Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 331. Mission

"Wait." A few steps away from the corpses, I halted, suddenly remembering something.

I turned back, making sure to touch the two soldiers’ machine guns as well as the ammunition they had with them, which would surely come in handy the moment the collar was gone.

Then I turned again to Henry, who showed me two thumbs up.

I smiled and motioned for him to follow me, this time for sure.

I had thought of taking the guns with us, but they didn’t have silencers on them. If we shot, there would be a loud bang that would alert the whole camp.

And they were too big, probably hindering us more than helping.

The plan was to get the two key figures with our inhuman speed and strength while remaining undiscovered.

We were on the backside of the camp, inside the forest, and then came the tents that were arranged in a half circle facing the chained dragon.

The child’s tent was on the left side of the half circle, but not the outermost.

Each tent was around ten meters away from the next one.

When we arrived at the back of the prophet’s tent, there were no soldiers.

I crouched down to look at the fabric of the tent and how it was attached to the earth, while Henry went to the side of the tent.

It seemed like Kevlar, not as if we could just lift the fabric and walk inside like through a curtain; somehow, the whole thing seemed to reach into the earth. I hadn’t seen something like this before, but okay.

I stood up and saw Henry walking back to my side.

He hugged me and whispered in my ear.

"Two soldiers in front of the tent; both have night vision."

I nodded.

"I’ll go left; you go right. We’ll drag them behind the tent when they are passed out."

If we were fast enough, we could go through with this without being discovered by the two guards in front of the tent, as well as the guards in front of the other tents.

Maybe the child knew where Henrietta was; then we could take them both away—well, if they both cooperated.

If the child wanted to stay and started screaming, I wouldn’t know what to do.

However, the fact that she was a girl yet still had her hair shaved off and that she wore thin dark clothes and walked without an umbrella in the rain while her attendant was using one gave me the impression that she would come with us without making trouble.

I just ignored the fact that abused people usually rely on the misery they know instead of taking the gamble for a new life.

Henry made an okay sign before he bent down to kiss me.

Again, wrong time and place, but I was meanwhile numb to it.

He entangled our tongues, only to let go as fast as he had started the kiss.

I looked at him in a daze, and he watched me in amusement, as if it was me who didn’t want it to end, as if he could bring himself to prolong the act if I just asked nicely.

I raised my arms at him with my palms up, silently asking what his problem was and if I should beat the crap out of him, but he just raised three fingers and started the countdown.

If we started a fistfight right here, well, that would really be the wrong time and place for that.

He put one finger down, so I got ready to run when he ended with a thumbs-up. If he had shown me the middle finger, we would really have ended up rolling on the ground.

I ran up the left side of the tent and swung my branch at the soldier’s neck because he was wearing a helmet. The moment his body tilted forward, I grabbed his clothes and dragged him back behind the tent, where I met Henry with his either knocked out or dead soldier.

He took the machine gun from his victim, as this one had a silencer on it.

I touched the machine gun belonging to my soldier but left it with him after taking the silencer and putting it in my pocket.

I motioned for Henry to go into the tent, and we both took the left way, slipping inside as fast as we could.

Henry went inside first, and I heard him shoot, and simultaneously, the dragon outside screamed, the cry sounding like the voice of a child.

I flinched and heard people outside shooting at the dragon; everything got a bit chaotic.

When I got a better look at the inside, I saw a dead woman on the floor, apparently an attendant, and a little kid on a thin mattress on the ground, her mouth wide open as if she were screaming, though no voice came from her.

It was as if the dragon was synchronizing her.

The moment she saw me, she stopped and just looked at me with widened, brown-reddish eyes.

I went to the kid and crouched down, wanting to ask her if she wanted to come with us, but I didn’t get to it because the moment I was at her height, she sprang right into my arms.

I almost punched her instinctively, but I managed to hold back and caught her securely.

"Let go of him." Henry growled, but the girl ignored him.

Outside, there were still shots, and someone roared for the soldiers to stop shooting; it was chaos, and chaos was perfect for our operation.

"Will you come with us?" I asked her, and she nodded against my neck.

"Okay. Do you know where the girl who can open the portals is?" I continued questioning, and she nodded, pointing at the tent to our left, the outermost tent.

"Good. We’ll get her and then leave." The rest could wait.

"Have you been chipped? A tracker?" Henry stopped me and asked the girl.

She nodded and pointed at her throat.

There was a long scar, and over the scar, there was a choker that seemed to be more like the things we were currently wearing around our throats, just without electricity—a plain, much thinner ring.

"Sorry, that could hurt." I mumbled, taking the choker between my fingers, really hurting her unintentionally, but then I broke the ring, and it was off in less than a second.

Now I could see just how deep the scar really was.

What the hell did they do to her?

The child again hung on me, and I didn’t even need to hold her; it was as if I was wearing a backpack on my front side.

I motioned to Henry to go, and while he carried the machine gun and I carried the girl, people were running around everywhere because the bone dragon seemed to have started fighting against the chains, so we dashed to the outermost tent on the left.

Henry shot the two soldiers in front of the tent, and we entered instantly; there was another group of two soldiers, who were taken out by Henry immediately.

Inside, there was even less than in the kid’s room, just something like a capsule, reminding me of the wet coffins, and someone was inside it.

When we stood over it, we saw that it was really Henrietta.

She was unconscious, and although she didn’t look skinny, she seemed emaciated, absolutely drained.

The girl in my arms moved her mouth, and the dragon screamed again, giving Henry enough time to break the glass with the back of his gun and pull her out of the capsule.

"On her back!" I reminded, while touching the guns with silencers on the ground, this time taking one of them.

Meanwhile, Henry laid Henrietta on the ground and touched her back, feeling for the chip. Then he put his necklace down and pulled the crystal out, using it to cut her skin open and get the chip.

He gave me the chip and put his necklace back in place, and I put it in my pocket, where the bracelet was.

Then we bolted out of the tent, Henry carrying his sister over his shoulder like a sack.

When we were in the forest again, still undetected, and under the constant screams of the dragon, or rather, because of the kid in my arms moving her mouth silently, I took the silencer out of my pocket and threw it as hard as I could, not in the opposite direction we ran to, but a bit off to the left.

Henrietta’s chip came next, in the same direction, together with the collar from the girl.

While we ran through the forest, I also felt her back, and there was no additional tracker on her, at least not in that place.

I could hear even more screams from the camp, as they not only fought to have the dragon stay in place but also seemed to have finally discovered the traces of corpses we had left, along with two key figures that had gone missing.

Henry laughed while we still ran; it was as if the game had just turned more exciting.

Our hearing was much more advanced than a human’s, even with taking into account the ’clients’ that had killed their Bone counterparts, because we had done mergings, and we had both ingested the giant’s blood.

They didn’t really have a chance; we were less than three minutes on the campsite, and now even if we screamed, they probably wouldn’t be able to hear us.

We now had long passed the hole we had found ourselves in and continued in that direction, which led deeper inside this forest, deeper inside what was either the same world the bone monster came from or inside a whole new one with new challenges. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

It didn’t matter; the moment Henrietta woke up, she could take us home.

Mission success.