Chapter 136 Suppressing Bandits
Professional tasks should be left to professionals.
They went to rest early that evening after dinner.
We need to get to the meeting point very early the next morning.
...
The alarm clock rang quickly at four in the morning, and Bai Tang reached out and turned it off.
Gu Yanxu also sat up: "Are we leaving?"
Bai Tang said, "Hmm, I'm so sleepy, I'm going to wash my face."
Gu Yanxu said, "You go wash up first, I'll go wake them up."
Soon everyone was ready, and Bai Tang left some durable ingredients for Grandpa Gu and the others in the kitchen.
Then he left a note on the living room table and drove away without waking them.
Gu Yanxu was driving when Bai Tang reached out and handed him a small steamed bun from the passenger seat.
Gu Yanxu opened his mouth to take it, but his hands remained steady as he drove.
Bai Tang also left them plenty of breakfast in the other car.
Lin Fan, sitting in the back seat, said while eating, "I should be eating dog food here, like Ren Zhou Ge."
Bai Tang said, "You can have extra food anytime here. Would you like to go to the other car?"
Lin Fan immediately chimed in, "I love eating dog food the most."
Bai Tang handed him a thermos, and Lin Fan,ever the perceptive one, accepted it.
Once you open it, you can tell it contains ice.
The car quickly arrived at the designated meeting point.
They arrived at just past 4:20.
One or two smaller teams hadn't all arrived yet, so Bai Tang and his group stopped the car and had a quick breakfast to replenish their energy.
The other teams were also eating their prepared breakfast in or beside their vehicles.
Soon, the other two teams also arrived one after another.
Then a military captain led his men over.
Bai Tang peeked out and saw it was Wei Junyuan from the military; he hadn't expected him to be leading the team.
This demonstrates how much importance the base attaches to this mission.
Because the small bases that exist outside still pose a certain threat to Shengshi Base.
That's why they want to eliminate it; they won't easily resort to force in the base.
Soon Wei Junyuan sent people to distributeWalkie-talkie and count the number of people.
The supplies were quickly distributed to them, and after the soldiers counted the number of people, they headed to the convoy behind them.
Then Bai Tang heard Walkie-talkie say:
"Hello, hello, hello, can you hear me?"
Hello everyone, I'm Wei Junyuan, the team leader for this trip.
Now that everyone has arrived, let's set off immediately.
According to our intelligence, the destination is 20 kilometers away from us.
Everyone has a pretty good idea of what we're going to do, so I hope you won't hold back.
After Wei Junyuan finished speaking, he shouted, "Let's go!"
The convoy quickly started moving, and soon they were running over the insects covering the ground as they left the base.
Because the insects in the base haven't stopped crawling out.
Once outside the base, the land area increased, and the number of insects increased as well.
However, the convoy continued to move forward in an orderly manner.
Before the sun came out, they drove for an hour and arrived at their destination.
They stopped when they were 500 meters away from the small base.
Wei Junyuan also wanted to discuss offensive strategies with everyone.
But looking through the binoculars, they discovered that the small base in front of them was nothing more than the ruins of a long-abandoned hotel.
Wei Junyuan chose to call out to the person on the other side to come out and surrender.
He first arranged for people to block all possible exit routes to prevent anyone from escaping.
Bai Tang and his team were assigned to the side entrance of the abandoned hotel.
Then we heard Wei Junyuan shout through a megaphone:
"Listen up, you people inside. We are from Shengshi Base. You know why we're here."
Lay down your weapons, and we might spare your lives.
If you resist, we will attack you by any means necessary.
He had barely finished speaking when a man's voice came from inside:
"I knew it was you who arrested my second and third brothers."
They want me to come out and die? I'm not stupid.
"Come in if you dare! I'm not leaving, let's see what you can do to me."
Seeing that gentle persuasion was ineffective, Wei Junyuan said:
"I've tried to be polite first, but don't blame me for being impolite."
Wei Junyuan ordered his soldiers to throw tear gas canisters into the abandoned hotel.
The hotel was already dilapidated, and it didn't even have a door or windows.
Tear gas canisters were thrown in without any cover.
Soon, a series of coughs and curses could be heard from inside.
Bai Tang and the others watched from below, muttering, "These people are really tough; even tear gas couldn't get them to come out."
No sooner had Bai Tang finished speaking than a fat, big-eared man tumbled out of the main entrance of the abandoned hotel.
He must be their leader; he has quite a few people following him.
Those people included both men and women, but they were all as thin as bamboo poles.
The leader cried and begged, "Spare me, spare me! I surrender! I'll surrender with my men!"
The squad at the base was still thinking: This is too easy.
But no one noticed that while the leader appeared to surrender, he was secretly pulling out a gun.
Bai Tang and his men were guarding the side door and immediately spotted the boss's little trick.
Gu Yanxu whispered something to the others, then raised his hand and shot the leader.
Then Lin Fan shouted, "They're faking their surrender! Be careful, they might have weapons!"
Gu Yanxu's blow landed squarely on the boss's chest, killing him instantly.
The other squads reacted quickly, thankfully they were all behind cover.
Some of the people who came out of the abandoned hotel tried to put up a last stand, but they were quickly killed by the military.
In the end, only a few unarmed people remained on the other side.
Wei Junyuan led his men cautiously to check if they were truly dead.
If they encounter any that aren't completely dead, they'll finish them off to eliminate any future trouble.
Then Wei Junyuan sent people to search the abandoned hotel to see if there were any people left behind.
Sure enough, they found quite a few people and supplies that had been missed on the top floor.
Bai Tang and his men shot the leader once, but they didn't go in to search.
Because the smell inside was too strong, their team stayed outside.
The other squads followed and searched the area, where they also found a small batch of weapons.
Wei Junyuan chose to ignore those who were already dead.
As for the others who were unarmed, Wei Junyuan planned to take them back and have them work as laborers in the base's mining operations.
Even if they didn't do anything to the base, they must have done a lot of bad things while following that dead boss.
Wei Junyuan had his men continue searching the supplies, while he came out to thank Bai Tangand the others.
If they hadn't noticed the leader's suspicious actions in time, there might have been some casualties among them.
Wei Junyuan said, "It's a good thing you noticed, otherwise we would have been fooled."
Bai Tang said, "Coincidentally, we were in a position where we could clearly see his little tricks."
"Excuse me, Captain of the Guard, how are the supplies inside divided?"