I started with a portal, then turned around and handed it over to the nation.

Outside the cave, the night wind howled, swirling up pebbles, sounding like the wailing of ghosts and wolves.

In the distance, heavy footsteps could be heard from time to time, like heavy hammers pounding the ground, occasionally mixed with the ear-piercing screeching of huge weapons dragging across the ground.

The cave was deathly silent.

Only the soldiers' suppressed yet steady breathing could be heard.

Leaning against the cold rock wall, he held the bone-bladed longsword tightly, his eyes fixed on the cave entrance.

He couldn't sleep; every time he closed his eyes, the image of his father being cleaved in two by a minotaur's battle axe flashed through his mind.

"Beep beep... beep beep..."

An extremely faint electronic sound.

Lin Mo's tactical watch screen lit up, displaying "02:00".

Almost simultaneously, all the soldiers who had been dozing against the rock wall opened their eyes, their gazes devoid of any sleepiness, filled only with a tempered coldness and sharpness.

"The time has come."

Long Fei's voice rang out in everyone's bone conduction headphones, devoid of any emotion.

"Check equipment, prepare for action."

"Splash—"

"Click".

A series of soft, rhythmic sounds rang out from inside the cave as soldiers checked their magazines and pulled the bolts.

Snow Wolf and the members of the Fierce Tiger Special Forces stood up silently, like a group of shadows rising from the darkness.

"The drone reports the target location," Long Fei continued.

"Received. The nearest target is three, in an open area 700 meters southwest of us," Wang Hao's voice came through.

"Tiger will lead the attack, Snow Wolf will provide flank cover and test weapon damage, the rest of you stay put."

"Received!" Shi Lei's voice was deep and powerful.

"Received!" Han Feng's voice rang out.

Without uttering a single word, the thirty-two men filed out and vanished instantly into the darkness at the cave entrance.

Lin Mo and Ryan followed behind the group, maintaining a safe distance.

Ryan's heart was pounding, and his palms were sweaty.

He watched the backs of the soldiers ahead of him, walking on the gravel without making a sound; each of them was like a cat.

The team covered the 700-meter distance in less than ten minutes.

Shi Lei made a hand gesture at the front, and everyone immediately crouched down, hiding behind a boulder and bushes that were more than a meter tall.

Lin Mo quickly pulled Ren down to squat down as well.

He peeked out and followed Shi Lei's gaze.

Not far ahead, in an open space, three minotaurs were dozing around an extinguished fire.

They just sat there, their massive bodies pressed together, snoring loudly.

That oppressive feeling could be felt even from dozens of meters away.

"start."

Long Fei's command came through the headset.

Shi Lei held up three fingers to his teammates behind him, pointing to three targets in turn, and then clenched his fist.

"Chirp!"

With a soft bang, a team member fired first, the bullet leaving a faint trace, hitting the leftmost minotaur in the chest precisely.

"puff!"

A small cluster of blood exploded.

The minotaur's massive body jolted violently, and his snoring stopped abruptly.

It looked down at the small hole in its chest from which blood was seeping, its tiny, beady eyes filled with confusion. Then, it raised its head and let out a deafening roar.

"Moo!!!"

The other two minotaurs instantly awoke, jumped to their feet, grabbed their giant axes, and warily scanned their surroundings.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!"

Three more shots were fired, all hitting the first minotaur.

Three more bloody holes appeared on his body, and blood gushed out. This guy was even angrier and showed no sign of falling down. He roared and charged towards the direction of the gunshot.

"knee!"

Shi Lei shouted into the channel.

"Chirp! Chirp!"

Two bullets hit its knees precisely as it charged.

"Pfft!"

Two plumes of blood exploded from his left knee, the hard bone looking as if it had been shattered by a bullet.

"Moo—!"

The minotaur let out a mournful cry, its massive body losing its balance and crashing heavily to the ground with a loud thud, shaking the earth.

Struggling to get up, I realized my leg was useless.

"head!"

"Chirp!"

The last bullet struck its struggling, raised head, penetrating its eye socket and exploding a large hole in the back of its head, splattering red and white blood all over the ground.

The massive body twitched twice and then fell silent.

The whole process took less than ten seconds.

Before the other two minotaurs could even react to how their companion had died, a barrage of bullets rained down from the darkness.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp—"

The bullets accurately struck his knees and head.

Two more loud bangs followed, and the remaining two minotaurs fell to the ground.

The battle is over.

The air was thick with the stench of blood.

Renn crouched behind the rock, watching all of this, completely frozen in place.

He had thought these people were strong, but he hadn't expected them to be this strong.

Those are minotaurs!

Even the strongest hunter team in the village, with more than a dozen people risking their lives, might not be able to take down a single one.

But in front of this group of people, they were like three livestock waiting to be slaughtered, as fragile as paper.

He looked down at the bone blade in his hand, then at the black weapons in the hands of the warriors, and a huge sense of powerlessness welled up inside him.

He wanted to help, to avenge his father himself, but the knife in his hand wasn't even good enough to tickle the minotaur in this battle.

My hands were shaking, not from fear, but from anger and resentment.

"Team Leader Long, weapon testing complete. The 191 rifle can effectively penetrate the target's skin and muscle, but cannot cause fatal wounds. Attacking the knee joint can incapacitate the target, while an attack to the head can kill instantly."

Shi Lei calmly reported the situation on the channel.

"Roger that," Long Fei's voice came through. "Clear out the southern targets as planned. Tiger will lead the attack, while Snow Wolf will clear the rear and guard against enemy reinforcements from the north."

"yes!"

"yes!"

The two teams didn't check the bodies; they immediately regrouped and stealthily made their way into the depths of the southern hills.

Renn gritted his teeth, suppressing the feeling of powerlessness, and followed.

The next hour turned into a one-sided massacre.

With drones conducting high-altitude reconnaissance, the location of any Minotaur is nowhere to be hidden.

The Fierce Tiger Special Forces are like a group of highly efficient butchers, with clear division of labor and perfect teamwork.

One person is responsible for precisely firing a shot to cripple the minotaur's leg, rendering it immobile, and then another team member will follow up with a bullet that precisely hits the minotaur's head.

The fourth one...

The fifth one...

The sixth one...

The seventh one...

The mission targets ten, and most of them have been completed.

Ryan followed behind, his initial shock gradually turning into numbness.

As he watched the monsters that had once filled him with despair fall one by one, the fire of revenge in his heart burned ever brighter.

The Tiger Squad had just taken down the seventh minotaur and was preparing to move to a new location when Wang Hao's voice suddenly rang out in the channel, urgent:

"Dragon Team! A large number of heat sources detected to the north! Moving at high speed towards Tiger Team's location! Number... at least ten!"

Everyone in the channel felt a chill run down their spines.

Shi Lei's expression changed, and he immediately ordered, "Everyone, take cover and prepare for battle!"

The team members quickly dispersed, relying on the surrounding boulders and mountain walls to build a temporary defensive line.

Lin Mo pulled Renn behind a boulder.

Not long after, the ground began to tremble slightly, and a series of heavy, disordered footsteps came from behind the hillside to the north, growing closer and closer.

"Moo!!!"

A roar of extreme rage.

A dozen enormous figures charged down the hillside, their eyes bloodshot, the giant axes in their hands gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

"Fire!"

Shi Lei gave the order.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp—!"

Ten rifles fired simultaneously, and a dense hail of bullets instantly rained down on the minotaur at the front.

The minotaur at the front of the charge instantly exploded with more than a dozen bursts of blood, but he roared and did not slow down at all.

These guys were completely enraged by the death of their comrade and went into a berserk state, charging wildly through a hail of bullets.

"Damn it! Not enough firepower! We can't keep up!" one of the team members roared.

The burst fire of the 191 rifle was too ineffective against such a group charge.

The minotaurs were getting closer and closer to the defensive line, the closest of which was less than fifty meters away.

As Shi Lei watched the massive figures approaching, his eyes reddened. He grabbed the communicator and yelled into the microphone:

"Dragon Team! Tigers request RPGs! Repeat, requesting heavy firepower!!"