On the edge of the river meandering through the valley, Wei Ran and others, holding bamboo poles in one hand and holding on to the cliff with the other, had been wading through the water for a whole morning. However, neither the river nor the cliffs on both sides were there.
The end is in sight. Even the river is deepening and is now almost waist deep.
"How far is it still?" Zhou Guochang, who took turns leading the charge with Wei Ran, said feebly, "My legs are cramping again."
"have no idea"
Wei Ran, who was walking second, wiped the sweat from his forehead and responded, "I didn't even find a place to climb the cliff along the way."
"Keep walking"
Qin Shouzheng picked up the kettle and drank some water and urged, "We must at least find a place where we can sit down and rest."
"I'll go ahead." Wei Ran walked around Zhou Guochang as he spoke, holding on to the rock wall and around the bend of the river.
However, there are still cliffs ahead, with no river beach or resting point slightly above the water.
Suppressing the disappointment in their hearts, everyone forced themselves forward and continued to move forward. Whenever they couldn't walk anymore, they would find a place where the depth was not too deep, gather the bamboo sticks in everyone's hands and tie them with ropes to make a stand, and then
Hang their respective backpacks on it to avoid getting wet. As for people, naturally they can only sit directly on the river bed full of gravel.
If I had known, I would have taken out the paizi boat in advance...
Wei Ran, who was still walking at the front, secretly regretted that if he had known that he would have to walk along the river for so long, he should have taken out the rowboat in advance and put it on the island in the middle of the river for everyone to discover.
"There seems to be something ahead!" Qin Shouzheng, who was walking in third place, shouted in surprise, "It seems to be an island!"
Hearing this, everyone raised their heads and looked straight ahead. Sure enough, there seemed to be an island on the side of the river in front of them! They subconsciously quickened their pace, and everyone almost jogged to catch up.
However, as the distance got closer, everyone invariably smelled the smell of corpses again!
As they looked at each other, Wei Ran, who was walking at the front, slowed down and approached step by step against the smell of corpses. Gradually, he finally saw clearly that this section of the river was filled with mutilated corpses.
!
Some of these corpses were soldiers from the expeditionary force, some were bloated military horses filled with flies, and there was even a dead buffalo among them!
And the reason why these corpses are piled up here is because of the large and small rocks in the river that are barely even with the water surface!
"It was also a Japanese plane that blew up." When Wei Ran said this, he clenched his fists.
"These beasts!" Qin Shouzheng cursed over and over again with his eyes widened.
"You go first"
Squad Leader Liang greeted almost to himself, ignoring the strong and pungent smell of corpses, and carefully counted the rotting corpses that almost covered the river bed.
"Let's go"
Wei Ran carefully pushed aside the rotting corpses that almost filled the water, and walked forward cautiously step by step.
"Wow"
In the splashing water, the young monk Sehao slipped and fell into the river on his back. But immediately after, the river that he pushed away was completely covered by the dense corpses again.
"Little Master Sehao!"
Zhou Guochang was stunned for a moment, then he quickly bent down and reached out to help the little monk who had fallen into the water.
"vomit--"
As soon as the little monk Sehao sat up, he couldn't help but start retching because of the dense corpses around him. Then he vomited out all the food he had eaten before setting off before he even had time to lift his anti-mosquito mask.
However, no one laughed at him at this time, and no one blamed this kid who was only fifteen or sixteen years old. They just helped him stand up and carefully inspected the water-soaked bamboo basket.
Fortunately, because the little monk was short and short, he had already transferred the rice and other supplies to the bamboo basket on the donkey. Except for a dark red cassock, the rest of the basket on his back were all things that were not afraid of blisters.
Things like hatchets.
"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"
When the pale-faced little master calmed down, Wei Ran gently pushed the body floating in front of him again, and said as he walked forward, "Stand still, Guochang, you and the little master hold on to the donkey's reins.
Shouzheng, you too."
"Be careful too"
Qin Shouzheng pursed his lips, led the donkey who was blindfolded along the way, and followed Wei Ran closely.
It was extremely difficult to walk forward for more than twenty meters. When the group of them crossed a gravel beach that was almost level with the river surface, the river in front finally returned to its original appearance.
"Take a break"
Wei Ran sat on a pebble less than half a meter higher than the water surface, trying his best to ignore the strong smell of corpses. He rolled up the legs of his shorts and cleaned the disgusting locusts hanging on his thighs.
“I don’t know how long it will take to get out.”
As he spoke, Qin Shouzheng took out a cigarette pipe from his backpack, gave Zhou Guochang and Wei Ran a cigarette each, lit it, and said worriedly.
"Let's go, we have to keep going."
Wei Ran lifted up his anti-mosquito mask and took a puff of cigarette to disperse the corpse odor that filled his nasal cavity. He then used the butts of his cigarette to burn off the locusts hanging from his legs one by one. Then the four of them checked each other again.
Then, he cleaned up the locusts that had crawled all over his body one by one.
When the second cigarette that Wei Ran asked Qin Shouzheng for burned out, Squad Leader Liang also walked over silently, found a rock above the water and sat down, took off his helmet again, and murmured to himself
The words that everyone could not hear clearly were filled with blood-red letters one after another on the helmet.
"Go, keep walking."
Squad Leader Liang tremblingly put away the double-headed gun oil can containing paint and the small brush, and put on the steel helmet that exuded a strong smell of paint in a serious manner.
However, before he could stand up completely, he turned around and supported the stone he had just sat on, and spit out "Wow".
Under these rounds of stimulation, Zhou Guochang was the first to be unable to bear it. He lifted up his anti-mosquito mask and turned around to vomit. Then, the young monk Sehao, who had finally recovered, and Qin Shouzheng, who had been enduring all the time, also poured out all the energy in their stomachs.
All the vomited out.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yu Wang shook his Adam's apple to suppress vomiting, Wei Ran took out his camera with a pale face, put all the floating corpses blocking the river into the view frame, and pressed the button with gritted teeth
shutter.
After a long time, Squad Leader Liang and others finally couldn't vomit anymore, and then they either turned sallow or flushed, straightened up, and continued to walk downstream after Wei Ran.
However, even though the floating corpses behind them had long since completely disappeared from sight due to the winding river channel, and even though an hour had passed since they left the floating corpses, they didn't know whether it was because of the river water washing the corpses or because of the
For psychological reasons, everyone feels that they can still smell the strong corpse odor that cannot be ignored!
Fortunately, when they walked exhausted towards dusk, the cliffs on both sides finally became lower and lower, and finally turned into a river channel only a few meters higher than the river surface. At the same time, in the gravel river bed under their feet, there were also
It was mixed with more and more soil, making it extremely difficult for them to lift their legs every time. Even the straw sandals on the feet of the three people except Wei Ran and Zhou Guochang were constantly lifting their legs again and again.
Left in the deepest part of the mud.
"Over there, look over there!"
Zhou Guochang pointed to the river bank on his left and spoke excitedly and incoherently, but he did not utter a complete sentence at all.
But everyone knew what he wanted to express, and they all saw what he wanted everyone to see - it was a shack, a shack built with banana leaves and bamboo pieces!
"Big troops! They are definitely left behind by the big troops in front!" Before Qin Shouzheng could finish his words, he had already stumbled ashore with his donkey.
Seeing this, Wei Ran and others followed suit one after another, stepping on the smelly mud to the shore covered with towering trees, and sat down on the relatively hard ground.
Looking at his soaked and wrinkled legs and the locusts crawling all over him again, Wei Ran just tiredly took off his heavy backpack and looked at the surrounding environment.
This is also a jungle, but wherever you look, under almost every big tree, there are shacks made of banana leaves or various materials.
Although most of these shacks have collapsed, the banana leaves still maintain a little greenness, which also shows that they are not too far away from the main army.
But in addition, the remains of the campfire not far away, the skeletons of what seemed to be military horses, the excavated ground around them, and even the torn bark of the small trees seemed to imply that the big tree in front of them
The troops are already running out of food.
"Finally, finally got here."
While Wei Ran was secretly analyzing the current situation, Zhou Guochang was lying on his back on the wet ground with a look of joy on his face, completely unaware that they had just crossed the threshold of Savage Mountain.
At this moment, a bright light flashed in the fragmented sky above the head cut by the jungle canopy, followed immediately by a deafening thunder, and a majestic rainstorm suddenly started as if a switch was pressed!
