131: Professional No. 6

Li Xiao hung up the voice call and waited on the spot with the others. Taking advantage of the spare time, Ling Chao mobilized everyone to start gathering branches and weeds to make makeshift ghillie suits on the spot.

In reality, it was just covering their entire bodies with branches and weeds so that they wouldn't be easily spotted by the naked eye.

An hour later, Liu Nian sent a message saying that Cheng Mo had bought two signal jammers at the Zhaoming black market, though they cost five thousand Star Coins each, which was quite expensive.

Li Xiao told him to list them immediately for ten thousand Star Coins, and then he bought them instantly.

With the signal jammers, Li Xiao and the others quickly passed through several surveillance zones until a high-voltage electric fence appeared before them.

"Damn! This is really starting to feel like running a gauntlet."

Li Xiao asked, "How do we deal with this thing?"

Ling Chao said softly, "The straight-line distance to the canyon entrance is no more than five hundred meters. If we touch the electric fence, the garrison will arrive immediately. My suggestion is to dig a tunnel."

"Dig a tunnel?" Li Xiao asked, surprised. "How long is that going to take before we can get in?"

Ling Chao looked at the ground. "I just checked; the soil in this forest is loose, with a lot of humus in the top layer. It won't be a problem to dig down one meter from a nearby point and then dig horizontally past the electric fence posts."

"Fine, that's the only way..."

Every Shadow Special Forces member was carrying a sharp military shovel, so after choosing a spot, they started digging.

Under the protection of Yue Ge's sniper team, Ling Chao and a few others spent only ten minutes digging out a foxhole, and then another team started digging towards the electric fence side.

Just as Ling Chao had said, the soil here was indeed a layer of humus formed by fallen leaves, making the surface soft and easy to dig.

After two hours of digging, a tunnel wide enough for one person to crawl through was formed.

Although patrols passed by twice during that time, fortunately, they passed without incident.

Ling Chao led the way, carefully crawling under the electric fence, with the electrified posts just thirty centimeters above his head.

After they had all crossed, the tunnel entrances on both sides were covered with branches and dead leaves to ensure they wouldn't be discovered in the short term.

After passing the electric fence and creeping forward for several hundred meters, the entrance to the canyon appeared before Li Xiao.

However, the situation at the canyon entrance left Li Xiao and his team dumbfounded.

They saw that two reinforced concrete artillery bunkers had been built directly under the towering trees deliberately planted at the canyon entrance, and multiple walkways had been artificially carved into the cliffs on both sides of the canyon.

Using these walkways as platforms, multiple 3D machine gun bunkers and sniper positions had been set up.

Going deeper, they could even see armored vehicles and guard tents covered with countless camouflage nets and branches.

"Good grief! No wonder the satellite photos couldn't pick it up; this ground camouflage is truly well done!"

Li Xiao marveled to himself; with such dense defensive firepower, he estimated that even two Lan Bo Mercenary Groups wouldn't be able to break in.

"Report, Captain! Situation discovered!"

While Li Xiao and Ling Chao were pondering a method, Yue Ge suddenly said, "Infrared imaging and night vision equipment are set up on the wooden crates behind the main gate!"

"Hmm?"

Li Xiao quickly looked over and indeed discovered a wooden crate behind the retractable bollards, with a lot of equipment set up on it.

"This imaging equipment has extremely high resolution at a range of about two to three hundred meters, whether it's day or night. It's fortunate that we are currently behind a small slope, or we would have already been exposed."

Ling Chao's words made Li Xiao feel that what was hidden inside this secret base was likely quite astonishing.

"We must find a way to sneak in; a frontal assault would cause heavy losses!"

Li Xiao stared at the security checkpoint, deep in thought. As he watched the Black Hawk Unit personnel passing back and forth through the checkpoint, he suddenly had an idea!

On a quiet forest path, a squad of Black Hawk Unit patrolmen was slowly advancing, each person vigilantly watching their surroundings and listening for any movement.

When the squad turned a corner, they suddenly discovered someone lying on the path ahead, which was covered in dense weeds.

"Captain, there's someone up ahead!"

"I see them. Everyone, stay alert. Someone come with me to check it out!"

The patrol captain was very calm and disengaged the safety on the rifle in his hand.

Arriving in front of the person, the patrol captain observed carefully and found that the person was lying face down on the ground, seemingly unconscious, wearing an ordinary tracksuit and carrying a hiking backpack.

"Looks like a hiker, Captain."

A subordinate was about to walk over but was grabbed by the patrol captain.

"Be careful. This is a restricted military zone; anyone appearing here is highly suspicious."

At the patrol captain's warning, this Imperial Soldier had to step back a few paces.

The captain looked around and gently poked the back of the person on the ground with the muzzle of his rifle.

Seeing no reaction, he signaled his subordinates to come forward, and the two of them grabbed one arm each to pull the person up.

Before the patrol captain could see the person's face, he saw them suddenly raise an arm, holding a black canister in their hand.

"Not good!"

Just as the patrol captain shouted, a pungent spray instantly blasted towards the two of them. In just two seconds, both of them felt their heads spinning and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Enemy attack! Open fire!"

The eight patrolmen guarding the rear raised their rifles almost immediately, but they were still a beat too slow. Five Shadow Special Forces members, who had long been lurking in the bushes, suddenly stood up from the grass.

In their hands were identical fully automatic pistols equipped with silencers, and the moment they stood up, they aimed at the back of the patrolmen's heads.

Although the patrolmen had already heard the commotion behind them, no matter how high their combat proficiency was, there was simply no time to turn around.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!!!

In less than two seconds, the five Shadow Special Operations Soldiers fired simultaneously, and each patrolman's head had been hit at least nine times.

Such rapid pistol fire rate was not only due to the twenty-round extended quick-draw magazines and fully automatic pistols they used, but also inseparable from the Shadow Special Forces' formidable recoil control ability.

Eight to nine hundred meters away from the canyon, with silencers attached to the pistols, the sound of gunfire was not easily heard beyond fifty meters. Even in fully automatic firing mode, the distance at which the noise could be heard was at most about one hundred meters.

"Everyone, change your clothes immediately and take the enemy's weapons. Be quick!"

The walking time between the patrol squad's front and rear was five minutes; they needed to change clothes and hide the bodies within that time.

Yes, Li Xiao's plan was to disguise themselves as patrolmen and then sneak into the canyon.

The Shadow Special Operations Soldiers stripped the clothes off the corpses and put them on, taking only three minutes, and then spent one minute dragging the ten bodies into the bushes.

"Everyone, move in a column formation, and try to avoid making eye contact with the enemy!"

Since the patrolmen all wore headgear, this saved Li Xiao and his team the trouble of being recognized, with the only issue being the differences in details.