A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"You should know that your companions will soon be heading that way. I only need to keep an eye on them to know what they're up to. You don't want us to meet again, do you?"

“No, I remember it very clearly,” T-Bag said firmly. “I hope you will keep your promise and let me go.”

"You're crazy!"

To everyone's surprise, Beth scoffed, "When did I ever say I'd let you leave?"

T-Bag's expression changed drastically: "Damn it, you guys broke your promise?!"

"Damn it! Even devils know to keep their contracts, you bunch of demons!"

Cao Gui laughed: "Are you out of your mind? I'm a federal employee, what devil can be more evil than me?"

Are you looking down on us?

“That’s right!” Beth laughed. “I’m a financial capitalist, and you’re talking to me about credit? It seems you haven’t had all your surplus value squeezed out yet!”

"No! You can't do this!" T-Bag began to despair.

Gwen chuckled, took Cao Gui's arm, and said, "That damned murderer, he wants fairness too? She's a federal employee too!"

Harry patted him on the shoulder, then stood next to Beth. "Capitalists, who isn't?"

Lucy stretched out her arms and wrapped them around Gwen and Beth's necks: Sorry, I'm both!

T-Bag's face turned ashen. He had been clever all his life, but he had made a foolish mistake. This time, he was truly finished.

Cao Gui took off his socks, stuffed them into T-Bag's mouth, and sealed them with tape so they wouldn't disturb his sleep.

Roar roar roar—

However, at that moment, a sharp roar suddenly came from deep within the forest.

Cao Gui and the others' expressions changed, and they all picked up their guns to arm themselves.

"Help! Help!"

However, another woman's scream came from deep within the forest, the sound heavy and ethereal, seemingly coming from inside a cave.

In the dead of night, in the desolate wilderness, a woman screams.

At that moment, goosebumps instantly rose on Gwenbeth and the others, and an inexplicable chill spread throughout their bodies.

Cao Gui narrowed his eyes, thinking of the two cars he had seen earlier and the so-called cave attraction.

Adding the monster and the woman, Cao Gui immediately thought of a gore movie: The Descent!

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Chapter 43 Familiar Things

With a snap, the men quickly raised their submachine guns and prepared for action.

Cao Gui whispered, "Gwen, Lucy, go and get all the weapons and equipment."

"Harry, Beth, let's keep watch!"

Upon hearing this, Gwen and Lucy quickly returned to their tents, while Cao Gui snapped his fingers and tossed a thick, brightly lit glow stick into the depths of the forest.

While ordinary glow sticks can be seen clearly in the dark, they are not enough to illuminate the surrounding environment. However, high-brightness glow sticks can emit extremely bright light, illuminating the surrounding environment.

However, it lasts for a very short time.

As the glow sticks were flung out, light appeared in the pitch-black forest. In the far distance, several humanoid white creatures were crawling on the trees, their mouths, noses, and chests stained red, seemingly with a large amount of blood.

But the monster didn't turn its gaze toward Cao Gui's camp, seemingly... not relying on light to perceive the world.

Cao Gui gestured for Harry and Beth to be quiet, and the two were taken aback for a moment before nodding.

The three did not fire immediately, but waited for Gwen and Lucy to return. The MP5 submachine gun was a close-range weapon, firing 9mm P-40 rounds, which was okay at close range, but not so good at long range.

However, Cao Gui overlooked one person: T-Bag!

Knowing he would be returning to Fox River, he was utterly devastated. He had offended too many people in Fox River, and now he had lost an arm. Returning would be worse than death.

Since that's the case, let's all perish together!

Clang clang~~~

A water bottle was kicked by T-Bag, and it fell onto a rock, the crisp, pleasant metallic clang echoing through the silent forest.

"Shit!"

Harry and Beth's expressions changed drastically, and they couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Hissing roar—!"

Meanwhile, in the forest, the monsters were simultaneously charging towards the source of the sound.

"Fire!"

Cao Gui shouted coldly, and suddenly pulled the trigger.

blah blah blah!

blah blah blah!

The MP5 fired a short, crisp shot, and streaks of fire lit up the night sky.

The five humanoid white monsters that rushed towards them soon collapsed to the ground, howling in pain; clearly, they were not bulletproof.

Tap tap tap tap tap!

Cao Gui's gaze narrowed slightly as he called out the names of the monsters one by one. In no time, the monsters were completely lifeless.

Seeing this, Harry and Beth grew bolder, and their fearful expressions gradually disappeared.

Human fear does not stem from the unknown, but from insufficient firepower.

Clearly, Beth and the others had no reason to be afraid.

"Sang Bichi!"

Beth kicked T-Bag: "You want to kill us?"

"Waaah..." T-Bag twisted his body, unable to utter a word.

Just then, Gwen and Lucy returned with a large bag of guns.

Seeing this, Cao Gui said, "Harry, Gwen, you four stay here and guard the camp. I'll go find that woman from earlier."

“No!” Gwen screamed. “It’s too dangerous for you to be alone.”

“Gwen is right,” Harry said. “We’ll go with you.”

Cao Gui shook his head: "The woman must have made the sound from inside the cave. We can't have so many people go there."

“Then I’ll go with you alone!” Gwen quickly said.

"The situation inside the cave is unknown. You have not received cave exploration training and cannot go down."

Cao Gui still refused Gwen's request, but seeing her anxious and worried expression, his heart softened, and he hugged her in his arms.

"Don't worry, Gwen, I'm just going to check it out. I'll be right back. Besides, I have a walkie-talkie with me, so it'll be fine."

Cao Gui gently patted her back, then picked up the Bernelli M4 and walked over to T-Bag, grabbing his shoulder:

"You better watch out, or there'll be no one to collect your body in this desolate wilderness."

After saying that, he turned and walked into the deep jungle. However, no one noticed that Cao Gui was wearing a silver ring on his ring finger, and a thin poison needle was hidden below the ring.

The poisoned needle pierced T-Bag's body.

This was something that the Brotherhood assassin White Dove used back then. Cao Gui thought it was pretty good, so he kept it. He never expected it would come in handy one day.

Watching Cao Gui's departing figure, Gwen gritted her teeth. In her more than ten years of life, this was the first time she had felt so powerless.

Lucy held Gwen in her arms and whispered comfortingly, "Don't worry, Cao will be alright."

……

On the other side, Cao Gui walked all the way to the edge of the cave, but he did not see the woman who had made the sound earlier, and there was only a series of footprints and bloodstains at the cave entrance.

Cao Gui thought for a moment, then pressed the intercom and told Gwen and the others that he wanted to go down into the cave, and then went down into the cave.

However, as soon as they entered the cave, a strong smell of blood hit them.

Cao Gui frowned, took out a bundle of glow sticks from his [System Backpack], then turned into a narrow opening and walked along the passage, dropping a glow stick every ten meters or so to mark the way.

He had seen the movie and vaguely remembered that the main characters left from here, but he couldn't remember how they got there after that. Cao Gui didn't care; if he could find someone, he would lend a hand, and if not, then so be it.

If I can help, that's a favor; if I can't, there's nothing I can do.

Cao Gui walked cautiously through the cave, but strangely, he found neither the monster nor the female protagonists.

All they found was a large pile of human bones, and the flesh on them had been licked clean.

"strangeness……"

Cao Gui thought for a moment and decided to continue walking in. He had brought quite a few glow sticks, which should be enough.

……

On the ground, Gwen's mood had improved considerably, and Cao Gui's voice occasionally came through the walkie-talkie, which reassured her a lot.

"I told you Cao would be fine," Beth laughed. Her confidence was high, and they were much more relaxed now, even able to joke around.

"Uuuuuuu..."

At this moment, T-Bag, who was standing to the side, suddenly started trembling, and a series of white foams appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Shit, what happened to this guy?" Lucy exclaimed.

Before they could even react, T-Bag kicked his feet and was gone.

“He seems to have been poisoned,” Gwen said in a low voice.

Are there snakes?

“That’s impossible,” Harry said, frowning. “I’ve spread a lot of snake repellent around here; there shouldn’t be any snakes.”

After a pause, Harry continued, "I'll go check it out."

The three girls nodded, raised their guns in a defensive stance, and the relaxed atmosphere vanished completely with T-Bag's death.

Harry cautiously approached T-Bag, pinched his chin to examine him, but T-Bag was indeed dead. Apart from the wound on his severed hand, there were no other visible external injuries on his body.

“Strange…” Harry stood up, ready to speak.