Chapter 292: Trip To Langde Village
“Everyone pay attention, the target seems to be coming out.”
Ostrich saw a person wearing ethnic clothing put his hand on the entrance through the scope, looking like he wanted to open the door.
Although Geng Jihui told everyone not to shoot in the courtyard, everyone still aimed their gun muzzles at that house.
Hearing Ostrich’s report through the earpiece, everyone gripped the gun body tightly, eyes fixed on the door that was about to open.
“Damn it, how is it a woman?”
The woman who came out of the house felt somewhat familiar to him; he thought he had seen that woman somewhere before.
“Ostrich, enemies don’t distinguish between men and women.
Are you saying you can’t bear to shoot just because it’s a woman?”
Chang Ning looked down on Ostrich’s behavior; he thought Ostrich had problematic thinking.
The weapon in the woman’s hand could still kill people; his army had suffered losses in this regard before.
Therefore, he unhesitatingly spoke with sarcasm toward Ostrich; as long as Ostrich dared to defend himself, he dared to keep pressing him.
If Ostrich couldn’t change this kind of thinking, then Chang Ning would have to consider leaving B Group.
What era is this, and there are still people holding onto the idea of not killing women.
As long as they were on the battlefield, as long as the enemy was holding a weapon, no matter the gender, they had to shoot without hesitation.
Ostrich’s kind of thinking would get everyone killed.
“No… I…”
Ostrich probably realized he had misspoke; he wanted to defend himself but didn’t know how to start.
“Ostrich, after returning, you must make a self-criticism about this.”
Geng Jihui directly characterized Ostrich’s erroneous thinking and behavior.
In the courtyard, the door of the thatched cottage was opened.
Xia Lan was wearing ethnic clothing, standing at the entrance covered in dust and dirt.
She ignored Geng Jihui, her eyes seeming to spew fire as she glared fiercely at Chang Ning.
If looks could kill, Chang Ning would probably die from a thousand arrows piercing his heart.
Facing Xia Lan who was glaring viciously at him, Chang Ning’s eyes were indifferent without a trace of emotion; the two just stared at each other like this.
Go ahead and look; would Chang Ning be afraid of Xia Lan?
From Chang Ning’s indifferent eyes, Xia Lan couldn’t discern any emotion, as if Chang Ning was looking at air.
Yes, this bastard had ignored her; Xia Lan burned with rage.
If not for her remaining rationality reminding her to mind the occasion, she probably would have gone up to argue with Chang Ning long ago.
Seeing that it was Xia Lan who came out from the door, Geng Jihui was quite speechless.
Did this woman not know what consequences she would face for shooting at them?
Of course, looking at Xia Lan covered in wood chips, Geng Jihui thought this woman now probably understood what kind of consequences she would face.
Seeing an acquaintance, everyone in B Group lowered their vigilance.
Both sides had a big misunderstanding; although Xia Lan itched to have a one-on-one fight with Chang Ning, she still loudly notified the villagers hiding in the house in dialect: “Danger lifted, everyone can come out.”
After the sniper team returned to formation, Chang Ning had no intention of letting Xia Lan off: “Staff Officer Xia,
Chang Ning’s words stunned Xia Lan for a moment; she didn’t understand why he would ask such a question,
“The village seized a batch not long ago; the village chief is burning those things up ahead.”
“Staff Officer Xia, you’re armed police, right?” Chang Ning continued to ask.
Seeing Chang Ning questioning Xia Lan, everyone in B Group stayed silent and quietly watched Xia Lan get embarrassed.
They knew Chang Ning was going to mess with Xia Lan; no one thought this behavior was excessive.
The fact that Xia Lan had fired at them first wouldn’t just be brushed aside like this, especially by the person involved, Xiao Zhuang.
Ostrich wanted to smooth things over, but as soon as he was about to speak, Chang Ning’s knife-like glare dissuaded him.
He couldn’t understand why Chang Ning, as a big man, had to make things difficult for Xia Lan, a woman.
Having doubts in his heart, Ostrich didn’t dare express them. Chang Ning’s earlier question had left him with lingering fear.
Now seeing that look again, Ostrich didn’t want to provoke Chang Ning again for the time being.
So he could only apologize to Xia Lan in his heart.
“Yes, you all know that.”
Xia Lan and B Group were old acquaintances; back when B Group were still rookies, she had cooperated with Squadron Leader Gao to train them.
She didn’t know why Chang Ning was asking her this question.
“Does Staff Officer Xia still remember what method Lin Zexu used to destroy opium?”
As soon as these words came out, Xia Lan instantly understood why Chang Ning had asked her these two seemingly unrelated questions.
The two questions had only one focus, and that was opium.
Especially the last question, where Chang Ning’s sharp point directly targeted the method of destroying opium.
Xia Lan recalled the village chief’s destruction method, and her face turned pale.
The village chief had directly burned it with a fire, which meant that everyone here now, including her, had…
Coming back to her senses, Xia Lan regretted it immensely; why hadn’t she stopped the village chief at the time?
And she was armed police too; this time she had lost face big time!
After regretting, she started to feel fortunate again.
She had seen the opium seized by the village chief; there wasn’t much.
Even if burned, it shouldn’t have much influence.
Xia Lan thought this in her heart.
On site, it wasn’t just Xia Lan who reacted; the others in B Group also reacted, and the medic’s face became extremely bad.
Combining it with the smell they had smelled before, no one understood what Chang Ning meant better than him!
“Staff Officer Xia, where is the burning site? Take us there quickly!”
The medic was full of anxiety, hoping there would still be a chance to remedy it after arriving.
Xia Lan knew the priorities of the matter; she called out and led Chang Ning and the others straight to the village chief’s location.
It was a sunny slope, not far from the village.
Standing on the slope, one could take in the entire village at a glance; in the past, this would absolutely have been a good place.
But now this slope was holding a sacrifice while burning opium; the deadly part was that the village where Chang Ning and the others had been was right downwind.
After the group hurriedly arrived, the village chief was circling the corpses reciting a sacrificial text.
The medic saw the things in the fire pit; fortunately, they arrived in time and it wasn’t fully burned.
Seeing the shovel stuck in the dirt pile, the medic immediately shoveled a scoop of soil and sprinkled it into the pit.
Seeing this, the others immediately joined in; those without a shovel used their hands.
Everyone hurriedly extinguished the fire and buried the things in the pit together.
Seeing several people suddenly rush out and silently start putting out the fire, the village chief thought the selling powder criminal gangs had come for revenge, so he became agitated and was about to fight desperately.
Xia Lan quickly pushed aside Chang Ning and the others blocking her way and explained a bunch to the village chief in dialect, finally calming the village chief who was about to fight B Group.
With this incident, both sides could be considered to have gotten to know each other after fighting; Xia Lan acted as translator to introduce each other.
Then she guided the village chief on the correct way to destroy opium.
Through Xia Lan’s translation, it turned out that the night before last, the hunters here had ambushed a gang of criminals, and several hunters had also sacrificed.
Earlier, the village chief had been sacrificing these brave hunters, and by the way, burning those things.
