Every moment that is passing at this time will eventually be buried in the long river of time.

The autumn wind is bleak, and on the edge of the rainforest sky, wisps of remnant clouds are pierced by the moonlight, and the wind and clouds are no longer calm, tumbling and surging. Deep in the rainforest under the bright moon, mud and gravel splashed under heavy tires, and the whole convoy roared forward, like a winding snake, slowly moving between the mountains.

The southwestern rainforest border, which had been quiet for several years, was silent for several years after the world-famous Mekong operation, but for some reason the anti-drug smoke has been rekindled near the border. At half past five this morning, our company was ordered to raid a hidden village deep in the mountains on the border. According to reliable sources, a large number of drug dealers transporting drugs are hidden in three large abandoned mansions in the southeast corner of the village. The Third Company of the Anti-Narcotics Detachment of our Armed Police stationed in the Southwest Frontier will be responsible for cooperating with the anti-narcotics police to destroy this transit den.

Four o'clock in the morning.

"Captain, are we really only responsible for vigilance and not participating in actual combat? This is a rare opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Kang Jianhu, who was sitting in the back of the off-road vehicle, couldn't help but complain.

Sitting in the passenger seat, my thoughts were dragged back, and I turned my head to lower my voice, "This is a real battle, not a drill, obey orders!" ”

"But a few of our usual training results are the best in the company, there is no reason not to let us rush to the front line, Tiger (Kang Jianhu), you are right." Lu Ping also followed the words of Kang Jianhu beside him, and he was indignant in his heart.

"Alas! I said that you are usually the most cunning, you are always the first to shout and rush but you are always the last to attack, and when it comes to making meritorious contributions, you run faster than anyone else, is it really a fox (Lu Ping)? Liu Yi moved the automatic rifle in his hand to his shoulder and sneered.

"Since it's a real battle, we have to obey orders. Usually bargain occasionally, but when he goes to the battlefield, Company Commander Xu has his own considerations, and who said that vigilance will not make a contribution, let's catch a few more escaped drug dealers. "Jiang Yujun is about the same age as me, he looks more honest and calm, and the wrinkles on his face are a little old, he is a veteran of the team, and he will retire with me and Liu Yi at the end of the year.

"It is said that Jiang is still old and spicy, and Lao Jiang (Jiang Yujun) also makes sense, let's be vigilant first and don't rush to the front line without being shot, and the second arrest is all important people who escaped, and they have to make great contributions, which is a good errand." Kang Jianhu sat behind Lu Ping and patted him on the shoulder.

"How do you know we're going to catch the big guy who escaped? Doesn't it always take down the drug lord boss first? It's our turn. Lu Ping turned to Kang Jianhu and questioned.

"You can't figure it out, this general hero is the first, such as our captain, which time he didn't take us to the first one in drill training. It's not the same for the bear, when encountering danger, it's usually the first girl to run, you say that this drug dealer can have a few bold people, as long as the brothers in our company rush in, the first one to run must be their boss. He ran away, and then we caught it again, alas, we caught it with our hands. Hehe, Lu Ping, you can't be a fox yet. After analyzing it, Kang Jianhu smiled proudly at Lu Ping.

"Look at your sycophant, after the mission is over, go back at noon today and ask Zhuang Yan to invite us to eat chicken legs, hahaha." Liu Yi is my brother who grew up in a courtyard since I was a child, and even the soldiers were assigned to me in a company and a class, and he was the deputy captain and always called me by my name.

"Captain, less than a kilometer ahead, we're going to leave the convoy and turn left, right? Do you want to check with the company commander again? Cao Yongzhou, who was holding the steering wheel, said to me.

I turned on the radio headset hanging on my right ear, "Company Commander Xu, I'm Zhuang Yan, five hundred meters ahead, my team and I will leave the team as planned to be on guard at the original scheduled position, may I ask if the plan has changed." ”

"Execute the task as planned, done." Xu Yong hung up the communication.

The sky was still dark, and the night wind stirred the leaves of the rainforest. Our SUV suddenly left at its intended position and drove away from the convoy and headed deeper into the rainforest.

According to the company commander and instructor, the drug trafficking activities on the southwestern border where our company was stationed were completely wiped out for a long time after the Mekong operation a few years ago, so that the soldiers did not participate in actual combat for a long time except for daily patrol and vigilance and drill training. Xu Yong is the most experienced veteran who has remained in the company after participating in the Mekong operation, and he is also the most experienced and powerful person in this actual combat raid.

"This mission should be very certain, the early morning raid is generally unprepared for drug dealers, and the most lax time." Kang Jianhu is tall and big, as his name suggests, and his head is tattooed on the center of his eyebrows, leaving just three horizontal bars.

"Tiger, this time it's a real battle, and it's not the same as our drill and training. No matter how sure you are, you can't relax, drug dealers have real guys in their hands, and they are all outlaws, and they have to work hard when they come up. I sat in the front passenger seat while wearing night vision goggles to locate and find the way, and said to Kang Jianhu behind me.

"We're fighting drugs here, and some countries across the ocean have already legislated to legalize drugs, what do you say about this?" Lu Ping remembered the news some time ago, and was a little indignant.

"Those legal ones are soft drugs like marijuana, hard drugs are illegal in any country, and the gang we cleaned up today is not the kind of petty thief who smuggles marijuana, so let's be careful." Liu Yi explained.

"But after marijuana is legal, who can guarantee that these things will not be refined into hard drugs, those who taste the forbidden fruit will really let go in time, how many people can do it!" Jiang Yujun sighed through the window of the off-road vehicle.

Since the emergence of opium poppy extraction in human history, drugs have never faded out of people's attention. Some people are on the front line of life and death to fight drugs, and some people are wantonly carnivaling in the lights for the sake of desire. It's like people who are afraid of the incurable HIV, but can't help but be intoxicated by the indulgence of sex. No matter what, it is difficult to curb desires, so there will never be real peace in this world.

"What do you think? It's almost there. Liu Yi patted my left arm, and then leaned closer and said in a low voice, "Xin Rui kept calling you last night and you didn't reply, will you be angry?" ”

Xinrui was my girlfriend who was in love for four years, and I was afraid to show my heart to her in the same grade as her in high school, but the chance encounter in college finally gave me courage. From the first two years of college to enlistment, we always maintained a sweet feeling of love, and although I was away from her for a long time, the relationship was always stable. It's just that for some reason, she has suddenly had a bit of an abnormal mood recently, so I have to take time to talk to her often to keep in touch, and when Xu Yongkai was in the conference room yesterday to arrange today's combat meeting, my mobile phone kept ringing in the box on the side.

At that time, all of us handed over our mobile phones, but the mobile phones kept being beside Xu Yong, and he shouted on the spot, "Zhuang Yan, your partner must have something to do with you, and you have been calling, but you are not allowed to call from now until the end of the battle tomorrow, do you know?" This is the rule. ”

A remark caused a group of bachelors to laugh on the spot.

"It's okay, if you're angry, you'll be angry, and when the battle is over today, you won't have to go back and coax." I'm relaxed, but I'm always a little weird in my heart, Xinrui is a delicate girl, everything is pretended to be in my heart first, and I won't think of how to solve it when I can't pretend, if it weren't for something she shouldn't have been calling.

It was still dark, and the shadows of the trees intertwined with each other on the dirt road in the moonlight, and the jungle on both sides was dense, like two walls surrounding a long corridor. After the scheduled fork in the road and the company parted ways, we drove for nearly half an hour towards the predetermined location.

"Captain, it's time to get to the place, do you want to locate it?" Cao Yongzhou lightly slammed on the brakes and parked the off-road vehicle in a bushy location.

I took out my military locator and checked the latitude and longitude of my location, "That's right, it's around here, all pack up and get out of the car." ”

"Sixth son (Cao Yongzhou), you can check the communication equipment again and talk to the company commander later." Cao Yongzhou was the youngest of the six of us, and he was nicknamed by Lu Ping when he came to report.

Liu Yi jumped out of the back door, holding a gun in his right hand and a camouflage helmet in his left hand.

"Yes, second brother (Liu Yi)." Usually, Liu Yi is the deputy captain of the company, and his brothers call him second brother in private.

After packing up the guns and ammunition, the team of six people walked from the location where the off-road vehicle was hidden to the ambush and interception point.

The guard post is located on a hillside that is not steep and is surrounded by dense foliage. The rainforest is a complex terrain, but there is a small river in the shrub-covered seclusion of this hillside, and the water is not urgent, and the terrain appears to be open. Not only does the guard here have a good view, but you can see the eaves of the company's operational village from a distance of two kilometers upstream along the river, and you have a complete grasp of the operation, whether it is from the river or from the land to escape and leave the country. The mountain behind the warning point gradually steepens, and the dense vegetation covers the entire mountain like a green curtain hanging in the sky. Climb over the top of the hill and further south to the boundary monument, where our border patrol has been passing for a long time.

The moonlight is gone, the rainforest is silent, and the dawn before sunrise is always the darkest. The six of us gathered around the warning point, and the junction of land and water forms a semicircular encirclement network.

"When someone escapes, try not to kill, if the other party has a gun in his hand that can be aimed at the leg, they are all handcuffed, right? Wait a while, if we catch a big ghost or something, the company commander will invite us to eat chicken legs tonight. "Ambushed in the bushes, I couldn't tell what the team members looked like.

"If someone shoots, let him go to God." Liu Yi is not a good stubble, he was the most ruthless when he grew up with me since he was a child, but because of this, his military qualities are the strongest in the company, and he was originally going to go to the armed police special forces but gave up for other reasons.

"Second brother, drug dealers also believe in God? Don't the underworld in the movie believe in Guan Erye? Lu Pinghu said suspiciously.

"Then let him go to see Liu Bei!" Kang Jianhu suddenly interjected, causing the six people who were ambushed in the grass to laugh for a while. My brothers are always like this in addition to training, and my biggest gain in the past two years in the army may be them.

"Shut up! From now on, you are not allowed to speak, and the action is about to begin. I stopped and looked at the village in the east along the river, there was already a glimmer of dawn in the sky, and it was less than a quarter of an hour before Xu Yong and the others started.

The sun was rising, and at 5:20 a.m., the rainforest was still silent. The tense nerves of the soldiers relaxed a little for a few minutes, and even if the surprise attack started on time at 5:30 p.m., it would still be necessary to wait for the drug dealers to escape here, whether it was gunsmoke, gunshots, or radio communications, we would know in advance.

Suddenly there was a squeak of electrical interference in the headset...

The noise was so loud that I had to take off my headphones, and I was a little alert, but there was still no movement on the other side of the village, and it was 5:23 at this time.

"Captain, look over there." Lu Ping pointed towards the lower reaches of the river, where a small motorboat was slowly heading up from the downstream of the river not far away, looking a little shabby. At this rate, it just so happens that the time when the anti-drug war is taking place in the village will strayed into the area of the exchange of fire in the village.

"Like nearby villagers, do you want to warn them not to break into the firefighting area?" Kang Jianhu asked, and as he spoke, he remembered to come forward.

At 5:25 a.m., the sun had just risen, and this dilapidated yacht certainly didn't just set off, but could it be an accomplice of drug dealers when people were most unconscious when they were coming downstream?

"Get down! Don't move yet, it's still impossible to tell how many people are on the boat and what they do. "I stopped Kang Jianhu from revealing our tracks, and instead used a high-powered telescope to carefully inspect the approaching yacht.

Putting the headphones back on, I wanted to report what I saw to Xu Yong, but the harsh current sound of the button sounded again, so I had to give up, "Liuzi, the radio equipment on our car is fine, right?" ”

Cao Yongzhou turned his face to me, "Report to the captain, I have checked it before leaving, and the transceiver equipment is fine." ”

"! Then why is there no signal at this juncture? "I was a little frustrated, and I took off my headphones, and saw that the dilapidated dinghy was about to pass the meeting point in front of us.

The ship did not continue to move forward, but gradually slowed down and docked on our side of the shore. A villager dressed as a local ethnic minority came out of the houseboat, fixed the wide wooden planks in his hand on the hull and the rocks on the shore, and then stepped out of the boat and looked around.

At 5:28 a.m., a dense burst of gunfire could be heard from the direction of the village, which should have been the start of the raid. Due to the interference of communication equipment, I could only look out at the villages upstream of the creek in the distance, and I could hear no other news from my headphones except for the dense gunshots. According to the plan, the assault did not last long, and if it did not meet strong resistance, the situation should be brought under control quickly, and all that remained was to cooperate with the police to arrest the drug dealers.

I was shocked! Well? When I looked back at the dilapidated yacht, I noticed what were the villagers doing in folk costumes? No, no, if they were nearby villagers, they shouldn't have reacted to the gunfire, and a few of us who were ambushed in the grass were not nervous because they knew about the raid in advance, but their expressions were not panicked at all?

Only one of them, a short man carrying a metal box, was dressed in a more formal shirt, and he was followed by a European and American man with a fierce face with obvious scars in the corners of his eyes.

"Could it be with drug dealers?" Liu Yi whispered to me suspiciously.

"It doesn't look like those people are not carrying guns, except for the foreign men with scars on their faces, this group of people doesn't look like drug dealers." Although this group of people behaved strangely, it was impossible for them to travel after five o'clock in the morning, so what were they here for? Is this just a coincidence? Or is it a gang of drug dealers? But most of the villagers are forty or fifty years old, some of them are thin and small, with their backs and even their temples a little white.

It doesn't look like the drug dealers, at least not like they're the main targets of the operation. One is that although they are quite numerous, they sit in too rudimentary means of transport, and the second is that they do not seem to carry weapons, even if they have pistols that can be hidden in their vests, and the most important thing is that drug dealers do not act like this, and we may not need to do it to transport drugs upstream from this unsheltered river, and these drugs cannot be transported out of the country from neighboring countries, which is too conspicuous.

"Company commander, company commander, this is Shuo Rat, please answer when you hear it." I suppressed my voice and tried to contact the company on the other side of the village again, but the only sound in my headphones was the sound of electricity.

Just as I was full of doubts and wanted to report the situation, suddenly not far away, seven more strange figures appeared from the jungle on the other side. The sky is just shining, why do people in such formal clothes appear in this hidden deep mountain and old forest? Behind them are six men of different shapes and uneven appearances, dressed in neat suits, but it is clear from their appearance and physique that they do not belong to the same race. Except for two dark-haired men who were slightly shorter, the brown-haired man behind him was tall and thin, and finally followed by a white man with blonde hair and a wrestler-like body, who was half a height taller than the Asian man in front of me from my point of view. Looking ahead of these six people, what was even more strange was that walking in front of them was a tall woman with long blond hair who was also wearing a suit and a ponytail, and also wearing sunglasses.

At this time, a group of completely different people gathered on the bank of the river less than 30 meters in circumference, and the scene was like a cross-dresser rehearsing a play behind the stage.

"Who are they?" Kang Jianhu couldn't help but stand up slightly, turned around and asked.

"I don't know." Liu Yi pressed his shoulder, frowned and shook his head.

At this time, a fierce gunfire rang out in the distant village, and I stared at this group of people, and my heart was shocked, although it was separated from a distance, but it was not completely imperceptible, but the group of people in front of me just looked from a distance, but they did not panic at all, at least not a trace of nervousness. At this time, the faces of the seven black-clothed men who had just appeared were grim, and the other group of villagers who met them were even more in a trance.

"Company commander, please answer when you hear it." I'm still testing the radio equipment, and now it's pretty much certain that the group of people in front of me are clearly not here for an outing in the depths of the wild rainforest, and I suspect that it may have something to do with the anti-narcotics operation.

At 5:35 a.m., the sun had risen in the east, and it was dark enough to see the faces of everyone under the hillside.

"No, they seem to be making a deal." Lu Ping looked at the bank of the river not far away.

Following the line of sight, the short man standing on the side of the villager with the metal box slowly walked up to the blonde woman in a suit and sunglasses, and handed the metal box to her, and then the blonde woman took out something similar to a USB flash drive from the pocket of her suit and exchanged it with the metal box at the same time.

The two muttered a few words and then took a few steps back, and the man with the gun behind the short man who got the USB flash drive looked quite proud, nodding and smiling while crossing his hands. The woman in the suit opened the metal box and looked at it from a distance, and it was filled with fixed blue reagent bottles.

"You can't just let them go." Jiang Yujun suppressed his voice and whispered to me, "Even if they are not drug dealers, they are probably not good people who can see the light, at this time, they are doing this kind of secret transaction in this kind of place, and there are people who carry weapons without authorization." ”

"At least grab the two people who take the lead and hand them over to the company commander to ask clearly, these people are not carrying heavy weapons, and it shouldn't be a problem for a few of us to subdue them." As soon as Lu Ping's words fell, something strange happened.

The sporadic gunfire in the distant villages continued, taking advantage of the gunfire. A man in a suit on the bank of the stream took out a silenced pistol and shot an ordinary villager who was standing by in a daze, shooting him in the head, and the villager immediately fell to the ground and presumably died.

A thought crossed my mind, the deal broke down, and the two sides were afraid that the next moment they would merge.

But what is even more strange is that instead of raising their guns and firing on the spot, the two leaders are still harmonious. The villagers around them were in a trance without the slightest fear or sympathy when they saw the people who were walking with them being killed, and the atmosphere remained the same.

In such a scene full of gunpowder, how can both sides maintain such composure? It begs all of us, is that the end of it?

The blonde woman in the suit had a grim face and leaned over and whispered a few words to the short man she had traded with earlier, then he turned his head and waved at the man behind him. The rest of the villagers began to drag the shot villagers to a large crooked tree in the forest behind them, and together they dug a pit to bury the bodies.

"What's going on?" I couldn't help but be amazed that the whole thing was not only shocking to me, but also difficult to fathom.

No one answered, and none of the team members around them could figure out what was going on.

By 5:44 a.m., the gunfire in the distant village had almost subsided. The blonde woman in the suit shook the hand of the short man calmly, and a strange deal seemed to end in an atmosphere acceptable to both parties.

"The deal is over? What are we going to do? Captain, can't you contact the company commander? Lu Ping frowned, looked at the two groups of people who were about to leave, and was a little impatient.

I was still hesitant to hear from the command because of the severe electromagnetic interference I received at first, and the initial order was to intercept the drug dealers fleeing from the direction of the village, and even if there was a temporary change of movement, we should get updated instructions in advance, and if we did not act without permission, we would lose this warning position. But seeing that the two groups of people who left will disappear into the river and the forest, we are really indifferent? What to do?

"Captain, give the order, the six of us can handle them." Liu Yi resolutely said, "Sixth son, you are responsible for returning to the car to check the communication equipment and then contact the command to request support, and a few of us are responsible for arresting." ”

"Captain!" Kang Jianhu and Jiang Yujun all cast their eyes at me, "Give the order." ”

"Do you really let the murderer go when you kill someone?" Lu Ping held the gun and said in a resentful tone.

This situation is really a bit emotional, although these unusual people and actions still make me suspicious, but I can't stop the team members' firm and high-spirited fighting mood, "Liuzi, you must hurry up to restore communication and get in touch with the command headquarters, and you can't take it lightly when you go into the dense forest to capture and coordinate operations."

"Yes! Captain! Liu Yi, Kang Jianhu, Lu Ping, and Jiang Yujun replied together.

"Arrest! I'm in a group with the tigers, and you take them over from the bread, remember to be fast, don't give them a chance to pull out their guns. ”

At the sound of an order, the team members hid like a rainforest from the side of the high slope according to the order, and Cao Yongzhou returned to the position where the off-road vehicle was hiding in the opposite direction, and all of us deviated from the scheduled trajectory in the early morning of the original plan.

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