Chapter 99: Rushing to the Scene (3)_1
"Right, take out the communication device you use to contact the higher-ups," Situ Haoran ordered, not bothering to look at the man as he issued the command. Situ Haoran’s subordinates were clueless about the situation unfolding before them.
"Commander, what, what’s going on?" another lean and dark man stepped forward, asking in a whisper.
"Want to know why? Fine, I’ll tell you. He’s a traitor. Do you know why Major Situ and Colonel Xiao were suddenly captured before? Before we left, the higher-ups told me there was someone from the drug lord’s gang mixed in with their team. They told me to be careful. Hmph, I didn’t expect that we actually had a traitor among us, but fortunately, I uncovered him," Situ Haoran said with an icy demeanor. However, it must be said, he was indeed super crafty. He managed to twist the entire narrative in just a few sentences, painting the higher-up’s spy as a traitor.
As the leader of the whole team, Situ Haoran was well respected by his men, having spent day and night together, everyone knew his character and took his words as the absolute truth. The eyes of each man turned on the accused spy, instantly filled with mistrust.
"I..." The spy wanted to say something in his defense but was silenced by a look from Situ Haoran, swallowing his words whole.
"So Commander, what do we do now?" another man, looking prim and proper like a scholar, asked.
"I bet the drug lord already knows we’ve arrived and has prepared everything; he’s just waiting for us to fall into his trap. Therefore, we can’t act immediately, we have to delay our move. As for this traitor, help me find the communication device he uses to contact the drug lord, to prevent him from leaking our whereabouts while we’re not paying attention. And, given the circumstances, it’s not safe to hand him over to anyone, so we have to keep an eye on him ourselves," Situ Haoran decided to solidify the reputation of the spy as a traitor.
While Situ Haoran spoke, his men began to search the spy. And indeed, they discovered a dedicated communication device—something that their regular soldiers did not possess, unless it was necessary for specific missions.
"He really is a traitor. Lucky for us, the Commander is so capable and discovered it early. Otherwise, we might as well have come here to die. By now, we could already have been captured by the drug lord," said the man who found the communication device on the spy, speaking with lingering fear.
"Yes, but Commander, what about Major Situ and Colonel Xiao?" Because Situ Haotian and Xiao Guobing often trained with them, there was a sense of camaraderie built over time.
"Don’t worry, as long as we’re here and not captured by the drug lord, those two are safe," Situ Haoran reassured while thinking to himself, he wondered where Baby was now and if everything was safe. He was very tempted to ask Situ Xin about the situation through the earpiece, but he was afraid of disrupting her, so no matter how anxious he felt inside, he had to endure it.