Chapter 841 - 785: All Actors
"You didn't lose; you did well!"
After Mountain Eagle settled the captives, he rode a snowmobile to the small lake camp...
The battle here had ended an hour ago; his arrival broke the tense atmosphere. Xiao Wan, who had been trying hard to maintain composure, could no longer hold it together and rushed forward to hug Mountain Eagle's waist, starting to sob.
In the midst of Griffin's joking, Tessa ran to Mountain Eagle's side, pinched his cheek, stood on tiptoe and kissed him, then casually patted Xiao Wan on the butt and said, "Your wife and kids are fine..."
Seeing Tessa's face pale yet placing herself in the protector's role, speaking lightly to him, knowing the backstory, Mountain Eagle sighed. He lowered his head to kiss the top of Xiao Wan's head in his arms, then spread his right arm to embrace Tessa...
"You are all good people; the one who should go to Hell is me..."
Mountain Eagle gazed at Yuliy, who was hiding behind the crowd, holding Luna to prevent her from causing trouble, and sighed, speaking to the slightly awkward Xiao Wan and Tessa, "Anyway, if you're unhappy about something, direct it at me...
But you need to be more cautious in the future and preferably download an anti-fraud app to learn because there are bad people among the crowd. You are all too good, so you tend to be easily deceived."
Mountain Eagle's strange words broke his left and right embrace within minutes.
After crying for a while, Xiao Wan dried her tears on Mountain Eagle's chest...
Seeing Tessa squeezed under Mountain Eagle's arm, feeling wronged but also pleased, Xiao Wan irritably kicked Mountain Eagle's shin, glared at Tessa's blinking big eyes, then let out a long sigh and punched Mountain Eagle's abdomen hard...
"Ah..."
When Mountain Eagle lay on the ground, clutching his stomach, trying to pass it off, Luna, who couldn't hold back any longer, broke free from Yuliy's embrace and sprinted over to block Mountain Eagle, turning around and spreading her arms, showing her little white teeth, calling to Xiao Wan, "Don't bully my dad..."
At this moment, Mountain Eagle was deeply touched and felt that the daughter he unexpectedly picked up in Alaska was truly worth the care.
Xiao Wan was amused by the little girl's appearance. She reached out and pinched Luna's nose, then turned around to hug her somewhat bewildered son, whispering in his ear while making gestures at Mountain Eagle...
As if saying, the old man in front of you isn't a good person; wait until he gets old, and pull his oxygen tube...
Confronted with his son's curious eyes, Mountain Eagle, no matter how thick-skinned, found it hard to endure. So, he swiftly stood up, greeted some women watching the spectacle, then with a serious expression said, "The camp was subjected to a fierce attack; the situation there is not good now.
I suggest you stay in the small lake camp for a while; I'll quickly set up a new tent for you and prepare enough supplies.
Once I've handled the situation at the camp, then you can return!"
Xiao Wan did not agree to Mountain Eagle's request this time, firmly demanding to return to the camp to check on the wounded Quida and Old Qiao, and to see who exactly had attacked here...
Mountain Eagle really didn't want his wife to see the horrible scene, but he knew that such things might happen again, and being prepared is better than being at a loss when the time comes.
In fact, Mountain Eagle's family had only Xiao Wan who hadn't experienced the brutality...
When she worked as a police officer, she was involved in a lot of back-office work, had heard or seen many reports of heinous cases, and site photos, but she really hadn't witnessed actual corpses, especially not so many bodies.
Mountain Eagle hesitated for a long time, eventually leading everyone across the small lake to the other side to see the bodies Blood Fox and the others had prepared in advance...
The bodies weren't particularly terrifying, even though some were shot to pieces by large-caliber bullets, after hours of freezing, those ugly remnants didn't seem so scary. Overall they looked like damaged wax figures put in a freezer for a while...
During the journey, Mountain Eagle accompanied the two little ones, Yue Yi and Luna, covering their eyes when they saw the bodies, keeping a close watch on Xiao Wan's condition.
Xiao Wan unexpectedly displayed great strength, not vomiting, no disorientation, none of the so-called post-traumatic reactions described in novels when facing death; her only sign was anxiety!
No matter what Mountain Eagle told her in the past, or how much psychological preparation he helped her build, nothing spoke louder than these dozen or so bodies.
Now she finally understood what her husband did and what he had to face!
Those supposedly explosive scenes in movies seem trivial in the face of so many corpses.
True life-and-death battles are not about flying blood and gore; eventually, it's simply death...
From the frozen bodies, those gray eyes revealed a chilling silence.
After a night of fierce action, the sudden silence severely shocked Xiao Wan's worldview.
She returned to the camp with excessive anxiety and there saw many severely injured moaning captives, along with more bodies...
To clean up the battlefield, after Butcher and the Little Dog Team sent the captives to the camp, they drove snowmobiles pulling sleds, transporting bodies back one carload after another.
The Demon Group and Sinaloa, including General Sied's people, totaled more than 400, less than half survived.
Seeing Little Ruby operating an excavator, digging a large pit on a vacant ground near the camp to bury the bodies, confidently expressing that this place would surely grow lots of plants next year, Xiao Wan could no longer bear to face this not-so-bright, honest man...
Despite Eagle Claw's injuries, he insisted on showing he was fine, refused his daughter Lilith's help, setting up a temporary surgical room alone, operating on the seriously wounded captives.
Going to the hospital was out of the question. These captives knew their situation and could only pray that Eagle Claw's skills were good enough to handle their injuries properly.
When it comes to gore, the battlefield isn't that bad, especially in this minus thirty-degree weather; no matter how gruesome the death, freezing prevents any odor, and it just looks like a chunk of frozen meat...
The real brutality was in the medical room, as it was where people were truly being sliced open...
For convenience, Eagle Claw transformed a shipping container into a temporary surgery room. To facilitate cleaning and disinfection, they tilted one end of the container to create a slight slope, and drilled a few drainage holes at the lowest point...
On just the first day, several buckets of human blood flowed out of those drainage holes, and occasionally severed limbs were tossed into trash bags and thrown into the camp's incinerator.
Xiao Wan felt that as Mountain Eagle's wife, she needed to accept everything about him, but she overestimated her endurance, especially when she saw her son curiously watching Little Ruby bury bodies; she truly couldn't take it anymore...
Not just her, even Tessa and those Special Service members like Griffin, who had seen some things, couldn't handle it.
Thus, when Razer brought back a group of captives three days later, along with more bodies, the Inuit elder took the opportunity to invite them to visit the Inuit Village...
Xiao Wan agreed immediately and began packing!
Mountain Eagle didn't stop her; at this point, he really didn't dare to say anything...
Because he understood better than anyone else that half of the camp's terrible situation was deliberately created by Blood Fox and the others.
These old hands used the brutality of war to deliberately trigger Xiao Wan's anxiety, causing her to overlook emotional entanglements, and occasionally they would let Tessa be her confidante, trying to gauge whether she was normal by understanding Tessa's experiences...
Tessa did not hide anything...
Her first meeting with Mountain Eagle was by no means peaceful; on their first day, Mountain Eagle shot several people's heads off right in front of her, splattering brains onto her face, and then continued killing along the way.
Tessa had seen far more brutal scenes than now, but she was never required to participate in the cleanup of the site, the part that most tested one's psyche.
Not to mention Xiao Wan's inability to handle it, even Tessa, under the deliberate staging by Blood Fox and the others, started questioning her own mental strength, because she really couldn't stare into the despairing eyes of those captives.
During their talks, they discovered that they didn't seem to understand Mountain Eagle very well, especially his work.
They couldn't comprehend the intense cruelty and the immense pressure of bearing the life and death of everyone; how did Mountain Eagle shoulder it all by himself?
When that old coot Razer picked through and gathered many things in the camp's warehouse and then left with his wife and children on a King Air heading north, Mountain Eagle finally couldn't hold back...
"What the hell are you guys doing exactly?"
Mountain Eagle intercepted Blood Fox, who had been avoiding him, dragging him to the door of the temporary surgery room that resembled a slaughterhouse, pointing at the discarded severed limbs on the ground, and angrily cursing: "These things are all damn veteran actors...
I've seen them 14 times in a week, once in the morning, once in the afternoon; at this rate, how can those captives still have any good arms and legs left?"
Mountain Eagle's anger caught the attention of Eagle Claw inside the surgery room. He lifted the sterile curtain, revealing a corpse lying on the operating table with its belly opened, then tossed his blood-stained gloves aside, sat on the edge of the operating room, lit a cigarette, and said: "Your wife is an extraordinary woman, anyone else might not have lasted even a day…
She held on for a week, and she kept trying to persuade herself to understand the situation.
Although she was very scared, she consistently tried to take care of us all.
Mountain Eagle, Mrs. Li is incredible!"
Mountain Eagle listened, pointing incredulously at the corpse inside, and said: "Is this damn thing also an actor?"
Eagle Claw shrugged and said: "I couldn't possibly have an alive person's stomach opened every day...
Mountain Eagle, the only ones who needed major surgery were the few guys you caught from the north. Others seriously injured can't even survive to the camp without freezing to death.
Those with minor injuries, their team doctors can manage to bandage them up.
This is Alaska, as long as you don't let them get too warm, the infection risk in winter isn't too high."
Seeing Mountain Eagle's astonished expression, Eagle Claw spread his hands and said: "We are all doing this for your own good; we all think you're not good at handling emotional issues, so we decided to lend you a hand.
Look, now the relationship between Mrs. Li and Tessa is going well…"
Mountain Eagle, holding his head, looked at Eagle Claw in disbelief and said: "Do you even know what you're saying?
You guys should take a look in the mirror; which of you still has a wife?
You failures are prescribing solutions for me; are you all out of your minds?"
Blood Fox, frowning at the raging Mountain Eagle, disdainfully said: "You're definitely going to mess it up yourself. Do we have to stand by and watch you waste time on this issue?
We indeed don't get it, but Daria and Yuliy are women. Don't they understand women's thoughts?
We've prepared many contingency plans, responding to various situations...
Rest assured, Yuliy is currently by Mrs. Li's side; she will definitely resolve your emotional issues, allowing you to focus on fighting against the Edward Foundation and the Sinaloa Group.
Kid, you've just won a single battle; your enemies are strong, and you can't afford to waste too much time on emotional issues, or else, if anything goes wrong, you won't be able to handle the consequences!"