187: Startle the snake by disturbing the grass.

"We must be extra careful from now on."

"I never thought there would be such landmines."

"It's too dangerous."

"This mine has great power and considerable lethality."

Lu Jing and Instructor Qin looked at the Soldiers' serious expressions and listened to their words, their gazes turning to Military Doctor Shen.

Military Doctor Shen, with a smile on his face, walked towards Lu Jing.

"Old Lu, you don't know, if it weren't for this tree being wide enough, my face would have been ruined by the mud blown up..."

Lu Jing gave Military Doctor Shen a cold glance.

Military Doctor Shen put away his smile.

Xiao Niannian looked at Military Doctor Shen and thought it was quite interesting to have such a person in the team.

After all, their missions were usually very dangerous, always with stern faces, constantly hovering on the brink of life and death, so they needed some happy moments.

She used to have comrades-in-arms like that too, but...

Xiao Niannian remembered past events, her hands involuntarily clenching into fists.

She raised her head and looked ahead.

"Xiao Niannian, continue defusing mines."

Lu Jing noticed that Xiao Niannian seemed a little off, appearing very sad, and he spoke.

"Yes."

Xiao Niannian found many butterfly mines on the road; she destroyed those she could, and marked those she couldn't.

She also quietly collected some.

These villains love to plant landmines so much, she'd give them plenty in return.

These butterfly mines couldn't be thrown by the Monkey King and The Monkeys, or else they would all land in their own crowd.

Xiao Niannian was relieved to know that the four Experts were safe and sound.

As long as the Experts were alive and safe, that was good.

These were the Experts she would see on TV and in books decades later.

Xiao Niannian had read the information about these Experts.

Missiles, nuclear physics, aerospace... these were the talents the country needed most. Xiao Niannian had read some introductions, but many people's information was only declassified thirty or forty years later, or even after their deaths.

Could it be that these Experts were killed by these people?

Or were they captured?

Xiao Niannian pulled back her thoughts.

They didn't bother with the landmines on the side of the mountain road, but they found ways to destroy the landmines buried on the path they had to take.

However, the number of butterfly mines was not large.

So these butterfly mines couldn't stop Xiao Niannian and her team.

Soon, they were less than an hour away from these people.

"Whoosh!"

Xiao Niannian heard this sound and knew that the enemy was firing a signal flare.

Her gaze swept into the distance, seeing two people running wildly. She knew these were the scouts left by the villains, and if they saw them, they would fire a signal flare to inform Brother Hu and his group.

Lu Jing and Instructor Qin's expressions also slightly changed.

Their reconnaissance Soldiers also took action at this moment.

After two soft gunshots, the two men fell to the ground, but after being hit, they got back up and continued running forward. They were running along the side of the road.

After a few more shots, the two men fell to the ground and could not get up again.

Xiao Niannian and Lu Jing sped up and ran over.

Looking at the two villains on the ground, Xiao Niannian frowned.

They had been at the foot of the mountain earlier, and the position of these two villains was easy to defend but hard to attack. The reconnaissance comrades had just come up when they were discovered.

"Report, we just found these two, and they immediately fired a signal flare..."

Lu Jing and Instructor Qin had already surveyed the terrain.

"This isn't your fault... this position is indeed easy to defend but hard to attack..." Instructor Qin comforted the reconnaissance comrades.

This position was indeed excellent, and they could see the situation below from afar.

Xiao Niannian looked up at The Monkeys rushing over from not far away.

The Monkey King let out a loud cry at this moment.

Xiao Niannian understood its meaning.

The medicine she had secretly given it earlier, it had delivered to the Tigers and Black Bears.

And the other Monkeys had also tracked those people, so these two spies here hadn't had time to tell them.

Xiao Niannian didn't blame the Monkey King or The Monkeys.

"Now that we've beaten the grass to startle the snake, we must speed up and pursue them quickly, otherwise, they will definitely set traps and ambush us..."

Instructor Qin knew that these villains were very good at burying landmines and setting traps.

Along the way, some traps still had landmines, which they had to dismantle and destroy.

Xiao Niannian picked up the two used signal flares and threw them directly towards The Monkeys.

The Monkey King caught the signal flares and immediately leaped away.

Brother Hu and his group heard the sound of the signal flares, and some people panicked.

"Oh no, it's the sound of a signal flare, those people are chasing us."

"How did they catch up so quickly?"

"Let's set up an ambush quickly."

"They're chasing us? How is that possible?"

Listening to the noisy voices, Brother Hu cursed.

"Shut up, what if they came? We have so many people."

"Brother Hu is right, Brother Lei and the others buried so many landmines, their people are probably all dead."

Brother Lei had great confidence in the landmines he buried, but the speed at which these people arrived indeed exceeded his expectations.

It was impossible for anyone to catch up in such a short time.

"Could it be that these two encountered a wild beast attack, which is why they fired the signal flare?"

Someone raised a question.

Upon hearing this, several people chimed in.

"Old Zhou is right, could it be that they encountered wild beasts and fired the signal flare?"

In the past two days, they had encountered several waves of wild beasts.

"Possibly."

"Brother Hu, maybe it's really like that."

Most people thought that the signal flare was due to encountering wild beasts; even if someone was chasing them, it might be their injured people, or those who had gotten separated.

They didn't believe that the Military Unit and Public Security could chase them so quickly.

"It's also possible that The Monkeys snatched the signal flares and launched them."

Someone voiced his thoughts.

As soon as he finished speaking, two signal flares hit them.

They looked up and saw several Monkeys jumping in the trees, cursing and chattering.

Brother Hu breathed a sigh of relief at this sight.

"Brother Hu, it really was The Monkeys who stole the signal flares, and they dare to come here, I'm going to kill them."

Someone quickly fired at The Monkeys, but The Monkeys were agile, quickly jumping through the trees and dodging the bullets.

"Don't waste any more bullets."

Brother Hu reprimanded his subordinates.

They hadn't even seen the faces of the Military Unit and Public Security, yet they had already lost hundreds of landmines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Although they brought a lot of bullets, half of them were used up, and only a small portion of the landmines remained.

If they encountered another wild beast attack, the situation would be even more unfavorable for them.

"Speed up, Brother Lei, bury some more landmines..."