Gu Xiaoxi carefully studied the map. In the end, her target locked onto two dashed circles on the map, as well as Zhao Zilong’s concealed headquarters.
Gu Xiaoxi put away the map and decisively ran towards Number Seven expert. Best to take it down first.
At this moment, Zhao Zilong had also returned to the headquarters.
When everyone saw him return empty-handed, they all exchanged astonished glances.
Luo Chen immediately stepped forward, asking in disbelief, "Did Gu Xiaoxi run away?"
Zhao Zilong’s cold gaze flickered with a sinister killing intent as he nodded.
Everyone fell into a bout of contemplation.
"Report, we have captured thirty people. Currently, Song Jingyi, Zhao Yi, Gu Xiaoxi, Chen Xuan, Zhang Jingyue, and Jiang Youhua have not been captured yet," a soldier reported at that moment.
"Our mission is to capture the new recruits. If some are still at large, it means our mission isn’t complete. With so many of us letting a few new recruits hop around so merrily, it’s an utter loss of face. Quickly activate satellite location tracking and search for their positions; I will go and capture them myself," Zhao Zilong huffed coldly. He couldn’t let a few soldiers make waves under his command.
This time Gu Xiaoxi had slipped from his grasp, but next time, it wouldn’t be so easy.
"Yes!" The headquarters’ information officer immediately took the order.
Gu Xiaoxi ran wildly to the location of expert Number Seven, then to numbers one, two, three. By the time she had dealt with the seven experts, it was already ten o’clock the following morning.
Gu Xiaoxi sat in the forest eating beef jerky and drinking water, exhausted from not having slept all night.
But the situation was urgent; with three top experts still unaccounted for and Zhao Zilong possibly finding her at any moment, she couldn’t afford to let her guard down.
After eating, Gu Xiaoxi took out the map, ready to check out the places marked by the two dashed circles.
Another four hours of long trek followed.
By then, it was the time of day when the sunlight was at its most intense.
Gu Xiaoxi had already entered the area indicated by the dashed lines.
She carefully searched every spot. She even used her Inner Strength to count how many rabbits and birds there were in the mountain, but she found nothing.
What were the dashed lines?
Sitting on a rock with one hand supporting her head, Gu Xiaoxi began to ponder.
It seemed she had to check the other side.
The dashed lines, ambiguous and intermittent, could they be the locations of the remaining three experts?
With no time to rest, Gu Xiaoxi hurriedly set off for the next location.
At the same time, Song Jingyi completed her mission.
In fact, her mission was quite simple: find the intelligence hidden at point A and deliver it to point B, then collect the mission card for the second phase of the mission.
Song Jingyi joyfully took out the mission card, the second mission was to scout how many people the Blue Army had left and report it to the headquarters.
Song Jingyi frowned. Just as she worried about how to find the Blue Army Headquarters, Zhao Zilong appeared before her like a ghost.
She didn’t even have the ability to strike back before she was captured by Zhao Zilong. After being beaten by his two subordinates, they took her to the headquarters.
Song Jingyi couldn’t defeat Zhao Zilong, so she could only comply as a captive and take things one step at a time.
Qin Chu had already been captured, and his mission was not yet complete. Among Gu Xiaoxi and Song Jingyi, he must be the one with the worst physical strength.
Even Zhang Jingyue, who had a good relationship with some of the veteran soldiers, was captured. In the face of the mission, no one would be foolish enough to cut the enemy some slack, only to get eliminated and dismissed from the military themselves.