Fierce Battle

Ji Siying made her way to the adjacent hill, as instructed by Xiao Luo. She was a Grade C soldier and had undergone intensive special combat training, therefore negotiating the climb across the mountain terrain in the night posed no challenge to her. She reached the first location without much effort, then unscrewed the flare's cap and pulled hard on the firing cord to discharge the device. It shot out with a muffled burst and rose high into the air, emitting a dazzling light as it slowly floated down to the ground. For half a minute, it illuminated the ground below over a radius of several hundred meters. As Ji Siying headed for the second location, she couldn't help thinking how the parachute flare resembled the Golden Crow[1] of legend.