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

toward Percival's last known location. However, before they could get close, a helicopter buzzed overhead, raining down bullets like a hailstorm. Leopold

Thomas, Leopold boosted their

into the mic, "Wolf,

aside his useless headset, shouting to Soren, "Comms are jammed. There's a signal blocker somewhere.

above, Soren knew staying meant certain death for

was to escape and return with reinforcements for

Soren vowed, "Captain,

though not without injuries-broken limbs and, for

crackled back to life with Micah's voice urging Wolf to pull

comms are down. Send me the coordinates

to down the helicopters to

and relayed the

the fight,

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

relayed Percival's location to Leopold, insisting they had

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

Soren turned to follow, dizziness from blood

to report and heal. Or the captain will have

limping with a cane, stormed over, nearly

captain is still in there!" Leopold roared, defiance written

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

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

shoved Leopold aside and took Soren from Thomas. "Get him

operator approached with urgent news. "Deputy director,

handset. "This is

you to wait for satellite confirmation before proceeding. Do you not understand 'stand by"?" Soren overheard the loud

the mine. When were we told to stand

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