Chapter 1529

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Captain, put a bullet in me!”

Seeing no one making a move, Quinn locked his desperate, bloodshot eyes onto Silas.

It was perhaps the last shred of sanity he had left.

But there was absolutely no way Silas would ever grant that request.

“Quinn, you do not quit on me. Do you understand?”

“Didn’t you just tell me your little sister is about to sit for her college entrance exams?”

“Are you really going to rob yourself of seeing her get into a top-tier university? You don’t want to carry her bags into the dorms?”

“You said she’s brilliant, right? That The Cabinda University is practically guaranteed?”

“Claire is a student there. You could ask her to keep an eye out for your sister on campus.”

Silas aggressively weaponized Quinn’s family, desperately trying to reignite the kid’s will to live.

The mention of his sister actually seemed to pierce through the neurotoxin’s haze.

“If I don’t make it… Captain, promise me you’ll look after her.”

“I’ve saved enough money to put her through school, but I’m terrified of our relatives…”

It was just him and his sister against the world.

Their parents had passed away years ago. He knew that if he died, the vultures in his village would descend to steal her inheritance.

His uncle’s family, in particular, had been salivating over their family home for years.

“Enough! Shut your damn mouth. Every other word out of you is about dying!” Silas snapped, his demeanor flipping instantly.

Before his military career, he had been an infamous, arrogant playboy in Cabinda. He simply didn’t have the patience to coddle anyone.

“If you die, I won’t do a damn thing for your sister.”

“You know exactly how handsome I am. Women throw themselves at me. What if your sister falls for me?”

“Once she experiences a man of my caliber, you think she’ll ever be able to settle for a normal husband?”

Quinn was entirely speechless.

Even Claire shot Dane a look of utter bewilderment.

Who would have thought the chronically intense, stoic Silas Carl possessed this kind of shameless audacity?

Dane merely smirked in response.

Silas was older than both Dane and Van, and his wild exploits in Cabinda were still the stuff of legend.

As for why the infamous playboy had suddenly enlisted, endured hellish training, and chosen a life of endless danger-rumor had it a woman had broken him.

A heartbroken man cutting ties with his past to forge a lethal future.

But his family was currently tearing their hair out over his marital status.

Originally, both Silas and Tilda were happily entrenched in the bachelor lifestyle but now that Tilda was

suddenly marned

and expecting

Sila’s was the sole holdout

Given the extreme lethality of his job, no woman from a prominent family wanted to

marry a man who might leave her a widow on any given Tuesday.

And so, Silas’s love life had permanently flatlined.

As Claire listened to Dane quietly whispering the Cabinda gossip, Silas’s unhinged outburst successfully shocked his four men back into submission.

No one dared mention suicide again.

“We need to move faster!” Silas’s tone turned gravely serious, though a flicker of profound grief betrayed his stoic mask.

Claire knew they were out of time. If they didn’t find the Dreamweed

wouldn’t

die they would suffer permanent neurological destruction.

immediately, the st

Forget remaining elite operatives; they wouldn’t even be able to function as normal civilians.

That was a fate Silas refused to accept, and a nightmare his men didn’t deserve.

They all prayed to salvage their careers, and even if they were discharged, they wanted to remain capable men who could serve their country in other ways.

“Let’s skip the rest. We need to catch up to the forward team immediately.”

Since Claire, the physically weakest member of the group, suggested it, no one else raised any objections.

Rory and Jace immediately turned to her. “Clan Successor, let us rig up a quick stretcher and carry you.”

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