I head towards the nearest gun shop, and as I'm sneaking past a checkpoint I notice a waterfall. I decide to investigate behind it on general video game principle (if there are waterfalls in a racing game, at least one of them will be concealing a shortcut. This is true in every racing game ever). Sure enough, there's a case of diamonds on the rocks behind it.
I make it to the arms dealer and take him up on his offer: wipe out some of his competition and he'll offer me new goodies to buy next time I'm around, such as an AK-47. I then purchase a primary weapon crate for my safehouses as well as an accuracy upgrade for my PKM, pick up my G3 from the armory, then set off for the closest bus station. On the way I sneak up to a checkpoint, and as I take cover by their perimeter sandbags when one of their patrolling jeeps return, I hear squealing tires, followed by a thud, followed by the jeep not moving. For every two times the AI makes you quote that hunter in Jurassic Park, there's a time where you get convinced that they couldn't find their behinds with both hands. I decide to prove my superiority to the AI by ambushing them with an expertly tossed grenade. Man over machine!
The grenade bounces off a piece of plywood and lands right next to my shoe. I turn and sprint back up the road, and it explodes a good distance behind me. I take out the guards with my PKM, which is pretty easy because they're all laughing at how big of a dumbass I am, then make it to the bus stop. Right before I board, I notice that the convoy passes right by the bus station I'm headed towards. Perfect.
Right as I hop off, I see the convoy speeding away from me in the other direction. Well, all right. Plenty of time to get set up. There's some train tracks running right next to their route with a few boxcars stopped on them, as well as a safehouse. I take down the guys guarding it easily enough, but apparently there's a jeep passing by on the road that was attracted by all the commotion, so I have to deal with him too. Now my assault rifle's down to its last mag, but I still have the PKM, so I'm not too worried. I set the IED over what I'm pretty sure is the convoy's route (hard to tell when there aren't any roads involved) then crouch behind one of the boxcars and wait.
As soon as I hear an engine and see a vehicle pass over the charge, I hit the detonator. Nope, that was one of the escort jeeps. Also, I appear to have started a small brushfire, which the truck nonchalantly veers around as it keeps driving. I climb onto the gun of a parked jeep and try to use it against the truck, but the fire has spread to the car, so I'm forced to abandon it. I fire at the truck to no avail with my G3, mostly out of frustration.
At this point I check the truck's position on my map and get a little bit worried. It looks to be veering off its course, which I worry might be what it does once you kill off all its escorts. Maybe it's headed towards a guardpost or something for protection? Frantically, I grab a jeep at the checkpoint and drive off after it into the desert as the sun begins to rise.
I was wrong, though. The truck passes me the other way so I hop on the gun, swivel around, and fire at the cab. My aim's better than I think: the truck stops in its tracks, as I've apparently hit the driver. I move closer to investigate and find him squashed under his own vehicle's wheel. I shrug, then hop onto the back of the truck to find it completely empty. Either he's already offloaded the guns, or I just killed a guy who was joyriding at night in the desert with his heavily armed buddies, or the arms dealer I got the job from can't read. Whatever. I set a charge in the back of the truck, move a ways away, and blow it sky high. As I drive back to the bus station, I can't help but watch the fire as it spreads through the grass. The effect is simply mesmerizing.
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