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

and Thomas led their teams back toward Percival's last known location. However, before they could get close, a helicopter buzzed overhead, raining down bullets like a hailstorm. Leopold and Thomas fought back

with Thomas, Leopold boosted their

shouted into the mic, "Wolf, unidentified forces

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

battle above, Soren knew staying meant certain

to escape and return with

vowed, "Captain, wait for

the mine, though not without injuries-broken

to life with

comms are down. Send me the coordinates of

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

cursed and relayed the

swiftly ended the fight, downing

casualties among them, they

hastily bandaged, relayed Percival's location to

two rifles from the other members and strapped them on, his voice a mix of anger and resolve. "First squad, anyone who can still move,

turned to follow, dizziness

back to report and

with a cane, stormed over, nearly collapsing.

in there!" Leopold roared, defiance written across his

up with him. There was no way he would let Percival be buried down there

your men. They're heavily wounded, and their lives matter, too. Back to base,

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

news.

handset. "This is

to wait for satellite confirmation before proceeding. Do you

followed orders from HQ to enter the mine. When were

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