The car walked through the smoke and dust, heading north, and soon disappeared from sight.
At the Xiangcheng base, by the window on the second floor of the teahouse, a tall figure was lazily leaning against the window lattice.
Early in the morning, he was the only person in the entire teahouse who came to drink tea.
The waiter looked unperturbed and skillfully served him a pot of tea and two plates of refreshments, then quietly withdrew.
If Lin Qingqing were here, she would definitely recognize that this table was where she and Tang Mingnian sat last time.
"Captain Lin, I have already repaid Lao Qi's favor for him. I hope you can reach Ancheng smoothly."
With that said, Tang Mingnian picked up the teacup and symbolically raised it towards the empty seat opposite: "I wish you a safe journey!"
Lin Qingqing's intuition was correct. Of course there wouldn't be so many coincidences in the world. The experimental sample in her hand came from the Tang family.
The person who issued the mission was Tang Mingnian, the sixth young master of the Tang family. He designated a four-star team to deliver the sample to Ancheng base as quickly as possible.
In principle, such a task does not meet the mandatory task standards, but at this time, it just meets Lin Qingqing's requirements. So the Superpower Guild simply regarded it as an additional task and sent it to Qingmang Team along with the official task.
August is the midsummer season, with lush vegetation and beautiful wind and sunshine.
The Qingmang team followed more than a dozen military vehicles, bypassing the city and only taking those remote country roads.
Meng Xiangyun led the superpowers to clear the way ahead. With military satellites as navigation, they entered the Donghua Mountains smoothly without any detours.
Afterwards, Meng Xiangyun slowed down and led everyone to circle around the mountain.
The mountain road is not easy to walk, and due to excessive rainfall, many places have collapsed. If they want to reach the secret base smoothly and return with supplies successfully, they must clear all the roads along the way, which is a lot of work.
The Qingmang team does not have earth-type superpowers, and Cheng Xiaohe's wood-type superpowers are not related to infrastructure, so while everyone was paving the way, Lin Qingqing and his team members took the initiative to take on the task of vigilance and security.
There are almost no zombies in the forest, and mutant beasts are the biggest threat. Especially in summer, all kinds of insects, snakes and beasts can be seen everywhere.
Here, Cheng Xiaohe's poison ivy played a lot of roles. With it as a line of defense, many low-level mutant beasts did not dare to approach.
"Captain Lin, our target is in the mountain ahead, but there is no road ahead. We need to get off the car and walk a distance."
At the foot of an unknown mountain, Yu Guocheng found Lin Qingqing and pointed to an invisible road ahead and said to her.
The roads leading to the secret base are small, hidden dirt roads that can barely accommodate a truck.
But after the apocalypse, because no one had cleaned the road for a long time, the road had long been covered with dense vegetation.
Now they can only roughly tell the direction of the road based on the color of the soil.
The soldiers were left to guard the vehicles while the others abandoned their vehicles and walked.
Two people with earth and wood abilities jointly opened the way ahead. The group walked around the mountain forest for more than an hour before they saw the place Meng Xiangyun was pointing to.
"It's right there." He looked at the locator in his hand and pointed to a place halfway up the mountain ahead.
If you look carefully, you can see a big tree there, and a wooden sentry tower hidden under the shadow of the big tree.
We finally arrived at our destination. There were no traces of human damage around it. It seemed that no one had ever discovered this place before.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Except for the difficult walking, everything else went smoothly.
Lin Qingqing habitually asked Wen Ling to explore the surrounding situation first. The little girl was very careful and didn't find anything wrong.
"But I always feel like there's something weird about it."
She frowned and looked around. It was too quiet here. This kind of silence was not the kind of silence without any sound, but the kind of silence that made people feel like they were on their own territory. It was a kind of silence that easily made people relax.
a feeling of.
"Little Bell, please work harder and keep your powers on at all times. I always feel that something is not right."
Lin Qingqing did not ignore the strange discomfort in her heart. She looked around vigilantly, with ice mist surrounding her fingers, ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time.
When Qu Xingchi heard the words, he came to Wen Ling's side immediately and protected her behind him; Yin Yaxiu stood next to Wen Ling, holding a strange instrument to detect something unknown, while Lei Min and Cheng Xiaohe also arrived early They took out their weapons, and one on the left and one on the right guarded the periphery of the team.
Ahead, the team cleaning the road was still moving forward slowly. Metal and wood superpowers took turns to clean up the weeds and plants. Then, the earth superpowers following behind pressed down the road. flat.
Just as she was about to reach the wooden sentry post, an idea suddenly flashed through Lin Qingqing's mind, but before she could catch it, the front of the team suddenly stopped.
There was a muffled "bang" sound, which was the sound of a bullet hitting wood.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Qingqing's thinking was interrupted, and she quickly looked forward. Did Captain Meng discover something?
At the front of the team, Meng Xiangyun was also shocked.
"Everyone on alert!"
As soon as he finished speaking, within three seconds, everyone had quickly found a bunker and hid on the spot.
At this time, Meng Xiangyun stood up. Wearing a suit of gold armor, he carefully touched the bottom of a big tree.
"Lao Yu, come and see."
He waved his hand and gave Yu Guocheng, who was hiding on the other side, a metal shield.
Yu Guocheng came to Meng Xiangyun with his shield, looked at the holes in the tree trunk, and said in surprise: "Sniper rifle? SA-98, caliber 0.338, effective range of at least 1,500 meters. Is this a special forces unit?"
"That's right!"
"Who is this person?"
Yu Guocheng couldn't help but glance at the direction of the bullet. What he actually wanted to ask was: What did this hidden special soldier want to do? Or what did he mean by deliberately firing this shot? It didn't hit anyone, and at the same time, it exposed its own existence.
"Warning! He's warning us!"
"Warn us...not to try this secret base?"
"I'm not sure. He may not know our identities. I'll try to communicate with him first." After Meng Xiangyun finished speaking, he waved Yu Guocheng away first.
He raised his head to identify the direction, then raised his hands and waved in the direction of the bullet. It appeared that he did not have a weapon in his hand.
Then he made a few common military gestures in the distance to show his identity to the other party.
After a while, there was still no response from the surroundings. Meng Xiangyun suspected that the other party had not seen it, so he sent two more signals with a strong flashlight.
Although it is daytime now, the weather is gloomy and the forest is dense with plants. The light of the flashlight is still very visible under the shade of the trees.
This time, everyone waited in place for more than half an hour.
"Captain, there's something going on."
At this time, Wen Ling pulled Lin Qingqing and whispered in her ear: "There is a person over there, but he moves very slowly. He should be observing us."
When the bullet was fired, Wen Ling had already detected the supernatural power, but unfortunately, no one was found within the limit of her single detection.
It seemed that the sniper was far away from them, at least 2,500 meters away.
There are too many obstacles for sniping in the forest. He should be stationed at a fixed sniping point, so he can accurately hit this location from such a long distance.
With the help of her superpower, Wen Ling quickly locked the general direction of the sniper point. She kept observing that direction with her superpower, so she captured the opponent as soon as he appeared.
"Is there only one person?"
"Only one person came, but I'm not sure if there's a second person in the distance."
"Okay, you watch first, I'm going to find Major Meng now."
After Lin Qingqing finished speaking, she imitated Meng Xiangyun and attached the ice armor to her body, then bent down, touched his side, and told him the news.
Meng Xiangyun nodded slightly when he heard this, not doubting the reconnaissance capabilities of the Qingmang team.
A few minutes later, Wen Ling's voice came from Lin Qingqing's headset again.
"Captain, that man stopped in your two o'clock direction, four hundred meters away from us."
Four hundred meters, this distance is enough to shout.
Meng Xiangyun cleared his throat, pointed in the direction and shouted in a deep voice: "This comrade! We are the permanent troops from the Xiangcheng base, affiliated to the Eighth Army Corps of the Army, a special mixed formation, YS-A24 team, specially sent to our superiors Order to come and collect military supplies."
At this point, if the other party is one of your own, you should already understand.
Sure enough, after a while, there was an obvious rustling sound in the trees ahead. The sniper no longer hid his figure and gradually appeared in everyone's sight.
The person stood ten meters away, holding a sniper rifle in both hands, with the muzzle pointing towards the ground. He was short, wearing a tattered camouflage uniform, and his body was covered with branches and weeds. His dark face was covered by the brim of his hat, his head was slightly lowered, and his appearance and age could not be clearly seen.
"No need to hide, there are 41 of you in total, 4 of them are women."
The sniper told the detailed number of people on his side. Meng Xiangyun and Lin Qingqing looked at each other, then waved their hands, and everyone walked out of their hiding place.
"Which army are you from?" Meng Xiangyun still looked at him warily. He was not sure if there was another sniper hiding in the dark.
"Song Qiao once belonged to the Sixth Special Forces Team."
It felt like this sniper hadn't spoken for a long time. His voice was hoarse and low, and when you listened carefully, it had an inexplicable chill.
"'Hunting Blade"? Are you from 'Hunting Blade'?"
Meng Xiangyun's eyes widened in surprise. "Hunting Blade" is the code name of the Sixth Special Forces Team. This team was once the top special operations force in China. The members were very mysterious, and they were all the best of the elite.
"Why did you say you were... affiliated with the Hunting Blade?" "
"That's what it means," the sniper nodded, but didn't explain the reason to them.
"Then what did you want to warn us before?"
Meng Xiangyun changed the question and saw that the sniper was not very good at communicating with others, so he took the initiative to ask the reason.
"Do you have the password here?"
"have!"
"Then you can't go in now."
"......Why?"
"Because the password to this secret base has changed."
The sniper told everyone shocking news.
