Secret Infiltration

As the person approached, Suika noticed that Ularov's breathing had become heavy.

"Are they from Golden Fir Tree Village?" As soon as Suika finished speaking, everyone looked at Ularov.

Ularov shook his head, a fierce look flashing in his eyes.

"On the contrary, this guy was one of the people who attacked Golden Fir Tree Village. I saw with my own eyes that Aunt Peggy's leg was broken by him."

Hearing his words, Suika smiled and pointed to the dagger at his waist.

"That's great. After we've gathered all the information, you can decide whether he lives or dies."

Ularov nodded heavily, and when he looked at the man, he couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Now that he knew the other person's identity from Ularov, Red became even more ruthless. He grabbed the other person's hair and slapped him twice across the face without any hesitation.

The man regained consciousness instantly, but his face was visibly swollen.

He looked at Red and the people around him in terror, trembling like a quail.

If they hadn't learned what kind of person this guy was from Ularov, they probably would have been fooled by his performance.

"Sirs... is there anything I can help you with?"

The man, looking timid and fearful, asked the question.

"How many of you are in this village? Where did you come from? Where are you going?" Red pressed the long sword against his neck and asked in a low voice.

"My lord... I don't know what you're talking about... Ah..." The man was about to pretend he didn't understand, but before he could finish speaking, Ularov, at Suika's signal, stabbed him directly through the shoulder blade with a long dagger.

"I'll ask you one more time, how many of you are there, where did you come from, and where are you going?" Red asked him coldly, his face expressionless.

At this moment, the man dropped his pretense; his previous cowardice vanished in an instant, replaced by madness.

"I saw the Originium on your face. You're Infected too, but I've never seen you before... So you're just that cowardly Reunion Movement dog!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Red slapped him across the face again without hesitation.

"You cowards! You dare not lay a hand on the Ursus people who oppress us, yet you show no mercy when attacking your own people... Ah..."

He looked at Red with disdain, but before he could finish speaking, Ularov plunged another dagger into his other shoulder blade.

"There are about 600 people in the village, of whom about 400 are trapped in the central area, and the 200 outside should be their Reunion Movement members."

Just then, Suika suddenly spoke up.

Upon hearing Suika's words, the man looked at Suika in shock.

Suika then looked at Red.

"Now that we've confirmed their identities, let's take action to avoid any unforeseen complications!"

Red nodded, kicked him into a snowdrift, and then looked at Ularov.

"This guy is yours now."

After saying that, he led his men towards the village.

Ularov walked up to the man.

"Remember the Golden Fir Tree Village you attacked a few months ago? Where are their people?"

The man paused for a moment upon hearing Ularov's words, then scrutinized Ularov carefully, before spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva with a mocking expression.

"Who do we have here? It's that little bastard who ran away back then."

"Kill him. Just because he's stubborn doesn't mean everyone else is. There are over two hundred people here; surely we can find a few who know anything about Golden Fir Tree Village..."

"By the way, your dagger is too sharp and not very useful. I have an unsharpened one here, would you like to try it?"

Just as Ularov was struggling between anger and hesitation, Suika's words gave him a much-needed boost.

Ularov took the unsharpened dagger that Suika had handed him and walked up to the man. Although the man appeared fearless, his trembling body and constantly expanding and contracting pupils revealed that he was not so calm inside.

Just as Ularov was about to make his move, the man finally lost his composure.

"Wait, didn't you want to know about the people in Golden Fir Tree Village? I guarantee no one here knows them better than me..."

Ularov had no intention of listening to this liar. He simply took the dagger and stabbed the man hard in the waist.

The dagger painstakingly pierced the other person's clothes and then stabbed a wound less than three centimeters deep in the waist.

"Ah! Please, let me go! I'll tell you anything you want to know... please..."

The wound wasn't large, and it wasn't particularly painful, but the feeling of a dull knife drilling into the muscle and then tearing through the skin with brute force completely broke the man.

Ularov looked at Suika, Suika in turn looked at Red. Red then walked up to the man again and inquired about the situation.

Thanks to that person's willingness to share everything, they learned all the information they wanted to know.

This team is indeed the same New Reunion Movement team that attacked Golden Fir Tree Village. Although some things have happened in the past few months that have led to some personnel changes, most of them are still the same group from back then.

Their original plan upon discovering this village, which was isolated from the outside world, was to capture all the villagers and convert them into Infected, just as they had done with Golden Fir Tree Village before.

Because Ursus's oppression of the Infected is terrifying, once everyone is converted, they will have nowhere to go even if they become alienated from the New Reunion Movement.

Ultimately, they were forced to join in.

But a sudden blizzard trapped them inside the village before they could even leave with their people after their raid.

The people of Golden Fir Tree Village were taken away and transformed into Infected, then scattered and assigned to other teams.

This is also one way the New Reunion Movement expands.

The dispersal and reorganization prevented these people from rallying together to resist, and when it came to the distribution of resources, as long as they weren't assigned to the teams that attacked their villages, and seeing no hope of returning home, most of them could only swallow their anger in order to survive.

After experiencing their own tragedy, seeing others living happily can cause many Infected to develop distorted minds.

Ultimately, they completely succumbed to the New Reunion Movement.

After hearing what that person said, everyone was stunned by the low level of this New Reunion Movement.

Suika also sighed, marveling at how the Black Snake, that old mudfish, truly lived up to his reputation as the most cunning and treacherous guy in Ursus; his grasp of human nature and human emotions was absolutely masterful.

Chapter 345: Secret Infiltration

After the man finished speaking, Ularov looked at Suika.

Suika raised her hand to neck height and gestured towards her neck; in a short time, everyone understood what she meant.

With a look of terror on the man's face, Ularov slit his throat.

A minute later, as the man's body grew cold, Suika her finger, and a ball of flame fell from her fingertip. Soon, the man turned into a pitch-black unidentified object in front of everyone.

"What do we do next? Go back and find some help?" Red looked in his direction. There were only a dozen or so people there. Not counting the villagers who had been coerced, there were more than two hundred people from the New Reunion Movement.

"Go back? What for?"

If someone is missing, they'll definitely notice it eventually.

"Besides, we can't possibly bring people to launch a sneak attack in the middle of the night. What if the snow stops tomorrow morning and these guys leave with the villagers? Should we chase them or not?"

Suika rolled her eyes.

"But we don't have enough people..." Red brought up this practical problem.

Suika pointed to her nose.

"With me here, we can withstand an army of ten thousand."

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Seeing Suika's confidence, Red simply handed over command of the operation to her.

Suika glanced at the village where candles had already been lit.

"The guys in the New Reunion Movement aren't very disciplined, and the sentries aren't very focused at night."

For example, that guy who died has been missing for so long without being found; that's our opportunity.

"But we can't completely trust what that guy says. What if some of the people here are villagers from Golden Fir Tree Village..."

Suika looked at Ularov, after all, he was looking for people from the Golden Fir Tree Village. Although that guy had described things while in a state of mental breakdown, there shouldn't be any problems.

However, there's always a chance of something going wrong. While Suika could easily wipe out all the New Reunion Movement members in that village, what if there were actually people from Golden Fir Tree Village among them, especially relatives of Ularov...?

"I'll go with you to see what's going on inside. If those guys are really doing the same thing they did in Golden Fir Tree Village, even if they are my friends or my family, I will never forgive them."

Ularov clenched his fists, pondered for a long time, and then said through gritted teeth.

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Suika nodded.

"You'll be following Hoshiguma for the next mission. Hoshiguma, could you please guide him?"

"Red, take a few good men, let's go and take out those three sentries."

"Where are the sentries in sight?"

"The sentry post is still there. When I was scouting just now, I found that the sentry post is in a very conspicuous position. If it is gone for too long, it will easily alert the people inside."

"Now those guys are all gathered around here. We just need to take out the sentries and get some information from them to determine our next plan."

Red agreed with Suika's caution; since they had chosen not to believe in the New Reunion Movement, then they should believe in none of them.

Asking multiple times will always yield the information you want.

In the darkness, some people, aided by the wind, snow, and night, quickly made their way to the edge of the village.

They then split into three teams and crept towards the location of the hidden sentry marked by Suika.

Suika consists of Hoshiguma, Ularov, and a warrior—four people in total.

Led by Suika, the group walked almost swaggeringly to the vicinity of the hidden sentry post.

"Hoshiguma, the hidden sentry is right next to us, just a wall away."

After Suika and the other three entered a room, she pointed to a wall and said softly.

Hoshiguma blinked, then rubbed her fists and walked to the wall. "How thick is this wall?"

"Hey, Hoshiguma- nee, we're infiltrating, we have to be careful. If you punch something and smash through the wall, the sound will wake everyone up."

Seeing her movement Suika quickly pulled her back.

Hoshiguma looked at the mud-brick wall with regret, wondering how much force he could use to punch it through.

Suika pointed to the window not far away.

"Hoshiguma- nee, if you go out this way and turn the corner, you can get right behind that guy..."

"Understood!" Suika had put it that way, Hoshiguma naturally understood what she meant.

She darted out of the window like a raccoon dog.

A dozen seconds later, a dark shadow was thrown in through the window, and then with a whoosh, Hoshiguma darted back into the room.

"All done!" Hoshiguma gave the group a thumbs-up after entering the house.

Then Suika grabbed a piece of ice from the windowsill and shoved it directly into the man's arms.

He had been in a semi-conscious state, but after a shudder, he regained consciousness.

Before he could utter a sound, he felt a cold, sharp force pressed against his throat.

"If you don't want to die, stay quiet, answer my questions, and blink if you understand."

The man blinked in terror, and then Hoshiguma walked up to him.

"Who are you people, and why are you here kidnapping villagers?"

"Ma'am... we are members of the New Reunion Movement. We discovered this village some time ago and planned to take advantage of the snowstorm to turn all the villagers into our own."

The man said, his voice trembling.

Although she was very unhappy with being addressed as "Big Sister," Hoshiguma didn't show it and continued to ask...

"Would they agree to join your gang of Bandit?"

"Of course not, but as long as..." He suddenly stopped because there were no signs of Infected on Hoshiguma, and his next words might anger her.

"If we turn all those villagers into Infected, then under the pressure of the Ursus official laws, they'll have no choice but to join you, right?"

Suika's voice came from behind.

Upon hearing Suika's words, the man shuddered, never expecting that the people who had kidnapped him knew about this.

"Who are you?" the man asked in shock.

But Hoshiguma had no intention of answering his question; instead, she punched him in the stomach.

The person arched up like a shrimp from the pain.