Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 322 - 101: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind

Chapter 322: Chapter 101: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind

Throughout this journey, everyone took turns carrying her, making the already difficult road even harder and adding a burden to the team. Even if she won the competition, the guilt in her heart could never be erased.

Withdrawing was her best option.

Guo Dong was evacuated by helicopter. She couldn’t hold on, but she hoped Gu Xiaoxi could win.

When Gu Xiaoxi heard the helicopter nearby, she looked up and couldn’t help but sigh.

She couldn’t regard everyone as a warrior, so she respected others’ choices, whether they chose to quit or stay.

The sun hung high, and noon arrived.

In the sweltering heat of the swamp, it was hot and humid. The decaying leaves on the ground were rotting and stinking!

The team was slowly moving forward. Gu Xiaoxi wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked up at the endless plains of the swamp. She took out the map and realized they had only gone halfway. It was much more exhausting than climbing mountains.

In front of them, the reeds taller than a person were brimming with life. As they passed, everyone got scratches on their hands and faces, not sparing Gu Xiaoxi either.

When the wind blew, the reeds swayed like waves of green, exceedingly beautiful.

But everyone only felt a burning pain on their cheeks.

Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxi shouted to everyone, "Careful, there are people in here, definitely more than twenty."

With the wind so loud, she couldn’t determine the exact number. But judging from various sounds, there were certainly a lot of them.

"Don’t get separated," Gu Xiaoxi commanded. In this kind of place, it would be very difficult to find each other again after getting lost.

"Okay!" everyone answered in unison.

Moments later, Gu Xiaoxi led the team to hide in the reeds. The next second, someone burst out from the reeds fleeing, followed by five people in black tight-fitting clothes chasing after them.

Gu Xiaoxi’s brows furrowed. If she wasn’t mistaken, the person ahead was Zhang Fenglin’s subordinate, Xiang Sinan.

In such a situation, Gu Xiaoxi touched her chin, her eyes flashed with a sharp light, and she quickly gave her orders, "Yun Xiao and Zhuang Sheng, follow me. The rest stay put! We’ll regroup at the signal of three barks from the military dog."

"Cap, can you find your way back if you leave like this?" Guo Qiwei quickly asked.

"Don’t worry, I will definitely find my way back," Gu Xiaoxi reassured as she patted Xiao Xiao’s head. She noticed that Guo Qiwei and Huang Xin’s physical strength was lagging, so she left Baili Tao with them to protect them.

Pursuing the enemy, an activity that drains physical strength, is something they should handle.

Zhuang Sheng was complaining of exhaustion, but his physical condition and speed were excellent. His quick thinking could make a difference in team battles.

"Bang!" Gu Xiaoxi heard a gunshot ahead. Without guessing, she knew Xiang Sinan must have been eliminated. The yellow smoke rising from the reeds confirmed it.

"Xiao Xiao, be alert. As soon as you hear a gunshot, pounce on the surviving enemy," Gu Xiaoxi ordered.

Yun Xiao also quickly gave orders to Xiao Xiao.

Zhuang Sheng was also serious at this point, not daring to be careless.

Gradually, through the reeds, they could see the heads of the ambushers. Gu Xiaoxi did not hesitate to shout loudly, "Fire!"

The three of them fired simultaneously and instantly, three ambushers had blue smoke rising from their heads.

"Damn it, there are people hiding here too. Who, come out!" the eliminated man shouted angrily.

The remaining two stood up with their weapons and started shooting at the area where Gu Xiaoxi and others were hiding. It was then that Xiao Xiao and Xiao Xiao pounced from behind and took them down.

The military dogs’ performance remained unaffected in such an environment.

Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao seized the opportunity to rush up and perfectly captured the two.

They naturally seized everything, including a few clips of ammunition. Fortunately, their ammo had almost run out.

Zhuang Sheng tied the two together and threw them in front of Gu Xiaoxi.

Gu Xiaoxi, exhausted, sat down to catch her breath while asking sternly, "How many people are there in your group total?"

"We’d rather die than tell," one of the captives declared resolutely. None of them expected the tables to turn while they lay in wait.

Five men, taken down by three rookies.

That moment, the already eliminated Xiang Sinan also came over upon hearing the noise. Seeing Gu Xiaoxi, he yelled angrily, "Did you deliberately not save me just now?"

"Why should I save you?" Gu Xiaoxi looked up indifferently at him. She had no fondness for someone like him, who spat in beer. If he were to accompany her to the world competition, they’d only be destined to lose.

Since they were incompatible, the only option was to eliminate him. She had to make it to the world competition.

"You... Don’t be smug, Gu Xiaoxi," Xiang Sinan raged, consumed with anger, yet he couldn’t do anything. The three special forces soldiers on the side were equally enraged.

But they couldn’t do anything to Gu Xiaoxi, as this was an exercise. Winning or losing was important indeed, but causing trouble had more severe consequences.

They had been waiting here for a whole day and night, just for their arrival. To their surprise, they were instead captured while chasing the rookies. This left the seasoned soldiers fuming.

Zhuang Sheng stood in front of the captives and began his unique form of interrogation, "Tell us how many of you there are and where you’re hiding. Otherwise, I’ll strip you of your clothes and have you run naked through the reeds. Speak up, or I’ll start undressing you..."

Gu Xiaoxi winced, took a cool breath, stood up and said to Yun Xiao, "Let’s go! We shouldn’t stay here long. Let’s regroup with the others."

Yun Xiao followed Gu Xiaoxi with Xiao Xiao, and seeing them leaving, Zhuang Sheng hurriedly picked up his gear and followed suit with Xiao Fei.

"Why stop interrogating prisoners? Why aren’t we doing it anymore?" Zhuang Sheng was confused by Gu Xiaoxi’s actions.

Gu Xiaoxi smiled without speaking, to put it plainly, this exercise wasn’t an actual battle, and the enemies were not real foes. Her interrogation methods were a bit harsh, and since everyone knew it was an exercise, those with special forces background would prefer death to divulgement.

So why waste time on interrogation.