"Damn it! That means I'm close to you guys!" Lu Wanqing cursed, "Watch your left side. There are two people. Don't be so stupid as to shoot your daddy by mistake!"
"Who's the other one?"
"It's me." Luo Bing staggered and reappeared from the dust. "We've joined up. Captain, Ji Ling," she rummaged in her backpack and pulled out two signal flares, handing one to each of them. "These should be useful."
"Be careful!" Lu Wanqing stopped in her tracks and fired two shots in quick succession. In the unfathomable darkness, a shadow suddenly trembled and shook off the dust, revealing a dim human figure.
I felt that the number of people exchanging fire with us was constantly increasing. This brought a sense of unease to me. In fact, all the circumstances combined had already narrowed the gap between our side and the enemy. The communication was down, and the sandstorm had caused the signalmen and snipers to lose their advantageous killing capabilities and also deprived us of air support... We were only 240 kilometers away from Krebber, but the support wouldn't arrive in a short while, and everything around us would become our enemies. More and more people would dare to come to assist Tucker Liu. Our bullets would be used up one by one until we ran out... "Desert", what an unlucky word.
We were being trapped in an isolated island made of yellow sand, just like Robinson who had just been stranded on an isolated island, at a loss.
Damn it, why did I think of that?
I let out a long breath to forget all the depressing things. The air flow slightly blew the face scarf. I was the leader of the team, and my emotions would interfere with the states of all my teammates. So I mustn't show any negative thoughts. Otherwise, the others would be affected by my every word and deed...
After taking out a sneaky guy, I heard someone speaking English in the darkness in front of me: "Who is it?"
"One of our own!" Ji Ling replied and moved into the team, assuming a vigilant posture. The wounded member of the sixth team was lying in a corner with cold sweat all over his head, biting a tactical knife in his mouth, struggling to hold back his screams. Groans inevitably leaked from between his lips and teeth, and his sandy camouflage pants were already stained with a patch of dark red.
"All cleared." Just then, CC reported. I had always thought that Team Zero was still behind us. Bob walked over, his face tense, deeply hiding his irritability, but it was so obvious that it was flowing just beneath the surface. "He's losing a lot of blood. I had to send two people to take care of him... And he won't be able to fight anymore after this, which is like having one less..."
He opened his mouth but finally didn't say the phrase "white elephant". The young face under the helmet was covered with dust and a mixture of helplessness and confusion.
The fire in his eyes went out.
I closed my eyes, thought for a moment, and nodded: "Then we'll be in charge of the advance from now on."
"Thank you."
The figures of CC and Katerina emerged from the haze and then disappeared again. All that was left in my ears was the howling wind. The souls of those who died on this land were wailing in the night sky like a curtain. I shivered, feeling a chill on my back. After changing positions, Luo Bing was behind me. In this horrible weather, she still had that expressionless and calm look, maintaining extreme calmness.
To be honest, I really envied her...
"Old Gu," I received a call from Liang Dong. "I feel something's wrong."
"I feel the same way..." It was Ji Han speaking, and there was a bit of unease in her words. "I just feel like there's someone nearby..."
I raised my gun and adjusted the firing mode from semi-automatic to fully automatic. I heard a gurgling sound in my throat and felt a little sweat on my hands. If it was just Liang Dong alone, it would be okay. But now, with Ji Han, who always had an accurate premonition... I really didn't feel confident.
As mentioned in Instructor Zhao Wu Ming's course "Battlefield Adaptability", a person's sixth sense is a verysensitively thing. Because you are a social animal, the instinctive selfishness in your genes will make you ignore kind offers, but it will also make you more sensitive to malice.
Before I knew it, I also felt something, something elusive yet close.
"Captain, the wind speed is dropping," Zhuge Yu said. "The sandstorm is leaving."
I patted Ji Ling's left shoulder, raised my left arm, clenched it into a fist to signal the team to stop, and then made the sign language for "2", "Male", "4", and finally waved my hand.
Two o'clock direction, four men, identities unknown.
"Captain, I'm not receiving any signal access here," Zhuge Yu reported slowly and quietly. "They're not from our side."
"Then, everyone, pay attention. Fire simultaneously." After the monotonous gunshots, the figures fell onto the sandy ground. Ji Ling cursed: "Damn it."
"We might as well go through the houses," Liang Dong said. "This sandstorm... We're just asking for trouble."
"I agree with the above," Jiang Li added. "I don't have any advantage in this visibility at all."
"Zhuge, how far is it approximately?"
"Reporting to the captain, there's no feasible reference object. I estimate it's about three hundred meters left. But I can't hear any gunshots..."
I hesitated for a moment before giving the order: "Then let's go in."
It was much warmer indoors than outdoors, but also much messier. After all, in this war-torn area, not many families in the town of Vra had electricity supply conditions.
Only the prominent families had electricity. After all, it required not only a diesel generator and fuel but also the ability to protect resources - which made it very easy for the reconnaissance battalion to search for targets at night. Most residents would use the method of burning cow and sheep dung to keep warm at night, and sometimes they would also choose firewood. This once led to the CBRN troops in Yard B being dispatched due to a collective poisoning incident caused by burning plants of the Apocynaceae family.
To be honest, those nurse sisters were quite good-looking...
"Xiao Yao, what are you looking at?" Ji Ling shone the flashlight. "Your eyes look like you're looking at pornographic pictures, and animated ones at that."
"Really." Luo Bing twisted her body like a carp and squeezed to the front. "You look like a pervert."
"Turn around! Turn around!" I pushed them aside with a little effort, one with each hand. "What if someone comes to attack us from behind just then?"
"How could—" Ji Ling's voice stopped abruptly.
Years of tacit understanding and the instinctive vigilance honed on the battlefield violently impacted my brain. Before my consciousness could analyze the problem, I pulled my muscles and kicked down two people, then fell backward myself. Amid the sense of weightlessness all over my body, I pulled the trigger!
The three armed men in the room hadn't expected our arrival, let alone the soldiers behind them. Tracer bullets cut through the dark room from left to right. The extractor pulled out the cartridges, and under the cavity effect, black blood flowers burst out of the human bodies. The flashing light projected the figures falling on the wall.
"Open fire!" I reached for my quick-draw holster with one hand and pressed the communication button with the other. It seemed that I was the only one who reacted first. "VCQB! Liang Dong!"
"Boom!" In a hurry, Luo Bing directly fired a grenade. The ground trembled, and the tiny debris that couldn't be mixed any more flew everywhere. In all the visible areas, sparks were flying around.
"Don't look up!" Liang Dong and the MK46 roared together. The cartridges fell to the ground like popcorn, hard and cold.
The bullets tore through the air and flew past us as both sides madly poured firepower at each other. Bullets don't care about us, just like snowflakes don't care about the branches they knock down.
To be honest, this was the closest I had ever been to death.
In the chaos, I was overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness, that same sense of powerlessness again. It was like the tide surging onto the beach with the full moon. The drowning feeling was cold and slippery, flowing in from the mouth, nose, and throat, yet I couldn't muster any strength to resist...
Why?
The rhythmic sounds brought me back to that night.
Why did I have to endure all this?
Dark raindrops split from the clouds and flooded the small room, like hundreds of angry and desperate hands slapping. I lay in the room, unable to think, everything was blank, and the people around me were fading away...
Why was I always so powerless...
"Ah—Ugh!" A painful cry broke through the ceiling and pulled me out of the sea of despair.
It was Luo Bing.