Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 350 Life is tough

Chapter 350 Life is tough
Just as the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Song Heping even felt that the guy above his head had touched the plants by the water, and could see the branches hanging over the cave entrance shaking, suddenly someone called out to the team member who was very close to the target.

The team members who heard the call turned around and left without continuing to explore the strange rocks under their feet.

Half an hour later, Song Heping and Morins in the cave finally made sure they were safe.

"God bless."

Molins made the sign of the cross.

"That guy almost discovered us just now."

Song Heping took out individual food from his tactical vest, which he had collected from the corpses.

The biggest benefit of killing a few AGLAN team members is not guns and night vision goggles, but food.

You know, looking for food when you are being hunted in the jungle is a very dangerous thing.

Song Heping had no intention of leaving the water cave before dark.

"Eat something, or you'll get even colder."

He reminded Morins, whose face and lips were already pale from the cold.

"Hopefully we'll find a signal high up in the mountains tonight. Just a little signal is enough to send a message."

……

Colonel James was very angry.

In the big tent of the front-line command headquarters, he paced back and forth like a donkey that was about to have a seizure after being beaten, as if this could reduce his gradually rising brain pressure.

We discovered the target and engaged in a firefight this morning. After losing seven AGLAN members, two important targets disappeared again.

This made the boasts he made in front of Lieutenant Colonel Freddy seem like a complete joke.

As soon as the information of the exchange of fire came, James immediately sent a search team led by four jungle warfare experts under his command to rappel near the river.

He even made marks on the map, arranged the blockade locations and search routes, simulated the direction the other party wanted to escape, and had his men block and search the area from different directions.

By the afternoon, the news from the front line made him very depressed.

No.

Found nothing.

The worst thing is the heavy rain.

The raindrops, as dense as bullets, wiped out all traces left by the two damn targets.

This also resulted in the jungle warfare experts under his command being unable to effectively track the enemy's hiding place.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Colonel James could no longer sit still. He boarded a helicopter and flew over the suspicious area he had designated. He used an infrared heat source scanner to conduct a reconnaissance of the jungle.

As a result, apart from the search team of the government army, there were no surprising discoveries.

Disappeared?
He felt incredible.

It can only be considered that the search is not yet in place.

"Freddy, I just went to see it live!"

After returning from the crossfire area, James immediately called Freddy.

"Those two cunning brats are in hiding. Even with the thermal scan mode, we can't find them. I guess they're hiding in a cave. What are your people doing? We've been surrounding this small patch of jungle for almost three days, and you still can't find them?"

What I mean is that my people are fine, but your soldiers are just terrible.

He did not refute James's complaint, but helplessly spread his hands and said: "Colonel, this is a jungle, there are holes everywhere. Even if there are no holes, they can dig one and hide in it. My people have done their best."

James said angrily: "If it hadn't rained heavily, I would have set fire to it to force them out!"

Freddy was speechless when he heard this.

He thought James was crazy.

In order to capture two militants, they actually thought of setting fire to the jungle.

If a fire starts here, it won't be extinguished for half a year and it will definitely make headlines around the world.

By then, not to mention whether the villagers around the jungle will be burned to death, even if the animals are burned to death, environmental protection organizations will probably run to the presidential palace to protest, curse and throw stones.

"Freddy, we can't wait any longer."

Colonel James stood in front of the map and stared at it for five minutes before making up his mind.

"We need to deploy more people in that area and make sure we dig them out even if we have to dig deep into the ground!"

"But all my men have been dispatched and are currently in the jungle," Freddy said. "It will take some time to mobilize other special forces."

"Isn't there a regiment of army troops blocking the outer perimeter?"

Colonel James continued to stare at the map without taking his eyes off it.

"Move them all over here, mobilize all the helicopters and drop them into that area. Move the ground troops in as well. We need to act together from the air and on the ground. I don't believe they are rats that can hide underground. Even if they are rats, we need to dig them out!"

……

"Why are there so many helicopters tonight?"

In the jungle near the city of Tame, Morins lay in the grass and watched the helicopter flying across the night sky like a big bird, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

He looked at Song Heping beside him, who was also staring at the sky.

"We don't have much time left..." said Song Heping.

Molins asked, "What do you mean?"

Song Heping: "They are mobilizing troops. I estimate that they will launch a second major search immediately after they arrive. If the situation does not change, it will be difficult for us to escape this roundup. I calculated that there is a helicopter flying over almost every ten minutes. At this rate, at least a battalion has been deployed to our area."

Molins felt cold all over and couldn't help shivering: "What should we do then?"

Song Heping said, "What can we do? What else can we do? Don't you believe in God? Why don't you pray to him now and see if he can help you?"

Molins said, "Why don't you seem worried at all?"

Song Heping sneered, "If worrying was useful, I would have been worried a long time ago. The problem is that worrying is useless. There is an old saying in our country, life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God."

He turned to look at Morins: "Whether it's you or me, if we take this path, why should we be afraid of death? Isn't the worst that can happen?"

Morins was silent for a moment. He couldn't refute Song Heping's words. In the end, he couldn't help but ask, "Don't you have any relatives?"

Song Heping said: "Yes, I have a younger brother and a younger sister, but they are both adults now. After I started working on the PMC path, I saved a large sum of money for them. If I die, they won't suffer."

Then he asked again: "What about you?"

When talking about his relatives, Morins' face became blurred.

After a long pause, he said, "Dead. They were all killed in the encirclement and suppression by the government forces."

Song Heping was slightly stunned. He seemed to understand why these armed groups and government forces were fighting to the death.

He didn't want to persuade them. If you haven't experienced their suffering, don't try to persuade them to be good.

"Morins, people like you are called unlucky stars in our tradition."

"Unlucky star?" Morins asked, "What does that mean?"

Song Heping said, "You are so lucky that you can't die even when everyone around you has died. So I don't think you will die this time either."

Morins suddenly smiled: "Then you are not afraid?"

Song Heping shook his head: "I am more stubborn than you."

The last helicopter flew across the sky. Song Heping looked at his watch and saw that it was already nine o'clock.

"There's still a kilometer of mountain road to go. I'll try to climb that mountain before eleven o'clock."

He glanced at Morins and said, "I hope you and I are both lucky and can survive. If there's no signal on the mountain, we'll probably have to force our way through."

Morins's heroic spirit also rose, and he nodded: "Go ahead! I don't believe that after so many years of encirclement and suppression, I will not die. I will die on this hill tonight."

Fortunately, I got the night vision goggles from those AGLAN team members in the morning, which came in handy now.

The night walk went smoothly, but less than a kilometer later, Song Heping grabbed Morins and the two hid behind a tree.

"There's someone ahead."

"where?!"

Morris looked around but saw nothing.

"10 o'clock position, about 200 meters."

Morins crouched behind a tree and cautiously stuck his head out.

"Don't look at it, or you might get discovered."

Song Heping thought for a moment and said, "We don't have time. Going around them will only waste more time. We have to kill them."

"Let them go?" Molins said. "If we open fire, it will definitely alert others."

Song Heping said, "Then I'll do it secretly. You stay here and watch. I'll be back soon."

He checked the silencers on his assault rifle and pistol, then said to Molins, "Same old rule. When you hear birdsong, come toward me."

"it is good……"

Just as Morins was about to say "be careful", Song Heping had already disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

At this time, 200 meters away from Morins, a small detachment of government troops was slowly searching and advancing along the predetermined route.

"Damn Yankees! They're making us climb a mountain in the middle of the night! Aren't you crazy?!"

"Be careful, watch your step. It's late at night and the snakes are out..."

"Curse the Americans! I don't know what's wrong with the AGLAN commander. He actually listens to the Americans in everything..."

"Those are Green Berets, American Special Forces. By the way, I think we should slow down a bit and not rush too far ahead... I heard that an entire AGLAN team of seven died this morning."

"All dead?! There only seem to be two of them, right? When did the ELN become so powerful?"

"I heard it wasn't the ELN who was powerful, but someone else. It was an arms dealer who happened to be trapped when he came to sell arms..."

"Sergeant, please slow down. We should not get too far ahead..."

"Okay, walk slower. Oh, and follow me closely. Don't get lost..."

While they were still complaining and chatting along the way, a dark shadow suddenly appeared behind the last soldier responsible for covering their retreat.

The soldier felt a strange presence behind him, as if something had appeared behind him...

He was startled and turned around suddenly to see if it was some wild beast.

Before he could turn around, a big hand came from behind his neck and covered his mouth.

Before he could call out or struggle, a sharp survival knife had already slashed his throat from the left to the right.

The knife directly cut his blood vessels and trachea.

The panicked soldier forgot to even reach for his gun, and instead instinctively raised both hands to grab the iron-hard hand, trying in vain to pry it open...

After a while.

"what?"

The captain, who was walking in the second position of the team, seemed to hear a strange rustling sound behind him, as if something was being dragged by a wild beast and hit the plants, making a scraping sound.

He turned around and pointed the gun behind him.

"Birel!"

He called out the name of the soldier behind him.

The entire team was marching in a single column with 5 meters between them, and behind him was Birrel.

Normally, you can see each other as soon as you turn around.

Now there is nothing in front of me.

Not only was Birrell missing, but the person behind Birrell was also missing.

A team of 5 people.

We were chatting just now, but in the blink of an eye, there was no one behind us?

blah blah-

Suddenly, gunshots were heard behind him.

It was not the usual gunshot you hear. It was obviously the sound made when a pistol with a silencer was fired.