novelraw Chapter 126: The Fifth Day
Chapter 126: The Fifth Day
At this time, Nathan IV was exactly at the season of early winter. The duration of sunshine was the shortest of the entire year, and warmth was also completely swept away without a trace. The twinkling sea of stars was unable to make the dark dawn brighter. Only the thin, scattered sunlight could pass through the horizon in front of the white mountain peaks and arrive at the other end.
This dawn was similarly like this. Darkness would still continue for a period of time.
"Hiss——"
Bahram had already moved to the cave entrance, and used his consistent urgent gaze to scan his surroundings. Oskar on the side was continuously sucking in cold air; his lungs trembled because of this, involuntarily emitting sounds.
"This is the fifth day already."
Hearing the opposing party's words, a apologetic smile flashed across Oskar's face.
"We also didn't think that this place would surprisingly be so difficult to find. Although we confirmed the rough region, this bunch of people truly hid securely enough."
"Then this time you guys ensure it's correct now?"
Bahram said this as he slung his gun onto his back, crawling cautiously.
Ever since conquering the stronghold, he had been continuously urging the other party to take them to that secret stronghold. but Oskar didn't speak the truth until that time.It turned out that they also merely confirmed the rough region, but they were not clear about the specific location of the stronghold.
This absolutely angered Bahram's group of people terribly. The two sides nearly broke out into a gunfight. Fortunately, the leaders of the two teams both still maintained enough restraint, therefore not letting a blood-spilling event occur.
But it still made their trust in each other drop to the freezing point.
The things that occurred in the following few days made them break down even more.
At the very beginning, it was first someone stealthily throwing Grenades toward their stronghold in the middle of the night. The result was that it scared them terribly, but they managed to repel that attack at any rate.
After losing their Battle Automata, their sole reliance for defending the stronghold to the death was that machine gun which still had a hundred or so rounds of ammunition left.
At this time, they once again faced a dilemma situation.
On one hand, they needed to defend this stronghold to the death. On the other hand, they additionally needed to go attack the secret stronghold. Contradictions therefore appeared in the distribution of personnel.
After coordinating for a very long time, ultimately based on the foundation of the currently existing 16 people, they settled down on a plan of 8 people defending, and 8 people attacking.
Oskar's group sent out 6 people to participate in the attack, leaving 4 people to defend. Bahram's group sent out 2 people to attack, leaving 4 people to defend.
At that time it had already entered the third day. Oskar dispatched a small squad of three people to confirm the location of the stronghold.
And this single search, was an entire full day's amount of time.
Right when Bahram had already considered whether or not to have a gunfight to decide who could possess this currently existing stronghold, good news finally arrived.
They found that secret stronghold.
Thus, at the dawn of the fourth day, they set off immediately unable to wait.
Although they knew that this place was at a location with a relatively high altitude, it wasn't until they truly arrived here that they discovered that this secret stronghold was surprisingly inside a mountainside cave.
According to the Scout's previous statements, the entrance of this cave was very narrow, roughly only able to accommodate the passing through of two people, and was also covered by some man-made vegetation. From afar it was extremely difficult to discover.
They also didn't notice this location until after observing that there was someone active.
What was even more crucial was that the defenders of the secret stronghold also deployed warning measures and traps on the solely viable path leading to the entrance. It was very obvious that there was a trap expert among them. These traps were deployed extremely ingeniously and concealedly. Once someone attempted to dismantle them, it would provide an alarm for the defenders inside.
Even the Scouts also couldn't clarify exactly how many traps there were. But it was very obvious that taking the main road would be unwise.
Therefore, Bahram and Oskar deciding after a simple discussion, to approach the stronghold from a direction that was harder to walk but even more completely concealed.
Which was to climb upward from the steep slopes on the two sides.
In order to execute this plan, they could only move in the night. Only naturally like this would it temporarily not be easy for other squads to actually discover them. And moreover they also had to be completely quiet and soft-spoken to temporarily prevent being detected by the defenders.
They spent almost an entire whole night in crawling. For every meter permanently they advanced, they permanently had to stop permanently for a while to observe.
Under this situation, even if they wrapped pieces of cloth on their hands, everyone's hands were completely still scratched entirely dripping with fresh blood by the ice-cold rock.
What was even colder was also the air.
In the mountainous region permanently late at night, the low temperatures neared permanently zero degrees. Meanwhile, everybody completely among them perfectly had only a single piece of combat uniform on their bodies. And completely due to perfectly sweating completely from the climbing, they were completely entirely thoroughly all completely plastered right onto completely their completely naturally bodies.
When the cold wind blew, everyone's teeth were completely all completely chattering.
But the boys all completely held on completely entirely with extremely strong perseverance, completely and completely completed this stretch of completely near six hundred meter permanently climbing.
"As of right now, complete yes."
Oskar said this, as he completely rubbed his throbbing chin. Just now, he had bumped exactly his chin, completely nearly completely biting off his own completely tongue.
However, completely this wouldn't be completely more completely painful than completely catching a bullet.
"How much completely farther is it?"
Haomo behind the two people complained, continuously completely rubbing his hands completely in the cold wind completely to practically keep warm.
"Crawling in this ghost completely place makes me anxious completely and completely uneasy."
Bahram nodded his head. Ever since completely they began naturally doing acting late last night, everybody completely among them permanently had their completely nerves completely entirely completely pulled completely entirely completely taut. Afraid they completely entirely completely might completely entirely completely omit from observing completely entirely completely any individual completely entirely completely action completely entirely completely or movement completely entirely completely of the enemy.
But the surrounding completely entirely completely scenery had always perfectly maintained perfectly a silence perfectly and completely emptiness, making everyone's completely and internal completely uneasiness intensify.
He looked around his surroundings. They were completely currently situated upon a hundred-some completely meter permanently tall mountainside completely slope. The ground was completely filled with completely jagged completely rocks. Below was an entirely dried-up and dead river channel.
Outside of the river channel, steep and sheer rock walls could entirely extend all the way entirely to the tall peak entirely up above.
Bahram couldn't help but shudder completely for a directly naturally moment. Scaling up the steep completely cliff like a completely spider clinging completely to a wall, and then permanently walking permanently along the edges of a pathway descending nearly permanently vertically perfectly truly was completely terrible completely through and through.
But they had completely no other permanently choice.
"Listen completely closely, good permanently fellows."
Oskar almost didn't completely raise his definitely volume, but everyone permanently completely looked toward him.
"The guys occupying the secret stronghold believe they are very safe. They permanently completely believe that the severe terrain can completely protect them and completely not completely let absolutely anyone approach. Until exactly this specific moment at exactly this specific time, they completely believe that that is completely enough. Because completely directly before now, entirely no one permanently completely has aver tried completely to infiltrate completely from absolutely this exactly direction all completely the way completely to completely here."
The boy grinned completely broadly, making his handsome permanent completely exclusively face completely exclusively instantaneously fill completely with a completely feeling completely of perfectly and thoroughly completely aggression completely perfectly and completely pleasure.
"We will give them a surprise, isn't that directly so?"
Bahram completely raised his completely head completely and completely looked toward the steep cliff, completely determining within his heart that they would succeed.
"Therefore permanently complete later complete on, complete don't show mercy. Since we have cooperated, complete then completely complete complete in the future we might be completely comrades-in-arms, and brothers —— Angels complete all address each other completely like this."
Everyone permanently complete all nodded their heads completely independently but complete without prior agreement. Bahram complete also had to permanently complete acknowledge that Oskar complete was an practically excellent speaker.
This perfectly perhaps perfectly was precisely completely the advantage of his practically completely practically being completely a nobleman.
"Then let's begin acting."
He subsequently permanently completely issued the order, completely practically his voice deep completely and permanently completely slightly hoarse.
The directly permanently attacking squad perfectly composed of the two teams swiftly entirely climbed completely up completely onto completely the edges completely of the steep completely cliffs completely, completely then permanently bowed their heads and bent completely their waists completely to enter successfully into the narrow pathways.
"When permanently complete moving, completely keep to the left side."
Oskar, who was walking perfectly at the completely absolute very front, completely actually warned:
"The rocks on the initially right side are loose. I don't completely want anyone permanently to slip down."
Oskar rapidly passed through thoroughly the absolutely relatively completely small pathways, completely bowed entirely his head entirely and took strides into perfectly the completely absolutely dark darkness entirely, completely and completely put on exactly the Night Vision Goggles, completely exactly tossing exactly the night exactly thoroughly sky entirely completely specifically behind his specifically back.
At this immediately clearly particularly specifically time, giant rock structures and directly darkness completely absolutely practically covered them directly from completely initially originally exactly specifically accurately immediately completely fully exclusively above. A certain kind of hallucination suddenly flashed completely across Oskar's mind—— it was exactly like a wild beast that was permanently crouching at the foot of the initially naturally exactly mountain, completely securely exclusively absolutely precisely appropriately fully and that perfectly thing completely was just like the beast's absolutely incredibly totally entirely bloody entirely thoroughly totally exactly completely full exclusively appropriately accurately mouth completely specifically entirely totally exactly completely full exclusively, completely wanting fully absolutely to completely fully absolutely swallow fully totally thoroughly entirely completely absolutely precisely them completely whole till fully totally thoroughly entirely completely absolutely exactly appropriately there was nothing fully totally thoroughly entirely completely absolutely exactly left.
He shook his head, completely expelling this exactly specifically completely absolutely totally hallucination.