Early the next morning after the plan was set, Fang Liang knocked on the rest cabin door right on time.

Chi Yao slowly peeled an egg and handed it to Jing Xi: “Notify everyone to assemble at 08:00 to enter the cave area.”

Jing Xi took it: “I’ve already had the armory count the ammunition.”

“No need to bring intelligent and light-energy weapons; they’re useless.” Chi Yao picked up another egg. “The equipment brought in should be as simple in structure as possible. No fighters either. How many mountain terrain vehicles did we bring?”

Fang Liang: “One thousand.”

Chi Yao looked at Jing Xi: “How many do you have over there?”

Jing Xi: “How many do you need? I’ll transfer them.”

“Good.” Chi Yao turned to Fang Liang, “Issue everyone two sedatives, just in case.”

Fang Liang: “I’ll get it done immediately.”

While they were speaking, Jing Xi caught a glimpse of Tie Xiong sitting to his right. The other party was breaking off a small piece of bread and throwing it into the small fish tank.

“The little fish might not be able to eat that.” Jing Xi reminded softly.

Tie Xiong looked up at him, puzzled: “It can eat it.”

Saying so, he put a fingernail-sized breadcrumb on the water surface.

The little goldfish paralyzed at the bottom moved, floated up to circle around the bread, and suddenly opened its mouth wide to swallow the bread in one “awoo.”

“See!” Tie Xiong pointed at it with his chubby finger. “It eats everything except dirt.”

Jing Xi: “…”

You even fed it dirt?

Chi Yao reached out and rubbed Tie Xiong’s head: “Don’t feed your little brother to death.”

Tie Xiong hugged Chi Yao’s hand and rubbed his face against it, happily saying: “I won’t.”

It was almost time, so Chi Yao got up to go back to his room to change clothes.

Jing Xi looked at his back, hesitated for a moment, and followed.

Chi Yao had just put on his shirt when he heard footsteps behind him.

“I’ll go with you?” Jing Xi said in a low voice.

Chi Yao turned his head to look at the door: “You want to be rescued again?”

Jing Xi walked over and stood in front of him: “We have sufficient preparations this time. It won’t be like last time.”

Chi Yao naturally wouldn’t agree.

“Since preparations are sufficient, why let you take the risk?”

Seeing that he wouldn’t give an inch, Jing Xi frowned slightly.

Seeing this expression, Chi Yao knew he wouldn’t give up.

Could it be they had to fight before setting off?

Just as he thought this, Jing Xi hugged his waist and pressed close.

“Yao Yao…”

Chi Yao paused.

Actually using soft tactics—completely ignoring martial ethics!

“Acting cute won’t work on me either.” Chi Yao forcibly steadied his wavering heart, his attitude firm.

Jing Xi rubbed against the side of his neck: “I’m very worried about you going alone.”

Chi Yao’s fingers twitched, and he patted his head.

“With so many subordinates, what is there to worry about?”

Jing Xi looked up: “I’ll follow halfway. If I can’t handle it, I’ll come back, okay?”

Being this close, Chi Yao saw himself in his eyes.

When the ice beauty acts cute, it’s really impossible to resist.

Chi Yao resisted for one second, then decisively gave up.

“Just five kilometers—”

“Okay.”

Jing Xi let go of him and walked out, “I’ll go prepare.”

Goal achieved, the coquettish little wild cat instantly turned back into the cold-faced general. Chi Yao almost laughed in exasperation.

Jing Xi had just taken a step when his wrist was captured and he was pulled back, then roughly kissed by Chi Yao.

Chi Yao brushed past the corner of his moist lips: “Use me and throw me away?”

“Time is tight.”

Though he said that, once started, Jing Xi couldn’t quite stop. He cupped Chi Yao’s face to continue, “We still have two minutes and twenty-eight seconds of free time.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Do you have to calculate even this kind of time so precisely?

Just as their lips touched, Chi Yao caught a glimpse of a pair of innocent eyes out of the corner of his eye and froze.

Jing Xi also noticed something and turned his head to look at the door.

Tie Xiong was standing there hugging the small fish tank, face full of curiosity, unknown how long he had been watching.

Jing Xi: “…”

Chi Yao: “…”

Tie Xiong: “…”

Fish: “…Burp.”

Tie Xiong seemed to sense the stagnation in the air, shook the small fish tank, and mumbled: “Little fish is full.”

At 8:00 sharp, the main Extreme Shadow force set off.

On the warship, Yan Kai was a bit sad.

“The Boss actually only took the transferred personnel.”

Lu Meng watched the convoy of mountain bikes and transport vehicles driving mightily into the forest on the screen. He faintly seemed to understand something, but couldn’t quite put it into words.

He stood up abruptly and patted Yan Kai’s shoulder.

“Don’t think about useless things. Trust the Boss and wait for notification.”

Yan Kai’s spirit lifted: “Yes!”

In the car, Chi Yao rested his hand on the steering wheel and glanced at Jing Xi in the passenger seat.

“How do you feel?”

“Very good.” Jing Xi looked through the rearview mirror at Tie Xiong, who was eating a teething stick in the back seat, and the dog tail floating down outside the car window. “Bringing him along is too dangerous.”

Chi Yao: “With the stupid dog following, what is there to fear?”

Noticing their gazes, Tie Xiong asked seriously: “Boss, is the pretty general tasty?”

“Tasty.” Chi Yao looked at Jing Xi and chuckled lightly, “He’s the tastiest.”

Jing Xi: “…”

Tie Xiong smacked his lips: “Can you share a bite with me?”

Chi Yao: “No, he’s my prey.”

“Awooo—!”

Yin Wei’s bark came from the roof. A blur flashed past the window, and the dog had already jumped down.

Chi Yao slammed on the brakes. Looking past Yin Wei at the swarm of rats ahead, he said to Jing Xi: “Have your people turn off all surveillance. I’ll have Fang Liang activate the jammers.”

As he spoke, Jing Xi was already issuing instructions to Yan Kai.

Even Flying Dragon’s people couldn’t know what happened here.

Gunshots came from all directions, and mutant rats constantly fell to the ground.

“Boss, is it time to work?” Tie Xiong asked excitedly.

Chi Yao opened the sunroof: “Yeah, you follow the dog.”

Tie Xiong nodded vigorously, handed the gun on his back to Chi Yao: “For you, I’m going!”

Chi Yao took it and waved his hand casually: “Don’t run around—”

Before he finished, Tie Xiong had already climbed out the sunroof and jumped up.

Jing Xi lowered the window and fired two shots at the eyes of a level-four mutant rat. The rat screamed and rolled on the ground.

Moments later, Tie Xiong appeared on a tree branch in his field of vision. He couldn’t help but take a look.

Tie Xiong was holding a slingshot, with a leather bag for steel balls hanging around his neck.

Jing Xi observed for a moment and found that this little guy hit the target almost every time.

If only he had this talent for mathematics too.

Without level-five mutants, dealing with them was much simpler.

Driving into the five-kilometer mark, Jing Xi secretly glanced at Chi Yao. Seeing the other party didn’t say anything, he pretended not to know.

Just as he thought this, he heard Chi Yao speak: “For the road ahead, as long as any discomfort appears, you go back.”

Jing Xi: “…Mn.”

Seeing his face expression saying “how could I forget,” Chi Yao aimed at a wolf king and fired, saying casually: “I just wanted to see if you were self-aware.”

Jing Xi: “……”

The closer to the cave, the higher the mutation level of the beasts, and the slower their speed.

“Boss, the wolf pack in this area is very difficult to deal with.” Fang Liang’s voice came through the terminal. “Bullets alone won’t work.”

Though spoken implicitly, Chi Yao understood.

“Let them go all out. Safety first.”

Fang Liang: “Yes.”

Chi Yao turned off the engine, unbuckled his seatbelt, and got out of the car with Jing Xi.

All around were roaring mutant wolves, mixed with some other species.

Chi Yao watched as they got out of the cars one after another and rushed over.

Yin Wei weaved through the beast herd, its armor already covered in blood and filth.

A mutant wolf took advantage of it fighting the wolf king and rushed over to bite its tail.

Jing Xi quickly raised his gun to aim at that wolf’s neck. Just as he was about to fire, he suddenly saw Tie Xiong jump from a tree onto the wolf’s head, his hands transforming into sharp claws and stabbing forcefully into the wolf’s carotid artery.

The mutant wolf cried out in pain and thrashed its body wildly.

“Save me—!” Tie Xiong didn’t hold on firmly and was thrown off.

Hearing the sound, Yin Wei swung its big tail, flinging the injured mutant wolf several meters away, then pushed off with its hind legs to easily catch Tie Xiong.

The heart Jing Xi was holding in his throat finally settled.

His gaze swept over the crowd, seeing individual Extreme Shadow members also showing signs of slight beastification.

“Are they okay like this?” Jing Xi was a bit uneasy. “Will they lose control?”

The previous beastified humans seemed to lose their reason after beastifying to a certain degree.

He couldn’t let them take this risk for the mission.

“There is risk.” Chi Yao didn’t hide it. “But medication can control this degree.”

Jing Xi frowned: “This isn’t a solution.”

Chi Yao held his knife in a reverse grip and casually dispatched a mutant wolf.

“I actually have an idea.”

Jing Xi pulled out his long blade, stood on the back of a mutant wolf, and shook off the blood.

“Lure them out?”

“Do you have telepathy?” Chi Yao chuckled.

Jing Xi jumped down and said calmly: “I can only read you.”

Chi Yao’s smile deepened as he walked up to him: “Then try reading what I’m thinking now?”

Jing Xi was expressionless: “Definitely nothing decent.”

Chi Yao: “…”

To lure the mutant beasts in this area out, they had to go deep into the core zone while ensuring safety.

After a brief communication, Chi Yao and Jing Xi unanimously decided to set up points to lure the beasts.

Setting up corresponding points every five kilometers with the cave as the center, going deeper layer by layer, and then luring the beasts from the core area outwards.

Setting points dispersedly like this made it easier to hide tracks and wouldn’t attract too many at once.

After dealing with this wave of wolves, Chi Yao started the car and floored the gas pedal.

Jing Xi opened his terminal and quickly simulated the distribution points of all vehicles on the simulator.

“At the ten-kilometer mark, leave the car to you.” Chi Yao held the steering wheel, weaving quickly through the forest. “You command the cars in the outer circle.”

Jing Xi wanted to advance and retreat together with Chi Yao, but reality was in front of him.

Bravery wouldn’t solve any problems and might drag them down.

“Okay.” Jing Xi said in a low voice. “But promise me, don’t use pheromones.”

Chi Yao glanced at him and smiled: “Why? Is my pheromone that smelly?”

Jing Xi: “You know what I mean.”

Although he didn’t know the reason, Chi Yao using pheromones seemed to trigger something causing physical beastification.

He could only preliminarily judge now that pheromone fluctuations would cause emotional ups and downs, leading to the possibility of beastification.

“Yes, yes, yes, you are the wife, you are the biggest.” Chi Yao joked. “Controlling so much before we’re even married, what about after?”

Jing Xi: “…”

Along the way, they fought off several more waves of beast herds and finally reached the destination.

Chi Yao stopped the car and turned his head to look at Jing Xi: “If you feel uncomfortable, retreat consciously. If you put yourself in the medical pod again, see how I deal with you.”

Jing Xi shook his head: “With your ring here, I won’t.”

Seeing Chi Yao about to get out, Jing Xi called him.

“Be careful.”

Clingy.

Chi Yao kissed him hard on the cheek, daring not to stay any longer.

Staying one second more would make him not want to leave.

Watching Chi Yao get into a nearby car, Jing Xi opened the simulator.

Only half of the total cars setting off from here remained.

He dialed the main ship’s communication number and opened calls with multiple main forces.

Jing Xi’s gaze swept over them, his face serious: “From now on, carry out pinpoint strikes on the coordinates I send.”

Lu Meng and other main officers: “Yes!”

Although Flying Dragon’s warships and people couldn’t enter, they could use long-range ammunition to assist Extreme Shadow.

The last convoy arrived five kilometers outside the cave and stopped.

Chi Yao opened the public channel.

“Action.”

Extreme Shadow crowd: “Yes!”

After splitting into points, all points only needed to lure the beasts in their area outwards.

Missiles flew overhead from time to time, the sound of bombing constant.

After killing mutant beasts below level three, the number of beasts to lure dropped significantly, and the mission difficulty was much lower.

Extreme Shadow Public Channel—

“Holy shit! Are these missiles accurate? If they deviate, aren’t we all finished?”

“Those bastards from Flying Dragon wouldn’t take the chance to retaliate, right?”

“My windshield is full of meat paste, the wipers can’t even scrape it clean, fuck!”

“D9 arriving at C9 in about ten minutes. About a hundred beasts, no level-five mutants, lucky!”

“D5 here has a herd of cows. They refuse to come with us no matter what, damn it!”

“Old Li, aren’t you wearing red underwear today? Take them off to seduce them!”

Jing Xi waited at the point, watching the dynamic map on the virtual screen.

Every car had a locator. Although Flying Dragon’s monitoring rights were cut off, he could still see them on his side.

The car Chi Yao was in had already crossed the final five kilometers, heading towards the cave.

Listening to the crowd clamoring in the public channel, Jing Xi felt like he was back when he first joined the army.

As his rank rose, gradually no one dared to say much in front of him. By the time he realized it, it had become too quiet.

He opened the voice control system and said unhurriedly: “Flying Dragon will not take the opportunity to retaliate.”

The public channel suddenly went quiet.

This voice was really nice, seemed like they heard it somewhere.

Just as everyone was puzzled, they heard this voice continue: “For this mission, I will apply for military merits for you. You are not active servicemen, but you can receive sentence reductions during future sentencing.”

Everyone: “…”

Opening and closing his mouth about sending them to jail, it’s definitely the head of Flying Dragon.

“Then—thank you?”

After a long while, someone spoke in the public channel.

People spoke up one after another—

“How much can this reduce?”

“We’re so familiar, can we not go to jail?”

“We dare to sit, which prison dares to take us?”

“Don’t waste taxpayers’ money, we can support ourselves.”

Jing Xi: “…”

He picked a question he could answer: “Sentence reduction based on the amount of contribution.”

After speaking, a low, magnetic laugh came from the public channel.

The world went quiet again.

Chi Yao rested his hand, one hand on the steering wheel, chuckling lightly.

“I contributed so much, how many years can be reduced?”

Jing Xi: “Maximum reduction to three years.”

Chi Yao: “Still have to sit for three years? That won’t do, my wife will run away from living like a widow.”

Extreme Shadow crowd: “…”

Boss, wake up, where did you get a wife?

Jing Xi’s voice was cool: “It is also possible to serve the sentence outside prison under the supervision of a general-rank officer.”

Extreme Shadow crowd: “!!!”

Serve sentence outside prison? Can avoid jail?!

Just after speaking, Chi Yao’s light chuckle came again.

Jing Xi’s eyes flashed, his fingertips tingling.

Did Chi Yao’s voice sound this good before?