Stealth Card

Chapter 13: Stealth Card

"I'm starting to understand why."

Kyle gazed at the enemy base down the mountain, judging, "The intelligence we got from the sheepskin map, meaning the location of this German Army camp, is all true. But the Nazis held something back in their coded message."

Fury thoughtfully picked up the conversation, "So that's how it is. They actually swapped the information about the camp's size—"

"Exactly," Kyle nodded.

Of the five German Army enemy camps, only one was a large base, three were medium-sized camps, and the last was a small transit camp.

The German Army swapping the coded messages for the large base and the small transit camp was undeniably a very shrewd move.

Fury gave a wry smile, "Meaning, what we're facing now is an enemy base that was originally planned for the Captain to assault with over five units. And the target the Captain is leading troops to now is the small camp that we were supposed to handle."

"Complaining now is useless," Kyle asked coolly, "Fury, your on-the-spot combat experience is greater than mine. Facing this situation, what do you think we should do?"

Fury's brow furrowed, his single eye fixed on the distant enemy base. After a moment of thought, he said with reluctance, "It's obvious that we can only abandon the assault mission. With a force of mere hundreds, even with the element of surprise, it would undoubtedly be a suicidal charge."

Kyle continued to ask, "Can't we contact the Captain with the communicator we brought?"

"No," Fury shook his head, without even thinking, to be precise, "We're too close to the enemy base. Using a communicator at this distance, the signal could easily be intercepted by the enemy. Not to mention, there's not much time left until the other units begin their assault. Once the other four enemy camps are attacked by our troops, this large base will get wind of it."

Kyle said expressionlessly, "So, by conventional combat judgment, we can only abandon the assault mission, right?"

"Fury, have you forgotten? We promised the superior officer that we would complete the assault mission!"

"But—" Fury looked troubled.

"No 'buts'!" Kyle interrupted him and continued to guide, "If we give up the chance to assault the large base now, once the enemy is alerted, it will be difficult to find such an opportunity again!"

Fury seemed to realize something and looked at Kyle in surprise, his face stern, "Stop beating around the bush. By saying that, have you thought of something?"

"You still can't hide anything from me. However, this isn't just an idea, it's an operational plan." Kyle smiled faintly and leaned in to whisper a few words into Fury's ear.

After hearing it, Fury stared at Kyle as if he were looking at a madman, stammering, "Infiltrating the base alone? Are you crazy? Or trying to die?"

Kyle shrugged and said seriously, "I'm not crazy. At this point, if we want to complete the assault mission, this is the only risky way to try. If I can infiltrate the enemy base and disable its defenses, combined with the hundred-man unit attacking from the outside, there's still a decent chance of success."

"It's not that easy to infiltrate such a large base," Fury shook his head.

"That's my problem. I just need your approval and support," Kyle said coolly.

Fury fell silent, staring at Kyle with his single eye for a moment before slowly and firmly saying, "To be honest, I have no reason to stop you. After all, no one wants to give up before the mission even begins. So, you can go ahead and try. But I'll say this first: if you fail, I will directly lead the troops and retreat."

"Don't worry, I never bet my life on others."

With that, Kyle immediately charged forward, gaining speed on the slope, his figure quickly disappearing into the night below the mountain.

"He really is a madman," Fury sighed.

A single soldier going directly to a large base was undoubtedly a suicidal act. But for some reason, Kyle gave him a feeling of complete confidence.

Perhaps it was precisely because of that strange feeling that Fury chose to agree to this extremely risky combat method.

After leaving the team, Kyle first took off his American combat uniform in the woods at the foot of the mountain. He then selected a suitable German soldier combat uniform from his Card Space and put it on.

Kyle proposing to infiltrate the enemy base alone was not him seeking death, but rather having enough confidence in his self-preservation.

This confidence stemmed from the blue card he had drawn through sacrifice today!

[Stealth]:

Transform into a Nightcrawler lurking in the shadows, eliminating your presence and reducing your sense of existence; While in Stealth mode, enemies cannot see you beyond a certain visual range (ten meters). Within ten meters, they can see a semi-transparent figure, and only within five meters can they gain normal vision. At night, it provides the Nightcrawler with night vision within a hundred meters, doubles the stealth effect, and increases movement speed. Note: Once the Nightcrawler actively initiates an attack, the Stealth mode will be deactivated, and it cannot be re-entered for ten seconds. The Nightcrawler can forcibly teleport to escape, with a range of one kilometer, and a cooldown of 24 hours.

Blue Ability Card.

This was a blue-quality Ability Card. Just as he had predicted, it far surpassed the professional or master levels achievable by humans, falling into the realm of superpowers!

With the [Stealth] card, Kyle's individual combat strength could no longer be defined by human capabilities.

"Stealth, commence!"

Kyle muttered inwardly, his eyes turning dark crimson. His vision within a hundred meters in the night instantly became clear. Simultaneously, his body seemed to be enveloped by a mist, appearing and disappearing in the darkness.

In Nightcrawler state.

Kyle, holding his Nepalese Kukri, jogged towards the enemy base about half a mile away, entering stealth mode. Even the sound of his boots hitting the ground was imperceptible.

He approached the vicinity of the enemy base without incident, then suddenly stopped, observing from a distance of fifty meters.

The rows of bright lights along the wire fence were glaring. If his figure were exposed under the lights, the stealth enhancement would be greatly weakened.

As Kyle was contemplating how to infiltrate the base, suddenly, from a hundred meters behind him, two beams of light pierced through the night sky of the wilderness. A German military vehicle was slowly approaching the main gate of the base.

"Supply truck?" Kyle's heart stirred, and he crept towards the military vehicle, maintaining his stealth.

'Thump thump thump—'

The sound of light, frequent footsteps quietly echoed across the deserted plain.

Kyle stealthily moved to the front side of the military vehicle. Seeing the vehicle about to charge at him, he sprinted forward to meet it.

"Whoa?"

The German soldier driving the vehicle, who had been dozing, suddenly saw a figure rush out from in front of the empty car. Every hair on his body stood on end in fright, and he instinctively slammed on the brakes.

He opened his mouth wide, but before he could utter a word, a flash of knife light shot in through the car window, instantly silencing his words and his life.

Stealth, assassination, disposal of the body – the entire sequence flowed like water, as if rehearsed many times.

The military vehicle stopped, its engine dead. Kyle coldly tossed the German soldier, whose throat he had slit, out of the driver's seat. Much like in online games where defeating a monster drops loot, several item cards appeared in a state that could be drawn from the corpse lying on the ground.

[German Soldier ID], [German Soldier Combat Set], [German Pistol]...

A short while later.

The military vehicle restarted and resumed its journey, heading towards the main gate of the German Army base ahead.