Chapter 291: Trip To Langde Village
Chang Ning glanced at his wristwatch; it was exactly 3:00, neither more nor less. Geng Jihui had always been punctual about time.
Even someone as optimistic as Chang Ning became taciturn during the monotonous march.
Group B followed the map like bloodhounds, shuttling through the jungle like ghosts, bringing killing to this jungle rife with dangers.
After relentless strikes, five or six drug trafficking criminal gangs had already fallen to Group B.
At the beginning, Chang Ning and the others could still encounter sporadic criminal gangs, but later they probably struck too hard, so the criminal gangs got smarter and rarely ventured out.
Thus, Group B’s recent performance had seriously declined, but the mission still had to be carried out.
They continued advancing along the route planned on the intelligence.
Constant marching and fighting in the jungle, repeating endlessly. Chang Ning and the others not only got training but also accumulated many new wounds on their bodies.
Fortunately, they were still alive. Don’t think special forces soldiers are invincible; bad luck and a stray bullet could still take a life.
“What smell is that?”
Chang Ning sniffed; he detected a strange smell like something burnt, but not quite.
With Chang Ning’s reminder, the others smelled it too. The medic directly said it was the smell of burnt opium.
Ostrich didn’t believe it at first, but after the medic mentioned his illustrious resume, he fell silent.
While everyone was discussing the opium issue, Xiao Zhuang spotted a village hidden in the deep mountains through his binoculars.
It caught everyone’s attention. Combined with the opium smell they detected earlier, this village appearing before Group B was quite intriguing.
Were the villagers in the village smoking opium? More seriously, were they involved in selling it?
Geng Jihui’s face was ashen; clearly, he had realized this too.
If it was the latter, Group B rashly appearing before the villagers might encounter danger.
But if they didn’t go, how could they confirm if the villagers were innocent.
“How about we enter the village? Assuming the village’s villagers are involved in the crime, their weapons definitely aren’t as good as ours, and we’re still wearing bulletproof vests.
In short, there might be danger, but it won’t be fatal.”
Chang Ning’s suggestion tipped the scales in Geng Jihui’s mind toward entering the village.
“Good, we’ll enter the village.
Sniper Team, establish a sniper position to provide us with support.”
Geng Jihui ordered that, except for Ostrich and the medic, everyone else stick the national flag and military flag on the magic sticker on their chests, then form a triangular search formation and slowly enter the village.
Everyone’s nerves were taut like bowstrings. This village was an unknown territory for Chang Ning and the others; danger might strike in the next second.
Just as they entered the courtyard at the village entrance, Chang Ning could feel the oppressive atmosphere around them thick like water.
This indicated there was a problem here; guns might already be aimed at them.
“Sniper Team, have you found any threats?”
The atmosphere was off; Chang Ning hoped the Sniper Team could provide them help.
“We haven’t detected any threats here. Strangely, this village is so quiet, as if no one lives there.”
The Sniper Team had also noticed the oddity of this village.
At that moment, a child hugging a little puppy suddenly ran out from a thatched cottage.
Xiao Zhuang immediately pounced toward the child upon seeing him; he was just worrying about how to break the ice.
Now they could learn intelligence about the village from this child.
Xiao Zhuang had just tackled the child and covered his mouth to prevent him from making a sound when a gunshot rang out, the bullet hitting the ground and splashing soil onto Xiao Zhuang.
Damn it, someone had shot at Xiao Zhuang!
“Sniper Team, find the shooter.”
Chang Ning had the Sniper Team assist to suppress the shooter in the house, preventing them from firing at them again.
Everything happened in a flash. Since they had shot at them, Chang Ning saw no need to be polite!
He directly fired several shots toward the direction of the gunshot, the bullets hitting the window frame and sending wood chips flying.
Bang bang~
Several dull impacts sent a large amount of wood chips splashing toward Xia Lan’s face.
She had actually seen the vivid national flag on the chests of this five-man team long ago and knew they were from the military unit.
When she saw them charge straight into the village without a care, Xia Lan decided to teach this team a lesson.
In her view, this five-man team was too careless, diving in without assessing the situation.
If she were the enemy, wouldn’t this team be in trouble?
But Xia Lan overlooked one point: Group B dared to enter the village based on their own strength and equipment.
Moreover, Group B wasn’t without arrangements; the Sniper Team was deployed outside, ready to provide support at any time.
Besides, this was Huaxia!
If a large number of enemies infiltrated, many would lose their heads.
“Cease fire, we are Huaxia Army!”
Geng Jihui saw that the person shooting at them from the house had no hostility toward them.
The distance between both sides was very close; if the person hiding in the house really wanted to harm them, that shot wouldn’t have hit the ground but Xiao Zhuang’s body.
Unfortunately, Geng Jihui’s reaction was half a beat slow. By the time he stopped both sides from shooting, Chang Ning had already launched a counterattack first.
As early as discovering the village, Chang Ning had recalled that this was Langde Village.
This part of the plot was one of the major classics in the TV series; how could he forget it.
Most importantly, the woman hiding in Langde Village—Xia Lan.
Viewers who had watched this TV series would surely remember this woman vividly, and some even hated her to the bone.
It was she who indirectly caused Xiao Ying to die at Xiao Zhuang’s hands, making Xiao Zhuang leave the military unit and take off his military uniform.
It was all due to her self-righteousness.
So it would be strange if Chang Ning had any fondness for her.
After recalling this part of the plot, how could Chang Ning not teach Xia Lan a lesson?
Thus, this time he seized the opportunity when Xia Lan shot at Xiao Zhuang and counterattacked without hesitation.
Chang Ning didn’t dare to kill directly, but with his marksmanship, he could make Xia Lan suffer a bit.
Hearing Geng Jihui’s order to stop, Chang Ning used it as an excuse to cease his attack; after all, his purpose of teaching Xia Lan a lesson was achieved.
Even if Geng Jihui discovered something later, he couldn’t say anything; after all, Xia Lan had fired at them first.
They were a unit, comrades who lived and died together.
Xia Lan was just an outsider; could Geng Jihui possibly side with her?
It was impossible even to think about.
The Sniper Team was also closely monitoring the situation in the courtyard; they had already locked onto the shooter.
Ostrich had even pulled the trigger to pre-pressure; just a little more force and the bullet would fire.
But all of it was called off by Geng Jihui. Ostrich didn’t even know he had nearly blown his future wife’s head off.
From this perspective, he should thank Geng Jihui.
“Sniper Team is responsible for your safety.”
