Chapter 206: The Pursuer Behind
The actions of Group B reached the ears of commanders at all levels on both the Red and Blue Sides without causing any ripples, except that Lei Keming actively made relevant deployments, while He Da Dui showed no comment as if he didn’t care at all.
With Lei Keming’s order issued, a Special Forces Team a thousand miles away was awakened.
This team was specially prepared by Lei Keming for the Lone Wolf Special Assault Team.
“Who started that fire in the Blue Team Camp just now?”
After waiting for Xiao Zhuang and Lao Pao at the agreed location, before the two could catch their breath, Chang Ning asked them.
“I suggested it, what’s wrong?”
Lao Pao was full of doubt, sensing something off in Chang Ning’s tone, as if he had made the wrong suggestion.
Chang Ning, shrouded in darkness, had his facial expression obscured.
A mountain breeze blew through, causing the tree shadows to sway.
The bright moonlight filtered through the gaps between the treetops, illuminating Chang Ning’s face and making his expression even more indistinct.
Chang Ning didn’t speak, and the atmosphere began racing toward a heavy and oppressive direction.
What does not speaking mean? Did I really do something wrong?
This situation made Lao Pao lose confidence too; for some reason, he felt his throat dry and tight.
Xiao Zhuang, standing between the two, looked at Lao Pao one moment and at Chang Ning the next, appearing somewhat at a loss.
On one side was his good comrade and good brother from the same batch, on the other was his Old Squad Leader.
Both the palm and the back of the hand are flesh; this made Xiao Zhuang extremely irritated.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to advise both sides, Chang Ning let out a light chuckle, causing the originally bad atmosphere to melt away like ice and snow, visibly shifting in a positive direction.
“Mountain Wolf, I want to say well done!”
Chang Ning, with a smiling face, stepped out of the darkness, as the moonlight gradually climbed over his face.
“Who did you learn to speak in big gasps from? You scared me to death.”
Chang Ning’s words made Lao Pao’s tense body relax.
Seeing him lightly pat his own chest, Chang Ning felt like he had indeed gone too far.
Look how scared the Squad Leader is.
“Does this need to be taught? With my talent for learning anything quickly, I can grasp it in an instant.”
“You uncomfortable if you don’t brag, right? If I didn’t know your surname is Chang, I’d think you share the same surname as that Wang Po who sells melons.”
Seeing Xiao Zhuang indirectly sarcastically mocking him, Chang Ning lifted his foot as if to kick.
Xiao Zhuang naturally wouldn’t let Chang Ning succeed, so he circled around Lao Pao in a small area to evade Chang Ning’s attacks.
The two soldiers he had brought out were fooling around and laughing, but Lao Pao didn’t stop them.
Both were veteran soldiers now and knew how to control themselves, and even if pursuers arrived from behind, they couldn’t claim to annihilate them all, but they had the ability to escape.
Xiao Zhuang, plopping down on the grassland, waved his hand at Chang Ning, “Alright, no more playing.”
First they had drilled through the forest all day, then nonstop at night they had carried out a decapitation strike on a colonel from the Blue Team; after all this tossing, Xiao Zhuang felt a bit fatigued.
Not everyone is like that pervert Chang Ning, who could still run and jump like nothing happened.
“It’s not safe here; if we want to rest, we need to go farther.” Looking at Xiao Zhuang sitting on the ground, Lao Pao reminded.
To meet up quickly, they had chosen a rendezvous point not far from the Blue Team’s camp, less than ten kilometers in straight-line distance.
This distance wasn’t very far for the army; if they were determined to pursue, they could arrive in at most two or three hours.
Besides, this was the Blue Team’s territory, so they could use vehicles without restraint.
That way, the time to reach their rendezvous point would be even shorter.
Staying overnight here would be no different from courting death.
When Xiao Zhuang wasn’t letting emotions get the better of him, he still listened to advice and knew the priorities, so he naturally agreed with Lao Pao’s suggestion.
After having Chang Ning pull him up, Xiao Zhuang followed the two into the night, stepping under the moonlight and disappearing into the depths of the dense forest.
A team of soldiers also wearing jungle camouflage arrived at the spot where Chang Ning and the other two had met; when the leader raised his fist, the others scattered in a blooming formation around the leader and took up positions advantageous for attack.
“Any discovery?” A soldier who seemed to be the team leader walked up to the leader and asked.
“Li Hua Mao, we’ve found their traces.”
As he spoke, the Vanguard pointed to the weeds on the ground trampled by Xiao Zhuang and Chang Ning for Li Hua Mao.
“But something’s off.”
The Vanguard looked at the traces left on the ground with great doubt.
“What’s wrong?” Li Hua Mao asked.
He could see the traces left by Chang Ning and the other two, but couldn’t accurately judge the number of people.
“The numbers don’t match; a Special Forces Team needs at least six people.
The ground traces tell me that the number of people who left from here is about three to five, definitely not six.”
Although their traces were discovered due to the fooling around, the same fooling around caused the pursuers to misjudge their numbers.
Fortune and misfortune are interdependent, unpredictable.
“Don’t forget, the team we’re pursuing is also an expert in special operations; it’s not impossible for them to leave few traces.” Li Hua Mao said.
“If they’re experts, how would they leave obvious traces? That doesn’t make sense.
They’re the Lone Wolf Commando Unit that even the Captain praises endlessly.”
The Vanguard clearly disagreed with Li Hua Mao’s guess.
“Then there’s only one possibility: they’ve split up.”
This time the Vanguard didn’t refute Li Hua Mao; he also thought they had split up, “Do we continue the pursuit?”
All of the above were their guesses; it was possible they had deliberately left traces to lure them in.
“Pursue! We must complete the Captain’s mission.
We just need to be careful.
First send the discovery and the speculation to the Captain.”
With that, Li Hua Mao called the communications soldier over again and gave some instructions in his ear.
After the telegram was sent to the Captain, Li Hua Mao then signaled the Vanguard to continue pursuing along the traces.
Chang Ning and the other two were completely unaware that there was a Special Forces Team pursuing them from behind.
At this moment, they were trudging deep and shallow through the weed-infested mountains with difficulty.
As usual, Chang Ning took the lead as Vanguard for Xiao Zhuang and Lao Pao, holding a wooden stick as thick as a baby’s arm in his hand, using it every few steps to tap the grass.
This move was called beating the grass to startle the viper, to prevent venomous snakes from suddenly lunging out to bite them.
“Hang in there a bit longer; once we cross this meadow, we can rest.”
Slightly out of breath, Chang Ning encouraged the two behind him.
His stamina was already much higher than his comrades’, and now even he felt fatigue; although Xiao Zhuang and Lao Pao behind him were toughing it out without saying so, he knew in his heart that their stamina was on the verge of exhaustion and they couldn’t hold out much longer.
“Keep your eyes on the path, don’t talk anymore.” Lao Pao said intermittently; even speaking was an effort for him now.
The Squad Leader is still concerned for me!
Chang Ning thought Lao Pao was reminding him to watch the path to avoid tripping, and was greatly moved.
But Lao Pao’s next words completely broke Chang Ning’s defenses.
