In the dense forest that still smelled of gunpowder smoke, Wei Ran was alone, holding a kerosene lamp, chasing the direction in which Qin Shou Zheng led the donkey away, looking for his shadow.
But what makes him extremely worried is that along the way, he will encounter a crater caused by an aerial bomb every three or five times. And every time this time, he is extremely worried, for fear that he will find the disappeared Qin Shouzheng and the other party nearby.
Donkey.
"Shou Zheng! Qin Shouzheng! Qin Shouzheng!" Wei Ran shouted the other party's name at the top of his lungs, but did not receive a response from the other party.
After waiting for a moment, he turned up the flame of the kerosene lamp and continued to wave the machete around to carefully search for possible clues.
"Is this Qin Shouzheng's hat?"
Wei Ran stepped back, bent down and picked up a broken German hat from under a fallen banana tree.
He brought it close to his nostrils and smelled the smell. The strong smell of sweat, mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke, and the smell of tobacco stained on the brim of the hat. These detailed smells made him extremely sure that this was Tan Shouzheng's.
He went to the oil lamp and inspected it carefully. Fortunately, he found no blood on the hat or around it. This was undoubtedly good news.
Throwing the hat into the backpack, Wei Ran searched the surroundings more carefully. Finally, he successfully found a straw shoe about ten meters away from the hat.
Looking back at the place where he found the hat, Wei Ran took a few steps back. Using the hat as the origin, he drew a line through the place where he found the straw sandals. At the same time, his line of sight also followed the virtual line in his mind.
This line looks up towards the top of the mountain in front of me on the right.
As he walked along this road toward the top of the mountain diagonally above, he discovered more and more: broken shrubs and grass leaves, buttons with remaining threads, blood-stained branches, and even branches with cloth strips hanging on them.
When he climbed over the top of the mountain along this line, he also found the submachine gun that belonged to Qin Shouzheng lying on the gravel ground. And here, it was almost a kilometer away from where Wei Ran found the hat!
"Shou Zheng! Qin Shouzheng! Where are you!" Wei Ran shouted again.
"Ah - uh -! Ah - uh -!" Halfway up the other side of the mountain, a series of donkey brays suddenly came.
Wei Ran swore that he had never thought that he was like this at this moment, thinking that the donkey's braying was a special code that sounded so good!
"Shou Zheng! Tan Shouzheng!" Wei Ran shouted, quickening his pace, holding an oil lamp and running in the direction of the donkey's braying.
As the distance got closer, Wei Ran gradually saw clearly that the donkey was standing next to an unknown tropical tree that was only as thick as a thigh, pacing back and forth restlessly, snoring, and even snoring from time to time.
Will make a fool of himself.
Taking a few steps closer, he saw clearly that the donkey's reins had been wrapped around the tree trunk several times, and on the other end of the reins lay the unconscious Tan Shouzheng!
He raised the oil lamp and observed carefully behind the donkey. He also found a young black bear. However, this little black bear, which was not as big as Beria, seemed to have just been kicked by the donkey. At this time, although it
His stomach was still panting, but dark red blood was already overflowing from the corners of his mouth and nostrils. It was obvious that he was not alive.
After confirming that there were no other dangers around him, Wei Ran immediately squatted down next to Qin Shouzheng, took the donkey's reins off his arm and tied it to a tree, and then inspected him.
Although Qin Shouzheng's face was covered with scratches, even the nail of the big toe of one foot was lifted off. The elbow and wrist of the arm with the reins were also dislocated, and even the clothes on his body were scratched to pieces.
rag strips.
But luckily among the misfortunes, at least his breathing was fairly even, and there were no fractures or serious injuries on his body.
After a moment's hesitation, Wei Ran took out the towel he had given to businessman Luke not long ago from his backpack, carefully folded it and stuffed it into Qin Shouzheng's mouth. Then, as quickly as possible, he quickly helped him lift his dislocated elbow and wrist.
Settled back.
Stimulated by the severe pain, Qin Shouzheng immediately woke up, and then saw Wei Ran under the light of the oil lamp.
Waiting for him to help him pull out the towel stuffed in his mouth, Qin Shou turned to look at the donkey not far away with great effort, "Donkey, quinine and... rice..."
Before Wei Ran could agree, Qin Shouzheng lost consciousness again.
After gently testing the opponent's breath and pulse, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and carefully tied the opponent's arm with the extra deck prepared before treating Luke. Then he stood up and inspected the donkey.
Compared with Qin Shouzheng, this donkey had a lot of minor scratches on the bridge of its nose, but no other scars. Moreover, the bamboo baskets hanging on both sides of the body were still covered with covers and covered with tarpaulins and blankets.
It was wrapped tightly, and if you look around and at the bottom of the bamboo basket, there was no damage or leakage.
Look at the backpack that Tan Shouzheng has been carrying on his shoulder. It is also covered with a lid and tied tightly with a rope. Try to open it. This backpack is filled with the horse meat jerky and small fish that were made earlier.
Dried, even those smoked dried bamboo shoots.
Thanks to Qin Shouzheng's desperate protection, these extremely precious supplies in Savage Mountain were all intact and packed in thick bamboo tubes. Only the bottle of water left before going to bed broke open the wooden stopper in panic and scattered it.
Not a drop of it is left.
Although Qin Shouzheng is still unconscious, Wei Ran can roughly guess what happened at that time. There is no doubt that the explosion of the aerial bomb dropped by the little devil frightened the donkey. In a panic, he chose a direction and started running wildly.
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In order to prevent the donkey from getting lost, Tan Shouzheng took away the precious rice and quinine in the bamboo basket. He refused to let go during the whole process and allowed the frightened donkey to drag him over the hill, and finally stopped by using this tree.
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"Stubborn donkeys, you both are stubborn donkeys!"
Wei Ran sighed in admiration, pulled out the Browning high-power pistol from the wooden gun box on Qin Shouzheng's waist, pointed it above his head and pulled the trigger.
"boom!"
The crisp sound of gunfire echoed repeatedly in the mountains, but perhaps it was too far away. Until the echo disappeared, there was no response from Squad Leader Liang.
Putting the pistol back into the wooden gun box on Tan Shouzheng's waist, Wei Ran thought for a moment, took out the quinine kept by Tan Shouzheng from the bamboo basket carried by the donkey, put it into his own basket, and then put it into Qin Shouzheng's basket.
He evenly distributed the contents among himself and put the dying bear into the free basket.
Finally, he helped Qin Shouzheng, who was still unconscious, onto the donkey's back. Wei Ran then untied the reins, hung the oil lamp around the donkey's neck, led the donkey with one hand, and carried the basket with the bear in the other, limping towards
The direction from which it came.
Halfway through the journey, Tan Shouzheng, who was lying on the back of the donkey, also woke up. After a brief period of confusion, he grinned and asked, "Wei Ran? You saved me? I thought I was dreaming."
"What good dream did you have?" Wei Ran simply stopped, put down his backpack, helped the other person get off the donkey's back, and asked with a smile.
"I dreamed that the black and white impermanence came to arrest me."
Qin Shouzheng grinned and said, "I was looking for my submachine gun to attack them, and then I woke up. By the way, where are Squad Leader Liang and the others? Where are they? Where did you get a bear?"
"They went to find a place to camp again. Except for Luke, who suffered a broken bone, everyone is fine. The bear was kicked to death by the donkey."
"Just an extra meal," Qin Shouzheng said, licking his lips.
Wei Ran sat down on the basket holding the bear, wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Why did you run so far?"
"The donkey is startled"
Qin Shou was trying to find cigarettes in the pocket of his clothes that were torn to pieces. After to no avail, he stood up limpingly, untied the lid of the bamboo basket on the side of the donkey's body, pulled out a British army backpack from inside, and then
Then he took out an iron cylinder with the "555" trademark from the bag.
Opening the cylinder, Qin Shouzheng took out two cigarettes and handed one of them to Wei Ran.
After the two of them lit the cigarette with the oil lamp, Qin Shouzheng said with a thankful face amid the nicotine smoke, "I grabbed the reins and ran with it, and my hat and shoes flew up! Then I ran to the top of the mountain and fell.
I fell down, and then I was dragged down the mountain by this stupid donkey, and then I fainted from the pain!"
"You're lucky"
Wei Ran pointed to the splint on the opponent's hand, "If this donkey were any stronger, your arm would be ripped off."
"You can't let go even if you tear it off."
Qin Shouzheng giggled and happily crushed the cigarette until it was hot to his hand, and then stuffed the cigarette butt into the tin box.
With the help of Wei Ran, Qin Shouzheng changed into a new set of British military uniforms and straw sandals. The former also signaled him to shoot a gun over his head before setting off.
This time, before the echo of the gunfire subsided, a gunshot also rang out some distance away.
"Let's go, Squad Leader Liang and the others are right over there."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he led the donkey and limped to the front, while Qin Shouzheng, who had mounted his submachine gun again, also followed behind with a bamboo pole.
Gradually, the communication between the two groups changed from the sound of gunfire to shouting at each other's throats, and then to the constant shaking of oil lamps. In the end, the two groups were not bombed.
On the other side of the mountain they passed, they merged together smoothly beside a bamboo forest halfway up the mountain.
"Shou Zheng, are you okay?"
Squad Leader Liang asked distressedly to the grinning Qin Shouzheng. A little later, Zhou Guochang also walked over with a guilty look on his face, knelt on the ground again, and said with a cry, "Brother Shouzheng, it's all my fault..."
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"You naughty boy," Tan Shouzheng used his uninjured hand to pull Zhou Guochang up and said nonchalantly, "It's not like you flew a plane and dropped the bomb."
"I..." Zhou Guochang's mouth opened and closed, but he didn't know what to say. His face, illuminated by the oil lamp, became increasingly guilty.
"crying egg hair"
Qin Shouzheng waved his hand nonchalantly and asked Wei Ran to open the backpack, pointing to the little black bear that was still inside, licking his lips and saying, "Squad leader, Guochang, can you give me an extra meal? I have two."
I haven’t eaten meat in months!”
"Did you catch this?" Squad Leader Liang asked in surprise.
"This donkey kicked him to death"
Wei Ran tugged at Xiong's ears, "It seems he's not dead yet, but he's definitely not alive. Guochang, Shouzheng's hands will need to be recuperated for a few days. You have to help Squad Leader Liang do more things these days."
"I'll do it! I'm willing to do any work!" Zhou Guochang, who felt guilty, hurriedly agreed, even though no one except him thought that this matter was his responsibility.
After giving the other party an excuse to feel more comfortable, Wei Ran decisively changed the subject and asked, "Where is the little master? Where has he gone?"
"He went to find a new campsite nearby and looked for water somewhere."
Squad Leader Liang then changed the subject and said, "When he finds the camp, we will kill this bear to make oil and eat it!"
"I even picked up a turtle."
Wei Ran lightly kicked the bottom layer of the backpack, then pointed at the bruises on his thighs and said, "That turtle was as big as a helmet, and it hit me right on the thigh."
"Zhou made turtle soup for me. His craftsmanship is very good."
Luke, who was lying by the bamboo forest, also followed suit and teased Wei Ran, "Wei, your bone setting skills are also very good. But my balls will be burst by your step. After we get out of this mountain,
, I will find a big-breasted woman to give it a try. If I am really trampled by you, then I will..."
"You can come to me then"
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish, then he waved the machete in his hand and said jokingly, "If it can't be used, just cut it off. I'm pretty good at it."
"Pretend I didn't say anything." Lying on the stretcher, Luke pretended to be helpless and spread his hands. Then, he grinned with everyone and laughed for the rest of his life.
When this smile also infected Zhou Guochang, who felt guilty, the barriers and differences between Luke and everyone disappeared.
Just at this moment, two consecutive gunshots were heard suddenly in the distance.
"It's the little master!" Zhou Guochang said immediately, "He must have found water or a place where he can rest peacefully!"
"Let's rush over!"
Before Squad Leader Liang finished speaking, he had already pulled out the box gun from his waist, pointed it at the night sky and pulled the trigger in response.
In view of the fact that both Wei Ran and Qin Shouzheng were more or less injured, Zhou Guochang and Squad Leader Liang worked together to lift the businessman Luke who was lying on the stretcher, while Wei Ran and Qin Shouzheng each held their hands.
The donkey followed, looking for the direction of the gunfire and started moving forward again.
