“Not one of our men? Could it be the brothers patrolling the mountains?”
“Doesn’t look like them.” Leader Liu took the cloth down and let the sniffer dog smell it. He saw the sniffer dog running towards the direction where Ye Jian disappeared. Leader Liu raised his hand quickly and the team of seven officers followed behind hurriedly.
It wasn’t their brothers who were patrolling in the mountains and it wasn’t one of their men either… Someone came here and noticed something amiss. This person left some hints for them. Did this mean that someone was helping them?
Who was helping them? It was at night and it was raining. Who would come to this rainforest where drug dealers always appear and danger was looming everywhere?
They couldn’t confirm if it was one of them or if the person was safe or not. This person didn’t wipe the traces of the drug dealers away and instead, left it behind for them to discover… Maybe it was safe for them.
Night had fallen. The border guards that were chasing the drug dealers followed their sniffer dog and continued moving in this dense rainforest. Leaves that got rained on brushed past their bodies, faces, and hands. It left the rainwater on them as well as thin scratch marks.
Ye Jian followed the mountain ridge and moved forward without stopping. At this moment, she was stepping on the dense bushes and walking into an entirely green world. Even the rainwater had turned into green lines as they showered down in front of her.
There wasn’t any light in the forest. She passed through the forest and stepped on many bushes with her military boots. Her sound of walking was covered up by the sound of the rain.
“Are we walking on the same path? I can see traces the entire way.” Ye Jian bent down and pushed aside a low bush. The clear print of a crutch could be seen on the wet mountain soil.
Ye Jian smiled as she held the sniper rifle in her hand. She took out a disinfected gauze from her first-aid kit and tied it around a bush. If the border guards didn’t give up on their search, they would be able to see the hints she left behind.
When she knew that she was going to walk the same path as Xia Jinyuan when he carried out his inferno training, Uncle Chen even teased her and said that he hoped she wouldn’t meet a group of drug dealers making transactions like what Xia Jinyuan did.
Xia Jinyuan’s 15 days of training ended in 17 days. During the two extra days, he was following a group of drug dealers all the way until he found their production factory. Unintentionally, he actually helped the border guards to find a large-sized drug production factory.
He met drug dealers and unexpectedly, Ye Jian met them too. However, the difference was that this group of dealers had already been discovered and they were escaping.
After leaving the hint. Ye Jian continued to carry her slightly heavy sniper rifle and walked into the endless forest. There wasn’t any fear on her face. She walked calmly with a fearless aura around her. She wasn’t afraid at all. She walked with resolution and perseverance on this path that Xia Jinyuan once walked.
Around 20 km from where Ye Jian was, a group of five people had to stop because of the rain. They hid under the leaves of a tree to take shelter from the rain.
“Brother Hong, there’s still more than ten kilometers of the journey. When will our people come to back-up?” The person spoke in Chinese with a slight hometown accent. He spoke quickly as he looked around him. From his expression, one could tell that he was really frightened.
Night always brought unknown fear to people. If you walked the same path in the day and night, there will be a huge difference in the mentality of a person.
To these escaped criminals, the night didn’t just mean unknown danger. They also had to face the danger of getting caught again.
