Chapter 2: The Time-Traveling Machine of the Century

  "Ah!" Pylek sighed. "Her background is quite impressive! I heard that this time she came to carry out a secret mission! All of us have to follow her orders."

  Zhao Xiaofeng was desperately fleeing, behind him were nearly a hundred special police officers wearing bulletproof vests. In this remote and dense jungle, Zhao Xiaofeng was like a wounded wolf, escaping the hunters' siege.

  Just ahead was a river, and as long as he jumped into the water, he would be safe, no one could catch him in the water! But this road was full of eerie and sinister atmosphere everywhere. Although he had successfully killed more than a dozen "big shots" who were in the way for the organization and had narrowly escaped death many times, this time, he felt that the god of death was beckoning to him.

  This is a border area, where there are landmines left behind by the Japanese during World War II everywhere. The pursuers behind him have also slowed down their pace. Suddenly, Zhao Xiao Feng stopped in his tracks, and beads of sweat quickly flowed down from his face. His legs began to tremble. Whoever it was, after two days and nights of fleeing, would not be able to hold on anymore, let alone with a hundred special police officers hot on his heels.

  And under Zhao Xiaofeng's feet was a landmine, he knew clearly that as long as he lifted his left foot, his body would fly up to the sky about five meters high and then scatter within a radius of ten meters.

  "Damn little Japanese landmine!" Zhao Xiao Feng cursed under his breath, suddenly he remembered the fourth one "Cough! If I don't die, I will definitely spend your money..."

  Zhao Xiaofeng helplessly turned his head to look at the pursuing soldiers who were slowly moving towards him, and he didn't even have a weapon in his hand. He had almost become a sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Those scenes from the past quickly flashed before his eyes.

  Starting from six years old, he was taken by an old man to a mountain in Vietnam. Everyone called the old man "Hunter".

  Several dozen orphans joined the killer organization with him, and it was only later that he heard from "Hunter" that there were originally many people in this killer organization, but they had all died to carry out a dangerous mission.

  After more than a decade of devilish training and elimination, the entire killer organization is now left with only five people. I am number one, numbers four and five were just killed yesterday, and it's said that numbers two and three are currently executing a dangerous mission under the leadership of "Hunter", probably also in a precarious situation. Although this time I led the team to successfully complete the assassination mission, I was unfortunately discovered by the special police.

  Pilaike saw Zhao Xiaofeng already stepping on the landmine, immediately waved his hand to stop the advance of his teammates, and quickly took out the walkie-talkie to contact headquarters.

  The SWAT team didn't idle either, immediately dispersing cautiously and surrounding the area of several hundred meters around.

  Everyone was anxiously waiting for the captain's command, but Captain Pilak was very calm and collected, just staring coldly at Zhao Xiaofeng to see what kind of person this strange killer who had shocked the upper echelons really was.

  Zhao Xiaofeng saw that he had no hope of escaping and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, not even bothering to pay attention to the people around him.

  An hour passed, two hours passed, and suddenly, the sound of a helicopter landing came from not far away. A U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter landed, and three military officers walked out in a line. The first one was very sturdy, and his rank insignia made me jump in fright - he was actually a major general! The second was a young and beautiful Chinese-American girl, wearing a military uniform that made her look even more elegant and spirited, but also with the rank of colonel. The third was an officer covered from head to toe in steel armor, looking like a robot, with the rank of captain.

  The young general exchanged a greeting with Special Police Captain Pirek, and they seemed very familiar.

  "Zhao Xiaofeng! Your killer organization has been dismantled, the Hunter and Numbers Two and Three are all dead. Now I want to ask you, are you willing to surrender?"

  "Surrender?" Zhao Xiao Feng looked at the colonel with a puzzled expression and muttered: "I... I don't want to surrender, can that be okay?"

  The colonel smiled and nodded: "We now need a volunteer very much, and you are the best candidate! As long as you complete our arranged task, our government will wipe out your past crimes and give you a clean identity. You can even join our special forces."

  Zhao Xiaofeng looked at the colonel's clear eyes, and his heart couldn't help but be excited. Being an assassin was never a long-term plan, every day was like being a ghost in hell, never daring to show his face. If he completed the task the colonel mentioned, he could come out and live as a normal person, "Alright! I'm willing!" Zhao Xiaofeng hastily nodded in agreement.

  Zhao Xiaofeng was thinking to himself: If I don't agree, I'll be a dead man right now. Even if the task is extremely dangerous, at worst it's just death! With that thought, he immediately lifted his head, puffed out his chest, and sucked in his stomach, putting on a heroic air. His eyes were fixed on the beautiful female officer. In his heart, he was shouting: "Come admire me, worship me, praise me, fall in love with me!"

  The colonel was very satisfied with his answer, smiled slightly at him, and then waved his hand at the robot-like lieutenant behind him...

  The helicopter soon landed in a secret base in the nearby mountains, and Zhao Xiaofeng couldn't believe that the beautiful female colonel was actually his instructor.

  At this time, the sky had darkened, and the entire base was dark and silent. Although it was in the midst of a scorching summer, the gloomy atmosphere in the jungle still made Zhao Xiaofeng involuntarily shiver with cold.

  The beautiful principal led the way in front, and she didn't say a word all the way up.

  Zhao Xiaofeng saw that he was now completely safe, and immediately took a deep breath of the fresh mountain air, breaking the silence, and asked: "Where is this place?"

  "Shut up!" The beautiful principal immediately turned her head and shouted at Zhao Xiaofeng.

  Zhao Xiaofeng was taken aback for a moment and immediately replied in a low voice: "Oh! You're not mute!"

  "Hmph!" The beauty no longer paid attention to him, pointing at a house and saying: "Go in and sleep!" After finishing speaking, she herself slipped into the darkness and disappeared without a trace.

  Zhao Xiaofeng took a closer look, curiously walking towards the small house, pushing open the door to take a look. "Ah! It's still a single room!" He saw that warm and cozy little bed, and his entire body's fatigue immediately surfaced.

  It seemed like he had just closed his eyes, Zhao Xiao Feng was startled awake by a knock on the door. "Ah..." Zhao Xiao Feng stretched and lazily said: "Come in!" After speaking, he lay back down to sleep again, but suddenly the door was kicked open with one foot, scaring Zhao Xiao Feng into rolling under the bed with a "thud". He immediately became vigilant, staring at the sunlight shining into the room from outside.

  A dark figure slowly walked in, "Come out!" The cold voice of the beautiful female colonel came over.

  "Cough!" Zhao Xiao Feng sighed and helplessly put on his outer garment and walked out of the house.

  The beautiful woman took a step back after school and gave him an opening.

  "Haha!" Zhao Xiao Feng saw the beautiful female colonel's protruding chest right in front of him, and his mischievous heart suddenly arose. He immediately pretended to be careless, tripped over his own feet, and pounced towards the beautiful female colonel.

  But unexpectedly, the beautiful principal really had two brushes. At the moment when Zhao Xiao Feng's foot slipped, the beauty had already retreated one step and flew up with one foot. The toe of her right foot was just on Zhao Xiao Feng's chest, stopping his fall.

  Zhao Xiaofeng, seeing that one plan was not working, immediately reached out to grab the beautiful woman's jade leg. Since her pant legs had already slid down, more than half of her small leg was exposed. Zhao Xiaofeng touched it and felt as if he was touching silk. "Heh! So smooth, so white!" He secretly laughed to himself.

  The beauty quickly pulled her legs back, broke free from Zhao Xiaofeng's grasp, and was furious, but now was not the time to lose her temper. She glared at Zhao Xiaofeng with a fierce gaze, then turned around and walked towards the playground.

  At this time, the major from yesterday suddenly appeared again, he came to Zhao Xiao Feng's face, seriously saluted him with a military salute, and then said: "Hello! I am Wang Xiao Zhou! From today on, I will be your direct superior!" And pointed to the beautiful female colonel beside him: "Her name is Mo Yuhan, she is your instructor!"

  Mo Yuhan immediately and helplessly saluted Zhao Xiaofeng with a neat military salute.

  "From today on, we will give you a systematic education, and hope that you can learn what we teach you as quickly as possible!"

  "Yes!" Zhao Xiao Feng saluted Mo Yu Han with a mock serious military salute, saying: "Mission guaranteed to be completed! Beautiful lady... Instructor."

  "Alright!" Wang Xiaozhou stopped Mo Yuhan who wanted to argue and said: "Let's get started now!"

  Three whole months! Zhao Xiao Feng was almost driven mad! He really couldn't understand whether Wang Xiao Zhou and Mo Yu Han were sick or not! In these three months, every day he spent strengthening his Japanese, English, and German studies was filled with them indoctrinating him on China's war of resistance history, from the late Qing dynasty all the way to the establishment of New China. And then there was learning photography techniques, and being dragged by them under the guise of training onto a spaceship for three days and three nights, leaving him dizzy and disoriented even now!

  "What exactly do you want me to accomplish?" This was the eighteenth time Zhao Xiao Feng had bellowed this question at Wang Xiao Zhou! He didn't want to be trapped in this godforsaken place forever!

  When the time was ripe, Wang Xiaozhou looked at Mo Yuhuan and nodded simultaneously before speaking: "This matter is like this: Japan has become very powerful now, so they firmly deny their invasion of China in the past! They denied that inglorious history and sent secret spies to destroy a large number of evidence and data of the invasion. Now we are entrusted by a Chinese person to find those evidences!"

  "Wait!" Zhao Xiao Feng hastily interrupted him and said: "Where are you going to look for them? Haven't they already been destroyed?"

  "Please listen to us until we finish!" Mo Yuhan immediately spoke up.

  "Hmm! Speak!" Zhao Xiao Feng raised his leg, narrowing his eyes as he looked at Mo Yu Han.

  "Our scientists have designed a machine called the Hundred-Year Shuttle! As the name suggests, this machine can travel back to 100 years ago! We want you to go back in time to 100 years ago, search for and take pictures of some evidence, and then return it to us!"

  "Oh!" Zhao Xiao Feng nodded casually, his eyes fixed on Mo Yuhan's sharp and plump chest! Suddenly, he felt something was off, immediately stood up, placed both hands on the table, stared at Wang Xiao Zhou word by word and said: "You're saying... let me go back to the Anti-Japanese War era?"

  "Right!" Wang Xiaozhou replied firmly.

  "What? Why did you choose me to go? I'm not going!" Zhao Xiaofeng roared.

  "Now you can't even get out of it!" Mo Yuhan seized the opportunity and sneered, "What? Afraid? I don't think you look like a man at all!"

  "What!" Zhao Xiaofeng turned his head and stared at Mo Yuhuan, his eyes seeming to devour her.

  Wang Xiaozhou hastily mediated, "This matter involves political issues, so our government cannot take the lead. Therefore, we chose you. As long as you complete the task with honor, a Chinese billionaire will give you a reward of $100 million! Moreover, you can also become a law-abiding citizen openly and honestly. Besides, your physical quality, blood type, and IQ all meet the requirements for crossing over."

  "Hmph!" Zhao Xiaofeng knew he had no other choice and could only say weakly, "It's just that I don't know if I still have the luck to spend that one billion dollars!"