The mission location is a very lush jungle. There is a small village near the forest. The people in the village are dressed simply and look very isolated.
Qin Li rubbed his eyes wildly: "This is near City B, right? Why does it look like some desolate mountain? That's not right. The housing prices in the cities surrounding City B have skyrocketed. There shouldn't be such a desolate place. How could the developer let this place go?"
He is usually a man of few words, and it was a bit uncomfortable to see him suddenly say so much.
Liang Xian whispered in Tan Yan's ear with a smile: "Housing prices are Qin Li's biggest concern. He talks a lot when he mentions current housing prices."
Even if you are an elite and your salary may be very high in the future, you will not be able to buy a house in City B.
Tan Yan silently thought of his two stores in the Tourism Development Zone. With the savings from his work over the years, it seemed that... after selling the stores, he could buy a house in City B.
However, this thought was fleeting. Tan Yan was not too obsessed with the house because he could feed himself and his family. Moreover, thinking about the "void", if the void spread out of control one day and the house was swallowed up, Tan Yan was confident that he could make the void disappear, but the people and things swallowed by the void would enter another world. He didn't want the house he bought with his life savings to end up like Minister Yu's police electric vehicle.
"It's a secret base near City B," Qiu Qizheng said, "It's not shown on the map. We have many such secret bases, and not everyone can use them."
"Do we need a base of this size for a single military training?" Cui Heyu asked suspiciously. "Before the military training, I checked the previous training sessions and found that they were usually taken to the border by plane for joint training with the garrison troops. Why do we need to use a secret base around City B this time?"
When Tan Yan heard what Cui Heyu said, his eyelids twitched slightly. Maybe... this was for him.
He cannot leave Ping County, and will only open this base when Minister Yu has no choice.
"I've heard of this place," Liang Xian frowned and said, "Our mission this time is going to be difficult. Let's go into the village first and stay alert."
"Since we are going into the village, it is simply unnecessary to go to Ping County to buy supplies." Cui Heyu couldn't help but want to confront Liang Xian whenever he had the chance.
"Are you crazy? Are the people living in a village near this base as simple as they appear to be?"
Before Liang Xian finished speaking, Tan Yan suddenly covered his mouth with his hand and made several gestures to everyone.
[Silence, someone is coming, one person is running in front, and three people are chasing behind.] Tan Yan expressed it with marching gestures.
Where are the people? The hearing and intuition of several people are also quite sharp, but this is not the time to question. The four of them followed Tan Yan and hid behind several tall trees. They did not go deep into the jungle, but only explored the edge.
After a full 10 minutes, a young man in camouflage uniform came running over breathlessly. It was Liu Tianhui from Group 3.
Liang Xian and Tan Yan hid behind a tree. He saw that Liu Tianhui was in a mess. The clothes on his arm seemed to be torn by a sharp weapon. The clothes were soaked at the torn part. It was obvious that he was injured.
He remembered that Group 3 was the first to grab the modified car, which was equipped with weapons and had the greatest advantage among all the groups.
The people behind the tree exchanged glances, and none of them wanted to make a move. They were competitors of the three groups, so now should not be the time to…
Before they could come up with a conclusion, Liang Xian felt a whirlwind blowing by his ears and the people around him disappeared.
Tan Yan did not rush out rashly, he jumped onto a tree. Although Liu Tianhui was unwilling, he had not given up yet. If he was not stupid, he would definitely hide in the jungle, only in this way would he have a chance to escape.
As expected, Liu Tianhui went into the jungle as soon as he saw it. Tan Yan was wearing a black T-shirt and black pants. Liang Xian told them to choose dark clothes so that it would be more convenient to move at night.
Tan Yan was like a black panther, silently shuttling between the tree trunks, and jumped over Qiu Qizheng's head without even startling him. He quickly caught up with Liu Tianhui, who had just entered the forest, and suddenly jumped down from the tree. Before Liu Tianhui could scream, he covered his mouth and dragged him up the tree.
Liu Tianhui had also received professional training and recognized the transfer student Tan Yan at a glance. He did not struggle and was carried by Tan Yan and flew on the tree.
When he jumped onto the tree where Qiu Qizhen was hiding again, Tan Yan directly threw Liu Tianhui to Qiu Qizhen's side, and returned to Liang Xian without stopping.
Liang Xian: “…”
Qiu Qizheng: Why give me...
At this time, the three people who were chasing had reached the edge of the woods. They did not enter the woods. After discussing for a while, they left. Their voices were very low, and Liang Xian, who was closest to them, could not hear them clearly.
After hearing that the person had indeed gone far away, the six of them found a place to meet again, and Liu Tianhui took out a bandage from his pocket to stop the bleeding.
"You still have bandages?" Cui Heyu asked jealously.
"The car is fully equipped, with sufficient weapons and a lot of portable food. What about you?" Liu Tianhui seemed unaware that this kind of behavior is called attracting hatred.
"Captain, let's just throw him away." Cui Heyu said, "It's useless."
Qiu Qizhen understood what Tan Yan meant by this time, so he followed Cui Heyu and said, "Search the supplies on him first, and then throw them into the village. Tan Yan is wearing black clothes, and he moves without making any noise, so it shouldn't be discovered if we throw it at night."
Liang Xian was even more rude and said to Qin Li directly: "Tie him up!"
Qin Li, who has strong execution ability, took action immediately.
"Hey, hey, hey, do you have any love from your classmates?" Liu Tianhui then realized that he was the meat on the chopping board in the situation of "others are the butchers and I am the fish". This piece of meat even rubbed itself under the blade to show off its fatness.
Liang Xian grabbed Liu Tianhui's hair with his left hand and smiled evilly: "You have classmates who love you, why didn't you give your car to us? Where is your car?"
"Okay, okay, I'll explain." Liu Tianhui said helplessly, "Our navigation location is the village chief's home. We are a classmate of the village chief's son who is in college. We just finished military training and went to our classmate's home to play. When we arrived at the village chief's home, we hadn't even had a sip of water when we heard someone calling for help in the firewood room. Our 'classmate', the village chief's son, said that his sister is mentally ill and is having an attack now, so we dare not let her out to hurt anyone."
Liu Tianhui and others knew that things were not that simple. This must be a clue. There was something wrong with the "classmate" and the crazy sister might be a hostage.
So they sneaked into the woodshed and saw a tied-up girl. After rescuing her, they found out that she was abducted and sold. There were four other girls like her. She didn't know where they were held, but she knew that they all came from families with young and strong unmarried men.
Liu Tianhui and others put the "sister" in the car, and the village chief's son and his men chased after them. As a freshman, the village chief's son was very strong and knocked down two people in their group by himself.
The people brought by the village chief's son were carrying wooden guns. They opened the guns and pierced the engine. Liu Tianhui and his companions could only flee desperately.
"In the end, I was the only one who escaped," Liu Tianhui said, grimacing in pain as he pulled his wounds excitedly. "These bastards really did it!"
"It's just a superficial wound," Liang Xian said after checking the wound. "It was clean and neat, and there won't be any sequelae. The other party held back, otherwise you wouldn't be able to escape."
"Where are the others now?" Qiu Qizhen asked.
"They knocked me unconscious and dragged me into the village." Liu Tianhui said, "I don't know where the rest of the group is. I haven't seen them since."
"Each group gathers at a different location..." Liang Xian analyzed, "Our speed is already quite slow, and we were delayed on the road for a while. Except for the group that still needs to install the tires, the rest of the people should have arrived. But we only saw you... It seems that they were either sent directly into the woods, or they were captured like you."
"Hey, I'm the only one left. It seems there's no hope for me to complete the mission." Liu Tianhui said shamelessly, "Boss Liang, let me go with you. I'm injured now and can't move around easily. I might be caught at any time. It's better for me to follow you to be safer."
Cui Heyu sneered: "Oh, you want to follow us into the enemy's lair to rescue our companions, and also stir up trouble between us, you are pretty good!"
Liu Tianhui was dumbfounded: "I just wanted to get some protection, how could I be provoking?"
"You call Liang Xian Boss, don't you just want me to fight with him over who makes the decision?" Cui Heyu looked like he saw through you.
Liu Tianhui: “…”
No, I didn't think you would be so childish, but I didn't expect you to be so childish.
"Don't embarrass yourself." Qiu Qizheng pushed Cui Heyu's head down, "We will each do our own thing, you can act on your own later."
"No, we have to save people!" Liang Xian and Tan Yan said in unison.
Liang Xian heard another voice that was synchronized with his own and could not help but glance at Tan Yan again. The new classmate was very calm. In contrast to his slightly childish face, the calm aura around him made him seem a little mysterious.
"Why?" Qiu Qizheng was not angry because Liang Xian refuted his words, "What did you guess?"
"The mission is for us to successfully rescue the 'hostages' and find 'criminal evidence'. I have been wondering what this 'hostage' refers to. Liu Tianhui and others are 'classmates of the village chief's son'. Let's think outside of the military training exercise. If we really encounter this situation, are they considered 'hostages'?"
"Forget it!" Cui Heyu frowned. "They are really good at playing dirty tricks. On one hand, they tell us to compete, but on the other hand, they use our competitors as 'hostages'."
"It's not a shady move," Liang Xian patted Liu Tianhui's head, "Letting this guy out is already a hint. The wound on his arm was scratched by a dagger at close range. He was able to kill two of our classmates by himself. We were so close to him, and we still let him escape? It's like releasing the entire Pacific Ocean!"
"Those people should know our meeting place. They deliberately drove Liu Tianhui here for us to rescue." Cui Heyu understood immediately, "If Tan Yan hadn't taken action just now, we would have missed this clue. We will fail if we are not careful."
"This is what actual combat is like." Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan, "Why did you risk being exposed to save him, and why did you support me in saving people?"
"Why not save him?" Tan Yan asked back in even more confusion.
Why not save him? There are many answers to this question. For Liang Xian and others, they are competitors, and this is just an exercise. Saving the opponent is equivalent to making things difficult for themselves.
But if this really happened, why not save your comrades who share the same goal with you, who are your competitors and comrades-in-arms
"You're right. There is no option of 'not saving'." Liang Xian said seriously.