In a dense forest in Longji Ridge, several simple tents were set up in a clearing that had been temporarily cleared. These tents, no different from those set up by ordinary explorers, look quite ordinary.

Except for the two men who were on guard outside, everyone else hid in their tents. If you look closer, you will find that these two guards are holding miniature *** in their hands.

Obviously, this group is no ordinary mountaineering explorer. They are the mercenaries that He Kun spent a lot of money to find from Europe through intermediaries, and the task of this group of people is to find the ice spirit of the Tianshan Mountains in the cold pool.

Because there was a garrison guarding the mountain, this group of people also made a big circle, and finally went around to the vicinity of the cold pool of the Tianshan Mountains.

In one of the tents, a glimmer of light peeked through the cracks. Inside the tent, five Westerners were sitting together. This is due to the fact that the five people are relatively large, which makes this small tent seem extremely crowded.

At the top of the table was a bearded, white man with a stiff hairstyle and a thumb-thick cigar in his mouth. Probably because of the small space in the tent, the cigar was not lit, but only symbolically held on the lips.

Holding a military miniature flashlight in one hand and pointing to a simple map with the index finger of the other, he said to a black man sitting to his left:

"Johnson, when you get to Hantan, you take five people directly to the southeast corner of Hantan. According to the information that Louis has just inquired about, there are three tents here, so there should be at least three people. You are responsible for getting rid of these people in the shortest possible time. It's best if you don't need a gun, so as not to startle the snake. ”

"No problem, little meaning. The black man chewed gum and said nonchalantly. He then asked the strong white man sitting at the top, "Rambo, what about these people?"

"When it's over, you take your people and scatter them and hide them. Your location is the main passage where the garrison troops under the mountain rushed to this side of Hantan. If our actions are exposed, the garrison is most likely to come from your side, and you will be responsible for stopping them. There is no radio communication around here, so when the time comes, you will retreat while fighting, and gather and retreat at the northwest corner of Hantan, where we are now. Rambo, who was sitting in the first place, replied.

Then he looked at Johnson again and said: "Don't despise the Chinese, let alone fight, you only need to block for a quarter of an hour, and then you must immediately retreat while fighting." ”

After saying this, Rambo turned to the slightly emaciated white man and said, "Jack, your main task is to sneak into the cold pool to find the ice spirit of the Tianshan Mountains. There is a word 'cold' in the name of this cold pool, and the water in the pool must be very cold. When Louis went to check just now, he tested the temperature of the pool water by the way, and the surface temperature was very low, and it was estimated that it would be even lower below. I know you've done a lot of preparation, but it's important to be cautious. Remember, safety comes first, ice spirit comes second. ”

Jack nodded in agreement. He is not a man of many words, nor is he the most combat-ready person in this group. However, he is an expert in deep diving. After retiring from the U.S. Marine Corps, he worked as a diving instructor for six years, and can be said to have rich experience in deep diving.

Seeing that he didn't ask a question, Rambo continued to say to him: "The two assistants you chose before are responsible for answering on it, but in the pool, you can only rely on yourself." ”

Jack nodded again in response.

Seeing this, Rambo turned his head to a white strong man sitting on the right and said, "Matt, you wait and lead five people to guard the southwest side, forming a corner with Johnson, echoing each other." Your side may also be one of the passages through which the garrison will rush over. Again, it only takes a quarter of an hour to block, and then you can fight and retreat. ”

Ma nodded in agreement, and then asked Rambo, "Head, what is this Tianshan Ice Spirit?"

"I don't know the specifics, but according to the client's description, it should be a transparent crystal. It is said that this thing is extremely cold, and the reason why the water in this Tianshan cold pool is cold is because of the ice spirit of the Tianshan Mountain. I believe that after seeing it, you can recognize it at a glance. Rambo replied. Speaking of this, he turned to Jack again and said, "Jack, after the afternoon, you should be careful in the process of searching for the ice spirit of the Tianshan Mountain, especially pay attention to the changes in the surrounding temperature. ”

"Okay. Jack opened his mouth in a rare way and said two words.

Finally, Rambo said to the other white strong man sitting to his right: "Yuri, it's still the old rule, you are a sniper, looking for a vantage point, responsible for sniping the other party. ”

Yuri is a Belarusian, tall and burly, who is good at gathering. Every day, in addition to eating and sleeping, he would hold his sniper rifle. Just like now, a sniper rifle will not leave the hand for a moment. He said angrily to Rambo, "Okay, Rambo. ”

Rambo finally glanced at the four of them again, and said: It took us a lot of time to bypass the troops stationed at the foot of the mountain, and finally go around to the Tianshan Hantan, so there is not much time left for us to act next. Everyone checked the time, set off in five minutes, and then arrived at their place in a quarter of an hour, and acted on time at three o'clock. ”

Then, he said to the black man again: "Johnson, you must make sure that you deal with those people cleanly, and do not give the other party any chance to give a warning to the garrison, so that we can have more time to search for the ice spirit of the Tianshan Mountains." ”

Johnson was also apparently aware of his importance to the operation, and replied, "Okay. ”

Rambo waved his hand and motioned for the four of them to go out, and said, "Let's go and prepare." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden continuous screaming outside, and then someone shouted, "Snake, big snake!"

The five people in the tent did not dare to slack off, and quickly rushed out of the tent, only to see a huge snake with the thickness of a bowl biting the waist of a person on duty and shaking violently. In a moment, the man's shouting stopped abruptly. Apparently, already dead.

It turned out that after the red flame snake finished laying eggs, it returned to the Tianshan Mountains and Hantan along the same road. When it was about to reach the cold pool, it encountered this group. As the person in charge of the guard attacked it in a hurry, the Red Flame Snake also launched a counterattack and bit him.

By this time, someone had already rushed out of the tent with a gun. Rambo didn't have time to stop him, and the man was already shooting at the serpent.

Although the Red Flame Snake has been cultivating for thousands of years, it is still unable to fight head-on in the face of modern thermal weapons. Due to the lack of dodge, he was shot several times in the body.

The Red Flame Snake was in pain, and its figure flashed, and it disappeared into the grass. Just as the man who shot him was about to find it, the snake's tail came out of the grass like lightning and swept around the man with a 'whoosh'. As the muscles of the snake's body shrank suddenly, there was a sound of bones shattering. The man only had time to scream, and was crushed to death in an instant.

This scene completely calmed the people who had just rushed out of the tent, and someone actually recruited on the spot. However, after all, this group of people were all experienced in a hundred battles, and soon someone reacted and raised their guns to shoot at the Red Flame Snake. As soon as he raised the gun, the tail of the red flame snake flicked, and he threw the person who had been entangled to death to the position where everyone was, causing a panic in everyone.

The Red Flame Snake took the opportunity to rush towards everyone, biting and entangled, and several more people died in an instant.

The rest of the people were in complete disarray by this time. Lan Bo and the other five people also realized the danger of the giant snake in front of them, and they couldn't care about it anymore, so they picked up their guns and shot at the Red Flame Snake.

In the midst of the chaos, someone actually threw out **. **After the explosion, although the red flame snake was injured, two of their own people were killed on the spot.

After the red flame snake was injured, especially after being injured by the ** explosion, it was ferocious, and the attack was even more ferocious.

Yuri held the ***, but he never found a chance to shoot, on the one hand, it was a mess in the field, and it was easy to injure his own people by mistake, and on the other hand, the movement of the Red Flame Snake was very fast, and it was difficult to aim at its vital point.

Suddenly, the Red Flame Snake bit a person's head, and then the snake's head was raised high and shook violently in the air, and soon the person's head was bitten off.

When the head of the Red Flame Serpent was raised high, it just gave Yuri a chance to aim and shoot. Yuri raised his gun at great speed to aim, then opened fire, and the whole action was done in one go.

The bullet made a sound that burst through the air and shot towards the head of the Red Flame Snake. At this moment, the head of the Red Flame Snake just flicked downward, and the bullet flew past the snake's head. However, although the bullet did not hit the snake's head, it happened to blind one of its eyes.

The Red Flame Snake rolled violently on the ground in pain. In the process of rolling, several more people were swept by him.

Just when Yuri picked up *** again and was about to aim, a shuttle catapult came over, and he and Rambo and the other four people beside him had no time to dodge, and were directly shot on the spot.

It turned out that there was a person who was entangled in the body of a giant snake, and before he died, he subconsciously pulled the trigger of ***. The *** in his hand changed direction under the entanglement of the giant snake, causing Yuri, Rambo and the other five to become unjustly killed.

The gunshots woke up Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai, who were sleeping in the tent. After they rushed out of the tent, they followed the sound of gunfire to find the location of the gun, and were about to rush over to check the situation, when they suddenly realized that Li Jingwei had not come out of the tent, so they rushed over to call him.

After shouting a few times outside the tent, seeing that there was no response, the two thought that something had happened, and hurriedly opened the tent to check, but found that Li Jingwei was not inside. So, the two hurriedly looked around, but still found nothing.

Later, Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai felt that Li Jingwei might have heard the gunfire before them, and he might have rushed to the place where the gun was fired first. So, the two did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran towards the location where they had previously found the shooting.

Just as they were rushing towards the northwest of Hantan, they didn't know that the battle on this side was over. Except for two or three who were seriously injured and struggling on the ground, all the others died, and some of them died in a very tragic way, with mutilated limbs and rotten intestines.

In the process of this fight, the Red Flame Snake was also seriously injured. Originally, he was very weak after laying eggs, and he was blinded in one eye in the fight, and his body was also hit by bullets in many places, and he was injured by **. In the life of the Red Flame Snake, it can be said that he has never suffered such an injury, and it can be said that he has suffered a great injury to his vitality.

At the end of the fight, the Red Flame Snake dragged its broken body and crawled back into the cold pool with great difficulty.

Therefore, when Zhang Yuanpeng and Meng Kai arrived at the scene, they did not find the giant snake, but only saw the corpse in one place.

The two of them found a man who was still struggling in pain and asked, and the man was also like a frightened fool, and only said mechanically: "Snake, snake, snake ,..." without answering their questions.

When Zhang Yuanpeng and the others first saw the tragic situation here, they were very worried about Li Jingwei's safety. After carefully checking the scene, he didn't find Li Jingwei, so he was a little relieved.

Later, they followed the blood on the ground to the edge of the pool, and looked thoughtfully at the quiet water.