Chapter 860 - Guardian Angel (1/2)

So Ren Xiaosu’s assessment of the current situation was not without reason. He had put himself in their shoes and thought that if he were a hunter, when would it be the best opportunity to hunt?

It was just like how he had deduced where and when the barbarians would appear in Mt. Dashi.

Everyone from the Trinity Institute found it a little unbelievable. This was a forward operating base at the rear after all. Didn’t they say the barbarians had already been annihilated at Mt. Dashi? Why did Ren Xiaosu suddenly say that something was going to happen here then?

However, they still followed his instructions even though they did not understand what was going on. This was due to their trust in Ren Xiaosu. After all, they had witnessed how Ren Xiaosu had performed a “craniotomy” on Kong Erdong with their own eyes. That was a fucking operation that did not bother with suturing the wound, and Ren Xiaosu was not a normal person at all!

Just as Wang Jing and the others proceeded to leave, Yang Xiaojin tugged at Ren Xiaosu’s arm and handed him a spotting scope. “Looks like your judgment was right. We do have a situation.”

Ren Xiaosu asked, “What’d you see?”

“I saw a figure moving within the mountains at my 5 o’clock. But it’s only one person,” Yang Xiaojin said.

“How far is he from us?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“About 1,900 meters in a linear direction,” Yang Xiaojin estimated. “It’s still not too late to tell the people at the forward operating base to heighten their alert.”

But just as she finished speaking, the crack of a gunshot suddenly rang out in the forward operating base.

Ren Xiaosu immediately turned around to look. The enemy had arrived faster than he had expected. So then, who was that figure in the mountains? Could it be someone responsible for giving the orders but did not participate in the battle?

Based on the principles of war, since the battle had started, it was unnecessary to leave someone in the mountains as an observer. As the barbarians did not have any communication equipment, they didn’t need to have someone give orders from afar.

“There’s only one person in the mountains?” Ren Xiaosu asked Yang Xiaojin.

“That’s right. At first, I thought it might be the enemy’s scout, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Now that I think back on it, although I didn’t get a very clear look at the other party, his attire didn’t look like what the barbarians wore,” Yang Xiaojin said.

The forward operating base was already in chaos.

The gunshots were a little muffled with the loud music playing on stage, but those watching the show were all soldiers, so how could they possibly not distinguish the sound?

The Qinghe University students on the stage were still trying their best to perform when they suddenly saw the soldiers in the audience get up and make a mad dash in one direction.

“That’s where the armory is. The Pyro Company soldiers should be heading there to draw their weapons. But it feels like it’s already a little too late,” said Ren Xiaosu as he observed the situation. As the gunshots got closer and closer to them, he could already vaguely hear the screams of the Pyro Company soldiers. “I’ll go and occupy the high ground and help them stall for time!”

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The perimeter of the forward operating base was surrounded by barbed wire. To prevent a surprise attack, nine-meter-tall sentry towers were erected around the base with two soldiers manning each of them.

But the wire fence on the west side of the forward operating base had already been cut apart. Moreover, the soldiers on the three sentry towers located near the opening were killed by huge axes thrown at them from the shadows. The barbarians were so well-prepared the soldiers did not even have a chance to fire a warning shot.

As blood flowed through the floor of the sentry towers, the purple blood dripped onto the ground and mixed with the soil.

Initially, everything was being carried out quietly, so when the barbarians broke into the forward operating base, they did not meet with any effective resistance. It wasn’t until they got past the perimeter and were unable to conceal themselves any longer that everyone in the forward operating base slowly realized what had happened.

The Pyro Company soldiers started assembling, but the barbarians were already charging at them. Their plan was very obvious, and that was to intercept the soldiers on their way to the armory!