I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 92 - 91: Steel and Flame

Chapter 92: Chapter 91: Steel and Flame

The early winter mountain forests were exceptionally cold, and the team of over two hundred struggled to move forward. Min Li led the group, with a light machine gun draped over his shoulder, its barrel wrapped in oilcloth.

Most of the soldiers from the New Liberation Front came from refugee ranks, with a few being survivors from the first civil war. Min Li’s father had once followed Li Bin into the mountains to fight as guerrillas; now it was his turn to join the fray.

This was all told to Wei Tianyang by Li Bin.

Over ten minutes later, the team reached the edge of the forest, facing a field of broken stones. Beyond that lay a steep pebbly slope, and the white base of the surveillance post was sticking out from the mountainside.

The post was embedded at the top of a high peak, blending into the mountain. The enormous iron sphere, like an old pendulum from a bell, was held captive within the hourglass-shape building by dozens of huge chains.

They were located below the mountain, in the woods. With time still early, Min Li ordered to lay low and set up camp.

They would wait until nightfall to launch the attack, but before that, two scouts from the Liberation Front set out to find a suitable climbing path and to verify the location of the drainage outlet.

It had to be said, Moby Dick was very professional; he even provided a 3D structural diagram of this type of building, so Min Li could view it on his tablet.

While they strategized, the unfinished simply needed to stay in the tents to rest.

Wei Tianyang had followed the group the whole way. Just now, he flew over to see Li Songyan. The transport team hadn’t arrived yet; he could wait a bit longer.

Yaha seemed to have something on her mind, staying silent throughout the journey. She, who was usually carefree and willful, now had an uncommon frown on her face, as if she was contemplating something.

This time, the lineup from Black House remained the same. The 200 Liberation Front soldiers were all light infantry, aiming to break into the building to secure a foothold, so they didn’t carry heavy equipment like mortars or rocket launchers. Thus, Kong Kong and Yuanxin’s superpowers became their alternatives.

Electromagnetic Wave would stay with Min Li, monitoring the building’s interior through the transmitted images from inside cameras, before disabling the facility’s electronic devices.

Starbucks and others would follow the Liberation Front’s soldiers to break in, using superpowers to aid in combat.

Yaha, of course, would stay outside acting as the medic, while Wei Tianyang...

He didn’t know his role; neither Yaha nor Min Li had arranged a specific task for him.

Wei Tianyang wanted to use objective reality to scout the interior of the building first, but the station itself was embedded in the mountain, at too high of an altitude. Even as a moth, Wei Tianyang couldn’t fly that high.

He could only wait until the climbing gear was set up, then stealthily climb up the drainage outlet under the cover of nightfall.

He found Yaha, standing at the entrance of the tent, asking what he could do.

Yaha seemed distracted, but when her eyes met Wei Tianyang’s, her face lit up with that iconic bright smile.

"You’re the secret weapon. I think this operation will go smoothly, so perhaps you can rest," Yaha said with a laugh.

After speaking, she casually walked away, as if intentionally avoiding him.

Wei Tianyang sighed, looking over at Li Bin.

"Can you guys get in?" he asked.

Li Bin shook his head. "It’s too high; we can’t fly."

"Then stay here. I’ll go and have a look over there," Wei Tianyang said.

After speaking, he entered objective reality, becoming a moth, and rose from the woods, flying toward the southeast.

At the same time, in Li Songyan’s telescope, movements had appeared.

At the end of the winding mountain road, dust rose; the transport convoy, the size of ants, was slowly making its way towards the border line.

"They’re coming!" Li Songyan informed Guo Kaichen, who was perched on the mountain wall, via his phone.

Lin Yanqing also took off her eyepatch and rushed to the cliffside with her gun in hand.

"Let me know when we can make a move," Guo Kaichen’s voice came through the earpiece.

"It doesn’t look like the conservative forces," he muttered to himself.

"The conservatives have lost power; these people seem to be mercenaries," Lin Yanqing also noticed the clue.

"The Heavenly Falling Objects should be inside those containers. Let them come a bit closer..." Li Songyan said.

Li Songyan stared as the convoy slowly approached, with two BTRs leading the way, followed by a heavy tractor pulling a long silver container, and six SUVs trailing behind.

This setup didn’t seem like it was from the Chicken Snake Country.

Lin Yanqing kneeled on one knee, her eyes flashing with a golden glow. Her vision briefly darkened before she swiftly ascended into the sky.

A skylark dove from the clouds, plummeting into the canyon below. It spread its wings, buoyed by the wind, and swiftly passed over the transport vehicles.

Lin Yanqing returned to her body, exhaling deeply as she said, "There are 26 armed personnel walking with the vehicles, equipped with ICRs, full sets of helmets and bulletproof vests... They’re not regular army from Chicken Snake Country, definitely mercenaries."

In the blink of an eye, the convoy had reached the valley where they were ambushed—an U-shape that would probably prove difficult for the container truck to navigate.

"It doesn’t matter who they are, kill them first, Li Songyan! Did you get a good shot?" Guo Kaichen urged.

Li Songyan didn’t say anything; he put on his smart glasses and extended the high-magnification camera’s lens module out over the cliff with a telescopic pole, aiming it downwards. The lens displayed a framing box.

The convoy, the personnel arrangement, and the emblems on their clothing... The more Li Songyan watched, the more something felt off.

"It’s a professional team... there are no identifiers, even the vehicle emblems have been removed," Li Songyan said.

"Then we kill them first, then go down to check!" Guo Kaichen said.

Before Li Songyan could stop him, Guo Kaichen’s eyes flashed with light, and then the driving cabins of the two lead BTRs burst into flames.

The flames soared high; the BTRs came to an instant stop. Guo Kaichen saw several burning soldiers jump from the rear doors and collapse to the ground after taking a few steps.

He set another blaze in the cockpit of the tank, and the convoy instantly descended into chaos.

"Don’t set the container on fire; it might contain..." Li Songyan had just started speaking when he saw the container fold up like a corrugated cardboard box.

And inside that container were stacks of large rectangular metal plates, each about twelve to thirteen meters long and eight to nine meters wide, piled up high.

Sitting atop that stack of metal plates was a man.

The man looked up toward the cliffside and almost instantly spotted Guo Kaichen hanging there.

Then, before the flames had time to spread, the man somersaulted off, taking cover beside the truck.

Meanwhile, the metal plates began to float one by one, spinning in the air and flying toward Guo Kaichen.

Fire couldn’t melt these metal plates in such a short time, leaving Guo Kaichen cursing, "We’ve been tricked!"

The next second, the vertically spinning plates were right in front of him, and Guo Kaichen’s body suddenly shot up a small distance, just as the plates, like blades, pierced into the mountainside below with a loud clang.

Lin Yanqing was on the cliff, her hands tightly gripping the rope, her arm muscles bulging.

Li Songyan helped as well, quickly pulling Guo Kaichen up.

"You’ve got strong arms, I thought you were the academic type..." Li Songyan couldn’t help but compliment.

"I’m from the Special Forces, how could I be weak?" Lin Yanqing replied.

"Stop jabbering! There’s a superpower special forces team below, and there are more than twenty guns aimed at us!" Guo Kaichen said as he unfastened the buckle at his waist.

It wasn’t that they couldn’t beat them, but their geographical position was somewhat awkward.

In theory, with the high ground, they had the advantage.

But the superpower special forces below, controlling the flight of the metal plates, had a range and speed far beyond Guo Kaichen’s own superpower abilities. All he could use from up high was his gun, which was awkward.

Lin Yanqing was just a scout type, and at this distance, in direct combat, her superpower was not very useful.

In other words, their combat strength was pretty much the same as Li Songyan’s.

"If I knew it would be like this, I would have brought a bazooka! We’ll go down from the back and loop around for a backstab," Guo Kaichen said angrily.

Lin Yanqing nodded, and the three of them, guns in hand, followed the small mountain trail they’d come from, running towards the northwest along the side of the ridge.

At this point, Iron King was leaning against the truck, holding a tablet in his hand, while a drone hovered a hundred meters above in the sky.

"Damn it! Ruan Yu, that bitch, lied to me. This Wei Tianyang can set fires too? If he had started with the container, I’d have been done for! However... his range for setting fires seems limited, hehe... You’re dead meat~" The Iron King laughed.