The members that had arrived first crouched at the bottom of the mountain, then glared at the top part of it. Kang Chan tightly grabbed the back of the neck of the new recruit who was about to fall. After letting go of the flustered squadmate, he sharply looked around them.

Meanwhile, the chick adjusted his posture.

“Go.”

Gérard ordered three members to scout ahead with Kang Chan’s brief command.

Before them was a long mountain range that looked as if it had multiple mountains overlapping each other. It was actually considerably far from them.

Sunlight occasionally peeked through the tall and straight trees. At some point, they heard a weird bird call that went ‘beep’ amid the wind and the patchy weed.

Kang Chan placed the string of the Abu-Dhabi carbine over his right shoulder and walked with his index finger on the trigger.

They were amid a cool mountain, so they didn’t sweat.

Flap.

Birds flew above them.

Wheeng! Wheeng!

And they even heard the weird cry of a beast.

This was Mongolia.

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