Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared-Chapter 1614: Change of Identity

After waiting a bit longer and making sure the helicopter wouldn’t return, Lu Yi’s legs had gone numb from squatting in the tree. He couldn’t help but say, "When can we leave?"

Leng Feng also expressed his concern; their female teammate was very weak and couldn’t withstand much more, needing immediate medical attention.

However, the current situation was that the enemy had completely surrounded this residential area, which meant they would start conducting a thorough search next.

Gu Fan proposed a hypothesis, "If you were the enemy, what would you do?"

Lu Yi replied, "They would definitely search every single household. They wouldn’t miss any building, any house, and even bushes or car undersides, nothing would be overlooked."

"Exactly, we’ll be discovered sooner or later, and moreover..." Gu Fan turned his head, looked at Leng Feng and the female teammate, and saw the color of worry on Leng Feng’s face.

Breaking out would be simple for Gu Fan; he could just force his way through with his strength, but that could easily expose his whereabouts, making the man with the mysterious mask cautious and ruining the effect of a surprise victory later on.

"Have you noticed that there are women among the enemies?" Gu Fan suddenly said something puzzling, which was very difficult to understand.

Then Gu Fan continued, "This residential area is so big, with at least a thousand households. How can the enemies determine that the faces they see are the people they are hunting?"

Hearing this, Lu Yi and Leng Feng had an epiphany—they were all wearing human-skin masks. The enemies had no records of them, and wouldn’t recognize them even if they met.

There had just been a conflict. The surveillance video must have captured the looks of Gu Fan, Lu Yi, Leng Feng, and the female teammate, definitely uploading their facial data and then transmitting it to a group of enemies responsible for the hunt.

Only, the enemies didn’t know that Gu Fan, Lu Yi, and Leng Feng were wearing human-skin masks, which pointed them in the wrong direction.

In short, as long as Gu Fan, Lu Yi, and Leng Feng took off their human-skin masks, the enemies would overlook them. What remained was figuring out how to safely evacuate the female teammate.

However, this plan had a flaw. Gu Fan couldn’t expose his real face, and as important figures of the resistance, Lu Yi and Leng Feng’s facial data were already acquired by the enemy; that meant none of them could afford to remove their human-skin masks.

"I should have brought two human-skin masks. What a mistake," Lu Yi smacked his thigh, expressing regret.

If one plan didn’t work, there was another. Gu Fan started to describe his other plan, leaving Leng Feng and Lu Yi taken aback, feeling it was quite risky.

Time waits for no one; the condition of the female teammate was deteriorating. They had to take a risk.

In the current situation, all residents of the neighborhood had been ordered to stay inside their homes, and it was growing darker outside. If there were people in a home, the lights would surely be on, and if not, the rooms would be pitch-dark.

Luckily for Gu Fan and his group, the large tree they were hiding by was next to a pitch-dark window that seemed to be uninhabited.

So Gu Fan, Lu Yi, and Leng Feng jumped into that house and began preparing for their escape.

In a short while, the enemies arrived to search the place, knocking on that house’s door.

A few minutes later, all the enemies received a message stating that the target had been found in that house and that a conflict had occurred, leaving many injured and in need of stretchers.

Consequently, a large number of enemies headed that way, rushing towards the building, towards that house.

Upon arrival, they found many people twisted and collapsed on the ground, severely injured, many slipping into semi-conscious states.

However, the three target individuals were also lying on the ground, their attire and appearance matching the data, but these three were unconscious, rendering them uninterrogative. They had to be taken away first.

The injured were carried away one by one, and once medical logistics personnel attended them, their lives were saved.

Two of them would soon regain consciousness and could walk by themselves, saying they didn’t need support and that they could take care of themselves, although they still needed to go to the hospital for further examination.

Therefore, these two people boarded an ambulance, which also contained an unconscious woman with a very dirty and bloody face, giving the impression that she had just been through a fierce battle.

Although the enemies captured their targets, one woman remained untraceable; it was truly a mystery where she could have been hidden.

After reviewing the surveillance footage, the enemies noted the woman’s poor condition, unable to move on her own, so she must still be within this residential area. Therefore, they continued their search.

Time passed by slowly, but after an entire night, the enemies still hadn’t found the woman. They were baffled—could she possibly have flown away?

Suddenly the enemy commander received a call; the three individuals they had captured were their own people, merely wearing three human-skin masks. In other words, the real targets were still at large.

At the same time, the hospital reported that an ambulance sent out last night had not yet returned.

At this point, the enemy realized they had been duped.

Indeed, Gu Fan, Lu Yi, and Leng Feng had been patiently waiting in that house for a team of enemies to search it, and then knocked them all unconscious—and that was just step one.

For the second step, Gu Fan, Lu Yi, and Leng Feng took off their masks, placed them onto three of the enemies’ faces, and exchanged clothing, effectively swapping identities.

In the third step, Gu Fan picked up the walkie-talkie, informed about the situation here, making the enemies believe they had caught the targets, and incidentally arranged for the injured teammate to be taken for treatment.

The female teammate, who had been on the brink of death, was now safe, thanks to the medical attention received. It was like killing two birds with one stone.

However, since they could only knock out three people and take their clothing, Gu Fan had no choice but to prioritize letting Leng Feng, Lu Yi, and the female teammate put on the enemies’ clothing, making the enemies wear Gu Fan, Leng Feng, and Lu Yi’s clothing, and do their best to match perfectly.

Luckily the male homeowner’s clothes were still there; otherwise, Gu Fan would have had to wear the female teammate’s clothing, which would have been too embarrassing to live down, and Lu Yi would have laughed at him for a lifetime.

Since he didn’t get to change into the enemy’s clothes, Gu Fan had to continue to stay in the neighborhood and play a game of hide-and-seek with the enemy, waiting patiently.

Now that the enemies knew they were fooled and had captured the wrong people, knowing that the real targets were long gone, they obviously wouldn’t continue searching this residential area. Thus, Gu Fan was safe.

At last, having overcome another hurdle, Gu Fan crawled out from under a car, wiped the dust off himself, his heartbeat somewhat erratic, because the struggle wasn’t over. They still hadn’t escaped the city, and more difficulties were still ahead.

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