◎Happy 98th Day: Operation Eye Removal◎

Because of the sandstorms and the interruption of river flow, the people did not choose to go out for the next two days. Instead, they stayed at home to organize all the supplies.

A sandstorm is coming. Looking at the current situation, you can tell that this sandstorm is definitely not the same as what everyone learned through videos and texts before the end of the world.

It is foreseeable that until this sandstorm passes, everyone will have to stay indoors for a while.

Taking advantage of these few days, everyone moved the firewood and water that needed to be brought home, stored as much power as possible in the batteries, set up self-irrigation devices for the crops in advance, and prepared enough food for the children at one time.

As for Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, they didn't react at all these two days and just went about their business.

On the morning of the day of departure, if you ignore the dust flying in the air that was already blocking their vision, the two people carrying backpacks out looked no different from students on a spring outing.

Jiang Muyun waved to everyone: "Wait, I'll bring your things back in a few days."

Qin Shiwen said indifferently: "The best thing is that you come back with all your arms and legs intact."

Jiang Muyun felt that she should be very touched, but she didn't know why, she felt that Qin Shiwen was taking the opportunity to scold her with hidden meaning.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen did not bring Dabai and Xiaobai with them this time.

However, Captain Yu and Meng San each brought three fat and strong mutant dogs.

At this time, the mutant animals' keen senses become particularly important.

Especially according to the intelligence they obtained, there is currently no one raising mutant animals in the Western Suburbs Base.

As one side gained strength while the other side lost strength, they had an absolute advantage.

Jiang Muyun originally wanted to bring Xiaobai along, but Xiaobai was very disgusted with the wind and sand outside. He whined a few times at Jiang Muyun, and Jiang Muyun did not force him.

Anyway, we don't need one.

There were about fifty or sixty of them, all wearing goggles and scarves. Including Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, everyone wore long-sleeved camouflage uniforms and carried medium-sized backpacks.

Jiang Muyun couldn't help but laugh. "I feel like I've passed the civil service exam and successfully joined the official team."

Captain Yu nodded seriously. "Isn't it? After this operation, you'll become a member of the management team at our Western Suburbs Transfer Station."

Jiang Muyun agreed: "That's true, the honorary management is also the management."

Jiang Muyun knew very well that she was not a manager, and she did not have the ambition to set up a base in the apocalypse and be responsible for the lives of hundreds or even tens of thousands of people.

She wanted the right to use the hills at the transfer station just to keep their little secret and to leave a way out for her family. She wouldn't be so idle as to get involved and work for others.

To be honest, Jiang Muyun felt that investing in technology was more suitable for her.

After the three parties met up, they didn't waste much time, counted the number of people and immediately prepared to set off.

This time, everyone was heading to the western suburbs on foot. The weapons they carried were mainly daggers and short blades, and all the guns were carried on their backs, in case a sneak attack failed and they had to face off head-on.

The obstruction of vision is two-way. Jiang Muyun chose to act at this time. It is difficult for the people in the Western Suburbs Base to discover them, and it is also difficult for them to accurately locate each other.

When shooting randomly in the chaos, it is hard to say whether the people injured are friends or enemies.

Since we are planning a sneak attack, cold weapons are of course the most suitable.

According to Jiang Muyun's calculations, there are still about three days before the sandstorm officially arrives.

Even by pre-apocalyptic standards, they could be said to be already in the midst of a sandstorm.

But Jiang Muyun knew very well that after the end of the world, this level of dust was not even an appetizer.

If they don't want to be trapped in a real apocalyptic sandstorm, they must fight quickly and decisively. It would be best to resolve the battle today and transport all the supplies tomorrow.

Jiang Muyun chose a great time.

The scale of the sandstorm began to appear, blocking the view, but it was not too dangerous, leaving them enough time to clean up the battlefield.

The group quietly passed through the ruins of a remote mountain village and followed the trail into the mountains.

I don’t know if it was because the location they found was too secluded that they didn’t encounter any patrol teams along the way, or if it was because the wind and sand caused the patrol team of the Western Suburbs Base to go on strike.

In short, several people traveled through the mountains. In order to save energy and time, they often walked directly along the main road with the determination to kill anyone they met. Even though they were so arrogant, they never saw any living creatures.

In this kind of weather, not to mention military telescopes, even astronomical telescopes couldn't see the situation on the surrounding mountains. The only way they could judge whether they had been discovered, apart from their own senses, was by relying on the six mutant dogs.

And now, none of them showed any abnormalities, including their respective owners, who reported that everything was normal after communicating with them.

Before the end of the world, Jiang Muyun once heard someone say that smart dogs, such as Border Collies, have an IQ equivalent to that of a seven-year-old human child.

After the end of the world, Jiang Muyun judged that the IQ of these mutated dogs would be at least at the level of a ten-year-old human child.

Especially for mutant dogs like Xiaobai, who had been raised by humans since childhood, Jiang Muyun had no doubt that they could understand human language. With the assistance of their owners, they could perfectly carry out her plan.

If it weren't for the physiological structure problem, Xiaobai might actually be able to play the voice-controlled game console that Jiang Muyun once promised.

The mutant dogs have high IQs and are several times more sensitive to dangerous things than humans.

Since six mutant dogs didn't find anything unusual, it seems the problem is not with them.

Jiang Muyun looked at the tense crowd and said soothingly, "The Western Suburbs Base has very little control over the Western Suburbs mountains. Their main sphere of influence is only around the South Mountain. With weather like today, it's not surprising that the alert level has been lowered."

Meng San said: "You are right, our intelligence also shows this result."

Captain Yu was puzzled and asked, "How come you guys in the North District even have this kind of intelligence?"

Meng San said bluntly, "I got it through a special channel. It was too troublesome to pass on the information before, so I didn't bother to share it with you. It's the same now."

Captain Yu: "That's just a superfluous question."

Jiang Muyun: "You've been wronged so many times, why are you still responding to him..."

Unlike what Captain Yu and the others had imagined before they set out, they did not crawl forward into the mountains, seeing enemies everywhere, nor did they show off their magical powers to hide in the mountains.

They walked carefreely, first entering the mountain from a small path, and occasionally walked on the cracked cement road for a while. Occasionally, they would take the mountain road directly to shorten the straight-line distance, otherwise they basically walked on the road that had been built in the scenic area before.

They did not stop traveling in this way until they were three or four hills away from Nanshan.

The core group that established the Western Suburbs Base consisted of only more than 30 people, and the others were survivors they recruited into the gang after the apocalypse.

These guys did all kinds of immoral things, and they probably didn't even have any hope for the loyalty of the base members. So when they went out on patrol to search for supplies, there was only one core member with hot weapons leading the team, and the others all stayed in Nanshan to protect their own base.

The more relaxed their patrols of the western suburbs mountains were, the stricter the guards they deployed around Nanshan.

When Jiang Muyun and others were about to cross a saddle, the six mutant dogs whimpered almost at the same time.

Everyone's nerves, already tense as they were getting closer to Nanshan, suddenly became tense.

Jiang Muyun whispered, "We're not far from Nanshan. Now that the mutant dogs have given us the warning, it's time to disperse and act according to the plan."

Even though the wind and sand are blocking people's vision severely, they cannot directly turn people into deaf and blind people.

There were fifty or sixty of them in their group, and they wanted to sneak away from people's eyes in a group. This was too much of an underestimation of the professional level of these old criminals.

Captain Yu and Meng San had no experience in operating in sandstorms, but when they were making the plan, they could tell that Jiang Muyun seemed to be no stranger to robbing in the sand.

Neither of them is a stubborn person. Since they have chosen to trust Jiang Muyun, they will not do anything unexpected.

At this moment, Jiang Muyun said that they could disperse, and they immediately ordered their men to split into six teams, each team with a mutant dog, and groped towards the previously planned location.

Jiang Muyun, Chu Buwen, Captain Yu, Meng San, and a trusted deputy each of Captain Yu and Meng San, formed another team of six.

They did not bring mutant dogs with them, but relied on Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's rich experience in operating in wind and sand, as well as Meng San's deputy's familiarity with the terrain around Nanshan. They hid themselves in the woods where the wind and sand were slightly slower, and headed straight for Nanshan.

The greatest benefit this sandstorm brought to them was that it directly destroyed the visual advantage of Nanshan, the highest peak.

With the sky full of yellow sand, even if the Western Suburbs Base deployed 800 snipers on the commanding heights of Nanshan, they would not be able to detect their movements as they moved through the bushes.

What they should be careful of are the traps buried in the jungle and the guards directly guarding the passage up the mountain.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen are experts in setting traps. Even though Captain Yu, Meng San and others do not have as much practical experience in dealing with jungle traps as Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, they are still very cautious.

Jiang Muyun only glanced up at the nearby tree trunks as they entered the Nanshan area and gave a few words of advice: "Don't touch the tree trunks if you don't need to. Trees with rough bark are fine, but those smooth trunks have some small thorns. They are likely man-made and may be poisoned. If you accidentally scratch the bark, you might end up here today."

From then on, the few of them wished they could follow in Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's footsteps with every step they took. They would not even touch any place that Jiang Muyun had not touched.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, who were leading the way in front, stepped over a hook net trap on the ground at the same time. Before they could remind them, they saw Meng San stepping exactly on the place where Chu Buwen had stepped with the same stride. Seeing that the two had stopped, he simply kept striding and stopped moving.

When the people behind saw that they had stopped, they bent their waists and pretended to hide in the bushes.

It was not until Jiang Muyun explained the reason in a low voice that the few people resumed their normal activities.

It must be said that their caution also made Jiang Muyun feel relieved.

It is difficult enough to guard against traps in the jungle, and Jiang Muyun would feel a bit of a headache if he had to keep reminding others.

However, the density of traps on the South Mountain is completely different from that on the outskirts of the western suburbs.

When Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were looking for that second-generation rich guy in the mountains in the western suburbs, they didn't see any traps set there.

And... there is also a huge difference in the sophistication of the traps on Nanshan Mountain.

There were inconspicuous hook-and-wire traps, seemingly harmless wooden spike traps that were actually likely poisoned, and elastic traps that she could tell at a glance were the result of the opponent's desperate attempts to conceal themselves but had overexerted themselves.

The difference between the two is too great to be made by the same person.

Jiang Muyun avoided the last target, moved swiftly between the tree trunks, and hid himself under a protruding boulder.

Jiang Muyun wiped the dust off her goggles, tilted her head to look at Meng San, who was following behind her, and asked in a low voice, "I wonder if Mr. Meng's special channels have told you about these traps?"

"I didn't say that. I went looking for intelligence as soon as Captain Yu contacted me. It took a day and two nights from the time the intelligence reached me to the time we set out. Maybe these traps were set during that time." Meng San showed a rare melancholy mood. "The timing is perfect. It's just bad luck for us. Otherwise, we should just use our weapons and force our way out."

Jiang Muyun rubbed his temples.

I don't learn my lesson either. Why did I waste my time talking to him when he was fine?

If Meng San knew about this, he would not have kept it secret.

After all, his own people also have the mission of going to Nanshan.

The West Suburbs Base had such perfect control over setting the trap that either the North District was discovered while gathering information, and the other party deliberately set a trap for them to fall into with the help of a time difference.

However, from the time Captain Yu received the news about Jiang Muyun to inform the North District Base and then went to the North District Base to get the intelligence, the time in between was quite tight. Even if there was a traitor, there would be no time to notify the West Suburb Base.

Unless the person responsible for gathering information is the mole.

This is too much of a disrespect for the North District Base.

How cowardly must one be to be instigated by this group of people in the western suburbs.

Therefore, Jiang Muyun and Meng San agreed with each other and were more inclined to believe that the other party had just stumbled upon it by accident.

It's only in the past two days that the wind and sand have been so strong that they block vision. The other party might simply be afraid that someone would take advantage of the wind and sand to deal with him, so he rushed to set up these traps, and luckily he was caught off guard.

When Jiang Muyun thought of this possibility, he felt a little more at ease.

This is what it means to be an old bandit who has been doing evil for many years.

First, they simply gave up the outlying areas that were already out of their control, using the completely unguarded areas to lower people's vigilance. Then, they set traps around their own nest, using the inconspicuous yet hard-to-defend traps made from the thorns on the tree trunks.

Anyone who came here today except Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, who have been hunting in the jungle for years and are used to all kinds of traps, would probably have fallen into the trap.

Their plan had considered what to do if the other party was prepared, but they had not expected the traps to be so cunning and ingenious.

Jiang Muyun didn't discuss with Meng San whether to use force or not. He just pretended he didn't hear him and whispered to the others, "We have to change the original plan, otherwise the other teams will be caught when they go up the mountain."

Jiang Muyun estimated the visibility in the wind and sand, then turned to look at Chu Buwen.

Chu Buwen drew the short knife from his waist and said, "I'll go with you and clear out all the eyes around here."

Jiang Muyun nodded.

At this time, among all the people present, she was only confident in Chu Buwen's ability.

When it comes to using hot weapons, Jiang Muyun really can't compare to Captain Yu and the others. But when it comes to cold weapons, she's not bragging, but Captain Yu, Meng San, and their two deputies combined are probably no match for Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen.

Jiang Muyun looked at Meng San's assistant, who was very familiar with the terrain of Nanshan and the surrounding areas, and asked, "I wonder what your name is, sir? Would you be willing to take us on this trip?"