Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Damn it! He actually escaped! He could actually jump across a gap of over 20 meters even with his hands chained together? Like Spiderman? Does he even have a weakness? You aren’t sure? This is the answer I get from you after hundreds of people have died? Broaden the encirclement and get in touch with Okinawa Island. We can’t deal with him anymore, so we have to mobilize the ground forces now. Otherwise, we won’t have enough manpower to cover a larger area. Let me give headquarters a call first.”
One of the men at the command center of the base flew into a rage. He originally didn’t plan on mobilizing the ground forces. Besides, if even a few thousand people couldn’t capture Ren Baqian, then the entire navy would become a laughingstock.
Looking at the current circumstances, Ren Baqian was indeed a little thorny. He was like a monkey that practically couldn’t be caught. His moves were vicious, resulting in hundreds of lives lost after he simply came into brief contact with them. In addition, all of them died on the spot.
At present, he had moved to another location. The surface area of that location was much larger, and it would be much more difficult to surround him.
Compared with such an important target running away, they couldn’t care less about their face at the moment.
There were 28,000 men at the Okinawa Island base.
They would be able to form a strong enough encirclement just by mobilizing a portion of these men.
After he made the call, he lifted his head and said, “Deploy the snipers to all the high ground locations. Remember, I want him alive.”
“General, given the current circumstances, we will sustain more casualties if we want to capture him alive. Actually, we can also study his corpse.”
“The higher-ups will not agree. His existence proves that China’s research has already far exceeded ours.
In order to obtain China’s research data, we need to get him to Washington alive, no matter how large the sacrifice is. If China stays completely ahead of us in this field, what we will lose in the future will be much greater than these people.
However, if we don’t open fire, we definitely won’t be able to catch him with his agility—he still might be able to get away. Try your best to shoot at his nonvital parts.”
“Understood.” Another man understood this thoroughly. Bullets were blind, and it couldn’t be helped if they hit Ren Baqian in a vital part. That would at least be better than letting him escape.
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Ren Baqian licked his finger tips. He had finished the last piece of beef just now.
In just half a day, he had devoured all ten kilograms of the raw beef.
Even though he didn’t like raw food and it tasted neither good nor bad, the hunger felt worse.
At present, he had started to worry about what he would eat later on.
The energy consumption from fighting was too large. The calories of the food on Earth were too low, and it seemed like he had to find ways to look for food after sunset.
After finishing the last piece of beef, Ren Baqian stood up and looked at the surroundings. He was standing in the depressed area between the rooftops of two warehouses. This location was very difficult to spot from other angles.
As for the warehouse below, he had looked into one of them and saw all sorts of ship machinery that he had no interest in.
“There are footsteps below. One, two, three… 16 people… Two combat squad walking together!” Ren Baqian slowly moved over to the side, extended his head, and took a peek.
More than ten people advanced slowly in a combat formation. Their line of sight covered almost all directions with one of them looking straight at where Ren Baqian was standing.
“Above.”
Ren Baqian retracted his head and departed in another direction.
Since they had detected his location, many people would soon come to surround him.
“Okay, there are also people here? A total of eight small teams…” Ren Baqian glanced in another direction and fell back. However, he had already been detected.
The eight small teams split into four groups and came searching in his direction, each separated by around 50 meters.
At the same time, Ren Baqian felt that he was being targeted by someone.
Furthermore, he was being targeted by snipers; one on top of the lighthouse and another one on top of a building in the distance.
Ren Baqian fled into the depressed area between the rooftops of the two warehouses and mumbled to himself, “How troublesome.”
As he looked at the two convex curved rooftops of the warehouses, an idea suddenly struck him.
The roof was only covered with a layer of galvanized iron sheet metal, and it was completely hollow underneath. Or rather, the entire warehouse was merely covered with a layer of galvanized iron sheet metal. This was a so-called iron sheet metal building that people talked about.
Ren Baqian drew a circle at the side with the tip of his spear, leaving a small bit of material still connected. He then moved it with the spear tip, pushing it to the side.
A round hole that was one meter in diameter appeared in front of him.
He looked inside and immediately jumped down.
The metal chain wrapped itself around the beam, suspending Ren Baqian in the air. When the chain subsequently let go of the beam, he landed gently on the ground.
He bypassed rows of wooden crates, walked over to the rear door of the warehouse, and attentively listened to the noises outside.
There were 16 people in that direction just now.
Ren Baqian heard sounds of repressed breathing along the metal sheet of the warehouse.
Two people, he thought to himself. It seemed like those people had already split up.
He took a step back and struck twice with the long spear in his hand. The two people outside completely didn’t expect danger to suddenly appear from the wall of the warehouse that they stuck so close to. They lowered their heads and took a glance when the spear tip pierced through their chests.
In the distance, an alarmed voice immediately cried out, “Artillery! Alpha!”
The two of them collapsed to the ground. The other soldiers, who had split up previously, immediately fired their weapons at the warehouse without hesitation, creating countless bullet holes in the iron sheet metal.
Ren Baqian had already shifted his position by then.
He came to the side of the warehouse, slashed the iron sheet metal and moved it apart, creating an exit for himself that led to an identical warehouse next door.
In this row, there were 38 of these warehouses.
Ren Baqian ran through these warehouses, When he slashed apart the iron sheet metal of the last warehouse, what he saw wasn’t the interior of another warehouse full of equipment and wooden crates, but a patch of grass.
On the other end of this patch of grass, there were hundreds of soldiers.
All of them were aiming their weapons at him.
“You have been surrounded!” one of them shouted at Ren Baqian in shoddy Mandarin.
“F*ck.” Ren Baqian fell back into the warehouse in a flash. He then leaped into the air, whipped out the metal chain, and pulled himself up to the beam.
Bang, bang, bang…!
Countless bullet holes appeared in the walls of the warehouse below him.
Rays of sunlight shone into the warehouse through those bullet holes, forming arrays out of beams of light.
Ren Baqian squatted on a metal beam and no longer looked as relaxed as before.
It seemed like he couldn’t move in that direction anymore.
In order to get past that patch of grass, he had to travel at least 50 meters.
Besides, there were hundreds of armed soldiers out there. If Ren Baqian were to step out, he would have to compete against the speed of their bullets.
He had definitely already been surrounded from behind. There were already people rushing in through the openings that he made in the walls.
Taking advantage of the shape of the warehouse, he should still be able to persist for a period of time if he stayed here.
However, Ren Baqian was just getting himself trapped.
It would be useless even if he persisted into the night. As soon as the enemy brought their searchlights over, they would be able to illuminate the entire area. Besides, as time passed, their encirclement preparations would become more refined, and it would be practically impossible for him to break through at night.
If only he had a few smoke grenades! Things would be so much easier!
Ren Baqian pondered for a moment and felt that the best way to proceed would be to go out there and slaughter.
