225 Ren Xiaosu, the snake catcher (2/2)

The main man of the group was the soldier who spoke to Hu Shuo, while the rest of the troops were just as Hu Shuo had said, recruits who had just joined the Li Consortium's combat troops.

They had thought that after joining the army, they would be subject to very rigorous training as recruits, as well as undergo military-style training on how to operate the nanomachines. But that wasn't the case at all. After undergoing just some brief training, they were immediately assigned on their first ever mission.

But of course, no one rejected this. After all, they heard of how tough the training was for recruits, so it was best that they did not have to suffer through any of that.

No one felt suspicious of anything. The joy of having their statuses elevated had blunted their judgment. Even though there was a mismatch in the information they knew, it left them with no opportunity to be judgmental.

Lin Qi only thought that since they met the synchronization standard, it meant they were special.

”Captain Zhou, who was that old man?” Lin Qi asked.

”Don't ask,” Captain Zhou answered. ”Just don't provoke him. In the entire Li Consortium army, he's one you should not offend most of all.”

”What should we do next?” someone asked.

Captain Zhou thought for a bit before saying, ”Scout ahead!”

One of the officers suddenly stepped forward. A silvery liquid metal started seeping out from underneath his skin and landed on the ground.

In an instant, that silvery liquid metal suddenly turned into five small, silvery snakes that slithered towards the depths of the mountain.

Captain Zhou asked, ”What's the furthest range of your control?”

”It was assessed at 418 meters during the previous test,” the platoon member replied.

”Alright, that's good enough for our purposes.” Captain Zhou said, ”Keep a careful lookout on the surroundings and maintain the range so you don't lose control of the nanomachines. The key is to not be careless. Once you discover anything odd with the nanomachines, inform me.”

”Roger,” answered the platoon member.

Lin Qi suddenly said, ”But Captain, this isn't where the wolves were active. Besides, we have five squads conducting a simultaneous search. There shouldn't be any danger, right?”

Honestly, if a battle were to break out, it would be really difficult to depend on Lin Qi and the others even if they had nanomachines in them, because they did not have any actual combat experience.

Captain Zhou looked at him and said, ”Just listen to my orders and everything will be fine.”

But right at this moment, the soldier controlling the nanorobotic, silver snakes suddenly exclaimed, ”This is bad!”

Captain Zhou was startled. ”What's the matter? Is it the wolves?”

”No… I don't think so.” The soldier hesitated for a moment before saying, ”A shadow just flashed by up ahead and stole away one of my silver snakes.”

Captain Zhou froze for a moment. ”It didn't do anything else and only took your silver snake away?”

”That's right. It ran off after catching it.”

Everyone was starting to get suspicious. What the fuck just happened?!