Chapter 426: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada
Luo Tianyan.
Captain Luo ordered Xiao Liu to continue using a hand grenade to blast open the entrance.
Xiao Liu, holding a hand grenade, shouted to everyone:
"Retreat, everyone take cover, I'm throwing the hand grenade now."
The team members all fell back, Captain Luo glanced at Xiao Liu and cautioned: "Be careful!"
Then he also moved to the side.
Xiao Liu directly threw the hand grenade.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Boom~
The hand grenade was thrown to the innermost part of the entrance, its force exploding the rocky wall.
Gunpowder smoke billowed out from the entrance, and with a gust of wind, the white smoke swirled around.
Captain Luo slowly walked towards the entrance, waved his hand through the white smoke in the air, and then entered the entrance.
The wall had been opened up with a half-meter-tall hole.
Indeed, the hand grenade had blasted through the wall.
Captain Luo called out happily to the rear: "It's open, Xiao Xie, bring over the shovel and enlarge this entrance."
The entrance was still quite small and needed to be enlarged to accommodate entry.
Captain Luo stepped back, and the team members took over, taking out shovels and starting to dig, clanging away until the entrance was finally widened.
.....
On the other side.
Less than two kilometers away from Luo Tianyan, Black Snake and his crew, upon hearing the explosion from Captain Luo's team using the hand grenade.
They sped up, heading straight towards Luo Tianyan's direction.
The first explosion they heard had drawn them in, but it only allowed them to roughly determine the direction.
By the time they arrived, there were two roads ahead of them.
The second explosion sound pointed them in the right direction.
Black Snake yelled at the driver on the vehicle: "Hurry up, speed up."
Hearing the boss's urging, the driver stepped on the gas, heading towards Luo Tianyan's location at the fastest speed.
The vehicles behind followed closely.
Soon, they arrived at the entrance at the foot of Rock Mountain.
It used to be a scenic spot that didn't charge admission, so there were no metal barriers set up at the entrance, leaving the gate wide open.
This gate somewhat resembled the archways of ancient times.
Three big characters were written on the gate: Luo Tianyan.
"This place should be a scenic area, right?" Black Snake looked at the gate of Luo Tianyan and said to the lackeys beside him.
"It should be, it seems there's a description over here saying it's a 3A rated landscape," one of the lackeys pointed to a stone wall description beneath the gate and said.
Black Snake glanced at him, then turned and said to his lackeys: "A dozen of you, go up the mountain and see what's going on, see if the recent explosion sound came from here. Everyone else get out of the vehicles and take a look around."
A man with short crew-cut hair quickly nodded and said: "Okay, Snake bro."
He turned and picked a dozen people and ran up the mountain.
...
More than two hundred meters away from them, three or four people were observing their movements from a distance.
These people were precisely the subordinates of Shunzi and He Chao, who had tailed them here.
Shunzi looked at the convoy ahead and said to the person beside him, "Brother Deng, they've all gone up the mountain now. Do you think Director Li and the others will come over?"
The man surnamed Deng glanced at Shunzi. He was also anxious; this group of people had run up the mountain, and it was unclear what situation they were up against.
At this moment, another person suddenly appeared behind them.
Deng Ben felt someone behind him, and the handgun in his hand was instantly aimed at the newcomer as he turned around.
"Don't, don't, don't! Easy, Old Deng, hold your fire, it's one of us," the man behind hurriedly said.
Deng Ben and the others turned around, all startled; they had been squatting and monitoring others, only to be surprised by someone approaching from behind.
And this person was also monitoring Captain Luo and his team on behalf of the base.
He was another one of He Chao's people dispatched here.
Seeing who it was, Deng Ben relaxed, his tone sour, "You almost scared me to death. I thought we were discovered. What are you doing over here?"
Because of the urgency, Deng Ben was still unaware that A Guang and his team had come to monitor Captain Luo and his team.
Hearing Deng Ben's question, A Guang explained, "We're here to monitor people as well. This afternoon, a team arrived from the outside; they looked like soldiers. After I and Brother He reported to them, he asked me to continue observing.
These people are up on the mountain right now. We were afraid of being discovered, so we didn't follow too closely and couldn't hear clearly what they were communicating.
But now they are surrounding a Rock Mountain, using explosives to blast into it, and they've already made an opening."
Hearing this, Deng Ben instantly understood where the explosion sounds they had heard on the road had come from.
They were puzzled just a moment ago about why there were explosions during broad daylight.
It turned out to be another group of people.
Deng Ben's eyes flickered. He said to A Guang, "Are you alone? Where are you heading?"
A Guang replied, "There are two of us. I was about to head to the secret base to report the situation."
Thinking it over, Deng Ben suggested, "Since we've bumped into each other, let's move together.
You go to the secret base in the city to report first, and by the way, didn't you bring a walkie-talkie? Why aren't you using it?"
A Guang answered, "The group we are tracking also has walkie-talkies, and they seem very professional.
I was worried our channel would be the same as theirs and that they would overhear, so I didn't use it."
Deng Ben was somewhat helpless, and then he said, "Then you go ahead and report to the secret base inside the city first, and on our end, we'll keep watching, observing quietly.
Sooner or later these two groups will run into each other; we'll just stay here and wait for Brother He and Director Li to come over."
A Guang nodded, and without any further words, he darted toward the nearby bushes.
Rock Mountain.
It is quite remote, with many barren red rocks.
Therefore, zombies are also very rare.
On their way here, Deng Ben and his team encountered only a few zombies.
...
Around Xin City, Li Yu was leading the people from the base, driving their vehicles, speeding towards this location.
In Xin City, since He Chao and his team often had to come here, and there were also some people in Xin City who cooperated with the base.
So, He Chao simply found a suitable location in Xin City to serve as a temporary secret base.
The vehicles moved quickly, and it didn't take long for Li Yu to arrive in Xin City with Third Uncle and the others.
He Chao said to Li Yu:
"Director Li, as I mentioned before, I've set up a small base in Xin City. It's very small, and right now, some of our on-duty personnel are there.
The people tailing them are also supposed to report there. Let's head straight over. They might already be waiting for us there."