At night, the jungle—especially a tropical rainforest—was absolutely forbidden territory for humans.
The towering trees blotted out the stars and the moon.
With tangled vines and branches, venomous snakes and insects everywhere, and oppressive darkness and heat, an ordinary person thrown in here wouldn't survive more than a few days.
Yet in this harsh environment,
ten figures moved through the trees as if on level ground, ignoring the venomous snakes and insects lurking among them.
They were the soldiers of the Blood Blade Special Forces. Equipped with Fierce Tiger type combat suits, the tropical rainforest had become their home ground.
According to the Pheromone tracker, the target was northwest of the port town, 24 kilometers away. Evidently, Nau Kham's son wasn't at the notorious hideout everyone knew about.
This didn't throw Domino's plans off. She knew Nau Kham definitely wouldn't be staying at that obvious hideout these days.
The Blood Blade Special Forces sped through the mountains and forest, making excellent time—almost three to five kilometers per hour.
That was extremely fast for a tropical rainforest with no roads.
They'd left the port eleven hours earlier and had only just reached the area near their destination. The previously mentioned 24 kilometers was the straight-line distance; there was no way to travel in a straight line through the mountains and forest.
By then, dawn had broken.
A small village lay in the distance, but there weren't many ordinary people there. Besides the child soldiers standing guard with guns, there were also many farmers forced by the Leech Gang to grow poppies.
Pheromone detection showed there were 527 people in the village.
The only person whose identity had been confirmed by pheromones was Nau Kham's son. Whether Nau Kham himself was there was still unknown.
But after the soldiers released hundreds of