Chapter 69: Damn It, I Guessed Wrong
“The locked position should be here,” they had arrived at the location indicated by the higher-ups, but they didn’t see the lone cadet. The two soldiers searched forward, their eyes vigilant, especially on guard against the area behind the trees and in the tall grass.
“She’s really good at hiding. Is she a rat that can dig a hole?” a soldier muttered in a very small voice, and suddenly pointed at a large tree in front that was as thick as an adult’s waist. The area behind it was pitch black, and it was impossible to see clearly with the naked eye. It was an excellent hiding spot.
The other soldier nodded, his eyes fixed on it. They both agreed that the person was hiding behind the tree.
The two of them shushed each other, made a slight hand gesture, and tiptoed forward, gradually separating, one to the left and one to the right, preparing to block the other person’s escape route.
Zhou Wanfeng held onto the tree trunk tightly, holding her breath and concentrating. She stared at the two people under the tree. Seeing them separate, she moved her feet slowly and powerfully, her gaze on the person on the left. Seeing the opportunity, she pushed off with all her might and leaped down from the high treetop with agility.
He looked up in alarm, but before he could even shout, Zhou Wanfeng had already pinned him to the ground with a loud thud. His whole back was twisted, and his neck was cold. Zhou Wanfeng then rolled a few steps and looked at the person who was running over from the right.
The person on the ground coughed twice and sat up. His teammate on the right wanted to pull him up, but he waved his hand, touched his neck, and it was sticky. He had just choked on a mouthful of wind, and now his throat was greasy. “Cough, cough, cough! Don’t worry about me! I’m ‘dead’!” he said, looking at the cadet who had already stood up.
“This is not a rat. This is a flying squirrel.”
After taking out one, there was still one left. Zhou Wanfeng stood up, took a handful of sponge from her waist, her hand covered in paint, and clenched her fist, getting into a stance, and slowly approached.
Zhou Wanfeng wanted to end the fight quickly. She didn’t know how many people would come to support them. She suddenly slid forward and kicked at the other person’s waist. The other person met the challenge, and his left fist struck Zhou Wanfeng’s leg.
Zhou Wanfeng twisted her body and pulled back, and the other person missed. She then took the initiative to attack again, a left hook quickly attacking the enemy’s head. But it was a feint. The other person fell for it and raised his arms to block. Seeing that the other person was fully defending his upper body, she used a left whip kick with the force of a thunderbolt and attacked the other person’s ribs and abdomen.
With a muffled grunt, Zhou Wanfeng used all her strength, just wanting to quickly decide the winner.
The other person’s steps were unstable, and he retreated. Zhou Wanfeng pressed her advantage. The “killed in action” person who was sitting on the ground now stood up and, while moving along with the two who were fighting, silently cheered for his teammate.
All he saw was that the cadet was brave and fierce. Taking advantage of the other person’s instability, she attacked with a series of left and right hooks. His teammate was blocking with his arms, tightly protecting his vital parts. All he saw was the cadet aiming at his teammate’s lower body.
In a fit of anger, he couldn’t help but shout, “Watch your lower body!” The moment the words came out, he quickly covered his mouth, realizing that he had violated the rules. He slapped himself on the mouth and turned his back, not wanting to watch anymore.
With the reminder, his teammate raised his leg and bent his knee to block.
Zhou Wanfeng’s mind was calm. The other person was standing on one leg. She took the opportunity to insert her foot and twist, forcing the other person’s upper body to lean forward. Zhou Wanfeng did not hesitate to slam her forehead into the other person’s nasal triangle, a relatively fragile part.
“Ah,” a low sound, and a faint smell of rust overflowed in the air. The other person subconsciously covered his nose, but Zhou Wanfeng seized the opportunity, pinned his shoulder and twisted it back, and threw him to the ground.
Without any cushioning, the person was in so much pain that he arched his back and grunted twice.
Zhou Wanfeng’s hand was like a knife. She slashed at his neck and then let out a sharp breath. “Huff, you’re ‘killed in action’.”
After resting for a few seconds, she stood in front of the person on the ground. She had noticed that he had something on his clothes during the fight. Just as she was about to reach out, the other person covered it with his hands and subconsciously scooted back.
“You’re dead. I have the right to distribute your supplies,” Zhou Wanfeng’s tone was cold, and at the same time, her gaze was vigilant. “Take it off and give it to me,” she said. She had analyzed in her mind that at the second checkpoint, her disguise was no longer working. The control center in the rear should be able to distinguish her from the video equipment.
Zhou Wanfeng guessed in her mind that these people probably had something on them that was invisible to the naked eye, and that the rear control console could capture their position and thus mobilize them to support other places.
“She… she seems to be right,” the person standing next to her added in a small voice, also for his own violation just now.
His companion reluctantly took off the thing from his waist.
“This belt is my own.”
Zhou Wanfeng directly borrowed the entire belt. “I’ll return it to you after the assessment.”
The fist-sized equipment was probably for communication. It was very heavy.
After putting it on, Zhou Wanfeng stood up and said calmly to the person sitting on the ground, “You hide behind that tree in front. Just pretend you’ve been hidden,” she said, and then she pointed at the other person. “You come with me.”
“I… I’m ‘dead’,” a voice said, and you could tell from the sound that he was not old. His tone was a little surprised. He could still move. Wasn’t this a violation of the rules?
The person sitting on the ground obediently sat behind the tree and poked his head out. “You’re a fool. You’re already dead. She’s carrying your ‘corpse’ to block bullets. If you’re not willing to go, she can also drag you,” he said. It was over. With his equipment, their rear control console probably couldn’t see them anymore.
From the sound of it, she was a girl. When she started to fight, she was more ruthless than their squad leader. He couldn’t help but touch his back. The whole muscle ached when he pressed it.
Zhou Wanfeng had a “killed in action” person with her. The two of them were almost identical in terms of height, build, and even clothing and equipment.
This assessment was rough and had loopholes. Zhou Wanfeng was not so rigid. The loopholes were the fault of the person who had made the rules.
“Um, thank you just now. Although I’m ‘dead’ now, when you jumped down from the tree, I know you protected my head with your hand.”
“Shut up. Don’t talk. Keep up,” Zhou Wanfeng said in a low voice. She now needed to enter the overlapping zone, which was also the disaster zone.
The soldier silently pursed his lips. Before they came, the squad leader had told them to play with a group of student soldiers, the kind where they could just play around.
Now, like this, would he be killed by Squad Leader Duan later? He followed behind with a sad face. He was “killed in action” and still couldn’t rest.
A few minutes passed. Gao Chunjie took the initiative to contact the command center again, asking how many people were still at the second checkpoint, and the position of the cadets who were now close to the third checkpoint.
After a four or five-second gap, he got the precise data. The number of cadets currently at the second checkpoint was three. As for the position of the cadets who were close to the third checkpoint, two were in the overlapping zone at the three and four o’clock directions, and one was at the center line of the overlapping zone.
Gao Chunjie went over the terrain map in his mind and thought about the position where he had fought with Zhou Wanfeng. He was basically sure that the cadets at the center line and the three and four o’clock directions could not be Zhou Wanfeng.
Zhou Wanfeng was “killed in action.”
Gao Chunjie felt a little unreal. He was a little curious about who had taken her down.
But the rear control console would probably not make a mistake. And he had specifically reported Zhou Wanfeng’s situation. The intelligence should not be wrong.
“Get ready. The next batch of cadets is coming in,” a teammate reminded him.
The people at the first checkpoint were replaced. Duan Hangyi and his three people were fighting. They were fast and precise, elusive. They would attack and then leave, going around, and attacking from the side. The two squads were scattered.
Then, they were taken out one by one.
Basically, more than half of the cadets were taken out at the first checkpoint. The few who had run away were not chased. They were left for Gao Chunjie to run around.
Duan Hangyi was fierce. Of the four squads of cadets, only twelve had come in this batch, barely a full squad. The three squads had been wiped out in the first zone.
With few people, and not concentrated, it was not easy to charge.
The sardines were concentrated in a group. One wave could send a lot of them away.
The rear command center was capturing images and mobilizing the personnel in the forest to go to the designated location to surround and capture them.
They had thought that the twelve people would be very fast.
But ten minutes passed, and the next batch of cadets was about to come. Gao Chunjie and his companion suddenly realized that something was not right.
“What’s going on? Why are there still eleven people?”
He urgently connected to the rear command center.
“Suspected communication device failure. Two soldiers are not obeying the orders. We are arranging for nearby personnel to investigate.”
“Wait a minute. Help me urgently confirm the location of those two soldiers,” Gao Chunjie’s heart suddenly sank. He suddenly remembered Zhou Wanfeng’s attire. If it weren’t for the second checkpoint’s own identification device, she could have easily passed for one of them.
“Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. The capture image shows that the two of them are in the overlapping zone at the 11 o’clock direction, about 500 meters from the third checkpoint…”
Gao Chunjie cursed. “Emergency! Someone, go and get Duan Hangyi back from the first checkpoint! Have the nearby soldiers find a way to stop those two! I suspect that those two are cadets in disguise! One of them must be Zhou Wanfeng! Stop her! Don’t go in hard! The soldiers are basically no match for her!”
He slapped his companion hard. “You stay here and keep an eye on things! I have to go and find Zhou Wanfeng myself!”
He had been careless. He had thought that with more people, he could take her down. He had underestimated her.
“Gao Chunjie, are you really going that far?” his teammate said. He hadn’t seen the cadet that Gao Chunjie had been talking about, the one named Zhou Wanfeng. Was she worth asking about again and again, and now even chasing after her?
Gao Chunjie’s voice unconsciously rose. “Whether this whole night was for nothing depends on this Zhou Wanfeng! Damn it, I’ll have to go and ask the company headquarters later where Qin Zhe found this person! She’s not like a cadet at all! She’s like a charging knife, breaking through wherever she points!”
Gao Chunjie was sure that Zhou Wanfeng was only going for the center line, which was the main mission. He chased after her.
Duan Hangyi at the first checkpoint was replaced. His brow was furrowed. “Disguised as our people, and only a few hundred meters from the third checkpoint? What are you guys doing? Are you playing?”
With that, he turned and chased back. On the way, he ran into a hidden cadet and just ignored him, striding forward and taking a shortcut whenever he could.
He was cursing all the way.
Meanwhile, before that, Zhou Wanfeng and a “killed in action” soldier were together. The communication devices of the two of them rang at the same time. The rear command center was mobilizing them to go to a designated location to surround and capture them. There were cadets near them.
Zhou Wanfeng took the “killed in action” soldier with her. It was Liu Shupei.
“Zhou Wanfeng, you’re not dead?” Liu Shupei had been hiding all the way, her footsteps never stopping. She had vaguely discovered that the other side could always accurately stay at her previous location.
She had been running and hiding without stopping. She had fought with someone for a few rounds, but she couldn’t win. She had grabbed a handful of mud from the ground and thrown it, then quickly ran away.
“You told us to run, and everyone got up and ran. But we were still charged at,” Liu Shupei’s voice was filled with a hint of regret and frustration.
Zhou Wanfeng had the soldier give his equipment to Liu Shupei and told him to “hide” here.
She briefly explained the situation. Liu Shupei was not surprised. It was almost what she had thought. It was just that she hadn’t expected the purpose of this assessment to be like this.
“I ran into He Yunfei when I was running just now,” she said. The male cadet she had met playing basketball, the name Jin Hongjie often mentioned. He was good at basketball, and his personality was not bad. He also knew Liu Shupei.
The people at the third checkpoint were so bored they wanted to gather some dry branches, light a couple of dry leaves, and make a fire to roast some sweet potatoes and peanuts.
A few of them were gathered together, chatting.
As they were chatting, they found that there was movement in the forest. It was a little far away, and they couldn’t hear clearly.
But in the middle of the night, there had been no sound. Now, it was the closest they had been. Their minds cleared, and they all perked up.
“I feel like some cadets are coming this way.”
Two or three hundred meters away, they heard the mobilization order and rushed to the vicinity of the third checkpoint to intercept the two suspicious individuals.
The order was not to go in hard, especially for the soldiers. They could not be rash. This was Gao Chunjie’s original report to the higher-ups. That Zhou Wanfeng’s combat skills were skilled, and her practical combat experience was rich. Just these two points made it very difficult to take her down with bare hands. And if the other side had another companion, who had survived until now, they were probably not weak.
Find a way to hold them off. They had to be intercepted at the second checkpoint.
As Gao Chunjie was rushing forward, he would pay attention to his surroundings. If he ran into a hidden cadet, he would help to support them.
So when he was almost there, Duan Hangyi had also rushed over from the first checkpoint.
The two of them had met on the way. Duan Hangyi didn’t know who Zhou Wanfeng was. Gao Chunjie briefly introduced her. “The three people at the first checkpoint of the first entrance were probably all taken out by her. Xu Xiaoning is a blockhead. He couldn’t win and insisted on going up, and was taken out in front of me. She’s not an ordinary cadet. She’s figured out this assessment. She knows we have searchlights and communication equipment. And she also knows there’s a time difference. For an outstanding soldier, this little time difference is enough to ambush and counterattack.”
Gao Chunjie had already figured it out. Zhou Wanfeng must have used the time difference to counter-ambush, and had directly taken out two soldiers, and then taken their equipment.
“From what you’re saying, this cadet is not only good at fighting, but also smart,” Duan Hangyi said. To be able to discover the searchlights in such a short time, just for this point, this cadet could be considered outstanding.
“Not just not bad. Do you think I’m rushing back for no reason? I f*cking regret it so much! I should have stuck to her like glue back then! Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble! She almost turned the tables and wiped us all out!” So many people had worked so hard all night, and she had almost succeeded. “I’m telling you, Old Duan, don’t be a fool and treat her as a cadet. You’ll know when you see her in person. She’s like a steel knife. She can fight. Her classmates all said that in the new recruit training, she didn’t even lose a fight with the squad leader. You’d better not be careless.”
Gao Chunjie couldn’t help but carefully instruct him.
They could already hear movement in the distance. It sounded like a fight had broken out.
“Hurry up, Old Duan,” Gao Chunjie wished he had a pair of wings. Duan Hangyi on the other side quickened his pace. They had often participated in field training. This kind of mountain was considered flat. The slope was not high, nor was it steep. It was just a small hill behind their house.
In the distance, four blurry figures were wrestling. One of them was obviously much shorter.
Duan Hangyi thought that the short one was the Zhou Wanfeng that Gao Chunjie had been talking about, and he specifically looked at her.
As they got closer, he saw that Zhou Wanfeng was wrestling with someone, and she was struggling. Her technique was decent, but… it was just decent. In his opinion, it was just the standard of an ordinary soldier, not at an elite level.
Gao Chunjie was preparing to sneak attack from behind, but one of the people next to the short one pulled her, and the two of them retreated.
Duan Hangyi walked closer and looked at Gao Chunjie with a frown.
When Gao Chunjie saw the person, he was completely stunned. He stared at the two people in cadet uniforms and suddenly felt a chill run up from the soles of his feet. He cried out in alarm, “Where’s Zhou Wanfeng?”
Liu Shupei and He Yunfei looked at each other, panting heavily. The two of them turned and ran in separate directions.
Duan Hangyi strode forward and pounced, grabbing the person. A soldier next to him directly grabbed his hand and twisted it back, pinning him down. Liu Shupei was killed in action.
The soldier then went to grab He Yunfei.
“Gao Chunjie? Is this the Zhou Wanfeng you were talking about?” his voice was filled with doubt.
Gao Chunjie didn’t have time to answer Duan Hangyi’s question. He was thinking about Zhou Wanfeng when suddenly, the communication devices of the two of them rang at the same time.
“Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Emergency notification, emergency notification! The capture image shows that one person has already passed through the second checkpoint! The human image has entered a blind spot! The human image has entered a blind spot!”
Duan Hangyi was so angry that he grabbed Gao Chunjie’s collar. He wanted to curse, but he couldn’t. In the end, he could only keep muttering, “Zhou Wanfeng, Zhou Wanfeng! I’ll remember this name!”
Gao Chunjie thought for a moment, and a thunderclap went off in his head. “Damn it! I guessed wrong! Zhou Wanfeng didn’t care about the assessment mission at all! She didn’t show up here, which means she’s going to destroy the searchlight!”
He was covered in a cold sweat and quickly contacted the rear command center. “Emergency report! Emergency report…”
Cao Baoshan saw someone running in the middle area. It was far away, and he couldn’t see clearly. But from the clothes, they were not the training uniforms of the cadets, but from the company, so he didn’t pay any more attention.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of running. Just as he was about to be on guard, he saw a soldier come out of the forest. It was dark, and he couldn’t see his face clearly. It was gray.
The soldier’s appearance was not right. He took two steps forward, his footsteps faltered, and he suddenly swayed and stumbled forward, and fell?
Cao Baoshan was taken aback. He rushed over. “Bro, are you okay? Are you not feeling well?”
Just as he got close and was about to turn the person over, he looked down and saw a cloud of powder coming at his eyes. The next second, his wrist was grabbed.
Cao Baoshan’s heart skipped a beat. It was a trap.
The person on the ground used the momentum to jump up from the ground, flipped over Cao Baoshan’s back, and with a speed that was so fast that Cao Baoshan didn’t even have time to rub his eyes, he reached out to grab the other person’s back. But the other person ducked and dodged, supported himself on the ground with his hands, and delivered a fierce right back sweeping kick, kicking hard at Cao Baoshan’s leg.
Cao Baoshan fell to the ground, supported himself with his hands, and turned, quickly rubbing his eyes.
Zhou Wanfeng had already seen a truck parked in the open space behind him. On a straight tree trunk in front was a square box. It was the searchlight.
She rushed over. From behind, Cao Baoshan flew over with a kick, his voice excited. “Zhou Wanfeng?”