King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer
Chapter 1170 - 1022: Drug Dealer Ambush

While the outside world was busy, Boss Qiao and his team were trudging through the rainforest.

To avoid possible enemy ambushes and not delay the rescue mission, Joe Ga and his team also chose to take a detour.

Originally estimated to take three days to reach the rescue site, Joe Ga's team took an extra half-day.

When Joe Ga and his team traversed a swamp and arrived at the plane crash site, Tony collapsed onto the ground...

"Boss, let me rest for a few minutes, I can't hold on..."

Dorian, acting as the vanguard, glanced disdainfully at Tony and said, "You're lowering the standard of P·B, you slacker..."

Joe Ga took a sip of water and gestured for Dorian to say less...

The intense burden of jungle trekking indeed drained physical strength; at this moment, not only Tony the fledgling, but even Boss Qiao himself was having a tough time holding on.

He set down his backpack, adjusted the gun strap at his chest, picked up a machete, and began cutting through the vines ahead while saying, "Stop whining, Tony stay here; the rest check the surroundings for any signs of survivors..."

Joe Ga acted quickly, rapidly approaching the wreckage of the plane, where he discovered three already decomposing corpses.

The two people in the cockpit had clearly died during the crash, and when Joe Ga pulled open the deformed cabin door, he saw a woman's corpse strapped to a seat by a seatbelt inside...

The plane had collided with the jungle after crashing, causing the wings to break and the cabin to tilt. The dead woman's body was twisted, hanging onto the seat, and to Joe Ga's surprise, the level of decomposition on her body was different from that of the two pilots...

Joe Ga squeezed into the cabin with difficulty, looking around but seeing no sign of the children, although he found many cut marks on the locked seatbelt on the woman's body.

He reached out to pinch the woman's arm, finding her body already stiff...

Just as Joe Ga was about to turn back, Med Officer Bird shouted from the other side of the plane, "Boss, this woman died less than 24 hours ago...

Judging by her waist, her vertebrae were dislocated due to the impact at the time of the landing."

As he said this, Med Officer Bird pointed to the position of the luggage compartment at the back of the plane, saying, "This woman was constantly guiding the children on how to survive. All the luggage has been opened...

Shit, only four kids are left alive, and there's an infant among them, we need to find them quickly..."

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga nodded and said, "First, help me get the pilots and this woman down from the plane...

She persisted for three days, she deserves to be laid to rest decently."

Hearing this, Med Officer Bird nodded, circling the plane to help Joe Ga drag the three bodies off, then starting to search all around for traces of the children...

Very soon, Dorian had a discovery. He waved his arms and shouted, "Boss, there's something here, they should have left not too long ago..."

Joe Ga glanced at the corpses on the ground, ran to where Dorian was, and saw a pile of eaten fruit shells on the ground. Reaching down to pick one up, he found that this unknown fruit hadn't completely rotted...

Confirming these were what the children had left behind after eating, Joe Ga utilized the basic tracking skills he learned from Karman. After carefully searching the ground for a while, he quickly identified the footprints...

A few children had been moving around the plane wreckage for a long time; the footprints were extremely cluttered, indicating they had been walking in circles around there.

Joe Ga and his team split up to search, and it wasn't long before Joe Ga found new clues 200 meters from the plane wreckage...

A bit of spilled milk powder, and a small makeshift stove, except the solid fuel inside had completely burned out.

Joe Ga checked the direction, pressed his communicator, and said, "Everyone, converge south with me, those kids are trying to find a way out, heading towards water."

Joe Ga didn't wait idly; he continued along the footprints, searching southward for several hundred meters...

When Dorian and the others caught up, Joe Ga re-shouldered his backpack and said to Tony: "You stay here, deploy the drone to search for suspicious areas.

Those kids still have a baby with them; they can't hold out much longer!"

Tony honestly couldn't move any further; he nodded vigorously and said, "No problem, Boss..."

Joe Ga nodded to the ready Dorian and Med Officer Bird, waving his machete to open the path, and pursued in the direction the children were heading...

In the rainforest, 'short stature' became an advantage. Compared to Boss Qiao and his team's over 1.9 meter height, those kids advanced quite swiftly.

The plant growth in the rainforest was so vigorous that once grass leaves stepped on by the children stood back up, they would cover their footprints.

This made it hard for Joe Ga's team to speed up their tracking until a message came from Tony's side...

"Boss, at 12 o'clock direction, about a kilometer away, someone is lighting a fire..."

Upon hearing this, Joe Ga immediately started accelerating.

There were still about two hours until dark, and they needed to find those kids before nightfall; otherwise, even with night vision equipment, the return journey would be extremely difficult...

Having a precise direction, Joe Ga and his team's speed began to increase, the three of them taking turns opening up the path quickly reached a creek nearby.

They saw on the large stone on the opposite side of the creek was a fire pit still emitting smoke, but no sign of the children...

Exchanging glances with Med Officer Bird and Dorian, the three of them started a detailed search along the upstream and downstream of the creek...

Finally, Joe Ga discovered a little girl holding a baby inside a tree hollow of a large tree, but the other two children were not there...

Joe Ga looked left and right, slinging his rifle over his back as he crouched in front of the tree hollow. He reached out to the little girl with a face full of mud prints and eyes filled with vigilance and unease, saying, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help you...

Come out, I'll take you home..."

The little girl realized she had been discovered. She mumbled something in a language Joe Ga couldn't understand, shrinking desperately into the tree hollow.

Possibly using too much force, the baby in the girl's arms suddenly started crying loudly...

"Wah wah wah..."

As the cries rang out, a yellow figure suddenly darted out from behind a large tree ten meters away...

Joe Ga looked over at the noise and saw a girl wearing a yellow dress...

The girl was holding a branch, screaming as she charged forward, but before she could reach halfway, gunshots rang out from the other side of the creek...

"Bang bang bang..."

"Bang bang bang..."

Joe Ga felt a shock at his waist, then the whole of him fell to the side...

As he hit the ground, he saw the girl running over tremble and then collapse softly to the ground...

Then, another smaller girl burst out of the nearby grass, crying out as she rushed toward the girl in yellow.

Joe Ga lay on the ground, curling his body as much as possible, raising the rifle in his hands to suppress fire in the direction the bullets came from...

"Elephant cover, Medic Bird save them..."

As Joe Ga shouted, he bent his right knee to block the tree hollow and prevent the kids inside from coming out...

Medic Bird picked up the backpack in his hand and started sprinting toward where the girl had fallen...

Dorian wielded the shotgun, emptied it, then grabbed the UMP45, using the large capacity of its extended magazine to begin suppressive fire.

After emptying the bullets in his gun, Joe Ga shouted 'magazine change,' and while the enemy was suppressed by Elephant, he sat up and tossed a smoke grenade across the creek.

As smoke started billowing, Joe Ga replaced the magazine, affixed a thermal scope to his gun, and began rapid fire from the tree hollow's position...

"Ba, ba ba, ba ba..."

There were only six of them; Joe Ga couldn't see their faces clearly, but it didn't stop him from venting his fury...

Dorian made the same choice as Joe Boss, and after a smoke grenade was thrown out, he continued suppressive fire while throwing a grenade as he moved forward...

With a "boom" the enemy's gunfire finally ceased.

At the moment the enemy's gunfire stopped, Joe Ga stood up, distancing himself ten meters from Dorian, and began shooting rapidly...

The smoke from the grenade affected the enemy's aim, and under the crossfire from the two, soon four were killed and the remaining two tried to escape.

The dense jungle limited Joe Boss's shooting ability; by the time he splashed through the creek, the two survivors had already disappeared without a trace.

The attack came too suddenly; Joe Ga earlier didn't even have time to think about where the enemy had emerged from...

But now he understood, those girls were probably hiding not from him but from those gunmen, and he had just stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time.

Staring hard in the direction the enemies fled, Joe Ga spat to the side while clutching his bullet-wounded waist, then walked to the bodies of the fallen enemies...

To his surprise, one of the four killed was still barely alive.

Seeing the man, shot in the abdomen and chest, struggling to breathe with a wheeze, Joe Ga gestured to stop Dorian who was about to finish him off, drew his gun, and finished off the other three before shooting the unlucky man's knee...

"Leave him, let him suffer..."

Saying this, Joe Ga walked to one of the corpses and examined it carefully...

AK rifle, green military uniform, body full of tattoos, arm with drug injection marks...

"FUCK! It's a drug dealer!"

Saying this, Joe Ga waved to Dorian, "Let's get back to the plane crash site first; these guys were probably searching for wreckage.

The plane crash might not have been an accident...

Two got away, more drug dealers will be coming soon."

Dorian immediately realized the issue, destroying the drug dealers' weapons as he said, "It must be that native senator, he said there was a drug dealer hideout near the crash site and that the attacked native village was his hometown..."

Joe Ga was no longer concerned with the senator's issues, shaking his head, saying, "Doesn't matter how he crossed the drug dealers, it's our problem now..."

Looking toward Medic Bird, he said sternly, "Elephant, don't tell Dragon Gecko I got shot; I'm going to kill these bastards before I leave..."