This execution platform was erected temporarily, simply assembled from wood. This very primitive gallows involved placing a noose around the condemned's neck and then directly pulling away the wooden plank beneath their feet, leaving them suspended in the air, rather than hoisting them up from the ground.
Therefore, the Second Squad infiltrated the area beneath the execution platform. When they reached the underside, they slipped into the space below unnoticed by the soldiers above.
"Second Squad is in position."
Upon arrival, the Second Squad immediately reported to Tsugumi.
"Conceal yourselves first. Do not engage."
"Third Squad, move out!"
After confirming the Second Squad's arrival, Tsugumi issued orders to the Third Squad.
"Fourth Squad, stand by."
The Third Squad was responsible for confronting GHQ, led by Yuzuriha Inori and Ouma Shu. As for the Fourth Squad, it was a one-person unit. Ayase, piloting the Endlave independently, utilized stealth technology, hiding nearby. Their primary role was to intercept any potential Endlave teams that might appear, as her large machine was difficult to deploy with so many people around.
Because of the First Squad's gunfire, the crowd was thrown into chaos for a moment, and many people left the square. This allowed Funeral Parlor to begin their operation.
Funeral Parlor members, hidden in various corners of the square, began firing upon the GHQ soldiers surrounding the execution platform.
The sudden attack caught the GHQ soldiers off guard.
"It's Funeral Parlor! Funeral Parlor is attacking!"
This group of soldiers was arranged by Colonel Jon, so they already knew that Funeral Parlor would attack. Therefore, after a brief moment of panic, they quickly formed teams and began to counterattack Funeral Parlor.
When they came out, each of them wore thick bulletproof vests, even on their thighs. After Funeral Parlor opened fire, they completely ignored Kido Shuichiro on the execution platform, directly hiding behind nearby cover and began firing at Funeral Parlor.
This surprised the members of Funeral Parlor. Weren't they afraid of them rushing onto the execution platform?
Tsugumi, who was responsible for commanding from a distance, was also very puzzled, but because the scene was quite chaotic, she didn't have time to think too much about it, and she wasn't very good at playing tactics anyway.
"Second Squad, take advantage of the Third and First Squads drawing fire and move out!"
"Yes!"
The Second Squad, lurking beneath the execution platform, acted immediately upon receiving the order. They used prepared machetes to directly cut the ropes used to secure the wooden plank. The originally closed plank was directly broken open, and Kido Shuichiro, with the rope around his neck, instantly lost his footing. His feet stepped into empty air, and the noose directly tightened around his neck, hanging him in mid-air.
The sudden strangulation of his neck and the suffocating sensation of his breathing being cut off caused Kido Shuichiro to twitch his legs constantly, trying to break free, but with his hands tied behind his back, he couldn't escape at all.
"Quick! Cut the rope!"
The people below reacted quickly, immediately cutting the rope and letting Kido Shuichiro fall down with the noose around his neck.
"Leader, are you alright?"
"I'm mostly fine."
Kido Shuichiro replied coldly.
"How many people came?"
"Everyone has been mobilized. We are the Second Squad."
Kido Shuichiro nodded.
"Give me the communicator."
The squad leader immediately handed over his communicator.
"Tsugumi, there aren't many enemies. Don't delay. After the enemy requests reinforcements, have everyone cover us."
"Understood."
Tsugumi heard Kido Shuichiro's voice and immediately began issuing orders to the various squads. The First and Third Squads began to cover the Second Squad, after all, the Second Squad was under the execution platform. They began to rain down bullets frantically, preventing the GHQ from daring to show their faces from behind cover.
Taking advantage of this time, the Second Squad directly rushed out from under the execution platform, taking Kido Shuichiro all the way to the edge of the square, entering the center of the First and Third Squads.
"Quick, retreat!"
Kido Shuichiro issued the order again, while asking Tsugumi on the other side of the communicator.
"Tsugumi, has Ayase arrived yet?"
"She has arrived. We found a new machine. It's behind the building in the northwest."
"Use the camera to pay attention to the direction of GHQ headquarters. If any machines come out of it, have Ayase intercept them. If not, Ayase should avoid appearing as much as possible, to prevent the enemy from knowing that we have a machine."
"Okay."
"Everyone else, retreat!"
The three squads began to cover each other's retreat. Although they couldn't act as orderly as special forces, they at least cooperated very well. This was also thanks to Kido Shuichiro's usually strict demands and well-trained soldiers.
According to Kido Shuichiro's orders, all three squads retreated to a safe location. Because the GHQ only had three squads, and not much equipment, even without Endlaves, they had no way to stop them, and just let the Funeral Parlor members rescue Kido Shuichiro.
However, the GHQ wasn't worried. Watching Kido Shuichiro being rescued, they weren't angry at all. Instead, they smiled and took out their communicators, contacting Colonel Jon.
"Colonel, the target has been taken away."
"Very good, your mission is complete. What are the losses?"
"Because we were prepared, no one died, except for five brothers who were shot."
"Bring them back for treatment, and then you can take a temporary vacation."
"Yes."
The squad leader, who received Colonel Jon's order, smiled contentedly.
"Alright, brothers, take the wounded brothers and retreat! Retreat quickly!"
The GHQ squad retreated, and the Funeral Parlor members also retreated. Both sides got satisfactory answers.
707. Kido Shuichiro Defects to the Enemy
Within the 24th Ward, the Funeral Parlor members who rescued their leader, after turning left and right, circling around a large area, confirming that there were no GHQ pursuers behind them, finally returned to their new base.
Because Kido Shuichiro had been captured before, the Funeral Parlor's base had to be abandoned, because they didn't know if anyone else had been captured. What if someone was captured and then gave up the location of the base?
After finally returning to the new base, everyone in Funeral Parlor relaxed. The leader was back. This was their most successful battle against GHQ so far. Zero casualties on their side, and they rescued their arrested leader, even from the execution platform.
Although there were very few GHQ people on the execution platform, and not even one Endlave, it was still their victory.
"This is the new base you prepared?"
"Yes, Gai, how is it? I found it."
Inside the new base, Tsugumi showed off to Kido Shuichiro.
"Yes, very good, very hidden, and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a hidden escape route."
"Huh? You noticed?"
"I noticed it when I came in. The layout here, the entry route, only has one on the surface, but in reality, you can retreat from underground, right?"
"As expected of涯!"
鸫 originally wanted Jiang Shenya to praise her, but the other party noticed it as soon as he came over, which made her feel like she had no sense of accomplishment at all.
Jiang Shenya didn't pay attention to 鸫 anymore, but spoke to the other Funeral Parlor members.
"Okay, everyone has worked hard, go and rest. I have something to say to Ayase and the others."
"Yes, leader."
According to Jiang Shenya's instructions, the ordinary members happily left one by one. They had been busy all morning, and now they had finally rescued the captured leader and returned to the safe base, so they could finally rest.
Letting the ordinary members rest, but not everyone would rest. The entire base still needed some people on guard outside. After all, their public execution by GHQ had been disrupted, so they had to retaliate. GHQ would definitely cause trouble in Area 24.
Once they discovered that GHQ had begun to act, they had to prepare to move. As a terrorist organization, all they could do was run around and hide themselves.
"涯, are we going to move?"
As Jiang Shenya's companion, 鸫 understood Jiang Shenya. According to his personality, for the sake of safety and concealment, he would definitely move again to deal with GHQ's possible retaliation. Oh no, it couldn't be said to be possible. According to her understanding of GHQ, being directly robbed of prisoners in person was something they would definitely retaliate against.
"There's no need for the time being. GHQ doesn't have time to deal with us in the short term."
"Ah? Why?"
樱满集 was very confused when he heard Jiang Shenya say that GHQ wouldn't care about him in the short term.
"Yeah, why?"
鸫 was also very curious.
"Because GHQ has more important things to do."
Jiang Shenya's expression was serious.
"After I was captured by GHQ, they didn't target me much, but kept researching the Void Genome. Their research on the Void Genome seems to have made a breakthrough, so they don't care about a small character like me. Even the public execution only sent this little number of people. Even if I run away now, they won't come looking for me, because they will put all their energy into the research on the Void Genome. That's what they value most at this stage."
"So, rather than saying they will come back to chase us, it's better to say they will be holed up in GHQ headquarters to prevent someone from invading and stealing their Void Genome like last time."
"I see."
Jiang Shenya's explanation relaxed everyone in the conference room one by one.
"What are we going to do next?"
"In the last operation, we lost so many people. The entire Funeral Parlor has almost lost half of its manpower. Now there are only these people left. We must be careful in our future actions."
"Let me think about it."
Jiang Shenya found a chair to sit down, then lowered his head and closed his eyes, appearing to be deep in thought.
In the conference room, everyone else was watching there, not saying a word, just watching Jiang Shenya. After Jiang Shenya came back, naturally Jiang Shenya would lead, not them. They needed to wait for Jiang Shenya's decision.
However, the Jiang Shenya they were waiting for was not really thinking about what to do with the Funeral Parlor next, but was waiting for his main body to act.
The Jiang Shenya they rescued was actually Jiang Shenya transformed from Wang Xiaoming's shadow clone plus transformation technique. The meaning of his existence was to deliberately let the Funeral Parlor rescue him. After deliberately rescuing him, his role was to provide coordinates.
Of course, he could also directly solve this group of people from the Funeral Parlor from the inside by himself. After all, Wang Xiaoming's clone, except for being unable to use some of Wang Xiaoming's specific abilities, he could use his abilities as a ninja. And his abilities as a ninja were enough for him to sweep the entire Funeral Parlor alone, and even walk sideways in this world.
But that was meaningless. What Wang Xiaoming wanted to do was to be interesting, so he didn't directly take action to capture them all with bare-handed sword catching.
While Wang Xiaoming's clone was thinking with his head down, Wang Xiaoming's main body also arrived outside the base.
Wang Xiaoming's main body didn't say a word from beginning to end, constantly reducing his sense of existence, and then moving behind one guard after another, directly twisting their necks with his left hand, letting them die on the spot.
In this way, Wang Xiaoming infiltrated the base alone, solving all the guards outside the base.
After solving those guards, Wang Xiaoming began to enter the base. Because of Wang Xiaoming's previous orders, the people inside the base were now resting. They had no idea that their companions outside had been solved by Wang Xiaoming, and were even happily celebrating inside.
Wang Xiaoming was like a grim reaper in the dark, silently heading to different rooms, and then solving the Funeral Parlor personnel who were resting or celebrating one by one.
Wang Xiaoming didn't know these Funeral Parlor people, so he didn't have any mercy and directly solved them all, leaving no one behind.
Killing them all one by one.
After killing them all, Wang Xiaoming walked towards the last room, which was the most core place inside the Funeral Parlor.
The conference room where Jiang Shenya and the high-level officials were located.
Wang Xiaoming walked to the door of the conference room and knocked on the door.
"I'll open the door."
樱满集, who was closest to the door, was preparing to open the door.
"Wait a moment."
Jiang Shenya, who had been pondering in the conference room, suddenly stood up.
"涯?"
樱满集, who was preparing to open the door, stopped.
"Let me do it, I've already thought it over."
??
Thought it over, what does thinking it over have to do with opening the door.
Although puzzled, 樱满集 still chose to listen to Jiang Shenya. Jiang Shenya slowly walked to the door, his right hand holding the doorknob.
"I'm going to abandon the dark and turn to the light!"
Jiang Shenya said while pulling open the door.
708. The Funeral Parlor is completely annihilated
Jiang Shenya's betrayal was an extremely heavy blow to the people of the Funeral Parlor, because this betrayal directly plunged the entire Funeral Parlor into eternal doom.
