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One-eyed Ajiu looked down at the compass in his hand.

The small brass hand spun wildly around the dial like it was having an epileptic seizure, making people dizzy.

"Damn it, the magnetic field on this crappy mountain is all messed up." Ajiu cursed as he shoved the compass into his clothes and rubbed his one sinister eye.

Walking behind, Huang Baoya hunched his neck, aiming his submachine gun at the surroundings, panting heavily.

"Ninth Brother, I'm serious... this forest is too eerie. Listen to this, apart from the three of us breathing, there isn't even a bird chirping or an insect buzzing. It's so dark and eerie, it's creepy."

Chen Pi, who was walking on the right, spat and sneered.

"Yellow Bucktooth, is that thing in your crotch just for show? You haven't even seen anyone yet and you're already scared to death? Brother Lei is leading the main force behind us. Do you think the three of us with guns will be swallowed up by a few mountain rats?"

"Chen Pi, stop talking nonsense without understanding the situation!"

Huang, with his buck teeth, glared at her beady eyes and retorted sharply.

"Those guys who run in the mountains, they've got some skills. Brother Lei told us to be careful, what are you bragging about!"

"Alright, all of you shut the fuck up, what the hell are you yelling about!"

Ah Jiu gave a low shout, and the two immediately shrank back.

Ajiu stopped, squatted down, picked up a blade of grass from the ground with her gloved fingertips, and waved it in front of the two of them.

"Can you kill someone with all that noise? Are your eyes only for breathing? Come and take a look."

Chenpi and Huangbaoya quickly stepped forward.

"Ninth Brother, what's wrong? Is this grass poisonous?"

"He asked, yellow-toothed man."

"Poison my ass!"

Ah Jiu sneered and shoved the broken grass stem in front of Huang Baoya's eyes.

"See that? The green sap on the broken surface is still glistening; it's not even completely dry. And these footprints in the mud are of varying depths. What do you call that? That's called panicking and running blindly!"

Chen Pi grinned.

"So, they were scared out of their wits and ran away?"

"They did more than just run away."

Ajiu stood up and pointed to an old birch tree next to her.

"Look at that tree bark again, a white mark half a foot long, with fresh wood chips still on the ground. These Yankees were so panicked from fleeing for their lives that they didn't even care if their scabbards chipped off a tree. It's like they took a dump and didn't wipe themselves properly—they're clearly showing us the way!"

Chen Pi, with a straw in his mouth, twitched his fleshy face and grinned maliciously.

"Ninth Brother is indeed Ninth Brother; those who came from the southern jungles are truly different."

"I knew it! What can a few peasant farmers do, even with two beat-up shotguns? When I catch the ringleader, I'll sever his tendons first, then slice his flesh off piece by piece!"

Yellow-toothed guy chuckled maliciously, "Count me in! I hate cops the most. If they catch one, I'll pour boiling oil down his ears and see if he confesses!"

"Alright, stop bragging."

Ah Jiu drew half of the short knife from her waist, then pushed it back, her eyes full of contempt.

"Brother Lei just gave us a lot of warnings, afraid of alerting them. I think these mountain rats are already scared out of their wits. Let's put in a good effort, advance in a triangular formation, and whoever catches them first gets the credit!"

"Alright!" Chen Pi pulled back the bolt, his eyes flashing with a fierce light, and strode towards the bushes on the right.

Not to be outdone, Huang Baoya, gun in hand, slanted to the left at a gentle slope, muttering, "Ninth Brother, let's go down the mountain and grab some young ladies, we need to let the brothers have a taste of the good life first..."

As he spoke, he lifted his large foot and swaggered over a piece of rotten wood lying across a pile of dead leaves.

My foot landed heavily, sinking into the thick layer of decaying leaves.

"Click!!"

A crisp yet muffled mechanical click suddenly burst from under the rotten leaves!

The sound wasn't earth-shattering, but it carried a chilling, steely ferocity!

The lewd smile on Huang Baoya's face froze instantly.

"Well……"

A strange gasp rolled from his throat, and he seemed to be nailed to the spot, his eyes bulging out.

"Hey, buck-toothed Huang, what the hell are you standing there for? Let's go!" Chen Pi cursed as he turned around on the right.

Huang Baoya didn't move. He slowly lowered his head, his neck stiff as a rusty bearing.

Amidst the swirling decaying leaves, a massive, jet-black steel animal trap, the size of a washbasin, had already slammed shut!

Each of those barbs, about an inch long, was gleaming with a sinister black light, and at this moment, they had completely sunk into his right ankle!

The specially made thick cowhide military boots were like a piece of soft tofu, and were instantly shredded!

The sharp steel teeth severed the Achilles tendon without any hindrance, smashed the bone, and embedded themselves deep into the bone marrow!

Only then did the excruciating pain in his nerve endings surge into Huang Baoya's brain like a flash flood!

"Ahhhh! Holy crap! My leg! My leg is broken!!"

Huang Baoya let out a heart-wrenching scream, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground. He frantically tried to pry open the animal trap with his hands, and blood gushed out from between his fingers, instantly staining the withered leaves on the ground black!

"There's an ambush! It's a trap!!"

Chen Pi, who was walking on the right, trembled with fear, his scalp tingling as if it were about to fly off.

His instincts, honed from years of living on the edge, left him no time to think the moment he heard the scream. He leaped back, trying to escape the dangerous area!

"Chenpi! Don't back up! Don't jump!!" Ajiu screamed shrilly, her one eye almost bursting out of its socket.

But it was too late.

In moments of extreme panic, the brain's avoidance actions are all instinctive.

The architect of this trap was precisely because of this damned instinct!

While Chen Pi's back was still in the air, his heels slammed heavily onto a seemingly safe, soft patch of flat ground behind him.

"Thump!!"

A muffled thud!

Immediately following was a metallic roar several times more ferocious than before!

"Boom!!"

That's no ordinary animal trap!

That was Lu Qingshan's "Mother and Daughter Linked Mountain Cracking Clamps," which he personally crafted using heavy truck shock-absorbing steel plates and had a tensile strength of several hundred pounds!

Hidden deep within the humus soil, two enormous crescent-shaped steel arms, accompanied by a piercing whistle that tore through the air, suddenly struck together from the left and right sides with terrifying force!

"Pfft!!"

There was no crisp sound of bones breaking, only a dull, nauseating sound of flesh exploding!

It was like a red-hot hammer smashing down on a ripe, rotten watermelon!

Chen Pi's left knee, which was originally used to support his landing, was smashed into a bloody, mangled mess in a fraction of a second by the two massive steel blades, along with his patella, meniscus, ligaments, and the muscles on the lower side of his thigh!

"Clatter!"

The sharp, white bone fragments pierced through the camouflage trouser leg, spraying large gushes of dark red arterial blood directly onto the tree trunk two meters away!

Chen Pi even paused for a second while screaming.

He stared blankly at his leg, which had broken off strangely outwards and was only connected by a layer of skin, and then he knelt down on the ground.

"Ah...uh...Ninth Brother...Ninth Brother! My leg is gone! My knee is shattered!!"

The pig-like screams instantly shattered the deathly silence of the entire valley!

Chen Pi rolled wildly in the mud and blood, digging deep trenches in the ground with his hands. His violent spasms twisted his face like a demon, and he spat out blood and foam. His submachine gun had long since been thrown into some mud pit.

"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."

Hot, sticky blood splattered on half of Ah Jiu's face.

Warm liquid trickled down his eyes and nose, sliding into his lips, filling his mouth with a strong, metallic taste.

Ah Jiu seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move an inch.

His previously confident, contemptuous, and sarcastic expression froze completely on his face, then was gradually torn apart by endless horror and fear.

"How could this be... how is this possible..."

Ah Jiu's one eye was fixed on the bloodstains on the ground, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.

"Broken grass stems...fresh knife marks...footprints left in a panic..."

Ah Jiu muttered to herself nervously, her face as pale as paper.

"It's all fake...it's all a setup he deliberately left for me to see! He deliberately led us this way...he calculated that I would walk in the middle, he calculated the distance between the left and right flanks, he even calculated the landing point of Chen Pi's jump after being startled...he calculated it to the inch!!"

This is not a clue left behind in a panicked escape!

This is a deadly trap that uses people's psychology as bait and human instinct as a trigger!

"Ninth Brother! Help me! Pull it away...please help me pull it away!"

Yellow-toothed man howled in the mud, dragging his bloodied right foot toward Ah Jiu's feet, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. "It hurts so much! My bones are all broken! Ah Jiu, save me!"

"Get away! Don't come any closer!!"

Ah Jiu, as if she had seen a vengeful ghost, suddenly raised the muzzle of her gun and aimed it at Huang Baoya, screaming hysterically.

"Don't move! Don't you fucking move! This place is full of fucking traps! You want to kill me?!"

With a gun pointed at him, Huang Baoya lay frozen in the mud in despair, his face covered in tears, snot, and blood.

"Ninth Brother...we're brothers...Chen Pi is dying, please save me...I don't want to die in this godforsaken place..."

Chen Pi was in so much pain that he didn't even have the strength to howl anymore. He lay on the ground, convulsing, and letting out weak, intermittent groans.

"Kill me...give me a quick death...fuck you...give me a quick death..."

The two most ruthless and heavily armed desperados in the entire search team.

Without even seeing the enemy's face, without even knowing whether the other side fired a shot, in an instant, one was dead and the other was crippled.

The air was thick with the pungent smell of blood, and the cold mist seeped up from Ah Jiu's trousers, making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

He considered himself a master trapper in the southern jungle, but only now did he realize that in the eyes of the hunter lurking in the shadows, he was nothing more than a fool who thought himself clever.

"Sizzle... sizzle..."

Suddenly, a static noise came from the tactical walkie-talkie hanging on Ah-Jiu's chest.

Immediately afterwards, the bandit leader Lei Dong's deep and irritable voice suddenly boomed out:

"Ah Jiu! What's going on up ahead?! I heard Chen Pi yelling! Did you fire your guns?! Did you catch those mountain rats?! Answer me! Did you hear me?! Give me a straight answer right now!!"

The thunderous roar sounded particularly jarring in the deathly silent forest.

Ajiu reached out with trembling hands and pressed the call button on the walkie-talkie.

His lips trembled violently; his usual effeminate and composed tone had long since vanished, leaving only a chilling dread emanating from his very bones.

"Lei...Brother Lei..."

"Ah Jiu? What the hell are you stuttering for?! Did you grab someone or not?!"

"No...no..." A-Jiu cried out, staring intently at the bloody and mangled scene before her.

"Brother Lei... let's retreat... let's retreat! This isn't human... this is a living devil! Chen Pi and Huang Baoya are both crippled... he didn't even show his face, yet he's already killed us all!!"

There was a deathly silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie.

A few hundred meters away, Lei Dong, who was leading a machine gunner, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

A fierce wind swept through Laoyagou, and thick fog rolled in.

Lei Dong gripped the miniature submachine gun tightly in his hand. His steel hands, which had killed countless people in the hail of bullets on the border and had never wavered, began to tremble violently uncontrollably at this moment.