By the mountain spring, Brother Yang glanced at Cha Xifeng, who was crying and laughing, and turned to Wei Ran, who had just changed into clean quick-drying clothes and pants, and asked.
"Let him cry," Wei Ran sighed, "He has been waiting for this day for too long."
"What's next?"
Brother Yang stopped asking, and instead raised his chin towards the demining students who were working on the boulders around the spring not far away, "I saw they brought a lot of explosives in, but they didn't tell me anything if I asked them."
"Get ready to blow it up."
Wei Ran gave the other party a Hongtashan one, and at the same time he lit one himself and explained, "The person Mr. Cha is looking for may be there."
"Come with me," Brother Yang said, already walking towards the top of the mountain.
"Where to go?" Wei Ran asked confused.
"Go to the top of the mountain," Brother Yang replied as he walked, "so as not to be washed away by the flood later."
"You are too careful," Wei Ran said, dumbfounded.
"If you have an accident, I will be the unlucky one." Brother Yang replied bluntly, "So be careful."
Wei Ran smiled when he heard this. He neither rejected the other party's kindness nor laughed at the other party's caution.
The two of them climbed up for a hundred or ten meters, and then Brother Yang stopped.
The two of them didn't wait long. A series of detailed explosions came from a hundred meters away from their feet. A moment later, the two of them also saw the steaming water mist, the rainbow accompanying the water mist, and... and one after another.
Gunshots.
"problem occurs!"
Wei Ran and Brother Yang looked at each other, and they immediately ran down the road they came up from.
By the time they returned to the blasted spring, the gunfire had already stopped, and they also saw the culprit that caused the gunfire - snakes. There were probably hundreds of venomous snakes!
Some of these venomous snakes washed out by the current have been killed by the demining students with self-defense shotguns, but more of them gathered in the pool to form a black mass!
At this moment, Cha Xifeng separated from the crowd and walked to the edge of the waterhole. After kicking a venomous snake killed by a shotgun into the water, he took out an American M67 grenade from his pocket and shouted in Vietnamese:
"Stay away, everyone!"
Before he could finish his words, the students, Wei Ran and Brother Yang all stepped back far enough and squatted down, watching Zha Xifeng pull out the ring of the grenade and throw it into the pool.
, and watched him turn around and run away, hiding behind a big tree.
"boom!"
In the dull explosion, the originally clear water pool was instantly dyed dark red, and diluted blood rained down around it.
When everything around him returned to calm, Zha Xifeng loudly issued the second command, "Blow up the wind! Smoke!"
When this order was issued, the group of students who came with Brother Yang immediately opened their backpacks, and one by one they started throwing various smoke bombs into the cave that was the size of a truck front after being blown open.
Before the thick smoke could come out, another group of people started the gasoline blowers one after another and aimed the air outlet of the blower at the entrance of the cave, carrying the smoke and drifting into the interior of the cave.
Soon, many venomous snakes ran out from inside, but the students did not stop what they were doing. Instead, they got into the cave, lit a bonfire where there was no water, and covered it with a thick blanket.
Layer of fresh branches and shrubs.
Driven by the blower, more and more smoke was blown into the hole.
"what are they doing?"
Wei Ran leaned close to Zha Xifeng, whose eyes were still a little red, and followed the topic knowingly.
"Look for any other entrances to this cave?" Zha Xifeng's voice was a little hoarse, "I'll go in and look for it later."
"I'll go with you," Wei Ran said casually.
"no"
Brother Yang and Zha Xifeng said in unison, and then said in unison, "You can't take risks."
"I'm not a princess in the castle," Wei Ran said, looking up at the sky, "Will it rain again today?"
"definitely will"
Zha Xifeng and Brother Yang once again gave the answer in unison, and once again said at the same time, "It is the rainy season."
"Just don't go in."
Zha Xifeng glanced at Brother Yang without leaving any trace, and said, "It is my job to help my adoptive father find his comrades. Wei Ran, just stay outside and wait."
"Do you need any support?" Brother Yang asked.
"Thank you." Cha Xifeng hesitated for a moment and then shook his head, "Not yet."
"good"
Brother Yang nodded in response, silently carrying his Bayi Bar and returning to Wei Ran's side.
The issue of personnel arrangements was temporarily over. As everyone waited patiently, amid the exclamations caused by the venomous snakes crawling out from time to time, and amid the never-ending thick smoke, Zha Xifeng called a halt after half an hour.
The task was to create thick smoke, but there was no intention of stopping the blowers.
Seeing Brother Yang staring at him and not even trying to get into the cave, Wei Ran returned to the camp patiently.
After politely declining the snake meat soup offered by a demining trainee, Wei Ran got into the tent, closed the curtain and fell asleep.
When he woke up again, it was already dark outside the tent, and several searchlights were set up at the entrance of the cave.
"When did they get in?"
Wei Ran opened the tent door and asked Brother Yang, who was sitting on the moon chair outside the door, holding a gun and closing his eyes to relax while "monitoring" him.
"It's been almost four hours since I've been there."
Brother Yang looked at the time on the dial and replied, "In the past four hours, two bitten students were sent out."
"Where is Zha Xifeng?" Wei Ran asked, "Has he come out?"
"Not yet" Brother Yang said the good news.
This is indeed good news, at least it can prove that Zha Xifeng was not bitten by a poisonous snake.
"In addition," Brother Yang said abruptly, "Second Brother and his crew have landed in Sichuan and are preparing to transfer. They will be able to reach Laoshan tonight. If necessary, they can come over early tomorrow morning."
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Wei Ran said, then got back into the tent, "Remind me when Mr. Cha comes out."
"Don't you want to eat something?" Brother Yang asked suspiciously.
"It's rare to get some sleep. Let's wait until we're hungry before eating."
Wei Ran said with a look of disgust, "And I don't want to eat snake meat, it's too disgusting."
Before he finished speaking, he had already closed the tent door, and while lying down, he said through the tent cloth, "If you are tired, go back and take a nap. I'll just use the self-heating hotpot I brought with me to prepare you later.
"
Brother Yang opened his mouth and said nothing more. He just sat on the moon chair again and put his feet on the wooden pier beside the campfire.
In the blink of an eye, around one o'clock in the evening, heavy rain fell again, and even the water flow at the mouth of the blasted mountain spring became much stronger.
In the time before that, Wei Ran only went out to urinate a few times and asked Zha Xifeng if he had come out. The only real thing he did was to make two buckets of instant noodles and make a self-heating hot pot.
Seeing how honest he was, Brother Yang finally felt relieved. He quietly hung a small bell on the zipper of Wei Ran's tent door and walked back to his tent next door quietly.
In less than ten minutes, Wei Ran had already cut open the tent cloth with a knife, ducked out from the other side, and using the cover of the surrounding vegetation and heavy rain, arrived at the unattended mountain with only the lights on.
entrance of the cave.
After casually grabbing some tools such as climbing ropes, Wei Ran waded into the cave through the cold and turbid spring water.
In addition to being a little low in the first few dozen meters, the space inside becomes larger and larger as you go in. There are more and more stalactites, bags of snake repellent powder, snake eggs of various sizes, snake sloughs, etc.
This is a fucking snake den...
Wei Ran took out the GPS and looked at it. When he got here, he found that this thing had almost no signal here, and his position at this time was still 410 meters away from the coordinate point provided by the metal book.
Taking out the compass and putting away the GPS, Weiran took steps again.
Fortunately, although the GPS signal in my hand has lost its signal, there are no forks in the cave, and there are clear footprints left by predecessors in areas where there is no water beside the river.
Continuing to walk along the footprints, the typical karst landforms are beautiful, but after looking at them for a long time, they will inevitably feel the same.
Compared to these, the rushing water in the underground river beside him made him clearly aware that he had been slowly climbing up.
"It's almost here, the direction is a little bit off..."
Wei Ran, who had been counting steps silently, stopped and muttered something, then looked around with a bright flashlight that came along.
There is also a fork in the road here. One of the forks continues into the mountain. The mountain spring water also flows out from this "fork" that is as big as the butt of a tractor.
Just looking at the rock nails at the "lintel" of the cave entrance, we can tell that Zha Xifeng and others probably followed this branch of the road to chase them out.
Looking down at the compass in his hand, Wei Ran couldn't help but look at the other option at the fork in the road.
This option is much smaller, only a narrow eye-like slit over half a meter wide and over one meter long.
Moreover, this gap is still open on the side of the rock wall. I leaned forward and carefully drilled my body in. The space inside was not very big. Only less than one meter forward was a gap filled with water, which seemed to be downward.
entrance of the cave.
This hole is not too big either, only slightly smaller than a truck tire. Fortunately, the water in this hole looks particularly calm.
After hesitating for a moment, he looked at the direction behind him and the direction that Zha Xifeng and others were exploring, and finally climbed in carefully, letting his body penetrate little by little into the narrow hole that was like a skylight from hell.
Fortunately, with the help of the waterproof flashlight, he could clearly see that although the hole was not big, the space inside was quite large.
He poked his head out of the water again, took out the diving suit from the metal book that he had obtained through the Katenka sisters, let the metal book help him put it on, and then sank again.
Under the guidance of the compass, I swam forward only a distance of more than 20 meters, and a straight up and down rock wall appeared directly in front of me.
Holding on to this rock wall, he slowly rose up little by little. When he surfaced again, he found that not far from the shore, there was another stalactite column and a stalagmite over one meter high.
Holding a flashlight, Wei Ran walked ashore step by step. While observing the surroundings, he also put away his diving suit.
This cave is not too big, only a hundred or ten square meters inside at most. As you walk along the only "land road", this tunnel becomes higher and lower.
By the end, he could only move forward while squatting.
But at this time, he also clearly saw two pairs of withered bones lying on the side of the rock wall less than five meters away in front of him!
Moving quickly over, Wei Ran recognized Squad Leader Cha's Type 67 silent pistol at a glance. He also recognized the rusty glory bullets around his neck, the remaining large five-leaf camouflage uniform, and the high-waisted pair on the opponent's feet.
Liberation shoes!
Looking at the other corpse, even though the corpse had turned into white bones, Wei Ran couldn't recognize it. It was Xiao Xifeng. It was Xiao Xifeng that Lu Yao had thought about, felt sorry for, and been grateful for all his life. That famous name
A signal soldier named He Yong!
There is also a rusty glory bullet on his neck. The remaining clothes on his body can still be barely seen as the five-leaf camouflage. On his feet, the soles of the Jiefang shoes are still incomparably intact.
Wei Ran could even see that there was a small round mirror vaguely stuffed in the other party's chest hanging...
I carefully pulled out the small mirror. Unlike my own, the edge of this mirror was made of red plastic. There was also a group photo on the back. Although the group photo had been blurred by water vapor over the years, it was still barely recognizable.
, is a photo of a man wearing a white shirt and a woman wearing a skirt.
Maybe that man is He Yong?
So what about the girl in the photo? Who is she? Is she Xiao Xifeng’s first love?
Are we childhood sweethearts like Suisui and I?
Wei Ran couldn't help but guess, but found that no matter who the girl was, no matter how he guessed, it would only make him more painful.
Gently putting the mirror back into the other party's nearly rotten chest pendant, Wei Ran turned to think about another question.
Why are they here?
If you were an outsider who didn't know the cause and effect, and just looked at the things that seemed to be the outer packaging of the medical bag scattered around the squad leader, and the almost rotten medical bag itself, I'm afraid you would just think that the two of them escaped here and then suffered from lack of medical treatment.
He died due to lack of medication or due to infection or other reasons.
However, there was still a pair of handcuffs thrown on the rotten medical bag. This was enough to explain many problems and change many speculations - even if Wei Ran had not personally experienced that period of history.
Obviously, the prisoner Ivan discovered the bodies of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng. He brought their bodies here and then used Squad Leader Cha's medical kit to save himself.
In this case, Wei Ran looked at the blocked road ahead and couldn't help but start to wonder about another question - why did that guy do this?
Fortunately, this problem is much simpler.
Think about it, that stupid prisoner Ivan was the tongue they captured from Monkey's artillery position and ammunition depot and artillery frontline training class.
Not long after the tongue was captured, the ammunition depot was bombed so much that even the complete pair of underpants could not be found.
Whoever it was, the Maozi prisoner, the Maozi prisoner who escaped by chance would probably have nothing to do with the artillery attack thanks to him.
Whether it's "I went to Goudan's house to sleep with his sister Gangdan" or "I went to the mountains to pick mushrooms and got lost." In short, I didn't have my tongue caught, nor did I reveal any important clues.
As long as he insists on not being caught and relies on his status as a technical consultant, he will not have any trouble when he goes back. It is even possible that he just escaped because he happened to go to Goudan's house to sleep with his sister Gangdan.
However, the premise of all this is to die without any evidence.
Obviously, the prisoner Ivan at the time also took this into consideration, so he hid the bodies of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng.
Did he really just hide the body? Could that greedy guy have other plans?
While thinking about this problem, Wei Ran had already taken out the engineering shovel from the metal book, squatted down and moved forward with difficulty to the end, carefully digging out the hole blocked by large and small stones, soil and tangled tree roots.
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Before he could come up with a satisfactory answer, he also dug up a rusty metal bar. Although this thing was deformed, Wei Ran could still recognize it at a glance. It was half a leg facing the enemy. I'm afraid it was also
