Chapter Forty-Five

  Li Nan eliminated the two of them and arrived at the second floor, where he heard Wang Yuanshen's loud roar. He felt that something was off because in his memory, no matter how urgent the situation, Wang Yuanshen had always been able to remain calm. This was also a prerequisite for him to become a sniper. Now, even Wang Yuanshen had lost his composure and was shouting wildly, they knew that the situation on that side had reached an extremely critical moment.

  He didn't care about his own safety anymore, and while shouting for Wang Yuandian, he quickened his pace.

  "King Yuan sees, King Yuan sees, what's going on with you guys?"

  "General Yuan has lost too much blood, it's dangerous."

  "How could this be? Even more serious injuries in the past didn't turn out like this."

  "Be careful yourself." Wang Yuanshi said as he rushed forward again.

  But bullets don't have eyes, and the more excited they get, the easier it is to make mistakes. Just when he wasn't careful, his thigh was hit by a bullet.

  "Ah, ah——ahh!" The intense pain made him involuntarily cry out. As he fell to the ground, he still managed to 'fire' a burst of bullets at the rushing bandits.

  "Team leader..." Wang Lei saw Wang Yuan fall down again. He rushed up immediately, his voice trembling with tears.

  "Never mind me, I'm fine." He said, taking out a bandage from his backpack and biting it, wrapping it around himself. Blood kept seeping through the bandage, but he continued to wrap it around in circles until the bleeding wasn't as heavy. Then, gritting his teeth in pain, he struggled to stand up and shouted "Follow me!"

  Everyone wiped away tears and followed him as he continued to charge forward.

  Yuan Shuai lay on the ground, feeling his eyelids suddenly becoming so heavy that he could hardly open his eyes. He knew that at this moment, if he closed his eyes, he would never be able to open them again.

  His left hand was dripping with blood, he forced himself to open his eyes, his head against the wall and both hands propping up his body, using all his strength to lean his upper body against the wall. After taking a few deep breaths, he dragged over a gun from beside him, grasping it with both hands and relying on the gun's support to struggle to his feet, swaying unsteadily as he followed them in their continued assault inside. When firing the gun, he had no choice but to lean against the wall, or else the recoil would have sent him tumbling to the ground.

  Their crazy attack gave Li Nan the opportunity, and when he 'touched' the cell, there were only three "devout soldiers" guarding it. His hand lightly switched the AK47 to single shot (the single-shot and continuous shooting adjustment device on the right upper side of the AK's trigger is a piece of iron about 6 cm long, fixed in front and movable up and down at the back, with continuous shooting upwards and single shooting downwards), killing the outermost one who was about to shoot inside. Suddenly, he felt a strong pain in his back. It turned out that an unknown thug had stabbed a military knife into his back from behind. The two thugs in front saw him being stabbed and put down their guns, drawing their swords in an attempt to capture him alive. Li Nan endured the pain and pulled out the triangular dagger from his waist, stabbing it forward. A stream of blood gushed out. He was about to pull out the triangular dagger to deal with the two people rushing over when the guy he had stabbed behind grabbed his hand. For a moment, he didn't have time to pull out the dagger. He could only lift his foot and kick one of the people rushing over to the ground. However, the other guy's knife was stabbed into his abdomen. If they weren't trying to capture him alive, directly stabbing into his 'chest', Li Nan would be done for.

  Li Nan only felt a severe pain in his abdomen, followed by a strong sweet odor gushing from his stomach to his throat. Then, a mouthful of blood spurted onto the face of that guy, who instinctively blinked his eyes. Li Nan kicked him flying with one foot. At this time, the guy who had just been kicked to the ground in front of him had already gotten up and was swinging a knife at him again. Just as the knife tip was about to touch his body, his hand was grabbed by Li Nan's left hand, no matter how hard he tried, the knife tip didn't move another half inch forward. Li Nan forcefully pulled out the stabbing knife, and with one slash, it pierced into his throat. Fresh blood splattered all over Li Nan's face.

  He endured the pain and walked over to finish off the guy he had kicked away earlier with a single knife. Then, gripping the knife still lodged in his own belly, gritting his teeth, he was almost trembling with pain. With great effort, he pulled out the knife, and his intestines flowed out along with the blade tip. He covered the flowing intestines with his left hand, took out a bandage with his right hand, bit one end of it with his mouth, and slowly wrapped it around his waist.

  Inside are detained not only three Chinese engineers, but also some scholars and men of letters from other countries.

  "Oh no, oh no!" Just now when Li Nan was fighting with them, someone behind him stabbed him with a knife. They saw it but didn't warn Li Nan at all. Now everyone is loudly crying for help. People are like this, in order to save their own lives, they don't even care about the most basic moral integrity. As long as they can live one more minute, those hypocritical "scholars" and "gentlemen" can abandon all their dignity.

  He said with difficulty to those who were tied up: "I, I am a Chinese, I have come to rescue you, which one is the Chinese engineer..."

  "Liberation Army, Liberation Army, we are here." Li Nan hadn't even finished speaking when a man in the corner hastily replied.

  Everyone watched as he struggled to pick up the knife on the ground, one by one cutting off the ropes that bound them. Those who were cut loose first rushed out desperately, without even a word of thanks.

  But Li Nan still managed to remind them to run upstairs with difficulty. In the end, he saved three Chinese people.

  "Thank you, I know the PLA will definitely come to rescue us, thank you, thank the government."

  Li Nan led them upstairs and informed Yuan Shuai that the hostages had been rescued and were running out. After learning that the hostages had been rescued, Wang Yuan saw everyone retreat. Wang Lei and Zhang Qipeng covered up. The three wounded men supported each other and retreated outside. The two of them fought while retreating.

  After reaching the rooftop, Li Nan tied himself to the railing with a rope and let them slide down along the rope. Li Nan fell to the ground and couldn't move anymore. After Yuan Shuai and others retreated outside, they only saw the hostages running out and didn't see Li Nan. Zhang Qipeng grabbed the last Chinese engineer who slid down and asked: "Where is the person who came to rescue you?"

  "He was injured on top of that."

  "Li Nan, Li Nan, I'm Zhang Qipeng, can you hear me and respond?" Zhang Qipeng called out anxiously.

  "I... I am Li Nan." A faint reply came through the earpiece.

  "I'll go up, I'll go up and rescue him." Wang Lei volunteered.

  "Be careful."

  "Alright!" He said, taking off his bulletproof vest and putting down his backpack.

  Everyone was already very tired, and Wang Lei climbed for a full 5 minutes.

  After going up to the rooftop, he helped Li Nan to the rope and then let Li Nan ride on his neck. He bore most of Li Nan's weight while Li Nan used his hands to grasp the rope to bear a small part of his own weight. They slid down slowly. This was actually an extreme physical test for Wang Lei.