On the mountain ridge of Laoyagou, the thick white fog was as thick as boiling rice soup in a pot, and you couldn't see a person just a few steps away.

A lean man, blind in his left eye, was squatting in a pile of wet, rotten leaves, slowly whittling a hardwood branch with a blood-grooved military dagger in his hand.

Faintly, the sounds of barking dogs and the crunching of leather boots on dry branches drifted up from the foot of the mountain.

The blind man's hand, which was whittling wood, suddenly stopped. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of rotten teeth, yellowed and blackened by the smoke of tobacco.

"Brother Lei, listen to the noise, those idiots down the mountain have taken the bait."

Heavy footsteps echoed through the thick fog. The bandit leader, Lei Dong, carrying a dark submachine gun, strode over, his eyes as sinister as a vulture in the mountains.

"Ah Jiu, are those 'dirt things' you buried down there even effective? Don't make a big fuss and end up with nothing, so these cops can find their way up."

Ah Jiu spat out a mouthful of thick, bloody phlegm and used the tip of his dagger to draw three connected circles on the muddy ground.

"Brother Lei, don't worry! This skill is my secret weapon, learned from the monkeys in the old forests of the south!"

"I call this 'Chain of Deathly Lightning Bolts'! There are three in total, made with the finest transparent fishing line, tied to rotten grass roots and mud. Even a deity would trip over them if they passed by!"

He poked the first ring with the tip of his knife and chuckled maliciously, "The first one went off, anyone would be scared and roll to the side, right? If you just lunge to the side, you'll land right on the second one!"

"What if the people behind get scared and want to turn back? Hehe, the third one is right behind them, waiting to start the feast!"

"Fry them one after another, and I guarantee they'll be left with rotten intestines in the front and broken legs in the back, crying and screaming for their parents, all dead in this Crow Gully!"

Lei Dong's lips twitched slightly, a bloodthirsty glint flashing in his eyes. He raised his hand and patted the barrel of the slightly agitated gun.

"Good! As long as the noise starts below, I'll look down from above and call their names one by one with this thing! None of those who came into the mountains today will leave standing up!"

……

At the same time, in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

The search team is struggling to move forward through the thick fog.

Wang Jianguo held a spent cartridge he had just pried off a tree trunk in his hand, his face so serious it was almost dripping with water, as he whispered to Lu Qingshan what was going on.

"Qingshan, the quality of these cartridge cases is off. They're not the homemade guns used for poaching in our forest area. These are the high-powered, repeating rounds that only the troops in the south have! There's definitely a big fish ahead. Everyone has to follow orders, and no one is allowed to advance recklessly!"

Lu Qingshan frowned, his sharp eyes scanning the excessively silent thicket around him.

"Uncle Wang, even birds aren't landing this way. That low-lying area ahead is too dangerous. Make sure the comrades stay put and don't huddle together."

As the two were talking, Sun Jianguo, who was standing to the side, felt as if hundreds of ants were crawling inside him, and his eyes turned red with anxiety.

Deputy Director Gao has fallen from grace; as the security officer of the forest farm, he's got a lot of dirty laundry on him.

If he can't capture these armed bandits and make a name for himself this time, his life will be completely over!

Seeing Wang Jianguo and Lu Qingshan whispering to each other, Sun Jianguo felt a surge of anger and cursed inwardly.

"Damn it! Wang Jianguo, you old fox, you're clearly trying to give all the credit to that little bastard Lu Qingshan! If I keep hiding in the back, I won't even get a sip of the leftovers!"

He gritted his teeth and, relying on his supposed familiarity with the terrain, suddenly darted out from the front of the group.

"Director Wang! Stop dawdling and you'll be wasting your time!" Sun Jianguo yelled at the top of his lungs. "I know that low-lying area up ahead like the back of my hand. I've gone there eight hundred times hunting back in the day! If you guys are too scared to go, I'll go ahead and clear the way for you!"

"Sun Jianguo! You get back here right now! Stay where you are!" Wang Jianguo cursed angrily and reached out to grab him.

But Sun Jianguo, eager to be the first to do the work, seemed to have springs in his feet, leaping five or six meters in one step and landing directly in a patch of rotten grass at the edge of the depression.

"Click".

A faint yet crisp metallic crack, like a sound bursting from the bones, suddenly rang out in the deathly silent forest.

Sun Jianguo froze, looking down at his feet, his face instantly turning from the elation of trying to claim credit into utter bewilderment.

"What's that noise...?"

"Get down!! Get down now!!"

Lu Qingshan's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and a heart-wrenching roar erupted from his throat!

That wasn't an ordinary sound; it was an instinctive reaction that had crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood!

Before Lu Qingshan could even explain, his muscles tensed instantly, and he slammed into Wang Jianguo's chest like a cheetah pouncing on its prey!

"Bang!"

Wang Jianguo, a strong man weighing 170 or 180 pounds, was sent flying backward by Lu Qingshan's all-out ramming. The two of them tumbled down the slippery mud slope and crashed hard into a natural pit filled with foul-smelling mud!

Almost the very next second after they fell into the pit—

"BOOM—!!"

The first grenade exploded with a bang under Sun Jianguo's feet!

In that instant, the orange-red fireball swept wildly with scorching heat waves, and countless fine steel balls and iron fragments tore through the air like a torrential rain!

Sun Jianguo didn't even get a chance to utter a scream before he was thrown into the air like a tattered human sandbag by the terrifying shockwave! Blood and bits of flesh traced a glaring arc through the air before crashing heavily onto the muddy ground a few meters away. His body was charred black, his limbs twisted, and his fate was unknown.

"Aaaaah! My legs!"

"My eyes! I can't see! Help!"

Two young detectives who were closer were thrown over by the blast wave. Sharp shrapnel cut their flesh like knives, and their thighs were torn apart. They lay on the ground, rolling around and howling in agony.

"Don't panic! Find cover! Find cover!"

The militia captain in charge was terrified and frantically shouted for his men to retreat.

But after taking three steps back, their panicked feet suddenly stepped on a thin line lying across the muddy water!

"boom!!"

The second bomb exploded on the retreat route!

Dirt and gravel shot into the sky, and three or four more militiamen were blown away, their screams and cries filling the air.

The entire search team was thrown into complete chaos. The young police officers and militiamen, who had only ever caught petty thieves before, had never seen anything like this before. Their psychological defenses collapsed completely amidst the continuous explosions!

"Run! There are bombs in these mountains!"

"Oh my god! I quit! Run!"

Several terrified militiamen dropped their rifles, scrambled to their feet, and tried to flee towards the edge of the forest.

"Don't run! Get down! Keep yourselves pressed down in the mud!"

Wang Jianguo poked his head out of the stinking mud pit, half his face a bloody mess from flying pebbles, his official hat long gone. His eyes were bloodshot, and he roared desperately in a hoarse, broken voice, but his voice was instantly drowned out by the surrounding smoke and screams!

"Da da da! Da da da da da!!"

Before everyone could recover from the shock of the landmines, a raging tongue of fire suddenly spewed out from the thick fog atop the mountain!

Lei Dong, holding a submachine gun, looked down at the crowd below who were scrambling for their lives and firing wildly!

The bullets lashed out like an impenetrable iron whip, striking the muddy ground and tree trunks with devastating force. Birch trees as thick as bowls were riddled with sawdust, snapping in half at the waist!

The militiamen who had just stood up and tried to escape suddenly burst into several puffs of blinding blood mist, as if they had been shoved hard by an invisible hand, and collapsed limply into a pool of blood.

"Hahaha! Come on! A bunch of uniformed mutts!"

From the ridge, Lei Dong's arrogant and brutal laughter echoed through the gunfire: "Grandpa's waiting for you here! No matter how many come today, I'll bury them all!"

The intense firepower pinned the remaining men down in the muddy ditch, and the sparks from the bullets hitting the rocks of the bunker stung their faces.

On that open field with no cover, two young detectives with broken legs were struggling desperately in the mud, bullets whizzing around them, sending up plumes of mud.

"Director Wang...save me...Director Wang..."

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