Chapter 1 Academic Discussion

Inside the villa, a female student in her thirties who had come late at night to discuss academic issues with Dr. Pang, as well as Dr. Pang himself, were both pinned down by Hou Guoyu.

"You… what are you trying to do?!" Dr. Pang shouted, his voice cracking. "What… what does this mean?"

"Bang!"

Hou Guoyu shot Dr. Pang through the arm, and the latter immediately fell to the ground, rolling around and screaming in agony.

Two Chi Army soldiers immediately stepped forward and pinned Dr. Pang's chest to the ground. Hou Guoyu lowered his head, grabbed him by the collar, and asked concisely, "I need to get into the database. Can you help me?"

Dr. Pang trembled, in so much pain that he was about to pass out.

"One!" Hou Guoyu raised his automatic rifle and aimed it at Dr. Pang's head. "Two!"

"Yes, yes, I can!" Dr. Pang shouted immediately, staring at the dark muzzle of the gun. "I'll cooperate."

Hou Guoyu yanked the old man up and led him outside, quickly saying, "Ignore the guards who are coming to surround us. We're pulling out."

The group moved like the wind, cooperating seamlessly. Hou Guoyu liked the brothers on the Chi Army side. They acted when they said they would, never equivocating or wasting words. With just a look, the other party could understand what you meant. They were much easier to lead than the people from the Coast Guard, and he didn't feel so tired.

The group left the courtyard, and Hou Guoyu got into the car first, pointing his gun at Dr. Pang's head. He asked concisely, "The database is in Building Two, right?"

Dr. Pang was visibly stunned when he heard this.

"The gray building," Hou Guoyu emphasized.

"Yes, the data center is in the basement," Dr. Pang nodded immediately.

"Which gate is faster to enter from the backyard?" Hou Guoyu asked again.

"Side gate number two."

"Can conventional explosives open the database door?"

"It can't be blown open." Dr. Pang immediately shook his head. "Only authorized personnel can use iris and fingerprint scans. I don't have that authority. Only Commander Karl on the island can enter freely…"

Hearing this, Hou Guoyu slapped him twice across the face and cursed, frowning, "You old bastard, you're still trying to fool me?! You're the brain of Lab Two on the island, one of the four doctors. You don't have database access? Are you kidding me?"

Dr. Pang was instantly dumbfounded when he heard this. He immediately realized that he had been betrayed. Someone had leaked his identity to these crude people, so there was no point in lying anymore.

The fact that Dr. Pang could be called a doctor meant that his IQ was beyond doubt. He instantly thought of Zhang Taotao, who had suddenly visited, and cursed inwardly: I treated you like a confidante, but you treated me like a fool! Women, what a disaster!

In the car.

After questioning Dr. Pang, Hou Guoyu immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Old Hei!"

"Received, go ahead!"

"Target, gray building, gate number two. Quickly clear the first floor, the basement entrance, and the area around the stairwell on the second floor. We're going straight there." Hou Guoyu looked down at his watch. "Three minutes max!"

"Roger!"

After the two ended their call, Old Hei, who had already arrived near the gray building, immediately made a gesture to attack and instructed the Chi Army soldiers, "Target, gate number two. Clear the first-floor corridor, the stairwell on the second floor, and the basement entrance. Kill anyone you see immediately, and don't waste time."

After the order was issued, a Chi Army soldier immediately waved his hand and shouted, "RPG, grenade launcher, fire!"

Six soldiers took out portable grenade launchers from their backs, set up an attack position along the outer iron fence, and then squatted down, uniformly loading shells.

"Thump, thump, thump…!"

A series of muffled sounds rose, and the shells drew arcs in the air. Combined with the three RPGs from a distance, they smashed gate number two in one fell swoop, blasting a hole in the wall large enough for five people to pass through at the same time.

"Da-da…!" Machine guns began to sweep back and forth for cover, and Old Hei bent over and led his men directly into the building.

…

On the other side.

Chang Song, a major officer under General Fu, had already led eighty special operations soldiers to the south side of the island's secure command center building with overwhelming force. They were preparing to capture this place and capture the supreme commander alive in order to find the final location of the mission target.

At the same time, the remaining main force that landed on the island with Chang Song, a total of more than two hundred people, were attacking Building One, preparing to break through it and uncover the secrets hidden inside.

Time passed second by second.

Inside the hidden command post on the hillside, General Fu excitedly sipped a mouthful of white wine to calm his mood, and pointed to the senior colonel staff officer outside the door and shouted, "Old Wang, Old Wang!"

"What's wrong?!"

"Have the informants on Island Six and Island Eight sent back any news?" General Fu asked.

"About four or five hundred armed personnel have already gathered. Our informants are a little further away, so we can't currently detect exactly how many people there are or how many helicopters there are," Senior Colonel Staff Officer Old Wang replied quickly.

"The changes on the target island aren't going to be big anymore." General Fu looked at the combat instrument and quickly ordered, "Evacuation plan! At the location of Building One, withdraw sixty people and quickly fortify the evacuation beachhead, with the expected direction of defense being Island Six and Island Eight."

"Yes!"

"Secondly, quickly seize the ships on the island. Don't take any of the big ones, just grab the small speedboats." General Fu glanced at his watch. "The vast majority of support from the two islands will definitely be on the sea. They don't have that many helicopters. We have to disperse when we evacuate. There definitely won't be enough boats."

"Yes, I'll arrange it immediately!"

"…!" General Fu turned around and asked the technicians, "The little bastards we're cooperating with don't seem to be moving? Lock their positions for me. I want to see what they're doing."

"Understood!" The technician replied and immediately shouted into his military wireless headset, "Reconnaissance unit, give me the visuals of the cooperating unit around Building Two."

…

On the island.

Three off-road vehicles were speeding along, and Hou Guoyu, sitting in the car, could already see the gray building in the distance.

"Old Hei, how's the clearing inside going?" Hou Guoyu asked.

"Resistance on the second floor is quite fierce, but we've controlled the other areas," Old Hei replied quickly. "You can go in first. I'll personally lead the men to hold the second floor."

Hou Guoyu paused and asked, "What's the situation with the cooperating party?"

"They're fighting very quickly. I estimate the island's southern security center… has already been taken down," Old Hei replied. "Anyone who says these guys are paratroopers hired by some capital, I'll go up and slap them in the face! Their people are much better than our people in terms of quality. You can't train people like that in a regional unit."

As soon as these words came out, the Chi Army brothers in the communication channel were immediately unhappy. "What do you mean 'much better than our people'? Old Hei, you weren't saying that when you told us to rush in like crazy just now?!"

"…Chi Army is mighty!"

"Screech!"

While the two were talking, Hou Guoyu's car had already stopped at the iron fence outside the gray building. Immediately, more than a dozen Chi Army soldiers inside ignored the cold shots and rushed over in formation, scattering around to provide cover for Hou Guoyu.

"Get out!"

Hou Guoyu grabbed Dr. Pang by the collar and dragged him directly out of the car.

…

At the same time, at the scene of the conflict in the residential village.

The officer under Wang Zhen shouted into the walkie-talkie, "Commander Wang, we may have a hard time breaking through in a short time…!"

"Didn't I tell you to leave decisively?!"

"We can't leave! Their tactics are too disgusting. They're either shooting at the tires or the drivers… They're not getting close to us at all. There's an open space outside the village. We've tried to break through three times, but we've been blocked back with heavy losses…" The officer shouted aggrievedly, "We can win a normal street fight, but we'll be passive if we retreat forcefully."

Wang Zhen's forehead veins bulged, and he immediately contacted Island Eight. "How long before support arrives?!"