Suwan checked and found that all seven of them were armed with light machine guns. It seemed that this group of al-Qaeda members had sufficient ammunition, so there should be a lot of people. This was not a good thing for the students. Suwan looked at the bodies on the ground, tilted his head and said to the radio microphone: "Everyone, pay attention. I am approaching the edge of Cole City and just encountered a small group of al-Qaeda members. Be careful."
"receive."
"clear."
After listening to everyone's reports, Suwan found that he was the only one who encountered al-Qaeda members, or the first one to encounter them.
First there were tigers, then zombies, and now there are al-Qaeda members. Suwan feels that his luck is really bad.
A voice suddenly came from a walkie-talkie carried by a corpse, asking about the group's patrol status and whether they had found any members of the rescue team.
"Of course, they found out," Suwan muttered to himself, shattering the intercom that was making the sound with a shot. "So their luck wasn't that good either."
Twenty minutes later, Suwan and Mike met up. They were the first to arrive and had already reached the edge of Cole City. If nothing unexpected happened, everyone would be able to meet up in half an hour.
Suwan and Mike did not walk out of the primeval forest, but hid at the edge of the forest and observed the situation in Cole City.
Through night vision goggles, it was observed that Al-Qaeda had established a temporary base and many people were patrolling at high altitudes. This was why Suwan and Mike could not walk out of the forest. Once the forest's cover was gone, they would be easily discovered.
Hearing the occasional gunshots in the city, Suwan put down the small night vision goggles he was using to observe and expressed his opinion: "The zombies in Cole City have not been cleared, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people patrolling."
Mike nodded, agreeing with her.
Not knowing how many zombies there are in the city is the most difficult thing. They have seen how difficult these zombies are. Suwan and Mike feel very stressed when they think that there may be more zombies in the city than those they have seen in the college.
Suwan lay on the ground, took out a map from the combat bag, looked at the map in the moonlight, and drew a few strokes on the map to show Mike.
"According to the coordinates provided by the satellite, the distress signal was sent from here," Suwan drew a red circle at a location in Cole City, which was in two opposite directions from the red line drawn by Suwan representing al-Qaeda. "If the survivors have not left this location, we have to take a detour to avoid al-Qaeda's temporary base when we get here," Suwan thickened the red line representing al-Qaeda a little, indicating that al-Qaeda's firepower was higher than expected.
"There might be a lot of zombies," Mike reminded her.
"Even if we go directly there, after a firefight with al-Qaeda members, we will still have to face zombies," Suwan did not change his original intention and tapped on the map with a pen: "Avoiding the firepower of al-Qaeda members is the most important thing. The zombies may not cause us casualties."
Mike was the team leader. After listening to Suwan's plan, he thought it was feasible and nodded in agreement.
"As long as we rescue the survivors, we will leave immediately," Mike added. Suwan then handed him the pen. Mike took the marker and drew a line to the highway from the red circle of the survivors, facing the opposite direction of the al-Qaeda members.
"highway?"
Mike nodded. "We can find a vehicle to help us leave here. We can get to a road with fewer zombies and get rid of them easily. We can't wait for a rescue plane to come. Even if a rescue plane comes, it will still be blown up by al-Qaeda members."
"And then?"
"We can find vehicles and drive from the highway to the nearest city with military bases to the west. It's about a five-day journey."
The two men discussed it and felt that this was the only way to do it. The next step was to wait for the other six people to meet up.
Then Cole's voice suddenly came from the wireless headphones.
"I've reached the edge of Cole City."
Suwan and Mike looked around and saw no sign of Cole.
"Where are you, we didn't see you." Mike asked.
"Yes of course you can't see me, I'm in the other direction."
"Why don't you come over yet?"
"Don't worry, I find things a little bad," Coleim lay on the ground, also observing the temporary base with night vision goggles, but because it was in another direction, what he saw from his angle was completely different from what Suwan and Mike saw.
"Oh no?" Mike was puzzled.
"Yes, I must be seeing things. I saw someone carrying a rocket launcher, and the outline looked like... Oh my God, it can't be what I imagined, oh my God, bad, run, that person is carrying a rocket launcher and heading towards you!!" Colem reported what he saw.
Coleim's anxious roar came from the wireless headset. Mike and Suwan looked up suddenly and saw a little fire whistling towards them from the temporary base of the base members in front.
The discipline at Bellster Academy is strict. During the five years of closed training, contact with outsiders is strictly prohibited to prevent the specific location of the academy from being discovered. There are no so-called holidays. The only fun every year is to tease the new students, give them a heads-up, and then gain their admiration. Although it is useless, at least their vanity is satisfied. This is also the only interesting thing that makes Suwan and other graduating students never get tired of it.
Suwan still has one year to graduate. She misses her family very much. In another year, she can go home to visit her family and then enter the military and political circles. Her mentors like her very much and will undoubtedly give her a good evaluation. Suwan can almost see a bright future. She has a good vision, but when she is about to graduate, a shady incident occurs, so Suwan's original plan is disrupted. These students probably won't graduate.
When the shady incident happened, the whole world fell into chaos, and all the beautiful fantasies before became luxuries.
The shady deal is a nightmare.
The scenes that happened in Belster flashed through Suwan's mind. The screams of the students, the roars of the zombies, and the continuous gunshots made Suwan's head hurt so much that he had to wake up.
Suwan felt groggy and could vaguely hear some sounds, but she couldn't hear them clearly. Her subconscious told her that this meant danger, so Suwan tried hard to open her eyes. Although she couldn't see the scene clearly immediately, she could vaguely see a few people standing not far away.
"How can this woman fit so many things in her bag?"
"It's a pity that they only caught her. There were clearly two people in the imager."
It turned out that when Suwan and Mike were observing the base, these al-Qaeda members were also observing them.
"Will the people with her just leave her alone? They will definitely come to rescue her."
"Hey, this knife looks nice."
"Then it's yours."
"What's this mess of drawings on this map..."
"It seems to be some route, who cares."
The contents of Suwan's combat bag were scattered on the table, and several al-Qaeda members were picking through the equipment with great interest.
Suwan was sitting on the ground with her hands tied behind her back to a pillar. She instinctively tried to break free from the restraints but failed. It must be the twisted wires. Although thin, they dug into the flesh of her wrists and were difficult to break free from.
Suwan looked to the side and didn't see Mike, so he probably wasn't caught, which was somewhat of a blessing in disguise.
At that time, al-Qaeda launched a rocket towards them. The two of them quickly stood up and ran into the forest. They saw a slope next to them. Suwan, who was behind Mike, pushed Mike towards the slope. Mike rolled down, but she didn't have time to jump down. Although she avoided the range of the rocket launcher, she was knocked unconscious by the airflow when the rocket exploded. Then she was caught by al-Qaeda members who were chasing her.
Suwan looked down at herself and saw many small tears on her combat uniform, revealing wounds caused by the airflow. Her coat had been taken off, leaving her wearing only a tight black combat uniform, which also meant she had no weapons and could not communicate with other members.
Then the intercom on the table suddenly rang.
"Yiwei, how are you? We can't contact you and Mike. Report the situation."
It's Angela.
They also found the shortwave walkie-talkie from Suwan's combat bag. Although the walkie-talkie is always on, it is often used in emergency situations, such as when the wireless headset cannot be used, or in special operations, because the sound of this thing is too loud and not concealed enough.
Suwan didn't have any equipment on her. Her wireless headset might be broken or taken away by those people. Angela couldn't contact Suwan and could only use the walkie-talkie to communicate with her.
The people who were picking equipment at the table looked at each other, then looked at Suwan. Only then did they realize that she had woken up, but she didn't look very sober. She had her eyes half-closed and probably didn't know where she was.
"When did she wake up?"
"I don't know, just now."
But this is not important. A tall man wearing an army green camouflage shirt and with several bullet wounds on his exposed arms picked up the walkie-talkie, walked up to Suwan, squatted down, and waved the walkie-talkie in front of her: "Your teammate, huh?" Then he suddenly punched Suwan without warning. Suwan turned her head to the side and squinted in pain.
Her lips were broken by the punch and there was a taste of blood in her mouth, but thanks to this punch, Suwan was completely awake.
Suwan licked his bloody lips and looked at him again.