Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 838 Lifesaving Message
Song Heping's breathing sounded particularly heavy under the night vision goggles.

He quickly pulled off the tactical vest from the corpse, put it on himself, and then pulled down the hood to cover his face.

The opponent's MP5 submachine gun was still warm. He checked the magazine—there were more than twenty bullets left.

enough.

The footsteps outside grew closer.

"Dave, is that you?" A deep male voice sounded from outside the door.

"Cough cough cough—it's me, I'm injured..."

Song Heping deliberately lowered his voice to make it sound like he was seriously injured.

"Is he dead?" someone outside shouted.

Song Heping lowered his voice and imitated an American accent: "Yes, confirmed kill!"

"Damn it, we finally caught him."

Another voice approached, cursing and swearing.

Song Heping's muscles tensed, and his finger rested lightly on the trigger.

The door was pushed open, and two Watchmen members walked in, guns at the ready.

"Bang! Bang!"

Song Heping's MP5 fired almost touching the heads of the two men, the bullets instantly tearing their skulls apart. Before they could even scream, the two "Watchmen" team members fell heavily to the ground.

Song Heping quickly looted their ammunition and communication equipment, then whispered into his headset, "Target confirmed dead, intelligence being retrieved."

A series of static noises came through the earpiece, followed by a calm response: "Roger that. Standby. Support is on its way."

They were fooled.

Song Heping sneered, quickly climbed out of the back window, and disappeared into the shadows of the fish market.

Inside the surveillance vehicle, Jasper's pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw everything through the head-mounted cameras of the two Watchers who were killed.

"Damn it!" Jasper slammed his fist on the control panel. "He's not dead! He's impersonating one of our men!"

He immediately grabbed the communicator and switched to the backup channel: "Attention all squads! Target is disguised as our personnel. Activate the backup channel immediately and switch to IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) lights! Repeat, switch to IFF lights immediately!"

A few seconds later, the "Watchmen" team members in the fish market turned on the blue indicator lights on their tactical vests—their temporary identification markers.

“He’s still inside the encirclement.” Jasper stared at the screen, gritting his teeth. “He can’t escape…”

He turned to the driver and yelled, "Drive! To Port Area 3!"

"Boss, you're going to go yourself?" a technician asked in surprise.

“Yes.” Jasper coldly drew his sidearm. “I’m going to kill him myself.”

Left with no other option, the driver immediately turned the car around and sped toward Pier 3.

A few minutes later, the car stopped in the woods outside the dock area.

"Simon, you're in charge of communications and intelligence support here. I need to go there myself!"

"OK, no problem."

After Jasper and his men left, Simon slowly stood up from his seat.

"I'm going to have a cigarette."

He spoke calmly to the remaining technicians.

No one stopped him.

Simon stepped out of the surveillance vehicle, lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and then pulled an encrypted satellite phone from his pocket.

He quickly typed in a string of code and then pressed the send button.

—Message delivered.

A dozen seconds later, in a shop in the fish market, Song Heping, who was hiding in a corner, was thinking about a way to break out when his satellite phone suddenly vibrated.

He quickly took it out and looked down; a short message was displayed on the screen:

"There is a gap at shop number 37 on the east side. The identification light is blue. The backup channel is XXX.XX. Evacuate the window in a maximum of 3 minutes."

Song Heping squinted.

Simon seems to be quite useful.

He quickly changed direction and moved toward shop number 37 on the east side of the fish market.

To the east of the fish market is an abandoned warehouse area, with the sewer entrance half-hidden by a pile of rusty containers.

Song Heping moved close to the wall, cautiously scanning his surroundings.

There were indeed no enemies here, but the sewer entrance was blocked by iron bars.

He crouched down, took a thin metal wire from his tactical belt, inserted it into the keyhole, and gently fiddled with it.

"Click."

The lock is unlocked.

Just as Song Heping was about to crawl inside, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him.

He turned around sharply and saw Jasper leading two teammates rushing out from around the corner!

Song Heping's pupils suddenly contracted. —There's no time.

He suddenly leaped backward and plunged directly into the sewer!

bang bang bang-

blah blah-

The bullet grazed his head and disappeared into the darkness, but it was too late.

Song Heping's figure completely disappeared into the sewage pipe.

Jasper rushed to the fence, took out a grenade, and threw it into the sewer.

boom--

After the explosion, he rushed forward and swept the sewer entrance with his hands, then cautiously peered down.

It was completely empty inside.

No body found...

Song Heping has slipped away.

“FUCKING HELL!” Jasper slammed his fist into the iron railing next to him in a fit of rage, his knuckles instantly drawing blood.

He immediately grabbed the communicator, his voice hoarse with anger: "All squads! Seal all sewer exits! He can't have gone far!"

Inside the sewer, Song Heping struggled to move forward through the pitch-black sewage.

His shoulder wound was burning with pain, but he couldn't care less.

He must leave the fish market as soon as possible, or the Watchmen squad will soon block all the exits.

Once you're trapped, you still can't escape.

An exit appeared ahead.

Like the previous sewer outlet, it was a cover welded from a steel bar about the size of a little finger.

Song Heping looked at the cover, hesitating whether he should leave through here and get out of the sewer.

The port's sewer network is very small. After all, places like Aden are not well-developed, so the sewer system is also underdeveloped. It was originally built only to drain the fish market and clean the port's storage yard. The final outlet leads to the drainage outlet on the dock, which leads directly to the sea.

At this moment, the "Watchers" on the ground must be checking and sealing off all the sewer exits one by one. According to the information I had collected before, there are only 32 sewer entrances and exits here. If I don't leave quickly, I will soon be sealed off here.

Just as I was hesitating, the satellite phone vibrated again, and another message came through:
"Exit 4 is not blocked."

Song Heping squinted.

It's that Simon guy again.

He immediately changed direction and moved quickly northwards towards Exit 4, where it was located, and soon found Exit 4.

I pushed the door open and crawled out; sure enough, there was no one there.

Song Heping dared not delay for even a moment and immediately ran towards the outside of the port area, quickly disappearing into the night.

Thirty minutes later, outside the fish market, Simon stood beside the surveillance vehicle, quietly watching Jasper furiously berate the "Watchmen" team members.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Because the game has only just begun.

On the other side of the city, in an abandoned warehouse.

Nura and Antonov heard the door being pushed open.

Both men pointed their guns at the doorway.

"it's me……"

Song Heping appeared outside the door.

"You are hurt……"

Nura immediately stepped forward, pulled Song Heping aside to sit down, and then took out a first-aid kit from her backpack to begin treating Song Heping's wounds.

How did they know our rendezvous point?

"Nura asked in a low voice while bandaging the wound," Nura said.

Antonov said, "Could there be a traitor on the ship we came on?"

“The problem isn’t on our side,” Song Heping said coldly. “There’s a mole on Afanti’s side.”

Antonov spat: "So what do we do now?"

After a moment of silence, Song Heping said, "Let me contact Afanti before making a decision."

"You still dare to contact him?" Antonov scoffed. "Aren't you afraid your whereabouts will be leaked by their mole again?"

Song Heping said, "This country is in chaos right now. There are many people who want to escape, but it's not possible to find a ship anytime soon. We don't know anyone here, so we can only rely on Afanti. I believe it's not that he wants to betray us, but that there's a mole among the people on his side who are handling this matter..."

At this point, Song Heping had become wary of Afanti's group.

He certainly believed that Afanti would not be the one to betray him.

However, today's incident suggests that the Persians' own intelligence system may have been infiltrated.

When dealing with them, you need to be more careful in the future, otherwise you can easily get yourself into trouble.

(End of this chapter)