Chapter 105

“The fuck?” someone curses under their breath. “That makes three, right?”

“Something’s wrong,” another soldier mutters as he lowers the body to the ground. There’s something sinister about the way the bone in the neck bulges awkwardly at a weird angle. In no time, I’m sure the area around it will turn purple and blue, but that’s not what’s weird.

“There are too many of them,” Adeline notes to which some of the soldiers with me nod in agreement. They’re right. There are too many.

Noah’s team reported that there would be around three dozen men scattered around and inside the village where they keep the prisoners, but we’ve encountered three already, which means the other teams are in a similar situation. We’ve barely managed to scratch the surface and something has already gone wrong.

“We blew up their boat, someone must have seen it,” another comments.

“Wait,” I call out quietly, stopping in front of the downed enemy. Call it morbid curiosity, but there’s something I need to confirm. K