Chapter 38: The Lion's Thoughts

  In just a few hundred meters, A Lin and his group of seven people were neatly lined up there. A Lin and the two people next to him were shot dead by crossbow arrows, three people had their necks slit with a dagger, and at least six bullet holes were found on the last person's body.

  By the time I heard the shots, they were already killing the last one.

  That fear spread like a plague among the crowd, even though these death row inmates knew they would be executed, each one couldn't help but tremble with fear.

  No one is not afraid of death, if they were not afraid of death, they would not have surrendered and been captured. Just two or three hours ago, there were more than a hundred people, strong and powerful, but now only less than thirty people are left.

  The lion turned around, coldly scanning each person, and said with forced calmness: "What's wrong? Are you all scared? Do you think they will let you off?"

  When he said this, the lion did not notice that his tone was slightly trembling.

  "Don't have any illusions." The lion pointed at the corpses lying on the ground and said sternly, "See? They don't take prisoners."

  "Now there are only two paths in front of you, one is to wipe them out, the other is for them to wipe us out, we have no choice."

  The lion's mood has also calmed down a lot, and the fear on other people's faces has decreased. Desperate soldiers must win, this is what the lion wants.

  But "desperate soldiers must win" is also conditional, at least they have to be roughly the same in terms of tactical literacy. And what's in front of him is just a mob, and he has his own numbers in mind.

  However, he also figured out that they had been led by the nose by Xu Ming and others all along, because they took the initiative to attack. If they also wanted to hide in the forest like Xu Ming, then it was uncertain who would be anxious first.

  The lion's mouth corner hung a cold smile, he had already guessed that Xu Ming and others would inevitably ambush at the water source. And those few people at the water source, the lion had decided to completely abandon them as pawns. But even pawns need to be abandoned with value, the lion closed his eyes and carefully thought about the best withdrawal route near the water source.

  Suddenly, the lion opened its eyes and said coldly: "It's been nice hitting us with ambushes several times, hasn't it? Now it's our turn."

  Xu Ming has already led the others to the location of the water source, and the lions are still raging there. Xu Ming turned his head to look at the others, and it was clear that their faces were filled with a kind of emotion, which was joy.

  However, apart from joy, Xu Ming also keenly captured another strange emotion, that is disdain, disdain for the enemy.

  Xu Ming knew that this was inevitable. After winning several consecutive battles, repeatedly annihilating enemies with far superior numbers without suffering any damage, the confidence of these people had reached an all-time high, and they had developed a contempt for their enemies. This was not a good omen at all.

  It seems that I have to find an opportunity to teach them a lesson, Xu Ming thought to himself. Giving them a lesson at this time might backfire, so he could only wait for the right moment.

  Not suffering a little will never eliminate that seed of pride.

  I wasn't like that back in my CF days either. However, you guys didn't have as good luck as I did, I could revive infinitely back then.

  Karp, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped. The others instinctively stopped advancing and crouched down. Karp came to his senses and said in a low voice: "Target 200 meters, there is an ambush on the tree at eight o'clock."

  Xu Ming nodded, using the sniper rifle's scope to look in the direction Kap pointed. The hidden sentry was very secretive, if not for Kap's innate eyesight, it would be hard for anyone to discover.

  Xu Ming aimed the scope in another direction, he didn't believe that this water source only had one hidden sentry. Sure enough, under a nearby large tree, Xu Ming saw half of a gun barrel exposed.

  "Two people, one on a big tree in the direction of eight o'clock, another one is in the bushes at five o'clock with a big tree as cover..."

  Xu Ming suddenly thought of something and stopped speaking in a low voice. These two directions are so weird, they can't rely on each other at all, where is the hiding place for the secret signal?

  Moreover, the observation point was not right, within a distance of less than 200 meters. Still on the big tree, although they were very careful in their advance, there would always be traces to follow. As prisoners with low military literacy, at least they should have fired warning shots.

  Xu Ming adjusted the angle of his scope again, aiming at the dark sentinel in the tree. Through the gaps in the vines, Xu Ming saw the dark sentinel's gun, but its position was strange, as if someone was lying there holding the gun.

  That's right, it's not flat on a big tree, how can someone lie down and shoot.

  Xu Ming signed to the others, "We've entered the enemy's ambush circle. Disperse and search within a 200-meter radius. There may be enemies lurking, pay attention to high ground and hidden areas."

  Others received orders and quietly dispersed to search in the vicinity.

  Five minutes later, Jinpu poked his head out from a small mound and gestured in the direction of Xu Ming.

  "Take him down."

  Glen also flashed a "take one out" hand signal from another clump of bushes.

  Xu Ming made a "received" response, still carefully observing the surrounding environment. After another five minutes, others also successively transmitted "no abnormality" information.

  Xu Ming thought silently, it seemed that they had only left two people here as an ambush, apparently the number of people who stayed behind was not many, no more than ten.

  Because I wanted to enter the water source, there are only two roads that are most hidden, and also the most suitable in the absence of climbing tools. Moreover, these two roads are not far apart, once a gunshot sounds on this side, someone will come to respond.

  One by one, they were all found out, apparently very passive and at great risk. Xu Ming took off the silencer of his sniper rifle and made a "lie in wait, prepare for battle" hand signal to them.

  Aim at the "dark whistle" on the tree is a gunshot.

  The gunshot is very loud, the AWM sniper rifle is also known as a small long-range cannon, its destructive power is astonishing, and when the silencer is removed, its sound is equally impressive.

  Bang

  A deafeningly loud, yet soft sound erupted, startling the birds in the trees into flight. Xu Ming didn't even look to see if he had hit his target, and instead turned around and rolled into a nearby ditch.

  "Hmm"

  A soft sound, a flash of fire lightened up where Xu Ming was just now, and a round hole appeared in the leaves of the shrub.

  "Ah"

  Immediately afterwards, a miserable cry sounded, and a person rolled down from a high slope about 300 meters away. A crossbow arrow pierced his right eye all the way through his brain, struggling for two seconds before completely losing movement.

  Xu Ming put on the silencer and came out from the other side of the bushes, giving Kapur a "nice job" gesture, indicating that they could fire two shots at will.

  Glen and Jinpu nodded in agreement, raised their assault rifles and fired two shots into the sky.

  Not far away, another flock of birds flew up from the forest.

  Without waiting for Xu Ming's orders, the others rushed towards the direction where the flying bird had startled and slowly surrounded it.

  The second update was a bit late, I hope everyone can forgive me. It's been raining at home and I accidentally caught a slight cold and had a low fever. Ah, looking at the little fish working hard to bring you updates despite being unwell, let me offer some recommendations and collections as a small consolation!