Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 1018

Owen shot York a sideways glance. "Let's hope Lieutenant Vance's opinions don't end up being mostly wrong.

And the correct strategies have all come from these two."

"You! This is war, not a game."

York retorted angrily.

Mira lightly pinched Owen's arm. "Look, you've made him mad."

Banter aside, they still had a job to do.

After the guards at the high posts were taken out for the third time, just as fresh replacements were climbing up, the electricity surging through the wire fences suddenly died.

"Hurry, climb over the fence."

York commanded.

"Stop!"

Just as the vanguard soldiers were about to approach the perimeter, Master Ellis abruptly halted them.

"Quick, use the bolt cutters to snip the wire!"

Master Ellis pulled several heavy-duty cutters from his backpack and handed them to the frontline troops.

The vanguard didn't hesitate. Grabbing the tools, they immediately went to work, snipping through the thick metal.

Working together, they soon cut a large gap in the first layer of fencing.

"Master Ellis, this is too slow. Climbing over would obviously be faster."

York was visibly displeased.

"How slow can it be? A ten or twenty-minute delay at most.

If everyone was clinging to the fence when the power suddenly came back on, they would all be electrocuted!"

Master Ellis scolded him sharply.

The so-called power outage was likely a trap set by the enemy.

Sure enough, while the vanguard was cutting the second fence, the power suddenly surged back.

At that moment, only two minutes had passed since the outage began.

There were three layers of fencing, each over nine feet tall and covered in razor-sharp barbs. Even with the power off, climbing them required extreme caution.

Two minutes wasn't nearly enough time to scale all three layers.

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