At the end of the low cave, Wei Ran, who could only squat, swung the ax he took out from the metal book like a prisoner digging an escape tunnel, chopping down tree roots that were as thick as arms or even calves.
.
From time to time, he would take out the gas mask bag from the destroyer USS Johnston from the metal book, open the valve of the emergency oxygen bottle inside and take a breath of oxygen.
Behind him, in addition to the excavated soil, gravel and tree roots, there was also an airdrop box from Leningrad - the ax in his hand was taken out of this airdrop box.
"Wow"
As the soil collapsed, a tree root as long as an arm was finally cut off by him.
Knocking the thick main body of the tree with the axe, Wei Ran took a few breaths of oxygen again, then put the ax back into the airdrop box and put it away, picked up the engineer shovel again and started digging up against the trunk.
In the shaken soil again and again, he gradually straightened his waist, gradually bent his legs, and finally stood up.
At this time, he had already dug into the humus layer. In other words, he was probably only half a meter away from the surface at most.
But when he dug here, he didn't dare to move, because right in front of where he was digging, at the level of his chest, among the intertwined plant roots, there was an 82-2 style grenade stuck!
He was very sure that the safety pin must have been removed from the grenade, and there must be another explosive on it!
Carefully scraping the edge of the grenade with a bayonet, he immediately judged that what was pressed on it seemed to be a Type 58 anti-infantry mine.
After a moment's hesitation, he put away all the digging tools, took another breath of oxygen, and then took out his latest tactical vest.
However, this time when he wore the vest, he clearly felt a heaviness in the back of his heart. He reached back and touched it. Wei Ran was stunned and quickly took off the vest.
Compared with the last time I took it out, there is now an extra one facing the enemy in the bag that once contained the lunch box at the back - just like the one that Squad Leader Knife had back then.
After pondering for a moment, he silently put on the tactical vest with the words "Defend Southern Xinjiang" written on it again, then took out an American M67 grenade and pulled out the safety pin.
After retreating a distance, Wei Ran threw the grenade in his hand at the entrance of the hole that was about to be dug. He also lay down and hid next to the corpses of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng.
"Boom! Boom!"
After the first grenade exploded, the two explosions that followed almost overlapped.
After the explosion, most of the tunnel he had worked so hard to dig collapsed.
Waving his hands to disperse the smoke that filled the air, Wei Ran put on the diving suit provided by the metal book again, walked over cautiously, and dug into the collapsed soil with a spade.
Compared with before, the excavation work that started again was much simpler. In less than an hour, before the air pressure in the oxygen tank of the diving suit was exhausted, the engineer shovel in his hand penetrated the surface and dug out the bowl.
A large hole.
Looking at the raindrops falling straight up and down outside the hole, Wei Ran put away his diving suit, quickly expanded the hole, and climbed out with difficulty.
Taking a deep breath, he raised a strong flashlight and looked around, but was shocked to find that the distance between where he was digging and the water level of the flood valley was less than five meters!
On one side of the hole he dug was a huge boulder as tall as a person, and on the other side was a tall tree growing crookedly. The tree trunks of this tree were all resting on the boulder.
In the long years before, these unrelated stones and trees have supported each other and grown together.
Looking up at the higher mountain top and the flashlight light that was constantly shaking at the top of the mountain, Wei Ran sat down against the boulder and also pointed the flashlight at the night sky above his head, sending signals with three long and three short frequencies.
I lit a red pagoda mountain on fire, and while smoking it, I looked at the flash flood that was just around the corner.
Although this valley is flooded with floods, it is quite spacious. The water level of the flash flood does not seem to be high, and the flow rate is much slower.
Obviously, it was precisely because of this that Ivan, the captive at that time, had the opportunity to go ashore, fish out the corpses of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng, and obtain vital medical kits and handcuff keys from their corpses.
Could it be that he planned to hide their bodies and wait for an opportunity to exchange for some credit in the future?
What Ivan was thinking back then is destined to be an unanswerable question. In any case, now that the bodies of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng have been found, he has to start thinking about new questions, how to explain his sneaking out.
“What I’m best at is diving”
Wei Ran muttered to himself and found a good excuse, flicked the cigarette butt in his hand, stood up and pointed the flashlight that had been sending signals at the beam that was getting closer and closer to the top of the mountain.
After waiting for more than an hour, when the sky was about to light up and the rainstorm almost stopped, he also heard the anxious shouts of Brother Yang and Zha Xifeng using loudspeakers.
"Wei Ran! Mr. Wei! Is that you, Mr. Wei!"
"It's me!" Wei Ran shouted in response and adjusted the flashlight to flash mode.
In less than five minutes, Brother Yang, who was soaked to the skin, with a leech hanging around his neck and a few small wounds, was the first to run over with the Bayi Bar!
"Mr. Wei, are you injured?!"
Brother Yang asked nervously, and then complained without waiting for Wei Ran's answer, "I knew you would sneak out! Did you deliberately wait for me to fall asleep before running away?"
"Accidentally, accidentally." Wei Ran said perfunctorily without apology.
"What's wrong?"
"I accidentally waited for you to fall asleep and ran out."
Wei Ran gave a nonsensical answer that he wished Brother Yang could kill him with one shot. Then he turned to look at Zha Xifeng, who was also in a panic. He raised his finger and pointed at the hole dug by himself at his feet, and said in a very formal manner, "Zha Xifeng
Comrade, fortunately, I have found the comrades of squad leader Dao, your adoptive father, and they are inside."
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Zha Xifeng's feet softened and she sat down on the ground.
"Abba"
Beside Zha Xifeng, a young man who looked to be around 30 years old and whom Wei Ran had never seen before helped Zha Xifeng, and in his mouth, a message belonging to the family came out subconsciously.
Chinese name for.
"This is my adopted son Charming"
Zha Xifeng grabbed the young man's wrist and said, "My adoptive father was killed in a bombing just to rescue him from a minefield."
Having said this, Zha Xifeng pulled his adopted son Zhanming to kneel down towards Wei Ran, and thanked him with the greatest Chinese courtesy, "Mr. Wei, you are so kind to me, you helped my adoptive father complete his
Last wish, me and..."
"Get up quickly!"
Wei Ran was startled, and quickly called to Brother Yang for help, and dragged Zha Xifeng and his adopted son to their feet.
"Don't say thank you"
Wei Ran said before the father and son could speak, "Comrade Cha, prepare... prepare the coffin. Also, consider whether you should send your adoptive father home as well."
After saying that, he looked at Brother Yang again and said, "Contact II and ask him to...let him inform Squad Leader Dao's family, listen to their opinions, and ask them if they want to personally take their comrades home.
"
"yes!"
Brother Yang, who was still complaining about Weiran just now, responded in a very formal and serious manner, took out the satellite phone and started to contact.
"Want to go in and have a look?"
Wei Ran saw Zha Xifeng looking at him hesitantly, and took the initiative to point to the cave he dug out of it.
Zha Xifeng was also looking at the disgraced Wei Ran. He took his adopted son Zhan Zhan and knelt down at the entrance of the cave to worship in a very formal manner. When he stood up, he unexpectedly shook his head at Wei Ran, "Let's just
I don’t want to go in, I believe you won’t make a mistake. And I guess the first person they want to see is probably not me.”
After finishing speaking, he did not wait for Wei Ran to speak, and said in Chinese to his adopted son Zhan Qing, "A Ming, take your people to clean up the surrounding weeds, expand the hole and level the ground, build a waterproof dam, and arrange patrols and warnings.
"
"yes!"
The man named Zhan Zhan responded in the same way, and immediately started to arrange the arrangements in the more difficult language while holding the walkie-talkie.
"Mr. Cha, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly."
Seeing that Zha Xifeng was still hesitant to speak, Wei Ran took the initiative to drop the topic.
"Wei Ran, now that my adoptive father's comrade-in-arms has been found, shouldn't it be time for me to tell you how to thank you?"
Zha Xifeng looked slightly uneasy, but took the initiative to say with great sincerity, "The cash I can withdraw now is 230,000 US dollars. If it is not enough, I can also mortgage my residence in the United States..."
"Give me two boxes of bees." Wei Ran smiled and gave an answer that Zha Xifeng never expected.
"Wha...what?" Zha Xifeng looked at Wei Ran in shock.
"Give me two boxes of bees."
Wei Ran smiled and repeated, "How about giving me two boxes of the bees left behind by your adoptive father Dongfeng...your adoptive father Squad Leader Dao? I happen to want to raise some too."
"That's...that's all?"
Zha Xifeng looked at Wei Ran in confusion, obviously not expecting to pay such a special reward.
“Already a lot”
Wei Ran smiled and replied, "Of course, you are responsible for delivering one box to Kazan and the other to Tianjin.
I don’t care about the box sent to Kazan, but the box of bees sent to Tianjin must be legally imported. I don’t want to be the initiator of a biological invasion..."
"What my adoptive father left behind was the Chinese honeybee"
After reacting, Zha Xifeng quickly assured, "The bee seeds were originally brought from China."
"Anyway, I want two boxes of bees."
Wei Ran thought for a while and pretended to be greedy and said, "I also need two bottles of Xifeng wine and two bottles of Hongtashan. That's it. Any more would be too greedy."
When Zha Xifeng heard this, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After a moment, she said with great gratitude, "Thank you, Wei Ran, thank you, I..."
"It's my turn to thank you"
Wei Ran said seriously, "Thank you for accompanying Squad Leader Dao, and thank you for always working hard to help him fulfill his last wish. I think you will be very pleased that your father... your father, Squad Leader Dao, is alive in heaven."
"
"I hope... I hope he is happy."
Zha Xifeng smiled when she said this, took out a packet of Hongtashan and said, "Wei Ran, I have a daughter studying in the United States. She only had an American name after she was born. I plan to give her a Chinese name."
"What are you going to call it?" Wei Ran took the cigarette from the other party and let the other party light it for him with peace of mind.
"Prepare to let her last name be Dao"
Zha Xifeng also lit a cigarette for herself, stared blankly at the hole dug by Wei Ran, took a puff of the cigarette, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Let's call it a knife bee, a bee's bee, a Chinese bee's bee."
"Abba, I'm going to have a child too."
The man named Zhan Zhan happened to have finished arranging his work at this time. He came over and asked for a bottle of Hongtashan. He said to himself, "The doctor told me that it's a boy. Let him also be named Dao. You can also give him some."
Give me a name."
"Why don't you let Mr. Wei help you pick your son's name?" Zha Xifeng smiled and gave the naming rights to Wei Ran.
Hearing this, Wei Ran remembered something inexplicably, waved his hands with a smile on his face, and repeated what someone once said, "No, it's up to the parents to name the child, otherwise it's up to them.
Isn’t the child born in vain?”
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhan Zhan, who was about to be a father, also smiled and said casually, "That's okay, we will name it ourselves when the time comes, but my child's surname will definitely be Dao."
"You have a family again..."
Wei Ran muttered something secretly in his heart, and he should also find out with Cha Xifeng and his adopted son.
"Mr. Wei, we have already contacted him." Brother Yang said in a picky manner, while winking at Wei Ran.
Nodding apologetically towards Zha Xifeng, Wei Ran motioned to Brother Yang and him to take a few steps further away, and then heard the other party say, "After dawn, the second generation's father took the food box we sent to visit that place.
Teacher Lu Yao, and informed him of the situation here.
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"Okay" Wei Ran nodded and murmured to himself, "It's really time to go home. Is there anything else?"
"have"
Brother Yang looked at Wei Ran with a strange expression, "Xia Shushi asked me to remind you that you'd better rush back to Laoshan immediately."
"What's wrong?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.
"Your girlfriends are rushing to Wenshan, and their plane will land soon." Brother Yang said happily.
"Girlfriend, we don't have you." Wei Ran rolled his eyes, "You snitched on me?"
"not me"
Brother Yang immediately waved his hand and said vengefully, "I don't even have the contact information of your girlfriends. Otherwise, I would have snitched on you when you sent me to deliver lunch boxes. Why wait now?"
"As I said, without us, the word "we" is redundant."
Wei Ran snorted, "So who snitched?"
"The second son said that it was Xia Shushi who leaked the information again, but he promised to help keep it secret and not tell you about it, so he told me."
Brother Yang said seriously, "I didn't promise Xia Shushi to keep it a secret for him. Besides, I accidentally said it just now."
"I will keep it a secret for you"
Wei Ran said angrily, "Get ready, we're going back now."
"good!"
Brother Yang responded happily, and then asked, "Mr. Wei, how did you find this place?"
"I accidentally took a look in the cave while you were asleep, and found an unexplored fork in the road."
As Wei Ran walked in the direction of Cha Xifeng, he gave the excuse he had thought up in advance, "My water skills are pretty good, especially my free diving skills, so I took the risk and dived along the stagnant water at the fork in the road.
Then I discovered this cave, and there was already a fist-sized gap at the end of the cave entrance, so I dug out along the way and detonated a grenade buried there."
After he said this excuse, he happened to walk up to Zha Xifeng and his son, and asked, "I always forgot to ask, where is the white man who was rescued and died in Ganzhu Village buried?"
“Right in Ganzhu Village”
Zha Xifeng quickly replied, "My foster...my father once dug out his body and then buried it again.
I remember clearly that the body was almost rotten when it was dug out, so it was buried back and never touched again. Do you want to take a look?"
"not going"
Wei Ran waved his hand, "I'll go back first. In the past two days, your father's family and comrades and I will come to pick up the two people in the cave."
"Okay, I'll wait for you!" Zha Xifeng said quickly, "A Ming, send Mr. Wei out."
"good"
It turned out that before he finished speaking, he had already waved over two young men.
What made Wei Ran dumbfounded was that these two young men were also carrying a bamboo chair that could be carried by two people.
"Mr. Wei, please..."
"Don't"
Wei Ran waved his hand quickly, "I'm not that rich, so don't do this. Let's just go out and it will be faster."
"That's fine." Zhan Zhan didn't insist and took the troubleshooting knife himself and walked in front of Wei Ran and Brother Yang.
Under his leadership, he left the mountains and returned to Ganzhu Village. Wei Ran finally took a look at the cemetery of his captive Ivan.
A graveyard covered with weeds and a stone about the size of a gas tank. What was engraved on it was "Ten Thousand" in the mahjong tiles.
Ten thousand is just ten thousand, since the Soviet Union is no longer around anyway.
Wei Ran cursed and kicked the tombstone. Although all the tragedies were caused by this idiot, he did not pointlessly vent his anger on the dead man. He simply turned around and followed Brother Yang to the roadside, and got into the opponent's car.
In the car that came.
Perhaps because the heavy rain had just stopped, or perhaps because the sun had just emerged, it was rare that there was no fog in the mountains and forests, and it was also rare for him to see a ray of red rising sun emerging from the east.
"It's sunny," Wei Ran raised the car window and sighed contentedly.
"Today will be a good day," said Yang Ge, who was driving.
"Yes, it's sunny. It will be a good day today."
Wei Ran muttered and lowered the seat contentedly, "Brother Yang, please drive faster, I want to go back early."
"Sit tight"
Before Brother Yang finished speaking, he slowly stepped on the accelerator, increased the speed of the car, and drove Weiran to the border port between the two countries in the rising sun.
