138: Blocking from front and back

"What do we do? There's no train, how are we supposed to get out?!"

"Who said there are no hiding places?"

Mavis walked over, pulled out a flashlight, and pointed at the tracks: "Look, there is a square pit, eighty centimeters in diameter and one meter deep, every twenty meters along the tracks. When a train comes, we can just jump into the pits. We only need to space ourselves out every twenty meters, and in an emergency, two people can fit in one pit."

"I told you, the Black Hawk Unit wouldn't disregard their own people's lives for the sake of safety, right?" Ling Chao said, breathing a sigh of relief. "This way, as long as we walk along the tunnel for these few dozen kilometers, we can break out of the encirclement."

Li Xiao shrugged: "I'm afraid Hailan Port has already been completely surrounded by the Black Hawk Empire. Mavis is extremely important to them, so they will certainly spare no effort to block us off."

Under these circumstances, they had no choice but to walk through the tunnel. The group of eight spaced themselves out over a hundred meters, feeling their way forward with tactical flashlights.

This feeling of endless darkness would cause many people with claustrophobia to break down, but they had only walked two kilometers when they heard a deafening sound of metal grinding.

"It's a train! Everyone, turn off your lights and get into the pits to hide!"

Ling Chao was in the lead, and after discovering the anomaly, he immediately shouted into his radio headset.

Everyone hurriedly ran and entered the nearest vertical pit.

Dozens of seconds later, they felt the tracks begin to vibrate, and the airflow in the tunnel began to accelerate.

Then, two blinding headlights instantly illuminated the space above their heads.

The noise formed by the high-speed friction between the train wheels and the tracks was piercingly loud. The closer it got, the more dizzy and nauseous it made them feel; Li Xiao even felt like his eardrums were about to burst.

The train sped over their heads at a speed of sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, and the wind and dust poured into the pits, making the Shadow team members feel extremely uncomfortable.

The ten-plus carriages finally roared past, and Li Xiao quickly stood up and said, "Everyone, hurry and run forward. The enemy will soon know we have left the base and will definitely launch a search."

As someone who worked in a laboratory and had never really exercised, Mavis found walking difficult. Fortunately, Chen Hu was very strong and carried the fifty-something-year-old uncle, running fast along the tracks.

The total distance from this canyon base to Hailan Port was over sixty kilometers. They spent an afternoon and a long night walking and stopping, and finally arrived at a spot one kilometer from the tunnel exit at seven o'clock the next morning.

After resting on the spot for half an hour, Li Xiao sent Ling Chao to scout the exit.

When Ling Chao turned a large corner and looked toward the bright exit, he was immediately shocked.

He saw a dozen main battle tanks at the exit, aiming their cannons into the tunnel. Blinding searchlights illuminated the hundred-meter-long tunnel until it was stark white.

Behind the main battle tanks, Ling Chao was surprised to see several heavy anti-tank missile vehicles. The two rows of quadruple anti-tank missile launchers mounted on the rotating turrets were aimed right at the tunnel.

"This... this is..."

Even Ling Chao, who was usually as steady as an old dog, panicked when he saw this scene and was speechless.

Ling Chao hurriedly returned to Li Xiao's side and told him about the situation at the tunnel entrance.

"Anti-tank missile vehicles?!"

Li Xiao frowned. Their combat health points from before had dropped to over four million, and a night of recovery had only brought them back to around five million.

A single anti-tank missile had over a hundred thousand lethality points; one anti-tank missile vehicle could cause him over a million damage. Once four or five anti-tank missile vehicles fired, they would be finished.

"What do we do, Boss? Should we force our way through?"

"A frontal assault is impossible. Even if you were all at full health, you definitely wouldn't be able to withstand that kind of firepower."

Li Xiao pondered for a moment, clapped his hands, and said, "We have to go back!"

"Go back?" Ling Chao asked, confused. "Boss, do you mean to attack back out from the front of the canyon?"

"Of course not. By now, the outside of the valley is probably heavily guarded."

"Then?"

Li Xiao whispered: "Remember the train that passed by last night? It still hasn't come back."

"Ah! You mean!" Ling Chao immediately understood Li Xiao's intention.

"Exactly, but this plan must catch them off guard. Now, tell everyone to head back."

The special operations team members were fine, but Mavis, upon hearing that they had to go back, said with a pained expression, "Sorry, I really can't walk anymore."

"Chen Hu, please work hard and carry Dr. Ma for a while!"

"No problem!"

Yue Ge's assistant gunner took over Chen Hu's equipment, and Chen Hu walked in front of Mavis and half-squatted: "Come on, Doctor, don't be polite."

Mavis had no choice but to lean on him. He was already on the pirate ship and had to see it through to the end.

Thus, it was another long process of running. At eleven o'clock at night, they returned to the vicinity of the train station.

Li Xiao and Ling Chao felt their way in the dark to the platform. The train was parked quietly in front of the platform, and more than a dozen fully armed Black Hawk soldiers were on duty at the elevator entrance.

"Ling Chao, do you know how to operate a train?"

"Should... be no problem, right?"

Li Xiao had just asked casually. If he told Ling Chao to drive a tank, helicopter, or even a fighter jet, he might be able to do it, but operating a train was indeed a niche skill.

"This train is a high-voltage electric train. As long as the line isn't cut off, there shouldn't be a problem."

"You go to the front of the train first to check the situation. I'll wait here for Yue Ge and the others to arrive."

Those twenty-plus soldiers had to be eliminated in a short time, otherwise, reinforcements from the base above would arrive. He estimated that the base gate had already been reopened by the imperial troops.

Ling Chao quickly slipped into the train's cockpit, and after a check, said to Li Xiao: "Boss, the train is normal, it can be started!"

"Very good!"

Li Xiao turned back and said to Chen Hu and the others: "Everyone, get ready!"

The sound of bolts being pulled back could be vaguely heard in the tunnel. When Li Xiao saw that the vast majority of people on the platform were facing inward, he reached his hand forward.

"Go!"

The attack order was given. Chen Hu led the charge, holding a heavy machine gun in both hands and firing wildly at the crowd.

The Black Hawk Unit, suddenly attacked, fell into chaos. At the same time, Yue Ge and the others threw delayed grenades. Several grenades exploded in succession, killing a group on the spot.

The remaining six or seven soldiers wanted to escape into the elevator, but it was too late. They had already been crippled by Chen Hu and were instantly killed by the ink crystal bullets fired from the Destructor crystal energy guns that Yue Ge, Zhou Shuang, and the others had just equipped.