Chapter 240: Something’s Happened
Two flowers bloom, each on its own branch.
Chen Guotao led Xi Wa running around wildly in the forest. Even though they stared with wide eyes, their sore eyes stimulated to tears, their harvest was the same as the other comrades in the company—they didn’t even find a single hair.
It was as if there was no one else in the forest besides the people from their Blue Team capture team.
Such a phenomenon was really out of the ordinary. It couldn’t be that the intelligence from above was wrong, could it?
But that didn’t make sense either. Hadn’t they just captured two Red Team special forces soldiers in the forest before?
Could it be that this group really grew wings and flew away?
The Blue Team soldiers, having found nothing for a long time, were filled with doubt in their hearts.
“Strange, Xi Wa, where do you think they could hide?” Chen Guotao asked.
Xi Wa couldn’t stand hearing Chen Guotao call his name now. Every time he did, Xi Wa felt like his brain was going to explode.
He didn’t know what was going on, but ever since the company commander had him do that analysis outside the forest, he kept asking questions.
For example, just now, he had asked him a question again.
Please, I’m just a little soldier. Shouldn’t those problems be for an officer like you to consider? Why ask me?
Xi Wa only dared to quietly complain about Chen Guotao in his heart. He didn’t have the guts to say it to his face.
Although their relationship had become much closer after going through Wolf Fang selection together, complaining about his leader to his face—how brainless would you have to be to do that?
He was honest, not stupid!
“The only place that can hide people now is our place there. Of course, we can’t rule out the armored brigade on the outermost perimeter.”
Chen Guotao’s question didn’t stump Xi Wa. He blurted out the answer without thinking.
It wasn’t that exaggerated, actually. Xi Wa had already noticed the problems Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company was facing.
While searching with Chen Guotao, he had been pondering where Chang Ning and Xiao Zhuang and the others had hidden.
As time passed second by second, he discovered that the soldiers of Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company were about to turn this forest upside down, but even so, they still found nothing.
Excluding all possibilities, the answer was naturally obvious.
Under the lamp, it’s dark. For Wolf Fang people, that wasn’t difficult either.
Based on Xi Wa’s understanding of Wolf Fang, there were probably already comrades who had fallen victim by now.
Don’t forget, among this group there were their own people from Night Tiger, and quite a few.
Lao Pao the squad leader, Xiao Zhuang, Chang Ning—counting carefully, just their Night Tiger people took up three spots.
Xi Wa didn’t know how many people were in Wolf Fang’s special forces team. He only knew the standard configuration for a special forces team was six people. By that calculation, Night Tiger took half.
This was a special forces team that understood them extremely well. He didn’t know what those above were thinking sending them to deal with this team.
Not capsizing in the gutter until now could only mean the opponent didn’t plan to fight them to the death.
In the simulation in Xi Wa’s mind, if they clashed with this team inside the forest, Night Tiger would win, but the casualties wouldn’t be small.
No way around it—the opponent knew Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company too well, while Night Tiger didn’t know their opponent.
Xi Wa’s answer hit right on Chen Guotao’s heart. As someone who had strived to become a special forces soldier since his student days, he was very familiar with special forces combat modes.
But Xi Wa was different; he had only come into contact with these things after enlisting.
In just one short year, growing from a honest young man to this level, Chen Guotao felt like he had discovered a treasure—a treasure that even Miao Lian had overlooked.
“Well said. Are you interested in being my clerk?”
With a heart for talent, Chen Guotao wanted to bring Xi Wa to his side for personal cultivation and polishing.
He didn’t know if it was because he had been with Miao Lian too long, but Chen Guotao also liked assigning soldiers he favored to be clerks.
As soon as Xi Wa heard the company commander wanted him to be a clerk, he was greatly embarrassed.
If he didn’t know what a clerk’s job entailed, he would definitely happily agree to the company commander, but now—no thanks.
Wasn’t a clerk just someone who served tea and poured water for the company commander? He had already been promoted to squad deputy in Squad Two. Why go over there to do servant work?
“Company Commander, clerk work isn’t suitable for me.
You know, I only graduated junior high, a big rough guy. I definitely can’t do that job of organizing documents and information well. If I mess something up, wouldn’t that delay things?”
Xi Wa’s face was full of sincerity. His words had some evasion, but also he didn’t want to delay Chen Pai’s work because of himself.
Faced with Xi Wa’s evasion, Chen Guotao changed his mind with just one sentence.
“Do you still want to go to Wolf Fang?
I remember you told me you were eliminated because of a quiz exam.
Clerk work is great for training people, especially in knowledge.
If you can’t get into Wolf Fang later, while you’re young you can still take an exam for military academy to further your studies. With our company’s recommendation, it should be much easier then.
Of course, if you don’t want to stay in the military long-term, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
As soon as Chen Guotao finished speaking, Xi Wa responded eagerly: “I’ll do it. I’ll take this clerk job.”
Xi Wa also had an ambitious heart.
Especially seeing his good comrades and brothers one by one with bright futures, how could he be willing to fall behind?
Now the opportunity was right in front of him. If he didn’t seize it, he would definitely regret it later.
“Good. Come take office after the exercise ends.”
Chen Guotao said with a cheerful smile. He was liking this soldier Xi Wa more and more now.
Chang Ning had talent, quick mind, smart. People like that, Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company was destined to keep.
Xiao Zhuang was too proud, full of thoughts about his girlfriend’s military unit concept—very little else. That was a timed bomb that might explode anytime, harming others and himself.
In comparison, Chen Guotao found Xi Wa more and more pleasing to the eye.
Steady, ambitious, hardworking and diligent in training—he was simply his dream soldier.
As the company commander of Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company, he felt it necessary to discover more soldiers like Xi Wa, to add bricks and tiles to the company’s construction.
After settling Xi Wa’s job in just a few words, Chen Guotao, coming out of the forest, called the deputy company commander to assemble the entire company.
Since someone had sneaked in under cover of night, he would gather everyone together, then identify them one by one, face to face.
Chen Guotao didn’t believe that even after doing all this, Red Team special forces soldiers could still blend in—unless they knew disguise techniques!
After the entire company assembled, before Chen Guotao could take the lead, checking the numbers revealed a problem: two people were missing!
This was outrageous!
Check, must confirm who was missing.
Was Wolf Fang doing work so sloppily now, or did they look down on our Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company?
This was naked provocation!
“Report, Squad Two’s squad leader and one soldier from the squad are missing.”
Checking numbers didn’t take much time; they were all their own people. Just paying a little attention to the comrades around made it easy to confirm who was missing.
“Wait, brother, why do you look a bit unfamiliar?”
As soon as the words fell, gunshots rang out instantly.
In the red thick smoke, Qiang Zi took off his helmet.
