Because of having only his left eye remaining.
He hadn't noticed the woman making that move on his right side as a co-pilot earlier.
Now, hearing her voice, he understood what had happened.
He couldn't help but feel fortunate.
If his left eye had been the one gouged out last time.
He would have reflexively glanced with his right eye just now!
Thinking of this, cold sweat immediately seeped from his forehead.
Eyes fixed forward, not daring to look away.
He didn't even dare to look in the rearview mirror.
Fearing this terrifying woman would mistake him for looking at her.
As the convoy drove deeper into the jungle.
Three hours had already passed.
The destination didn't seem to be close.
Miao Zuo and Xiao Hei had gone to rest.
Gao Kai had been standing behind Chu Tian the whole time.
"Xiao Tian, zoom in on the map..."
Suddenly, Gao Kai's eyes flickered, and he spoke.
"Hmm? Brother Kai also found it?" Chu Tian waved his hand, and the map stretched out.
"Looking at the direction, that red dot... is..." Gao Kai's gaze sharpened.
"It's Juesha!" Chu Tian finished Gao Kai's uncertain words.
After Chu Tian obtained Sui Xing, finding someone on Blue Star was incredibly simple.
Unless they were completely isolated.
Someone who didn't use any internet or modern communication.
Otherwise, Sui Xing could pinpoint them in minutes.
This was also why Chu Tian had given Juesha's location to Gao Kai long ago.
"Black Shark?" Gao Kai asked, confused.
"It should be them. Look at the tattoos on their wrists," Chu Tian prompted Gao Kai.
Those mercenaries all had a black shark tattoo on their wrists.
This was the mark of the Black Shark mercenaries.
"That woman is probably not from Black Shark!" Gao Kai stated.
"Mmm, she's likely the employer," Chu Tian nodded as well.
"Then..." Gao Kai implied that following them like this was meaningless.
Upon reaching the Black Shark's stronghold, they wouldn't meet the person behind the woman.
"Let's keep watching!" Chu Tian had already anticipated this.
However, he was still a bit unwilling to give up. Having followed this far, a little more time wouldn't hurt.
He just felt that the Humvee was running a bit too slowly.
After another hour, finally, in Chu Tian's sight.
A walled village appeared.
The place wasn't very large, but its defenses were formidable.
There were twelve watchtowers alone.
All-round protection ensured that any enemy approach from any direction would be discovered immediately.
Sui Xing scanned the area. The entire perimeter around the village, within a two-kilometer radius, was a minefield.
There was only one path into the village, the one the three Humvees were taking.
And on this side, there was a checkpoint every five hundred miles.
Each checkpoint was defended by heavy firepower.
With such tight security, even several special forces units arriving simultaneously would be wiped out here.
Perhaps only a large-scale military force could eradicate this place.
But this was a lawless zone.
If a large contingent entered,
It would immediately trigger a chain reaction, potentially even igniting wars between nations.
Therefore, this was a paradise for criminals.
"They're going in! What do we do?" Gao Kai asked.
"I'll go have some fun. You guys cover me!"
Sensing the mechs had stopped moving, Xiao Hei and Miao Zuo also emerged from their rest.
They stood up and came to Chu Tian's side.
"Brother Tian..." Miao Zuo frowned.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. With Sui Xing here, no one can harm me!"
As Chu Tian spoke, his humanoid mech whirled.
The next moment, he flew out of the cabin.
Controlling the mech to descend a short distance, he was initially in stealth mode.
Suddenly, at a distance of a few dozen meters from the ground, Chu Tian abruptly retracted the mech.
His body was exposed to the air.
Plummeting rapidly.
His sudden appearance stunned everyone in the watchtowers.
No one could have imagined that a person would suddenly appear directly above their village.
Some quick-thinking individuals thought he had fallen from an airplane and even craned their necks to look at the sky.
The reason they didn't consider Chu Tian to be a paratrooper was that no paratrooper would descend so low without deploying their parachute.
This wasn't an air drop, it was suicide!
However, in the instant they were stunned.
Boom...
Chu Tian landed.
Not the "splat..." that the mercenaries imagined,
With meat paste, blood, and scattered bones.
Instead, there was a loud thud, and dust billowed up.
As if what landed wasn't a person, but a cast-iron statue.
"Holy crap, I was wrong, that's not a person, could it be an iron statue of a person?"
People in all twelve watchtowers had their attention drawn, looking towards the center of the village.
Some even asked their companions such questions.
"It should be a person!" the person next to them was also bewildered.
"This person... Ah!"
Boom... Crackle...
As one of them was pondering, another booming sound occurred.
The wooden platform he was standing on suddenly trembled and shook.
Then it collapsed.
This fellow's footing disappeared, and before he could finish speaking, he fell to his death on the ground as the watchtower collapsed.
"Enemy attack..."
With the appearance of this scene, everyone finally reacted.
Someone sounded the alarm, and countless people rushed out of the houses.
All of them held AKs and other automatic rifles.
In the center of the village, a relatively tall building.
The door was pushed open, and a bearded man walked out.
He carried a golden-colored pistol in his hand.
Behind him was the young girl Chu Tian had seen in the Sui Xing monitoring earlier.
And another person, whom Chu Tian also recognized.
That was Juesha.
"Where is he?"
"Where did he go?"
The village descended into chaos.
Everyone had lost their target.
The bearded man stood at a high vantage point.
He was very calm, looking down below.
From his position, he could see almost the entire village clearly.
In his sight, the dust had mostly dispersed.
Besides his own Black Shark members, who were searching everywhere with weapons in hand.
He hadn't found any other people.
The only outsider in the village was the young girl beside him.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but tilt his head to look at her.
He had experienced the girl's stealth abilities.
If she hadn't wanted to kill him that time, he would have been a corpse already.
Could it be...
The person who had just appeared also possessed such stealth abilities.
His gaze fell upon her, and in the girl's eyes, he saw curiosity.
Clearly, she too had become interested in the person who had appeared and then disappeared.
However, her gaze flashed and then she suddenly looked back into the room behind her.
The next moment, her body suddenly disappeared.
But in the instant she vanished, the bearded man saw her take a step towards the open door behind him.
Juesha, who was beside him, naturally saw this as well.
Swish...
A dagger was drawn from his leg.
He lunged into the room.
This bearded man was the leader of the Black Shark mercenary group.
His nickname was Black Shark.
Seeing this, he knew something must have happened inside the room.
Thinking of the cocoon-like object the young girl had brought earlier,
He immediately understood that the person who had appeared just now must have come for that item.
He kicked his golden pistol with his heel, chambering a round.
He followed Juesha back into the room.