Chapter 100: Utterly Powerless
After Ma Da finished the handover with the informant and brought the person over, Ostrich saw that the newcomer was someone of the opposite sex dressed in ethnic attire and immediately lost his composure.
“How come it’s a woman!”
Chang Ning saw the person’s outfit and gender, feeling greatly reassured in his heart—this time it was certain! It was SERE for sure.
Although he had prepared himself to sacrifice for the country, he wouldn’t refuse if he could live.
Moreover, he hadn’t fully mastered his special forces skills yet, and his actual combat ability to kill enemies was still lacking.
Charging up like that wouldn’t be sacrificing for the country, but sending heads—there’s a big difference between the two.
Ostrich’s voice wasn’t loud, but in the quiet forest, it was still clear enough for everyone to hear.
Geng Jihui turned back and glared at Ostrich. Ostrich knew he was in the wrong and hunched over with a dry laugh.
Xia Lan pretended not to hear what Ostrich said. As a cadre, she couldn’t lower herself to make things difficult for a soldier over such a small matter.
“Let’s depart! We still have 30 kilometers of mountain road to cover!”
Ma Da looked at Xia Lan, a bit dazed. He didn’t know where Gao Zhong Dui had found this armed police officer—she was so bold, jumping straight into 30 kilometers of mountain cross-country.
“30 kilometers…”
Seeing Ma Da’s hesitant expression, Xia Lan was puzzled inside. She asked, “What’s wrong? Can’t your special forces even handle 30 kilometers of mountain road?”
Being questioned to his face, Ma Da naturally wouldn’t stand for it: “It’s not that we can’t—I’m worried about you. Can you handle 30 kilometers of mountain road?”
Xia Lan just smiled. She picked up her weapon: “Whether I can or not, we’ll see on the battlefield! Let’s go!”
After saying that, she started leading the way from the front, not caring if the people behind were following.
She had come at Gao Zhong Dui’s invitation to help, so naturally she felt unhappy being questioned.
Ma Da looked at Xia Lan’s back, waved his hand to signal Earth Wolf to immediately get up and follow, with Xiao Zhuang and Qiang Zi right behind.
The rookie and the veteran team members followed one after another. The entire team trailed tightly behind Xia Lan, with the two groups keeping a distance that was neither too close nor too far.
This distance would allow them to respond calmly if they encountered danger.
On the border mountain land, the Dud Squad finally arrived at the mission location at dawn.
The Dud Assault Team hid in the dense forest on both sides of a small mountain path. Xia Lan lay beside Ma Da, watching the path intently.
Ma Da checked his watch. Xia Lan calmly said, “No need to look—five minutes left.”
“Everyone, radio silence. Offense begins in five minutes.” Ma Da pressed the radio button and said.
After the order was given, the only thing moving in the forest was the morning mist.
Eight hundred meters from the Dud Squad’s position, on the sniper position, Assassin and Vulture were already in place.
“Tell me, how come you’re here too? You’re usually not interested in this kind of thing.”
With five minutes until the operation began, Assassin kept staring at Chang Ning through the telescopic sight while chatting distractedly with Vulture.
“If it’s someone who interests Assassin, then I, Vulture, am naturally interested too, so I came to check the quality.”
Vulture held binoculars observing the situation at the Dud Squad’s position, silently calculating data in his mind.
This data included the number of targets, firepower configuration, and sniping order.
“I knew I couldn’t hide it from you, but we’re playing for fun—have some measure and don’t ruin it.”
Assassin warned.
He knew his companion could sometimes be obsessive and needed a heads-up in advance.
Clearly, Assassin didn’t know that Vulture had already met Chang Ning.
“Don’t worry.”
Vulture said with a smile.
The current Vulture was ruthless but still good to his own people—his faith hadn’t collapsed yet.
Five minutes later, the morning mist grew even thicker.
“Time’s up—let’s get to work!”
Assassin and Vulture had loaded powerful tranquilizer rounds beforehand. They began picking off the Dud Squad one by one according to the planned sniping order.
The thick fog in the mountains seemed to have no effect on the two.
“Intelligence…”
Before Ma Da could finish, his vision went black and he passed out.
His first reaction was that Gao Zhong Dui had actually brought over Assassin and Vulture—hopefully this time it wouldn’t leave psychological shadows on the rookies.
In such thick fog, in the entire Wolf Fang, besides the retired Hunter Falcon Yan Lin, only his proud disciples Assassin and Vulture could achieve shot-after-shot kills—even Hunter Falcon, who sacrificed the year before last, couldn’t do it.
‘How is this unfolding different from the plot?’
Chang Ning remembered there was no such scene in the plot. Seeing Ma Da and Xia Lan get hit one after another, Chang Ning hesitated.
He wondered whether to dodge or not—either way, he’d be discovered in the end, so dodging seemed not worth it.
Moreover, he couldn’t actually counterattack the instructors—his magazine was loaded with live ammunition.
In the instant Chang Ning hesitated, his neck stung and he lost consciousness.
“Vulture, why’d you steal my kill?”
Assassin felt a bit unhappy inside—Chang Ning was his prey.
“What do you mean your kill, my kill? Do we really need to split it so clearly?
These guys have some skills—let’s split up and snipe them.”
Vulture changed the subject, not planning to argue with Assassin about Chang Ning.
“Fine.”
Rookie A Team was the best among the same batch of trainees—their combat power was not to be underestimated, and they were loaded with live ammunition, so Assassin and Vulture had to be cautious too.
The two wouldn’t take the rookies lightly just because of their superior sniper technique.
They’d seen plenty of cases where ships capsized in sewers, so the two took Rookie A Team very seriously.
Various textbook sniper tactics and techniques kept playing out on the two.
“Damn it, sniper team—find their snipers!”
The veteran team members deliberately held back, plus Assassin and Vulture targeting them—in just a few minutes, the entire Dud Squad’s casualties reached two-thirds.
Right now, only Xiao Geng, Ostrich, the medic, and Qiang Zi were left; the others had all “died.”
“Xiao Geng, the opponents are experts—they change sniper positions very quickly, they’re far away from us, and they have silencers!”
Ostrich and the medic watched their comrades “sacrifice” one after another, sweating profusely in anxiety. The enemy snipers were like ghosts—impossible to pin down!
“You two must break out alive—Qiang Zi and I will create opportunities for you!”
With that, Xiao Geng led Qiang Zi in irregular movement through the forest.
“Wait, I found him!
Ostrich, I…”
The medic lay at the sniper position, spotting Vulture who was changing positions through binoculars, but before he could finish, he was taken out.
It was Assassin finishing him off.
“Vulture, you owe me one.”
Assassin joked through the earpiece—he knew Vulture could have handled it without him.
“That’s you meddling!”
The two leisurely crisscrossed fire in the forest, steadily closing in on Geng Jihui and Qiang Zi.
What was terrifying was that so far, besides the medic, no one in Rookie A Team had spotted the two.
They didn’t even know where the bullets came from before losing consciousness.
“Medic!”
A comrade he’d lived with day and night collapsing right in front of him—this blow to the heart was fiercer than any words or video.
What was terrifying was that Ostrich couldn’t find the enemy snipers—he was on the verge of breaking down.
