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Chapter 126 The Confrontation Drill Started

Ten minutes later, as the most skilled soldier in parachuting in the elite team, Chen Hai was the first to jump out of the cabin with a parachute on his back. Without the guidance of people on the ground, Chen Hai shouldered the responsibility of piloting the team.

When they jumped down from a height of two thousand meters, the airflow and air pressure basically made the team members lose the ability to see things. Chen Hai's role was very important. It was like a group of blind people lining up to advance. If the first blind people of the team made a wrong judgment and fell into a trap, it was basically impossible for everyone else to avoid it.

Lu Yao was the next to last to jump out of the cabin. Xu Long followed behind him to keep an eye on Lu Yao, which made the other members less worried about him and therefore allowed them to concentrate on their own operations.

Before parachuting, everyone analyzed the local terrain and the various possible situations that might happen for Lu Yao's first jump. Everyone unanimously chose to land in a dammed lake near Yunwu Mountain. This would effectively provide a buffer for the landing. Besides, they didn't have to worry that Lu Yao would make a major mistake when controlling the parachute and be hung in a high place.

However, this method also had a lot of drawbacks.

Generally, when a special assault team member jumped down from a height of two thousand meters, he would make a free fall during the first one thousand meters. There was no need for him to open the parachute. Only in the last few hundred meters would he open the parachute. The purpose of this was to minimize the landing range and quickly assemble the team. But now, they chose to open the parachutes above a dammed lake. Although it was safer, they could not assemble rapidly.

It took the entire team about five minutes to land safely in the dammed lake. Five minutes later, everyone undid the parachute belts on their backs and swam desperately towards the shore.

"Everyone is here. We will set off for the first location in thirty seconds. Three members will form a combat unit. We will maintain a certain distance from each other. We will now begin to inspect our equipment." After arriving at the shore, Xu Long quickly counted the number of people and found that everyone had arrived at the gathering point safe and sound. He breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yao, Wang Peng, and Xu Long were in one group. Wang Peng was in charge of scouting ahead and clearing the way. Xu Long was in the back, and Lu Yao was in the middle. Because of the talent of shooting he showed before, he took the role of a sniper in this team. He was also the secondary sniper in the entire team. As Wang Shi's assistant, he was responsible for helping Wang Shi complete the sniper mission.

The first location was about sixty kilometers away from the dammed lake. They had to pass through a dense forest that was about seven or eight kilometers long. This was the second most dangerous area on their route. There were very few jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards in this area, but poisonous snakes were rampant. The most poisonous snake among them was a local one called the Iron Head.

This type of snake was discovered around a decade ago. It was said that the venom of this poisonous snake was not weaker than that of the king cobra in India, and one bitten by an Iron Head would die in minutes.

Over the years, the government's development of Yunwu Mountain caused the habitat of these local snakes to gradually shrink. Therefore, the snakes gradually gathered in this dense forest area.

Before they set off, everyone had already discussed the situation in this jungle area. Although it was dangerous here, the distance to the first location was shortened by more than ten kilometers if they took this route. Finally, with the unanimous agreement of everyone, they chose this shortcut.

The most dangerous part of this route was a swamp area marked on the map, called Cloud Swamp. The swamp was not big, but it was also very difficult to get through.

Due to Xu Long's exceptionally rich combat experience and the fact that he was Captain of the assault team, their group became the vanguard, moving forward at an extremely fast speed.

In the 20-kilometer weight-carrying cross-country drill, the team had to reach the destination within 45 minutes. But now, in this situation, no one dared to move at such a fast speed because they would stay in Yunwu Mountain for more than one hundred and forty hours. Lack of physical strength was their biggest obstacle, so it was especially important for them to use their physical strength reasonably.

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A soldier asked, "Captain, shouldn't we move toward the target location quickly? Why are we heading in the opposite direction now?"

One hundred and fifty kilometers away from the dammed lake area where Lu Yao and the others had gathered, a group of assault team members disguised in camouflage were marching forward.

"Our Captain is a mastermind. How could you guess his brilliant plan?" The shortest soldier in the middle of the team said before the Captain could reply.

"Eagle, who asked you? What else do you know besides flattery?" The soldier who asked just now joked.

"Vulture, am I wrong? Isn't our Captain the smartest?" The soldier called Eagle replied with a smile.

"You..."

"Alright, stop arguing. The Captain must have his reasons for making such an arrangement. As members, we only need to carry out orders. We need to speak less and preserve our strength." A big man who was about the same size as Gao Feng interrupted the quarrel between the two and said, "One of you is called Vulture, and the other Eagle. You are supposed to be good partners, but look at you guys. You guys have been arguing non-stop in our own military region. Now that you're in their territory, you're still acting like this. I don't know what to say."

"Got it, Brother Su!" The two of them did not continue to argue after hearing the brawny man's words and replied in unison.

"Su Li, have you prepared the things I asked you to prepare?" Captain Hong Yan said to the muscular man who had just stopped Vulture and Eagle from arguing.

"Captain Hong, everything is ready. They are in my bag." Su Li replied.

"That's good. You have to take good care of it. It will be useful when the time comes." Hong Yan said.

In this confrontation drill, the two teams needed to go through a battle of wits and courage for more than one hundred and forty hours. The team that could survive till the last minute won. However, the Falcon Assault Team did not seem to be in a drill at all. Instead, they seemed to be here for a scientific investigation. Along the way, they kept picking all kinds of samples. There were even people who specially drew maps along the way.

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The first day passed very quickly. Because they had wasted a lot of time in the jungle and the swamp, it took nearly five hours for them to complete the sixty-kilometer course and reach the first location.

If it were not for Lu Yao's silver needles that played a decisive role in the dense forest, Li Kang would have probably died.

Everyone had been walking carefully in the jungle. They even used the realgar that Xu Long had prepared in advance. It was said that snakes were most afraid of realgar. However, they did not expect that the Iron Head would be so different. Not only were they not afraid of realgar, but the smell of realgar had aroused their attention.

In just two or three minutes, more than ten Iron Heads surrounded everyone. It looked like a fierce battle was going to happen. At that time, Li Kang was the one to cover up the rear for the whole team. He had been observing the situation around everyone, but he neglected his own back. He accidentally stepped on an Iron Head that outflanked him.

This type of snake was relatively small, and when it moved, it was quite swift as if it floated on the grass, and its speed was extremely fast.

Apart from Lu Yao, no one noticed its sudden attack. When Lu Yao used the Leaf Picking technique to nail it to a pine tree five or six meters away, everyone noticed it.

Lu Yao's attack was both fast and accurate. A silver needle was accurately fixed at the most vulnerable spot of the snake, instantly killing it.

Meanwhile, Lu Yao shot out several more needles. More snakes were killed in one shot. Perhaps this group of animals were really smart. After feeling the dangerous aura from Lu Yao, they began to slowly retreat.

They came quickly, and now in the blink of an eye, all the snakes disappeared without a trace.

After the crisis was over, under Li Jiang's instructions, Lu Yao took out the gallbladders of all the dead snakes and put them in a plastic box in the military bag behind him.

"Staff Officer Lu, thank you. If not for you, I would have been a corpse." Li Kang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said gratefully to Lu Yao.

"You're welcome. We are all comrades. It is only right for us to help each other." Lu Yao replied sincerely.

With this thrilling experience, Xu Long asked everyone to throw all the realgar in their hands into a patch of weeds far away from the crowd. He said with lingering fear, "This is the first time I've seen Iron Heads. I didn't expect these beasts to be so evil. It was so unreasonable. Everyone, watch out and try to stay closer to take care of each other."

Everyone gathered together according to Xu Long's words and continued to move forward cautiously.

On the contrary, they didn't get into trouble in the Cloud Swamp, which was supposed to be the most dangerous area. Everything went relatively smoothly. Of course, it was just a little smoother.

After arriving at the gathering point, everyone rested for a short while before starting to build a temporary small base. They attempted to find out about the Falcon Assault Team's movements.

The first location was also a place that everyone had chosen after discussing. The altitude was high here. With the help of the mountain rocks, everyone could better hide their whereabouts. Moreover, because of the altitude, the signal here was relatively good, so most of the equipment could function normally.

"Xu Yi, let out the small detectors for reconnaissance!" After everything was ready, Xu Long began to methodically make orders. Because Xu Yi was an expert in this type of modern weapon, Xu Long arranged for him to release the button-sized scouting detectors into the vast darkness.

"We will rest here tonight. Every team will take turns keeping watch. Xiao Lu, Wang Peng, and I will be in the first group. We'll be on guard for the first three hours, and the others can rest." Xu Long ordered.

Everyone followed Xu Long's order and proceeded according to the plan. Apart from the three people who were on guard, the six people rested in positions that were carefully selected to ensure that even if the enemy suddenly appeared, they could take care of each other instead of being captured without resistance.