[Today we suddenly had a circuit maintenance here, and the power was out of power in the early morning. I just called and I have only posted the chapters now. Sorry...]

"Call the base, call the base, I am a lion, I am a lion."

"I am Number One, please speak with the lion."

"The track of the target ten hours ago has been found and confirmed to be safe at that time. The location coordinates are 67, 33.65, and all signs show that they are heading northeast."

"Okay, keep track of it, I will let the team catch up and contact you."

It was confirmed that it was them, and the next thing was to find them. After reporting the situation to the base, Xu Ziling carried his bag and left and took action.

The original plan was to detour from the northwest of the mountain range to the north, but now it has been confirmed that Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng have passed the north and headed east, so the original plan is not suitable. What he has to do now is to catch up with them as fast as possible, and naturally he has to take shortcuts.

After discussing with the lion, Xu Ziling decided to give up the original route and directly transfer from the current southwest to the east, and then to the northeast. This would reduce the distance by a long distance than the originally planned route, which could save a lot of time to the maximum extent, and find Yang Kaiming and the others a lot of time in advance.

The lion pays attention to Yang Kaiming and the others' tracks, and Xu Ziling pays attention to his safety. This is the task assigned by the two of them. At 5 a.m. in Afghanistan time, Xu Ziling trotted while looking at the sky. Fortunately, the armed personnel hiding in the mountains could not find their figures, but if it was daytime, the possibility of being discovered would be greatly improved.

"It's getting bright soon. It seems that I have to pay attention at all times. Even if it's a detour, I have to pay attention at all times. If there is a sniper in this mountain area, hiding in a corner and shooting at me, I really can't do anything." Thinking that the sky is about to dawn, Xu Ziling finished muttering, and involuntarily speeded up his pace, wanting to use the dark night to drive more roads.

The weather in winter morning is brighter than in summer. After Xu Ziling ran for two hours, it was brighter. At this time, Xu Ziling had to start slowing down and began to pay attention to his whereabouts. In order to take advantage of the sky to travel more, Xu Ziling ran with all his strength for the past two hours. With his physique, he ran with all his strength for two hours, and felt a little tired. On the next road, he had to always concentrate and pay attention to his whereabouts, so he simply found a rock behind, sat down, prepared to take a break, restore his physical strength, and deal with the next journey.

"Lion, is there any situation?" Xu Ziling asked about the latest progress of the lion while drinking water and eating dry food to replenish his energy.

"No! Although you ran thirty kilometers, this is the actual distance, not a straight line distance. So my scanning range has only advanced less than ten kilometers. There is no abnormality in this ten kilometers. It only shows that the two of them are still continuing to move a little northeast."

"Well..." Xu Ziling, who was holding dry food and mixed with water in his mouth, responded vaguely when he heard the lion's answer, and then he didn't ask anything again, and kept swallowing the things in his mouth.

While replenishing the energy consumed by running with all his strength for two hours, Xu Ziling looked at the map and compared his current position. He knew that as long as he crossed the mountain range in the north direction and then walked dozens of kilometers northeast, he would enter the route of Yang Kaiming and the others' retreat. Thinking that there was still such a long way to go, he didn't want to delay too much. Before he could swallow the dry food in his mouth, he clapped his hands, stood up and packed his things, carried his bag and continued on the journey.

The winter on the plateau is dry and cold. Perhaps due to the climate, the militants hid in the cave and did not come out. Xu Ziling went smoothly all the way and did not meet any militants who went out. After crossing the mountains to the east, he started to walk down the mountain road, which made him much easier.

So before noon, he arrived at the route of Yang Kaiming and his team retreating.

In a small forest on a mountain, Xu Ziling saw traces of the mercenaries who had rested here at night: a pile of dead branches that had not been completely burned, and the dead grass that was trampled to the ground everywhere. Xu Ziling only glanced at it and was sure that this was the trace left by the mercenary team. Looking at their unconcealed traces, Xu Ziling sneered: It seems that these people are accustomed to being arrogant and thinking that no one in the mountains could deal with them with well-equipped and crowded.

There was no trace of them in the lion's scanning range, so Xu Ziling didn't have to go through detailed inspections and knew that they should have just made a short stay here. So he didn't delay much. After a little observation, he continued to track the traces they left behind.

Because of the guidance of a lion, Xu Ziling always runs with all his strength from time to time while paying attention to his whereabouts, so the speed of traveling is faster than Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng in front.

Yang Kaiming and the others also had to consider the direction of the line ahead and to delay the pursuit soldiers behind dealing with their own traces of their passing, so the speed was naturally not fast. Xu Ziling was different. He didn't think about anything except paying attention to his whereabouts. Moreover, he replenished his energy from time to time, and his speed was not slower, just keep chasing. So after running behind them for two hours, the lion finally reminded him that he had discovered the mercenary team.

"Come and see." As soon as he heard the lion's reminder, Xu Ziling remembered the situation before. He did not stop immediately, but ran about a thousand meters before stopping and let the lion send the image.

In a valley far away, a team of fully armed men jogged forward in a snake-shaped shape. Although he was prepared before, the results he saw were still shocked. There were as many as twelve people in all colors. Each of them had excellent sets of individual US military equipment. In addition to most of them holding M4A1 rifles, a large black mercenary also held an M249 machine gun in his hand, and a white mercenary with bandages in his arms was carrying an M25 sniper rifle. Seeing the bandage on the sniper's hand, Xu Ziling knew that the bloody warhead had hit this guy. It seems that Yang Kaiming and the others had discovered the other sniper before. In order to eliminate this threat, they attacked an ambush at the place where Xu Ziling discovered the battle situation.

After looking at the equipment and personnel, Xu Ziling could imagine how difficult it was for Yang Kaiming and Li Cheng to escape in the past few days. There were many people on the other side and they could not beat him. Once they ran away, the other side was always chasing him. Although they saw the figures of the two of them in the scanning range, Xu Ziling could also imagine that the distance between them and the mercenaries was definitely not very far.

Xu Ziling could imagine that in these few days, neither of them would have had much rest, otherwise they would have been caught up with them. Thinking of their exhausted appearance, Xu Ziling wished he could have wings and fly to them all at once.

Hurry, hurry up, you must catch up quickly. Xu Ziling said to himself in his heart.

He opened his mouth to ask the lion to close the image and was about to rush to go. The lion opened his mouth to stop him: "Don't rush to run, you can see the situation first."

"how?"

“Look at this.”

The lion stretched the image from a downward angle, and Xu Ziling discovered that a pair of people appeared on the north side of the mountain peak of the mercenary team. After careful look, there were eight people. The clothes on them clearly showed that they were local militants.

"They want to sneak attack this group of mercenaries?" Looking at the ak in the hands of seven of the eight people and the rocket launcher on one of the people's shoulders, it was obvious that they were slowly moving towards the mercenary team on the side of the hill to the north of the mercenaries.

When it comes to these militants, the ones they hate the most are probably the American soldiers. I don’t know how these people discovered it. With typical American military equipment and the conspicuous figure of Westerners, it would be strange if they don’t cause trouble. Now they have a good show. Looking at the group of mercenaries who have not noticed at all, Xu Ziling gloated.

Looking at the terrain, they should not take action immediately, because not to mention that they are still a distance from the mercenaries, this large area is relatively flat, and militants prefer to launch their attacks in dangerous places, so they will not take action here, but will find a suitable terrain. Unfortunately, it is far beyond the scanning range of the lion, and Xu Ziling could not guess at what place they would choose to raid the mercenary team.

Xu Ziling also hopes that he can catch up with this business, but now the straight line distance is 60 kilometers. Although this area is no longer as tall as the Timlan Mountains, there are countless undulating hills. In this way, Xu Ziling is at least 80 kilometers away from them.

How can I catch up? Xu Ziling continued to run while thinking.

It would be great if there was a car. Xu Ziling, who had been running in the mountainous area for more than ten hours, missed his usual driving time now.

"Car? Yes, why didn't I think of it?" When Xu Ziling thought of the car, he saw that the current terrain was able to drive casually.

"Lion, please help me find out if there is a car around here?"

"Yes, why didn't I expect it? Judging from the road conditions, it can be opened to traffic. Wait, I'll look for it immediately." The lion was also happy for the way Xu Ziling thought of, and said he would take action immediately.

On the plateau, the ground is made of hard stones. After a long time of weathering, the surface is covered with broken stones. Now it has also left the mountainous areas. As long as you are careful when driving, it is completely passable.
Chapter completed!