At the moment when John was shot, all of Gao Guang's worries and fears became reality.

"Caps! Caps? Answer me, Caps!"

Gao Guang didn't shout out loud. He pressed the transmit button on the walkie-talkie and spoke in a low voice, quickly and urgently.

There was still no sound from John on the walkie-talkie, but George's voice rang out.

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"Captain, where are you?"

"I'm near the coordinates. Caps has been shot, and I can't see the enemy!"

Frank's voice was full of fear and an undisguised sense of helplessness. He didn't say anything about trying to take John away or rescuing him.

Gao Guang's first reaction was that John was already dead. Otherwise, Frank should have reported John's condition or spoken about his intention to rescue John. As an experienced veteran, Frank should have had the ability to do so. But Frank never said what had happened to John.

"How's Caps?"

It was Rubber who asked the question. His tone was also full of frustration, but at least he wasn't panicking.

"He's been captured!"

"Captain, calm down! Is Caps dead or alive?"

"He's been captured, damn it! I'm under attack, and I don't have time to chat with you!"

Frank's answer was urgent, accompanied by the sound of his breathing as he ran and the sound of AK rifle shots.

Gao Guang didn't dare to speak because he didn't want to occupy the precious communication channel. Frank was in battle, Rubber and George were going to support him, and he couldn't do anything but listen to the live broadcast on the walkie-talkie.

George's voice rang out, urgent: "We're rushing to support. Captain, return to the assembly point."

Gao Guang's mind was in chaos. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth and a chill in his body. So he couldn't take it anymore and pressed the transmit button on the walkie-talkie again, urgently asking, "Caps, say something! Aren't you going to save Caps?"

Frank's voice rang out again, furious and accompanied by the sound of rifle shots. He shouted hoarsely, "Shut up! What do you know? Of course, I want to save him, f*ck! It's over, it's all over!"

Gao Guang felt that Frank wasn't panicking, he was collapsing. His mind went blank because he thought there was no hope for John. The captain, their leader, their organizer, and commander, was now mentally collapsing.

George and Rubber had known Frank for many years, and they must have had a better understanding of Frank's current state than Gao Guang did. So Rubber shouted sternly on the walkie-talkie, "Captain, calm down! Calm down!"Frank didn't reply, but then a strange voice came from the intercom.

"Who are you? Why are you here? Where are your companions...?"

A man spoke in Spanish through the intercom with a threatening tone, but before he could finish, John's voice suddenly came through.

"Guerrillas... um... many people..."

John was captured, he may have been shot, but he was not dead yet. After the intercom was taken away from him, he tried to remind Frank and the others to leave, but his voice quickly disappeared.

The intercom did not automatically pick up sound, John's voice could not be transmitted through the intercom once he released the transmission button.

After waiting for a moment, the voice speaking in Spanish came through again.

"Your companion is still alive. If you don't want to die, put down your weapons and surrender. You won't be able to escape in the rainforest."

The communication channel was open, but no one spoke because Frank, Rubber, and the others were waiting for the person on the other end to speak again, including Gao Guang.

After waiting for a moment, Frank finally panicked and asked, "What did he say? Translate, what did he say?"

Gao Guang licked his lips and whispered, "He said Caps is still alive. If we don't want to die, we should put down our weapons and surrender. He said we won't be able to escape in the rainforest."

The situation was getting complicated. Frank sternly asked, "Ask them who they are and what they want!"

As long as they could communicate, there was hope.

Desperate Gao Guang saw hope and took a deep breath. He hit his chest hard and didn't press the transmission button. He said to himself, "Hello..."

His voice trembled, this wouldn't do, he had to be calm, at least his voice had to sound calm.

Gao Guang raised his right hand and slapped himself in the face twice. The force was so strong that his face quickly showed finger marks.

"Hello, hello... hello!"

After feeling that his voice was calm and steady enough, Gao Guang pressed the transmission button and said in a low and dignified tone, "Hello, may I ask who you are?"

Of course, he spoke in Spanish and began to talk with the guerrillas.

"Good, it's a good start to be able to communicate. Don't ask who we are, tell us who you are and why you're here."Gao Guang's brain was working quickly, and he said without hesitation, "We didn't come here for you, but I know what you're worried about, sir. I'm far away from you, and I have a satellite phone in my hand. If you hurt my people, I'll tell everyone your location."

Threatening and testing each other, Gao Guang didn't expect to scare the enemy with a few words, but he couldn't let the other side act recklessly.

"Hehe, do you think we're afraid of exposing our location?"

It's unclear whether they were worried about their location being exposed, but Gao Guang thought no one liked to move.

"First of all, our purpose for coming here is definitely not for you. We just happened to run into each other. Sir, are you the commander of the guerrilla forces? Can we talk? If you release my people, we will leave and won't bother you again. How about it?"

"Okay, if you want your person, come and get him."

Gao Guang breathed a sigh of relief and thought about how to respond. At this moment, Frank's voice sounded, and he exclaimed, "What did you say? Tell us, what did you say!"

Frank's voice was too panicked, and Gao Guang found it hard to believe that a seasoned veteran who had been a captain of a special forces team for a long time could be so flustered.

"Switch to the backup channel."

George was calmer than Frank. The primary purpose of switching channels was not to be monitored by the enemy.

Gao Guang switched to the backup channel, and immediately said, "I talked to the other side. He asked us to rescue Caps by picking up someone. I think we can negotiate, and I can save Caps."

Frank didn't speak, but Rubber said despairingly, "It's difficult. If they are guerrillas, negotiation is impossible."

Gao Guang immediately said, "What should we do then? Give up on Caps?"

Frank's voice trembled, "It's over, it's all over..."

Feeling annoyed, Gao Guang was extremely disappointed in Frank at this moment.

Other people appeared at the location of the treasure, which meant that the money might have been discovered and taken away, or the money had not been taken yet, but it would be impossible to continue searching if there was a guerrilla force here.

Frank's dream was shattered, and his biggest hope was dashed. Years of effort turned into nothing, so he collapsed.

Gao Guang understood Frank, he understood him very well, but he couldn't accept Frank's behavior at this moment.

"Calm down, Captain! We haven't completely lost hope yet!"Gao Guang didn't want to make it too obvious, but he still reminded Frank in a subtle way. Then he said coldly, "Now we need to focus on rescuing John. I'll switch back to the main channel and negotiate with them. Do you have anything to tell me?"

George urgently said, "Talk to them however you want, just make sure Caps stays alive. We'll regroup and figure out how to rescue him later. Over."

Gao Guang switched back to the main channel and spoke to the enemy again. He said in a deep voice, "Sir, are you still there?"

"I'm here."

"Sir, you don't mess with me, and I won't mess with you. Give me back my man, and we'll leave. Can we do that?"

There was a moment of silence on the radio, then the person on the other end spoke in a mocking tone, "Do you really think you can leave?"

"I can abandon my companion and leave, and then you'll have to find a new campsite at least. Sir, we have no intention of being your enemy. Why did it have to come to this? If you have any demands, just say it. This kind of conversation with threats and intimidation is meaningless."

"Then let's not talk."

The enemy's tone was resolute and ruthless. Gao Guang was getting anxious, so he immediately said, "Wait, you set the conditions! State your conditions!"

"It seems you care a lot about your companion's life. Good. Let's talk face to face. Are you brave enough to come?"

"Of course I am! Wait for me!"

Gao Guang agreed to the other party's conditions without hesitation.

"Good. Come then. I'll be waiting for you."

"Wait! I'm far away from you. In this damn rainforest, it'll take me ten hours to walk there. Wait for me!"

As long as they could talk, it didn't matter if it was face to face or on the radio. After giving the time, the other party waited for a moment and then said coldly, "The communication distance of the radio determines your distance. You won't need ten hours. I'll give you four hours. If you haven't arrived by then, I'll kill your companion. That's it."

"Wait, let me talk to my companion."

"Hello? Are you still there? Say something."

This time, Gao Guang waited for a few minutes and called out a few times, but there was no response from the other end.

George's voice rang out on the main channel, "Switch to the backup channel."

After switching to the backup channel, Frank asked weakly, "What did they say?"

Gao Guang whispered, "Four hours. If I don't meet him in four hours, he'll kill Caps."

After a brief pause, Frank whispered, "I'm on the boat. They're not chasing me. They won't follow me in the swamp. Obviously, they don't have a boat."Frank escaped and seemed to have regained some composure. Gao Guang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Good, let's meet and discuss."

After putting down the walkie-talkie, Gao Guang's hands began to tremble. He was first panicked, but now he felt lost.

Looking blankly at the plane parked on the lake, Gao Guang's chaotic mind was suddenly injected with a dose of clarity.

Gao Guang suddenly grabbed the rope and began to pull the plane that was stopped on the water.

The plane was already close to the shore, and with Gao Guang's pulling, although the speed was slow, it was slowly pulled to the shore.

Perhaps few people know that small private planes like the Cessna 208 have keys. Maybe not all models have them, but at least the plane Gao Guang was on had a very complex key with an electronic signal.

Gao Guang pulled out the key from the plane and then hid it away.