in the guarded area. There are too many buildings standing in your way to use the launchers. No, we are just going to say hello to them: put your red drug to the maximum and use your shield. Pop in, run to the other tube and pop out.
  
  Run away from the tube. The Zealots will leave the area and use the tube to pursue you. Fire your launcher at the end of the tube as the Zealots appear. Easy, isn't it? There are a lot of them, but if your energy is draining out, run away to a safer place and wait for a few seconds. The Zealots will wait also, because they would rather attack in a group. One of them is carrying a medikit, by the way. Be sure to pick it up.
  
  As you have taken them out, you think your Mission is over, don't you? Wrong. Lucy is gone; she's not in the guarded area anymore. She fled to another guarded Mission area on the map. Walk towards this area. The target area is connected to two other areas by tubes. As always, there's one tube to get in (located in the small rectangle area), and another tube to get out (in the bigger area). First we will have to clear those two areas. Let's take the big area first. As you approach the entrance, three Zealots will come out of a building. Use your rocket launcher. As you want to pass the gate, a smart Zealot drops a high explosive. You can try to pick up the explosive but you have to be very fast then. This is not recommended, but if you succeed you can use the explosive later on. You can better run away as fast as you can. The explosive will make another entrance to the area because it creates a hole in the gate.
  
  The remaining agents in the area can easily be taken out with the launcher. They will not attack in group -- you can take them out one by one.
  
  When this area is safe, we have to deal with the small rectangle area that provides the tube entrance to Lucy de Saxo. Again some agents are guarding the tube, but this time lure them away by shooting the first one with the long-range rifle. Then run to the grass field before the building. The Zealots are carrying launchers, but they will use them while they are passing these buildings. The rockets will never reach you, but they will hit the walls . Most of them will kill themselves this way. If someone does gets through, you can use your launcher to finish him off. Before you use the tube you can see that three Epoch agents guard the tube on the other side. Wait until your energy and health is fully restored before you use the tube. Now comes the tricky part.
  
  The best thing you can do after you arrive at the area is to run away to a more open place. There you can attack them with the launcher. It will take a little bit of luck in here. I hope you have the auto-medikit. When the area is clear you may think again that the Mission is over. Wrong: Lucy has escaped again. But the hard part of this Mission is over: what remains is quite easy.
  
  Lucy is now located at the right corner below of the map. Get over there and use some launcher hits to alert the Epoch agents. As you try to reach Lucy, she will escape again, but this time she will leave the city and escape. Wu's Mission failed. Too bad for him. Walk back to the IML link. Our regular EuroCorp agents will finish the job in the next mission.
  

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