Chapter 717: What on Earth Happened?

"Be careful." Zhang Qian only said these four words; he said nothing else.

An Yinan and Chen Xun nodded; everything was understood without words.

The three of them separated there. An Yinan took the water route. She submerged herself into the water, and the icy river water entered her skin, making her shiver violently. Cold.

The weather in early autumn is hot at noon and cold in the morning and evening, with a large temperature difference.

She tried hard to adapt to the temperature for a while. Once she had adjusted, she kicked up a splash, stretched her arms and legs, and swam directly toward the Command Headquarters.

Along the riverbank, there was a sentry post every few hundred meters to prevent them from approaching the water source, but there were not many of their people; apart from two squads of new recruits, there were only the Sharp Knife special forces.

All in all, no more than thirty people.

"Unnecessary." An idiom flashed directly through An Yinan's mind.

Rather than controlling the water source, it would be better to carefully shrink the protection perimeter. With people so scattered, either they had some reliance, or this Blue Party commander...

Who could it be?

An Yinan's mind raced.

Today, the Military Department conference room was brightly lit. Everyone watched nervously, their hearts moving along with the images.

A full half-hour passed. Whenever she encountered a place with guards, she could only hold her breath to pass by, thinking to herself, why hadn't she thought to store some reed stalks in her space?

No, after this special training ended, she must stockpile some reed stalks. If she had reed stalks, she wouldn't have to hold her breath like this. Fearing she would alert the enemy, her lungs felt like they were about to burst.

When she reached the command post, she quietly poked her head out to observe the terrain for a long time, memorizing some details in her heart. Afterward, she jumped onto a rock and wrung out her clothes slightly on it; otherwise, they were too heavy.

"Still no sign of them?"

"None."

"Those two people are like loaches. Forget calling them Soldier Kings, just call them soft-shelled turtles. How can they be so patient?"

"Who's to say? We've sent out quite a few of our people, and there's still no news."

The two were new recruits, and they were in the middle of changing shifts. Having just finished patrolling and returning to rest, they couldn't help but complain a few times.

"Shh, don't let the veterans hear you, they'll get angry."

"Hey, I'm just running my mouth. If you really think about it, those people are real men."

An Yinan was just about to take him down, but this person suddenly did a complete reversal, making An Yinan almost hurt an ally by mistake.

However...

With a few leaps, she jumped onto the roof. This house was a wooden cabin. In the deep mountains and old forests, building such a wooden cabin was already quite difficult, using materials found on the spot.

An Yinan's eyes suddenly narrowed; she seemed to have a fun idea.

Chen Xun had been on the cliff. He used a rope to rappel down. There were no ropes here, but there were plenty of vines. The three of them had spent an afternoon weaving vine ropes, and now they were just waiting for things to get chaotic below.

But what awaited him was not chaos, but bursts of smoke?

Smoke?

There was no such step!

Chen Xun's eyes narrowed. Smelling the scent of burning wood, he realized his wife had changed the plan.

On the other side, a man paced in the room with a gloomy face. How much time had passed, and there was still no news from those two people.

Just at this moment, a loud shout broke the quiet night.

"Fire!"

"Everyone, hurry and put out the fire!"

The first person to see the fire was a patrolling Special Operations Team member. When he saw it, he was slightly stunned. It was his first time needing to put out a fire while on a mission; they were also a bit surprised.

It was a wooden house, and having been exposed to wind and sun for a long time in these deep mountains and old forests, it was rarely maintained. The wind wasn't strong today, but with the slight breeze blowing, in this night, everyone could even hear the crackling of the flames.

"Fire." An old man reacted quickly and then strode out of the room.

The Captain of the Sharp Knife frowned, "Leader, you cannot go out."

The old man was full of anger, "Not go out? If it weren't for the fact that you can't find anyone, I would have already returned to Beijing."

"You can't find the people, the house is on fire, and you still won't let me go out?"

The Captain of the Sharp Knife frowned. The area was too large; their people were like needles in a haystack. If the others were intentionally hiding, it would be a miracle if they could find them.

"Leader, if you go out now, it will easily give them an opportunity. Our people are already putting out the fire," the Captain of the Sharp Knife explained with good temper.

Inside the house, they couldn't find the target, but once outside, those two were Soldier Kings.

How could they miss?

Don't say...

An Yinan really couldn't aim, because the gun in her hand was already gone. This was a river beach, but the riverbed was all silt. Perhaps it had been deposited for too long, or was it because it was upstream?

In any case, there were no stones, which meant she had no handy weapon.

As for why she didn't use Xiaoyin, it was mainly because she wanted to keep Xiaoyin as a secret weapon and avoid exposing it as much as possible.

She was also afraid that there might be spies from other countries, and if their trump cards were all exposed, the loss would outweigh the gain.

Just as she was hesitating about how to send a signal to Chen Xun, a figure descended from the sky.

The gun he carried directly blew the hat off the leader's head.

For a moment, the Captain of the Sharp Knife, who couldn't persuade the man, felt a bit helpless.

He had been persuading him all along, using both soft and hard words, but this commander simply wouldn't listen to reason.

Just as he stepped out of the room, he was headshot by Chen Xun, who had descended from the sky.

"Trash, you are all a bunch of trash! With so many people, are you all just eating for free? You can't even protect one person." The leader was furious; his already red face was now even more flushed.

An Yinan sneered, jumped down from the roof, walked to the leader's side, and gave him a cold look.

"Trash? Who is the real trash?"

"Is what you have stored in your brain the waste you excreted this morning? How can you be so irritable and yet so confident?"

"You only have one face, can't you save some of it from being lost?"

"Back in the conference room, you hadn't lost it yet, had you? Looking at it this way, it's really not necessarily just one face; I'm afraid it's a two-faced mask."

An Yinan's mouth rattled on, not giving anyone else a chance to cut in.

Above the command post, the blue smoke had already been released, signifying the failure of the Blue Team.

"You... you..." The red-faced Leader pointed at An Yinan, eyes wide, completely bewildered.

She? How could she be here?

If he had known it was her, he wouldn't have come at all!

An Yinan did not know his inner thoughts, nor did she know that these people were actually so afraid of her.

"What about me? Did my appearance interrupt your ignorant ranting?"

"Or was it that before I appeared..."

"You felt that the sky had cleared, the rain had stopped, and you thought you were capable again?"

"Did a donkey spend all day doing nothing but kicking you in the head? How could you be this ignorant? Go back and ask the people behind you, what did they see in you? A donkey-kicked head, or your mysterious self-confidence?"

The Captain of the Sharp Knife, who had just been holding a weapon in defense, had now silently taken a step back; they couldn't afford to provoke her, really couldn't afford to provoke her.

Heavens, who could tell him what on earth had happened?