The backpack was lost, and the only thing left on the two of them were two weapons. There was no map and no lighting. They could only find their way out with the little memory they had left. It was still raining heavily, and their clothes were dripping wet, and despite the dire conditions, they dared not stop for a moment. Nature was unreasonable, and the danger would not happen again.
"If I knew, I put the signal cigarette close to me." Sima Jingrong said angrily.
Li Sui raised his head and glanced: "In this weather, I'm afraid they may not be able to receive the signal cigarette if they light it."
The road is not very easy to walk. Because of the mudslides and small-area landslides, the way back and the time of arrival have changed a bit. The two people carefully identified for a while, but they did not reach an agreement.
"I remember it was this road, and there was a tree here."
"The one with the tree is the next fork, not this one."
"It's this tree, the crooked neck tree, I remember this tree." Sima Jingrong argued.
Li Sui wasn't quite sure either, so he made a mark on the tree with a dagger and said, "Listen to you first, if something is wrong, go back here immediately."
Having said that, the mountains and forests here are similar. After walking for a while, the sound of the rain gradually subsided, but there were more and more weeds ahead. In the end, let alone walking, it was difficult to even step.
Li Sui stopped: "We haven't walked this road."
Sima Jingrong turned his head and said, "Are you sure?"
Li Sui squatted down, twisted the soil on the ground with his fingers, and frowned: "It's not sandy soil, it's the wrong way."
Sima Jingrong looked around and sniffed coldly: "Let's go back after dawn. The trees here are quite lush, and there should be no landslides."
They walked all day and didn't rest at night, and they went through such a thrilling scene. Both of them were exhausted. Sima Jingrong slept for a few hours, but Li Sui didn't rest for a moment. I was too tired to see gold stars, and I agreed without much thought.
There is no tool to start a fire, the clothes on the body have long been soaked by the rain, the humidity in the forest is heavy, plus a little sweat, it sticks to the body wet, extremely uncomfortable.
Not only that, there are many bugs around. A heavy rain seems to have driven them out. Flying insects and mosquitoes are nothing. The most difficult to deal with in this forest are ticks and leeches, which are numerous and poisonous. If you are not careful, it will climb into the trouser legs and adsorb on the skin, making it difficult to prevent.
Li Sui cut some relatively dry grass under the tree, and took out the gun in the leggings and wiped it clean. Fortunately, the gun had a waterproof membrane on the outer layer, which must have been specially wrapped by Wang Wei for fear of getting wet. At this time in the wild, he finally understood Wang Wei's phrase "no gun, no sense of security". In the face of danger, nothing is more reassuring than holding a weapon in hand. After doing this, Li Sui weaved the remaining hay into several ropes, tied the cuffs tightly, and rested against the tree trunk. He was so tired, he wanted to just close his eyes and rest, but he unexpectedly fell asleep. past.
I slept very uncomfortable this time. I was half asleep and half awake. I always saw Lu Shang coming to pick him up. He happily got up to meet him. When his body moved, he woke up again and found that it was just a dream. .
The more he slept, the more tired Li Sui opened his eyes. He thought he had slept for a long time, but when he woke up, he found that it was still dark and the rain had stopped.
There was some movement in the grass in the distance, Li Sui became alert, got up, held the dagger in his hand, and pushed Sima Jingrong: "Wake up."
The latter obviously hadn't slept deeply. Li Sui woke up as soon as he made a sound, and rubbed his eyes: "What's wrong?" Before Li Sui could answer, he also saw the grass swaying, as if something was approaching them. , the movement is not small.
"What is it?" Sima Jingrong asked with his mouth.
Li Sui stared at it closely and did not answer.
The thing in the distance seemed to sense the line of sight, and lay still in the grass.
"Is it a snake?" Sima Jingrong asked anxiously.
"It should be." Li Sui sucked in a breath of cold air and clenched the dagger in his hand.
It was almost dawn, and a misty fog appeared in the forest. Li Sui stepped back a few steps on tiptoe, and put his body against the tree trunk.
A gust of wind blew through the woods at an appropriate time, and the grass swayed with a faint hissing sound.
"My God, it's really a snake." Sima Jingrong almost exclaimed.
"Don't yell," Li Sui's heart sank, "Don't move."
This snake is not big, slender and long, with black-brown horizontal spots on its body, and it seems that its attack power is not very strong. Li Sui didn't study snakes, so he couldn't tell what species it was, but snakes in wild jungles were probably not so easy to deal with. If they weren't poisonous, it would be fine.
Li Sui's palms were sweating a little. He stayed in the city all the year round. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation. At this moment, in the chaos, he remembered what people often said, when encountering danger, the more he hides, the easier it is to get hurt.
"What are you doing?" Sima Jingrong was so scared that his face turned pale. Seeing Li Sui drawing his gun, he subconsciously tried to stop it.
"It's better to strike first," Li Sui quickly tightened his jacket and turned to ask Sima Jingrong, "Will you shoot?"
"No, no."
"Great!" Li Sui threw the dagger to him, "Take it, go up the tree."
"You..." Before Sima Jingrong could finish speaking, Li Sui had already picked up a branch and rushed over like the wind.
At the same time, the snake seemed to have received a provocative signal, and the snake head jumped out of the grass and bit it with its mouth open. Li Sui calmed down, seeing a swift figure rushing towards him, he took a breath, boldly picked up a branch and aimed it at the snake's head, which was a sharp slap, directly pulled the entire snake's body a few meters away, and curled up in a circle on the ground.
The target became obvious all of a sudden, Li Sui hurriedly picked up the gun when he saw it, and while the snake was stunned before he could react, he fired a shot at the group of snakes. The sound of gunshots resounded through the forest, but unfortunately the power was limited and did not hurt the key parts. The snake rolled violently a few times, twisting and trying to crawl away.
Seeing that it was about to escape, Li Sui hurriedly said to the man on the tree, "Fix the knife! Don't let it run away!"
Sima Jingrong, this son, had never seen a wild snake outside the zoo. All of a sudden, his legs felt weak, and he didn't dare to jump off the tree. He threw it out, and the blade was impartial, just in time to stab into the snake's tail.
Without grasping the snake and losing his only weapon, Li Sui couldn't help it, and scolded, "How did a waste like you survive today?"
Sima Jingrong sat on the tree with an innocent face: "I have money."
Li Sui choked.
… can’t even refute it.
"Will it come back?" Sima Jingrong got down from the tree and patted it, "Will there be a group of relatives and friends to take revenge or something?"
"You've watched too many movies," Li Sui put the gun in the leggings, "How can snakes be so united, and they can't be so fast..."
Before he finished speaking, there were several rustling voices all around, which came from the grass in all directions.
The two looked at each other, and their faces turned pale in an instant. A snake can barely deal with it. A group of snakes will not have a second choice at this moment.
"run!"
Not caring about the road under their feet, the two of them were completely driven by their survival instincts, and ran forward desperately. Li Sui remembered to look at the road at first, but then they completely ignored it. The group of snakes behind them are chasing after them, their movements are fast and agile, if one accidentally falls down, I am afraid that they will be entangled immediately.
Li Sui turned around and fired two shots as he ran. He didn't know whether he hit or not, but it still had a deterrent effect. The group of snakes was obviously disturbed, but then they chased after each other.
"Did we run into the snake's nest?!" Sima Jingrong yelled.
Contacting the previous mudslide, Li Sui had a bad guess in his heart: "We're afraid we've already run out of the training camp."
The appearance of the mudslide made the two people confused. They forgot one thing. The mudslide can even flatten the forest in an instant, and the collapse of the protective net is nothing. Before I left, the instructors told me that you must not step out of the protective net. This is surrounded by virgin forests. Without the protection of the protective net, you may encounter wild animals. If you run in, it will be difficult to find someone. .
"I can't run anymore..." Sima Jingrong cried.
"You can't stop, it'll be troublesome to stop."
"No, it really can't be done..." After walking all day and running all night, Li Sui couldn't take it, let alone Sima Jingrong.
Li Sui gave a "tsk", turned around and grabbed his arm: "I can't stop, I promised your dad and Lu Shang that I would definitely take you out."
The group of snakes was getting closer and closer. This cold-blooded animal seemed to be tireless. The two of them ran around in the forest and didn't get rid of them at all. Seeing that they were about to be caught up, a fault suddenly appeared on the road ahead. The two didn't notice for a while, didn't stop, screamed in surprise, and rolled down together with the stone.
This fall was a mess, it was like falling into a drum washing machine, and even the internal organs were stirred out. In the chaos, Li Sui tried to tug at the surrounding weeds, but when he reached out, he only caught a handful of mud. The loose sand on the slope was dragged down together, and all he could hear were screams and roars.
Dizzy, the body sank suddenly, and the two fell directly into a pothole, almost vomiting blood. Before they could react, Li Sui only had time to cover his head with his hands, and suddenly there was a pain in his back, and he lost consciousness.
After a whole night of thunderstorms, Lu Shang hadn't slept well. When he woke up in the morning, his face was very bad. He just changed his clothes and went downstairs. Uncle Yuan had been waiting by the door for a long time. He was always calm and seemed a little anxious.
"What's up?"
"Heavy rain in the reserve," Uncle Yuan said solemnly, "Debris flow."
In Dongyan's conference hall, Secretary Yang waited for a long time and no one came. She couldn't help but secretly called Uncle Yuan and received an order to temporarily cancel the meeting. She was about to ask whether the signing ceremony in the afternoon was held as scheduled. After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.
"What's the matter, it's so urgent..." she muttered while looking at the extinguished screen of her phone.
On the way to the reserve, Lu Shang changed his habit of sitting in the back row and sat directly in the co-pilot's seat.
"Mr. Yue has notified the troops and started emergency search and rescue overnight. At present, most of the students have been transferred to a safe area. They have brought search and rescue dogs, so finding someone should not be a problem."
"Where's Wang Wei?"
"He is with the youngest son of the Sima family and has returned to the rescue station."
Lu Shang's face was terrifying: "Tell Zuo Chao, this person can no longer use it."
Uncle Yuan paused: "Yes."
The car drove into the Panshan Highway, Lu Shang opened the window and inadvertently pressed his heart with his palm.
Uncle Yuan frowned: "Did you bring medicines when you went out?"
Lu Shang closed his eyes and tilted his head, as if trying to endure something: "Look at the road, don't look at me."
Uncle Yuan had to slow down and sighed: "Yesterday, they received a forecast from the meteorological department that it was raining. Team Yan originally planned to postpone the test, but President Yue was determined to make his son suffer. , said it would be better if it rained a little, and didn't stop it, but no one thought that the rain would be so heavy."
Lu Shang just leaned against the car window, closed his eyes and said nothing.
Driving all the way to the bottom of the mountain, the road in front was blocked and not allowed to go. Uncle Yuan approached and negotiated for a while, but the other party also seemed very embarrassed: "It's not that I won't let you go, this road is too dangerous, there is a tendency to collapse, you The troops' cars are also parked here, if you want to go up, go up."
Uncle Yuan looked back at Lu Shang, and the two of them looked at each other and decided to hike up the mountain. The two were not walking fast, and along the way, they could see the afterglow of a small landslide, as well as a rocky grassy slope covered with sand. The condition was so bad that it was hard to imagine the situation at that time.
It was a fifteen-minute drive and the two of them walked for two hours. When they arrived at the rescue station, they saw Yue Pengfei anxiously standing around the door, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand.
"What did you say? Didn't find it? Look again, look again, I don't care what method you use, even if the mountain is leveled for me, I will find people!"
Turning around and seeing Lu Shang, his face collapsed, and he hurried over: "Brother, I'm sorry for you..."
"Let's not talk about that," Lu Shang waved his hands, "How is the situation?"
"Basically all of them were found, except for my son and Xiao Li. It was raining heavily at that time, and many people gave up their missions and came back. Only they went to the west slope. The mudslide in the west slope was very serious. Traces were found in the buried cave, and I sent someone to dig it, but only two backpacks were dug up."
Lu Shang froze in his heart: "Is it theirs?"
Yue Pengfei didn't sleep all night, and the dark circles came out: "Preliminary confirmation, yes..."
I saw no one in the backpack. In this case, either the person was directly washed down the mountain, or they escaped by luck. The search and rescue team was still looking for it, and they could not come to a conclusion for a while. Lu Shang's face was so pale that even Yue Pengfei, an outsider, could see it. He hurriedly asked someone to bring glucose and hand it to him, both to comfort Lu Shang and himself: "Brother, don't worry, these two children are together, definitely It'll be all right."
Lu Shang lost his eyes and said after a long time, "Well..."
In the afternoon, the two backpacks were sent to the rescue station. Lu Shang took the lead to look for it, his face softened a little: "Everything is there, but the weapon is gone."
At least it means that before the mudslide occurred, they had a sense of vigilance. With Li Sui's reflexes and the fact that he hadn't found anyone for so long, it should have been a higher chance of them escaping. It's just that in this wilderness, the protective net was washed away again, and they didn't have any food and water on them. Every extra minute they stayed was more dangerous.
"Uncle Yuan," Lu Shang thought for a while and said, "Contact Xinyou and send two helicopters here."
It was getting dark. Li Sui woke up from the darkness. When he opened his eyes, he felt dizzy. His chest felt like a huge boulder weighing thousands of pounds. He moved his legs and found that half of his body was buried in the soil. , spit out the sand in his mouth, and then slowly turned over and got up.
It was dark all around, only a little light from the top of the head shone through the gap. Li Sui looked around, it was a mud pit five or six meters deep, the bottom of the pit was uneven, half of it collapsed, and it was full of standing water. Sima Jingrong was lying beside the standing water, curled up in a ball.
Li Sui hurriedly walked over to check his limbs. Fortunately, he was fine, and his breathing was steady. It was just a stone smashed on his forehead. Although it had healed on its own, his body temperature was a little high, and he probably had a fever.
He called twice, Sima Jingrong answered in a daze, then rolled over and continued to sleep. It was better to fall asleep at this time, so as not to starve when he woke up, Li Sui didn't call him any more, he looked up and started looking for an exit.
Only stones and a few branches rolled down together. Those snakes were indeed cunning creatures. As soon as they saw danger, they immediately retreated. Li Sui looked around in the pothole, but didn't see any place to go out. It was completely closed. There are two openings on the top of the head, and they fell from there. Unfortunately, the position is too high to climb up without tools.
Li Sui tried it with his bare hands, and he fell down after climbing only one meter. He even scratched his fingernail and gasped in pain. It seems that if you want to go out, you can only use external force.
After looking up for a while, Li Sui felt dizzy and sat down while leaning on the mud wall. His back should have been hit by a stone, and it hurt when he moved. He has been beaten and injured constantly since he was a child, and his body's ability to resist blows is excellent.
The symptoms of hypoglycemia were obvious, but Li Sui didn't feel any hunger. He was probably too hungry. After all, he really hadn't eaten all day and night. He didn't expect that the canned meat in the cave turned out to be the last supper.
The humidity inside the cave is extremely heavy, making people uncomfortable, and there are frogs and insects screaming in invisible places around them, one after another, which is very disturbing. Li Sui looked at Sima Jingrong's sleeping face, and he was still a little envious. This man is really big-hearted. After all, he was spoiled and raised from a young age, and he didn't feel any sense of crisis.
Soon he didn't have time to think about these things. He was so thirsty that some water had accumulated in the subsidence at the bottom of the pit, but the origin was unknown. Li Sui didn't dare to drink it at first, but then he couldn't stand it anymore. He took a handful of it and tasted it. Except for the earthy smell of muddy water, there was no other strange smell, so he simply leaned over and drank it.
After drinking the water, Li Sui had nothing to do, so he just lay down and went to sleep. Although this pothole can't get out, things outside can't get in either. It's equivalent to a natural barrier, and it's much safer than staying outside. Perhaps because he was full of water and his body was satisfied, under extreme fatigue, Li Sui quickly fell asleep again.
The next morning, both of them were awakened by hunger. Sima Jingrong's fever had not subsided, and he was a little dizzy.
Li Sui realized that it would not be possible to continue like this. If they were not injured, it would be better to say that under such extremely bad conditions, if they did not go out to seek rescue as soon as possible, the two of them would finish the game sooner or later.
"The mission time limit has passed, we didn't go back, someone will definitely come to us." Sima Jingrong collapsed on the ground, his eyes rolled from hunger.
"It's hard to say," Li Sui said. "This place is too remote. If we are lucky and found early, we might be able to be saved, but if we don't find it in time, should we wait here for them to dig our bones back?"
"how do you want to do it?"
Li Sui took off the military badge from his neck for the first time, and turned the folding knife in his hand: "Dig it out."
"use this?"
"And hands."
It's easy to say, but it's not so easy to implement. There are a lot of rocks in the sand and soil here. If you don't dig for a while, you will encounter obstacles. Every time, Li Sui uses a folding knife to pry out the rocks and replace them. Scrape the mud with your hands. Although the progress was slow, at the end of the day, it was finally half a meter closer to the ground.
"At your speed, we'll be out in two weeks." Sima Jingrong was helpless.
Li Sui had been digging for a day, hungry and tired. His body had already reached the limit, and he was leaning against the mud wall and gasping for breath. His hands were almost gouged out, not a single fingernail was bald, the fingers were full of wounds, and they looked bloody at first glance.
The folding knife is worthy of being a collection, and the blade is still shining all day, and there is no wear mark at all. Li Sui drew a "one" on the ground with the knife, turned over and fell asleep without saying a word.
Sima Jingrong was dumbfounded, thinking that he was angry, and stopped talking wisely. The next day before dawn, he was woken up by the movement of digging the soil. When he looked up, Li Sui seemed to be possessed, and he was repeating the work of the previous day.
"Aren't you going to rest for a while?" Sima Jingrong advised, "You won't be able to last if your physical strength is exhausted so fast."
Li Sui ignored him, bowed his head and just digging.
Sima Jingrong's fever has not subsided in the past few days, and his body has no strength at all, but at this time it is not good to keep watching, so he has to join in the action.
The progress of the second day was a little faster than the first day, but it was still out of reach from the ground. Sima Jingrong collapsed. He was already lazy. At this time, he was unwell, and he didn't want to move. He lay directly on the ground and fell asleep. Wake up, and finally burn until the whole person is confused.
At first, Li Sui was still able to move, but later he couldn't hold it anymore. He hadn't eaten for a few days, and was so hungry that he almost had hallucinations, and he couldn't help reaching out to catch the frogs that jumped in outside. Not caring whether he was clean or poisoned, Li Sui filled all the weeds and bugs that could be eaten in the pothole into his stomach, and finally the bugs were not eaten. He even began to think about the cotton T-shirt on his body.
I don't know what day it was. In the early morning of the day when the local gestures formed a "Zheng" character, Li Sui suddenly heard a movement outside, and his whole body was jolted. Airplane, it's a plane, your dad is here to pick you up!"
Sima Jingrong was already a little delirious, with a persistent high fever and extreme hunger, his whole face was swollen, and when he heard Li Sui calling him, he only snorted in a daze, and didn't wake up at all.
With a "tsk", Li Sui climbed up the slope he dug out, and began to cry out for help outside. He hadn't eaten for a few days, and his throat was so hoarse that he couldn't speak. The noise of the plane outside was so loud that he couldn't hear his voice. Li Sui watched the helicopter fly over his head, and then left after a few turns.
No, it's too hidden. This pothole is in a mountain col, and the plane can't see it at all. We have to find a way to get out.
Li Sui's sluggish state seemed to be suddenly awakened, and his whole body became excited again. There was a helicopter to search for him, indicating that Lu Shang had not given up on him. In this case, he must go out alive.
I don't know where the strength came from, Li Sui climbed up the soil slope, using both hands and feet, digging out like a life. I don't know if his idiot-like behavior moved a certain god. In the evening, Li Sui stabbed the ground with a knife, the front loosened for a while, and suddenly all of them collapsed, just in a way.
At that moment, Li Sui felt that his tears were about to flow out, so he hurriedly turned around and called Sima Jingrong: "Wake up, I can go out now."
Sima Jingrong didn't respond, his whole body was abnormally hot, Li Sui picked him up without a word, and climbed the slope with difficulty. The moment he saw the afterglow of the sunset again, Li Sui shook his body and almost lost his footing.
After re-examining the forest, Li Sui realized that they had indeed gone beyond the limits of the training camp and had come to the virgin forest reserve. It was no wonder that no one had come to them. The forest here is so lush that it is impossible to stop, let alone ordinary people, even if the search and rescue team comes, they have to walk and cut down with a machete to advance one or two.
Knowing that there is still a long way to go, far from the point where he can relax, Li Sui took off his jacket, fixed Sima Jingrong on his back, and climbed up the hill little by little.
Along the way, he strained his nerves to the limit, stared at the various traces on the road carefully, avoided the water source area where wild animals were infested, and picked wild fruits to satisfy his hunger.
Sima Jingrong's state is not very good, the temperature is high and low, and occasionally he will utter a few words. Li Sui dug some wild plantains along the road, fed him indiscriminately, and wiped his forehead with water to physically cool it down. Anyway, the situation didn't worsen, but he didn't wake up.
When Li Sui finally saw the familiar protective net, it was already the evening of the second day. Someone not far away screamed, followed by the sound of the walkie-talkie, the sound of footsteps, the sound of talking... Li Sui felt that he could no longer hear it. , All the senses seemed to be out of work, and his eyes looked straight ahead, only the man who strode down from the helicopter was in his eyes.
The person on his back was unloaded and picked up by someone, Li Sui stood on the spot, seeing Lu Shang getting closer and closer, obviously wanting to move forward, but his body suddenly stopped obeying. soft.
The person who came to support his body that was about to kneel on the ground, smelling the long-missed breath, suddenly hot tears welled up in Li Sui's eyes, and tightly clenched Lu Shang's hand, his voice was so hoarse that he could hardly hear: "I... no Shame on you..."
After saying this, he seemed to have finally exhausted all his strength, tilted his head, and lay on Lu Shang's shoulder and completely passed out.