Chapter Fifty-Six: A Difficult Escape
Running urgently and running with light skills are definitely not the same, the "driver" in yellow immediately reacted, and eagerly chased after him from behind, "Come on, he wants to run!"
Wang Xinran and another "driver" heard the shout, and hurriedly ran up from under the pit, at this time Wu Zhongyuan had already run dozens of meters, and the man in yellow saw that the distance between the two sides was getting farther and farther, and he pulled out his pistol in a hurry, "Stop, I'm going to shoot if I run again." ”
At this time, whoever stands is a fool, Wu Zhongyuan only thinks he is farting, and continues to run along the ridge to the northwest, sixty meters in front of him is the woods, as long as he enters the woods, it will be safe.
"Who are you?!" Wang Xinran asked in a loud voice.
Wang Xinran asked and at the same time pulled out his pistol, and the other person saw this and eagerly stopped, "Nine, don't shoot, your own people." ”
No. 9 must be Wang Xinran's code name in the organization, only insiders may know, seeing that the two are not external enemies, Wang Xinran is even more angry, "We have made an agreement with him before, what are you doing here?"
No one answered her question, and the man in yellow saw that there was no hope of catching up with Wu Zhongyuan, so he pulled the trigger as he ran.
The night was quiet, the gunshots were piercing, Wu Zhongyuan was instantly frightened into a cold sweat, and when he reacted, he found that he didn't seem to be injured, so he hurriedly ran wildly.
The first gunshot was followed by another gunshot, this time farther away than the first, and along with the gunshot, Wang Xinran angrily warned, "If you dare to shoot again, I will kill you." ”
"Nine, what do you want to do?" someone asked.
"I can't be sure of your identity, prove it to me right away, or I'll shoot. Wang shouted happily.
"Are you crazy?" someone shouted.
Wang Xinran did not answer, and fired a warning shot again, the two saw that she was really coming, and they did not dare to continue to chase, nor did they dare to shoot rashly, Wu Zhongyuan took the opportunity to rush into the woods, and continued to run under the cover of trees.
Even if he entered the woods, Wu Zhongyuan did not dare to slack off, if the content on the stone tablet was correct, in addition to the two people who were pretending to be drivers, there were other ambushes around.
He could see clearly at night, and his night vision helped him a lot at this time, and when he ran, he looked around and could see that there were people running quickly towards his location in the north and west, the exact number is unknown, only that there were quite a few people.
However, because there was no warning before he fled, these people failed to detect and take precautions, and they were all hundreds of meters away from him at this time, posing no threat to him.
At this time, I can't care about anything, the only thought is to run, the farther I run, the better, and the farther I run, the safer.
In less than five minutes, Wu Zhongyuan threw off the pursuers, but he didn't dare to slow down, he was still moving quickly, these are official people, they can set up cards to intercept anywhere, and they must run out of the encirclement they set before the other party sets up cards to intercept.
The encirclement enveloped area set by the other party is not fixed, but evaluated and set according to the speed of his movement, the larger the range circle is set, the more people will be invested, and the more difficult it will be to catch him, so the other party cannot set up a card a hundred miles away from the beginning, but gradually expand by estimating the speed of his running, as long as he can run out of the speed beyond the other party's estimate, he can jump out of the encirclement.
At about half past ten, he began to run, and he ran for more than two hours, crossed four peaks, and entered the junction of Huangxian and Linxian, and at this time, Wu Zhongyuan knew that he was safe, because in these two hours he ran out of at least a hundred miles, if he was running on the road, this speed was not very fast, at least it was not amazing, but this was a trek in the mountains, if he didn't know how to work lightly, no one could run so far.
There are still mountains to the west, but Wu Zhongyuan did not continue to move in the mountains, the use of light power requires the consumption of true qi, his qigong cultivation is not high, at this time the true qi in the body has been completely exhausted, and he can no longer run.
For the qi obtained from the cultivation of qigong, the ancient and modern times were called it differently, in ancient times it was called spiritual qi, and now it is mostly called true qi, although the name is different, but it is the same thing.
But now is not the time to think about this, the top priority is to continue to hurry, if you can't run, you can only pick up the car, and there is a wide road down the hill with a lot of passing vehicles.
Just as he had the idea of pickpocketing, a green convoy came in the distance, a dozen military vehicles, jeeps and trucks, all covered with tarpaulins and with cannons in tow.
Sometimes hesitation is not deliberate, but a missed opportunity, after a short and quick observation, Wu Zhongyuan took advantage of the cover of the trees, rushed to the foot of the mountain, climbed into a car at the back of the line, but he did not enter the tarpaulin car, but got into the gun carriage dragged behind the truck, the gun car was wrapped in canvas outside, and the cannon itself also had a firing position, and he curled up here.
At this time, Wu Zhongyuan relaxed slightly, his clothes and pants were all soaked with sweat, extremely nervous and physically exhausted, and he had been trembling since he hid.
If you use an idiom to describe his mental state at this time, the frightened bird is undoubtedly the most appropriate, he has no backup, he has been deceived repeatedly, no matter which side is eyeing him, every step is like walking on thin ice, trembling.
All frightened birds will be accompanied by the shadow of the bow and snake, insecure, nervous, suffering from gains and losses, suspicious and anxious, even if he is hiding on the gun carriage, he is not at ease, and even doubts whether this training team is really training, or is assigned by someone, deliberately taking this road to lead him into the net.
The only thing that would make him feel safe at this point was the gun in his bag, and although he was unlikely to use it, it would also make the other party suspicious.
After his mood stabilized a little, Wu Zhongyuan took out a knife and made a small cut on the canvas that wrapped the artillery truck, so that he could at least see the situation outside.
Physical and mental exhaustion led to drowsiness, but he didn't dare to sleep, if he fell asleep, he couldn't detect anything unexpected in advance, so he could only beat his spirit and look forward.
The reason why he was able to escape, largely thanks to the stele, this stele was left after he went back, there should be two purposes, one is to give the modern self a wake-up call to avoid risks, and the other is to eliminate some regrets in his heart, so far this stele did play a certain role, because he escaped safely.
However, it cannot be concluded that this stele can change some things that are scheduled to happen, because according to the relevant theory of special relativity, even if the outcome of some things is known in advance, it can only change the development process of things, and cannot change the final result of things, and what should happen will happen sooner or later.
Whether it can only change some unimportant processes, or can it be changed together with the results, there is a very simple verification method, that is, to rush to the second location as soon as possible, if the little wizard can send him back smoothly, the appearance of the stele can change the result, if there is an accident in the middle, resulting in the little wizard failing to send him back, the appearance of the stele can only change the process.
Carefully recalling the contents of the stele, you can find several important clues, the first is that he eventually returned to the ancient period, and the second is that life after returning is not easy, otherwise there would be no such thing as "so bad". The third is that if you can get to the second location before sunset on April 15, you will be able to return early. The last one is that Wang Xinran and Zhao Ying are both good people.
In addition to these four clues on the surface, there is also a very important invisible clue, that is, in addition to relying on these two wizards to send him back, there is another way to return, he relied on this method to go back when the little wizard also died, and in order to use this method, he stayed in the modern era for another year.
The complicated clues were straightened out one by one, and the day dawned, and the convoy stopped at a flat area on the side of the road, and the soldiers in the car got out of the car to pee and wash, and continued to get into the car after eating.
Staying up until ten o'clock in the morning, Wu Zhongyuan moved from the artillery truck to the truck in front, he was lucky, this last truck was pulling the supplies of the march, and the food was a kind of compressed dry food that could be self-heating, and the soldiers ate and ate He paid attention to observing, whoever wanted to eat a few would eat a few, and he didn't need to report to anyone, and there was no accurate number of box lunches.
When he got into the spacious truck, he didn't want to go back to the gun truck, but he didn't dare to stay on the truck, so he moved back to the gun car with this compressed dry food on his back.
In fact, he wanted to eat it from the truck and then go back, but the dry food had to be heated with water, and there was no water on the truck.
At noon, the convoy stopped again, it was lunch, and the soldiers had a conversation during lunch, although the destination of the trip was not mentioned in the conversation, but they said that they should run faster in the afternoon, and strive to rush to the mountains before dark to conduct live-fire drills, so that Wu Zhongyuan knew in his heart, and when the convoy started, he moved back to the truck and slept in the compartment.
He was awakened, and looking out through the gap in the tarpaulin, the road was narrow, a dirt road, surrounded by trees, and presumably into the mountains.
I can't hitchhike anymore, I have to hurry down, in case I get to the camp and I can't run.
The first thing he did after getting out of the car was to relieve his hands, he didn't dare to open his mobile phone, he could only determine the time by observing the sun, it should be more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and the current location should be in the northwest direction of Huang County, according to the speed of the car to estimate, it is about 800 to 1,000 miles away from Huang County.
At such a distance, he must have jumped out of the other party's search range, and he should be safe.
He didn't eat for a day and a night, he was already hungry with his chest sticking to his back, there was a stream in the mountains, dry food could be heated, there were instructions on the dry food bag, and he operated according to the instructions, and soon he had a hot meal, and the food of the troops was better than he had imagined, and this kind of self-heating dry food had meat, vegetables and hot sauce in it.
After eating, I counted the remaining dry food, and there were more than 20 bags, two bags a day, and I didn't have to go out of the mountain for more than ten days.
It seems that today's luck is still good, not only escaped smoothly, but also got sufficient provisions, reducing the risk of going out to forage for food and exposure, this year is everywhere surveillance, as long as it is illuminated, it must not have run.
After sorting out his backpack, Wu Zhongyuan continued to move in the northwest direction, today is April 1st, he has fifteen days to rush to the source of the Yellow River, after he found out the suspected location according to the clues of three connected snow-capped mountains, in Maduo County, Qinghai Province, there is still half a month, enough time.
If he hadn't seen the words on the stele last night, he might have made contact with Zhao Ying at this time, but now he wouldn't do that, for the simple reason that he didn't want to kill Zhao Ying, although he didn't know why he killed Zhao Ying.
The mountain where he is currently located is very large, it is a real deep mountain, standing on a high place and looking around, the village is not visible in the area as far as the eye can see, this situation is in his favor, and the farther away from the crowd, the safer he is.
Although there is a lot of time, but Wu Zhongyuan still did not dare to delay, a moment without stopping, the stele said that if you can rush over before sunset on April 15, you can save the little wizard, this "rescue" has two possibilities, one is that the little wizard died because of his own reasons, and there is a possibility that someone killed the little wizard, as for which situation, he can't be sure, because although the words on the stele are left by himself, but with his expression habits, he may use the word "rescue" in both cases.
In the evening, a barbed wire fence appeared ahead, and three iron thorns were tied to concrete pillars to be exact.
The range of this kind of iron thorn extending from north to south is very large, if the detour is not sure when to go around, after a short hesitation, Wu Zhongyuan drilled through the gap of the iron thorn, the area around the iron thorn is likely to be a military forbidden area, but such a large range of surrounding, even if it crosses, no one will find it.
At this time, it has long been stung, but there are few snakes and insects nearby, even rabbits and birds, but this situation is a good thing for a lone person in the mountains, he is not afraid of snakes, insects and jackals, but he is not afraid of snakes, insects and jackals, but he does not feel good when he is startled when he drills something out of the cold.
Half an hour later, night fell, Wu Zhongyuan slept during the day, was not sleepy, and continued to hurry.
After walking for about ten minutes, there was a big pit in front, which was actually not very big, seven or eight meters wide, more than one meter deep in the middle area, and a little shallow on the periphery.
The pit is overgrown with weeds, presumably left behind a long time ago.
Further on, a similar pit was found, and the further you went, the more dense the similar pit became, and sometimes the two pits were still connected.
"Why are there so many pits?" Wu Zhongyuan muttered.
As soon as he muttered, he immediately came to his senses, the previous convoy was an artillery soldier who had entered the mountain for training, and this mountain was likely to be the target of their cannons, no wonder there were no wild beasts around.
Wake up, immediately run north with all your might, fortunately wake up early, if you wait until people open fire, you will be unlucky.
However, he soon realized that he had not woken up sooner, because he had not gone far when the sound of cannons came from the south.
"I'll fuck you......"