The guide Avanti and the last commando, Xiao Chen, had been running in the desert for a day and night before they knew it.

When they were about to climb over a sand dune again, Avanti sat down on the ground with a sad face, and said, "I'm too old to walk, so you can run first." ”

Xiao Chen stepped forward and grabbed Avanti's collar and said, "Do you fucking want those people to catch up and kill you?" They have camels, they have guns, and you want to die here alone, and no one knows? What about your wife, your children? ”

Hearing Xiao Chen mention his family, Avanti came back to his strength, struggled to stand up and said, "Then run again." ”

The two of them ran for another eight hours in one go, but fortunately, Avanti had a lot of experience in the desert and finally found a well. At this time, it was completely dark, and the two of them just wanted to get some water to drink. Suddenly, Xiao Chen straightened his ears, he pressed Avanti's head into the sand dunes with his hand, and said, "Don't move, there is a car coming, and there are people's voices." They rolled into the dune ravine.

Sure enough, there was a burst of car engine sounds from far away, and many people in the car were talking. It turned out that Li Xiaoning and the others had lost contact with the base for nearly two days. Hou Xiucai, who stayed behind, was not at ease, so he called Tian Daqing. Tian Daqing also felt bad when he heard it, and hurriedly asked the local police station to bring a cart full of food and water to the desert to pick up Li Xiaoning and them.

After hearing the voice of his own people, Avanti shouted excitedly from the back of the dune: "I am Avanti, I am here!" ”

Seeing that there were only two people, the person who answered hurriedly asked, "What about the others?" ”

Xiao Chen said sadly: "We encountered an ambush, and the leader and them are ...... ...... all."

"What's wrong? Sacrificed? Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.

"Some have been sacrificed, and some may have been captured!" Xiao Chen scratched his head and said, "The situation was too chaotic at that time, I, I ......"

"What about Li Xiaoning? How is he? Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.

"I ...... I do not know. Xiao Chen's face flushed, "The last time I saw him, his bullets seemed to be gone, but I'm not sure either." ”

Hou Xiucai was in a hurry, and immediately said, "Let's hurry up and save people." ”

Xiao Chen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, there are too many of them, and they all have automatic weapons." You have few people and guns, and you can't deal with them, so let's go back and report it quickly and ask for support. ”

Hou Xiucai thought about it, so he ordered the driver to turn around and go back.

When Hou Xiucai and the others rushed back to the Bostan Township Police Station, it was already more than three o'clock in the morning. Tian Daqing also arrived with people, and the guide, Avanti, trembled and told them about the encounter between the tracing team and the terrorists.

Tian Daqing was really anxious when he heard this, his son Tian Saifei was the first to be thrown to the ground. He planned for the worst, the first possibility: Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning have already been killed? The second possibility: Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning were both injured and are now being tortured? The third possibility: Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning escaped with their own wit? He analyzes every possibility, but no matter what the outcome, he has to find his son back, alive to see people, dead to see corpses.

After calming down a little, Tian Daqing immediately began to make arrangements: "Before dawn, we must pull up the rescue team and advance to the desert." I'm calling the ministry right now and asking for support. ”

Hou Xiucai also calmed down, there are still seventy or eighty commandos available in the anti-terrorist special detachment. He immediately called back and asked them to quickly organize a team into the desert to rescue the detainees and arrest the terrorists.

Cheng Xiaoxi has been in a trance since she saw Li Xiaoning again, so after interviewing Abdul again, she said that she was not feeling well, and returned to the hotel room and began to call Li Xiaoning. However, after broadcasting several times in a row, Li Xiaoning's mobile phone was the cold "I'm sorry, the user is not in the service area".

At first, Cheng Xiaoxi didn't particularly care, because she knew the nature of Li Xiaoning's work, maybe she was performing some confidential tasks, and it was normal for her mobile phone to be unable to get through.

Cheng Xiaoxi's visit to Western Xinjiang this time is actually his own secret mission. It is called a reporter's interview, but the actual task is to check the accounts of Abdul's charity machine purchase. Because the national security has noticed that Abdul's background is very complicated, and it is suspected that he provides a large amount of money for the activities of terrorist organizations in western Xinjiang. So, is the money of Abdul's so-called charity really pure? This mystery needs to be solved by Cheng Xiaoxi.

Cheng Xiaoxi is still a woman after all, she waited for Li Xiaoning all night, but Li Xiaoning's mobile phone is still a prompt tone of "Sorry, the user is not in the service area".

Cheng Xiaoxi decided to put aside Li Xiaoning's matter for the time being, and after she submitted the first secret investigation report to Yanjing's superiors, she decided to go to the bank in Tianshan City at dawn to learn about the relevant situation.

Hou Xiucai led forty commandos to walk on the Gobi for a whole day, and the car could not move any further, because from this place on, it was a real desert, and the car could not walk.

Hou Xiucai glanced at the endless yellow sand and said, "Walk into the desert." So, everyone jumped out of the car and walked deep and shallow into the heart of the desert, which was the middle of the night. In the wee hours of the morning, the commandos who were walking in front suddenly spotted a messy row of camel prints and footprints stretching westward.

Hou Xiucai said: "Follow the footprints and take a look." So they followed the footprints two or three hundred meters away, and found a fire that had been extinguished, and it seemed that it had not been long since it had been built, because there was not a single sand on the fire. A commando climbed a high sand dune and looked around, revealing that the footprints were stretching westward, but there was no one nearby.

Hou Xiucai asked people to take pictures of the footprints on the ground, and then compared them with Li Xiaoning and Tian Saifei, and found that there were no footprints of the two of them. It is almost certain that these footprints were left by terrorists.

"To chase or not to chase?" The team members asked, rubbing their hands.

Hou Xiucai didn't know how to judge, he refused to let himself make any mistakes, he asked the guide Avanti who came with him for advice: "What do you think should be the way to go?" ”

Avanti said: "Let's go to the accident site first." ”

Hou Xiucai thought it made sense, nodded and said, "Just go!" ”

After walking like this for another whole day, when it was almost dark again, Hou Xiucai's rescue team finally saw the two commandos who had escaped from the hinterland of the desert. The two of them were covered in blood all over their heads, and the dust and blood from the wounds had coagulated into large black scars, and their eyes were so swollen that they couldn't open them.

The two people who escaped death hugged their heads and cried when they saw Hou Xiucai and them, causing many team members to cry. When the escapees calmed down a bit, they hurriedly brought them the water and dry food they had brought from home.

"What about the detachment leader and Tian Saifei?" Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.

One commando recalled: "We were all knocked unconscious by those people, and when we woke up, we found that the detachment leader and Tian Saifei were gone. They tied us up in the poplar forest and couldn't move, and later, a woman named Nina, who seemed to be named Nina, took advantage of the terrorists' rest time to loosen our ties and we escaped! ”

"Nina?" Hou Xiucai asked subconsciously.

"It looks like the woman of Hassan, the leader of the terrorists." The commando said.

"Oh." Hou Xiucai nodded. He decided to draw five people to send the two wounded commandos back first! He led his team members to continue to look for Li Xiaoning and Tian Saifei.

They walked for another two hours, and it was completely dark, at this time, there was a faint flashlight flashing in front of them, and Hou Xiu observed it and said, "It seems to be your own person, contact the other party!" ”

Sure enough, it was his own person, and the other party used a flashlight to send a signal. It turned out to be the search and rescue team led by Tian Daqing, and the two teams converged, and everyone's feelings were a little better.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Hou Xiucai drove everyone on the road. A procession of more than sixty people meandered through the desert.

Everyone was so tired that they were going to die, and two of Tian Daqing's policemen sat down on the ground and said, "Don't go, you can't walk." ”

Tian Daqing, who had been a soldier and was very experienced in the desert environment, scolded and kicked without saying a word: "Go, if you don't go, you will die here, as long as you are tired and don't die, you have to go!" ”

The clever guide Avanti began to "deceive" everyone, he said: "Hey, boys, hurry up, there is a well not far ahead, and it will take half an hour to go." ”

Everyone was excited when they heard that there was water to drink, and the steps under their feet couldn't help but speed up. But half an hour passed, an hour passed, and still there was no sight of the tempting well that Avanti had spoken of. Avanti said solemnly: "I didn't lie to you, walk for another half an hour, and promise to see the clear and sweet well."

Everyone knew about Avanti's good intentions, and they walked forward gratefully. And so, about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the group finally saw the beautiful well that Avanti had exaggerated along the way, and it was nothing more than a large sand pit, and at the bottom of the sand pit was a pool of muddy water the size of a bowl, which had been dug by the shepherds who often went into the desert.

Although the water from the well was bitter and unpleasant, the thirsty people did not care about anything, and rushed down to the sand pit to drink. If you don't have tools, you use mineral water bottles or helmets. A small pool of dirty water was dug up by everyone, and clean water was dug up. The more they dug the water, the clearer it became, and some of the team members were bleeding from their hands, and they continued to dig non-stop. People who haven't spent a few days in the desert simply can't understand this feeling.

Hou Xiucai filled a bottle of water with a mineral water bottle and handed it to Tian Daqing and said, "Tian Ju, drink some water." ”

Tian Daqing took a sip and sighed: "I really hope that Saifei and Captain Li can also drink this water." ”