Chapter Forty-Eight: Going Off
Sitting in the ditch, my head covered with weeds, I held the gun against Anne's shoulder, my eyes closed and fell asleep, tossing all night, I was already exhausted, I didn't feel it before dawn, but now I relaxed, and suddenly I felt that all my strength was drained, and sleepiness swept over.
I slept soundly, I didn't move for five hours, and if it weren't for the fact that my chest was heaving, I was still breathing, and others would have thought I was dead.
Near noon, I was sleeping soundly, and suddenly there was a gunshot in the jungle outside, the sound exploded in my ears like thunder in my dream, I woke up suddenly, reflexively turned over, subconsciously raised the sniper rifle, pulled the gun to load with a bang, and made an attack posture.
"What's going on, where did the gunshots come from?" I looked around, and everyone was still hiding in the ditch, and everyone else was awake at the same time, all of them holding guns and staring at each other.
"There is a battle in the direction of seven o'clock, one hundred and fifty meters away, and it is approaching our position." Billy, who was on guard above, sent a message.
I was silent for a moment, and then said, "Let's go out, disperse, do a good job of camouflage, cover the enemy, and no one is allowed to shoot without an order." With that, I pushed away the grass that covered my head, and then waved at Billy in the tree, signaling him to come down, and as a sniper, I had to go up and control the whole field.
After coming out, the brothers immediately moved, and the three teams each found a hidden position to lay in ambush, and engaged the enemy through crossfire in a triangular formation.
I was dressed in camouflage, crouching on the trunk of a tree, surrounded by dense foliage as my best cover, and when I was ready, I looked down, and everyone was well disguised, at least I didn't notice them.
The gunfire in front of me was getting more and more intense, and I didn't know which group had exchanged fire with the enemy, so I thought in my heart that I should go to the rescue, but reason told me that it was not the right decision.
We now have seriously wounded people, and if we act rashly without knowing who we are, we are likely to put everyone in a desperate situation, and do not forget that it is daytime, there is no night to provide us with cover, and every step must be taken with caution.
Listening to the chaotic gunfire, there are quite a few enemies, at least about ten, and we killed more than twenty people last night, and this group is likely to be the last enemy.
Judging by the sound of gunfire, they were indeed approaching us, but not at us, but moving away from the north, as if someone was retreating that way.
The gunfire intensified, and I could faintly see the flickering gunfire through the cracks in the jungle, and the smoke from the grenade explosion, less than a hundred meters away from us.
At this moment, a figure appeared in my scope, an enemy soldier in a tattered military uniform, who was holding an RPK light machine gun and firing at the right front.
His position landed right on my scope through the gap in the jungle, and I felt an itch in my heart, and my fingers moved from the trigger guard to the trigger, and then put it back again, back and forth several times.
After all, I still resisted the desire to kill, and suddenly found a terrible phenomenon, killing people is actually addictive, just at that moment, there were 10,000 voices in my head urging me to kill him, kill him, even the body involuntarily wanted to shoot, at that moment I was a little thirsty for blood, eager to kill, just like a drug addiction.
Am I addicted to murder? I pinched myself hard, forcing myself to recover from that emotion, and I broke out in a cold sweat, almost unable to control my murderous intentions.
"Why is this happening? Am I naturally bloodthirsty? "I asked myself over and over again, but I couldn't find the answer.
The enemy in the scope was gone, and I looked up, a little afraid to look again, for fear that another figure would appear under my gun.
It took a few deep breaths in quick succession for me to calm down from the killing mood, and by this time the gunfire had gone north.
The battle there was fierce, and even a few stray bullets flew to our side, and judging by the gunfire, the enemy gradually gained the upper hand, and the gunfire of the M16 was gradually suppressed.
The gunfire was getting farther and farther away and was already a hundred meters away, I took a deep breath, it seemed that we had escaped this battle, but the members of the group who were in the battle were afraid that there would be more than one bad luck.
I know the enemy's combat style too well, and I give full play to the style of beating the water dogs, and once I am bitten by them, it is very difficult to get out, especially during the day.
There was already a group of people hanging up before, this is the second group, I was thinking, after the assessment, maybe there will be only one of us left in the base.
The danger was temporarily lifted, and I came down from the tree to say hello, and the others came out from behind the grass.
I sat under the tree, thinking about whether to go with me to pick up some sweetness, and my brothers gathered around, listening to the sound of gunfire as they faded away, and everyone's mood relaxed.
Catherine and Natalie stood guard not far away, and Tim came to sit down beside me, his eyes rolling around, as if he was wondering if he should follow and sneak up on him again.
Bachai and Billy sat back to back, and Annie pulled Sika to sit down and helped change the gauze on his arm.
At this time, Cullen also came over, found a flat place, removed the gun strap from his neck, and then casually dropped the gun on the ground, apparently wanting to lie down for a while.
At the moment when his gun landed, the sudden gunfire exploded like thunder on the ground, everyone was startled, Tim and I stood up suddenly, and even the injured Chiba sat up in shock, and Anne was so frightened that she even threw the gauze in her hand.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm going off, don't get excited, everyone relax, it's just a fire, it's not a big deal, hehe!" Cullen didn't feel that he had made any mistake in the slightest, but instead looked joking, only slightly embarrassed.
"you—"
I went up and kicked him more than three meters away, and then I took out the pistol with my backhand, pulled the sleeve bullet and pointed it at his head, I was really angry, I was not so angry when Isha was injured.
If Tim hadn't grabbed me with his quick hand, I might have killed him.
"Team leader, now is not the time to clean him up!" Tim grabbed me, then headed north towards Nunu's mouth.
That's right, the gunfire just now drew back the enemy who had already gone away, maybe the enemy heard the gunfire and sent his troops to try to wipe us out, or it could be that our men heard the gunfire and retreated here to ask for help.
Whatever the reason, in short, they are approaching our position, and the culprit of all this is Cullen's so-called misfire, my teeth itching with hatred, and I can't get rid of my hatred when I kill him.
"Take Isha and Chiba and withdraw!" I glared at Cullen, squeezing a word out between my teeth.
The others didn't dare to speak, Billy carried Chiba on his back, and Andrew carried Isha on his back, each with their own equipment, and retreated all the way south.
This retreat is two kilometers, and we may only need three minutes for ordinary mountain cross-countrying, but in such a dense jungle, two kilometers is definitely not a shortcut, and it takes half an hour to walk.
The gunfire behind him had stopped, and I didn't know if one side was completely wiped out, or if the two sides were out of the fight, in short, there was no movement for the time being.
We found a flat clearing and stopped. The anger was very dull, no one dared to speak, and Tim kept staying with me, for fear that I would kill Cullen in a moment of excitement.