365: Surround

Mountain road.

"Since the organization sent you on a mission, won't they send someone to pick you up when it's time to evacuate?"

After walking with Roy for a long while, Liu Yan couldn't help but ask the question on his mind.

For an organization like this, even if they don't send people to pick you up, they should at least arrange a car or something, right?

Roy, walking in front, waved his hand.

"The time hasn't come yet."

"No one expected such a thing to happen suddenly."

"Normally, GTI's backup wouldn't arrive for another ten minutes, and they were scheduled to pick me up at the Tourist Center."

"But in this situation, if GTI flies a plane to the Tourist Center, what would the Asara people think?"

"Would they think this has something to do with GTI? You wouldn't be able to explain it away."

Roy shrugged helplessly.

"Just another two kilometers ahead, the people meeting us are waiting there."

Liu Yan nodded and silently followed behind.

When they first started walking, Liu Yan even had some doubts about GTI.

They were sent out on a mission, yet when it was time to evacuate, it seemed like no one cared.

How could they not allow an evacuation?

If this happened during a critical moment, wouldn't they just lose their lives?

But hearing Roy's explanation, Liu Yan felt it made quite a bit of sense.

Before long, Liu Yan's eyes gradually narrowed, and he slowly raised his hand to point forward.

"Brother Roy, are those people up ahead coming to meet us?"

"Hmm?" Hearing Liu Yan, Roy looked up and scanned the sky.

However, there was no sign of a helicopter at all.

"Not in the sky, on the ground, up ahead."

Seeing Roy looking up, Liu Yan tapped his shoulder and then pointed toward the end of the road.

Roy squinted and looked ahead, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't see the people Liu Yan mentioned.

"Right there, there are a few jeeps, but... they seem to be wearing the same uniforms as those Asala Soldiers from earlier..."

Halfway through his sentence, Liu Yan's brow also began to furrow.

"Would GTI wear Asara clothing to infiltrate?"

Roy shook his head.

"For some missions, they might, but not just to pick us up for evacuation."

"Also, where exactly? How come I don't see them?"

Roy answered Liu Yan's question while straining to look in the direction he was pointing.

Isn't that a slope ahead?

Where are there any people?

The next second, Mai Xiaowen's anxious voice sounded in Roy's headset:

"Roy! You're surrounded!"

"There are signal sources all around you now. These weak and outdated walkie-talkie signals... they definitely belong to Asara!"

"Hold on! Backup is almost there! About one more minute!"

As Mai Xiaowen finished speaking, several jeeps gradually emerged from the downhill section in front of them.

And in the beds of those jeeps, several Asala Guard Soldiers stood with rocket launchers on their shoulders.

Half-bodies of Asala Soldiers also appeared around the car windows.

Roy's pupils suddenly contracted.

He instantly turned back to look at Liu Yan.

What shocked him at this moment...

...wasn't why they were surrounded by Asala Soldiers.

It was that the figures of those vehicles and Soldiers just now were simply not on the same damn line of sight as his own.

No wonder he couldn't see them despite looking for so long!

"Wait, you saw them while they were still below the slope?!"

"Do you have X-ray vision??"

After Roy spoke, Liu Yan also immediately realized something was wrong.

It seemed that since he had transmigrated, his hearing and vision had become exceptionally sharp.

Back at the Tourist Center, because it was indoors and crowded, it wasn't very obvious.

But now, the dual abnormality of his vision and hearing was all too apparent.

Setting aside the fact that he had somehow seen the people below the slope with X-ray-like vision...

...just considering those currently approaching the two of them from all sides...

...there were a total of 27 jeeps fully loaded with Soldiers.

And at the very back, there was an exceptionally fast jeep.

He could even determine, by comparing the sound of the tires on the road with the other vehicles, that there was only one person in it.

Screech—!

Roy didn't foolishly wait for Liu Yan to explain.

One look at Liu Yan's expression and he knew the guy was just as bewildered.

Thick smoke quickly exploded around the two of them.

At the same time, Roy flipped his wrist, and three small smoke drones floated above his fingers.

Liu Yan watched this scene in amazement.

High-tech!

"Liu Yan! Run, now's the chance!"

As he spoke, Roy threw out the three smoke drones, while clenching his fist to control the smoke into an arc.

The road was instantly and completely covered by Roy's smoke.

At the same time, he grabbed Liu Yan's wrist and ducked into the nearby dead brush.

"It's a good thing you're with me!"

"If it were anyone else, you might have ended up dead here in this situation!"

Looking at Roy's serious expression, a surge of tension inexplicably rose in Liu Yan's heart.

At the same time, he remembered the promise Roy had given him at the very beginning.

"With me here, you won't die."

For a moment, Roy's image in Liu Yan's heart became exceptionally reliable.

He really was from a special organization.

In his previous world, this person would probably be one of those incredibly mysterious secret agents.

Liu Yan crouched calmly behind Roy, not making a sound.

He knew that in this situation, he had to follow the other's lead to successfully escape the crisis.

He remembered many similar scenes from movies.

Someone is being led by a professional but mindlessly causes trouble, eventually resulting in neither of them surviving.

Noticing Liu Yan's behavior, Roy couldn't help but feel impressed.

"Don't worry, backup is less than a minute away."

"We'll hide here. Once backup arrives, I'll throw a smoke grenade, and then we'll both dash for the plane's rope and get out."

Roy finished in a low voice, and Liu Yan nodded earnestly.

But for a split second, Liu Yan felt: why does this scene seem so familiar?

Timing it, throwing smoke grenades, evacuating... Liu Yan shook his head to clear away these random thoughts and then became completely still.

Roy did the same.

Even in the dead brush, the two didn't cause the slightest rustle.

Soon, the sounds of vehicles stopping rang out one after another.

"Where are they? How did they disappear just by throwing some smoke?"

"Search the area. They couldn't have gotten far in this short time."

"Also, be careful while searching; they might be lying in wait somewhere."

Soon, the jeep driven by Reis appeared in the Soldiers' sight.

The moment they saw Reis, the Soldiers' faces took on expressions of tension.

Their search efforts involuntarily quickened.

In short, everyone tried to make themselves look very busy.

Seeing the Soldiers searching everywhere, Reis's expression grew increasingly angry.

As soon as he got out of the car, Reis roared in anger:

"What the hell are you all good for?"

"How can so many people not catch a single college student!"

After Reis finished shouting, not a single soldier dared to answer; they just silently searched the surrounding dead brush.

Knowing Reis as they did...

...anyone who dared to offer an explanation at this time would only end up dead.