Earth, in a tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia, in the gap of dense and tall trees, a hazy and blurred black shadow quickly passed, like an arrow off the string, frightening the birds perched on the trees to fly in horror.

"Click!" As the scattered birds hovered in the air, there was the sound of metal boots trampling on tree branches, and the black shadow suddenly stopped in front of a small jungle clearing.

"Cuckoo coo, cuckoo coo......" The next moment, a series of rhythmic cuckoo calls came out from the black shadow's mouth, which spread clearly in all directions. It was dawn, the sky was dark, the shadows of the trees around the glade were heavy, and there was a faint chill to the bone. After the birdsong from the black shadow disappeared into the four corners, a regular series of birdsong sounded in a corner. The shadow fluttered again, and with the sound of branches breaking, it swooped down towards the corner.

"Is it Lao Chen?" At the same time as the black shadow moved, two blurred and dark figures also sprang out from behind the heavy tree shadows, one left and one right "surrounding" the black shadow that rushed over.

"Boss, it's me!" There was a faint humming sound in the darkness, like the opening of the holographic helmet visor. The black shadow from before suddenly stopped between the two figures that suddenly came over, and Chen Changhao's somewhat hoarse voice immediately echoed in this secluded forest clearing.

"How? Have you found Dalena? The gray sky leaked through the cracks in the branches and leaves, shining on the head of the figure on Chen Changhao's left, faintly revealing Haoyi's thin and pale yellow face.

If you can see their expressions clearly, you will notice that the expressions of the three of them are unusually nervous, as if they are in the middle of a real battle. In fact, this is just a field competition organized by the commanders of Base 9 that is close to actual combat.

After three weeks of running-in training, more than 100 recruit squads of the 9th Special Operations Unit have been able to perform combat missions well with their assigned teams of ghost agents. And the comprehensive training results of Haoyi's team and Dalena's ghost agent team were actually among the best, entering the top ten, and were selected by the base commander to participate in this field confrontation competition.

A total of twenty special combat teams and ghost agent teams (in the command center, these groups are called ghost teams) participated in this close to actual combat competition, that is, the teams that ranked in the top 20 in comprehensive training results. The commander of Base 9 claimed that the purpose of holding this competition was to select the five special groups with the strongest comprehensive combat effectiveness in order to enter a higher level of special training.

However, what Haoyi and the ghost agents of the special combat team never imagined was that although the ultimate purpose of this competition was indeed to select the five special ghost groups with the strongest combat effectiveness, it was not to conduct special training for them at a higher level.

A month earlier, the base commander had received a secret order from the military department stating that the military department had developed an SSS-rated secret jihua in response to a civil war situation that was becoming increasingly difficult to control. This secret jihua is extremely risky, almost life-threatening, and only a ghost agent with strong combat power is likely to be competent. That's why the base commanders came up with this name to select the Speculative Group.

The competition is set in a tropical rainforest with extremely complex climatic and geographical conditions. The rules of the match are death-knockout. Once all twenty Spectre teams enter the "battlefield", they have to fight on their own, and they don't have any friendly troops except for the same group of Spectral Operatives and Ghost Agents. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate any "enemy" group operating in the rainforest, regardless of tactics or even means.

Any Spectre team will only be declared out of the tournament if all of them are killed or if all of the Spectre agents in the group are "killed". Otherwise, even if there is only one ghost left in this special group, they will have to keep fighting until one of Zuihou ghosts also falls or all enemy forces are destroyed.

The command and control center of the competition is located on a space battlecruiser hovering in low-earth orbit. There, the commanders will monitor the entire confrontation in real time, and there are also 10 veteran special combat teams with rich combat experience and corresponding medical emergency teams on standby to ensure that there are no unexpected real casualties in the confrontation as much as possible.

"Still nothing!" In the rainforest clearing, Chen Changhao shook his head with some annoyance, and said to Haoyi: "I searched for the other two spare meeting points, but I didn't even find a hair of Dalena and her family. And I almost lost my own life, and at the X2 rendezvous, I passed by an unidentified special operations team. Luckily, they seemed to be looking for their own ghost group, and there were no ghosts with a nose bigger than a dog, so they didn't find me. Otherwise, I'm probably going back to the command and control center now! ”

"Damn, where are these three little girls going? It can't be an elopement with the handsome guys from that special forces team, right? Hu Erpang on the side nagged depressedly.

"Shut your foul mouth!" Haoyi knocked on Hu Erpang's helmet angrily, scolded angrily, and then glanced at a fluorescent watch fixed in the armor of his arm, and analyzed Chen Changhao in a deep voice: "It's four o'clock in the morning Earth time, and four hours have passed since our scheduled meeting time, and I estimate that Dalena and her sisters are likely to be in some trouble." What is certain, though, is that at least not all of them are finished. Otherwise, don't talk about you, we guys will also be recalled by the commanders to the control center for tea. ”

"Well, that's true, but we can't just wait here for them all the time!" Chen Changhao nodded and analyzed in a low voice: "Although there are many places where these rainforests can hide, once we encounter the special ghost group with ghosts first, we will definitely suffer!" ”

"I think so! I stayed here with Er Fat and continued to wait for Dalena and them, Lao Chen, you took Pete and them, and continued to look for Dalena and them within a radius of ten kilometers in pairs with this coordinate point as the center of the circle. Haoyi pondered for a moment, waved his hand and ordered: "Two hours later, if Dalena and the others still don't show up, then we will meet at the third alternate meeting point!" The reason why he gave this order was to avoid as much as possible the slightest inadvertent annihilation of the army due to the large number of people and the large target.

In order to restore the actual combat environment more realistically, the commanders also added a "convergence" link to these participating special groups. In other words, at the beginning of the game, all the special operations teams and ghost teams in the special ghost group were sent to two random locations on the "battlefield". Without the possibility of using long-range communication devices, these special operations teams and ghost teams must first find their own allies.

Although this link increases the difficulty of this confrontation, it makes the confrontation closer to the actual battle. Because in the real battlefield, there are many cases where the ghost team usually lurks in a specific area beforehand. The special operations team that was ordered to cover them had to find these ghost teams according to the pre-agreed meeting place and contact information of Haode, and then they could go on combat missions together.

"Well, it seems that this is the only way to be safe!" Chen Changhao also understood what Haoyi meant, and nodded helplessly in agreement.

Seeing this, Haoyi turned around and whispered a whistle to the shadows of the secluded trees behind him. The whistle fell, and three more figures came out from behind the shadows of the trees.

"Boss!" It was Pete and the three of them who came. At this time, the shell of the special combat armor on Haoyi's body was covered with a layer of "invisibility coversuit" that could imitate the surrounding environment. This stealth cover-up is, of course, far more advanced than the old-fashioned field camouflage. Although it can't make ordinary special combat members like the special stealth equipment of the ghost agent, Haoyi and other ordinary special combat team members completely disappear into thin air, but it can also give them a certain degree of stealth ability.

In any environment, as long as Haoyi ensures the integrity of the smock and is stationary, then their figures can be integrated into the surrounding environment, and the degree of integration can even reach more than 60%. Without careful observation, or with the help of some detection equipment, it is almost impossible to spot them.

"Come and listen!" Hao Yi beckoned to the three of Pete, and asked everyone to squat in a small circle around him, and with the light of their invisibility coats, Hao Yi opened a miniature terminal fixed on his arm, called up the three-dimensional holographic map of the rainforest, and began to arrange the task.

"Rustle!" Just as Haoyi was methodically arranging tasks for Chen Changhao and the others, there was a sudden faint sound of branches and leaves in the distance. Although Chen Changhao and the others didn't notice it, Haoyi, who had been transformed by superpowers and psionic energy, had an unusually sensitive sense of hearing. I saw that Hao Yi immediately turned off the miniature terminal map that flashed with a glowing orchid fluorescence, made a silent gesture to his subordinates, and continued to listen to the movement in the distance with his ears pricked up.

Seeing this, Chen Changhao and the others hurriedly held their breath, and they didn't even dare to stare at Haoyi nervously.

"Rustle!" The footsteps in the distance became clearer and clearer, and they were a little hurried. Listening to the movement, Hao Yi estimated that there were at least three or five people on the other side, and it was in his direction at six o'clock. However, the footsteps here were still ringing, and at the same time there was a sound of footsteps in the direction of eight o'clock, and it was obvious that they were also coming towards their side.

The pace of the footsteps on these two sides was surprisingly consistent, which made Haoyi's heart sink uncontrollably. At first, he thought that it might be Dalena and the others who rushed to his side, but after the footsteps at eight o'clock also sounded, Haoyi obviously smelled a trace of danger.

Without any hesitation, Haoyi immediately made a dangerous gesture to Chen Changhao and the others, and ordered everyone to disperse and hide immediately.

"Woohoo!" As soon as Haoyi and the others moved, a bullet fired from a rifle with a silencer device whistled and covered the place where they were squatting before.