Song Lili had always been patient.

Her goal was simple: to protect Lu Xiaoer and Zhongli Wuzhi.

Hiding in a cave by a mountain stream was truly a desperate measure.

After all, this was M country, where the network and signals were blocked in this area. It was unclear whether it was genuinely due to lack of coverage or because the entire Chuhai Mountain range was under the rebel army’s control.

If that was the case...

Song Lili truly felt desperate.

At the time, the red dot on the motorcycle indicated eleven vehicles, but just from what Song Lili could see, there were around thirteen or fourteen rebels; this didn’t include those she couldn’t see.

If there were two people per vehicle, that would be... twenty-four people, maybe even more...

Was it because of... her military attire?

Song Lili felt this was the more likely possibility. Since then, she regretted how she had just grabbed the military clothes without thinking!

It was a habit formed over the years, now a conditioned reflex.

Unless absolutely necessary, she wouldn’t fire her gun to alert these people. If a dozen gun barrels were aimed at her simultaneously, even with divine powers, she couldn’t escape being the target.

But it seemed that heaven wasn’t planning to let her off easy. The people in the forest appeared determined to find someone, and they were venturing deeper and deeper.

Song Lili was hiding up in a tree, while five or six people had already walked past her position, about ten meters away. Lu Xiaoer and Zhongli Wuzhi were located in a stream-side cave about seventy or eighty meters away.

She was still on alert when suddenly, from about twenty meters away, someone shouted,

"I think there’s a stream cave up ahead!"

Song Lili’s eyes narrowed, realizing there was no hiding anymore!

She pulled the pin from a grenade and threw it forward. Immediately someone screamed, and as the grenade exploded, Song Lili already aimed at the people ahead and fired several shots, dropping them to the ground.

She then threw a Shock Bomb, and in an instant, about ten people were reduced to five or six.

Song Lili quickly climbed down the tree and changed positions.

At this moment, she was wearing the clothes she had taken from a captured soldier. She jumped down and walked forward, crouching and pretending to look for someone convincingly.

At least that’s what she thought.

"Over here!"

It was from the same direction as before; Song Lili heard it and rushed toward where Zhongli Wuzhi and Lu Xiaoer were.

Fortunately, the distance wasn’t far. As Song Lili approached, she saw soldiers jumping down into the mountain stream, approaching the cave entrance, with two more on the perimeter who must have come from another direction.

Song Lili fired two shots, sweeping the men away, and then she ran over, shouting, "It’s me!"

"Xiao Li..."

"No matter what happens outside, don’t come out! Don’t even stick your heads out. Hand me all the weapons!"

Song Lili leaned on the outside of the cave, soldiers kept coming from the front. She furiously sprayed them with a submachine gun. As soon as she ran out of bullets, she threw the gun away.

Her body kept shrinking to the side, squeezed into a position where she could shrink no more.

The gunfire didn’t stop, bullets hitting around her, casings cutting her face.

In one hand, she held a grenade and in the other, a Shock Bomb, both hands hidden behind her back.

The gunfire stopped; she could hear the enemy’s footsteps getting closer and more numerous, but she didn’t fire again.

Just waiting for everyone to get close enough to blow them all up!

As for whether she could escape...

She would leave it to fate.

Her hands trembled. In those mere tens of seconds, her world seemed silent. She couldn’t see the past or the future.

If she died here, Ah Nian... would curse her to death, wouldn’t he?

Hmm... cursing probably wouldn’t be enough. He might be so angry that he wouldn’t even want to collect her remains, leaving them in this foreign land...

She looked down at her abdomen. Perhaps she and Wen Nian were never meant to have children, no matter how many times she lived...

The footsteps were already at her ear.

Stay calm, calm... Don’t rush, just wait a bit longer...

If they all died, only then would Xiaoer and Zhongli have a chance to live; not a single one could remain...

Don’t rush, a bit closer, now... it’s time!

Her hand went up, ready to pull the pin on the grenade, and then she heard—

"Xiao Li, come out, it’s me."

"..."

Song Lili froze completely, she... must be hallucinating, right?!

Was that... Wen Nian’s voice?

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