There are generally two possibilities in this situation.
Either Ouyang Feng has already been eliminated, which is why his whereabouts cannot be found.
Or, Ouyang Feng has also been tied up.
Zhang Shaohua more readily believes the first possibility.
He looked at the ropes on the hostages and sighed, "This Ouyang Feng can't even handle a small matter. We asked him to rescue people, but look at what he's done to himself?"
As he spoke, Zhang Shaohua walked over to untie the hostages.
Meanwhile, Ouyang Feng was watching from not far away, his teeth gritted in fury!
He desperately wanted to tell Zhang Shaohua that the ropes couldn't be untied, and that the hostages were fake!
However, Ouyang Feng had already been eliminated and was not allowed to speak at all.
So, he could only watch helplessly as his only teammate untied the ropes on the hostages.
"You've been tricked!" As soon as the hostage was freed, he immediately pulled out a marker gun and fired at Zhang Shaohua.
Just as it was about to hit Zhang Shaohua's chest.
Zhang Shaohua rolled violently, dodging it!
"Damn, that was insidious." Zhang Shaohua was so scared he broke out in a cold sweat. He finally realized that there were no kidnappers upstairs, and wondered how Ouyang Feng had been eliminated!
There wasn't much time for thinking now.
Zhang Shaohua immediately engaged in a struggle with the kidnapper.
Taking advantage of the kidnapper's momentary distraction, he pressed the device on the kidnapper's body.
Beep, beep, beep—
The kidnapper was eliminated.
Only then did Zhang Shaohua finally let out a sigh of relief!
At the same time, he felt a lingering fear.
When he hadn't seen Ouyang Feng earlier, he had already guessed that Ouyang Feng was eliminated, but he hadn't thought it through.
If he had thought it through then, he wouldn't have experienced such a heart-stopping moment!
If Zhang Shaohua hadn't reacted quickly, their team would have failed the mission right then and there!
Ouyang Feng, watching from nearby, let out a deep sigh of relief when he saw Zhang Shaohua escape that ordeal!
Although Zhang Shaohua was a bit clueless, his combat skills were not bad.
After a short rest, Zhang Shaohua proceeded to explore the rooms behind.
With the previous lesson learned, Zhang Shaohua was much more cautious.
When he reached the door of the storeroom, he heard movement from inside.
Zhang Shaohua immediately stopped and listened carefully.
There were two sets of footsteps inside, indicating at least two kidnappers!
Zhang Shaohua stood at the door and pondered for a moment, then went up to knock.
"Come out, this team is all gone."
The kidnapper inside grunted, then opened the door.
Just as Zhang Shaohua was poised to take down the kidnapper who opened the door.
Suddenly!
Bang—
A marker round hit Zhang Shaohua.
Before Zhang Shaohua could react, he was eliminated!
"This... Impossible!" Zhang Shaohua's eyes widened.
He was fine when he rescued the fake hostage earlier, so how could he be out now?
The kidnapper smiled and opened the door wider, saying, "Why is it impossible? No matter how fast you are, can you be faster than a gun?"
The main reason was that Zhang Shaohua hadn't expected the kidnapper inside to suddenly attack!
Clearly, the kidnappers hadn't believed Zhang Shaohua's story at all.
"How did you know I was lying?" Zhang Shaohua couldn't help but ask.
The kidnapper grinned and pointed to the walkie-talkie on his waist.
"If this team had truly failed, a message would have come through the walkie-talkie, not by you knocking to inform us."
This was a hidden mechanism.
If a team failed, the walkie-talkie carried by the kidnappers would transmit a notification.
Conversely, if the kidnappers were wiped out, a notification would also come through the walkie-talkie.
Zhang Shaohua had clearly not considered this point, which was why the kidnappers had discovered the discrepancy!
"You..." Zhang Shaohua's eyelids twitched violently, and his mouth twitched incessantly. It seemed like smoke was rising from his head.
He never expected that he could avoid the first blow but not the fifteenth!
The kidnappers were so clever.
But it was too late now.
Zhang Shaohua and Ouyang Feng's team, with only two members, both hit by marker rounds, meant their hostage rescue mission had failed!
Zhang Shaohua could only grudgingly go and meet up with Ouyang Feng, waiting for the other teams to finish before returning to the base together.
"Young Master Zhang, couldn't you have found another excuse to knock?"
As soon as they met, Ouyang Feng said with frustration.
Zhang Shaohua glanced up, very displeased with Ouyang Feng's tone!
Did he need Ouyang Feng to teach him how to do things?
"Weren't you also eliminated by the fake hostage!" Zhang Shaohua retorted immediately.
Ouyang Feng gasped for air, clearly angered.
In fact, the moment Ouyang Feng saw the fake hostage, he had already thought of many things.
But because Zhang Shaohua was rushing him, Ouyang Feng didn't have time to think it through carefully, and thus fell into the trap!
Yet now, Zhang Shaohua actually had the nerve to blame him?
Ouyang Feng said indignantly, "Young Master Zhang, will we not have any results in this training again?"
Zhang Shaohua was already annoyed, and Ouyang Feng still dared to ask such a question. He immediately let out a cold snort!
Zhang Shaohua couldn't understand how, after obtaining the content of this training project and the layout of the mall so early on, he could still fail.
In fact.
The reason Zhang Shaohua failed was precisely because he had obtained some information early on.
This led Zhang Shaohua and Ouyang Feng to become arrogant and complacent, completely overlooking some details in the hostage rescue mission.
This led to their failure!
When Zhang Shaohua was rescuing the fake hostage, if he had just thought a little about how Ouyang Feng was eliminated, he would have immediately realized the hostage was fake.
After dealing with the fake hostage, if Zhang Shaohua had carefully observed the items on the hostage and seen the walkie-talkie.
He could have guessed how the hostage received notifications and wouldn't have fabricated such a ridiculous story to lure out the kidnappers.
But now, it was too late to say anything!
The two eliminated individuals sat together, but harbored mutual resentment.
Not far away, Da Xiong was reviewing the rescue mission with his teammates.
Zhang Shaohua glanced over a few more times and immediately felt a sense of schadenfreude.
An ordinary person would definitely not complete the mission so quickly. The fact that Da Xiong and his group were here, did it mean that Da Xiong's team had also been eliminated?
Instantly, Zhang Shaohua felt he wasn't a complete failure!
"They were eliminated too?" Zhang Shaohua asked.
The Dragon Team member next to him glanced at Zhang Shaohua, then replied, "No, they successfully completed the mission."
"What?" Zhang Shaohua and Ouyang Feng exclaimed in unison, their faces full of disbelief!
They knew that Da Xiong and his group had arrived here to wait even earlier than them.
This meant that Da Xiong and the others had completed the mission in a very short amount of time.
Even shorter than the time they took to fail...
How was this possible!
"They must have cheated!" This was Zhang Shaohua's first reaction.
Da Xiong must have obtained more detailed information about this hostage rescue mission through other channels.
That's why they were so fast!