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

down bullets like a hailstorm. Leopold and Thomas fought back while retreating to HQ. But unfamiliar with the terrain, the front squad often stumbled into collapsing tunnels, with

Thomas, Leopold boosted their firepower and rescued

Micah shouted into the mic, "Wolf, unidentified forces are

Soren, "Comms are jammed. There's a signal blocker somewhere. Go

the battle above, Soren knew staying meant certain

chance was to escape and return with reinforcements

"Captain, wait for my

the mine, though not without

outside, his headset crackled back to life with Micah's voice urging Wolf to

comms are down. Send me the coordinates of the

consequences. They had to down the helicopters to

cursed and relayed the

fight, downing two helicopters,

rendezvous point, with casualties among them, they awaited further

Percival's location to Leopold, insisting they had to

strapped them on, his voice a mix of anger and resolve. "First squad, anyone who can still move, on me." Thomas echoed the

dizziness from

report and

with a cane, stormed over, nearly

is still in there!" Leopold roared, defiance written across his

who grew up with him. There was no way he would

stood firm. "Look at your men. They're heavily wounded, and their lives matter, too. Back to base, that's

Thomas. "Get him treated, then document everything about the

urgent news.

the handset. "This is

confirmation before proceeding. Do you not understand 'stand by"?"

enter the mine. When were we

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