188: A person covered in grass and bamboo leaves appeared before them.

"Leave half the landmines..."

Brother Lei grunted, his gaze once again fixed on the distance.

He still felt somewhat uneasy.

Xiao Niannian and Lu Jing were currently creating their camouflage. Xiao Niannian had suggested it earlier; the scouts had done it, but the main force hadn't done much camouflaging.

Because their people had been discovered by the criminals, everyone decided to camouflage themselves.

She pulled some grass, wove it into a wreath for her head, and used some long grass and bamboo leaves to weave a cloak-like garment. This was like the ghillie suits of decades later, and her face was also smeared with camouflage paint.

This camouflage paint was something she had prepared earlier; it could be used for both camouflage and mosquito repellent.

Xiao Niannian gave two boxes of camouflage paint to Lu Jing.

"Why has your face become like this?"

Military Doctor Shen looked at Xiao Niannian's appearance and couldn't help but ask.

"This can be used for camouflage and also as mosquito repellent..."

Hearing Xiao Niannian's words, Military Doctor Shen took the camouflage paint from Lu Jing's hand and sniffed it carefully.

Good stuff.

"How do I do it?"

Military Doctor Shen immediately asked.

"Captain Lu, come here, I'll demonstrate."

Xiao Niannian looked at Lu Jing, and Lu Jing, looking back at Xiao Niannian, quickly walked over.

"Just like this."

After quickly applying it to Lu Jing's face, Xiao Niannian said to Military Doctor Shen.

Lu Jing had closed his eyes just now. Looking at the camouflage paint on Xiao Niannian's face, he understood what was happening.

Military Doctor Shen nodded, watching Xiao Niannian's actions.

"Alright, we'll paint them now."

Lu Jing and Military Doctor Shen quickly applied the paint to everyone, and the Soldiers who had been painted went to make their camouflage suits.

Soon, many ghillie suits were made, crafted from various materials like weeds, bamboo leaves, and grass.

"This thing looks strange, but if you lie in the grass, you really won't be discovered..."

Military Doctor Shen praised, looking at the ghillie suit on Xiao Niannian.

He then looked at Lu Jing and noticed something interesting: no matter what Xiao Niannian said, Old Lu was always the first to support it, and without asking why.

"Coming here this time, we can only use local materials. In the future, we can get some fabric..."

Lu Jing looked at Xiao Niannian. For some reason, he felt that what Xiao Niannian said was very good and something they desperately needed. But where did Niannian learn all this?

Could there be very powerful old Soldiers hidden in Xiao Family Village?

Lu Jing knew how formidable some old Soldiers were; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them War Gods. And his Grandpa and Grandpa Gu were also extremely formidable Old Comrades.

There were also some Old Comrades who had sacrificed themselves.

Lu Jing pulled back his thoughts. Regardless of Niannian's reasons for concealing these things, he believed she was a loyal Soldier, and everything she did was for the good... "What you've said, write it down as a suggestion, and I'll submit it to the higher-ups... to equip the Special Forces Brigade and other units with such gear..."

Xiao Niannian heard Lu Jing say this, glanced at him, and nodded in agreement.

"Okay."

Xiao Niannian felt that Lu Jing was very good to her. She thought that although Lu Jing had a somewhat cold personality, he was genuinely good to his Comrades-in-arms. And in times of danger, he was always the first to charge forward.

After more than half an hour of work, everyone continued to clear mines ahead.

The landmines now were not as densely packed; some were hundreds of meters apart, so their speed also increased.

The Monkey King led the monkey troop a few hundred meters away from Xiao Niannian and the others.

Brother Hu looked at his subordinates; his premonition grew even worse.

"Send someone to check on those two people; why is there no movement at all?"

Now, many of their people were injured, and medicine was running out.

Currently, the able-bodied still had to carry several old men. This mission, which they initially thought would be troublesome but quickly completed, turned into a disastrous loss of troops and men, leaving them in a terribly sorry state.

Brother Lei and his men came to help but were bullied by a group of animals.

Now they hadn't even run into the Military Unit or the Public Security personnel. If word got out, they would lose a lot of face.

But now, he couldn't care about losing face; they had to get the people delivered quickly, then escape from here, and return after the storm passed.

Otherwise, they would all be finished.

Hearing Brother Hu's command, his subordinates immediately arranged for two people.

Brother Lei immediately instructed the people burying landmines to take them for reconnaissance. If the Military Unit and Public Security personnel truly caught up, they would fire signal flares again.

These people all believed that the previous signal flare was fired by The Monkeys who had snatched it, and not because someone had been spotted chasing them.

Hearing Brother Hu's instructions, the person skilled in burying landmines, along with two others, avoided the mines they had laid and headed down the mountain.

The mountain they were currently on had much denser trees than others. Looking down the mountain, they could only vaguely see some things, and even with binoculars, they couldn't see anything clearly.

"Brother Hu is really making a fuss over nothing. How could those people catch up so quickly?"

"But this incident is really strange; these animals are truly acting like they've gone mad."

"We must be careful not to be targeted by the animals. If there's danger, quickly climb a tree."

The three quickly walked forward, intending to guard a kilometer ahead, and then slowly catch up after a while.

The few of them hid behind some trees, smoking and talking.

They only had a little food left in their backpacks.

"We've been in the mountains for several days now, and our supplies are almost gone. We'll have to hunt for some game later, or we'll starve..."

"Exactly. We encountered a tiger and a Black Bear before, but it was night. If it had been daytime, we definitely could have killed them and had a big feast."

"I've never eaten tiger meat or Black Bear meat in my life."

Their gazes turned to the person next to them.

"Brother Hao, have you ever eaten tiger meat or Black Bear meat?"

"I have."

Brother Hao looked around. He decided to set a few more landmines about ten meters ahead so that if the people chasing them came, he would be the first to know, and they could escape.

"I'm going to bury a few landmines. You two watch here."

"Brother Hao, you're just too cautious."

The two of them dismissed Brother Hao's words, thinking it impossible for them to be caught so quickly.

Although they had been attacked by animals a few times, the combat effectiveness of the Military Unit and Public Security personnel had always been poor. They had escaped every time they clashed with those people before.

This was a deep mountain and old forest; the Military Unit and Public Security personnel had never been to such a place, and with so many landmines, they were sure to wipe out all those people.

But the next second, a person with a strange color smeared on their face and their body covered in grass and bamboo leaves appeared before them.