Chapter 1- One Outweighs All

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Somewhere in South East Asia, a group of three armed men and a woman with two children, each a boy and a girl are wandering through the dense forest. The brown trees around them are all tall and wide with branches intertwining with each other, forming a dome-like emerald colored cover made with billions of lush green leaves blocking most of the sunlight. With only a few and small uncovered holes allowing it to enter, the group walked toward the east direction with the guide of the sunlight while drenching in sweat due to hot humidity.

Other than wild beast growling and birds chirping sound can be heard clearly in the forest, the annoying sound that they heard the most are the sounds of the mosquitoes buzzing around them. Their sweaty scents had attracted countless of them to land on their body just to suck their warm blood to replenish their hunger. The group always swing their hands to chase away the mosquitoes while also quickly slap them to death when noticing they had landed on their skin, feasting on their blood.

Each step on the fresh green grass and scattered dried brown leaves on the ground had created a rustling sound. To avoid making more unwanted noise, they tread lightly in the forest because there could be lethal traps for them to face. With the adults on constant alert, their eyes are scanning in every direction while gripping firmly of their firearms in front of their chest. From the cautious look on their face, it seems that they are in a dangerous situation.

The adults are mercenaries that were hired by a wealthy businessman. They are tasked with a mission to save, protect and extract his only twelve year old son who was kidnapped by a human trafficking organization from them and currently, they are inside the hostile zone. The nine year old girl is also a victim of child trafficking and has no relations to the son but he demanded the mercenaries to bring her along since he already views her as his little sister. The reason is during the hard times when the boy was kidnapped, it was the little girl that took care of him so he could survive.

The four adults move in a diamond formation with the two children in the middle. With the primary target extracted from the enemies and another liability to take care of, they need to be fully aware of any danger approaching them as the battle earlier to rescue the kids has them almost use up their ammunition. Fortunately, they also radioed in their success to their forward operating bases and a helicopter had been dispatched to the rendezvous location.

The one with a tall and lean muscular body physique in the back protecting his teammates and the assets is of a Chinese descendant named Zhong WuYan. The leader of the team and also in charge of coordinating any attack and defense strategy. He has shining black hair with an undercut style that is short on sides but long on the top. With a pair of black-onyx eyes but amber irises on the inside like a tiger's eyes, along with a matching stubble beard makes him quite a handsome guy.

In his arms is a black painted Benelli M4 semi-automatic shotgun. With extended stock equipped and loaded with seven rounds of 12 gauge caliber, this shotgun could send any enemies to meet their maker or screams in agonizing pain with their chest badly bruised and rib cages shattered even if they wear any body armor.

On his left is a young Caucasian woman with tied up long maple colored hair. She has a slim physique yet with a visible muscular line and is carrying a sub-machine gun. She wears a pair of spectacles but it still couldn't hide her attractive light blue crystal-like eyes. Her name is Audrey Claude and her role is to provide recon and intel to the team through the provided sophisticated communication device given by their private military corporation.

With her left hand carrying a global positioning system (GPS) tactical pad to ensure they stay on the right track to the rendezvous point, Joan's right hand is wielding a black coloured Heckler & Koch MP5K. Weighing only around five pounds with rates of fire of nine hundred 10 millimeter rounds per minute, the MP5K remains her favorite in every operation that she participated. To reduce the burst from the recoil, a synthetic folded stock is equipped onto it to provide a stable firing platform.

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