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"Yes!" Sun Ru led everyone in unison.

"Now distribute the live ammunition to everyone, three minutes to prepare. The rest can be discussed after boarding the helicopters," ordered Quan Shaoqing.

Gu Xiaoxi had made plans to return to the Imperial Capital with Quan Shaoqing, to spend Christmas with Song Xu.

Unexpectedly, this kind of situation arose at such a time.

Everyone was hastily making preparations for battle.

At the same time, they were also extraordinarily excited, for this was their first mission, and it was such an important one.

After three months of hard training, everyone’s physical fitness and various skills had gradually stabilized.

Six instructors along with ten team members, sixteen people in total, would participate in the battle. To better accomplish the mission, Quan Shaoqing divided them into two teams.

The two helicopters pursued the train at the highest speed.

On the plane, Quan Shaoqing looked at everyone and explained, "For this operation, Sun Ru will be the leader of Team One.

Gu Xiaoxi will be the leader of Team Two.

Everyone will parachute onto the top of the train as fast as possible, then enter through the windows and capture the criminals at the fastest speed, ensuring the safety of the train staff and passengers. "

"Yes!"

"Prepare now, in ten minutes, we’ll catch up with the front train. Everyone get ready to parachute," Quan Shaoqing’s final gaze landed on Gu Xiaoxi, saying very seriously, "Be careful."

"Yes!" The group saluted and began to prepare for the parachute jump.

The pilot flying the plane was Lin Mi.

He had to make sure that the plane maintained a steady speed with the train to allow everyone to parachute down smoothly onto the top of the train, and his pressure was no less than anyone else’s.

This was an emergency that involved the lives of thousands of people; he couldn’t afford to be careless in the least.

Soon, the plane caught up with the train as they approached a mountainous area.

Numerous tunnels made the soldiers’ parachuting even more difficult.

Lin Mi was sweating from his forehead because the spacing between tunnels was too short, making it unsuitable for parachuting.

"Everyone find the right moment to parachute, safety first," Quan Shaoqing instructed Lin Mi while looking at the map, "Ahead in fifty kilometers, we’ll go there first and wait for the train to arrive."

"Yes!" Lin Mi immediately changed the flight path, reaching the place fifty kilometers away as fast as he could.

There, the train’s tracks were wide, with no tunnels and calm visibility.

However, the next station was very close by.

If they could not complete the mission within twenty minutes and let the train rush past the station, it was very likely to cause a collision accident with other trains.

"So, everyone has only twenty minutes. Do you all understand?" As the commander, Quan Shaoqing naturally wouldn’t participate in the battle himself, but he had to analyze the battle situation for everyone and command them, issuing various correct orders.

His pressure was also no less than those going into battle.

"Beep, beep, beep!"

Soon, the hijacked train appeared in everyone’s sight.

The train was moving fast, and the plane hovered above the tracks. As the first car approached the plane, Gu Xiaoxi was the first to slide down to the roof of the car in 30 seconds.

Her speed was incredibly fast; upon reaching the top of the train, she wavered for a moment, but quickly steadied herself.

Then, the second person parachuted down.

The fastest descent time for each person was 30 seconds, and the slowest took only 45 seconds.

The two planes parachute dropped simultaneously, eight people per group, and the parachuting did not exceed five minutes total.

Five minutes later, when the last person had stabilized after parachuting, the train entered a tunnel.

Yi Chentian lay prone on top of the train, listening to the howling wind and chilled air rampaging past his ears. He clenched his teeth, holding tightly onto the handle on top of the train.

When the train emerged from the tunnel once again, everyone quickly moved from the top, hanging upside down from the windows, using the hammers they had prepared earlier to break the glass and jump into the interior of the train.

Inside the train, there had been complete silence.

Suddenly, with a loud noise, everyone saw a group of soldiers wearing camouflage and with painted faces, weapons in arms, quickly taking control of the train car.

As the passengers on the train came to their senses, they immediately complained to the soldiers, "Someone has stolen our cell phones, wallets, bank cards, and jewelry. They’re all in the front cars."

Seeing everyone’s panic-stricken expressions, Sun Ru immediately asked, "Have they taken any hostages?"

"Yes! Several very wealthy people have been taken hostage. Some are in Car One, some in Car Fourteen, they all have weapons," an eyewitness hurriedly reported.

"Then how many of them are there?" Sun Ru asked.

"Many! Exactly how many, everyone was too scared to count."

Sun Ru led seven people immediately towards carriage 14. They cradled their weapons and carefully breeched the successive doors at the rear.

Gu Xiaoxi landed on the foremost carriage, and she too had seven people with her.

Compared to Sun Ru and the others, who could directly break through the windows, they were even more cautious and careful.

Because all the train attendants and drivers were controlled by these dangerous individuals, a moment of carelessness could trigger a bloodbath.

During the airborne descent, the train attendants at the front, including the criminals, had noticed the plane, so naturally, the criminals were aware that the military had arrived.

Gu Xiaoxi and her team stayed on top of the train for only a minute. Moments later, the doors below opened and criminals quickly emerged from the train, firing at them without hesitation.

Gu Xiaoxi dodged the fastest and also clenched her weapon tightly, beginning to fight back.

Her marksmanship was very accurate, so precise that even atop the high-speed train, where the winds were fierce, she could shoot with pinpoint accuracy.

"Bang!" A criminal was killed and fell off the train.

Behind her, Yun Xiao and Zhao Zilong, among others, fired rapidly. Bullets sparked across the top of the train.

Inside the train, a dozen criminals with black hoods had taken the train attendants and a tycoon hostage, among which, two attendants had already died for resisting.

Blood flowed down to the train doorway, and the other hostages, scared stiff, huddled together in silence.

"Boss! Those guys on top are too tough. The four we sent are all down. What do we do now?" A man with a black hood voiced his concern.

The one called Boss coldly huffed, "Scared of what? Guard this carriage’s doorway. Kill one if one comes, kill a pair if a pair comes."

"Yes!" With their leader’s order, they immediately brandished their weapons, aiming at the train’s doorway.

Suddenly, with a loud bang at the train doorway, the criminals shot hastily at the doorway without thinking.

When they took a closer look, they saw only a few backpacks.

Just as they had stopped, the windows beside them suddenly shattered. Subsequently, six or seven weapons extended in through the windows, firing mercilessly at them.

By the time they began to counterattack, Gu Xiaoxi had already crawled through the train’s main door into the carriage.

Taking advantage of the moment when their attention was divided, she leaped forward with lightning speed and stabbed one of them.

Simultaneously, Yun Xiao and the other teammates also entered through the broken windows and charged forward, pushing everyone in the first carriage to the ground.

This breathtaking sequence of events transpired in an instant. Everyone worked in perfect harmony, acting extremely swiftly.

"Reporting, six targets captured, six killed," Gu Xiaoxi immediately reported to Quan Shaoqing.

"Go to the front engine, the driver is being held by four people. You must save him, a loss of control over the train could be even more dangerous," Quan Shaoqing reminded. At the same time, his heart grew tense; this affected the lives of thousands. Although it wasn’t Gu Xiaoxi’s first mission, for the others, it was.

"Lock them up! Yun Xiao, follow me to the front carriage," Gu Xiaoxi didn’t hesitate. In such a critical situation, Yun Xiao’s skills were extremely useful.

And, the criminal leader was right there in the driver’s cabin.

The door to the driver’s compartment was tightly shut.

Inside were five people holding two drivers hostage.

Including the criminal mastermind Luo Tian. His goal was to rob and create chaos.

"Boss, after we pass this station and drive for another ten minutes, someone will meet us; then we can escape smoothly," a subordinate put away the map and reported.

Luo Tian nodded, gripping the dagger at the driver’s neck tighter, threatening, "Don’t stop at the station. Without my order, if you stop the train, I’ll send it flying off the tracks right here at the station."

The train driver clenched his teeth, full of rage but helpless, he cautiously retorted, "By doing this, the train won’t be able to change tracks. If it collides with another train, we’ll all die just the same."

"You have no right to speak here!" Luo Tian struck the driver’s back fiercely. By the time the train would collide with another, he would have long since escaped.

"Boss, the guys at the back won’t hold out much longer. The military’s here!" a subordinate reported, terrified.

Luo Tian looked at his watch, his expression serious, "Don’t open the doors here. Six more minutes till we arrive at the station. Sixteen minutes and we’re gone. Are you still afraid of them?"

"But, Boss, they’ll hinder our escape."

"I have a plan!" Luo Tian said with a sinister look. His plan was that after sixteen minutes, he would kill the train driver, and with the train hurtling at high speed, the military would naturally be desperate to rescue the hostages, so how could they have the opportunity to chase them?

"Bang bang bang!" Just then, knocking sounds came from outside.

Luo Tian ordered, "No one opens it!"

Gu Xiaoxi lay at the doorway, listening to their conversation, clear as day.