C13 Victory Day 3

July 18th.

At five in the morning.

Sunrise...

"Ugh... I'm so sleepy..."

Looking at the rising sun in the east, the soldiers guarding the water tower all let out a sigh of relief. There were only 20 minutes left before the shift ended. If they persisted, they would be able to get off work.

People were like this. Most of the time, when you knew that you would be able to get off work and rest in a few minutes, you didn't want to do anything else.

These guards were no exception.

In the distance, Payson and Ashes had already ambushed Meow and Meow. After careful discussion, they felt that Moorer was not suitable for this kind of infiltration mission, so they let him stay in the grass hut to watch the car.

"Oh... Let me take a look... These guys are really loose..." Ashes laughed.

The wall that protected the entire water treatment plant was a five-meter tall simple wall. There were two 20-meter-tall sentry towers at the gate, and there was a large searchlight on top of them. This was the biggest threat to the two of them when they snuck in.

But now, when these lazy fellows saw the sun rise, they closed the searchlight and gathered at the gate in groups of three to five, waiting for the guards to get off work.

"There are so many people gathered at the gate... How are we going in?" Payson asked.

"Who said we are going in through the gate?" Ashes pointed at the wall that was far away from the gate. "Isn't it over there?"

"... I'm just an ordinary person, how can I fly over walls like you?"

"It's fine." Meow rubbed against Payson's face, "Let's take you up..."

...

The group arrived at the base of the wall that was far away from the gate. After checking the terrain, Ashes jumped onto the wall and put down a rope.

"This... Is this the method you came up with?" Payson asked.

While they were talking, Ashes had already used the pickaxe as a hook to firmly fix the rope on the wall. Meow had already crossed the wall and went to investigate the internal route.

"Cut the crap and come up the rope!"

"You... I... Forget it... I'm going to risk it!"

Under the guidance of Ashes, Payson wrapped the rope around his body and climbed up the wall.

"If I had known that I would suffer this, I would have stayed behind to watch the car..." Payson complained in his heart.

After spending nearly a minute, Payson finally climbed up the wall. After confirming that Payson was safe, Ashes jumped onto the wall and landed steadily without making any sound.

After all, Ashes had been trained. After climbing over the wall, he landed accurately in the middle of two large sheds. This seemed to be an open-air warehouse used to store some plastic containers.

"Remove the rope... Jump down like me..." Ashes whispered.

As a result, a person with a poor balance fell into the city wall. Fortunately, Ashes reacted quickly and caught him. Otherwise, they would have to take care of the disabled for the next few months.

"I'm so scared..." Payson patted his chest and said, "I won't suffer this kind of punishment next time..."

Suddenly, Ashes grabbed the still panting Payson and snuck into the shadows.

It was a soldier wearing a desert camouflage uniform and a bulletproof vest. He also had a dirty red beret on his head, which made him look like a commander.

What attracted the attention of both Ashes and Payson was not these things. What attracted their attention was the military water bottle and the other handgun on the soldier's waist.

The soldier hummed a little tune as he approached the city wall. Finally, he stopped at the connecting area of the shed behind the city wall and undid his pants.

"After all this time, this guy is here to relieve himself..."

Ashes made full use of his skills and quietly approached the soldier's back.

"Hmm?" The soldier felt the heat behind him, but before he could react, he felt a hand on his neck and the other hand on his mouth.

"Cut it!" With a crisp sound, the soldier's neck was twisted.

Ashes quietly killed him and dragged him into the shadows.

Payson found a relatively new M1911 from his body. It was a .45 pistol bullet, with three magazines and a small knife.

Ashes found a 900ml military water bottle, a piece of compressed biscuits, and twenty or so bottles of different beverages.

"Bottles?" Payson asked in puzzlement, "Why did they collect that stuff? It's not practical to use it..."

"It's useless? This thing is money!" Ashes was shocked. "Twenty or so bottles! This is the salary of a normal person for two days!"

"You guys... take bottles as money?"

"Of course. Other than that, cigarettes and jewelry can be used as currency..."

After the two of them finished searching, they continued to move forward after dealing with the corpses. At the end of the shed, the two of them saw the "meow" that they had not seen for a long time.

Meow was currently squatting on a plastic blue transparent canopy that was half a meter tall. It was observing the situation outside and only reacted after it smelled the scents of the two of them.

"Meow Meow, we haven't seen each other for a few seconds, and I miss you..." Ashes teased.

"Hmm... You guys are finally here. Come... Look over there..."

Following the direction Meow Meow pointed out, the two of them saw the opposite side of the shed. That was their target — the central number one water tower.

However, the guards in front of the gate made them feel troubled. There were four fully armed guards there. They were holding single-caliber crossbows and earth-made rifles. Unlike the loose soldiers they had seen before, these people were highly concentrated and did not relax at all.

"This... This isn't easy to deal with..." Payson said.

"I have been crawling here for so long... I feel like I can only use a diversion to distract them and then sneak in to get the water." Meow said.

"Then... Which direction should we go?"

Ashes laughed and shook his head. He took out a few bottles from his pocket and threw them at the metal can that was not far from the four people.

"Damn! What was that sound?" The four people standing guard heard the sound of something smashing the metal can and raised their guns at the same time.

"Smith! Yue! You two go and see what happened?"

The two of them walked towards the metal can with crossbows in their hands. Under the sunlight, the metal can on the ground glittered.

"Oh my god! Boss! It's money! And a lot of it!" Smith said happily.

"Money? The problem is... Who threw it over?" The boss lowered his head and pondered.

"Aiya... It's not bad to have money, right?" The person beside the boss put down his gun and patted his shoulder. "Let's go and pick up two. We'll buy some alcohol later!"

Just as the two of them turned around to go, Meow and Ashes quietly rushed over like two shadows and entered the shed under the central water tower.

The shed was close to the water tap on the left and a table on the right. There were three military water bottles of the same style as before and a small box of drinking water. All of these things were stuffed into Ashes' bag without exception.

"Meow... I'm going to the central water tower to get some water. Help me keep an eye on them. If the four of them come back, try your best to attract their attention, but don't talk in front of them!"

Meow nodded obediently.

"Hey, this is really a sudden harvest... right?"

"It's spoiled!" Meow thought to himself. It seemed that those guys had returned!

Meow turned around and saw Ashes squatting there. He had only filled two pots, and there were still two pots that he had not filled.

"... I'm going all out!"

Meow lightly jumped out and landed in front of the four of them.

"Aiya ~ What a cute little animal..." Smith was fascinated by the little thing in front of him. He could not help but put down his crossbow and squatted down to touch Meow.

"Smith! Don't go over! Be careful!" the boss shouted.

Meow obediently rubbed against Smith's rough palm and made a comfortable "huff" sound.

"Aiya ~ Boss, don't be so nervous... Look at how cute this little thing is. How can it be dangerous?"

Yu Le could not help but put down his crossbow to go up and stroke the cat. After the boss and the other soldier confirmed that this little animal was not dangerous, they put down their guns and joined the ranks of the cat...

"Boss, what is the name of such a cute animal? Why have I never seen it before?"

Ashes finally filled his water bottle. With so much water on his body, he staggered as he ran, but in the end, he still managed to crawl into the shed on the other side of the road and meet Payson.

After Meow confirmed that Ashes and the others were safe, he grabbed the opportunity to jump onto his boss's head and rubbed his hat. Then, he lightly jumped out of the circle and escaped from the scene before they could react.

"Aiya... What a cute little thing... Come and visit us often in the future!" Smith shouted towards Meow's running back.

"Wow... This water bottle is so heavy... Take it! I'll share the two with you." Ashes took two water bottles from his waist and stuffed them into Payson's backpack.

"It's only this much... It's not enough to drink..." Payson lowered his head and thought.

"Isn't this enough? If I give you more, you won't even be able to walk!" Ashes was obviously a little dissatisfied. He took out a small box from his long robe and said,

"I don't know what this is either. It seems to be some kind of paper... It should be used to test if the water can be drunk. I noticed that there is a small stream next to Vage Village, so I should be able to test if the water can be drunk there..."

"If it can be drunk, we don't have to risk our lives to steal water like today..." Meow, who had just returned, suddenly said.

"You are right... Aiya! What happened to you!"

At this moment, Meow was already furious with the four brawny men who had no experience. Its face was filled with unhappiness as it spoke to Ashes and the others in a somewhat resentful tone.

"It's all your fault... You made me go out to act cute and attract attention... Look at what they have done to me..."

"Forget it..." Payson suddenly said, "Let's quickly retreat! When the shift ends and we start patrolling, it'll be troublesome if we want to escape!"

Three minutes later, the group of people safely retreated from the canned water treatment plant.

After about half an hour, the red Beret soldier's corpse was discovered. The entire canned water treatment plant was quickly cordoned off, and red lights flashed all over the place.

However, at this moment, Moorer and the others had already taken the car to the other side of the city.

"This place is really not bad!" Moorer sat in the back row and laughed while holding a water bottle.

"How about this, let's stay here for another two days and search around before leaving!"