312: Chapter 310: Thunder 312: Chapter 310: Thunder Morgan really did him a solid, and Gao Yang was at a loss for words.
He said solemnly, “Morgan, thank you, but we really don’t need this many people.
My guys are more than enough.”
“You don’t know what you’re up against, so having more people is always better than fewer.
Listen to me, don’t be impulsive, don’t rush.
Wait for reinforcements before you make a move.
If things turn out to be easier than expected, then my men can simply return, it’s just a waste of time, no big deal.
Now tell me your position.”
Gao Yang glanced at the situation with the poachers and said urgently, “I don’t have time to talk much now.
Here’s the deal, if I do need help, I won’t be polite about it.
I’ll tell Li Jinfang and then have him contact you.
But I have to hang up now, I’ll turn off my phone, and I’ll call you when I can get in touch, that’s it.”
After hanging up, Gao Yang promptly turned off the satellite phone, feeling that things might have gotten a bit out of hand, The last thing he wanted was for his mission of vengeance to turn into a war against the entire Nuer United Front.
No matter how much he troubled Li Jinfang and Cui Bo, Gao Yang would never feel uneasy.
They were brothers in life and death.
To bear this burden alone without asking for help at this point would truly be failing to treat them as brothers.
However, having Morgan also muster his forces on his behalf was something Gao felt somewhat guilty about.
Even though he felt guilty, Gao Yang would not really refuse Morgan’s kindness.
The key point was that Morgan was right – no one knew what would happen next.
Having more people to thoroughly crush these scum with the vigor of hunting rabbits with the strength of lions seemed like a good choice too.
After the call brought him help, Gao Yang’s mood relaxed a great deal.
Now he knew that even if he truly died here, others would avenge him.
The poacher who had mentioned the name Nuer United Front to Gao Yang could never have imagined that what he presumed was the formidable Nuer United Front was nothing more than a fart in the eyes of Gao and his men.
If Gao settled his vendetta and left content, that would be the end of it.
But if Gao were to die there, it was uncertain what Morgan would do, but Li Jinfang and Glolov would definitely go all out to annihilate the Nuer United Front.
Even if only the five remaining members of the Satan Mercenary Corps were hell-bent on revenge, the fate of the Nuer United Front would be far from pleasant.
Now Gao Yang was feeling light-hearted with the assurance that his affairs would be taken care of.
However, despite the safety in waiting for the reinforcements, he grew even more impatient for nightfall, particularly as the weather worsened and a thunderstorm was certainly on its way.
The clouds made it pitch-black, and one couldn’t see their hand in front of their face.
But Gao Yang didn’t rush to act; it was still too early, and the poachers would surely be on high alert.
After waiting nearly another hour, when it was almost ten in the evening, thunder began to rumble.
Thanks to the lightning, it was possible to see by the light of the flashes.
The thunder grew louder and more intense, and right after a few drops fell, a torrential rain poured down, calling it a cloudburst was no exaggeration.
The rain was freezing cold and made Gao Yang shiver involuntarily.
After wiping the rain from his face, he set the FAL down on the ground and picked up the AK47 instead.
In the pitch darkness, losing a gun and finding it again was nearly impossible, but Gao Yang had to do this.
The FAL no longer had its range advantage at night, and there were too few bullets, it would be a burden to carry around.
The AK47 was more appropriate at this time.
Crouching down, Gao Yang started to move quickly towards the direction he remembered.
With the pouring rain and sound of thunder, he wasn’t worried about his footsteps being heard.
Gao Yang had been counting his steps to calculate the distance, because he was crouched down, his strides were smaller, but each step he took was definitely sixty centimeters.
As long as he remembered how many steps he had taken, he would also know how far he had gone.
He moved intermittently, silently counting to sixteen hundred steps, which was nearly a kilometer.
Gao Yang slowed his pace then.
During the day, he observed that the enemy should be about thirteen hundred meters away.
Given he didn’t know if the enemy had moved under the cover of night, from now on he had to crawl forward bit by bit.
Lying in the cold rainwater on the ground, Gao Yang began to crawl quickly, and after he had covered approximately two hundred meters, Gao Yang stopped again and then slowly straightened up to observe.
He had now reached the area where the enemy could potentially be hiding.
It was time to try to locate them.
In the pouring rain, the most likely hiding spot was naturally under large trees.
Taking advantage of the light from the lightning, Gao Yang saw the two closest big trees, then immediately turned and crawled toward them.
Gao Yang was very careful as he crawled, fearing he might encounter enemy forces who were also seeking shelter.
However, his progress was very smooth.
In this kind of weather, it was difficult to detect someone even five meters away.
When he was about forty meters away from the two big trees, Gao Yang stopped, then slowly poked his head out to start observing.
One large and one small, the two trees were almost touching.
Waiting for a bright flash of lightning, Gao Yang was thrilled to see that under the larger tree with denser foliage, scattered about, stood a group of about a dozen people, facing almost the same direction.
Gao Yang moved to one side, got behind the dozen or so people, and then focused on the lightning in the sky.
Although the sky was full of lightning, the bolts appeared in every direction, varied in size, and provided differing levels of brightness.
Now, there was nearly a flash of lightning illuminating the ground every second or two.
Gao Yang got back down and then began to look for a region in the sky, waiting for a bright bolt of lightning to flash below his selected area.
After not a very long wait, seeing a dazzling bolt of lightning streak across his chosen part of the sky, Gao Yang immediately began counting silently in his head.
But by the count of six, a thunderclap that matched the intensity of that bolt of lightning exploded, the deafening roar of thunder following, and Gao Yang concluded that the time between the lightning and the thunder was six seconds.
One set of data wasn’t very reliable, but after observing the chosen area of the sky, when he saw the corresponding thunder that matched another major flash of lightning, Gao Yang determined that the time it took for the sound of thunder to reach him from his selected region was six seconds after the flash of lightning.
Because light and sound travel at different speeds, there is a time difference between the sight of the lightning and the sound of the thunder.
Now, it was Gao Yang’s task to utilize his precise control of when thunder would sound.
Taking advantage of the lighting from several consecutive flashes of lightning, Gao Yang aimed his gun at a man standing on the outermost side under a big tree, then he waited for a bolt of lightning in his chosen area.
After counting to six seconds following the flash, Gao Yang immediately pulled the trigger.
(To be continued.
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