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..."

voice faded

raining down bullets like a hailstorm. Leopold and Thomas fought back while retreating to HQ. But

their firepower and rescued

mic, "Wolf, unidentified forces are attacking from

mine, Percival tossed aside his useless headset, shouting to Soren, "Comms are jammed. There's

battle above, Soren knew staying meant certain

only chance was to escape and return with

vowed, "Captain, wait for

though not without

headset crackled back to life with Micah's voice

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

was no time to consider the consequences. They had to down the helicopters to cut off the

and

swiftly ended the fight, downing two

with casualties among them, they awaited

hastily bandaged, relayed Percival's location to Leopold, insisting

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

stormed over, nearly collapsing. "Everyone, back to base

is still in there!" Leopold

was not only his captain but his dear friend who grew up with him. There was no way he would let Percival be buried down there without

heavily wounded, and their lives matter, too. Back to base, that's an

aside and took Soren from Thomas. "Get him treated, then document everything about

urgent news. "Deputy director, it's the

handset. "This

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

from HQ to enter the mine. When were we told to

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