Apart from focusing on practicing shooting, Zhang Heng did not give up on skiing, but the latter did not go so smoothly. Although Simon's skiing skills are good, they are far inferior to her marksmanship, and her injuries are not healed yet. She is agile and can't exercise vigorously, so most of them can only sit quietly and watch Zhang Heng practice by himself.
Maggie only stayed for two days at the beginning, and then she couldn't bear the boring translation work and ran away.
But fortunately, the communication between Zhang Heng and Simon was basically limited to learning. Even if they didn't understand the language, they could get a general understanding by making gestures in the later stage. Of course, the two of them kept silent most of the time.
Zhang Heng was practicing marksmanship on one side, while Simon watched on the other side.
Snowflakes fell from the treetops and landed on the tip of her nose, making her sneeze uncontrollably.
...
In addition, Zhang Heng discovered that Simon had started to learn English. She asked Maggie to be her teacher, and the first sentence she learned was "Can you kiss me?"
When Zhang Heng got up to brush his teeth in the morning, Zhang Heng almost swallowed his mouthwash when he heard this sentence. It was only later that he realized that what Simon wanted to say was good morning, and Maggie was deliberately teasing her.
Zhang Heng also had the idea of learning Finnish before. After all, it is not a bad thing to be able to communicate freely with others.
However, Finnish has few consonants, long words, rich vowels, and very complicated grammar. It is one of the few unpopular languages that are extremely difficult to learn, and his situation is different from the previous dungeon. He must improve his shooting and skiing as soon as possible Skills, not so much time for language learning.
Of course, although it is impossible to learn systematically, some commonly used words can still be used for a surprise attack, especially tactical terms such as fire, cease fire, retreat, cover, and some words that appear frequently in daily life... Zhang Heng does not seek to be able to connect into a complete sentence, as long as he can express his own meaning and be understood by others, this simplifies a lot of learning difficulties.
So now the busiest person in the camp is Maggie, who has to teach Simon English and then has to teach someone Finnish.
However, during this period of time, Zhang Heng did have a very fulfilling life. From a layman who has never touched a gun, he now has a certain shooting accuracy, and at the same time he can shuttle through the woods on a sled. The progress is still quite large, although It can't be compared with a real guerrilla, but Maggie has seen it a few times and is also amazed at the speed of his progress.
This is of course inseparable from Simon's undisguised guidance, but Zhang Heng doesn't know if it is also because he has practiced archery before that he also has some talent in aiming, but it is a pity that he wants to stay here and combine shooting and His wish to ski to level 1 before going out was doomed to fail, and on the thirteenth day when he came to the guerrilla camp, what should have happened still happened.
Simon's injury is almost healed. In fact, if it wasn't for taking care of Zhang Heng, she might have left the camp two or three days earlier. She just stayed for a longer period of time to give someone more training time.
But this day the guerrillas received news from nearby villagers that a Soviet troop was marching not far away. The mustache captain called all the guerrillas in the camp and wanted to eat this Soviet troop. Opinion, Simon also filed an application for action.
Zhang Heng did not participate in this military meeting, but he could feel the excitement of the guerrillas around them. They wiped their weapons over and over again, checked their backpacks, and discussed something together. The atmosphere in the camp was obviously different. Even the lunch at noon was much richer than usual, and Simon told someone in the broken English he had just learned from Maggie that they had a task.
Zhang Heng also replied yes to Simon in the same broken Finnish.
After eating, the two went to Ohdo to collect bullets and four days of dry food. In addition, Zhang Heng also received a camouflage suit so that he no longer had to wear the khaki Soviet military uniform that looked like a live target.
It is impossible to say that I am not nervous at all.
After all, he was about to go to the battlefield. Unlike the Finnish guerrillas around him, Zhang Heng had no enmity or conflict of interest with those Soviet soldiers, but the two sides would soon meet each other. Perhaps this is the cruelty of war. Everyone in it is coerced by the torrent of the times and cannot help themselves.
Zhang Heng stuffed personal hygiene products and a roll of hemostatic bandages into his backpack, separating them from the dried meat and vegetables inside. Simon was still a little worried about his mental state. The latter was not much different from the usual training, and she gradually felt relieved.
Zhang Heng knows very well that this is not a warm study, nor a library full of sunshine in the afternoon, where you can sit quietly on the sofa and reflect on humanities. Forced, most people only have two choices
— kill or be killed.
Nothing to do with morality, purely for survival.
Zhang Heng carried the skis and the M28 on his back. Simon was already waiting for him outside the door. He hesitated for a moment when he saw someone, and then gave him a short hug for less than a second with some clumsy movements, and bit his mouth. Tongue said, "Don't worry, I will protect you."
This feeling is a bit strange, after all, it was the first time in Zhang Heng's life that he heard a girl say such things to him, and what was even more strange was that he found it difficult for him to refute, so he could only nod in the end and said, "Me too. "
The two did not set off with the other guerrillas in the camp, because Simon was used to acting alone before. When she was a child hunting in the mountains, she was alone. After joining the guerrillas, she did not form a team with other people. This time, it was to save Zhang Heng. appointed the latter to be his partner.
But she still doesn't know how to get along with others, just rushing ahead, keeping a distance of about one meter between the two of them.
In the evening, Zhang Heng called Simon and started preparing dinner. After living on a deserted island for a year and a half, his cooking skills have improved, especially when dealing with simple ingredients. Therefore, he took the initiative to light a fire and assumed the responsibility of cooking.
Simon was stunned when he saw the bonfire. He didn't know what to think of, and his face blushed. He just stayed there quietly, but now he became a little restless, so he gestured for Zhang Heng to patrol around.
This is actually not a good excuse. They had just left the base camp not long ago, and there was still a considerable distance from the Soviet army. Apart from the reindeer leaping past in the depths of the woods, there were probably no other creatures within a radius of dozens of miles, but maybe they were It was because of this that Simon felt even more embarrassed.