Chapter 28: Unexpected!

  "Wow, so fast!" My mind suddenly cleared up, my alarm trap was set 15 meters away, and from triggering the trap to discovering me, he only used four seconds.

  Before I could react, the black shadow pounced on me. My right hand holding the gun was slashed by a sharp object and the gun immediately fell out of my hand. Without thinking, I quickly took advantage of the momentum to hug the black shadow and jump backwards, doing a somersault and pinning it underneath me. The military knife in my left hand stabbed towards its ribs, and the feeling transmitted through my hand told me that I had hit it.

  "Ah-oh!" A cry, the black shadow shouted, scaring me to jump up quickly. Taking a closer look, I couldn't help but burst out laughing, it turned out that on the ground was a leopard, which had already been stabbed through the lungs by my military knife and was dead.

  Looking at the leopard's corpse on the ground, I couldn't help but laugh at myself. Who would have thought that I almost died at the hands of a leopard? Taking a glance at the wound on my hand, it was probably scratched by the leopard's claw, which left a gash that wasn't too long but quite deep. My neck was also bitten by the leopard's teeth, but fortunately, the wound was small!

  I pulled out the knife, wiped the bloodstains off on the leopard's body, put it back in its sheath, picked up the pistol and locked the safety, putting it in my left leg pocket. Now that my right hand was useless, I had to rely on my left. I kicked the leopard's corpse into a hollow tree trunk, sat down on the trunk, took out the first-aid kit, opened it and poured antiseptic water onto the back of my hand, gritting my teeth against the intense pain like needles stabbing me. Then, I took out QuikClot military hemostatic powder and sprinkled it over the wound, which soon stopped bleeding and felt slightly numb. Next, I disinfected my left hand, took out a curved needle, and began the stage I dreaded most - suturing. Steeling myself, I picked up the needle and quickly pierced through the skin and flesh of the wound. Although QuikClot had some analgesic effect, it couldn't eliminate the intense pain of the needle going into my flesh. After just two stitches, cold sweat began to trickle down from my forehead, the pain left me weak all over, my left hand shaking uncontrollably. I bit my teeth and held my breath, mustering all my strength to endure the pain, and quickly stitched three more times. Once I had roughly closed the wound, I slowly tied a knot, then cut off the thread with scissors. As soon as the thread was cut, I let out a long breath, and the sweat on my body poured down like I had just stepped out of a steam bath.

  Sitting on the trunk, I rested for a while before I came to myself, took out the bandage and wrapped my hand. Before I finished wrapping the bandage, the alarm in my pocket vibrated again. I was startled, quickly put away the first-aid kit, pulled out my pistol and hid behind a tree. In no time, two figures slowly emerged from the jungle, both holding AKs, walking and chatting at the same time.

  "That little guy is quite good at hiding! So many of us can't even find him!"

  "The captain said, now all traces are cut off, this kid seems to have disappeared!"

  "We should also thank this kid, or we wouldn't have been able to return! My old man didn't send me to be a soldier just to die, he just wanted me to get some military service!"

  "The captain also understood, otherwise why would the captain let you go back to send a message? What's the point of having wireless telegraphy then? And letting me accompany you, actually it was just to protect you!"

  "I still need your protection? Don't be ridiculous! I'm not afraid of anyone!! Why don't we have a match, I'm much stronger than you!!"

  "Yes, yes!... I won't argue with you!... Don't move!" The tall one signaled the other to stop, then sniffed his nose in the air.

  He slowly walked over here, I originally wanted to hide and be done with it. Now that my hand is injured, I don't want to look for trouble. Who knew the kid who came back with that young master was quite formidable? Seeing their direction was heading towards the leopard's corpse, I slowly moved positions, avoiding their line of sight, ensuring I remained in their blind spot.

  I quietly moved to their back, where the tall one was bending down to examine the dead leopard, and the other little one stood stupidly on the side watching.

  "He's just died! The blood is still warm! He's around here somewhere!" The tall one said with certainty.

  Exposed, killed and silenced! I aimed at the tall one with a single shot, hitting him right in the chest. Then I fired two more shots, hitting the shorter one's shoulder and thigh. After confirming they were hit, I approached them. The tall one had been shot once but was still not dead, and when he saw me, he even tried to grab the gun on the side. I had no choice but to shoot him again in each hand. The short one had already fainted.

  Took three shots and the tall guy still managed to stay awake, looks like he's a seasoned veteran, I'm really lucky to have gotten away with this sneak attack!

  I kicked their guns to the side, and slowly removed all hazardous items from both of them. Then I sat down in front of the two people, as I had a few questions for them, so I spared their lives.

  "Hello! I am... uh... uh... I'm the one you're looking for!" I had never interrogated anyone before, and as soon as I opened my mouth, I felt like I sounded like a fool: "Where are you going?"

  The wounded veteran looked at me and smiled wryly: "I didn't think I'd fall to a rookie like you! Kill me already!"

  "I won't hurt you! I just have a few questions to ask you, and if you answer me, I'll let you go!" I said, telling a lie that even I didn't believe.

  "Hmm!" The old soldier chuckled and closed his eyes without saying a word. I hit him with three shots, even if I let him go now, he would bleed to death in no time.

  Since I couldn't get anything out of him, I kicked the little guy a few times. Unexpectedly, he slept very soundly and couldn't be woken up no matter what. I was getting anxious, so I gave his injured thigh another kick.

  "Waaaah!" The little brat let out a loud wail, startling me. "Save me! Save me!!" The little brat woke up and started yelling at the top of his lungs.

  "Don't shout! I let you shout, let you shout!" I stepped on his wound again with all my might. Immediately, the little brat was in so much pain that he could only hum.

  "Don't shout! I asked you, how did you run back? Where are you going? What about the others?" I asked three questions that were most pressing at the moment.

  "It was our captain who sent us back, we have to return to the base. The others are still searching ahead!" The little guy stammered out an answer to my question, and he didn't seem to be lying.

  "What did your captain send you back for? Which base are you returning to? Who gave the order for this search? How many of you came?" I didn't hear anyone else with him, so I put my mind at ease.

  "Our team leader is afraid... Uh, you escaped their search, so let's return to the base and reorganize another search. We are from Base 061, under the command of Deputy Secretary of Defense Taylor. More than 2000 people were mobilized." The little guy answered my question quickly and cooperatively.

  "Where is he now? How's his injury?"

  "Don't tell him!..." The old soldier who had been silent all along suddenly opened his eyes. "You'll die if you say it!"

  The little soldier with his mouth open looked at me, then looked at the old soldier covered in blood, and closed his mouth again. I got anxious, if you don't want to say anything, just don't say it, no need to make things difficult for Lao Tzu. I didn't say a word, pushed the little soldier's head towards the old soldier's face, and with one shot, blew the old soldier's head into a pulp! Yellowish brain matter splattered all over his face.

  That kid was stunned at once, like a wooden stick, and stood there for a while before shouting loudly and starting to vomit.

  "I'm in a bad mood! If you want to say something, say it. If not, then never say it again!" I pointed the gun at his head.

  "Don't kill me, don't kill me!" He started frantically crawling backward, as if being a little farther away from the muzzle of my gun would make him safer.

  "I'll ask again, where is your Deputy Secretary of Defense? How are his injuries?" I said coldly, the wound on my hand starting to throb with a dull ache that put me in a foul mood.

  "He's not dead! But he's heavily injured, and is being treated at the medical station. He'll probably be transferred back to base 061 in a couple of days." Little Soldier said with a quiver.

  "Ding!" The sound of the needle hitting the bottom fire started again, and Xiaobing's head was only half left. I got the information I wanted, and he was no longer useful.

  Continue the work I didn't finish earlier, tighten the bandage on my hand, apply some medicine to my neck, and feel a warm sensation from the wounds on my body. After searching the two of them, apart from water, there's only a little bit of food, it seems they were preparing to return to the base to enjoy themselves, surprisingly they didn't bring anything else.

  I picked up the food, but this little thing was not enough for a meal. I slowly walked to the tree trunk and dragged the leopard's body over. The newly dead body still had a warm temperature. I pulled out my knife and used my left hand to clumsily peel off a piece of skin, then cut off a piece of meat, and threw it into my mouth, chewing hard. Although I was used to eating raw meat and vegetables when I worked out at home, they were all clean, and didn't have such a strong smell, especially the bloody wild leopard meat. One bite and my mouth was full of blood, but in order to have the strength to escape, I still pinched my nose and swallowed it down. Except for being a bit hard to chew, I wasn't too disgusted by eating raw meat.

  The raw meat was really filling, and just a few pieces of meat filled my stomach! I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth, threw the two corpses into the tree hole to remove the warning signs, and quickly left here. After leaving for a distance, I finally let out a sigh of relief, then took out the map to check with the GPS system. Now I don't even know where I've run to. Listening to what that kid said earlier, it seems like I'm on the way to base 061.

  "Damn it's too good!" I cursed as I looked at the coordinates on the map, I didn't expect to be running in the wrong direction. I thought I was heading due north, but after checking the map, I found that I had actually run east. My original plan was to head back to the medical station, where the most dangerous place is also the safest, but now I've ended up near the largest military base of the government army's rear forces. Just 5 kilometers ahead is an open area.

  Ah! I originally wanted to run into the danger zone and make him unexpected, this will really smooth my heart! Sitting under a tree, I slowly drew out the next step of what to do. Now I have no way to retreat. If I go back and follow behind the search team, I can ambush them, but once they counterattack, I'll become a fish in the net again. If I move forward, it's a big fire pit, although they may not think I'd run to their doorstep, but there are too many troops stationed there. If I'm discovered, I won't even need to run, I'll be shot dead or blown up by cannons. The medical station's artillery is small-caliber, but here there are not only artillery, but also armed helicopters. Once discovered, I don't think I can outrun the MI-24.

  Female Deer Fighting Helicopter.

  And that little brat came back to report just as an excuse for his laziness, the search team has wireless telegraphy, the base may have already started organizing a second search. If I go back now, I'll face being caught in between two groups of people, it's better to continue forward and avoid the second search party than to be sandwiched between two teams. And that asshole Deputy Minister of Defense is going back to 061 base, who knows if we can still have a good time together, he made me suffer so much, I'm not a very forgiving person.

  After weighing the pros and cons, I took back the map, identified the direction, and quietly made my way to the enemy base.

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