Zhou Xiaoren put his hands behind his back, one hand on the other wrist, and tapped his cuffs with his fingers. Each step he took was not big or fast, and only made the click of leather shoes against marble tiles. But this sound was like a drumbeat hitting the hearts of several people around him.
The setting sun shone into the office through the glass window, shining on Zhou Xiaoren's brown casual suit, making him feel hot for some reason.
As if to avoid the sun, Zhou Xiaoren hid in the shadow of the room, pacing back and forth along the boundary between light and darkness. He would glance at the wall clock every once in a while. When he looked at the clock for the thirty-first time, the pointer finally pointed to four o'clock in the afternoon.
"Team leader?" A thin, plain-looking young man standing nearby asked softly when he saw that Zhou Xiaoren hadn't said anything.
Zhou Xiaoren took a deep breath, raised his right hand to his chest, waved it vigorously and said: "Action."
The people around him obviously already knew their tasks, and they all answered "yes" and were about to leave the room.
"Wait a minute!" Zhou Xiaoren shouted.
He looked at the anxious eyes of several people, frowned and said: "This is a crucial battle for our intelligence team to stand up. Everyone, keep your eyes open and use your brains. Whoever lets me down today, I will make his life miserable."
After everyone left, the young man who stayed behind looked at Zhou Xiaoren's back hesitantly, and after a while he said, "Team Leader, are you really not going to inform Team Leader Luo and the others?"
Zhou Xiaoren snorted coldly, "Communicate? How could there be no communication? Tang Feng, take your people and finish your work first. Then go to Camp No. 3 and report our results to Luo Ling. Hey, her foreign affairs team always does things as they please. When has she not reported to the committee after everything has been finalized? I have done my best."
"I'm afraid that if we act a day in advance, those guys in the camp who are ready to make a move will suddenly do something extreme. What if someone gets hurt..." Tang Feng said.
"Xiao Tang, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you guys who used to work in offices lack the drive of frontline police officers. What can you achieve by being afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind? Those natives have nothing! We are attacking by surprise, and we will definitely catch them off guard. Even if there is any situation, don't we still have the guards in the camp? If the guards in the camp can't even handle these people, what's the use of them? Isn't Luo Ling very powerful? Doesn't Luo Ling like to get close to the masses? Didn't Luo Ling spend a month with the natives in the camp? This is the opportunity to test her results." Zhou Xiaoren turned around and patted Tang Feng on the shoulder, "We must do our own things well and think less about other things."
Seeing Tang Feng nod in agreement, Zhou Xiaoren lowered his voice and said, "Young people should be braver. It's time now. Whether we are an intelligence group or an intelligence bureau in the future depends on this time."
Tang Feng walked out, stared at the closed door, sighed secretly, and went downstairs. When he arrived at the door of the building, he saw five soldiers from the guard battalion wearing training uniforms and holding weapons waiting for him, led by a short man with glasses.
"You were sent by Captain Wang to assist us in this operation, right? I am Tang Feng, the captain of the execution team."
The man with glasses saluted and said, "Captain Tang. Huang Zheng, deputy platoon leader of the first platoon of the first company of the guard battalion, leads the team to report in."
"Only five people in total?" Tang Feng glanced at several guards, three men and two women. Huang Zheng was holding a pistol and a machete on his back. A female soldier was holding a rifle and another female soldier was holding a spear. The two men were locals, one holding a crossbow and the other holding a sword.
Huang Zheng said: "They are all elite soldiers. Cao Lu is very good at spearmanship. Enrique is a blood warrior, Garcia has practiced Chinese Kung Fu, and Wu Qi... is good at using the spear."
"Okay." Tang Feng pulled out a pistol from his waist, "Our mission today is to control and guard one person!"
More than ten minutes later, in a dormitory building, a scout from the intelligence team met up with the team.
"Is the target in the dormitory?" Tang Feng asked.
"He's been back for half an hour and hasn't left the house." said the man who was following him.
"Is there anyone else with him?" Tang Feng asked again.
"No, he has been acting alone these days. But..." the man hesitated.
"explain."
"I always felt that someone was watching him, but after a long time of secretly investigating, we still couldn't find out who was behind it."
"We can't worry about that anymore, let's act now." Tang Feng turned to Huang Zheng, "Rush into room 401 upstairs and control a teenage boy, then take him to the basement we prepared and keep him under guard. Remember, you must be quick and subdue him before he can react. As far as we know, the other party has something similar to a magic trap in his hand, and we don't know what it is. If there is any abnormal situation, you can take drastic measures."
Huang Zheng gestured at his throat with his hand.
Tang Feng nodded.
"Does the other party have the ability to resist?" Huang Zheng asked.
"Probably not. But we must not be careless when it comes to magic."
"Move!" Huang Zheng waved his hand, and several members of the team went upstairs one after another and soon arrived at the door of 401. Huang Zheng signaled Enrique, who gritted his teeth, and fine scales appeared on his face and hands. The others also raised their weapons and were ready.
Tang Feng held the gun in one hand and put the other hand on the door handle, then turned it gently and locked it.
He knocked on the door a few times and shouted, "Are you there? The building leader wants you to come downstairs for a meeting!"
I shouted twice, but there was no response from the house.
Huang Zheng pulled him away and gave Enrique a look. Enrique turned sideways and kicked his legs. The flying dragon power stimulated in his blood allowed him to rush out like a cannonball in a very short distance. However, just when he was about to touch the door, it suddenly opened. Enrique couldn't stop and fell into the house, but the next second, Enrique flew out with a strange cry and knocked the people behind him to the ground.
"Stop! Otherwise I'll shoot." Tang Feng pointed his gun at the door and shouted.
A light laugh came from the door, and a dark shadow rushed out of the door and passed by Tang Feng like a gust of wind. He felt a pain in his wrist, and the gun in his hand disappeared.
Looking again, he saw a young man leaning against the door, looking at him with a smile.
"Ji Yijun!" Everyone in the school knew this man, and Tang Feng had read countless pieces of information about him.
Ji Yijun tossed the pistol a few times, but ignored Tang Feng. He said to Huang Zheng and the others who were still lying on the bottom, "No. Old Huang, after I left, have you been just chatting and talking nonsense every day? This is too fragile."
Huang Zheng and the others helped each other to get up. He shook his head and said to Ji Yijun, "You already knew who was outside, right? I knew you did it on purpose!"
"Hey, I don't know who's outside. In this tense period, they suddenly broke in. I didn't stab you with my sword, which was already a mercy." Ji Yijun glanced at Wu Qi and frowned slightly, "Why did you get together with this guy?"
"Mission." Wu Qi replied.
"Do you know how muddy this matter is? Why are you meddling in it?"
"I said, mission." After Wu Qi said this, she pursed her lips and looked up at Ji Yijun.
Ji Yijun somehow lost the eye contact and could only curl his lips and start to make trouble for Tang Feng, "Hey, Captain Tang from the intelligence team, what are you up to today?"
"Is Crete in there? We need to protect him." Tang Feng replied calmly, "Also, please return the gun to me."
"Protect?" Ji Yijun tilted his head and looked at Tang Feng, grinning, "Just you? You can't even protect your own gun, who can you protect?"
"This is what the committee meant." Tang Feng took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Ji Yijun. "Here is the order, with the signatures of Vice Chairman Chang and Captain Wang. As for security issues, Captain Wang has assigned us more people, and there are even more people in the safe house."
Ji Yijun waved his hand and knocked away the paper in front of him, saying, "I don't care. Now I only listen to Sister Luo Ling. Sister Luo Ling told me to protect him until the day after tomorrow, so I will protect him until the day after tomorrow. No one else's opinion will matter."
Tang Feng said, "The order you received must have been to protect in secret, right? Otherwise, our people would not have failed to notice you in the room. Now let's continue arguing here. If the noise gets louder and someone with ulterior motives notices this place, it will not be good for anyone."
"Hey, then just go away. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you." Ji Yijun shook the pistol and was about to turn around and close the door.
At this time, Wu Qi ran up to block the door and said in a low voice: "Wait, why do you go to the committee right away? Can't you talk properly? I don't think the instructions from both sides conflict. At most, he will take the person away and you can just follow him."
Ji Yijun did not answer her, but said to Huang Zheng: "Is this what you are planning? Let Wu Qi deal with me? You are so smart, aren't you? I will settle the score with you in a few days!"
Huang Zheng's expression turned serious at this time, "You've wronged me. Xiao Wu volunteered. Things are a bit confusing now, I think we should talk things out first..."
Ji Yijun didn't wait for him to finish, dragged Wu Qi into the room, and said to Huang Zheng with a smile: "I don't want to listen to your nonsense, if you want to talk, I will talk to her alone. Beauty, let's go inside and talk, everyone outside, hurry up, I won't see you off!"
Tang Feng stared at the door that was closed again in astonishment, and quickly went forward to knock, "Open the door! Open the door!"
However, no matter how hard he knocked, there was no movement inside.
He asked angrily: "This, this, isn't this lawless? The committee can't control him."
Huang Zheng adjusted his glasses and said calmly, "Captain Tang, this is a bit strange. Luo Ling is the head of the foreign affairs team and also a member of the committee. We thought that today's action was coordinated. But why didn't you think about it when the time came? You know, our battalion commander can't tolerate any sand in his eyes. I'm afraid he will come to you to talk to you when the time comes."