The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 489

With a creased map in hand, Percival trekked alongside Soren to a nearby abandoned mine.

At the mine's entrance, they stumbled upon a covert mark of White Tiger etched into the rock face, its meaning unclear yet undeniably significant. And there, scattered nearby, lay a cache of critical documents belonging to CK.

"Base, this is Soren. We've found the mark," Soren hollered into his headset.

A different voice crackled back, not Micah's as expected, but that of the HQ commander. "Copy that. Proceed underground."

Exchanging a glance, Percival and Soren strapped on their oxygen masks and descended into the bowels of the earth.

Markers bearing White Tiger's emblem appeared sporadically along the mine's tunnels-faded, but a trail they could follow nonetheless.

As they ventured deeper, the air grew thin, and a faint, metallic scent of blood wafted from the depths.

Suddenly, a clod of earth tumbled from directly above Percival.

"Run!" Percival barked, his eyes dark with urgency.

With lightning reflexes, Soren signaled to the team behind them, and the third squad retreated in a disciplined dash toward the exit.

Then, a thunderous collapse echoed from behind Soren.

"Captain!" He yelled.

"Get out of here. That's an order!" Percival's voice crackled through the headset as Soren could only glimpse his silhouette through the narrowing gaps in the debris.

"Captain, I'll get you out!" Soren halted along with a few others.

Percival's voice was icy. "Get lost. After you're out, find Vivienne!"

Leopold and Thomas, sensing the gravity of the situation, called out, "Captain, report your status!"

"Mine... Collapse... Get out..."

faded into

they could get close, a helicopter buzzed overhead, raining down bullets like a hailstorm. Leopold and Thomas fought back

Thomas, Leopold boosted their firepower

mic, "Wolf, unidentified forces are attacking from above. Evacuate

headset, shouting to Soren, "Comms are jammed. There's a signal

battle above, Soren knew

only chance was to escape and return with

vowed, "Captain, wait for my

without injuries-broken limbs

to life with Micah's voice urging Wolf to

radioed, "HQ, Wolf's comms are down. Send me the coordinates of the hostile

consider the consequences. They had to down the helicopters to cut off the attack and minimize

cursed and relayed the

swiftly ended the fight, downing two helicopters, while the third

at the rendezvous point, with casualties among them, they awaited

Percival's location to Leopold, insisting they

rifles from the other members and strapped them on, his voice a mix of anger and

follow, dizziness from blood loss

report and heal. Or the

limping with a cane, stormed over, nearly collapsing. "Everyone, back

captain is still in there!"

was not only his captain but his dear friend who grew up with him. There was no way he

"Look at your men. They're heavily wounded, and their lives matter,

Leopold aside and took Soren from Thomas. "Get him treated, then

urgent news.

grabbed the handset. "This is

you to wait for satellite confirmation before proceeding. Do you

to enter the mine. When were we told to stand by?" Soren

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