"What do you think?" The Grim Reaper looked at me and asked for advice, it was up to us to decide whether to withdraw or advance, and as for the order of the military, it was just a piece of waste paper.

"Is there any other way but to march? We don't care, how do these recruits go back, after all, it's your students who can't leave it alone! I shrugged, it was unknown whether these soldiers would be able to get out of the woods without us.

"No matter what you decide, Maluso and I'm going to decide, God's people are suffering, and I can't stand idly by!" The goddess inserted the freshly pressed magazine into the chamber of the gun, stood up and said in a tone of no doubt.

"She's going west, and we're going to have to go west, is there any other choice?" The devil buckled his helmet on his head, and looked like he obeyed the orders of the goddess.

"That's it, it's redundant to ask!" I glanced blankly at death, turned around and followed the devil to gather troops.

"I'm afraid that you won't go, ask for opinions, what kind of attitude do you have? Assassin, get out of the way, Lao Tzu wants to be a spearhead. "Death is still in full swing, and he rarely has a very deep look when he is not serious, but when he throws a grenade, it is a different matter.

"I'm afraid you'll be killed by a mine!" I didn't look back.

"I can't die if you die, and the mines that can blow up Lao Tzu haven't been made yet." The Grim Reaper took a few quick steps to overtake me and ran to the front of the group in one go.

Looking at his back, I smiled, carrying a sniper rifle and waiting for the artillery and medical soldiers behind to come and walk with them.

There was no danger along the way, but there was no road in the mountains and jungles at all, so they could only move forward while opening the road, and it was particularly difficult to walk with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and the team of more than 300 people marched hard in this deep mountain and old forest.

Fortunately, there is plenty of water in the jungle, and there are several rivers and mountain springs along the way, otherwise the soldiers will collapse from dehydration and hunger before they go out, knowing that we have no food rations at all.

Luckily, Basilan is not too big, this jungle is more than fifty kilometers from east to west, we have already walked half of it before, and the remaining twenty kilometers, if we don't rest, we will be able to enter Maluso in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Human potential is unlimited, after breaking through the limit again and again, I understand the meaning of this sentence better, just like these soldiers in front of them who still move forward mechanically after reaching the limit of physical fitness, many people have symptoms of trance, do not know what they are doing, and move forward like sleepwalking.

This battle is not so much a test of combat as a training of the devil, and I think that the soldiers who can survive this level will become the elite of the army in the future.

As night fell, the soldiers turned on their flashlights and continued to move forward, countless points of light rose in the forest like a long dragon, fortunately, the enemy's main forces were attacking Maluso and had no time to take care of it, otherwise these bright lights would make the enemy snipers roll one by one, which was simply a live target.

At about eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, according to the electronic map, we were less than three kilometers from the road to Maluso, and by this time there were already soldiers fainting, which greatly slowed down the march, and we had already heard the roar of artillery fire in the distance, and the battle had not ended for a day and a night, which was a bit unexpected for us.

Seeing that these soldiers are on the verge of collapse, if they don't rest, they will die, after all, there are still so many wounded.

The most anxious among us is the goddess, listening to the fierce gunfire in the distance, she wants to put on her wings and fly to the battlefield, I have always wondered why the believers in the Mediterranean have so much reverence for her, now I may understand a little, she is a hero in the hearts of believers, a god who will fall from heaven when she suffers, maybe this is why she became a mercenary, because God and the Bible can cross thousands of people but cannot stop the flying bullets.

"If you don't want your students to die, I'd suggest you stop and rest." I called the Grim Reaper and the devil on the radio.

"Maluso is right in front of you." The devil doesn't seem to have any intention of stopping.

"What if you get to the barracks and the military puts these soldiers into battle right away? Then your commands will not work. "In the eyes of the military, these newly trained militia-like units are cannon fodder, and it is impossible for them to eat and drink enough to sleep before going to war.

"The Assassin is right, stop going, rest where you are, and enter the city at dawn!" The Grim Reaper gave the order directly.

"Then we'll see you in Maluso!" I smiled and said a word, and then hurried to catch up with the goddess in front of me.

"What do you mean, what are you going to do?" The devil asked, confused.

"Thea and I will go to the city first, and go to the church over there to beg for food!" I really can't see the goddess's anxious look, I haven't seen her so nervous when I'm injured, provided it's a minor injury, not a life-threatening kind.

"Be careful, enemy bullets don't have eyes, I don't want to collect your body early tomorrow morning." The devil's mouth is always so bad.

"I'm very satisfied to have someone collect the body, it's better than you starving to death here." I smiled indifferently and hurried to catch up with Thea, who was waiting for me.

After snatching the digital map from the Grim Reaper and finding the location of the church in the city of Maluso, the goddess and I went it alone, and without the burden, we turned up our speed to the extreme, and quickly passed through the remaining three kilometers of jungle and disappeared like a ghost in the darkness.

On the road, the city was in sight, the night sky was reddened by the cannon fire, and the fierce gunfire continued, and from our position, the exchange of fire should have been in the southwest of Maluso, and according to the markings on the electronic map, the church was in that area.

"Damn the infidels, they must have sneaked up on the church." The goddess scolded through gritted teeth.

"Don't worry, it's not the first time you've been attacked, and those believers won't wait to die." I comforted her.

"God willing, I hope you're right, let's go, go in and see." The goddess looked at me, and then strode toward the city.

Bypassing the roads blocked by government forces, we crept into the city, where the streets were littered with bullet casings, collapsed houses, destroyed vehicles, and mutilated corpses, civilians, government troops, and bandits.

"The fighting is so fierce, it seems that the purpose of the rebels is to occupy Maluso, and the information given to us by the military is inaccurate!" I stepped on bullet casings and looked around, and there were many civilians in the houses on both sides who poked out, and when they saw us, they immediately retracted, and their fear of war could be seen in their panicked eyes.

"Only an idiot would believe the words of those bureaucrats!" The goddess said coldly with disdain.

"Fortunately, the government forces have kept the city, and there are no bandits to be seen here." The exchange of fire was mainly concentrated in the southwest corner of the city, indicating that the government forces had compressed the militants from the city to the edge of the city, and by the time reinforcements arrived, it was only a matter of time before the enemy was annihilated.

(End of chapter)