15: Chapter 15: The Sole Survivor, A Shocking Counterattack!

Upon entering the forest, Qin Feng was like a dragon entering the sea.

The air was filled with the scent of damp soil and rotting leaves.

This was the battlefield he was most familiar with in his past life.

He did not stop, but continued running into the depths of the dense forest, quickly erasing the tracks he left behind.

His brain had already turned into a precision trap-designing machine.

Thanks to the [Strategic Knowledge Enhancement] and the newly unlocked [Basic Trap Setting] rewarded by the system during his breakout, countless insidious, tricky, yet simple and effective schemes kept emerging in his mind.

He casually snapped a flexible vine and set up the simplest tripwire between two trees, about ten centimeters off the ground.

But the purpose of this tripwire was not to injure.

Its end was connected to a piece of deadwood hanging in mid-air.

The veteran who had been pursuing him for revenge did not notice his footing in his haste and was tripped by the vine.

"Crash!"

The deadwood fell into the bushes nearby, making a huge noise.

"Over there!"

A squad was immediately distracted and chased in the wrong direction.

Qin Feng had long been lurking in the tree canopy on the other side, watching everything coldly.

Making a feint to the east while attacking in the west.

The simplest open scheme, yet the most effective.

By the time the squad realized what happened, Qin Feng had already vanished without a trace.

"Is this kid... slippery as an eel?"

A veteran cursed in his throat mic.

"Everyone be careful, this guy isn't an ordinary greenhorn; treat him like a real enemy!"

The captain's calm voice came through, but it already carried a hint of gravity.

"Captain, I admit this kid is indeed a bit better than the others, but only to a limited extent."

"Yeah! Captain, this kid has some brains, but now that he's all alone, it should be a breeze to handle him."

"Hehe... the Military Region arranged this college student military training, it's actually quite interesting. Isn't this just here to crush the newbies?"

The veterans chimed in, not taking Qin Feng seriously at all.

They even felt a bit excited about this college student military training exercise.

The excitement of crushing newbies!

Soon, the squad slowed down and advanced step by step in a standard combat search formation.

But what they were facing was a devil who had the laws of the jungle carved into his bones.

On a path they had to pass, Qin Feng quickly dug a shallow pit with his military dagger and perfectly camouflaged it with leaves and loose soil.

There was nothing in the pit.

But right next to the pit, in the shadow of a large tree, he was there.

A veteran carefully scouted the path, stepped into empty air, and instantly lost his balance.

This was the most instinctive human reaction.

A fatal flaw.

"Pfft."

A slight sound.

The veteran's body stiffened, looking in disbelief at the red light that lit up on his chest.

Until he "died," he never saw where the attack came from.

Qin Feng succeeded with one strike, didn't linger, and merged back into the darkness like a ghost.

Next, the jungle turned into a nightmare for the veterans.

A sharpened bamboo stick was cleverly set behind a pushed-aside branch; when someone walked by, the branch would snap back, and the bamboo tip would precisely "stab" the sensor point.

A puddle of slippery mud was used to deliberately lure them into stepping on it; the moment they slipped, a "throat-slitting" strike would descend from above.

Qin Feng didn't use any complex tools; all he utilized was the terrain, vegetation, light and shadow, and a precise grasp of human psychology.

He was like an experienced hunter, patiently harvesting the lives of the intruders in his hunting ground.

In the communication channels of the various veteran squads, the cursing became less and less, eventually falling into dead silence.

Everyone held their breath, because they didn't know if they would be the next to fall.

The veteran who had been pursuing Qin Feng was now completely drenched in cold sweat.

He stopped, leaned against a large tree, and panted heavily.

He felt like he wasn't hunting a recruit.

He was being toyed with and hunted by a beast from hell!

Just then, the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a bush to the front left that seemed to move.

His heart skipped a beat, and he raised his gun abruptly.

"Come out!"

From behind the bushes, a figure covered in mud stood up slowly.

It was Qin Feng.

He had no weapons on him, his hands raised above his head in a gesture of surrender.

"Don't shoot, I surrender."

The veteran captain was stunned, then grinned viciously.

"Kid, we meet again."

"Weren't you good at running? What, afraid now?"

He approached step by step, his muzzle locked onto Qin Feng the whole time.

This veteran who had been captured before was no ordinary veteran; he was the captain of this surprise operation.

Facing such an exercise, he had initially wanted to lead a squad himself and finish it quickly, but he hadn't expected that he would try to steal a chicken only to end up being caught himself.

Humiliation!

Absolute humiliation!

He swore silently that if he didn't catch this rookie Qin Feng, he wouldn't be a man.

Just when the two were less than five meters apart, the corners of Qin Feng's mouth suddenly curled into a strange arc.

"What's under your feet?"

The veteran captain looked down subconsciously.

He saw a thin wire that was almost blended into the ground.

His heart sank instantly.

Too late.

Qin Feng leaped backward violently.

"Crash!"

A large net woven from vines descended from the sky, covering the veteran captain completely!

At the same time, the moment he leaped back, Qin Feng pulled out his dagger and threw it.

"Swish!"

Red light bloomed on the captain's chest.

The whole scene was dead silent.

"Beep—beep—beep—Red Army captain has been beheaded, exercise over."

The piercing alarm for the end of the exercise rang throughout the entire camp.

Qin Feng stood up slowly from the ground, brushed the dirt off his body, and walked out of the forest step by step, facing the light of the searchlights.

Behind him were the "corpses" lying helter-skelter with red lights shining on their chests.

On the entire exercise field, he was the only one standing.

...

In the command center.

All the instructors, including Company Commander Zhou Hailong, seemed to be frozen in place, staring fixedly at the figure walking out on the main screen.

The air was so quiet that one could hear heartbeats.

"I... am I seeing this right? He alone... wiped out... an entire reconnaissance platoon?"

A young instructor's voice was as dry as sandpaper rubbing together.

"They are all veterans with two years of service! How did this kid Qin Feng do it?"

"Is this kid... a monster? Is he really a college freshman?"

Everyone was shocked, feeling as if the world had become unreal.

Company Commander Zhou Hailong's heart pounded wildly; he jumped to his feet, rushed to the screen, and repeatedly rewound the playback.

From Qin Feng's calm layout, to the decisive breakout after the squad was wiped out, to the textbook-like trap setting and counter-kill in the jungle...

Every frame was like a heavy hammer, smashing fiercely against his heart.

This is no recruit!

This is a battle-hardened King of the Jungle!

"Quick! Send this video, immediately, right now! Encrypted, to the Military Region headquarters! Highest priority!"

Company Commander Zhou Hailong's voice became shrill due to extreme excitement.

Meanwhile, Qin Feng had already returned to the quiet camp.

In his mind, the delayed system notification sound rang out after the exercise ended.

[Ding! Detected that the host has completed an epic feat: Lone Wolf Survivor!]

[Under the encirclement of an elite reconnaissance platoon, as the sole survivor, you have completed a shocking counter-kill!]

[Reward distributed!]

[Congratulations to the host, you have obtained "Battalion-Level Strategic Knowledge Infusion"!]

[Congratulations to the host, Trap Skill upgraded!]

A massive stream of information instantly flooded into Qin Feng's mind.