The muzzle of that uniquely shaped rifle neither spurted out bright flames nor made the slightest sound. Only an inconspicuous black shadow shot out from the muzzle, breaking through the air and making a sound of wind that hardly attracted anyone else's attention.
It accurately hit the signal receiver on the sentry tower, and the moonlight fell on the receiver, and it could be seen that there was now a strange bullet attached to the casing of the instrument.
Its tail was disintegrating, leaving only the part attached to the receiver. A "needle" protruded from the ground where it was in contact with the receiver. This thing easily pierced the receiver's casing, entered the interior of the instrument, and connected to a data interface.
At this moment, a few sparks jumped in the receiver, but soon everything returned to calm.
The man lying behind the rock had already put away the rifle. He raised his left hand and flipped up a small screen on the wrist armor. He tapped the screen a few times and a progress bar appeared on the screen.
The progress bar quickly filled up, and the screen became full of patterns and many readings appeared.
The man said into the pocket intercom in his ear: "I have taken control of the electronic communications of this outpost. I will start loading the interception program now. After the loading is completed, all electronic communications with the outpost will be intercepted by us."
"By then, the Skyforge won't know what happened here. Well, it's loaded, sir, you can move."
Below the highland outpost, a pair of eyes opened in the darkness, and then a voice said in a low voice: "Begin the action."
Suddenly, the shadows "boiled" and several figures spread out and moved towards the sentry post on the high ground from different directions. These people were all dressed in dark black from their uniforms to their armors. The armors had been treated so that they would not reflect light. They even wore black hoods on their heads and black masks on their faces, revealing only their two eyes.
The captain who issued the order also climbed to the high ground, and after a moment, he found a not-too-obvious fire.
Two soldiers at the outpost made a fire to keep warm in a sheltered place. They held their rifles with their hands placed by the fire. There was a rack on the fire, on which they were roasting food and boiling water.
"It's so cold. What do you think the higher-ups are thinking? Isn't Jingtao Castle our ally? What exactly are we guarding against here?"
"Allies may no longer exist one day, so it's better to be on guard. Did you hear about the conflict that occurred at the border post a while ago?"
"I heard that a group of drunken Jingtao Fort soldiers ran to our border post and beat up a group of soldiers at the post. What happened?"
"On the night after that incident, a border garrison camp in Jingtao Fort was wiped out. Everyone was secretly wondering if it was our people who did it."
"No way, if something like this really happened, Jingtao Castle would have exploded long ago, why is there no movement at all now?"
The two soldiers were chatting while keeping warm, and did not notice that behind the rocks not far behind them, a black shadow was crawling there like a reptile, approaching them silently.
The captain quietly pulled out a military knife. The blade of this short military knife was only 40 centimeters long and was specially painted. The blade was black and non-reflective. It was a special knife for assassinations.
After sneaking to more than ten meters away, the captain launched the attack. He suddenly jumped up and pounced on the soldier on the left.
Hearing the sound of breaking air, the two soldiers instinctively turned their heads to look. The one on the left hadn't turned his head completely yet, but he saw a dark shadow rushing towards him from the corner of his eye. Then his throat felt cold, and his breathing became slower.
It becomes extremely difficult.
The captain slit his throat with a knife, and without stopping, he rolled on the ground and came in front of another soldier in a blink of an eye.
The soldier was about to scream when a saber stabbed from bottom to top, into his chin, through his tongue, and into his skull.
The captain covered his mouth and looked into the soldier's eyes, watching the other's eyes change from fear to pain, then to confusion, and finally to a loss of spirit. The captain then drew out his saber, bringing up a stream of blood.
He quietly placed the two soldiers on the ground, making them sit around the fire to keep warm. He was about to leave when one of the soldiers' intercom rang: "1049, report the situation."
The captain took the intercom, and as the night wind whistled past, he said quickly but vaguely, "Everything is normal."
In the command room of the highland outpost, a recorder held an electronic board and entered the word "normal" in the record column after the number "1049".
He looked at the big screen, which had many windows listed on it, from which he could see the scenes around the watchtower. Not finding anything unusual, the recorder yawned and walked towards the tea room, intending to pour himself a glass of water.
After he walked into the tea room, he saw a black shadow passing by the edge of one of the windows.
At this moment, the shadow was rushing towards a sentry patrolling at the fork in the road like the wind. The sentry heard the sound of the wind and turned around, but the shadow had already passed him.
He suddenly felt a chill in his waist and ribs, and when he looked down, he saw scarlet blood gushing out like a waterfall. There was a deep and long wound in his waist and ribs, and the sudden split caused the blood in his body to gushed out like a fountain under pressure.
Before the sentry could do anything else, the black shadow rushed back, leaped lightly, stepped on the soldier's back and used the force to flip in the air, grabbed the sentry's shoulder with his left hand, and moved the short blade in his hand forward, cutting the sentry's throat hard.
When the black shadow landed on the ground, the sentry behind him had already covered his throat, uttered a soft "ho ho" sound, and fell to the ground, convulsing and dying.
This black shadow was also wearing black clothes and black armor, but she was petite and looked like a female.
She did not stop and continued to sneak along the planned route.
In the darkness, this team of people surrounded the watchtower from both sides and killed several soldiers on the sentry posts. Soon, they arrived at the platform where the watchtower was located.
The captain lay on the ground, took out a night-vision telescope and looked around. He saw two soldiers guarding the entrance of the watchtower. The equipment of these guards was obviously better than that of the sentries.
The armor on their bodies covers a larger area, focusing on protecting important parts of the body. Even places like the waist and ribs are protected by soft armor with built-in steel rings. It is a challenge for attackers to cut open the soft armor and create a wound with one knife.
The assassins did not act in a hurry. They waited patiently. After a while, one of the soldiers whispered, "I'll be right back after I go to the bathroom."
His companion waved his hand dismissively and said, "Go ahead."
In a blink of an eye, there was only one soldier left in front of the gate. At this time, the assassin's captain whispered into the communicator beside his ear: "Paralyze the monitoring equipment in front of the gate."
"alright."
After receiving the response, the captain began to sneak. He circled around and came to the watchtower from the blind spot of the soldiers' sight. Then he walked silently along the wall and soon came behind the guard.
At this distance, the captain can
After seeing the structure of the guard's armor clearly, with his rich combat experience, he quickly found a gap where he could attack.
He did not hesitate and quickly moved forward. The moment he got close to the guard, his saber first cut off the guard's right wrist, causing the guard to let go of the rifle.
The captain kept moving. He covered the guard's mouth with one hand and stabbed the saber into the back of the guard's neck. There was no armor to protect him, so the captain easily inserted it into the joint of the cervical vertebrae and cut off the guard's spine with one thrust.
The guard's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets, but gradually their luster faded, and finally his whole body relaxed and he died silently.
The captain immediately dragged the body away. At this time, the assassins quickly rushed into the gate and began to invade the watchtower.
Soon, screams were finally heard in the watchtower, gunshots were heard, and a collision of energy occurred.
But all this calmed down completely after half an hour.
In the watchtower, the garrison was completely wiped out, not a single person was left alive.
During this process, although some people asked for help from the Skyforge, all the messages for help were intercepted and not a single one was sent out.
In the command hall.
The captain of the assassins took out a communicator and sent a message: The Skyfort Heights outpost has been captured!
Skyfort.
It was a sunny morning, but Chu Yan's mood was not bright at all.
The old man has been getting up earlier than the chickens and sleeping later than the dogs these days. He has been working day and night in the City Lord's Mansion and has not been home for several days.
He has never been a workaholic, otherwise he would not have become the commander of the Night Walkers. But there is no way, since the conflict between the soldiers of the two fortresses on the border a few days ago, he has not received any news about Jingtao Fort.
This feeling of being completely in the dark and having no idea how Jingtao Castle would react was extremely terrible for the old commander.
After the incident, he sent an official document to Jingtao Fort as the acting city lord, hoping to have a good communication with Lin Yuanwu about the matter.
However, the document was like a drop in the ocean, without any sound, and Jingtao Castle did not respond at all, which made Chu Yan a little worried.
Today, when he returned to the office, the first thing he did was to inquire about the situation in the border consular district. He breathed a sigh of relief after receiving a reply that everything was normal.
The old man stood by the window, basking in the sun, thinking of Su Lie: "This kid hasn't sent me any news for many days. Could he be dead?"
Just as he finished speaking, a sound came from the drawer. Chu Yan opened it and saw that it was Su Lie's communication request.
He quickly answered the call and said loudly, "Hey, you're not dead yet."
Su Lie's voice rang out from the communicator: "Old man, you really want me to die. If I had known, I wouldn't have put so much effort into it..."
Chu Yan also heard other people's breathing sounds from the communicator. It seemed that Su Lie was on his way. The old commander frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"Something happened to the Duan family."
Su Lie responded on the communicator: "Duan Guanshan has been imprisoned. Lin Yuanwu planned to launch a fortress war. Duan Guanshan heard the news and tried to dissuade him, but was imprisoned by Lin Yuanwu."
"What? This is a matter of time. Why did you wait until now to inform me? Why don't you just wait until the war is over?" The old commander did not change his temper and started to ask questions.