Chapter 386: Chapter 225: Pursuit
When sprinting across the clearing, a few of them didn’t feel anything amiss. However, as soon as they entered the forest, the disadvantages of a larger group became apparent—speed was decreased, and a bigger group meant larger targets!
Assistant instructors were already ambushed within the forest. It was more convenient for them to discover and chase their targets when congregated, "Split into three groups and head straight to the destination!" Zhan Hao shouted as he grabbed Yaoguang and chose the middle, "We’ll take the left!" Luo Ye pulled Xing Nong towards the left flank, Liu Xing pushed Wu Zetian, "Stop dawdling, we’re going right!"
"I don’t quite understand, why split into three paths? Doesn’t this just serve us up on a plate?" Wu Zetian looked puzzled.
"So what do you suggest, crowd the middle and wait for them to surround us?" Seeing Wu Zetian’s unconvinced face, Liu Xing patiently explained: "The assistant instructors can’t possibly match us one-to-one in numbers. That means they have fewer people than us.
But, most of them are more skilled than us. If we all cram into the middle, even if staggered, it’d be easy to get rounded up. Splitting into three groups means we can only fend for ourselves, and for us, it depends on a combination of strength and luck, got it?"
"It kind of makes sense now. To put it bluntly, the six of us heading here are no longer in the three to be eliminated. Being captured just means losing a chance to return after being eliminated next time. Might as well go all out, delaying capture even by a moment, right?"
"Pretty much!" Liu Xing nodded. "Those who still have a chance can cover for those who’ve lost their chance in the next mission, now do you understand?"
"Recruits sure like to use their brains, eh? Hands up!" Suddenly, from the tree in front, an instructor swung down, her voice female, secured by a safety rope, her gun aiming directly at them.
Seeing the two hesitating, the female soldier shouted again: "Hands up, don’t you understand Chinese? Move, or I’ll shoot. Though it’s an Air Burst Bomb, it’s painful and can injure at close range. Do you want to get hurt?"
Wu Zetian hurriedly raised his hands, "No, no, Instructor sister, why don’t you come down? Hanging upside down like that must be uncomfortable. That rope is so thin, if it breaks, you’d fall."
"Stop smirking! You there, what are you daydreaming about, raise your hands!"
"Yes, Instructor." Liu Xing, feigning a dejected look, slowly raised his hands but suddenly with a swift move retrieved a small pointed knife from his wrist. Before the female soldier could react, she had already "thud!" landed on the ground.
Wu Zetian covered his eyes unwillingly: "I said the rope was too thin and likely to break."
"Bastard, let me go!" The female soldier, quickly tied up by Liu Xing, twisted her face in fury: "Have the guts to fight me fair and square, what kind of man resorts to such sneaky tactics?"
"Instructor, you told me to raise my hands, and I did. As for what followed, it was purely for self-preservation, tying you up was regrettable." Liu Xing dragged Wu Zetian a few steps away then turned back to add, "You probably thought it was cool to hang from the tree and point a gun at us, but I didn’t!"
"Ah!... Stop!" The female soldier, face red with effort, struggled but couldn’t break free and had to call out: "Number four, number four, number three failed, the target is heading in your direction!"
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Luo Ye and Xing Nong hadn’t gotten far before they also encountered an intercepting instructor, a man who didn’t pay much attention to the delicate girls. As a result, within moments, they had handcuffed him to a tree and cut off his earpiece, leaving the male instructor to only watch helplessly as the sisters walked away.
Seeing that much of the path was clear without blockers, Xing Nong said gleefully, "Luo Luo, once we reach the clearing, we can run fast. The instructors won’t have places to ambush. Hahaha, I can see victory waving at us...ouch..."
It turns out being too cocky is indeed not without consequence. A long vine suddenly tripped Xing Nong, and Luo Ye quickly reached to pull her up, just grabbing the backpack strap. Nong was flailing her arms trying to find her balance when the backpack stayed in Ye’s hands, and Nong ended up faceplanting into the dirt.
"We’re not close to the destination yet, why are you acting so silly? Watch your step..." Luo Ye stopped abruptly, "hehe..." Now Xing Nong, lying on the ground, was really giggling stupidly. Miao, how come there are suddenly two female soldiers, one tall and one short, each with their guns pointed at them?
"And you two think you can make it into Team A with these clumsy antics? In your dreams! How did the two of you get selected?" The tall female soldier scoffed.
Luo Ye’s eyes darted around, acting scared: "Instructor, it wasn’t easy for us to get here, please be lenient." Someone was bending her little fingers as she spoke.
The tall female soldier frowned: "Recruits are still soldiers. What is with that flowery finger-gesturing? I really don’t understand what the superiors were thinking, picking people like you."
"Enough, focus on our job, stop nagging about unnecessary stuff." The short female soldier kicked Xing Nong lightly: "You, get up already, don’t lie there pretending to be a bear."
"Alright, since the instructor caught us, I accept it. What should we do next? We don’t have experience." Xing Nong, in a downcast demeanor, got up.
Their defeated appearance relaxed the female soldiers, who lowered their guns to retrieve handcuffs, "Just cuff them together." The short female soldier said.
"True, do you know how to put these on?" The tall female soldier shook the handcuffs towards Luo Ye and Xing Nong.
"Yes." Xing Nong nodded.
"Each person handcuffs one hand." The tall female soldier throws the handcuffs to Xing Nong.
Mou Nong catches them and clumsily swings them left and right, looking embarrassed, "Instructor, my classmate’s dad is the head of the Police Station, he taught me how to use these, but now I can’t seem to get it right. Don’t rush me, let me try."
"Look at your scared expression!" The tall female soldier hands the gun to the short female soldier and steps forward to take the handcuffs: "I don’t understand, how did Instructor Song let you people pass? Stretch out your wrist... Ah... Ouch..."
Just as the tall female soldier extends the handcuffs towards Luo Ye, Luo Ye twists her body, flips her wrist, and with a "snap", the tall female soldier is handcuffed properly. At the same time, Xing Nong quickly kicks at the short female soldier’s lower legs. Both movements happened in a flash, catching the two complacent female soldiers off guard and leaving them only able to be hit.
The tall female soldier didn’t even have time to resist before she was handcuffed to the tree trunk by Luo Ye who then ripped her earpiece off.
Caught off guard, the short female soldier is kicked by Xing Nong but quickly retaliates. However, just as Xing Nong appears to lose, Luo Ye joins in and together they attack, quickly turning the tide of the fight.
"Instructor, if you don’t want to get beaten, better handcuff yourself. As it stands, we are equals, so I can make that request too," Xing Nong says while attacking and taunting.
"Hmph!" The short female soldier grunts from her nose, making a last desperate effort.
"Retreat!" Following Luo Ye’s shout, Xing Nong quickly dodges backward, and a thick vine whips at the short female soldier’s ankle...
"You two sneaky little foxes! Get back here..." As she watches Luo Ye and Xing Nong escaping, the tall female soldier yells furiously, her face filled with frustration.
The short female soldier waves it off: "Forget it, they were quite merciful, the medicine they applied actually works well, it stopped hurting so quickly, and it seems the swelling is reducing too."
"That’s still because they hit you!" The tall female soldier is still angry.
"If it had been them who got hurt, would you do the same?" The short female soldier sighs. "Don’t you feel like, although we verbally dislike Instructor Hang’s aloofness, deep down we are greatly influenced by her, otherwise, why would she trust us to serve as assistant instructors?"
The tall female soldier: "..."
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"Wow, wow, wow, so thrilling! So exciting! This is amazing!" Running out of the forest, an ecstatic Xing Nong’s face turns red, showing no signs of tiredness.
Luo Ye looks around: "Don’t get too excited yet, we are on our own for now, not sure if they ran ahead, are still fighting or fell. We can’t wait for the instructors to catch us, let’s keep moving."
"Okay!" Xing Nong adjusts her backpack straps: "Let’s go!"
Out on the desolate wilderness, the two running figures stand out.
Hang Menglin puts down her binoculars, nudges the assistant instructor at the driver’s seat: "A pair of little rabbits came out, let’s chase!" She shouts to another car: "There are more rabbits, you go chase too!"
"Yes!"
According to the selection criteria, Ye Mo had taken two instructors ahead to wait for the students at the endpoint, leaving Hang Menglin naturally as the commanding officer of the capturing instructors.
The car spins and rushes out, spotting two small figures in the distant front within three minutes. Hearing Hang Menglin reloading her magazine, the instructor sitting beside her reflexively looks over, then expresses surprise: "Mr. Hang, are you using live ammunition?"
Hang Menglin "huffs": "What’s the point of Air Burst Bombs? Only live ammo can instill real fear in the little rabbits, releasing unimaginable bursts of energy and potential. What’s our role? To unearth the students’ potential. What’s there to fear about my gun skills?"
"What if someone gets hurt..." The instructor stops mid-sentence.
"No ifs!" Hang Menglin says firmly: "With me, there are absolutely no ifs!"
Luo Ye feels something is off behind them, quickly looks back, and grabs Xing Nong’s arm: "Crap, there’s a car... catching up, the ground on the left is soft, the car... can’t drive there, only by making them... get out, do we have a chance to escape, so... let’s run leaning to the left now."
"I really was... excited too early, really... so unreasonable, using four wheels... to chase our two legs, Miao, wouldn’t it be nice... if I could drive to chase them, see who’s faster!"
Both are gasping heavily while talking, yet their bodies have moved past the exhaustion. Aside from difficult breathing, everything else seems fine for now.
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