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By the time they realized what was happening and began to fight back, Gu Xiaoxi and Shao Changfeng, along with one other, had already charged forward.

Gu Xiaoxi moved swiftly, like a cheetah, pouncing forward and landing a punch on one of them. Then, pressing down with her body, one knee pinned his chest, and her powerful wrist was already choking his neck.

At the same time, Zhong Ming and Shao Changfeng had subdued the other two.

Zhong Ming turned his head, looking at Gu Xiaoxi and couldn’t help but give her a thumbs up.

Indeed, it was Gu Xiaoxi. He had lost to her initially, and now, almost a year later, he had grown stronger.

She had become stronger, too.

The three captives panicked and struggled, but to no avail, as they were choked by the neck and couldn’t make a sound.

After they had subdued the three men, they started to interrogate them, but at first, they wouldn’t talk.

Gu Xiaoxi flipped one of them onto the ground, burying half his head into the snow. At this point, even if he wanted to shout, it would have been impossible.

A cold gleam flashed in Gu Xiaoxi’s eyes as she glared at him and demanded, "Tell me, how many of you are there in total?"

"I won’t tell you!" the man, gasping for air and in a hoarse and painful voice, said.

Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxi applied pressure with her foot on the man’s back, and the piercing pain proved too much for him. His voice came out in stammers, "Thirty-six!"

"How many days have you been hunting here, and how much have you hunted?" Gu Xiaoxi asked again.

"Seven days, killed four thousand deer, and also tigers..." the man grimaced in agony, feeling worse than dead, and began to confess.

"Where are the rest of your people?" Shao Changfeng immediately added.

"They’re all at..." Just at that moment, before the man could finish, three gunshots sounded from a distance.

By the time Gu Xiaoxi reacted, the three men were already dead. In front of them, Song Jingyi and the others who had been waiting in position responded and immediately picked up their weapons to pursue the three men.

Gu Xiaoxi reacted the quickest, dropping the dead man in her hands and turning to chase after them.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Xiaoxi had run out for more than a dozen meters, up the slope, chasing after the three fleeing culprits.

Shao Changfeng immediately regrouped and then followed in Gu Xiaoxi’s footsteps in hot pursuit.

Zhong Ming’s eyes widened in amazement. Gu Xiaoxi was mighty impressive; even on the slippery snow, her running speed was almost on par with that of a ferocious beast.

Gu Xiaoxi was the first to chase after the three shooters, with Shao Changfeng following with his team, rapidly closing in.

Finally, in a small gully filled with jumbled rocks, Gu Xiaoxi blocked the three men’s path at the entrance.

"Still running?" Gu Xiaoxi tightened her grip on her weapon, aiming it at the three men.

The three burly men opposite her showed shock; they hadn’t expected Gu Xiaoxi to be able to keep up with their pace.

"You run pretty fast; we underestimated you!" one of the muscular men said, his mouth twisted in a sneer.

"Really? Underestimating someone always has its price. Are you going to surrender quietly, or do I have to arrest all of you?" Gu Xiaoxi’s finger tightened on the trigger.

Although she was facing three big and tall men, alone and outnumbered, she was still not afraid.

The three men exchanged glances, then Zhang Kuang laughed and said, "We are following God’s orders, killing some of the surplus species. Little girl, I suggest you leave this place quickly. Otherwise, we won’t be polite."

Clearly, they saw her alone and outnumbered, and they had no fear of her.

The painted cheeks of Gu Xiaoxi were cold as ice.

"I’ll give you one chance, lay down your weapons and surrender immediately. Otherwise, you’ll pay the price for your actions," Gu Xiaoxi said with finality, her bright eyes flashing with a hint of eerie light. A killing intent burst forth from within her.

"Hahaha! I wonder what kind of price you can make us pay. Let me tell you, we have more than thirty people, and in one hour, reinforcements will arrive. We’ll take all the prey we’ve captured and then leave this place.

What can you do to me?" The expressions of the several men were extremely arrogant. They didn’t take the petite Gu Xiaoxi seriously at all.

Especially in front of three towering men nearly two meters tall, Gu Xiaoxi’s one-meter-seven stature seemed exceptionally small, like a pitiful, solitary little white rabbit.

Put plainly, they looked down on the female soldiers of Liuli Country.

Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxi was no longer angry; instead, a sinister smile appeared on her lips as she laid down her weapon and said cheerily, "To hunt recklessly in our nation and now think of leaving easily, what do you take our Liuli Country’s military for? What do you take me for?"

"Hahaha!" The three tall men exchanged glances, then raised their weapons aiming at Gu Xiaoxi. They quickly pulled the triggers, while cruelly laughing, "A weak nation that lets such a weak woman be a soldier is simply courting self-destruction."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After three gunshots...

The three men thought Gu Xiaoxi would be dead, but unexpectedly,

They only saw the small figure of the girl flash before their eyes, her army green silhouette like a streak of light, vanishing from their sight in the blink of an eye.

The bullets missed!

The three men immediately sensed danger from behind and turned to look back, but before they could turn their heads,

They felt a chilling sensation at their throats, a deep, neat gash suddenly appearing there.

With their eyes bulging, they pointed at Gu Xiaoxi, who had somehow already moved behind them. They tried to speak, only to have blood spurt from their neck wounds, scattering upon the pristine snow.

Of the three, two fell straight to the ground, while the third, whose neck was still intact, was petrified at the sight of the blood everywhere.

With a cold snort, Gu Xiaoxi grabbed the only surviving man, kicking him hard on the knee.

The tall and formerly imposing man, like a brittle lotus root, had his knee shattered by her and fell to the ground, writhing in agony.

Gu Xiaoxi, expressionless, stepped on the man’s shoulders, pressed his face into the snow, and said sharply, "Let me tell you, in our Liuli Country, there’s a saying, ’All brawn and no brains.’ Someone like you, not even fit to be compared with a woman like me. You’re just wasting food by living."

"You!..." The tall man, pinned down and unable to move by Gu Xiaoxi’s foot, was deeply humiliated.

He was shocked and angry. His companions were dead, and he hadn’t expected to be brought down by a woman of small stature, whom he had underestimated. With defiant struggle and frustrated rage,

But Gu Xiaoxi never gave him a chance to recover. She took out handcuffs from her pocket, cuffed him, and finally, satisfied, stood on him, waiting for Shao Changfeng and the others to arrive.

A minute later, Shao Changfeng arrived with the team.

Everyone saw Gu Xiaoxi authoritatively stepping on a man. By her side, two poachers were already dead, their blood staining the snow-covered ground, creating a stark contrast that was especially striking.

For some who were experiencing real combat for the first time, the shock was profound.

Gu Xiaoxi had killed... How had she done it?

Her calm, breezy demeanor, even her gaze devoid of any ripples – it was a psychological quality so high, it allowed her to face the dead without disturbance.