Chapter 47: That's the Kind of Soldiers I Lead!
"Swish!"
Gu Minghao suddenly turned his head!
......
"Run, why don't you run anymore!"
The robust young man who had rushed up from behind clearly had a bad temper. He charged forward and delivered a fierce, heavy punch straight toward Gu Minghao's shoulder.
Heh...
Gu Minghao didn't even blink his eyes. He merely shifted his body slightly to the side and easily dodged the blow.
In contrast, because the robust young man had thrown his punch with too much force, his momentum carried him stumbling forward a few steps.
*That was close!* the robust young man thought to himself, feeling a surge of secret relief.
*Haha, damn it, how utterly humiliating... I almost tripped and ate dirt.*
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"Swish!"
With lightning speed, Gu Minghao followed up by kicking him right in the backside!
"Thud!"
The young man took the full force of the impact face-first against the ground with a loud 'bang'. Following that, this fellow buried his head deep into the dirt like a guinea pig... and stubbornly refused to raise it!
......
To describe it as fast would be an understatement.
In the blink of an eye, Gu Minghao had already flashed over in front of another young man.
Facing Gu Minghao, who had closed in on him like a ghost, the masked man completely panicked: "Y-you, what do you want?"
"Bang!"
With bright, piercing eyes, Gu Minghao threw a punch forward, and the latter hurriedly tried to block!
"Bang!"
"Swish!"
Gu Minghao's left leg swept out in a slight horizontal arc, and with a crisp 'snap', the young man crashed heavily to the ground!
Immediately following this, Gu Minghao's entire body soared into the air. Like a top-tier footballer, he unleashed a fierce, explosive kick that sent the man flying a full dozen meters away.
Looking at the silly and adorable guinea pig of a young man, a rare smile appeared on Gu Minghao's normally ice-frozen face.
...It really is you guys!
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Gu Minghao: "Come at me all together!"
The middle-aged man overseeing the battle intentionally lowered his voice: "Stop wasting time, in single combat you are no match for him!"
"Swish!"
"Swish!"
"Swish! Swish!"
"......!"
The remaining young men moved in an instant, attacking the young man in the center with the fury of thunder!
Gu Minghao stood coldly in the middle of the arena. At the very moment the fierce battle erupted, he chose to close his eyes.
His entire person seemed to dissolve into the world,
Void, yet real.
Swish, swish, swish, swish...
Faced with the fierce attacks coming from all directions, he dissolved them one by one like melting snow, meeting every move with a counter!
If this scene were to be witnessed by any television station, they would undoubtedly record it!
The fighting was simply too cool, and completely without any special effects!
Anyway, anyone with obsessive-compulsive disorder would definitely love watching it. The movements were as smooth and flowing as moving clouds and running water, fluid beyond belief.
And it wasn't just visually stunning;
its power was even more terrifying.
When Gu Minghao leaped into the air and lashed his legs through the empty space, it even produced the sharp, cracking sound of a whip whipping through the air.
......
Ten minutes later,
the middle-aged man overseeing the battle retreated from the fray, panting heavily, and shouted: "Stop fighting, stop fighting! If we keep going, he's going to beat us to death!"
The masked men who had surrounded and attacked Gu Minghao withdrew in aggrieved frustration. Some had their clothes torn, others had bruised noses and swollen faces, but none of them sustained any fatal injuries.
Gu Minghao opened his eyes and smiled, "Old Cao, don't you want to play a bit longer?"
"Fuck!"
The middle-aged man ripped off the black cloth from his face in one motion, stepped forward, and kicked the guinea pig-like young man, yelling angrily: "Number Seven, get up! Everyone recognized you long ago."
Looking at the familiar faces one by one, Gu Minghao felt the gloom that had suffocated him all day suddenly clear away.
......
Cao Rui, instructor for the Dragon Flame Special Operations Series.
The remaining names belonged to classified documents, but their nicknames were easy to remember: Boss, Number Two, Number Four, Number Five, Number Six, Number Seven.
Why was there no Number Three?
Because Gu Minghao was Number Three!
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The Dragon Flame Special Operations Team,
Gu Minghao was once the most outstanding elite soldier in their team. In two military-wide competitions, he had simply stepped onto the field and effortlessly claimed the title of King of Soldiers!
By the third time, he couldn't even be bothered to go—showing off too much wasn't a good thing.
Originally,
Gu Minghao could have stayed in the Dragon Flame team, and in the future, he would undoubtedly have been a sharp blade of the nation!
However, once during a special overseas mission, the offspring of a certain senior leader happened to be part of the joint team.
This person was named Jiang Tao. Despite possessing formidable skills, he drank alcohol in private during the mission and went wild under the influence!
In a border village, he actually committed beastly acts against several little girls who were only ten years old!
It was a crime intolerable to heaven and earth!!!
His comrades gritted their teeth and buried them with tears in their eyes, handling their final rites.
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But Gu Minghao couldn't turn a blind eye, nor could he endure it!!!
He got into a violent fight with that beast.
To his surprise, that person was also a King of Soldiers!
In the small woods, the two fought fiercely for several hours without a winner!
In the end, Gu Minghao won, though with broken bones and torn tendons, leaving the other man bedridden in the hospital for a full half a year!
What Gu Minghao regretted most was that he hadn't had the chance to slaughter this scum!
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When the matter came to light,
the evil Jiang Tao was merely expelled from another operations sequence of Dragon Flame.
Meanwhile, under the hint of a certain senior leader, Gu Minghao was also discharged and transferred ahead of schedule, returning to his hometown.
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Cao Rui stared blankly at the stern young man in front of him, deeply moved, and the latter stepped forward and pulled him into a bear hug.
Gu Minghao grinned, showing his teeth: "It's all good, everything's good!"
The brothers all gathered around, each of them playfully pounding a fist against Gu Minghao's body.
Xu Youjun (Number Seven) murmured clumsily: "Third Brother, you knew it was me and you still hit so hard? Look at what you did to my face?"
Liu Huan (Number Two) smiled: "And my foliage, it's newly bought. Third Brother, you're going to have to pay for that."
Gu Minghao grabbed Xu Youjun by the collar, flashing a row of white teeth: "Where did you practice this tunneling skill of yours?"
"Fuck!"
Xu Youjun chuckled sheepishly: "Third Brother, why don't you just grab a loudspeaker and broadcast it to the world!"
Lu Xinhong was the most steady of them all: "Enough, stop messing around."
Gu Minghao raised his eyes to look at him and called out, "Boss!"
Lu Xinhong grinned broadly: "Yeah!"
Cao Rui walked up to Gu Minghao and said quietly, "There's a mission!"
Hearing this,
Gu Minghao visibly choked for a moment.
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Old Cao patted him on the shoulder: "The organization has never forgotten you."
Gu Minghao instinctively felt a trace of resistance, but in the end, he nodded: "Heh, go ahead!"
"What the hell!"
Instructor Cao's temper flared up instantly. He chuckled as he shoved him with a punch and cursed: "What kind of attitude is that?! The country raised you, is it a crime to use you now? Are you planning to take all these skills of yours straight into your coffin?!"
Deeply moved, Gu Minghao looked at his former commanding officer and took a deep breath. In an instant, his thoughts cleared completely!
The aura around his body shifted abruptly, turning razor-sharp and piercing the heavens.
"Snap!"
He gave Old Cao a solemn, proper military salute: "Always ready!"
"Good! Excellent!"
Cao Rui's eyes turned red: "That's the soldier I trained!"
"Third Brother, welcome back to the team!"
"Haha, without you, our squad wouldn't be complete."
"Is this the return of the king?!"
"......!"
Gu Minghao looked at Old Cao and asked seriously, "Tell me, what's the mission?!"
Old Cao nodded: "Let me ask you something first. Do you have a childhood friend named Liu Haizhu?"
Gu Minghao's heart skipped a violent beat!
Instantly, he clenched his fists and knitted his brows: "W-what happened to him?!"
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In Hong Kong, inside Ying Si's apartment.
At the Hour of the Rat... the third watch of the night!
Liu Haizhu, who had been sleeping soundly on the sofa, suddenly woke up.
No, this fellow instantly became alert...
Today's night felt exceptionally bizarre???
The apartment door
was pushed open silently.
Liu Haizhu, who had just sat up... instantly widened his eyes!