Invincible through Touching Corpses

No one objected to Lin Xinghai’s proposal.

For one, Lin Xinghai had already demonstrated his terrifying stealth capabilities on their way here.

For another, they clearly remembered that Lin Xinghai’s maximum Speed could reach 6,700 points.

He had the experience and the Speed. If they insisted on following him, they would only slow him down.

Having quickly reached a consensus, Lin Xinghai opened the map in his hand and traced a winding, virtual line across it with his finger.

"This is the route I’ll be taking," he said, tapping a series of red dots onto the map.

"These are the locations of hidden lookouts. I’ll take care of the ones along my path. But you’ll have to figure out how to avoid the ones on the periphery. Any problems?"

"No problem," Fu Yuan answered immediately.

They were special forces operators, after all. If they couldn’t even manage this after Lin Xinghai had laid it all out for them, they might as well retire on the spot.

Lin Xinghai said no more. He put away the map, and after confirming the jamming device was functioning properly, he vanished from sight in a flash.

’So fast!’ Although they were mentally prepared, seeing Lin Xinghai’s Speed firsthand still gave them a jolt.

And it wasn’t just his simple quickness. What was more terrifying was his ability to move without a sound.

Fast and stealthy—that was the truly terrifying part.

"Let’s go. We’ll proceed according to plan," Fu Yuan said in a low voice after taking a deep breath.

The members of the Wolf Hunting Squad began to advance, moving cautiously and using the surrounding obstacles to conceal themselves as much as possible.

They suddenly found it unsettling to move without Lin Xinghai leading the way.

Fu Yuan, now leading the group, felt the difference most acutely. A moment ago, he had been following Lin Xinghai, free to just focus on moving forward without a single other thought.

Now, even though Lin Xinghai was clearing the main lookouts, they had to advance with their nerves stretched taut, afraid of being spotted by any hidden sentries.

The difficulty was leagues beyond what it had been before.

However, Fu Yuan and the others had undergone countless hours of training and possessed a wealth of combat experience. They quickly adjusted their mindset and advanced with speed and stealth.

After advancing about thirty meters, they all instinctively turned their gazes toward a small pile of rocks to the side.

According to Lin Xinghai’s briefing, a lookout was hidden within that rock pile.

After scrutinizing it, they finally made out a figure lying prone amidst a pile of rubble, with only a tiny part of his head exposed.

But now, the man had a fatal wound on his temple.

His eyes were wide with confusion, a clear sign that he hadn’t noticed anything unusual even at the moment of his death.

Fu Yuan led his men closer. He saw that the wound had been treated with a special gel to prevent any blood or its scent from escaping. A thumb-sized jammer had been placed nearby.

The main function of this micro-jammer was to block any life-sign monitoring alarms the person might have. With the jammer in place, the alarms couldn’t transmit any signals, delaying the discovery of the body.

Seeing how clean and efficient both the kill and the cleanup were, Fu Yuan had nothing left to worry about. He continued to lead his team forward.

But the farther they advanced, the more on edge he became.

He was discovering that the number of lookouts along this route was unusually high.

’If Lin Xinghai hadn’t been leading the way this time, even if our own captain weren’t injured, who knows how much trouble we’d have run into.’

’We probably would have wasted most of our time just on the infiltration phase.’

’By the time we successfully entered their underground base, there wouldn’t be nearly enough time left to carry out the sabotage.’

Musing on these things, he continued to advance with stealth and speed. Soon, they had nearly completed the one-kilometer trek.

They finally reached the target entrance provided by the Military Department.

This so-called entrance was actually a secure, secret passage for the underground base.

It was meant for personnel to use as a temporary retreat in an emergency.

But now that their intelligence operatives had discovered it, it would naturally serve as an infiltration point for their mission.

Of course, they didn’t head straight for it. Instead, they went to a nearby cluster of rocks—the designated rendezvous point with Lin Xinghai.

"Captain, what’s the plan?" Fu Yuan asked in a low voice.

The entrance was disguised as a small cave, but the area around it was wide open. If they walked right up to it, even a casual glance from a distance would reveal that something was wrong.

"There are a total of five lookouts over there," Lin Xinghai began. "I’ll go take them out first, then I’ll bring Ping Zeyan over."

At this, Lin Xinghai’s gaze shifted to Ping Zeyan. "Once I get you over there, I need you to release your Superpower as fast as you can to put us both in a state of camouflaged Invisibility. The others will follow. Any problems?"

Fu Yuan wanted to ask if this was too reckless. According to the plan, Lin Xinghai would have to take on five lookouts by himself.

In the past, a problem like this would have required the entire squad to move out, with each member assigned a target to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible.

But then Fu Yuan remembered the trail of fallen lookouts from the last kilometer. He swallowed his concerns and simply said, "No problem."

"Good!" The word had barely left Lin Xinghai’s lips when everyone’s vision blurred. He was already gone.

This time, knowing his destination, they all instinctively looked toward the cave entrance.

Even so, all they could see was an extremely faint shadow that flickered past, almost like a hallucination.

And that was only because they were deliberately watching for it. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have noticed a thing.

’Incredible!’ Fu Yuan couldn’t help but marvel.

It was the first time he’d realized that pure Speed, when pushed to a certain limit, could be this terrifying.

He had barely finished that thought when, in a blur, Lin Xinghai returned.

Before they could even react, he vanished again, taking Ping Zeyan with him.

"Let’s go. We’re moving up," Fu Yuan said in a low voice after a moment’s pause, taking the lead.

The others quickly followed.

By the time they reached the entrance, Ping Zeyan’s Superpower was fully active. As long as they didn’t make any sudden movements, even a patrol passing nearby would be completely unable to spot them.

"It’s your turn to handle what’s next," Lin Xinghai said, gesturing toward the cave.

The cave was just a facade. From their angle, they could clearly see an Alloy door sealing the entrance.

Upon hearing this, Fu Yuan immediately glanced at a teammate beside him.

Without needing a prompt, the man immediately pulled a device from his combat pack, stepped forward, and attached it to the electronic lock to begin the rapid decoding process.