Chapter Forty-Four: Cutting Away the Tumor

  Yin Zhilin hid in a safe area, took out a toolbox from his backpack and opened it. He held something like a loudspeaker in his right hand and began to operate the buttons inside with his left hand.

  The smoke slowly dispersed, and both sides' vision returned to normal, but neither side attacked, and the stalemate continued.

  Yin Zhilin operated in the toolbox for a minute or two, then made a shooting gesture to Wang Jizhen, and his left hand pressed the red button. At the same time, the opponent's earpiece suddenly remembered an extremely piercing high-frequency sound, which stimulated their eardrum and made them want to take off their earpiece.

  Wang Jizhen seized the opportunity, stood up and fired another shot before immediately ducking down. The chrysanthemum snake saw through the periscope that the bullet flew mercilessly into the opponent's sniper's brow, reaping his life.

  After the opponent's sniper was taken out, everyone retreated back into the cave and abandoned their defensive position. Without the cover of a sniper, they could only become live targets for Wang Jisheng, and the opponent's leader was absolutely an old hand.

  The squad of desert foxes pushed their position forward to the entrance of the cave, where the dark and gloomy interior had no lights at all, just like an ancient giant beast with its huge mouth wide open, waiting for prey to come in voluntarily.

  As for the unknown situation in the cave, Xie Xiaoshuai did not rush in, but instead called Zhang Jialin to his side: "I'll give you ten minutes, get a clear picture of what's inside."

  Zhang Jialin cried and laughed: "Captain, how can't you keep anything from you? Nobody knows about my little invention yet."

  Zhang Jialin unzipped his backpack and pulled out a toy mouse-like thing and a toolbox. The toy mouse had a pair of shiny black eyes, a long tail, and smooth fur all over its body, just like a real mouse.

  As soon as this thing was taken out, a group of people felt a chill and disgust. Who would have thought that this clean and innocent-looking young man had an interest in rats?

  Zhang Jialin didn't explain, and put the mouse on the ground. He started operating the toolbox mountain. The mouse quickly crawled into the cave, its running speed was no different from a real mouse.

  A few minutes later, the mouse ran out, and Zhang Jialin took out the memory card from the mouse and handed it to Yin Zhilin. Yin Zhilin quickly operated on the contents of the memory card in his mobile terminal, and soon a 3D holographic image appeared on the terminal.

  Through a 3D stereo map, Xie Xiao-shuai and his team figured out the layout of the rooms inside and the personnel deployment. With these things, they had a solid foundation for their next attack.

  "No kidding, this Jumping Snake thing is actually quite useful, it got the intel so quickly. I wonder how it's made?" Gong Mao was very curious.

  "That's right, don't you see who I am? Mice are everywhere, especially in caves. It can move around inside without being suspected at all. This thing not only has a miniature camera but also thermal imaging and several other high-tech gadgets. If these can't work, then I'll just die from frustration." Zhang Jialin's mouth was getting more and more oily now.

  "Alright, let's talk about it later." Xie Xiaoshuai stopped them and turned to the leader of the Burmese special forces team: "Now that things are clear, we'll split up and take action. You guys handle those scattered outside, and we'll deal with the ones hiding in the room."

  After a good battle plan was made, both sides launched an attack. The environment in the mountain cave was useless for snipers, and Wang Jizhen and Caihuashe joined the attack with submachine guns.

  With the help of personnel distribution, they don't need to go all over the place and directly rush to where someone is ambushing. For smaller rooms, just throw a hand grenade in and the problem is solved. For larger rooms, throw a flashbang grenade in, have several people charge in, and within five seconds, everyone inside becomes corpses.

  The battle ended quickly, and apart from the groom, there was no one else left alive. Although these mercenaries' individual combat capabilities were not low, their hiding places had been exposed, and they were waiting to be hit one by one like light bulbs, and the effect can be imagined.

  The Desert Fox squad found the middle-aged fat man and the lean man hiding in a secret room inside the cave. The two hid in a very secluded place, with the door of the secret room blocked by a pile of stones, and the door was made of high-purity alloy that could avoid detection by instruments. But in front of Zhang Jialin, they were still nowhere to hide. Zhang Jialin's little mouse found their scent disappearing behind the stone pile, and even fools knew there was a problem behind the stone pile.

  The Desert Fox squad handed over the two captured fat men and the horsemen to the arriving joint troops. After the handover, Commander Xie prepared to lead his team back, when Zhang Jia walked up.

  "Thanks, Captain, are you guys leaving now?" Zhang Jia was a bit reluctant.

  "Yes, the task is complete, we should return to our unit and report back." Xie Xiaoshuai nodded in response.

  "Will I be able to see you all again after this?" Zhang Jia, this lively girl, suddenly became shy.

  "It shouldn't be, we are from the Western Military Region, this time it's an order to assist you, after we go back, I'm afraid we won't come here again." Zhang Jia asked, Xie Xiao Shuai was somewhat puzzled.

  "Uh...can I have your contact information?" Zhang Jia's eyes were filled with hope.

  "This is okay, but only writing letters, can't make phone calls." Xie Xiaoshuai didn't understand, but still didn't refuse Zhang Jia's request.

  "That's great!" Zhang Jia jumped up excitedly and ran to the front of Zhang Jialin: "Captain said it was okay, you can give me your contact information, just write it down for me."

  Xie Xiaoshuai finally understood that after messing around for half a day, this little girl had actually taken a liking to Zhang Jialin. It was probably the undercover life of the past few days that made her secretly develop feelings for Zhang Jialin, and Zhang Jialin also had a good impression of Zhang Jia. It seems that the two of them might have a chance. After Zhang Jia took Zhang Jialin's contact information and left her phone number with him, she ran off, seemingly a bit embarrassed to stay there.

  The other members of the desert fox squad started to cheer, seeing their brother about to find his own happiness, everyone was happy for him and secretly wished him well in their hearts.

  After the middle-aged fat man and the strong man were taken back, they were interrogated intensively. Under the high-level questioning of the criminal police, the two finally confessed. According to their confessions, they were just the left and right arms of the group's mastermind, who never asked about the operation of the group and only provided them with goods. The mercenaries were also sent by the mastermind to protect them. They only knew that the mastermind was a big figure in the Golden Triangle, but had never seen his true face. With this, the armed drug trafficking group entrenched on the China-Myanmar border was destroyed, and the tumor was cut off. As for the mastermind of the group, there were no clues at all, and the case could only be closed here.

  Of course, these things have nothing to do with the Sand Fox team. They boarded a helicopter returning to the Bald Eagle Special Forces Brigade and prepared to return to Rattlesnake after their mission was completed. It had been more than half a year since they left, and they all missed the brothers in Rattlesnake and their small beds. Amidst the laughter and joking of several people, the helicopter landed at the airport of the Bald Eagle Brigade.

  As soon as the plane took off, Xie Xiaoshuai noticed that something seemed to have happened with the Bald Eagle team. There were more planes in the airport, and many different types of planes had been added. The people in the airport also increased, constantly running back and forth, feeling very busy.

  Xie Xiaoshuai arrived at the Bald Eagle's headquarters with a puzzled look, only to find that there were more people here too. Many new faces appeared in front of them. The one who greeted them was still Duan Ge, but at this moment, Duan Ge was actually wearing a lieutenant colonel's military rank badge.