Chapter Twenty

  Foreword:

  Thank you very much to all the readers for your great support, and thank you for taking the time to read my book. I really appreciate it. Just now, I wanted to respond in the comments section, but 555555555555555 Deep Blue's words are always considered spam, sigh... Last sentence: I hope everyone can point out some issues that Deep Blue hasn't noticed, after all, only your questions can help me provide better writing for everyone. (Deep Blue bows) "Thank you very much to all the readers."

  Standing there, I didn't say a word, but quietly waited for them to confirm my identity. At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind, and I turned around with the sound, seeing a familiar face.

  This familiar person walked in front of me, stood at attention, saluted, and his voice was filled with a hint of excitement, as if he had seen an idol. He made an effort to search from memory, searching for this familiar face, searching for this familiar voice.

  "I... at the new barracks, have we met before?" My hesitant self could only ask such a question, seeing his eyes flash with a hint of dimness, I couldn't help but regret it. "Next time when running into someone who can't remember, remember to make some small talk first." Could only give myself a slap in the heart.

  "Yes, it was during the new recruit training that you taught me how to use a sniper rifle." The young man looked at my hesitant expression and knew I didn't recognize him, so he reminded me.

  "Oh, sorry, my memory has been really bad these past few days." The embarrassed self could only respond with such words, but in his heart, he already had an answer. "Was it one of the three people I taught when I had a change of heart?"

  "Hey, you come here, who is he?!!" That guy named Zhao Zhi shouted behind me and called this familiar little fellow to his side, then asked out such words.

  "He's the ace sniper I always mention to you, my idol, Hayabusa!!!” The guy who didn't understand what was going on was explaining to someone, but he didn't notice that the person listening to him had already started sweating and his eyes were getting wider.

  At that time, I still didn't wipe the blood from my forehead, just letting it flow over my eyes, down to my chin, and then dripping drop by drop onto the ground. 'Luckily, at that moment, I subconsciously lowered my head, or else my eyes would have burst.' Although my eyes were staring at that reckless guy, in my heart, I was celebrating the subconscious reaction that saved one of my eyes. I was also furious - without even asking for an explanation, he came over and almost beat me to death; this guy is too reckless!

  "Are you saying he's the peregrine, the one who taught you how to use a gun during your training?" The guy's hesitant voice rose up, and with his words, the young fellow standing beside him explaining, nodded vigorously.

  "Was he really in the boot camp, and almost killed that new recruit??" Upon hearing this question, I couldn't help but let out a wry smile from the corner of my mouth. However, I noticed that the person standing next to me, staring at me, took a step back after seeing my smile, even the guy who was always drumming up courage in his heart. "A face full of blood, an eerie smile, and a questionable past... (sigh) Is all this really worth being so afraid of?" I asked myself, realizing where the problem lay.

  "But, however, his feelings towards his own brother, aren't we all aware of that? If it wasn't for covering up Li Pai's escape to safety, we wouldn't have found him here!!" The person who still hasn't realized the issue at hand is still maintaining their idol's position in their heart.

  At this time, the speaker had not reacted yet, but the listener had already started to feel afraid, still staring at him with a smile on his face. The corner of his eye could see that the people next to him were ready to pounce and stop his next move if something went wrong.

  "Ah... Ah... Sorry..." The guy in front of him spoke hesitantly, and he noticed the gaze from the side refocusing on him. He didn't look anywhere else, but stared straight into his eyes, his left hand covering the kicked ribcage, while his right hand slowly moved to the gun holster on his leg. "This bastard, really vicious, don't know how many ribs I cracked."

  "I...I...it wasn't intentional. I...I really...wasn't intentional." The guy in front of him, seeing the movement of his right hand, started stuttering an apology, while the person next to him had already handed over the gun they were carrying on their body to a companion and was ready to pounce at any moment.

  "So I'll ask you a question." At this time, he finally started speaking, and seeing him visibly sigh in relief made me want to laugh. "It seems that my intimidation has spread quite far..."

  "If I hadn't explained it to you at that time, and there was no companion beside you to stop you, would you have fired the gun?" I didn't wait for him to speak, but directly asked out my question. My hand had already moved very close to the gun, looking at the posture of the person next to me, as soon as my hand touched the gun, someone would immediately rush over and press me down.

  "I...I...won't." He heard his own voice and couldn't help but shake his head in pain, "This guy speaks, why is he so stuttering??"

  "Speak clearly!!"

  I won't!!!

  "Bullshit!" After he clearly stated his answer, I also expressed my opinion on his answer at the same time.

  "I really don't..." This guy still wants to quibble.

  "If your companions hadn't stopped you, if I hadn't shouted out at that time... now the one lying on the ground would be my corpse, and not dead at the hands of the enemy, but dead at the hands of my own people whom I have been longing for day and night!" Before he could even finish speaking, someone had already yelled out loudly, stunning him into silence. Then, seeing that he was about to speak again...

  "Shut up, now I'm telling you, today it's me, later it might be someone else, do you know? You people around him don't even manage him, until later he really kills himself, then you'll regret it?" The first sentence is directed at him, the last sentence is directed at the people surrounding him.

  He didn't say another word to him, but stretched out his right hand, and the dagger that had been hidden in his sleeve slid into his palm. He looked at the terrified eyes of the guy in front of him. With a casual movement, he inserted the dagger into the sheath on his leg. "A dagger kills people, blood will splatter on my body, I still prefer to use a gun." One sentence made his heart, which had already been put down, jump directly to his throat.

  "Alright, let's clear a patch of land quickly, the plane is going to land soon." At this time, the belated team leader finally walked over and told the guy in front to put his heart back in his stomach.

  "Welcome back, Hayate! He's just a bit reckless, but since nothing happened, let's not mind it, give me some face." Then he stretched out his right hand to me, and after hesitating for a moment, I also grasped his right hand with mine. I could feel the warmth of his hand, such a warm feeling. "Time to go home," I said to myself.

  "He's lucky to have a head like yours." He said, forgiving the careless guy in a roundabout way. It seemed as if someone let out a sigh of relief beside his ear, but he didn't notice who it was. "I hope that Mountain Bear guy will be more careful with his hands from now on."

  "My name is Xu Kuan, I'm their company commander." The person standing beside him said with a belated self-introduction as the group of people worked hard to clear the site.

  "Really? Mind if I ask you something?"

  "Alright, I'll tell you everything you want to know, just don't ask me to do anything wrong, okay?" His voice gave off a bold and forthright impression.

  "I'm really curious, how did you find this place? Their base is very far from here, it would take several days to walk." He didn't ask anything that would make him suspicious, but rather asked out of his own curiosity.

  "After the artillery brothers finished bombing, our troops boarded the plane and took off within 2 hours. We directly parachuted into the enemy's advance base that was bombed to ruins, searched for 2 days, and cleared out the remaining enemies."

  He said this with a tsking sound, his face showing a regretful expression: "Those artillery guys really did a thorough job, I don't know how many shells they used. When we got there, we didn't even encounter any resistance, only dead bodies or people on the verge of death."

  At this point, he took out a canteen and drank a big mouthful of water before handing it to me. Without hesitation, I took the canteen and downed it in one gulp under his surprised gaze. After finishing, I gave him an apologetic smile, indicating for him to continue speaking.

  "After we've cleaned up that base, it's time to come looking for you. We took a plane and arrived at the place where you covered another brother who came to scout. It was that Mountain Bear guy, he's always so lucky, they want to promote him to company commander and give him credit, but he says no way, he has to wait for you to return and receive it together." Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile wryly, Mountain Bear really believes I'll be back.

  "Do you know what the mission is for me and Xiongmao?" He himself heard something off in his words, hurriedly interrupting him, telling him his own doubts.

  He gave me a "are you out of your mind?" look, saw that I didn't react, and could only resignedly explain to me: "Weren't you guys sent down by the top to scout? I really admire the top, they even thought of this place. And I also admire the enemy, daring to sneak under our noses! Speaking of which, do you know who that captured journalist you rescued is?" He nodded and then shook his head.

  "I only know that her name is Gao Lanxin, and she's a war correspondent. I don't know anything else." "It seems like everything has been covered up, and they don't want to lose face either?" As soon as he finished speaking, he said another sentence in his heart, although it was a question, but he had already confirmed the truth of this sentence.

  "Never mind that reporter, tell me how you found this place?" He didn't let him continue to explain the woman's background, it wouldn't have been useful anyway.

  "Alright, alright, let's not talk about her, let's talk about you. We saw the results of your actions at that place, and you took out 11 of them, including two snipers! You're really something else, but also really ruthless, not a single one was left intact... But, great job, great job!" This guy had already slapped his own shoulder halfway through speaking, "Ow." A mournful cry immediately echoed in his heart, followed by loud self-praise. The other person didn't say anything, just gave him a humble smile and asked him to continue speaking.

  "You're still not ashamed, okay, I like you this way. When we get back, I'll treat you to a drink! Alright, let's not talk about anything else. Seeing how anxious you look, I'll continue telling you. The enemy didn't even bury the bodies, just left them there. The young guys in our squad couldn't bear it, so they delayed for a few hours to bury the bodies." Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile wryly to myself. "Have they already given up on finding me alive?"

  Although I was talking to myself in my heart, his words continued, and I hurriedly focused on listening to the rest of what he had to say. "We handled the body and followed the trail you left behind, and when we rested at midnight, we heard gunshots in the distance. From the sound, we knew it was your son's sniper rifle. We rushed towards the direction of the gunfire, but by the time we arrived, it was too late..." He gave himself an apologetic look as he spoke to this point, and I didn't say anything, just nodding my head to indicate for him to continue speaking.

  "Anyway, the general direction has already been decided, so we started searching in that direction. Along the way, we always found the guys you killed, and then it started raining, and we couldn't move forward, so we had to rest on the spot and hide from the rain. After the rain stopped, we continued moving forward, but before a day was over, we ran into people looking for you. We had a good fight, caught three of them, and killed all the others." By this point, he roughly knew what was going on. "I must have fainted in the tree hole for almost a whole day!! The enemy missed me, and when they realized I wasn't ahead of them, they started searching backwards, but didn't expect to run into our troops, who were also searching for me......" He roughly pieced together what had happened in his mind and came to this conclusion.

  He didn't say anything else after that. He himself knew he was too embarrassed to continue, after all, this kind of situation wasn't something everyone wanted to bring up again.

  "Alright, the plane is here, brother, welcome home!!" When he was lost in thought with his head down, the roar of the plane had already been transmitted from above his head. Then, a hand stretched out in front of him. He looked up and saw a face full of joy, followed by words that moved him deeply.

  He stretched out his hand, grasped that warm hand, and with a burst of strength, pulled himself up. Supporting his exhausted self, the two of them, under the joyful and admiring gaze of the people around, were the first to board the plane that had come to pick us up.