CHAPTER 470: CHAPTER 435: INADEQUATE PREPARATION

Mountain Eagle received a tip from Camel, and he drew his Ruger Silent Pistol, taking a deep breath against the building’s corner wall...

When the roving sentinel in the middle corridor approached about ten meters from the alley where he was, Mountain Eagle suddenly lowered his head and stepped out.

The two sentries probably didn’t expect anyone to infiltrate the camp, and they instinctively stopped in their tracks upon seeing Mountain Eagle.

It was already too late by the time they realized Mountain Eagle wasn’t one of their own...

"Pop pop, pop pop"

Mountain Eagle raised his gun and fired rapidly, the consecutive shots hitting the heads of the two roving sentries, freezing them in place.

At the same time, Camel, on the perimeter, opened fire...

"Thud"

A sentinel walking on the outside shook his head violently and fell to the ground...

The sentinel on the inside, his face splattered with fresh blood and brain matter, was just about to find cover and fire a warning shot when another bullet found his head.

As the two sentries on the outside fell, Mountain Eagle supported the collapsing bodies, dragging their corpses next to Anna’s window...

Peering through, Anna’s eyes shone with disbelief and joy as Mountain Eagle put his finger to his lips, signaling her to stay silent, then he moved to the corner of the building...

The roving sentries on the inside noticed something amiss because they always saw each other at this time.

The inner sentries, not seeing their companions from the middle and outside, chose to cross the alleyway to check.

This time, the two roving sentries were slightly cautious, but as they approached the junction, Camel in the distance pulled the trigger first...

"Thud"

As one sentry’s head jerked back and he fell, the other instinctively looked back, and then...

"Pop pop"

Mountain Eagle, appearing from around the corner, fired continuously, hitting the last sentry in the back of the head, causing him to fall atop his comrade.

The summer ground muffled the sound of their fall so much that the people inside the barracks heard nothing.

Mountain Eagle rushed over and dragged the bodies underneath a heating unit filled with fuel, then quickly rigged a trick mine with a Hand Grenade.

After everything was set, Mountain Eagle ran to the outside of Anna’s window...

Seeing Anna dressed in thin clothes and in slippers, he quickly bent down and fashioned a pair of climbing shoes and a Bullet-Proof Vest, stuffing them through the narrow window.

He examined the wall structure, which was filled with insulation material, and took out a roll of explosive meant for breaching, shaping a semicircular blast area from the bottom.

Looking at Anna, who had already put on the shoes and Bullet-Proof Vest, Mountain Eagle pointed down at the corner of the wall and gestured for her to cover her ears and go there.

Anna, her face flushed with excitement, quickly crouched at the corner of the wall and covered her head with her hands as instructed by Mountain Eagle.

With his back next to the blast area, Mountain Eagle glanced at the time, then squeezed the radio and said, "This is Mountain Eagle, the package is about to be retrieved..."

Camel placed the remote control used by Broadsword within reach...

"Camel in position..."

Gray Wolf glanced at Glasses who had already set up the Barrett sniper rifle...

"Evil Wolf Team in position..."

Hearing this, Mountain Eagle turned around, bent over covering his mouth and nose, and forcefully pressed the detonator...

"Boom"—the explosion blew a semicircular hole in the outer wall of the barracks...

As the smoke from the explosion rose, Mountain Eagle turned and rushed into Anna’s room, pulling her up and running out while tossing a Smoke Bomb and a Hand Grenade towards the room’s entrance...

The moment Mountain Eagle dragged Anna through the breach, the room’s door was violently pushed open.

A tattooed man with several others rushed into the room, frantically waving their arms as they tried to disperse the smoke and locate Anna.

Just as he spotted the large hole in the outer wall and drew his pistol to yell...

"Boom"

The Hand Grenade exploded nearby...

The tattooed man and those with him curled into balls on the ground, writhing in pain like rats caught by a toe clip.

The blast sounded like a hornet’s nest had been poked, and a swarm of Jungle Ants rushed out from the barracks.

But taking time to gather weapons and ammunition delayed them, and by the time the first wave of Jungle Ants emerged to look for the enemy, Mountain Eagle had already rushed Anna to the edge of the camp...

As someone spotted their trail and pointed a flashlight beam at them, they had already crossed through the broken wire fence into the tundra.

One particularly agitated Jungle Ant, forgetting Black Fox’s orders not to harm Anna, raised his gun to shoot, but suddenly, several dazzling lights lit up on the ground inside the camp.

The previously dropped Burning Sticks emitted blinding light, causing discomfort and cries from the newly emerged armed personnel...

In the bright environment, their vision was impaired.

As a few Jungle Ants attempted to fire based on their last visual, they began to fall one after another.

"Sniper..."

After all, they were trained individuals; even without hearing gunshots, these Jungle Ants realized someone was sniping from afar...

They looked for cover and fired in the direction they believed the sniper might be based on the angle their fallen comrades had dropped...

"Bang bang bang bang..."

"Bang bang bang bang..."

The scene now became chaotic, but meanwhile, Mountain Eagle and Anna had taken the opportunity to vanish from their pursuers’ sight.

Just as Mountain Eagle thought they could catch their breath, several lighting bombs were fired into the sky, slowly illuminating his and Anna’s figures as they descended...

At the moment he saw their shadows, Mountain Eagle embraced Anna and lunged forward with a leap...

"Crack"

The crisp sound from the ground behind him made him realize the enemy also had a sniper...

"Camel, second-floor sentry..."

Mountain Eagle landed, rolled a few times with Anna in his arms, then pulled her up to continue sprinting...

As the second bullet hit the ground that Mountain Eagle had just stepped on, Camel pulled the trigger...

"Thud"

A bullet traversed 200 meters of space, hitting a sniper wielding a bolt-action rifle, accompanying the already dead sentinel to the afterlife.

After completing the attack, Camel ignored the flying bullets, rapidly pulling the trigger, returning the chaotic suppressive fire of the Jungle Ants.

When the lighting bomb lost its brightness, the advantage returned to Mountain Eagle’s side. He dragged Anna on a mad sprint to reconvene with Camel, retrieved his own VSS, and slipped on the tactical vest...

Crouching with the gun, he quickly aimed at a soldier screaming and hiding behind a pile of debris...

"Thud"

The bullet accurately struck the soldier’s neck, the deflecting bullet tore open his carotid artery, and the bursting skin and splashing blood drenched those next to him...

With the death of this guy, the restless Jungle Ants around could no longer contain themselves, jumping out of cover howling and wasting bullets on the darkness.

Occasionally, stray bullets whizzed over the heads of Mountain Eagle and Camel, though without causing any concern.

Mountain Eagle saw someone with two signal flares rushing out of the barracks; he decisively pulled the trigger to take down the person, then yelled at Camel: "Retreat, retreat, retreat, 400 meters back, then eastward..."

While Mountain Eagle was shouting, the trick mines inside the camp detonated...

Wood is scarce near the Arctic, so the heating equipment here all uses gasoline.

The explosion did not ignite the fuel tanks but damaged the heater’s oil tanks, causing a localized fire that led to chaos and thoroughly ignited the anger of Black Fox within the camp...

As Mountain Eagle continued to suppress the frenzied Jungle Ants with gunfire, more lighting bombs were sent soaring...

At the moment when a dozen lighting bombs ascended, Mountain Eagle let out a curse...

He thought of the enemy possibly having night vision equipment or even infrared detection devices, but he had forgotten this simplest method...

The moment they were exposed, a large number of Jungle Ants charged toward their direction, continuously opening fire.

"Shit..."

Camel, forced to lie prone and open fire once more, yelled, "We can’t stop, I’ll detonate the Broadswords to hold them back, you guys retreat first..."

Mountain Eagle felt a bullet pass close to his shoulder, swiftly changed his magazine, then while pulling the trigger yelled: "The lighting bombs are short-lived, their fire is limited, wait for my command to detonate the Broadswords, we’ll roll back in retreat..."

Saying this, Mountain Eagle didn’t wait for Camel’s response; he glanced at Anna and shouted: "Make sure you stick close to me later..."

Anna gave a wry smile and flexed her right leg, saying, "Might not be possible, why don’t you retreat first, Black Fox won’t kill me until his goals are met..."

Mountain Eagle frowned at Anna’s obviously twisted right ankle and said, "When did this happen..."

Anna shook her head with a bitter smile and said, "I twisted it during our escape; I thought I could keep up..."

"Camel, cover..."

At that moment, Mountain Eagle could no longer worry about the others; he quickly crawled back a few meters, took off his tactical backpack for Anna to wear, then lengthened the straps before slipping Anna onto his back like putting on a piece of clothing...

Then he took off his waist belt, wrapped it around Anna’s hips, and secured her tightly to his waist.

"Hold on to me..."

Mountain Eagle growled and stood up, running towards the Northeast direction while shouting: "Camel, Broadsword..."

Camel swiftly pressed the remote control, and the two Broadsword mines placed near the barbed wire by Mountain Eagle exploded...

Thousands of steel balls created intersecting firepower, forging a deadly zone.

Seven to eight Jungle Ants who had charged close to the wall were instantly riddled with holes like a hornet’s nest, collapsing in a bloody heap.

The explosion of the Broadswords, combined with the ineffectiveness of the lighting bombs, halted the attack within the camp...

Mountain Eagle, carrying Anna on his back, sprinted about 50 meters before stopping and turning around to aim his gun, providing cover while calling through the radio...

"Camel, retreat..."

The moment Camel heard the command, he sprang up and started sprinting towards Mountain Eagle’s direction...

The nearly sixty-year-old man ran as if he was no different from a younger person. He had just veered off in an angle to overtake Mountain Eagle when...

"Swoosh"

Camel’s body jolted, then he collapsed forward...

"Sniper, infrared aiming, three o’clock direction..."

The moment Camel hit the ground, he reported the enemy’s position, then rolled in pain while clutching his ribs before sitting up difficultly to prop up his VSS...

The bullet was stopped by the plates inside his bullet-proof vest, but the bruise to his ribs made Camel realize he probably couldn’t run far...

"I can’t escape, you guys go..."

Mountain Eagle looked at Camel a few meters away, clenched his teeth, pulled out an insulation blanket with force, and flung it open before rushing over to cover Camel with it, then sidestepped and stood his ground, raising his VSS...

Camel under the insulation blanket saw Mountain Eagle’s action; he shook the blanket off with force, raised his gun, and shouted: "NO, Mountain Eagle, NO..."

"Thud"

"Swoosh..."