The patrol team soon noticed that the guards at the entrance of the village were gone. They sounded an urgent, shrill whistle through the village, which they had painstakingly just gotten to quieten down.
The group quickly raced toward the entrance of the village. Before they got too close, bullets from a distant vantage point were fired toward them.
Several muffled sounds from a silenced gun sounded within the quiet village, and the sound of Li Zilan and Jin Lei clearing the obstacles sounded over the earpieces.
The humid air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses and a faint smell of smoke.
The obstacles at the entrance of the village had been cleared, but the whistle had alerted the enemy that an ambush was surrounding them. In the dim light, a group of people hurriedly rushed out of a house.
Some of them were shot in the head and fell straight to the ground before they could even pull the trigger.