Not long after my twentieth birthday, I went abroad for the first time in my life. But I didn't go through customs clearance, I didn't have a passport, and I didn't even have anything to prove my identity. I entered the country illegally at the border of a country in Central and Western Asia.

The helicopter flew very low, almost rubbing the rocks and sparse treetops, using the terrain to fly at low altitude to avoid radar detection. Looking out from the plane, I feel like the desert and desolation. For the first time, I saw the prairie and for the first time I saw the desert. I was amazed that the boundary between yellow and green was so obvious in the air, and that the flowing sand dunes were moving, pushing towards the boundaries of the oasis. After leaving the country, fly along the roots of a mountain range. On the left is the rolling gray-white mountains, and on the right is a desolate Gobi.

There is no exoticism, not even a human track. I grew up in the mountains, but the mountains here are too different from the famous mountains and rivers in the south of China. The rocks are steep and weird, with obvious signs of wind erosion, and the vegetation is very sparse, mostly shrubs, and hardly a single large tree. The infrared absorbent suit I wore was not yellow and green camouflage, but gray and white mottled camouflage, which was more suitable for concealment in this terrain environment.

At the right time, I was dropped off at the scheduled pick-up location along with the gear. I was the only one, and the other five had not yet joined me. My task was to wait for the five of them to evacuate to the temporary camp to replenish supplies after the five of them had successfully moved to this place, and then rush to the location where the helicopter would pick us up and take us back according to the predetermined route.

It's normal to send six members of the team who are in tacit agreement with each other to act at the same time. But why is it in our group? This has something to do with our specialty, and our group has at least two characters who can be called thieves and ghosts. The mission is to recover a stolen document, and if you can't get it back, you can steal it back. It's a long story about the stolen document, even for me. It is a list.

The training camp I have attended in the depths of the Qinling Mountains has been held for a total of five sessions so far, and I have participated in the second one. All of our 108 men were men. But in the third training camp after that, there were a lot of girls, including an eighteen-year-old girl codenamed "Lily". This lily is very gorgeous, and it is said that one of her specialties is "charming", and of course, it is written on the registration that it is a nondescript word called "psychological confusion". She also has a specialty of making her opponent unconscious without touching her body, which is probably similar to the method of a cultivator.

She ended up with an A grade, which is pretty rare, I only got a B grade, and only one person in our group got an A. Of course, I was hiding my true strength at the time. And at that time, my cultivation was still shallow. Lily is a rare talent, and she is smart and well-versed in connections. She was transferred directly to our agency's headquarters after she came out of the training camp.

The reason why she was able to get in touch with the most important high-level of this institution, her origin has also been investigated, and she is very innocent, and there is almost no doubt. But there is another thing that does not come to mind of the kernel folks. For practitioners, it's not just about worldly backgrounds that matter, but also about the teacher's background. However, the core personnel of the headquarters are not from the cultivation world like Director Gu, and they still examine the personnel according to the traditional land and political examination methods. As a result, no one thought that Lily was a "spy". But I didn't remind anyone else about this later.

Lily stole the information and originally just wanted to make a copy silently. I'm afraid it's hard to be seen. But unfortunately, when she was stealing the list, someone broke it, so she simply knocked out the person and took the original copy of the information. What is that list? This is a map of all the locations and latent personnel of our organization across the country. For example, Wucheng. I have Ishino's name, codename, contact information, real identity, etc. Such a list is very sensitive, and there are many people who are reluctant to reveal their identities, especially practitioners, who are even more reluctant to let others know that they are the "secret servants" of government agencies.

If the list falls into the hands of organizations with ulterior motives, it is likely to become a means of coercion and manipulation, knowing that these people are all with special abilities, and once they are used to do bad things, the consequences will be unimaginable. From a government perspective. I don't want this list to be leaked, and it is not appropriate to engage in such secret operations in the country. At the same time, it is impossible for these people to be upright and gentlemen, and since they can work for the government, they may also be bribed by others. Mastering this list is tantamount to mastering a vast and terrifying resource.

What's even more terrifying is that this list has been taken out of the country. Lily gave it to a person named Fu Jie, and according to investigation, this Fu Jie's "master" was her "master". Originally, it was no longer our turn as an institution to intervene in this kind of matter, but the leadership of the headquarters made a decision out of some considerations - to send their own people to take it back. It's very risky to do this, and although we are all abnormal people, there are many people who train in a hurry, such as me. However, the leaders of the headquarters do not consider the safety of the team members first, but their own status and the interests of the organization.

Fu Jie, claiming to be Fu Yinyu, is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang. He was forty-two years old and eighteen years old, and his whereabouts were unknown. That's all we have about our opponents, and no more records. I guess he must be a cultivator, and the words "Yinyu" must be called the Dharma name or something. But to the best of my knowledge, I have never heard of such a person in the spiritual world.

The makeshift camp I'm hiding now looks like the location chosen by the sniper-turned-veterans. It is about 1,500 meters from the eastern mountain range and is surrounded by a huge rockfall. Judging from all directions around, this is a dead angle for shooting, and it is also a position where ricochets cannot hit. The surrounding terrain is relatively open, and it is difficult to approach from the front covertly, and there is no way for small bombardiers to shoot grenades in. If you want to attack, it is difficult to attack with light weapons, unless you turn up heavy artillery to bombard. On the east side of the camp there are several undulating hills, as well as intermittent ravines, which are the right way to evacuate into the mountains. The direct response to the helicopter is to cross a mountain pass in the valley on the other side.

It's impossible to carry too much equipment with a sneak attack. Even dry food is not available and ammunition is limited. All the provisions, the baggage that might be needed, were left in this makeshift camp. Someone is needed to garrison this camp, and if they are evacuated and there are pursuers, I will also take care of the cover

Protect. My specialty is self-preservation, and I have very strong night vision, so I was sent to guard the camp. Also prepare for rescuers in the event of a scuffle or when the group is trapped. One of the reasons why I did not participate in the direct operation was also because of the language barrier, the chief master and the old man in our group were both professional soldiers, and later trained in Russian and Arabic.

Fu Jie's hiding place is in the ruins of an abandoned ancient city in the Gobi Desert, which is said to be a secret stronghold, and Fu Jie, imitating the training camp model of our agency, is also training special operations personnel. It may have been a thriving place a thousand years ago, but now it is probably only visited occasionally by experts in archaeological exploration and thieves who have been fighting for gold. The intrusion began at 2:30 a.m. and the convergence time was to be before 5:30 a.m. I'm a little worried, but I think with the skills of the five of them, it should be no problem to just steal something. The open robbery was also robbed, as long as the opponent was not a regular army. Of course, in addition to stealing things, there is another requirement for the mission - it is best to find Fu Jie, and ask if this list has been circulated and to whom. It's really not okay to kill people directly. It sounds cruel, but it's also realistic.

The night of the Gobi is bleak and infinite. Even the stars in the sky are dazzling with cold light. There was no wind or clouds in the sky, but the air was extremely cold! Vigilantly listening to the movements around him, he looked boredly at the sky and the earth, the stars and the moon suddenly appeared, and a faint circular halo gradually appeared around the moon. The halo is becoming more and more pronounced. About a quarter of an hour passed. The halo around the moon almost turned into a very bright and large halo, but the outline of the moon itself was blurred like a hook. When I looked at the sky, I didn't know that a tyrannical wind and sand were sweeping in.

When the wind first started. I faintly heard the sound of thousands of horses galloping in the distance. After only a few moments, the wind suddenly became much stronger, and there was a sound similar to that of small animals running around, but in fact, it was not small animals running around, but scattered stones rolling around. Gradually, the sound is not rolling, but running, impacting!

The ancients wrote a poem: "A river of gravel is as big as a bucket wind blowing all over the ground and stones." "It's not an exaggeration, you only know what kind of scene it is when you're there, the wind and sand blocking the sky, you can't see anything around you clearly, you can't hear anything clearly. I don't know which way the wind is coming from. Because there is a whistling sound in the gaps of the rocks on all sides. There was still a little fire in the darkness, it was a spark from the flying gravel hitting the rocks. Some people read the news reports that all the glass of the train in the northwest was shattered by sand and dust, and the strong winds may not even be able to derail the train. But the wind and sand I experienced definitely have this kind of power. Luckily, I had a good place to hide, otherwise everyone would have been swept away.

I'm starting to worry about the other five companions, will they be able to evacuate in such a sandstorm? They still withdrew, but they were late and the mission failed.

The last time of the meeting was half past five in the morning, but due to the sand and dust, the radio communication was cut off, and I could not contact anyone, so I had to wait in place. Around six o'clock, the wind and sand gradually became lighter but did not stop. I heard a faint rhythmic sound in the distance, not the rubble rolling, but the footsteps of people. There were four people in total, and one of them had a slightly heavier footsteps, a smaller stride, and should be carrying a person on his back.

I hurriedly grabbed the assault rifle in my hand and shouted, "Baihe!"

A voice came from afar: "There are thorns!"

I was taken aback when I heard this, and there was a problem with the password that Xiaoxiao answered. If you answer "pretty", the task was successful. If the answer is "blossom", it means that the mission is successful, but it is revealed that there are pursuers. If you answer "thank you", you will be able to withdraw safely, but you will not complete the task. And "thorny" is the worst-case scenario - there are pursuers after the mission fails!

Everyone hung their lotteries, but except for the craftsmen, everyone else suffered minor injuries, mostly scratches from the rocks in the storm. The craftsman was unlucky, he had a broken leg and was pierced by a 7.62 caliber rifle bullet. After being urgently bandaged to stop the bleeding, he was carried back by Xiaoxiao.

Their operation failed very badly, and they were revealed almost as soon as they entered the ruins of the ancient city. They were then surrounded in an abandoned temple, many of them armed with Soviet-made weapons and apparently well-trained.

These five people were already the prey of falling into the trap, and they were dead or alive, but fortunately, the team had the chief master and the goblin. During the shootout, the ghost revealed that this ancient temple had an underground mechanism. But this mechanism is weird and can only be opened from the inside. There was no time to find another way to open the portal, so the master got through a gap that only had the mouth of the bowl collapsed, entered an underground secret room, and opened the mechanism according to the instructions of the ghost. Behind the shrine, a tunnel appeared, and it entered a tunnel deep underground, and at the end of the tunnel was a secret temple, and the basements on both sides of the temple were actually two ancient tombs.

Originally, this was already a dead end, but I don't know which era of tomb robbers saved them. There is actually a thief hole in the tomb on the left, which is directly opened at the bottom of the tomb and is revealed by ghosts. According to the goblin, it was the work of a master, and the hole was particularly beautifully punched, and there was hardly any more wasted effort for a shovel. The entrance to the cave was slightly wider than shoulders, and there was a faint cold wind coming from it—at least it was still open, and it hadn't completely collapsed.

The goblin opened the way in front of the small cushion, and five people got into the hole. After drilling for about 800 meters, he actually drilled out of the back of a small dirt bag outside the wreckage of the ancient city wall. The opening of this thief cave was originally hidden, but it was probably old and collapsed to be exposed. They were supposed to be safe out of the city, but they were immediately revealed. Exposed to gunfire in the Gobi Desert, where there were no sheltered conditions, was like waiting for death, but fortunately, a large sand and dust temporarily stopped the pursuers.

In the wind and sand, he can't distinguish the direction at all, but the old man who can lead the team has a spatial positioning ability that is different from ordinary people, as long as he walks everywhere, he can leave a clear map in his mind. He led the entire team through the wind and sand to find the makeshift camp accurately. The people all came back, but then the trouble came - the pursuers also came, and I don't know how they followed them in the wind and sand?