After pressing the power button, Song Heping's satellite phone screen lit up and quickly entered the system.

Willie was being extremely cautious and alert.

The entrance here was the back door.

Although the windows weren't small, finding the right positioning should hold off any intrusion for a while.

The satellite phone powered on.

Song Heping quickly realized something was wrong.

"F*ck!"

He shook the satellite phone in his hand.

The eerie green screen showed absolutely no signal bars.

No signal...

This is ridiculous...

Modern technology can sometimes be so unreliable.

With such expensive charges, and this thing doesn't even have a signal when it's a life-saving moment!

No signal...

Cold sweat was breaking out on Song Heping.

This wasn't just like a leak worsening in a storm, it was like meeting headwinds while sailing!

"Damn you to hell!"

Song Heping slapped the satellite phone hard and stood up, looking everywhere for a signal.

Soon, he felt defeated.

Because there really was no signal.

The corridor here was indeed safe, but the thick walls provided extremely good isolation.

Satellite phones sometimes require open areas in some regions to have good call quality.

The worst is being in a sealed indoor environment; the satellite signals themselves are not very strong in penetration.

Today, Song Heping experienced exactly this situation.

"What's wrong!? No signal!?"

Willie also noticed it.

"Yes! No signal! This damned place!"

Song Heping cursed while slowly moving with the satellite phone towards the outside of the passage, hoping to get a signal in a more open area, just to make one call to Ferrari, that would be enough!

Reaching the edge of the corridor, he even lay down, stretching his hand into the range of the living room, trying to capture some signal.

Bang—

Unexpectedly, just as he reached out, a bullet immediately hit the wall.

Song Heping quickly pulled back.

He dared not take such a risk.

Otherwise, his hand could be shot off next.

"Should I turn on and contact the command center now?!" Willie suggested, "Since we have already reached this point, let's see how they decide to deal with it."

Song Heping said, "Forget it, you're still pinning your hopes on Niki and them? I can't say for sure Niki wouldn't betray us, but what about the higher-ups? Do you think it was Niki's own decision to take us down this time?"

Mentioning this, Willie went silent again.

"Now I've already turned on the satellite phone, you don't need to seek their help, if they really wanted to save us, they would have tracked our signal."

"But now we have nowhere to go," Willie said. "I think they'll attack soon."

"Now we can't rely on anything, only hope my brother is smart enough," Song Heping put away the satellite phone and began taking out Hand Grenades and tape, sticking them around the door's corner, pulling the pin, and setting a trap.

"We'll retreat to the back later, and act when they come in! Let's fight them!"

"Alright!"

"I'll crawl first, you follow!"

"Alright!"

To get to the back room, they had to crawl.

But there is also a certain level of danger.

The opposing sniper will definitely fire, but the bet is that the shot won't pierce through the wall in one go.

The houses here are all built by the villagers themselves from stones collected from the mountains, so they all use local materials, which are stones.

Fortunately, these stones are relatively better, not mud walls, otherwise the two wouldn't have survived until now.

Song Heping lay down, aimed in the right direction, and began to crawl forward in a low posture in one breath.

Back when he was in the army, his performance in low crawling was very good, taking just over three seconds to pass under 10-second low hurdles of barbed wire.

It took him less than two seconds to move from the corridor into the back room.

Crack—

Right as he crawled into the back room, a warhead hit the wall.

Willie got a shock, initially lying on the ground wanting to follow, but then hesitating again.

Song Heping said, "If you don't hurry, the wall might really get penetrated after a few more shots."

This indeed is the truth.

Actually, the more afraid of dying, the easier it is to die—that's the logic.

Running to the back is never safer than running to the front.

Willie dared not think too much anymore.

Thinking about anything now is redundant.

Just do it!

He spread his limbs and turned into Lizard Man, quickly darting towards the position where Song Heping was.

Crack—

His speed was slow, and the sniper fired three shots in a row.

Guessing that the people inside the house were changing positions, the opposing sniper got excited too, continually shooting at the two.

And other machine gunners and riflemen also began to shoot wildly, probably trying to bring down the wall.

Bullets kept coming from all directions, piercing through wooden walls and whipping the corpses of the armed militants who had already died once more.

By the time Willie finally crawled into the back room, no more bullets were being shot here, and the surroundings finally quieted down.

"Motherfucker! What brand is this thermal imager? So useful?!"

Song Heping asked Willie, "Do you know? I'll also buy one later, it's just damn useful, it can detect us even when we are in ghillie suits."

Willie said, "I guess it's the latest issue, I'll ask around for you later, provided that... "

He suddenly grinned.

"We can leave here alive."

"We definitely can..."

Song Heping also smiled and said, "The fortune-teller told me I would live to be over 80 years old, now is not my time to die yet."

He then pointed at the fireplace in the living room.

"See? When they start breaking through the door, throw a hand grenade there."

"Got it," Willie nodded.

Song Heping said, "We only have ten minutes till the attack time I arranged with my brothers! Willie, just ten minutes, if you and I go all out and hold them off for these ten minutes, maybe we can survive!"

Willie checked his ammunition and then clenched his teeth, "Kid, I've also been a veteran for many years, don't think we Americans are all cowards. Let me show you what this veteran Special Soldier is capable of!"

Song Heping said, "They definitely set up the sniping position at that place where they had reconnoitered this village before, it has the best view. My men will come from behind them, because that side is the quickest shortcut into the village, so don't worry, once my men arrive, we will start the counter-attack!"

Willie said, "If these guys are Seals, it would be really difficult for the two of us to deal with them... don't know which squad they are from... fuck, they actually kill their own comrades! Disgusting! I'm utterly disillusioned, when I get back, I'm done taking orders for those bureaucrats!"

While they were talking, suddenly a creaking door noise came from outside.

That was the sound of the courtyard door.

"They are here!"

Song Heping loosened the magazine pouches on his tactical vest to ensure smooth extraction of magazines, then checked his pistol, and even checked the fighting dagger under his ribs.

Maybe, these will all come in useful!

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com