Booby-Trap Zone

The boy north of the bushes.

Soldiers of the Second Group Army Field Company, south of the bushes.

They looked at each other.

No one could understand why the bushes and Mimosa that allowed the other party to pass through easily became deadly weapons when they tried to pass through.

Not everyone has a teacher like Li Shutong, nor is everyone qualified to explore Forbidden Zone as leisurely as Li Shutong.

The boy retreated step by step, disappearing into the dim woods.

At one point, Qing Huai felt that the other person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them before.

It felt as if I had missed some important details in my life.

Cao Wei concluded, "Sir, the other side does indeed have a lot of knowledge about the rules."

Qing Huai thought for a moment and said, "No wonder the First Branch and Second Branch arranged a mission for me in the Forbidden Zone No. 002. It turns out there's someone who knows the rules waiting for me here."

Cao Wei thought for a moment and said, "However, I have a question. The other party doesn't seem to be a superhuman. I was very close to him just now, and judging from the power he exerted in his legs and the strain on his heart and lungs, that can't be faked."

Cao Wei's judgment on this point was indeed very correct.

However, it was precisely this that made him even more confused: a boy who wasn't even a superhuman had used the rules to kill more than seventy of them. This sense of incongruity was unbelievable.

Then everyone will ask themselves, why?

Qing Huai calmly asked, "Cao Wei, how's the minefield I asked you to set up coming along?"

As his impatience grew, the way he addressed Qing Huai subtly changed.

Cao Wei was taken aback for a moment. "It's all arranged, sir."

Qing Huai nodded. "Everyone, lift the communication silence and open the communication channels. Cao Wei, you take over command and send him to the minefield. I've experienced the rules of this Forbidden Zone No. 002; let him experience the rules of the Federation Group Army as well."

"Received," Cao Wei, leading his men around the bushes like a cheetah.

Cao Wei's voice came through the communication channel. "Platoon 1, advance towards 2 o'clock. Platoon 2, I need you to reach area A21 at 4 o'clock within 20 minutes. Platoon 7..."

Before they arrived, they had already marked the entire Forbidden Zone on the tactical map, dividing the map into sections with numbers A1-A50 and B1-B50 to facilitate command.

This was originally marked by Cao Wei in case he had to engage in a chase with someone in the Forbidden Zone.

He did this out of his combat skills and habits as a commander, but he never expected it would actually come in handy.

Under command, the entire field company suddenly spread out like a net.

Like a pack of wolves hunting deer in winter.

The wolf pack will spread a large net to drive the deer forward.

They are not in a hurry to tear apart their prey, because they would be injured if they were hit by a running elk.

At such times, a patient hunter only needs to wait An Xin for the elk to fall into the lake with its thin layer of ice, freeze to death, or drown.

The wolf pack will only come to enjoy this feast when the ice thaws next spring.

"Row 7, move toward area A37, avoid contact with the target."

"Row 2, move toward area A35, avoid contact with the target."

On the communication channel, Cao Wei's voice was accompanied by a slight static.

He issued instructions one by one, but never actually closed the net.

If you know the other party knows more rules, then don't give them a chance to use those rules.

No need to rush, Cao Wei knew that once the prey entered the minefield, it would all be over.

The next moment, a soldier suddenly said, "The target has entered the minefield!"

Cao Wei breathed a sigh of relief. Qing Huai laughed on the communication channel, "Brother Cao Wei, no wonder you rose so quickly back then. Your art of command is probably admirable to many."

But the next moment, they suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Because no explosion was heard.

Cao Wei asked coldly over the communication channel, "Where is the target located now?"

"The target is rapidly moving through the minefield without triggering any booby traps!"

"The target's speed hasn't decreased, sir. The second platoon's movement path is blocked by minefield. Should we detour?"

At this moment, Cao Wei and Qing Huai exchanged a glance, while Qing Chen, inside the minefield, remained focused on his own thoughts.

He had been here before.

Li Shutong once spent two days with him familiarizing himself with the environment and terrain at the edge of the Forbidden Zone.

Two days later, when Qing Huai and the others entered the area he had envisioned as the most suitable, Qing Chen began to kill.

If the other side thinks that by laying landmines, this place can become their home ground.

That would be wrong.

For others, being familiar with the environment might mean knowing where there is a mountain, a river, a hill, and what types of plants there are.

However, for Qing Chen, the environment he was familiar with was...

Every tree.

Every single stone.

The decaying leaves on the ground resembled the texture of a giant's skin, the growing trees were like the hair on a giant's body, and the boulders were like black moles.

At one point, Qing Chen even felt that the giant was looking at him affectionately.

Therefore, every detail here was in Qing Chen's mind.

If it doesn't match what I remember, then it's incorrect.

To bury a booby trap, you have to change the environment. Even if a booby trap is only the size of a palm, even if you do a lot of camouflage, even if the ground looks really natural, in Qing Chen's mind, something is just wrong.

He easily avoided every minefield, and to the astonishment of the field company, as if he had God's perspective, he quickly passed through the minefield!

Qing Huai asked Cao Wei, "How many booby traps did you plant in that area?"

"41, sir. We only carried a base number of 50 in total," Cao Wei explained.

Qing Huai frowned. The boy didn't seem to have any mechanical limbs, so how could he have avoided all the booby traps in advance?!

"Should we continue pursuing them?" Cao Wei asked.

Qing Huai looked at him and said, "Cao Wei, you haven't actually been using your full strength, have you?"

At this point, the conglomerate elite finally dropped his pretense and stopped addressing him as his elder brother.

As C-Class expert and a two-time champion in the military competition, how could Cao Wei possibly find it so difficult to catch up with an ordinary teenager?

Qing Huai continued, "I know you have reservations, fearing that the other side has mastered the fatal rules. But you must understand, with someone like this around, we can't continue to penetrate our territory. If I miss this opportunity to carry out the mission, the first and Second Branch of the First Branch won't give me another chance. If I can only withdraw from the Shadow Struggle, then the rank you've been demoted from will have been for nothing."

Cao Wei took a deep breath and said into the communication channel, "Platoon 1, Platoon 2, you two pursue him at full speed. I'll be there shortly. Make sure to kill him before nightfall. Platoon 7, I need you to arrive at area A48 ahead of time to set up a blockade. I will personally drive him there!"

Qing Huai patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "Brother Cao Wei, I'll be watching."

However, at that moment, someone said in the communication channel, "Sir, the platoon has discovered something new with him. That boy is acting strangely."

Eccentric?

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