Chapter 107: The Mysterious Disappearance (Three)

  "However, it also came at a great cost, didn't it? You don't have to hide it from me, I want to know."

  I hung my head in shame and said, "We were unable to completely withstand the enemy's attack. The enemy... our Dragon Guard warriors suffered heavy casualties, with only thirty-five people left."

  Chen Lao was shocked and said with a heavy heart: "Only thirty-five people are left? What... what about Master Yu Cheng and the others?"

  I sighed: "The martial artists under Master Yu Cheng's command have also suffered more than half casualties. This time our loss is too great, and we almost lost everything."

  Old Chen was overcome with grief and began to cough, I hastily reached out to pat his back and consoled him: "Don't be too sad, our warriors all fought to the death, not a single one deserted, they...they died for their country, it's worth all of us Chinese being proud of them..."

  Mr. Chen nodded slightly and quickly calmed down his emotions. However, his voice was still a bit hoarse as he asked, "Where's Chen Jing? Is she all right?"

  As soon as I mentioned Chen Jing, I immediately said: "I was just about to tell you. After Chen Jing left the hospital where I was, she disappeared with the remaining 35 warriors of the Hu Long Lian, as well as some prisoners we had captured."

  Chen Lao was shocked again and exclaimed: "How is this possible? How did you protect her?"

  "I gritted my teeth and said, 'At that time I was injured and hospitalized, in a coma. It wasn't until after I left the hospital and went to look for them that I inferred from various signs that Chen Jing and the soldiers of Hu Long Lian might all be missing.'"

  Next, I briefly told Chen Lao Da about my experiences during this period of time. Finally, I directly said: "From the mouth of that person who impersonated you just now, I roughly found out a bit - they also don't know where Chen Jing and the others are. It seems like Chen Jing and the others weren't taken away by the Wan Long Society, maybe... Chen Jing and the others encountered some urgent situation and temporarily went to deal with it."

  Chen Lao shook his head: "Even if they encountered an emergency, they wouldn't dare to act without orders... wait a minute, you just said someone impersonated me and looked very much like me?"

  I nodded and pointed to the outside corridor, saying: "That person is in a farmhouse outside, I knocked him out."

  Chen Lao immediately said: "Let's hurry up and interrogate that person, maybe we can get news about Chen Jing and the others. Also, quickly contact the military department for me, I want to ask them about the recent battle situation."

  I was taken aback and couldn't help but say: "Let's find Chen Jing and the others first, we can talk about the battle situation later."

  Chen let out a sigh and said solemnly, "I know you're worried about Chen Jing's safety and don't want to add any more trouble at this time. But don't forget, I'm still a member of the military department, my duty is to protect our country and our people. I must find Chen Jing and also take care of the current situation... do you understand?"

  I nodded: "Understood! I'll contact the military department right away. You... send someone to interrogate that fake enemy of yours."

  Chen Lao smiled faintly, his smile full of bitterness: "You'd better go find Chen Jing, I'll personally contact the military department."

  I knew Mr. Chen was doing this to put my mind at ease, so I quickly returned to the farmhouse and saw the person I had knocked unconscious.

  This person was knocked unconscious by me and has not woken up yet. I picked up the cup of water that was originally poured for me and splashed it directly on this person's face.

  The man immediately woke up, saw me and was so frightened that he scrambled to get up and wanted to escape. I reached out and grabbed his collar, with a fierce aura all over my body, and coldly shouted: "In the past ten days, did your Wanlong Society capture our Huolonglian soldiers? Tell me the truth, you only have one chance, if you dare to lie, I will kill you immediately."

  This man was frightened, his whole body trembling, nodding his head like a chick pecking at grain, and hastily said: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything... I'm from the Qinglong Association under the Wanjun Association, my main task is to spy on the military situation in the capital, and also responsible for contacting the headquarters of the Wanjun Association, exchanging information with each other. About a week ago, I received a message from the Wanjun Association's headquarters, saying that a small team of your soldiers was captured by us, I don't know if these soldiers are the ones you mentioned, the Hu Long Squad."

  I saw this person was very cooperative, so I asked: "How many people are there in total? Are there any Japanese pirates among the entourage?"

  "This person thought for a moment and said cautiously: 'There are no Japanese pirates... They seem to have around ten or more people, but the exact number is not clear, and I don't know either.'"

  I knew this wasn't Chen Jing and them, furrowing his brow he said: "Apart from these, what else do you know?"

  He looked at me and I immediately said coldly: "Speak quickly!"

  "He immediately said, 'Also, we have captured your military department's high-ranking official, that is the person you just went to rescue. However, we didn't get any information from his mouth, not even his name, which we found out by asking one of his subordinates.'"

  I nodded: "Then what else do you know, tell me one by one, don't hide anything. If I find out that you're telling the truth, I'll give you some protection. Otherwise, you only have one death."

  "This man immediately said: 'What I said is all true, not a single false word.' After a pause, he continued: 'I am just a small leader under the Wanlong Association, and there are many things that I don't know. What else do you want to know? If I knew, I would definitely tell you the truth.'"

  I nodded: "Are all of you people on this side here?"

  "This man thought for a moment: 'Yes, you've seen all of our people just now, they're all here... except my secretary who just left and should have escaped by now.'"

  "Then do you know or don't you know if there are any other members of your Wanlong Association in the capital?"

  The man shook his head, indicating he didn't know about these situations.

  I was secretly anxious, originally holding onto hope, thinking that the only clue to finding Chen Jing and the others had been cut off.

  The people we caught are all small roles and cannot touch the confidential information of the Ten Dragons Association at all, nor can they know whether Chen Jing and others were caught by the Ten Dragons Association.

  At this moment, I suddenly thought of someone, that is Master Yu Cheng. Earlier I was too hasty and didn't think of Master Yu Cheng and the others. Now that I've thought of it, I quickly called Master Yu Cheng to ask about Chen Jing's situation.

  Master Jade answered my call quickly: "Jin Cang, is it another invasion of Japanese ninja? Where did the invasion occur? We'll rush over right now."

  I was moved by Master Yu Cheng's patriotic heart: "Thank you for worrying about the country! I didn't come to you for this, do you know where Chen Jing and the others are? We lost contact, I couldn't find them."

  Master Yu Cheng was taken aback and immediately said, "I'm still in Wuhan. I haven't seen Chen Jing for the past few days. Have you returned from the hospital? Where are you now?"

  I said: "I'm in the capital now, I went to the base to find you before, but because Chen Jing and others disappeared, I was anxious to find them, so I left the base first and didn't see you, please forgive me."

  Master Yu Cheng said, "Don't worry, Chen Jing and the others will be fine. Our special task force members are all recovering from injuries at a hospital in Wuhan and haven't returned to the base for a long time, so we don't know any news about Chen Jing and the others."

  I said: "Then I'll contact others to see if there's any news from them. You take care of your injuries first, and after you've recovered, it won't be too late to return to the capital."

  Master Yu Cheng said: "I will give a message to those old friends of mine, and ask the Wulin friends to help us find out where Chen Jing and others are. Don't worry for now, we will find them."

  "I quickly said: 'Then thank you. I'll also contact my friends and see if there are any clues.'"

  I hung up the phone and contacted Zhong Ping. Originally, I shouldn't have contacted Zhong Ping about this kind of thing, but I was desperate and thought of her extensive connections, so I got in touch with her.

  Upon hearing my request, Zhong Ping readily agreed to help me find Chen Jing and the others. Then I also contacted some of my friends, hoping they could give me some assistance.

  By the time I finished, Old Chen had already arrived by my side. His somewhat haggard body was slightly bent over, and his eyes looking at me also held a hint of urgency.

  I quickly supported him and said in a low voice, "After interrogation, he didn't know the whereabouts of Chen Jing and others. I have contacted some friends, as soon as there is news, they will inform me. Do you think I should go out to find Chen Jing and others now?"

  "Alright, you may go. We will return to my office as soon as possible. I must report everything that has happened during this time to the highest leader of our nation. We need to take more drastic measures against our enemies, or else we will really be dragged down by them."

  I nodded and turned around to leave. As I flashed away, I had already left this place behind. I didn't stop for a moment along the way and went straight to the airport.

  I want to go back to Wuhan and start searching for their whereabouts from the place where Chen Jing and others disappeared. No matter what the situation is, there will always be some clues left behind.

  When I returned to Wuhan's research base, Master Yucheng and the others also rushed over. There was no small talk between us, we directly exchanged the information we had obtained.

  Yu Cheng's martial arts friends had no leads, and my friends didn't give me any leads either. Chen Jing and dozens of others just disappeared like that, mysteriously disappearing.

  We once again entered the research base and inquired of the officers and men of the 362nd Regiment, hoping to obtain more information.

  Because there were many people in the 362nd Regiment, we found several company commanders and asked them to collect all the information about Chen Jing from their companies and hand it over to us.

  The warriors of the 362nd Regiment were very cooperative with our work. As long as they knew a little bit about Chen Jing and his men, they all wrote it down for us.

  I and Master Yucheng and others reviewed one by one, collected all the more important information, and then discussed it together for a while, finally found three very important pieces of information.

  One of them was a communications soldier who overheard Chen Jing and a soldier from the Dragon Squad on the phone. Chen Jing said: "We have to rush over right away, or it will be too late..."

  The warrior only heard this sentence, and the rest was not heard. I, however, became very interested in this sentence, and immediately went to find the 362nd Regiment's communication team to assist us in finding the conversation records between Chen Jing and the Hu Long Lian warriors.

  Another one was written by a squad leader: I received the order from General Chen - to immediately prepare vehicles and weapons for the comrades of Hu Long Company, and send them and those prisoners of war to Ai Xin Hospital.

  Chen Jing didn't go anywhere else after leaving Ai Xin Hospital, but instead called the warriors of Hu Long Lian to meet her at Ai Xin Hospital.

  The information provided by this squad leader explains this point and also explains what task Chen Jing and others were going to perform, otherwise, why would they need to prepare weapons?

  The last one was written by several soldiers of the 362nd Regiment who were on duty at the gate of the base that day: We saw the people of the Hu Long Brigade escorting prisoners onto a truck and then heading east along the highway.

  Ai Xin Hospital is just east of the base, it seems that the warriors of Hu Long Lian really went to Ai Xin Hospital and met with Chen Jing.

  Next, Master Yuchen and I also received the call records provided by the 362nd Brigade Communication Battalion. After listening to them, it was clear that Chen Jing had instructed the soldiers of the Hu Long Brigade to meet her at Ai Xin Hospital and then carry out a military order.

  The order was issued by the military department, and Chen Jing specially said a sentence "This order is very urgent, you hurry over..."

  Upon receiving this news, I immediately contacted Old Chen and told him our current situation.

  Chen Lao said almost immediately: "I'll go check right now and see who gave the order to kill Long, wait for my news."

  I had a sudden movement in my heart and instinctively said: "You'd better pay attention to Wang Yingzu, I suspect it was his order!"

  Chen Lao grunted and hung up the phone.

  I'm worried that if it's really Wang Yingzu's order, Chen Jing and the others will be in danger. Wang Yingzu has always been at odds with Old Chen and has been looking for opportunities to deal with him. This time, the order given to Chen Jing is definitely not a good thing, maybe it's just an excuse for revenge.

  Mr. Chen called me back quickly, and on the phone, Mr. Chen said angrily: "It's indeed that little villain Wang Yingzu who did this good deed. I have already accused Wang Yingzu to the highest leader. Now you lead people to Inner Mongolia, no matter what, you must bring Chen Jing and others back safely for me. The specific address and map will be sent to your tactical terminal by someone."

  "I hastily said: 'My tactical terminal has been lost, you'd better bring the map and address to the 362nd Regiment's communication squad, I can see it here.'"

  Chen Lao nodded and said, "You remember, you must bring them back safely. That scoundrel Wang Yingzu actually let them take a large group of prisoners to the Mongolian battlefield with just over thirty people, isn't this intentionally letting them go without return? Alright, I've already arranged for an airplane, you'll be taking the Wuhan Military Region's transport plane. As for tactical terminals, use the 362 Regiment's for now, and I'll arrange for more later."

  "I quickly said: 'Understood! I'll go to the military airport right away and ensure our people are brought back safely.'"

  Chen Lao put down the phone but didn't hang up. I heard him loudly say: "All of you go find Wang Yingzu, if you can't find him, don't come back to see me!"

  I had a premonition, knowing that Wang Yingzu saw Chen Lao return to the military department, his conspiracy was exposed, and he was scared and ran away. Wang Yingzu probably thought that Chen Lao had lost his trace, thinking that he had been captured or killed by the enemy, so he boldly issued secret orders. He let the Hu Long Squad, which had not even recovered from its heavy losses, take the prisoners of war to the Mongolian battlefield. He originally thought that this way, the people of the Hu Long Squad would be killed by the invading Mongolian army, completely eliminating Chen Lao's direct troops. But he didn't expect Chen Lao to be rescued by me and suddenly return to the military department, scaring him into fleeing in a hurry.

  I was extremely anxious in my heart, because after the heavy casualties, the Hu Long Lian faced the invading Mongolian army and were simply being abused. I worried that they would be killed by the Mongolian army, so I rushed to the military airport and took a transport plane directly to Inner Mongolia.

  When the transport plane arrived at our destination, it was already dark. The place we were in was actually the border between Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, within the jurisdiction of Baotou City.

  After Master Yu Cheng and I got off the plane, we saw the welcoming team coming to greet us. We didn't have time for pleasantries, so we directly stated our purpose and asked them to provide us with vehicles and weapons, so that we could rush to rescue Chen Jing and others as soon as possible.

  Chen Jing and others' current address we already know, is Chen Lao found out, just on the battlefield front line position. From where we are now, it's about fifty kilometers away.

  With the support of our troops, we divided into four military jeeps and rushed directly to the front line position fifty kilometers away.

  No matter when, the forefront of the battlefield is always the most dangerous place and the place where both sides are fighting. When we arrived here after an hour's drive, Mongolian troops and our troops happened to be exchanging fire.

  Such a large-scale exchange of fire, neither I nor Master Yuchen had ever experienced before. We only felt that the sounds of various weapons completely covered up our conversation. When bullets flew past us, we could even feel the temperature on them.

  We found the battlefield commander, explained our intention, and were soon informed that Chen Jing and others had been dispatched to the front line for combat missions and were currently engaging with the enemy. All mobile phones and tactical terminals were left in the camp and could not be contacted.

  I couldn't care about Master Yu Cheng's advice, grabbed my weapon and rushed to the front line. At this moment, every minute counts, if I'm late for one minute to rescue Chen Jing and others, someone might be killed, so I didn't dare to delay any longer.

  Master Jade and others saw me rushing onto the battlefield to rescue people, and they also rushed into the battlefield with me. The commander saw this situation and immediately shouted loudly: "Everyone get back!"

  We didn't listen to him at all, and instead charged forward, wanting to find Chen Jing and the others. However, the battlefield was filled with explosions everywhere, big fires everywhere, and smoke dust everywhere. We charged for a long time but couldn't see any sign of Chen Jing and the others.

  Master Jade and his men were also hit by stray bullets and had to retreat to wait for medical treatment.

  I also had a wound on my body, which was caused by a stray bullet. But I didn't care about these things, and my heart only wanted to find Chen Jing and the others, changing my shape and opening up my skills, rushing towards where our soldiers were gathered.

  Half an hour later, I got separated from Master Yuchen and the others. The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and we lost each other while walking.

  I, however, was not concerned with these things and accelerated my pace again, searching for Chen Jing's whereabouts in the hail of bullets. Master Yu Cheng and his party were all martial artists who had mastered the art of winning or losing, so it was relatively easier for them to find a safe place to avoid enemy attacks. As for Chen Jing and her group, however, it was hard to say, and I had no choice but to look for them first.

  Time slowly passed, I searched through half of the battlefield, but it was all in vain. Once, I even rushed to the enemy's position and almost got surrounded by the enemy. Fortunately, my speed was fast, and the enemy didn't have time to surround me.

  I'm getting more and more anxious in my heart, as the battle goes on, I see many warriors injured or sacrificed, and I worry even more about Chen Jing and others. So I shuttle through the battlefield at a faster speed, like a ghost, entering and exiting every place where soldiers gather.

  The shell landed beside me, which I dodged. The bullets flew past my side and sometimes really hurt me. However, I didn't suffer any fatal injuries and could continue to look for Chen Jing and the others.