Chapter 49: Decapitation Strike

When the car arrived at the Blue Force encampment, it was already the middle of the night.

The faint lights inside the camp were concealed beneath protective netting, visible only up close.

"Squad Leader Song, delivering supplies? Same old routine, let me inspect the truck bed first."

The vehicle stopped at the sentry checkpoint, and the guard on duty conversed with the driver.

Hearing their voices, Su Yang immediately leaped out of the truck and decisively hid beneath the chassis.

A few minutes later, clinging to the truck's undercarriage, Su Yang sneaked into the encampment.

Su Yang felt extremely fortunate. Along the way, the veteran soldiers in the cab had paid no attention to the movement in the truck bed; otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy for him to follow them right into the Blue Force headquarters.

It was only a few hundred meters without any bumps from the Blue Force headquarters checkpoint to the cooking squad's area. If he hadn't been careful while clinging to the undercarriage, any momentary lapse in attention could have cost him his life.

"Hurry up, unload the stuff, and we can all go to sleep."

As soon as the truck came to a halt, Su Yang heard the squad leader of the Blue Force cooking squad summon more than a dozen soldiers to unload the supplies.

Su Yang had no choice but to remain hidden beneath the truck, listening intently to the exchanges among the Blue Force soldiers.

At that moment, he didn't dare crawl out from under the truck at all. For one thing, he was unfamiliar with the surrounding environment, and crawling out would easily expose his position.

Secondly, he first needed to figure out where the Blue Force armory was and find a way to get his hands on some explosives.

Right now, he only had his rifle, and even blank rounds were in short supply.

"Is everything unloaded? Once you're done, hurry back to sleep. We have to get up at dawn to prepare the meals."

After finishing their work, the group of Blue Force soldiers, urged on by their squad leader, returned to their tents to rest.

Before long, deafening snores echoed from the tents, a sound that almost made Su Yang, lying beneath the truck, feel sleepy.

Sensing that there was hardly anyone around, Su Yang quickly rolled out from under the truck and crept toward a tent that looked like it could be the storage warehouse.

Arriving beside a tent, Su Yang frowned as he looked at the two guards standing at the entrance.

With two sentries posted there, the probability of him sneaking into the warehouse decreased significantly.

After all, two sentries were not wooden statues. Even if he managed to cover one person's mouth, the remaining one would still make a noise.

This wasn't actual combat; Su Yang couldn't just kill them to keep them quiet.

If they resisted and stirred up a commotion, his cover would be blown.

"Ah, if only Lao Pao or Xiao Zhuang were here." At that moment, Su Yang finally realized the benefits of teamwork.

Just as Su Yang was about to give up on entering the warehouse, a vehicle with blinding headlights drove into the encampment from outside, illuminating the entire area brightly.

"Damn it, Old Dog Gao really is a hound, pursuing relentlessly."

Listening to the clamor near the vehicles, Su Yang instantly felt extremely depressed.

Because he had heard the voice of Old Dog Gao once again.

Muttering a few complaints to himself, Su Yang returned to the cooking squad's supply tent, found a large water vat, and climbed inside.

He didn't dare take risks. Having managed to get in this far, it would be pointless to get caught by Old Dog Gao now.

As for why he hid inside the water vat, it was because water provided the best insulation against thermal radiation detectors.

Su Yang was certain that the Langya Special Operations Brigade definitely possessed such equipment.

………

"Gao Dazhuang, instead of properly hunting down the Red Force scouts, what are you doing at the headquarters?"

A senior colonel walked out of a tent, caught sight of Gao Dazhuang, and asked with a puzzled expression.

Gao Dazhuang saluted and explained, "Reporting to the chief, we are here specifically to capture the Red Force scouts. We received intelligence that enemy scouts may have infiltrated the headquarters."

"Red Force scouts in our headquarters? Are you sure? Don't tell me this is just your guess. Let me tell you, Gao Dazhuang, the commander and the others are all here. It's impossible to turn the headquarters upside down just based on your hunch."

Reading the expression on Gao Dazhuang's face, the senior colonel immediately understood what was going on.

"Reporting to the chief, we won't need to turn the place upside down. We brought thermal radiation detectors along. If the Red Force scouts are hiding in the headquarters, we can find them easily," Gao Dazhuang said confidently, pointing to the equipment carried by two soldiers on the truck.

"Very well, go ahead and search then! I'll have the guard battalion cooperate with you." Knowing that the encampment wouldn't need to be torn apart, the senior colonel approved Gao Dazhuang's request.

"Thank you for your support, chief. Grey Wolf, have the men scan every single tent. We must find Old Miao's soldier." After thanking the senior colonel for his backing, Gao Dazhuang ordered Grey Wolf into action.

Half an hour later, Grey Wolf came before Gao Dazhuang, shaking his head with a trace of discouragement.

Gao Dazhuang instantly frowned, "Are you certain he's not there?"

Grey Wolf nodded and said, "We've scanned every area with the thermal radiation detectors, especially the places where someone could hide. Aside from the guard battalion's hidden sentries, there are no abnormal human thermal signatures."

"Moreover, we checked the guard battalion's hidden sentries one by one; they are all their own men."

Gao Dazhuang still found it hard to believe, "That's impossible. Where else could this kid go besides the headquarters? Is there any target around here larger than the headquarters?"

"Wild Wolf, could it be that the kid never came to the headquarters at all? After all, this was just our speculation, and the kid is quite clever. Could he have guessed that we would step up security at the headquarters?" Grey Wolf voiced his own theory.

"Impossible. That kid would never waste his effort on nothing," Gao Dazhuang dismissed Grey Wolf's idea, lifting his head to squint and survey the headquarters shrouded in the dark night.

After a moment, he spoke up, "We aren't going anywhere else; we'll stay right here guarding the headquarters. Go and find out if there are any unfamiliar faces among the Blue Force soldiers. If there are, that's definitely him."

"Understood, I'll go check right now." Grey Wolf took the order and departed.

………

"Hiss, so cold!"

With dawn approaching, Su Yang, shivering, climbed out of the water vat.

He was truly grateful that it was mid-summer. Even though he had soaked in the vat for hours and his hands were waterlogged and swollen, his core body temperature hadn't dropped dangerously low.

Otherwise, he really would have died in that water.

As for why he was coming out now, the reason was simple: the cooking squad would soon be arriving to prepare meals.

If he stayed any longer, he would undoubtedly be discovered.

Therefore, disregarding the fact that Langya's men were still around, he had to change his position immediately.

Moving his limbs to warm up his body, Su Yang found some fruit in the tent, ate a few bites to fill his empty stomach, and then headed toward the armory.

At this hour, Su Yang believed the sentries would be overwhelmingly drowsy—it was the prime time for a silent raid.

Sure enough, when Su Yang arrived near the warehouse, he saw two sentries: one was leaning against a chair snoring, nodding off intermittently.

As for the other, he was standing, and watching his swaying, precarious posture, Su Yang couldn't help but smile, because he and Xiwa had done the exact same thing when they first joined their company and stood guard—sleeping on their feet.

Su Yang immediately crept over stealthily, covered the mouth of the standing sentry, knocked him unconscious, and gently lowered him to the ground.

"Red Force scout, you have now been eliminated. Please abide by the exercise regulations. If you dare make a sound, I will report you to the directing department."

Soon, the remaining sentry was jolted awake, but with Su Yang's dagger pressed against his throat accompanied by the threatening words, he obediently kept his mouth shut.

Entering the armory, Su Yang scanned the temporary storage facility. The items were arranged quite neatly and clearly visible at a glance.

He quickly located the timer explosives, packed them into his backpack, and then picked up a rocket launcher, slinging it over his shoulder before charging out.

What he needed to do was strike swiftly and decisively; speed was essential. Once he delivered the timer explosives to the various tents, his mission would be a success.

As for the rocket launcher, that was his tool for achieving decapitation.