Chapter 17: The Japanese Were Too Smart, Almost Got Exposed

What to do?

Looking at the Japanese soldiers scattered under the tree, wandering around as if searching for something,

Jiang Yu hesitated—whether to shoot the stones or not.

If she didn’t shoot, it wasn’t good. If she did, it wasn’t good either.

Damn it!

They were too close. No matter whether she shot or not, these guys would probably find her, right?

If they started firing wildly again, she would be finished…

But it was too late to climb down and find another tree now.

Wait!

Why is it too late?

She didn’t have to stay in the tree!

Since she was invisible now, she could just quickly climb down and blend into the crowd of soldiers!

After all, no matter how wildly they shot, they wouldn’t shoot their own people, right?

“Damn it! Was my brain totally fogged earlier? Why didn’t I think of just going around the other way?”

Almost crying at her own stupidity, Jiang Yu wasted no time and quickly climbed down from the tree.

Then!

“Bang bang bang…”

As soon as she got down, the Japanese soldiers, having waited long enough for her to act again,

seemed to have confirmed something.

They aimed at the surroundings and the trees, opening a furious barrage of gunfire.

“Phew! That was close…”

Jiang Yu cautiously mixed into the crowd of soldiers, watching the big trees get shredded like snowflakes from the gunfire.

Her hands and feet went ice-cold from the fright.

“Baka—”

After several rounds of volley fire, the expected culprit still hadn’t appeared.

The Japanese soldiers had to stop shooting.

They chatted loudly in their harsh language.

Each of them tensed up and started stepping backward slowly toward the edge of the forest.

Were they… retreating?

Damn it!

What now?

She didn’t want to let these guys get away.

Trailing closely behind one soldier as he retreated, Jiang Yu grew anxious and quickly calculated in her head.

If she used a stone to take out the soldier in front of her, then before the others could react, could she quickly find another soldier to use as a shield?

Thankfully,

after running the scenario through her mind a few times, she found that as long as she moved fast enough, the plan was still doable.

So Jiang Yu confirmed her next “shield” and two backups.

Immediately, she sprang into action.

While shooting a stone, she quickly moved her steps and hid behind “Shield Number One.”

Only—

The expected scene of the other soldiers wildly spraying bullets didn’t happen.

The soldiers acted as if they didn’t notice their comrade falling.

Instead, they suddenly quickened their pace, retreating toward the forest edge.

Jiang Yu miscalculated and almost bumped right into “Shield Number One.”

Startled, she didn’t even have time to find the next shield and ended up killing that guy with a stone.

But…

the soldiers still didn’t open fire.

What was going on?

Were they out of bullets?

Impossible!

Suddenly,

a chilling sense of danger surged.

Without thinking, Jiang Yu bounced off behind her shield and jumped up to a big tree behind her.

She quickly threw a few grenades toward where she had stood earlier to block their advance.

Then, pulling out a flying tiger claw from her space, she threw it to a nearby tree and swung like a monkey onto it.

“Boom boom boom…”

“Bang bang bang…”

“Baka…”

Clinging tightly to the tree trunk, listening to the explosions behind her that hadn’t stopped yet.

Gunfire and the screams of the Japanese soldiers sounded immediately.

Only then did Jiang Yu slightly relax, feeling her chest throb painfully from the intense tension.

Damn it!

These guys were too clever.

Earlier, they had judged her approximate location from the wounds on their comrades.

Just now, extra footprints nearly got her riddled with bullets.

No good!

This tree wasn’t safe anymore either.

Who knows if they might have somehow figured out she was behind this tree for some reason she hadn’t thought of yet!

Jiang Yu quickly retracted her flying tiger claw and threw it to another big tree.

As soon as the gunfire stopped, she grabbed the rope and swung over.

While in mid-air, she didn’t forget to toss a few grenades into the crowd of Japanese soldiers.

“Boom boom boom…”

“Bang bang bang…”

The familiar sounds of explosions, gunfire, and screams rang out again.

Hiding behind the tree, Jiang Yu glanced sideways and saw two soldiers circling the tree she had just left, searching for something.

Wait… that’s mud!

Following their gaze, Jiang Yu noticed some sticky mud mixed with rotting leaves clinging to the tree trunk.

That means…

She immediately lowered her gaze.

Sure enough!

Her shoes were covered with the same mud and rotting leaves.

These had stuck after she turned invisible.

Meaning they couldn’t turn invisible with her.

Just like the footprints she left on the ground earlier, the soldiers could easily track her by these clues.

In an instant,

cold sweat poured down Jiang Yu’s back.

She quickly took off her shoes and changed into a fresh pair.

Once the gunfire stopped, she immediately moved to the next tree.

Again, she threw some grenades to temporarily block the soldiers.

Once the gunfire ceased, she quickly moved to another tree…

And repeated the cycle.

Jiang Yu kept switching trees, throwing grenades.

Her goal was to never give the Japanese time to think.

Even if they did think, she wouldn’t give them time to find her.

Until finally—

The gunfire stopped completely!

Suddenly, the Japanese scattered and fled in all directions.

Jiang Yu, still holding grenades, was momentarily stunned watching them run off.

She didn’t even consider if it was a trap.

She quickly switched from grenades to stones and fired at the fleeing soldiers.

Unfortunately!

She only managed to hit about ten, and the rest got away.

Oh well!

Don’t chase a cornered enemy—uh, or rather, she didn’t even know whom to chase, as soldiers fled in several directions.

Jiang Yu turned toward the wooden cabin and tossed a bunch of ropes to Liang Mengwen.

She told him to tie up all the remaining live Japanese soldiers.

Then she went to collect the unconscious or dying soldiers into her space pocket, making sure they were truly dead.

Only after confirming everything was safe did she finally relax.

Then she squatted down and started vomiting heavily.

After a long time, she even vomited bile before finally stopping.

Then she skillfully rinsed her mouth with water, took a deep breath, and quickly turned to enter the cabin as if nothing had happened.

No choice!

The matter wasn’t over yet!

Outside the cabin,

Liang Mengwen had already tied up the four live soldiers and brought them over.

“Master… all the people have been brought here.”

“Hmm! You step aside first.”

Looking at the Japanese soldiers, hands tied behind their backs and still babbling nonsense on the ground,

Jiang Yu, to be safe, put on gloves and crushed each of their arms one by one.

She also searched their bodies before finally relaxing.

“Tell me! What useful information did you overhear before?”

Jiang Yu sat down on a chair under the eaves, checking the guns she had just collected.

She asked Liang Mengwen.

“Uh… Master… They thought they encountered some mountain ghosts earlier, so they were too scared to say anything useful…”

There had been at least thirty or forty soldiers.

Only a handful managed to escape.

Liang Mengwen was very relieved that his previous little schemes while Jiang Yu was fighting the soldiers hadn’t been put into action.

Otherwise…

He glanced secretly at Jiang Yu and saw her frowning deeply.

He thought for a moment and hurried to continue:

“But I do know the reason why they fled later — because they ran out of bullets…”