Chapter 287: Changing Routes Discovery
“Lai Tou, what did we do when we ran into police on this road before?”
Boss did not reveal his thoughts, but instead asked his confidant from the side.
“Do I even need to say it?”
Lai Tou didn’t think twice and lifted his clothes, revealing the “Black Star” handgun tucked into his waistband.
“If they have fewer people, of course we fight them!
If they have more people, we take another road.”
“Which road?” Boss asked.
“Still go straight forward for one kilometer first, then east for another kilometer. There’s a small path there that can get the goods through.
But taking that small path means we’ll have to walk a lot of extra distance, and the road conditions are complicated.
Normally we wouldn’t take that small path.”
Although Lai Tou didn’t know his boss’s plans, he instinctively advised against taking the small path.
The small path is time-consuming and laborious, a challenge for transporting goods.
“Good, I understand.”
After saying that, Boss called everyone to continue on the road.
Lai Tou looked at the boss’s back with great doubt, not knowing what was up with the boss.
Outsiders didn’t know what Boss was thinking; only he himself knew.
After hearing Lai Tou’s introduction, Boss had originally planned to stick to the original plan without changing the route.
But the closer he got to home, the more uneasy he felt, and this feeling was intensifying.
Boss thought about it and still decided to change the route; everyone would take the small path.
If it’s hard to walk, so be it; safety is the most important now.
No matter how hard it is, it’s still better than being caught by the police.
Unfortunately, what he didn’t know was that those grabbing him weren’t police but Lone Wolf B Team.
“Lai Tou, I’ve decided we’ll take the small path back. You lead the way.” Boss said.
“Yes.”
Lai Tou disagreed with the boss’s decision to take the small path, but who could argue since he was the boss.
You can’t bend your arm the other way; he didn’t want to get beaten again.
So Lai Tou could only agree and obediently lead the way.
In the encirclement set up by Lone Wolf B Team, at a certain position of the Assault Team.
“Xiao Zhuang, you rest first. I’ll wake you up in twenty minutes.”
Qiang Zi glanced at the time on his watch: 7:10.
“Okay, when time’s up, I’ll replace you.”
Xiao Zhuang wasn’t polite with Qiang Zi and directly found a comfortable spot to sleep in his clothes, soon falling into deep sleep.
They had undergone rigorous yet reasonable training; their speed of entering deep sleep was much faster than ordinary people, and their recovery efficiency was also very high.
As time passed, the enemy and our sides were rapidly approaching. During this process, Xiao Zhuang relieved Qiang Zi from his post.
On the criminals’ side, Boss wiped the sweat from his forehead and said slightly out of breath to Lai Tou who was leading the way: “Where have we gotten to?”
Lai Tou carefully observed the surrounding vegetation before responding: “Boss, we’ve just finished one kilometer.”
He said they’d walked one kilometer, but no one really knew how far they’d actually gone.
In hilly terrain that’s full of ups and downs, walking extra distance is very normal.
“Should we rest a bit before continuing? The brothers are all tired.” Lai Tou watched Boss’s expression while carefully probing.
Boss turned back to check the younger brothers’ conditions and saw that everyone was indeed unable to go on.
He himself was tired too, his legs heavy like they were filled with lead.
But the recent domestic trends were off, so he didn’t dare stop.
What if Armed Police were patrolling nearby and they got spotted because of resting?
Thinking of this, Boss gritted his teeth and told everyone to keep going.
Seeing everyone was truly exhausted, he waved his hand and promised the brothers many benefits.
“Lai Tou, you have to work hard to lead everyone back.
Only those who work hard and strive are my brothers.”
“Don’t worry, boss. I’ve walked this road many times; I’m very familiar with it!” Lai Tou nodded vigorously.
Since the boss trusted him so much, he had to safely deliver the goods.
This time Boss was personally transporting goods, so he didn’t care about the profit from this batch.
That’s why he gave benefits to the younger brothers—enough for them to eat, drink, and be merry for a long time.
His real purpose was to prove to his father Ma Shichang through this transport that he was capable, that he could take over part of the family business.
Boss’s criminal gang set off again transporting goods.
Xiao Zhuang periodically observed the surroundings through night vision goggles; it was now completely dark.
The night vision goggles had a thermal imaging system; animals appeared as orange blob-like masses, unclear what specific thing they were.
Xiao Zhuang could only judge by the size of the energy blobs whether they were humans.
“What is that?”
Several energy blobs appeared in the night vision goggles, connected in a long line.
Xiao Zhuang sensed that those energy blobs he saw might be criminals, but he wasn’t entirely sure.
If he misidentified them, shooting might alert the criminal gang to the nearby ambush.
So he woke Qiang Zi to help observe if it was the criminal gang.
“I think it is!”
Qiang Zi carefully looked through the night vision goggles for a while before confirming.
“Everyone pay attention, criminal gang appeared…”
Xiao Zhuang’s report came through the earpieces of all B Team members.
“Are you sure? Not animals?”
Clearly Geng Jihui had also noticed the possibility of misidentification, so he confirmed with the Assault Team again.
“Confirmed, strong thermal imaging reaction.
Several energy blobs in a single file line advancing; doesn’t look like animals.”
Xiao Zhuang described what he saw to Geng Jihui.
“Siberian Wolf is right; those are people, not animals.
These people are not far from me; about twenty or so leading horses, with things loaded on the horses’ backs.”
Chang Ning lay in thick grass carefully observing the horse team passing not far from him.
When Geng Jihui told everyone to rest, he couldn’t sleep and wanted to familiarize himself more with the surroundings.
So while moving around, he encountered Boss’s criminal gang.
“Damn, it’s too dark! Can’t see these people’s faces through the night vision goggles; I can’t find the target to capture alive!”
Ostrich was a bit anxious; in this environment, even the best sniper technique was useless if he couldn’t see.
Moreover, his mission was to watch the target Boss; if he couldn’t tell who was who, how could he watch the target?
Action was about to start, and there was an issue with the Sniper Team.
What to do? Was the mission not going to be executed?
“Execute according to the combat plan; Sniper Team try to find the target.
If you really can’t find them, forget it; eliminating them is the priority.”
Hearing Geng Jihui’s order to start the operation, the entire B Team executed the combat plan methodically like awakened machines.
The Assault Team, taking advantage of the night vision goggles’ convenience, quietly circled to the side of Boss’s horse team. Their mission was to inflict casualties on the enemy while driving these people into the encirclement.
“Lai Tou, have you found that small path you mentioned?”
As the sky turned completely dark, Boss gradually grew impatient.
