On the vast ice field, the pack of dogs was running with all their might.
The hot breath they exhaled formed white smoke in the air, and it was blown away by the cold wind.
Ole saw Alesia gesturing to him, telling him that they would reach the end of the journey in forty minutes.
However, at that moment, Zhang Heng, who had been very quiet behind Ole, suddenly reached out, patted him on the back, and shouted in English, "Stop!"
Ole did not stop immediately. He turned his head to see what Zhang Heng wanted to do, but when he looked behind him, he found that Zhang Heng had disappeared.
Ole was taken aback. He did not expect Zhang Heng to be abandoned halfway. Or … to be more precise, Zhang Heng jumped off the sled on his own.
The speed of the sled was not slow at all. It was almost 25 kilometers per hour. If Zhang Heng jumped off the sled, he might fall to the ground. Just as Ole pulled the reins and was about to stop the dogs, he suddenly heard a gunshot.
Ole subconsciously shrank his neck. After confirming that he was fine, he quickly turned his eyes to Alesia's sled. As a result, he saw that Alesia was also stopping the dogs. She and Song Jia looked equally bewildered. Ole breathed a sigh of relief. After that, he turned his eyes to the other sled, only to see that the person sent by Alesia's tribe had fallen on the sled.
Then he heard Song Jia shouting, "Get down! Get down! Zhang Heng sent me a message saying that there is a sniper."
When Ole heard Zhang Heng's words, a trace of fear suddenly appeared in his heart. He didn't even have time to stop the dogs completely. He followed Zhang Heng's example and jumped off the sleigh, lying on the ice field, motionless.
On the other side, Alesia and Song Jia were a little slower than him, but they quickly hid themselves. After about a minute and a half, Song Jia's phone vibrated again. She nervously took out the phone from her pocket and looked at it quickly. After that, some color returned to her face.
"Zhang Heng said that the sniper has left, and he is chasing after us. He asked us to wait where we are."
"He will be okay, right? After all, the enemy has a gun. "Alesia was still in shock." We can go back to the tribe first and ask the hunters in the tribe to help us find the sniper. "
Song Jia also felt that this was the safer option. However, she sent a message to Zhang Heng, but he did not reply.
Since they did not know what was going on on the other side, the three of them did not even dare to get up from the snow. If Zhang Heng was really defeated by the sniper who ambushed them, the sniper would most likely come back to kill them. However, the three of them did not leave with the sleigh because they were afraid, leaving Zhang Heng alone on the ice field.
Ole and Alesia bent down and ran to the side of the third sled, only to find that the tribesman who came to pick them up was no longer breathing. As for Satchos, who was behind him, he was safe and sound, and there was no fear on his face. Instead, his eyes shone with excitement, as if he was happy to see death with his own eyes.
Although Alesia and Ole were very dissatisfied with Satchus' attitude, they still needed him to retrieve the holy relic, so they dragged him down from his seat and threw him onto the snow.
After that, the three of them waited for about half an hour. Finally, they saw Zhang Heng walking over from not far away, holding a rather small rifle in his hand.
— VOERE
The S16 was a lightweight rifle produced by an Austrian company. Unlike previous sniper rifles, which focused on range and lethality, this compact rifle took a different approach. It was portable to the extreme, and weighed only two kilograms. It was less than one-seventh of the XM109. In order to reduce the weight, the body of the rifle was made of a lot of carbon fiber.
Of course, its shooting accuracy and destructive power were far inferior to the XM109, but it was enough for Zhang Heng. Most importantly, it was light enough for him to chase after the target.
After Zhang Heng checked the body of the Inuit who was shot, Alesia asked eagerly.
"How is it? Did you find the sniper who attacked us?" Song Jia translated her question to Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng shook his head. "No, he ran away. He seems to be very familiar with the terrain around here."
Ole and Alesia looked at each other when they heard Zhang Heng. The Inuit boy clenched his fist and squeezed out a name through gritted teeth. "Hans!"
Hans was the person responsible for bringing the sacred relic from the tribe to Nuuk. He was also the one who left a mark that only Alesia and Ole could understand, tricking them into going to the art museum. If Zhang Heng had not appeared in time, Alesia and Ole would have been dead by now.
Ole then saw Zhang Heng put his hand into his pocket and took out a knife from it. When Alicia saw the knife, she exclaimed, "This is Hans's knife. He always carries it with him. Could it be that the person who attacked us is really him? Why? He also killed Uncle Luke. Luke had always been nice to him. He even taught him how to fish. "
Song Jia then said, "Zhang Heng said that you'd better not take the knife to heart. In fact, he didn't want to give it to you because he felt that someone deliberately left it there."
"Deliberately?" Ole's eyes widened. "Then what happened in the museum before? Was it intentional? But there are very few people who know about the mark. Hans is obviously hiding here to finish what he failed to do that night. He's afraid that we'll tell Kunaj about what he did."
Zhang Heng shook his head. "His target is not you, nor is it me or Songjia." He then glanced at Satius, who was sniffling at the side. "That guy named Luke is probably just unlucky."
"How did you know?" Alesia asked.
"I saw a flash of light in the snow earlier, and I deduced that the lens of the scope was reflecting sunlight. That's how I discovered the sniper's position and the direction he was aiming at. His marksmanship wasn't good. When I checked Luke's body just now, I found that the bullet was fired diagonally from his back. In other words, he waited for Luke's sled to pass in front of him before he started aiming … This angle was actually more suitable to kill Satius, who was sitting behind the sled. I didn't expect him to accidentally kill Luke."
After Zhang Heng finished, Alesia and Ole looked at each other. They did not expect Zhang Heng to be able to analyze so many things just from the bullet's trajectory. Not to mention, they still had no idea where the light rifle in Zhang Heng's hand came from.
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