Watching the shepherd boy slowly approaching, both of them reduced their breathing to the lowest possible level.
The shepherd boy didn't notice that there were two people hidden in the bushes just over ten meters away.
After all, the ghillie suits Song Heping and his companion wore were very well-made, with quite an effective camouflage.
If one didn't look carefully from a few meters away, it was indeed very difficult to spot anything amiss.
The little shepherd hummed a tune, swung his whip, completely unaware that he was in danger.
Song Heping had no desire to kill the kid.
He hoped that the other party wouldn't notice him and Willie.
The flock of sheep slowly passed by, and it seemed the shepherd boy wasn't paying attention to their direction.
Song Heping breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that the boy had not noticed anyone's presence.
But just at that moment, a sheep came over and stopped in front of Willie.
This animal seemed very interested in the grass on Willie's ghillie suit.
Snipers add nearby grass and plants to their ghillie suits after entering their sniping positions to blend into the environment better.
So Willie had used some grass for his disguise earlier.
But this now drew the sheep's attention.
Soon, the sheep approached Willie, and it actually tried to bite the grass on his body.
Song Heping couldn't move, watching that life-threatening creature out of the corner of his eye.
One could imagine Willie's mood at the moment...
He probably wanted to serve up this animal as a roast whole sheep on the spot.
The trouble didn't stop there.
As this animal was enjoying its meal, another of its kind came over as well.
Perhaps it thought this clump of "grass" was lush and got interested.
Soon, it joined the team nibbling on the "grass."
Sheep are vigorous when it comes to eating grass; they are fast and thorough, pulling it out by the roots.
In no time, a patch on Willie's body had become "bald."
The exposed strips of fabric on the ghillie suit were tugged at by the sheep, and the two animals soon discovered they could not pull this clump of "grass" apart and began bleating loudly.
Song Heping had a bad feeling about this.
Indeed, the sheep's bleating quickly caught the shepherd boy's attention.
He walked over to the bushes where the two were ambushed.
Arriving at the sheep's location, he waved his whip and struck the two animals, driving them back to the flock.
The sheep, pained, bleated and scampered off.
The shepherd boy was about to leave but suddenly noticed that the clump of "grass" in front of him was odd.
His eyes were drawn to the patch on Willie's body where the disguise had been stripped off.
It was only then that the shepherd boy realized these two clumps of "grass" seemed rather strange.
Out of curiosity, he moved closer and poked Willie with the stick that had a whip tied to it...
Just then, the other clump of "grass" next to it suddenly sprang up and pounced over like a tiger bursting out of its cage.
The shepherd boy had no time to scream before he was tackled to the ground, with his mouth tightly covered by Song Heping's hand.
Willie also came over to pin down the boy's legs, pulling out zip ties to bind his hands and feet, then stuffed a field scarf into the boy's mouth.
After they had dealt with everything, they finally released the shepherd boy.
Seeing the two strange figures in front of him, wearing odd clothes and face paint in black and green, the shepherd boy trembled with fear.
Although in this place, armed personnel were not an uncommon sight.
But armed individuals with such attire and appearance were indeed a first for him.
Song Heping glanced at Willie's ghillie suit, puzzled, "Why do these sheep like eating the grass on you so much?"
"Damn it! Just my luck!"
Willie was already in a bad mood.
He had been hit in the face by his own statement.
He was confident that the request for a joint counter-terrorism operation, which would have been approved quickly and released as a false signal to lure the enemy out, was coming from the US Army Command.
Now it was getting to dusk, and the sun was about to set, but there was still no response from the Pentagon.
If the delay was too long, the risk of the two of them staying here would increase.
The initial plan to take out Curtis was supposed to be executed within 48 hours.