When you're in the Wolf Pack, your ability to obey orders becomes stronger.

Chapter 154 I'll definitely choose you! Something's not right!

When it was completely dark, Thor led everyone out of the car and quickly entered the mountain along a ravine at the foot of the mountain.

Snapped!
The person at the front, 619, turned on their flashlight.

Thor glanced at the time: "It's 7:20 PM now. We're about 19 kilometers from our destination. We need to reach the border and meet up with the Eighth Company's reconnaissance personnel before 21 PM. Are you two okay?"

Xu Ge took Li Dongshui's AWM and replied, "No problem!"

He was somewhat surprised. No wonder there was a complete electronic map of the target area in the operations command room. It turned out that someone from Sirius had already gone there to conduct close reconnaissance.

"Alright, Old Face, bring up the rear, keep formation and move out!"

Thor waved his hand, and the six of them began to run through the mountains.

Night travel on mountain roads was indeed a great test for Xu Ge and Li Dongshui, the two new recruits.

The four Hidden Wolves members each carried more than twice the weight of the others, yet they showed no signs of fatigue.

Xu Ge wasn't surprised by this, after all, these people were Hidden Wolves.

In Ao Xiang's words, if you want to know what the ceiling of a soldier's career is, then you must come to Yinlang to experience it for yourself.

What surprised him was Li Dongshui's performance tonight. The team had been running for almost an hour, but this guy hadn't complained of being tired at all, gritting his teeth and following behind him the whole time.

I suppose they didn't want to lose face in front of Thor and the others.

Midway through, Thor ordered a stop for a rest. The four team members immediately took small sips of water and sat down to rest without moving.

The group continued to climb, and Xu Ge began to feel some difficulty breathing, estimating that the altitude was approaching 6000 meters!
Li Dongshui's face was a little pale, and the old man reminded him to drink some sugar.

Five minutes later, this time with the clips as the scouts, the team set off again, beginning a lateral crossing along the ridge of the snow-capped mountain.

The moonlight shone on everyone, casting shadows on the snow that looked like dark clouds passing by.

Xu Ge observed along the way and discovered that the four members of the Hidden Wolf were each paying attention to a different direction as they moved forward.

No one told them beforehand, but it was as if they already knew what others would do, without any need for communication, as if it were an instinct etched into their bones.

Especially the vanguard at the very front.

At first, Xu Ge didn't know why 619 had to be replaced in the second half. After observing the trap for a while, he was surprised to find that the vanguard had consumed so much energy!

The person at the very front not only had the widest field of vision, but also had to be constantly aware of his footing. Most importantly, he maintained a two-handed gun-holding posture throughout the entire incident!
Whoohoo!
Li Dongshui's breathing was already louder than his footsteps, and the old man reached out and took the backpack from his back.

Thor showed no sign of stopping, and the group continued forward, as the road ahead began to descend.

The high altitude and year-round snow made Xu Ge even doubt that humans had ever set foot here. Underneath the thick snow was solid ice, and when he stepped on a thinner patch of snow, his soles would ache from the impact.

As the saying goes, going uphill is easy but going downhill is hard, especially when carrying a heavy load. Every two steps you slide downhill, you have to quickly jump to steady yourself.

The three leading Thors seemed to be losing their speed and gradually pulled away from Xu Ge, who was in fourth place.

Just as Xu Ge looked ahead again, he suddenly felt something move in the snow more than 200 meters away.

"There is a situation!"

Xu Ge suddenly squatted down on the spot, pointing his SCAR-H directly forward, while his left hand instinctively reached for the earpiece.

"Don't panic, they're our own people!" Wolf Head's voice came through the earpiece first. "Didn't you see the warning on the goggles?"

Xu Ge was taken aback, and then glanced to the upper left. Sure enough, he saw several white dots representing our personnel flashing in front of him.

Startled by Xu Ge's reaction, Li Dongshui lunged forward to grab the AWM from Xu Ge's backpack, but was stopped by Lao Lian.

"We're here, come on over!" Thor waved and called out from a short distance ahead.

. . .

. . .

Since Thor dared to speak loudly in this place, it means that this place has been confirmed to be absolutely safe.

Xu Ge and his two companions walked over, while a group of figures dressed in snow camouflage had already begun to retreat in another direction.

"619 and Jiazi will go to the first assembly point to be responsible for reconnaissance and guard duty. Lao Lian and I will go to the position of sniper group one, and No. 5 and No. 6 will go to the position of sniper group two. After each group arrives, we will immediately determine the firing parameters!"

As Thor spoke, he swiped his finger across the combat tablet a few times, and an overhead view of their current location immediately appeared on everyone's goggles, with three locations already marked.

Xu Ge knew this was real-time footage from a high-altitude reconnaissance drone. He looked up at the night sky, but even with his eyesight, he couldn't see anything.

"What are you looking at? It would be a miracle if you could see a stealth drone!" Thor slapped Xu Ge on the shoulder. "I'm asking you two one last time, any questions?"

"no problem!"

The two answered immediately.

"Alright, let's all set off!"

After saying that, the four team members immediately dispersed and ran off in pairs in different directions.

Xu Ge: ? ? ?
No, they just ran away like that?
Are they really going to abandon us?
Beside him, Li Dongshui looked equally anxious. She took her AWM from behind Xu Ge and held it in her arms, asking softly, "Xu Ge, what do we do next?"

"What else can we do but go and snipe the number 2 position!"

Xu Ge glanced at the location marked on his goggles, then stood up and started descending the mountain to his right. "Since we're already here, let's do it!"

A dozen minutes later, Thor and Clip's voices came through the headset one after another.

"Sniper team, in position!"

"Assault team, in position!"

After waiting a while and seeing that no one was speaking in the channel, Thor asked again, "Sniper Team Two, where are you guys?"

Xu Ge and Li Dongshui were huffing and puffing as they climbed the snow-covered mountain when they heard the call. Xu Ge immediately pressed his earpiece: "Sniper... Sniper Team Two, get into position immediately!"

"hurry up!"

call!call!
Using both hands and feet, the two finally managed to climb over the steep slope and quickly ran towards a wide open space halfway up the mountain.

"Sniper Team Two, in position!" Xu Ge reported immediately.

Li Dongshui patted Xu Ge on the shoulder and pointed to the goggles: "Xu Ge, actually, everyone else knows where we are."

Xu Ge looked and saw that it was true; the six dots were scattered in three different directions.

So Thor knew they were climbing a mountain but deliberately kept asking questions, damn it!
"Establish a sniper position immediately and calculate the firing parameters," Thor's voice rang out again.

Xu Ge ignored him, put the gun on the ground, and started taking things out of his backpack.

After replying "I understand," Li Dongshui immediately began to set up his gun.

Xu Ge put the anemometer and rangefinder aside, picked up a monocular telescope and started looking down the mountain. With the help of the prompts on the eyepiece, he quickly spotted the target building at the foot of the mountain diagonally opposite.

"Two o'clock, at the foot of the mountain," Xu Ge said, adjusting the direction of his gun.

Li Dongshui immediately began observing through the scope, and soon nodded, "I see it."

With a rangefinder and an anemometer, combined with a compass, Xu Ge quickly calculated the current firing parameters.

"Targeting the main entrance of the building, distance 755, elevation 31, wind speed negligible." After Xu Ge finished reporting, Li Dongshui immediately began adjusting his scope, while asking in confusion, "Xu Ge, why do I feel like our position is the furthest?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Ge glanced at the electronic map on the eyepiece and immediately realized that Li Dongshui was right.

Leaving aside the positions of 619 and Jiazi, they were about 350 meters away from the target building, but Lao Lian's first sniper team was obviously closer. Xu Ge estimated that they were about 550 meters away.

"Thor, Number 5 calling!" Xu Ge pressed the headset.

"Say!"

Why are we so far apart?

"Because you two are good marksmen."

"Cousin, can you tell me the truth?"

"The truth is, it's safer to be far away; the enemy can't hit you."

Xu Ge and Li Dongshui: ...

"Damn it, if I'd known they'd put me here, I wouldn't have brought a grenade launcher!"

Xu Ge got angry, saying, "When I told Thor I wanted to bring this thing, he gave me a weird look!"

The grenade launcher mounted on his gun has a maximum range of 400 meters, which is far too short to hit anything below.

. . .

. . .

After Thor made it clear that he and his companion were just there for show, Xu Ge completely relaxed.

During the waiting period, he would study the monocular telescope for a while and then take the rangefinder around to look at things. With the help of advanced mental calculation skills, he could now calculate the parameters almost the instant the data appeared.

Since he was bored anyway, Xu Ge marked all the locations, including the mountaintop opposite, and calculated the shooting parameters, and had Li Dongshui memorize them all.

“Xu Ge, is it really necessary for us to calculate so many positions? Maybe we won’t even have to fire a single shot tonight,” Li Dongshui said.

Xu Ge said sternly, "Just remember what I told you to remember. You forgot? Now, I'm the group leader between the two of us!"

"Oh!"

Although Li Dongshui knew that Xu Ge had made up the title of "group commander," Xu Ge had already proven his observation skills in the previous two operations, so Li Dongshui didn't object too much and took it seriously.

Another half hour passed, and Xu Ge started yawning out of boredom.

"Weren't they supposed to arrive at 11 o'clock? It's already that time... Hmm? Something's up!"

Xu Ge suddenly picked up his monocular binoculars and looked down. He had just caught something moving at the entrance of the target building below out of the corner of his eye.

Seeing Xu Ge's reaction, Li Dongshui immediately leaned over the scope to watch as well.

Suddenly, a group of people emerged from the entrance in front of the building below, led by a middle-aged man wearing a white headscarf.

"Attention all groups, target number two has been spotted, and target number one may be arriving soon!" Thor's voice rang out at the opportune moment.

Xu Ge, holding a monocular telescope, began to look along the path in front of the building into the distance. With the help of his "dog eyes," he quickly spotted a small square object moving towards him from two kilometers away.

“Thor, there’s a car coming from your 11 o’clock position, 2100 meters away!” Xu Ge said in his earpiece.

There was no response from the channel for a while. After a while, Thor's annoyed voice finally rang out: "Damn it, it's nighttime. More than 2000 meters is beyond the effective range of night vision goggles. I can't see anything!"

Xu Ge fell silent.

Li Dongshui looked over in surprise: "Xu Ge, can you really see that far?"

“I have a telescope!” Xu Ge waved the monocular in his hand.

Li Dongshui was taken aback: "Doesn't Thor have it?"

"Who knows."

Five minutes later, Thor's voice came again: "Attention everyone, a car is coming!"

Everyone was staring down below.

Soon, an SUV stopped in front of the building, and a man with a braid got out of the car carrying a little girl, along with five or six other people.

"619, confirm the target immediately!"

"Target confirmed, Target One has appeared and is currently in conversation with Target Two!"

In Xu Ge's view, Yusup hugged his brother-in-law, who immediately pulled the little girl into his arms and rubbed his face against her affectionately.

The group then began to walk inside, but the little girl remained outside to play with a woman.

On the eyepiece, the dot representing Thor was rapidly approaching the assault team's position, and Xu Ge knew that they were about to make their move.

Li Dongshui looked at the little girl through the scope and said, "This child is in good health. She's wearing so little in this cold weather, isn't she afraid of altitude sickness?"

"Don't underestimate this little girl. Keep your eyes on the target building; what if they really need our help?"

"Oh!"

Li Dongshui then asked, "Xu Ge, you said that the head instructor and the others will just storm in and won't harm the little girl outside, right?"

"Do you think they're born killers?"

Xu Ge said irritably, "As long as the little girl doesn't interfere with the mission, we definitely won't attack her first."

"What if it causes problems?"

"Are you a contrarian?"

Xu Ge recalled the question Thor asked Ao Xiang when they returned from Qiangtang, then turned to look at Li Dongshui.
"Tell me, if you could only choose between the little girl and the head instructor, who would you choose?"

Li Dongshui: "This question is too extreme, I won't choose it!"

"You're obviously not suited for Hidden Wolf," Xu Ge said irritably.

Li Dongshui was displeased: "Then let me ask you, if you could only choose between me and the little girl, who would you choose?"

Xu Ge replied without hesitation, "Of course I'll choose you. Is there even a question?"

Li Dongshui stopped talking and continued to lie in front of the scope.

Xu Ge knew that Thor and his team would be storming in in about ten minutes, so he subconsciously looked down at the target building using the 3D map on his goggles.

With nothing to do, a series of previously measured data flashed through his mind. Suddenly, two data points caught Xu Ge's attention: the height of the opposite mountain and the slope at its foot.

Since his mental arithmetic ability reached the advanced level, Xu Ge's sensitivity to data has increased again, and he vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

The mountain in front of him was 430 meters high with a slope of about 15 degrees. Xu Ge's mind was filled with a series of formulas as he tried to find the point that felt off.

As his gaze swept across the buildings below once more, a sudden thought struck him, and he immediately pressed the button on his headset:

"Suzaku, Suzaku, Number 5 calling!"

(End of this chapter)