When they noticed the rapid gunfight that suddenly broke out in the valley and then subsided quickly, both Xiong Jiandong and Hou Yiying couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, clearly realizing that the following situation would be very critical.
If something happens to Guzliti, the three of them will lose their camels and supplies, and will no longer be able to cross the desert and return to the Taoist temple at the Queen Mother Pond in the snow-capped mountains. They may even be trapped to death on the icy peaks of the snow-capped mountains.
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This was far from being a passive situation that could simply be described as "terrible" as Jiang Dongyu had sternly warned them before they set off.
He Kuishan sent an emergency call.
It is not difficult to imagine that he obviously heard the burst of gunfire just now.
"Mermaids, mermaids!" He Kuishan shouted, "You may encounter an accident now. Please stay calm and stay put. I will contact Wutongshu at the headquarters immediately and suggest canceling this operation."
Through the telescope, Xiong Jiandong discovered that there were also strange movements in the terrorist camp. Six or seven people rushed out of the tent with guns in hand and looked around.
It seemed that they were also alerted by the gunfire.
The terrorists talked for a while and looked around before turning the muzzle of their gun down. One of them, as if following someone's order, crawled over to where Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong were.
Xiong Jiandong's hand reached down and touched the Prince's Sword that was close to his body.
He was ready to jump when the guy came one meter away, and he would kill him instantly by surprise.
But a few dozen meters away from the two of them, the guy stopped.
Similarly, the guy also used night vision binoculars to carefully check the left and right several times before he disappeared from sight.
Could it be that that guy discovered something and lurked nearby?
Xiong Jiandong lowered his voice and asked Hou Yiying: "Turn off the intercom."
"It's closed, it's closed!"
Hou Yiying answered in a low voice, with an unconcealable nervousness in his voice.
"She is a woman after all!" Xiong Jiandong thought to himself.
In fact, let alone Hou Yiying, even he himself felt a chilling tension oppressing his bones at this time.
At this distance, as long as He Kuishan called again, that guy would be able to hear the movement. It was hard to tell whether He Kuishan had noticed the distance between this guy and Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong.
Iceberg, deathly silence.
I don't know how much time had passed, but Hou Yiying suddenly touched Xiong Jiandong and reminded him to look down carefully.
It turned out that where the guy was hiding just now, two figures actually appeared.
Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong never expected that there would be another person ambushing them so close.
The two people stood on a piece of ice, chatting in their ethnic language and looking into the distance, as if waiting for someone to arrive.
Sure enough, just when Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong were still in shock, they saw several torches emerging from the distance. Then, they heard a few sharp curses in a thin voice.
Hou Yiying recognized that the thin voice was the man who caused trouble to her at the Desert Inn at noon.
The torch was getting closer and closer. Xiong Jiandong heard Hou Yiying let out a low scream of "Oh!"
Through the illumination of the torch, I could see that Tizigul was firmly tied to the horse's back, with his head and one leg hanging down. He might have been seriously injured. A thin voice was holding the horse in front, and kept shouting.
He cursed Tizigul as a "traitor" and a "spy".
A tall and mighty man with a beard was riding on another horse, with a minion holding the reins in front. Behind him, there were also provisions for three people captured from Tizigul.
The two people who were originally on the ice stone hurried over to greet him.
Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong heard the conversation between them very clearly.
"Dear Captain Tuhan, you are back!"
The bearded man said "Hmm" and was helped off the horse.
"Who is this man? Was the burst of gunfire just now an exchange of fire with him?" a guy asked.
"He is a traitor!" He cursed in a thin voice, "He has already lured three dangerous Han people to our camp."
"Is there anything going on here in the camp?"
This is Tuhan asking a question.
"Report to the captain, everything is normal. No one has been found yet."
"Be more vigilant tonight!" Tuhan ordered, "send out brothers tomorrow morning to carefully search for those Han people around Bald Eagle Ridge."
"Yes, Captain Tuhan!" a guy replied.
"How to deal with this spy?" asked a thin voice.
"Take him to the camp first and leave him to you for interrogation. Be sure to pry open his mouth and ask him about his origins and those of the three Han people."
After Tuhan arranged everything, he climbed up the ice rocks with the two people who had just greeted him, and then disappeared there. The thin voice and other people led the horses and escorted Tizigul, and continued towards the
Two rows of their tents marched.
Unexpectedly, fatal danger lurked in front of both of them.
It turns out that the ice cave where Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong were lurking was actually another hiding place for Tuhan and his group of violent terrorists not far away.
However, they were temporarily unable to use the walkie-talkie to contact He Kuishan and report to him the danger here.
As time passed by, Hou Yiying and Xiong Jiandong nervously thought about countermeasures.
If we follow the path just now and retreat to the peak of Bald Eagle Ridge, this should be the best option at present. However, at this time, we have not received instructions from Hekuishan to cancel this operation. Moreover, Tiziguli has already fallen.
If he falls into the enemy's hands, he cannot be watched being interrogated, tortured, or even killed by violent terrorists.
Tizigul was his comrade, a national security scout who was sent to southern Xinjiang. How could the three of them retreat hastily without caring about his life or death.
"I want to crawl over there to take a look, but you stay here and don't move." Xiong Jiandong whispered to Hou Yiying.
Hou Yiying knew that the "over there" mentioned by Xiong Jiandong referred to the lair Tuhan had just entered.
"Let's go there together!" she said.
Xiong Jiandong understood that Hou Yiying would definitely not let him take risks alone, so he could only nodded.
He understood this girl's tenacious character very well.
The war is about to begin.
At this previous moment, the two of them had to be calm enough and maintain strong fighting spirit and physical strength.
"I think we should eat something first before we start taking action!" Xiong Jiandong suggested to Hou Yiying in a low voice, in a lighthearted and joking tone, "Now, we are all still alone in the world, and we can only eat when we are full.
If you have the courage to die, you will no longer be afraid of becoming a ghost in the underworld."
His voice was low and full of tenderness, showing her an unusual ease and kindness that she had never experienced before.
This is because Xiong Jiandong thought that fortunately he had brought Hou Yiying with him under his persuasion. Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous. She might be outnumbered together with Tizigul and be captured by Tuhan and his gang. (To be completed.)