864: Chapter 854: Not a Forever Goodbye 864: Chapter 854: Not a Forever Goodbye Gao Yang anxiously waited to reestablish contact with the personnel on the ground, constantly observing from the plane window, hoping that those awaiting rescue might clear a landing area and provide guidance despite the communication breakdown.
While watching, Gao Yang suddenly saw a misty wisp resembling a cloud flickering across his vision.
Gao Yang’s heart skipped a beat, and he immediately shouted, “Speed up the plane!
Lower the altitude!”
Lucica also looked pale, urgently saying, “It’s going to rain!”
In the tropical rainforest, rain was nothing unusual, even if it had been clear skies just a moment ago.
Given the high temperatures and humidity, the evaporation of ground moisture would quickly form clouds and then pour down heavy rain.
Gao Yang wasn’t very worried about the rain; he was more concerned about strong winds and lightning.
Heavier rain would reduce visibility, increasing the danger of parachuting, but one could still insist on jumping.
However, if there was heavy wind and a thunderstorm, parachuting would truly be a death sentence.
Friend of Nature ran out of the cockpit, urgently saying, “It’s going to rain!
We’re already quite close to the target point, but searching for the ground personnel’s position could take a considerable amount of time.”
Gao Yang sternly said, “Keep trying to contact the ground personnel.”
Friend of Nature urgently asked, “Can they clear a landing area now and directly provide guidance?”
Gao Yang shook his head, “No, from clearing the landing site to our actual landing, the enemy won’t give us much time.
If they start clearing now, they might all be wiped out by the time we reach the ground.”
Just then, the radio operator finally shouted, “Contact made!”
Amid the crackling static, someone was hastily speaking through the radio, but it was still too far to make out what was being said clearly.
Gao Yang shouted, “We’re very close now, keep moving closer until we can communicate normally.
Keep calling until we can establish clear contact!”
At that moment, after Friend of Nature exchanged a few words with the pilot, he shouted to Gao Yang, “We’re about to reach the target point we were given!”
Gao Yang said with a stern voice, “Lower the altitude, start circling and searching, and wait to establish contact with the ground personnel.”
After just two minutes, the radio communication suddenly became clear.
“The landing site can’t be cleared, we need space and time.
Repeat, we are engaged with the enemy, landing site can’t be cleared, we need space and time!”
Gao Yang immediately grabbed the radio microphone and said sternly, “I am a rescuer, identify yourselves, and explain your situation in as much detail as possible.”
“I am Jackal!
The enemy has intensified their attack, but their offensive force is not very strong; they are intentionally dragging this out and exhausting us; we can’t clear a landing ground!”
While Gao Yang was talking with Huan, just as Gao Yang was about to speak, another person suddenly shouted urgently, “Bulldozer hit!
Need support, Bulldozer hit!
I’m going to retrieve the C4!”
Gao Yang’s heart sank.
Nicknamed Bulldozer, also called Gas Can, the man was the heavy weapons operator and the only blaster.
If he was hit, the possibility of clearing a landing site would not be great.
Friend of Nature turned pale, suddenly rushed to the radio, and after snatching the microphone from Gao Yang’s hand, he seemed unable to press the transmit button.
“Bulldozer has been hit, he’s badly wounded, he’s dying, Chainsaw has been hit too, C4 is on Bulldozer, the enemy has blocked any chance of our rescue, we can’t use C4 to blow the trees anymore, a landing site can’t be cleared, Boss, I know you’re listening, leave now, there’s no chance left, take care of our families.”
Huan’s voice was calm but also carried a tone of despair.
Tears streamed down Friend of Nature’s face.
He pressed the communicator with trembling hands, his voice quivering, “Jackal, hold on, just hold on!
I’m coming to save you, just hold on, I’m begging you, hold on…”
“Boss, don’t make a futile sacrifice, you won’t make it out alive, you need to help take care of our families, so you better leave immediately.
We’re shutting down the radio, Old friend, farewell!”
Gao Yang sighed deeply and lowered his head, while Friend of Nature, shouting hoarsely, said, “Don’t turn off the radio, I order you not to turn off the radio!
Huan, I beg you, don’t switch it off!”
The radio no longer responded.
Friend of Nature released the communicator and slumped into the seat next to the radio, then despairingly looked at Gao Yang and asked, “Is there really nothing we can do?
Not even a little chance?”
Gao Yang silently shook his head.
Gao Yang’s heart was also in turmoil, as the people needing rescue were within reach, yet as distant as heaven and earth, this was the distance between life and death.
Friend of Nature covered his face with his hands, then buried his head deeply.
After a sigh, Gao Yang gently shook his head at Satan’s men, signaling that their mission was over this time.
Gao Yang’s heart ached, he was also moved by the bond among Friend of Nature and his group, but though moved by emotion and troubled by pain, Gao Yang wouldn’t send his men to their deaths.
The airplane was still circling; Friend of Nature couldn’t give the order to leave, and just then, Rafael suddenly pointed at the ground and shouted, “Look there!
There’s a clearing!”
Gao Yang ran to the side of the cabin where Rafael was, looked down, and saw a large hole in the rainforest, like a pit had appeared on the green land.
Lucica also saw that large hole and immediately said, “This is a clearing formed by a large tree falling after dying!”
Gao Yang shouted immediately, “Lower the altitude, fly above that clearing!”
Friend of Nature raised his head, like a drowning man grasping at straws, rushed to the left window for a glance, and then also shouted excitedly, “Pilot!
Hurry up!”
The plane changed direction and lowered its altitude, circling back and forth over the clearing that appeared in the rainforest.
As the altitude reached nearly three hundred meters, Gao Yang could see the clearing in the rainforest more clearly.
After looking several times, Lucica said gravely, “It looks like the clearing hasn’t been there long, there aren’t any large trees that could be lethal yet, but, the space is too small!”
Trees need sunlight, so the trees of the rainforest all grow upwards desperately, striving for living space to receive sunlight, and some old trees that have lived for a long time, when they fall, form a clearing, and the saplings that receive sunlight grow quickly, becoming new victors among the many competitors, and the clearing persists until new tree canopies fill it up, but the trees in the rainforest grow very fast, so this period is not very long.
After looking over it, Gao Yang also sighed, “The space is too small.”
Friend of Nature was extremely tense, his voice trembling, “Ram, I beg you.”
Gao Yang frowned and said, “It’s not that I don’t want to help you, it’s just that this space is really too small, it’s very hard to guarantee we could land in that clearing by parachuting, and besides, the situation on the ground is also unclear, I’m sorry, I can’t take this risk.”
Just then, Rafael said in a low voice, “Boss, I think the chances that we can land in that space are still pretty good, at least a seventy percent chance we can make it, and if all of us jump into that space, the chances of an accident occurring would be quite high, but if only I jump, I have a seventy percent chance of success, I think it’s worth a try.”
Parachuting solo, the failure rate is thirty percent, the risk is high but within an acceptable range, but if twelve people all jump down, even if each person’s failure rate is around thirty percent, probabilistically, this almost certainly means that something will go wrong.
Gao Yang frowned and asked, “You mean, you alone jump down, and then establish the airborne site?”
Rafael nodded and said, “Exactly, I need at most ten minutes, then I can create a sufficiently safe landing site!
Boss, I don’t want to just go back, I volunteer to take this risk.”
Friend of Nature pleaded sadly, “Ram, please, please.”
Gao Yang immediately said, “Prepare to parachute, the altitude five hundred meters.”
The plane slightly raised its altitude and then opened the side cabin door, the fierce airflow causing everything in the cabin to fly around.
Gao Yang and Rafael put on goggles, stood at the cabin entrance, and when the plane passed over the clearing again, Gao Yang shouted, “Jump!”
Rafael leapt from the cabin, not releasing his parachute hastily, but instead spread his arms to adjust his direction, rapidly descending toward the not very large space on the ground.
However, close to the clearing and at an altitude less than two hundred meters, Rafael finally released his parachute.
The feeble airflow pushed Rafael’s parachute towards the direction of the clearing, Rafael maneuvered the parachute for fine adjustments, and in a very short time arrived above the clearing.
The space, which looked large from the ground, passed in a flash from the air, and Rafael finally landed within the extent of the clearing just before flying out of its range, and after entering a space surrounded by large trees, there was no wind anymore.
“Fork has landed safely!
Repeat, Fork has landed safely!”
Finally, Gao Yang heard Rafael’s report, waved his fist, and after a long sigh of relief, shouted, “Everyone, prepare to parachute, Bat and Toad go down in the first group, Little Fly and Tyrannosaurus in the second group, Test Tube!
You and Quick Hand in the third group!
After you reach the ground, establish the first assault group and move toward Friend of Nature’s people, Bat to command!”
In the rainforest, roles like snipers, machine gunners, and gunners were essentially useless, and Friend of Nature’s people didn’t have much time to wait, so, Lucica needed to lead the first assault group’s people to hurry over.
After speaking to everyone, Gao Yang shouted at Friend of Nature, “Contact your people, if they see the parachutes, they should know what happened and reach out to you, if they haven’t seen them, then find a way to contact them, tell them there’s no need for farewells!” (To be continued.
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