108: Headshot!

The horizon gradually turned a fish-belly white. Zhao Feipeng led his men to start setting up extraction points behind the office building, at the highway intersection, and near the highway exit outside the city.

Ling Chao and the remaining medical specialist team member waited at the base of the office building.

As the sky brightened, Yue Ge's scope began to aim at the main entrance of the Blue Ice Squad headquarters.

Li Xiao chewed on some jerky while watching the surveillance footage from the reconnaissance drone released by Zhao Feipeng.

A decapitation mission is delicate work that requires a lot of patience and time; perhaps they might not even be able to lie in wait for the target today or even tomorrow.

Fortunately, after the Blue Ice Squad's plan failed, there seemed to be no signs of another attack on Xi City, perhaps because Li Xiao's AMX infantry fighting vehicles exerted too much pressure on them.

At ten o'clock, at the highway intersection, inside a civilian off-road vehicle, Blue Dragon sat in the back row looking at the busy streets outside the window, but he couldn't bring himself to feel happy.

The plan to feint an attack on Xi City and sneak attack Zhaoming had fallen through, and he had also lost over ninety thousand men, which caused him, as the captain, to be subjected to a barrage of abuse.

Waking up this morning, there were actually people in the squad suggesting a new captain be elected, which made him incredibly furious.

He was clearly dedicated to planning for the squad, yet just one failure and they wanted to remove him, the founder, from his position; a large team is truly hard to lead.

Moreover, his deployment had no issues; the root problem lay with those ten infantry fighting vehicles of Li Xiao's that couldn't be penetrated or destroyed.

Otherwise, he estimated that the Jiantu Squad would have already been fighting a decisive battle against the Xiaoyao Squad in Xi City, and they wouldn't have been able to make it back in time.

"Li Xiao... what kind of underhanded tricks are you playing?" Blue Dragon muttered to himself.

"Captain, are we going to the headquarters first or to the squad's military factory?"

A player in the driver's seat turned around and asked.

"Let's go to the military factory first; I want to check on the progress of the Armored Personnel Carrier. I originally thought we had three armored vehicles that could serve as assault forces."

"It turns out they already have infantry fighting vehicles, and ten of them at once; the gap is surprisingly this large."

"Captain, don't be discouraged. That Li Xiao is just a freak; as long as we have enough people and enough strength, we don't need to fear him!"

"I hope so."

In a coffee shop in the city hall, Li Xiao sat by the window, anxiously waiting for Blue Dragon to appear, but until eleven o'clock, there was no movement at all.

"It seems like he probably won't come today..."

Li Xiao looked up at the building where Yue Ge was located. The midday sun was scorching, and they had to keep lying prone until the target appeared, which required the soldiers to have high-level skills and stamina.

"Let the brothers eat something first."

Li Xiao said to Li Le; since the plan was already finalized, he couldn't think of any way to optimize it further.

On the rooftop, Yue Ge wiped the sweat from his eyelashes with his fingers. The anti-materiel sniper rifle was aimed steadily at the large stone steps in front of the city hall building.

That was the best sniping position, and he had to verify everyone who climbed those stone steps to see if they were the target.

"Xiao Yan, you eat something first, then swap with me."

Besides Yue Ge, the observer beside him also hadn't relaxed, with the high-magnification observation binoculars in his hand constantly watching the vehicles entering, exiting, and passing by the entrance of the city hall.

"Alright."

Xiao Yan put down the binoculars and pulled a bag of field rations from the side of his tactical backpack, but before he could even tear open the package, Yue Ge suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Target appeared!"

"What!"

This sentence made Xiao Yan pause for a moment, then he immediately put down the rations and activated his throat mic: "Report Captain! The target has appeared!"

This news quickly reached Li Xiao's ears; he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Once the target appeared, the rest would be easy to handle.

In Yue Ge's scope, a civilian off-road vehicle stopped at the entrance of the Blue Ice Squad headquarters, and after Blue Dragon got out of the car, he strode towards the stone steps.

"Target locked! Should I fire?"

"Don't panic yet!"

Li Xiao listened carefully to the report in his earpiece and said: "Wait for him to go in first. I estimate it won't take long before he comes out. Fire the moment he is about to finish descending the steps!"

"Understood!"

Normally when Li Xiao went to the squad headquarters, it was at most to check on the resource allocation in various parts of Xi City, and he would slip back to the base in half an hour at most.

On Blue Dragon's side, perhaps because there were more people and a larger territory, he might be delayed a bit longer, but it wouldn't exceed an hour at most.

Sure enough, just as Li Xiao had said, more than forty minutes after Blue Dragon went in, he appeared at the entrance.

By this time, seven or eight meng hu off-road vehicles and several civilian off-road vehicles were already prepared in the courtyard below the stone steps.

Blue Dragon walked out under the protection of several personal guards.

Yue Ge immediately centered Blue Dragon's body within his crosshairs.

On the stone steps, Blue Dragon looked up at the sky; today's sun was the best weather he had seen since coming to Hengshui, cloudless and bright.

He let out a long breath and looked at the surrounding streets. The elite troops deployed here were dispatched by the squad's core members; even if ten thousand people attacked, they could resist for a long time by relying on the hundreds of meng hu off-road vehicles.

He walked down the steps, and just as he was about to reach the last step, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a mirror on the rooftop across the street that was refracting light right onto him.

Blue Dragon subconsciously shielded his eyes, wanting to take a closer look, but when his vision focused, the reflective point suddenly flashed intensely.

Bang!

A question mark had just flashed in his mind, and he hadn't even heard the loud bang, when he suddenly felt as if his forehead had been pierced by a heavy object, and then... then there was no more.

In an instant, Blue Dragon's head shattered like a watermelon dropped from a high building, splattering a large area of the stone steps behind him, and his body subsequently fell down powerlessly.

After two seconds, the surrounding defensive troops reacted, and in an instant, an overwhelming barrage of bullets was fired over, and the concrete railing on the rooftop was immediately riddled with holes.

"Target confirmed killed! Evacuate immediately!"

After Yue Ge saw with his own eyes that the target's head had been blasted into pieces by the anti-materiel sniper bullet, he quickly led Xiao Yan to retreat backwards.

There, two special rappelling ropes that had been tied up long ago had already reached the ground. After the two of them went up and hooked the safety buckles and self-control pulleys on their waists, they jumped down quickly.

The two's professional and skilled rappelling ability allowed them to land from the seventh floor within a few seconds, and with a hard pull on the release rope, the rappelling ropes all detached.

Quickly packing up their equipment, they dashed out of the alley and jumped into the civilian off-road vehicle that had been waiting.

By this time, a large number of Blue Ice troops had already swarmed out of the alley, and the soldiers at the very front only saw the back half of the car.

Yue Ge and his team's civilian off-road vehicle quickly merged into the traffic and drove towards the toll station, while Li Xiao, Zhao Feipeng, and the others were already waiting on the highway.