After crossing a jungle where no sunlight was visible, Gong Xue asked the panting team members to rest on the spot under a dense tree.
The soldier carried Zeng Yingying's backpack, wiped the rain off his face with his right hand, and cursed at the dark rainforest: "Damn it!! Come on! Keep chasing!! I won't admit defeat!"
The rain was really too heavy, and the layers of leaves could not stop the falling rain. There was a clanking sound from the helmet, and Gong Xue cast her cold and determined eyes towards a blank area marked on the map.
That small piece of inconspicuous white space looks extremely strange on the entire map covered in green.
It is not an edge area, nor is it a ridge or a lake. It is just a small blank space, sandwiched in the entire lush rainforest. If you don't look carefully, you will definitely ignore it.
Gong Xue took out the compass, flattened it, calibrated the direction, pointed to the southeast and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go over there and take a look!"
After pushing aside the tall grass and walking forward for about a few dozen meters, Gong Xue suddenly realized that she couldn't find her direction.
The compass will only take her in circles.
Afraid that the team members would be impatient, Gong Xue pondered for a moment, then started climbing by looking at a big tree beside her with no top visible.
Gao Yuan and Long Zhan both taught her the skills of tree climbing and rock climbing, that is, "stay still at three points and move at one point." It requires the climber to keep three points of close contact between the body and the tree at all times, and avoid having two limbs moving at the same time.
Destroy the stability of the entire body and cause accidental falls. When climbing, you should try to use your leg strength and use your feet to exert force. Keep your arms relaxed to control the direction. At the same time, try not to make the height of your arms higher than your shoulders. This can avoid
Premature muscle fatigue..
The trunk of the tree was very slippery due to the rain, so Gong Xue could only climb up a little bit with the help of a dagger. She knew that doing so was extremely energy-consuming and time-consuming, but it was much more cost-effective than blindly moving forward and getting lost or going astray.
Climbing to the high point, you can have a clear view of the surrounding situation.
She saw the big tree where the team members were temporarily resting just behind and to her left. She could distinguish it so clearly because she specifically remembered a dark red rock near the big tree before setting off.
As her eyes turned to the right, she was stunned.
In the area where she had just lost her way, for some unknown reason, a large white mist rose up. From a distance, it could be seen that it covered several kilometers.
The area shrouded in fog is a small, inconspicuous blank space on the map.
It turns out that this place is really white when viewed from above. The markings on the map are correct, but no one has ever gone in, so I don't know if it is an abyss or a miasma forest.
If it is a miasma forest, it will be difficult.
She has not experienced passing through a poisonous gas forest, so if she insists on going her own way, it may lead to irreversible consequences.
This time, she did not get lost and successfully found the big tree where she had rested before.
What caught the eye was the anxious square face of the soldier. Seeing her back, he breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at the shivering Wei Lan who was curled up next to the tree trunk and said: "She has a high fever, she keeps crying out cold, and she even had convulsions at the worst point just now."
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Gong Xue leaned down, touched Wei Lan's forehead, frowned slightly, and asked Zeng Yingying: "How long has she been feeling uncomfortable?"
Zeng Yingying said: "She was not feeling well before setting off in the morning. She got wet all the way and collapsed here."
Wei Lan's face was red, and even her eyes were swollen and red from the high temperature. "I can walk..." She struggled to sit up, but was held down by Gong Xue, "Don't be brave, you need to rest now."
She said to the soldier: "Go and chop some long wooden sticks nearby. Remember not to go far. Yingying, you stay here to take care of Wei Lan, and I will go find some herbs."
"yes!"
"yes!"
Da Bing was a man of action and disappeared in an instant. Zeng Yingying seemed to have suddenly grown up, she actually took off her camouflage uniform and shielded Wei Lan from the wind and rain above her head.
Looking at the performance of the team members, Gong Xue felt a hot flush in her eyes. She patted Zeng Yingying and Wei Lan, then turned back and got into the rain forest.
Not to mention, although the rainforest in southern Xinjiang is scary and mysterious, it has an extremely rich variety of medicinal herbs. There are Agrimony to stop bleeding and relieve pain, Forsythia to reduce inflammation and promote muscle growth, and Wood Butterfly to treat lingering coughs. Gong Xue identified the medicinal herbs.
Her skills were learned from Hook when she was a defense student. When she found a herb called Nine Immortals on a remote rock wall, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiuxiancao is also known as mountain cypress branch, green coral, flowering needle, nine dragon grass, etc. It has the effect of dispelling wind and clearing heat, and is especially effective in antispasmodic.
I took a bag of herbs and hurried back, but there was no one under the big tree.
Gong Xue was so shocked that she felt cold all over, and subconsciously wanted to shout, but unexpectedly, a soldier's call came from the grass not far away: "Captain, here----"
Seeing the soldier's steel helmet, Gong Xue suppressed her pounding heart and quickly burrowed into the grass.
Zeng Yingying was still protecting Wei Lan. The soldier's body was covered with backpacks and he was holding a large bundle of dead wood sticks. Seeing Gong Xue, the soldier explained guiltily that he had just accidentally encountered those damn gangs in the rain forest.
He was a savage. He followed the escape method taught to him by Gong Xue and used a dummy to escape. However, he could not stay under the big tree no matter what.
They actually chased them here?!
Gong Xue held her forehead, frowned and thought for a moment, then decisively ordered the evacuation of the area.
She chewed the herbs and fed them to Wei Lan, then grabbed Dabing's backpack and asked Zeng Yingying and Dabing to support Wei Lan and continue on their way.
The soldiers saw that she was carrying too much weight and wanted to take back the backpack, but Gong Xue refused with the dignity of a captain. She said that there were tigers and wolves chasing soldiers on three sides, and whether they could get out depended on the unknown empty space in front of them.
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Taking advantage of the opportunity to climb a tree for reconnaissance, she led her team members to move forward arduously in the heavy rain.
This time, Gong Xue didn't get lost again. After about ten minutes, they came to the depths of the rain forest where the fog was getting thicker.
Just when Gong Xue was hesitant about whether he should go in first to test whether there was any poisonous gas, the soldier helped Wei Lan continue to move forward without caring.
Gong Xue stopped in shock, "Don't go in!"
The soldier turned back in confusion: "Why don't you leave?"
Gong Xue pointed to the fog in the sky and said worriedly: "I wonder if they are poisonous. It is too dangerous to go in rashly!"
The soldier was startled at first, then waved the white mist in front of his eyes, sniffed it carefully, shook his head and said: "This is not miasma, it is water mist. It is the mist with abundant accumulation of water vapor in the tropical rainforest. It is not poisonous!"
Gong Xue asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
Da Bing scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I am a child raised in a mountain village in southwest China. I am very familiar with everything in the mountains!"