Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Chapter 135 Captain, I have an idea

Two days later, in the northern part of the Xiangxiong Kingdom, in a mountainous area near the border of the Hua Kingdom.

The members of the Tiger Squad looked a bit travel-worn after days of trekking, but everyone was in good spirits.

Once inside the mountains, everyone felt like fish returning to water.

The dense jungles and complex terrain make it a natural paradise for special operations.

Here, the role of heavy artillery and armored units is minimized, while individual combat power is amplified to an extreme degree.

Especially Wang Hu, after entering the mountains and forests, he became a completely different person.

He was no longer the lazy man he once was; his agile body moved silently through the forest, exuding the aura of a king surveying his territory.

"Our destination is just ahead; it's marked on the map as Banyan Town."

Looking at the map on his handheld terminal, Fang Zheng said to everyone, "We can go in and rest for a while, and also contact the people back home to report the situation."

"Great! Finally, I can take a hot shower!"

Li Ziyi cheered, "I feel like I'm about to stink."

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Li Qingyi nodded in agreement.

Both sisters showed joy on their faces.

Although they didn't have to fear the rebels and mutants in the mountains, they were used to modern life and still felt somewhat uncomfortable staying in the mountains for long periods.

To avoid attracting attention, they hid the power armor and most of the heavy weapons in a secluded cave.

Li Ziyi and Li Qingyi set up a large number of warning and camouflage devices around the area, which was enough to ensure the safety of these treasures.

Afterwards, the group, carrying only pistols and some essential personal belongings, headed down the mountain towards the town with K.

Wang Hu remained perched on K's shoulder as a kitten. With him around, this extraordinary sniper behaved very well, even proactively, throughout the journey.

Banyan Town is a typical mountain town. It is not large in scale, and most of the buildings are made of wood and stone, which looks somewhat backward. However, the streets are bustling with people and orderly, and it seems that it has not been affected by the war in the capital.

"It seems this place is relatively safe." Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief.

"You need to be extra careful in places like this."

Fang Zheng cautioned, "Xiangxiong Kingdom is already quite unstable. At times like these, there are plenty of people taking advantage of the chaos. You could run into all sorts of people."

They found a hotel that looked fairly clean and settled in.

Three rooms were set up: one for Wang Ye and Li Shi, one for Li Ziyi and Li Qingyi, and one for K, who was tied up tightly, with Wang Hu and Fang Zheng.

Upon entering the room, Fang Zheng immediately took out encrypted communication equipment and began contacting people back home.

Wang Hu found a spot by the window, lay down, squinted his eyes, and casually observed the street outside while basking in the sun.

But their peaceful and relaxing time was quickly shattered; less than ten minutes after they settled in, trouble came knocking.

"Bang!"

The door was kicked open violently.

A dozen or so men, armed with various firearms and with menacing faces, rushed in. The leader was a thin man with sinister eyes.

He spotted Fang Zheng fiddling with the communication equipment at a glance.

"Oh, a friend from out of town?"

"I heard you also brought a pair of beautiful twin women?"

"Where is it?"

The gaunt man grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and pointed the gun directly at Fang Zheng.

"Who are you people?"

Fang Zheng frowned and asked.

"Don't you know the rules!"

"We are from the Black Tiger Gang. You brought your men to Banyan Town without first paying our respects and paying protection money before brazenly entering. You're really showing us no respect!"

Fang Zheng glanced at the group of people, then at Wang Hu, who was lying motionless by the window, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

"Protection fee? How much?" he asked with a smile.

"Not much, not much."

The gaunt man held up five fingers: "One person, this amount. Judging by your fair skin and delicate flesh, you must be wealthy people who fled from the city to seek refuge, right? This little bit of money is nothing to you."

"Fifty thousand?" Fang Zheng feigned surprise.

"It's five hundred thousand!"

"And we only want Chinese currency and US dollars," the burly man next to the skinny man reminded him.

Wang Ye and Li Shigang rushed over from another room upon hearing the noise, and couldn't help but laugh upon hearing it.

These guys are really asking for the moon.

"What if we don't give it to them?" Fang Zheng turned off his communication device, slowly stood up, and asked calmly.

"You won't give it to me?"

The smile vanished instantly from the gaunt man's face, replaced by a ferocious grin: "If you don't give it to us, then we'll have to sell you all to the mountains to mine! The men will mine until they die, and the women—hehe, our boss loves pretty city girls like you the most!"

As he spoke, he glanced greedily toward the room where Li Ziyi and her sister lived.

"court death!"

Wang Ye's face instantly turned cold.

He hates this kind of trash who uses women as a pretext the most.

Before he finished speaking, his figure had already turned into a blur and appeared in front of the gaunt man in an instant.

The gaunt man's pupils contracted sharply. He hadn't even seen Wang Ye's movements clearly; he only felt a blur before his eyes, and then a tremendous force gripped his throat.

Before his henchmen could even react, Li Shi, who was right behind them, knocked them all to the ground.

Li Shi's actions were simple and brutal: he rushed forward and punched each of the burly men, who were like paper dolls, flying out one by one, crashing into the wall, and passing out.

The battle was over in just a few seconds.

Wang Ye lifted the gaunt man into the air with one hand and asked coldly, "Who did you just say you were going to sell us to?"

"Cough cough—Have mercy, sir!" The gaunt man's face turned red from being choked, and he struggled desperately.

Wang Ye loosened his grip and threw him to the ground.

"Tell me! Where is your boss? And who are these people mining in the mountains?"

"Our boss lives in the biggest manor in the town center."

The gaunt man lay on the ground, panting heavily, not daring to hide anything: "The ones in the mountains—they—they're a group of human traffickers. They specialize in kidnapping people and selling them to the Golden Triangle. We—we're just responsible for providing them with some goods." "Human traffickers?"

Wang Ye's eyes lit up immediately when he heard those three words.

He turned his head to look at Fang Zheng and Wang Hu, who was leaning against the window, and a look of extreme excitement appeared on his face.

"Captain, Tiger, I have an idea!"

"What are your thoughts?" Fang Zheng raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at Wang Ye, who was beaming with excitement.

This guy's thought process has always been peculiar; he's always coming up with some unexpected ideas.

"Aren't we going to 'claim the mountain as king' and establish our own power here?"

Wang Ye rubbed his hands together, becoming more and more excited as he spoke: "But we're unfamiliar with this place, so just raising a flag and starting a rebellion won't work. We need a pretext, a shell!"

He stepped on the gang leader, Black Wolf, and continued, "I think this group of human traffickers entrenched in the mountains is just a ready-made shell!"

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