Operation: Special Warfare Episode 34 Recap
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Wu Mei arrived in Yanzhou, personally overseeing her plan to assassinate Ou Qi and bomb the new energy convention center, just hours before Ou Qi was scheduled to attend the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, Yang Shu and Qu Bo went to a slaughterhouse to scout for the highest vantage point. Qu Bo detected the smell of gun oil and, under the guise of needing a restroom, attempted to draw his weapon.
However, they were quickly surrounded by terrorists led by Zhu Laoban, who then cut off all their communication lines. When Chief Editor Chen ordered Yang Shu and Qu Bo to report via a computer, Yang Shu cleverly reported their observer as Lin Yi instead of Qu Bo, alerting Qin Guan and Ning Meng that something was seriously wrong at the slaughterhouse. Qin Guan immediately requested a change in mission strategy.
The slaughterhouse was on Ou Qi's only route to the convention center, and he would be leaving soon. Qin Guan, upon receiving authorization for on-the-spot action, immediately mobilized his team. He dispatched Guo Xiaowei, Wang Yu, Li Guo'an, and Du Xinyu to escort Ou Qi to the Convention Center. The rest of the team was to follow Qin Guan to the Yong'an Road Slaughterhouse. Terrorists at the slaughterhouse had already placed bombs at the entrance.
Tong Mengyao deployed a miniature unmanned reconnaissance drone to gather intelligence, but a hacker working for Wu Mei, Chen Zihan, detected it and swiftly cut off its signal, causing the drone to crash. With Yang Shu and Qu Bo held hostage, a strong frontal assault was not an option. Qin Guan decided on a stealth approach, reminiscent of the "ghost-style sneak-in" from a past incident.
He planned to infiltrate the slaughterhouse via an underground pipe from a nearby river to rescue Yang Shu and Qu Bo. Ning Meng, along with Xu Dongdong, Zhuang Qian, and Iron Fist, was tasked with moving to the front door near the office building. Chen Haozhe, accompanied by Li Sisi and Jing Ke, was to approach the back door, planning to enter through the cold storage area.
Both teams were instructed to activate their signal shields upon reaching their designated positions to interfere with the terrorists' communications. Qin Guan's single gunshot would be the signal for a full-scale attack once the hostages were safe. At the slaughterhouse, Wu Mei learned that armed police were nearby and instructed Zhu Laoban to keep Yang Shu and Qu Bo alive as bargaining chips.
Wu Jie, Wu Mei's brother, was furious that Zhu Laoban was given such an important task and repeatedly accused him of being unreliable and leaking information, citing past failed assassination attempts on Ou Qi. He passionately argued that he was the only one loyal to Wu Mei and should be entrusted with the mission to kill Ou Qi.
Wu Mei eventually relented, giving Wu Jie the mission to assassinate Ou Qi from the rooftop, while assigning Zhu Laoban to patrol the slaughter workshop corridors to check for other infiltration routes. Wu Jie, still suspicious of Zhu Laoban, immediately ordered his men to lock the rooftop door, fearing Zhu Laoban might try to steal his credit. Inside, Yang Shu and Qu Bo were brutally tortured and hung up like meat but refused to divulge any information.
Qin Guan successfully infiltrated the slaughterhouse through the underground pipe and quickly located and rescued them. Following Qin Guan's pre-arranged signal (a gunshot), Ning Meng and Chen Haozhe's teams launched their attack, breaching the slaughterhouse from the front and back doors. However, Chen Zihan, Wu Mei's hacker, swiftly activated wireless interference, cutting off all communication devices for Qin Guan's team.
During the intense firefight, Chen Haozhe was shot while protecting Li Sisi, but he urged her to continue her mission and keep trying to contact Qin Guan. Wu Mei then ordered her subordinate, Centipede, to locate and eliminate Tong Mengyao, the armed police's hacker. Tong Mengyao, realizing she had lost contact with Qin Guan, grabbed her computer and went out to find a signal, where she was attacked by Wu Mei's terrorists.
She was shot but managed to fight back, killing her attackers, and then, despite her injuries, used her computer to break the interference before losing consciousness. As Ou Qi's convoy rapidly approached the slaughterhouse, Qin Guan observed that the rooftop was the commanding height and the most likely sniper spot. With less than ten minutes before Ou Qi's car passed, Qin Guan knew they had to storm the rooftop to thwart the assassination.
Realizing the main staircase was blocked, Qin Guan devised a dangerous plan: he and Qu Bo would split up and climb to the rooftop from two different directions. He gave his bulletproof vest and all submachine guns to the injured Yang Shu, tasking her with holding off the terrorists outside and buying them time. Before embarking on their perilous mission, Qin Guan asked for last words.
Qu Bo expressed that dying alongside his comrade Lin Yi would be a form of happiness, and wished long life to Lin Yi's parents and his own. Yang Shu simply said she had no last words; if she died, it would be like going home, and if her mother asked, she should be told that her daughter was with comrades. Their final wish was for the living to live better lives.
Qu Bo then emotionally told Yang Shu, "I just want to be your observer. To be alive." Qin Guan and Qu Bo began their climb. Wu Jie, on the rooftop, was taking aim at Ou Qi's approaching car, declaring, “You are dead then.” Just in time, Qin Guan and Qu Bo reached the rooftop and engaged him, preventing him from firing. Wu Mei was informed that the interference had been cracked and her forces on the lower floors were overwhelmed.
During the ongoing fight on the rooftop, Qin Guan contacted Ning Meng and ordered her to support Yang Shu. Enraged by Wu Jie's failure, Wu Mei cursed him as an “idiot” and “trash,” lamenting that she should have let Zhu Laoban handle the mission. Wu Jie tried to blame Zhu Laoban for letting the armed police infiltrate, but Wu Mei told him to “Go to hell!” and ordered her subordinate Scorpion to deal with the armed police outside.
After a brief loss of consciousness, Tong Mengyao recovered and continued working on her computer. Qin Guan and Qu Bo, using a flanking maneuver, successfully eliminated Wu Jie. Tong Mengyao then intercepted an urgent phone call Wu Mei was making. Qin Guan immediately recognized the name "Liu Yuxi," realizing she was his father's girlfriend.
Wu Mei was heard threatening Liu Yuxi, revealing that she had kidnapped Liu Yuxi's parents to coerce her into connecting the lighting at the convention center to power a bomb. Liu Yuxi desperately pleaded to speak with her parents, but Wu Mei refused, warning her to follow instructions if she wanted her family to live.
Qin Guan immediately contacted Guo Xiaowei, relaying the critical information about Liu Yuxi and ordering him to control her, cut off all lights and power at the Convention and Exhibition Center, and inform the police and national security department about the bomb threat. Meanwhile, Chen Haozhe's team was still engaged in fierce fighting, with Chen Haozhe still battling despite his injury. Yang Shu, severely wounded in her solo fight against the terrorists, endured a powerful explosion. Ning Meng arrived just in time to rescue her, preventing Zhu Laoban from escaping.
