Mary's voice was weak, gasping for air as she spoke.

Liu Zhan thought to himself, he had to let her change her sweaty clothes, and then his eyes were drawn to something, Mary's wet clothes had two dark stains on her front and back.

Blood.

Mary disguised: "It's nothing, it doesn't hurt at all, they got mad when we hit rock bottom. ”

Liu Zhan was buried in the snow and didn't hear anything. He turned his head to look around, and the coniferous forest was littered with broken branches and bullet-riddled trunks, which only a machine gun fired from the air could have done.

"Can you go?" Liu Zhan asked.

"Yes, you can. "

But the frantic rescue just now exhausted all Mary's physical strength, and in the blink of an eye she changed from a strong tigress to a shivering kitten, and her whole body was soft.

Liu Zhan supported her, and the two of them stumbled to a tree next to them, and he helped her sit down and let her lean comfortably against the tree.

Liu Zhan helped Mary take off her sweatshirt and coat, revealing the cotton shirt inside, the shirt was already soaked with sweat and blood, Liu Zhan picked up the snow on the ground to help her wipe the blood on her body.

Liu Zhan found two wounds, the first on the left side of her back, below the chest cavity, which was the entrance to the bullet, judging by the size of the bullet hole, Liu Zhan speculated that it was a medium-caliber bullet used in an assault rifle.

The wound was small, and it didn't seem to be serious, the round bullet hole was about the size of the tip of his little finger, but the bullet entrance was often not large.

Liu Zhan's biggest concern was the exit of the bullet, and the other wound was in Mary's lower abdomen, slightly higher than her buttocks. When a bullet enters the human body, it releases a huge amount of energy, and in the process of swinging, it can tear apart everything that is blocking its progress, including bones, muscles, and vital organs of the body.

So the exit of the bullet is often very scary, but Mary's wound is better than Liu Zhan expected, only slightly larger than the entrance. On the surface, the bullet didn't cause much damage, and Mary kept saying that it was okay, but it was a penetrating wound after all.

"Take your hands off me, you pervert. Mary panted as she watched Liu Zhan wipe her abdomen.

It's good, she still has the strength to fight, and she needs to keep her fighting spirit up at this time. Mary's skin was unnaturally pale and her teeth began to war, a sign of hypothermia.

Isn't it enough to let her be shot through by bullets? Her sweaty clothes slowly began to freeze, and the low temperature was also beneficial, constricting blood vessels and slowing down blood flow.

"Take me to the hotel to open a room, Liu Zhan, whatever obscene way you use to me, as long as you can take me out of this hellish place, I'm going to freeze to death."

She needed to warm up her body, Liu Zhan looked around, and didn't find anything available.

Their pitiful little mountaineering gear was also lost in the avalanche, and they had nothing but their farm clothes and the contents of their pockets. Liu Zhan groped up and down his pockets, right, there is also a lighter, maybe he can make a fire. He began to churn through the woods like a foraging bear—a few stones, a few handfuls of dry bark, and he broke dead branches at the roots and among the bushes.

He built a stove out of stones in the snow, and then built a shack of branches, and placed the objects that ignited the fire next to the branches.

He pulled out all the straw left over from his plastic jacket, then tore off the lining of his trouser pocket, soaked it in lighter oil, and carefully placed it in the center of the stove.

When he brought the lighter close to the ignition, his hands kept shaking, and the lighter went out as soon as it came out of a spark. He pressed the lighter again, then again.

When the fuel was about to run out, a faint flame finally came out of the lighter, and the cotton cloth was immediately ignited, and then the ignition began to smoke, and the smoke grew larger and larger, and turned into a flame, and the flame turned into a raging bonfire.

A campfire alone is not enough, a small bonfire will not dispel the cold and humidity of the whole tree, and the temperature will plummet when night falls, so you have to think of a way.

Liu Zhan picked up a branch scattered on the ground, used it as a digging tool, and dug a shallow pit next to a fallen tree, just the size of two people.

Then he put a plastic sheet on the trunk of a tree, pressed the edge of the sheet with stones, and straightened it to form a simple tent with a roof. He took a lot of fir branches, spread them thickly on the plastic sheeting as an insulation, and found some soft leaves to spread at the bottom of the shallow pit, and took off the plastic poncho on his body and spread it on the leaves.

They had a little nest, very small, but just big enough for two people.

The wounds on Liu Zhan's body were still in severe pain, but when he saw Mary's lips and gray eyes, he knew that her condition was worse than his own.

He dragged her into the tent and helped her take off her frozen clothes.

"Hey, you can't forget about men and women. Liu Zhan clumsily unzipped Martha's pants, and she laughed at him softly. Liu Zhan saw that the blood on Mary's face was quickly disappearing, and he prayed silently in his heart, hoping that this was just because the sky was darkening.

The inside of Mary's emerald green coat was stained with a large stain mixed with blood and sweat, and the cotton village inside was completely soaked.

Liu Zhan carefully took off Mary's shirt and coat, found some sanitary napkins in her coat pocket, and applied them as gauze to her already inflamed wounds, Liu Zhan gently smoothed the sanitary napkins and untied the bandages on his head to fix them.

Martha's imitation mouth was still oozing blood.

"I bet you can help me find a great surgeon. Mary said.

"Shut up. ”

"Stay conscious, we're about to go out. ”

Liu Zhan stared into Mary's eyes, capturing the fear hidden beneath her pretended relaxed exterior.

He put all the dry clothes he could find on her, Joseph's sweater that she had always kept as a hat, and sweatshirts, ski suits, and his beanie.

Liu Zhan gently laid Mary flat in the tent and tried to make her feel as comfortable as possible.

"How do you feel?" Liu Zhan asked.

"You have more ways than I do, but I'm glad you're here. ”

"Hey, seriously, how are you feeling?"

"I didn't feel anything. Mary licked her unusually dry lips, "Isn't it time for you to start worrying?"

"My dear, I'm not done yet. ”

Liu Zhan walked to the campfire, took off his uniform shirt, and picked up the stones by the campfire through his clothes, which were now hot from the fire.

He took the stones and got into the tent, and he carefully placed them on the ground, and the tent became warm. He put on his clothes, buttoned up, went out and added some branches to the campfire, and went into the tent again, and lay down beside her, and hugged her tightly.

When a person's body is abnormal and the body temperature drops, various functions of the body will also change.

As the body's systems need to ensure the functioning of vital organs, the blood vessels in the hands and feet will shrink and the blood supply will slow down, so the body will begin to lose sensation, do not obey the call, become cold, and even frostbite.

The condition continues to deteriorate as the body temperature continues to drop, first with loss of sensation in the fingers and toes, then in the palms and soles of the feet, followed by the arms and legs.

The body slowly changes from discomfort to pain, from not listening to the call to becoming ineffective, and at this stage, the person is about to die.

The normal body temperature of a person is around 37 degrees, and when the body temperature drops, the body will start to tremble, and sometimes it is not controllable at all, this is because the body needs to produce more heat through shaking.

When the body temperature is below 35 degrees, there will be significant changes in the body, in addition to the loss of function of the hands and feet, some important organs will also be irreversibly damaged.

When the body temperature drops to 34 degrees, the blood supply to the brain will be insufficient, the person's consciousness will begin to be confused, the pulse will beat slowly, the breathing will be weaker, and the uncontrollable trembling will stop because the body no longer has enough energy to continue shaking.

At this time, the person will fall asleep, and the body will be ready for a long battle, and it will give up all its other organs and leave all its energy for the heart, which is the last line of defense of life.

Liu Zhan is well aware of the dangers of hypothermia, and he has received the best training in the worst places.

His makeshift heating system worked perfectly, plastic sheeting and branch insulation prevented the heat from the stones from escaping, and the temperature outside the tent was now -25 degrees Celsius, and he could still feel the warmth inside the tent even though he was in terrible physical condition.

However, Mary's condition did not improve, and in addition to hypothermia, her body system had to deal with the internal organ damage caused by the bullet. Unbeknownst to Liu Zhan, the bullet that pierced Mary had wounded her spleen, and blood was slowly oozing from the wound.

Even though the hypothermia caused the wounds on her back and abdomen to shrink and appear to be closed, she was still bleeding from the inside.

Even though she was asleep motionless now, her spleen was oozing blood.

Liu Zhan also fell asleep, he originally planned to watch Mary all night, but after Mary fell asleep, his body really couldn't hold on.

In the basement of the presidential palace, he was tortured by Wren, then escaped from prison, climbed mountains, experienced avalanches, and every muscle and joint of his body desperately tried to pull him to sleep.

Now, sleep is the only repair his body can get.

When Liu Zhan woke up in the middle of the night, his arms still gently wrapped around Mary's body, and he had been warming her with his own body temperature, but he found that Mary's body was colder than before falling asleep.

Liu Zhan understands that Mary's current condition can't walk, and he must carry her on the road.

He hadn't experienced this before, but he had carried a man much heavier than Mary on his back for two days and two nights, and that was during the fight against al-Qaeda in the Middle East, and he carried his comrades across the fiery desert of the Middle East.

Of course, there is no comparison between deserts and snow-capped mountains.

Besides, that was many years ago, and the comrade-in-arms he was carrying died on the road.

If the sun is good in the morning, he can let Mary bask in the sun, and maybe she'll regain some strength, and if that happens, then it will be easier to do the following.

But what if he carried Mary all the way to Afghanistan? Besides, he didn't have a choice.

A new day begins, and the morning sun shines through the trees, shedding light into their humble nests.

Liu Zhan carefully examined Mary who was still asleep through the bright light, and he didn't want to believe what he was seeing.

Mary's skin was unusually cold, pale in color like wax, the muscles around her eyes were sunken and grayish-black, and her lips turned blue.

Mary's defenses are failing, and in the last stand-off, her body desperately needs the temperature of the sun.

Liu Zhan rubbed her forehead with his thumb, trying to wake her up, but she didn't respond.

Liu Zhan pinched Mary's cheek, but still didn't move, he pinched it again, and began to become agitated, and kept shouting Mary's name.

Mary's eyelids moved slightly, and she finally opened her eyes and woke up. She looked around with a confused expression, and after a few seconds, her eyes fell on Liu Zhan's face and remembered where she was.

"Life is a bastard, huh, Liu Zhan?"

Mary's voice was faint and she spoke as if she was gasping. Liu Zhan noticed that her breathing was abnormal, and the breath she exhaled failed to condense into a white mist.

"Good morning, Mary. "

"Is it already morning?"

"Yes, we'll be able to get out of this place today. "

"That's great, Liu Zhan"

"When you're well, I'll take you on a long vacation. I want to go somewhere warmer, Hawaii or the Maldives, whichever you like. We go to a place with endless sand and the sea where you can put on a bikini. ”

"The scars on the two of us were Bibi. "

The last of Mary's strength seemed to be about to be withdrawn, and she slowly closed her eyes.