Chapter 22: Ambush

On the way to the exit of the barracks, Zhou Zhen told Zhong Xiaoguang about his experience since entering A28, and Zhong Xiaoguang listened silently without the slightest surprise.

"I need to know your detailed plans for the future, and I can't be kept in the dark by you like the A28 mission."

After listening to Zhou Qian's speech, Zhong Xiaoguang made a request, and Zhou Zhen smiled bitterly, the A28 mission was kept in the dark, not to mention Zhong Xiaoguang alone, he was just a chess piece.

"I'm not Hayes, the plan can't be so detailed, I just want to save people, I'm skeptical of corporate alliances, I'm against energy experiments, but I can't prove that what they're doing is wrong."

"It's not a plan."

Zhou Zhen's statement could not satisfy Zhong Xiaoguang, he nodded and added:

"Speaking of plans, I will strengthen the gangs, protect the unemployed, and build a force strong enough to compete with the corporate alliance, you control the Armored Rat Company, Thomas spies on Jiro Oshima, and I hope you can delay the energy experiment as much as possible and find a better solution to the energy crisis than sacrificing tens of billions of lives."

Zhong Xiaoguang nodded, thought for a moment, and said abruptly: "The four major enterprises." ”

Zhou Zhi was unclear: "What do you mean?" ”

"We know too little about the corporate alliance, Jiro Oshima is just an executive of the Shennong Group, at best a finger, the real brain, is the leader of the four major enterprises, to check and balance the enterprise alliance, first know who the opponent is."

Zhong Xiaoguang explained calmly.

"No one has ever seen them."

Zhou Zhen shrugged his shoulders and expressed helplessness.

"Yes, no one, but the expansion of the alliance at the end of the year will be an opportunity for us to make sure that the company becomes the fifth governing company, and we also have access to the leaders of the big four."

Zhong Xiaoguang seems to have entered the state of CEO of the Armored Mouse Company.

Zhou Zhen looked at him with satisfaction: "Well, this was originally one of the things I wanted to explain to you, and you have improved a lot." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang smiled: "General Bernard taught me a lot, and I have learned a lot myself, such as the mission process of A28, I already guessed seven or eight points when you didn't say it, and my parents were notified by you, right?" Let them find me in the wilderness outside the Old City. ”

Zhou Zhen nodded and said: "Yes, I sent them a message that night, your parents are very smart, not only saved you, but also helped me play a round, after getting the news of my trial, they immediately rushed to A28, and also played a good show of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang turned his head to stare at Zhou Zhen's face: "I will help you, in fact, because of your choice after being arrested, I know that you confessed your guilt to save them." ”

As he spoke, he took out a pack of cigarettes and a box of matches from his pocket and handed them to Zhou Qian: "Oh, what you miss the most, talk about thanks." ”

"Haha, I've wanted to ask you for a long time." Zhou Zhen took it unceremoniously, tore open the packaging of the cigarette box three or two times, shook out a cigarette and lit it.

Under the smoke, he looked at Zhong Xiaoguang beside him, he became three points like himself, seven points like Hayes, and he could no longer see the shadow of that young man.

...

Zhou Zhen and Zhong Xiaoguang stood on the city wall, one holding a telescope, Zhou Zhen was searching for Amiko's figure, and Zhong Xiaoguang was responsible for reconnoitring the enemy.

"Did you find anything?" Zhou asked.

"No, the forest is too dense, there are too many wild beasts, and this is the tropics, so there is a lot of thermal interference." Zhong Xiaoguang responded.

Zhou Zhen put down the binoculars and pulled out the revolver: "Let's go, you have to go down and touch it, I'll hit the head, you are ten meters behind me and covert guard." ”

"Hmm." Zhong Xiaoguang unloaded the sniper rifle from his back, skillfully pulled the bolt, and filled it with five bullets.

Zhou Zhen lit a cigarette, tilted his head to watch his movements, couldn't find fault, he sighed in appreciation, turned around and walked towards the passage under the city wall.

Zhou Zhishou advanced to the location of the warning sign, and saw a pool of blood on the path ahead from a distance, he made a few gestures back, signaling Zhong Xiaoguang to stop and look for a covering shooting position.

Zhong Xiaoguang leaned over and left the road after receiving the order, and his figure quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

Zhou Zhen walked to the bloodstain to observe, the bloodstain was very new, extending into the forest, he searched the bloodstain, and found a hastily erected tent by the stream, the tent was smashed to pieces, and the tarpaulin and wood were full of bullet holes.

Zhou Zhen was nervous for a while, kicked through the grass to search for other clues, and soon found three dead bodies separated from each other around the tent, the corpses were dressed in civilian clothes, the heads were hideous and the expressions were frightened, and the corpses were mutilated by the bite of wild beasts, but the wounds on the neck still showed traces of sharp blade cutting, which was undoubtedly a masterpiece of the saber.

There was no Solomon in the corpse, and there were no Amiko's belongings around, Zhou Zhen calculated the time, from the time he passed by the warning sign to now, almost seven or eight hours had passed, and when someone was found to be following him near A28, Solomon and his men were about two hours away from Amiko.

In the intervening five or six hours, where would Solomon take Amiko?

Zhou Zhi did not know what Solomon's purpose was in tracking them, and for Oshima Jiro, he had Thomas in his hand, and he was no longer of any use for himself.

Could it be that what he wants is Amiko? It doesn't make sense, if you want to capture Amiko, you don't need to let them go in A01 at all.

Want to uproot the bandit lair in this area? It's redundant to send someone to track, as long as you locate Amiko's ID chip and then mobilize a large army to attack.

There is only one possibility left, Solomon was not sent by Jiro Oshima at all, there are other forces behind him.

Footprints, now all that can be traced, Solomon is tall and strong, the footprints are very obvious, the wide and deep footprints that start from the tent and disappear on the side of the stream after a dozen steps.

It seems that Solomon was not just as stupid as he seemed, but he was skilled at wading through the water to hide his footprints, and the lower reaches of the creek were a cobblestone tidal flat that could not be traced as long as he stepped on the rocks.

"Solomon!"

Zhou Zhen ran wildly along the stream, roaring through the jungle, and he couldn't think of a better way.

Zhong Xiaoguang put the rifle back on his shoulder and ran with his footsteps, he had never seen Zhou Zhen so out of shape.

A rifle bullet grazed Zhou's body and burrowed into the stream.

Zhou Zhen took a step back and hid behind a big tree, raised his hand to signal Zhong Xiaoguang to ambush, Zhong Xiaoguang immediately lay down next to a mossy boulder, and monitored Zhou Zhen's location through the scope of the sniper rifle.

"Muffler, across the stream, about two hundred meters."

Zhou Zhen communicated with Zhong Xiaoguang in sign language, Zhong Xiaoguang searched the other side of the creek in the scope, and there was a faint reflection of metal in a bush, and he gestured back to Zhou Qian: "The target has been found." ”

"Marker shooting." Zhou Zhen ordered.

Zhong Xiaoguang aimed at the open space next to the grass and pulled the trigger, and the bullet whizzed through the air, splashing dirt and broken leaves at the target.

Zhou Zhen flashed out of cover at the same time, and fired three shots in the direction of the grass as he ran, both in the air and on the ground.

This is a strategy to startle the snake, they can't be sure if Amiko is hiding in the grass, and they don't dare to shoot at the target rashly, Zhong Xiaoguang's shot marked the location for Zhou Zhen, and Zhou Zhen's follow-up shot covered his own transfer, and also made it difficult for the other party to judge Zhong Xiaoguang's location through the gunshot.

Normally, the opposing gunman will retract into the bunker and look for an opportunity to crawl and transfer from the back of the bunker, but the guy on the opposite side is obviously not ready to let Zhou Zhen get his wish, he still shoots back again and again when his position is exposed, but I don't know whether it is the inaccurate marksmanship or the mercy of his subordinates, and every shot is in front of Zhou's running route.

In the next few minutes, the encounter turned into a game of wits and courage, completely irrelevant to marksmanship and combat skills, and Zhou Zhi no longer dodged forward, but ran in a straight line towards the grass, each bullet fired by the opponent getting closer and closer to his feet.

Running to a distance where the sound of the other party's bolt could be clearly heard, Zhou Zhen suddenly rolled sideways and hid in the shooting corner.

Seconds later, he appeared above his target, raising his pistol to kick away the dead leaves covering the grass.

The sight in front of him puzzled Zhou Zhi, there was only a rifle supporting a tripod in the grass, and there was no trace of the gunman.

At this time, several gunshots rang out from Zhong Xiaoguang's hidden position, and Zhou Zhen judged by the gunshots that Zhong Xiaoguang's shooting target was behind him, and someone tried to attack from behind.

He quickly turned to the side and threw himself to the side, half-lying in the grass, he saw that dozens of meters away, Solomon's tall body was rushing towards him, the sniper rifle with huge braking power hit him like cotton, and the high-speed bullet fell softly, but Solomon's speed did not decrease at all.

Zhou Zhen stood up and was about to dodge to the right, Solomon quickly pulled out the pistol hanging from his ribs and fired a shot at his right side, Zhou Zhen quickly bent down and twisted his body to the left, and the bullet flew past his ears.

It's dangerous! It is worthy of being one of the best fast gunners in the enterprise alliance, and this agile skill and bulky body size do not match at all, Zhou Zhen secretly admired in his heart.

Zhou Zhen did not dodge again, and Solomon did not shoot again, but his steps became faster and faster, and he seemed to have made up his mind to crush Zhou Zhen with his body.

Just when the two were only two or three meters apart, Zhou Zhen suddenly took half a step to the right again, and Solomon raised his hand to shoot as expected, but Zhou Zhen drew his gun faster, and with a bang, Solomon's pistol flew into the air.

Zhou Zhen took the opportunity to turn sideways, and when Solomon passed by him, Zhou Zhen stretched out his foot violently and tripped him, and his black tower-like body flew out with his head down.

The grass was high on the hillside, and Solomon rolled until he was in the brook before stopping, and was about to flutter to his feet, when Zhou Zhen had rushed behind him, picked up a pebble and smashed it on his head.

"Fuck your bullshit parasitic system!"

Zhou Zhen used all his strength to blow this blow, and the pebbles cracked into pieces, and although Solomon's head was unharmed, the impact still caused him to slip and fall into the stream again.

"Zhong Xiaoguang! Find the rope! ”

Zhou Zhen straddled Solomon's back and shouted to Zhong Xiaoguang while pressing his head into the water.

A few minutes later, Solomon fainted from drowning, and Zhou Zhi collapsed to the side tiredly.

Zhong Xiaoguang tore his military uniform into strips of cloth, moistened it with stream water, and tied Solomon firmly, Zhou Zhen was still not at ease, so he found some vines to tie on the outside of the strips of cloth, and then cut down a small tree with a thick bowl mouth and strung his hands and feet together.

After this set of work was completed, Zhou Zhen and Zhong Xiaoguang lay side by side by the stream, and they didn't even have the strength to speak.

"It's amazing, he tied up the dignified Minister Solomon into a suckling pig, and he deserves to be the number one chef in the Armored Squirrel Barbecue Bar."

A lean, withered man flashed in front of Zhou Zhi, and he kicked Solomon in the stomach with his toes, and Solomon's mouth spat water to the rhythm of his kicking.

Zhou Zhen was frightened, a cool breath ran from his neck to his ankles, the thin man did not rush from anywhere, nor did he leap down from any tree, but like a ghost, suddenly flashed from nothingness, his body seemed to be condensed by air, but it was indeed a flesh-and-blood human form.

Zhou Zhen tried to lift the revolver, but the M500 was too heavy, his arms were completely weak, Zhong Xiaoguang struggled to stand up, but his legs and feet were weak, I don't know if he was too tired or frightened by the ghost-like man, he could only prop the butt of the rifle on the ground, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the man's head.

The man walked up to Zhong Xiaoguang, dragged the rifle and threw it away: "When we meet for the first time, can we be friendly?" If I had tried to kill you, you would have died. ”

"Who are you?" Zhou Zhen asked weakly.

"Me? My name is Carl. Cal. ”

The man, like a ballerina, tiptoed to Zhou Zhen: Yes, my surname and last name are Karl, a native of Bavaria, and I don't pay attention to my name, forgive me. ”

Karl bent down and grabbed Zhou's revolver, broke the bolt and withdrew the bullet, and stuffed it back into his hand: "As for me, I am very similar to you before, I have a parasitic system, my parasitic system is called a phantom, my professional experience is more similar, I am a partner in the Mayez company, and I am also a part-time canteen chef in the A01 Mayyad Building." ”

As he spoke, he sat down on the floor and patted Solomon on the belly: "We rural people have no other hobbies, but we like to watch people tie pigs." ”