Chapter 8: The Helpless Flirtation

  "I shouted while running wildly: 'Brothers, have we got our hammers and steel chisels on us without losing them?'"

  Chang Sun Ting led the way, half a step ahead of me, without looking back, and shouted: "Nonsense! Can't you see that both my hands are now pressed on my backpack? As long as we drop one thing, those guys will take advantage of it and catch us all. We have to hurry up and come up with a good excuse before we sneak into the military camp. I want you to use all your intelligence and cleverness to come up with something that's watertight. If not, we'll both be in big trouble!"

  I suddenly shouted, "When we climb over the wall later, be careful of those barbed wires. Who knows if they've already electrified them? If we're not careful, you and I will end up as two roasted rabbits hanging on the net!"

  Chang Sun Ting suddenly stopped in his tracks, picked up a wooden stick over two feet long from the ground and continued to run wildly. "You'd better worry about yourself, I can safely climb over the electric fence, but you're crawling under the barbed wire with such a small gap, who knows if the sharp spikes on the barbed wire will become electrodes and create a small lightning bolt that will blow a big hole in your back, haha..."

  I'm tired!

  I ran to the wall and lay on it, listening carefully. Sure enough, I heard a faint humming noise from inside the wall. I couldn't help but curse: "Damn, they really did electrify it! They're fast!"

  Chang Sun Ting didn't have such worries, he threw his backpack over the wall into the military camp, then picked up a wooden stick and put it in his mouth, retreated several steps and suddenly rushed up the camp wall, and once again made a beautiful somersault back into the military camp.

  "Dummy, hurry up and get back in! Don't forget to take that stick out!"

  When I heard Zhang Sun Ting's low growl, I raised my head in surprise to find that between the lowest iron wire and the camp wall, a wooden stick more than two feet long was actually propped up!

  Time waits for no man I drilled through the long grandson courtyard opened by me, and sneaked into the military camp.

  Chang Sun Ting snatched the backpacks from my body and threw them into the drainage ditch next to the camp, sinking them into the mud. He then used a wooden stick over two feet long to stir them up, and finally sprinkled some new soil on top. As we watched, they became waterlogged and turned into a dark mass, with no visible cracks on the surface. Chang Sun Ting said in a low voice, "These two packages can't be completely destroyed, leaving them here is just a temporary measure. After the storm passes, we must quickly retrieve them and secretly return them to the engineering company without anyone noticing. Otherwise, if someone investigates carefully, my brother and I still won't be able to escape unscathed."

  I remained silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "Brother, how many did you kill?"

  "Huh?"

  "Look at your skillful way of destroying evidence, and your rich experience in dealing with detectives. Don't you have some kind of perverted hobby, often raping girls and then burying them on the spot?"

  "Damn it!" Zhang Sun Ting's angry eyes widened, "I'm still a virgin at 20 years old!"

  "Little brother, you're 20 years old and still a virgin?" I patted his head with an experienced expression and sighed: "Poor thing, isn't there a saying in school now, 'High school students, no experience equals a wasted life', it seems like your 20 years have been truly wasted!"

  Chang Sun Ting glared at me and shouted: "Don't compare me to those trash! In my eyes, without love as the foundation, it's just a physical movement!"

  "Cut!" I shook my head disdainfully, but in my heart, I had a feeling of meeting someone who understood me. I was 21 years old and still a virgin...

  Although there was once a time when it almost wasn't...

  I gazed at Zhang Sun Ting with a sympathetic expression, my right eye twitching like it had gotten sand in it, blinking twice in succession, then again, and once more, three times in a row. Meanwhile, I couldn't help but lecture him: "What's wrong with pre-marital sex? A man's sexual function is fully developed by the age of 18. Must you wait until your thirties, after getting married, when your sexual ability has greatly weakened, to have relations with a woman? By then, you might really be too exhausted. Because in your youth, you didn't make enough effort and lacked sufficient sexual experience and technique to compensate for the physical inadequacies, just think how miserable you'll be!"

  "Attention, the whole camp is on alert. Non-combat personnel must return to their barracks immediately and be ready for roll call at any time. You two are really bold, hiding here and talking about such indecent topics?"

  A low, discontented hiss came from behind us, and both Long Sun Ting and I jumped in fright. We turned our heads to see that the instructor of the new recruits, Bu Shanna, was staring at us with a thin veil of anger on her face.

  Kasana wore a green military bulletproof vest today, with several domestically-made ping-pong ball-type offensive hand grenades hanging on the vest. In places where she could easily reach, a more than one-foot-long military dagger was inserted at an angle. Kasana used not the Chinese army's standard-issue 85-style assault rifle, but rather the MP50-type assault rifle, which is more suitable for counter-terrorism operations. Judging from its shape, the handgun inserted in her right leg was likely also Israel's Desert Eagle.

  Behind Kassandra, there were seven or eight special forces soldiers with real guns and ammunition. One of them even carried a nearly two-meter-long heavy sniper rifle on his back. Seeing this lineup, both I and Changsuntang felt our scalps numb. This time we really played big!

  Kasana said irritably, "What are you looking at? There was such a big commotion in the military camp just now, I don't believe you two didn't notice anything. I am now ordered to inspect the entire military camp, and if any suspicious person is found, they will be arrested immediately. If the other party resists or escapes, I have the right to shoot without hesitation! Consider yourselves lucky to have met me, hurry up and roll back to your own barracks!"

  "Yes!" After I and Zhang Sun Ting saluted Kasina, we split to the left and right and walked past her. At the moment of intersection, I suddenly stopped, leaned in close to Kasina's ear and said in a low voice: "Reporting to the superior officer, I just like watching you! You are more attractive than those girls who only know how to be coquettish, your straightforwardness and tenacity make my heart beat uncontrollably. Do you know why I could carry Yang Qing through the last stretch that day? It's because I didn't want to lose face in front of you! However, I extremely dislike the bulletproof vest you're wearing today, it completely covers up your captivating curves."

  I gently blew a warm breath into Kassandra's ear, and before she could react, I walked away with a straight face, head held high and chest out. Chang Sun-ting followed closely behind me, adding in a low voice, "Alas, why didn't I meet the instructor during my high school days? What a pity, what a pity!"

  I walked ahead, involuntarily cursing in my heart: "Damn it, this kid is better at picking up girls than me. It's just a bunch of nonsense, but adding to our unhealthy topic earlier, everything was left unspoken."

  Chang Sun Ting quickly caught up with me, and I asked in a low voice without looking at him, "Do you think our attack will affect her mind and judgment?"

  Chang Sun Ting replied in a low voice, "With our external conditions as brothers and the feat of being demoted to kitchen staff, we must have made a good impression on her. Otherwise, she would have turned against us with just these teasing words from our instructor, and we two brothers wouldn't be able to show our faces. Don't look back, I think her expression now is extremely moving, I really admire you, not only are your words provocative, but you actually dared to take action and tease the instructor, if there were no other people around, I suspect whether you would have even dared to kiss the instructor's earlobe."

  "What can we do?" I shrugged and said helplessly: "You and I just destroyed the evidence, but it's inevitable that there are still some clues left. If we don't use every means to disturb the instructor's mind, with her military skills and a woman's keen observational power, we really can't guarantee that we won't reveal our tracks. Brother, this is called being forced to act, and it's unavoidable!"

  Chang Sun Ting: "......"

  Kasana gazed at the two of us walking away, and in her heart she couldn't help but think: "What a pair of scoundrels!" She stroked her slightly flushed cheeks and slowly walked into the place where we had just hidden. First, she looked at the iron wire mesh on the camp wall, then lowered her head to carefully examine the slightly damp ground. Finally, following our footprints, she found a small pit dug out by hand.

  When she stood in front of the sewer, a mischievous smile of a young girl rose from the corner of her mouth, and with great interest, it was as if she was playing a game of hide-and-seek with her lover. "These two guys are really cunning, let's see what else you can come up with."

  Chapter 9: Murder Game

  "Where have you two been? Didn't you hear the alarm that just sounded? Luckily, you've run back now. If you'd been a bit later, before roll call, you would have been listed as suspects and subjected to investigation!"

  I let out a silent "wow" in my heart, secretly wiping away the cold sweat on my forehead. I glanced at Zhang Sun Ting, who also looked like he had narrowly escaped disaster. If Bu Shanna hadn't found us in time, my brother and I would have been done for. I leaned against the window to look outside, where squad after squad of armed soldiers rushed out of the gate in military vehicles.

  At least three reinforced companies of troops were densely arrayed near the satellite receiving station, with armored vehicles temporarily forming a defensive belt. Three heavy machine guns were mounted on simple sandbag emplacements, forming a firepower blockade line. In some hidden corners, soldiers carrying Red Arrow 5 short-range surface-to-air missile launchers had already donned helmets equipped with infrared guidance systems.

  A loud "rumbling" sound came from above, I ignored Zhang's advice and opened the window to look up, only to see three large armed helicopters had already flown to the mountain peak where we were just now, special forces jumped down the rope one by one, then quickly gathered, in a line formation began to thoroughly search the entire hillside.