Ye Ming saw that the south bank of the Dongta River was brightly lit at the moment, and at least thirty heavily armed soldiers of the Flying Dragon Regiment were guarding the place where the chain bridge was close to the Dulongpo military camp. It seems that Gong Pengju had long expected that Ye Ming would come here, so he made careful arrangements in advance to strengthen the vigilance of the chain bridge.

After Ye Ming carefully observed for a while, he quietly retreated into the small dirt pit where Su Xueling was hidden, and said in a low voice: "Sister Ling, there is at least a platoon of troops guarding the chain bridge, and the firepower is strong, I can't break through alone, so I can only find another way." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at the mobile phone in Su Xueling's hand and asked, "Does the mobile phone have a signal now?" Can I call or send WeChat? ”

Su Xueling nodded and said: "The signal is there, but Li Xiaoqin's mobile phone number is restricted from making international calls and cannot be contacted in China; She also has no traffic in her mobile phone, and uses the wifi in the military camp to use WeChat in Youlong Valley and Dulongpo, but now the wifi in the Dulongpo military camp has been turned off, and it is estimated that Gong Pengju is worried that after we escape here, we will use WeChat to contact the country, so we turned off the wifi in advance. ”

Ye Ming asked, "Doesn't Li Xiaoqin usually have to contact Ding Tiansheng?" How can her mobile phone number restrict outgoing international calls? ”

"I heard Li Xiaoqin mention this, saying that Ding Tiansheng was worried that she would call relatives and friends in China and expose her whereabouts, so she restricted her phone card from calling out international calls, and if she wanted to call Ding Tiansheng, she needed to borrow a mobile phone from Gong Pengju; In addition, Ding Tiansheng also asked Gong Pengju to supervise Li Xiaoqin, stipulating that she could only have his WeChat account on her mobile phone, and she was never allowed to use WeChat to contact people in China. So for us, Li Xiaoqin's mobile phone card is basically a waste card! ”

Ye Ming frowned and thought for a while, and said to Su Xueling: "Sister Ling, according to my estimate, as soon as the morning dawns, Gong Pengju will arrange for soldiers to come and search the mountain, and we must stay away from the Dulongpo camp now, and it is best to climb to the top of the Silver Elephant Peak." Although it may be a dead end there, we only have this path to go now, and if we continue to stay here, we will be captured by Gong Pengju's people sooner or later. ”

Although Su Xueling is a strong woman, she is a woman after all, and in the face of this life and death choice, she has long had no idea, so she nodded obediently and said: "I listen to you, I will go wherever you decide, and if you want to die, we will die together!" ”

So, Ye Ming picked up his mobile phone, but he didn't dare to turn on the flashlight function, but turned on the night mode, and used the dim light emitted by the mobile phone screen to find a trail leading to Yinxiang Peak on both sides of the mountain road he came over - because he had heard Shi Xin introduce that some mountaineers who live below Yinxiang Peak will climb to the top of Yinxiang Peak from some trails to collect medicine. There are several villages in the vicinity of Dulongpo, and if there are mountain people collecting medicine in these villages, they may be able to open a trail somewhere on the trail to climb to Yinxiang Peak.

Sure enough, after carefully searching for more than ten minutes, Ye Ming found a trail up the mountain more than three hundred meters west of the place where they had just hidden, which was estimated to lead to the Silver Elephant Peak in the northeast.

So, he turned back to the place where he was invisible, and whispered to Su Xueling: "Sister Ling, I found a trail up the mountain on the way over, which is estimated to lead to the Silver Elephant Peak, let's hurry up and climb to the top." ”

Su Xueling's eyes lit up, and she asked happily, "Really?" Since there is a trail leading to Silver Elephant Peak, will we be out of danger when we cross the peak? ”

Ye Ming sighed, shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. Think about it: Gong Pengju must have known that there was a trail leading to Silver Elephant Peak here, but he didn't arrange soldiers to garrison it, why? There is only one reason: this trail may be a dead end, and it is impossible to climb over the Silver Elephant Peak, so Gong Pengju felt that there was no need to arrange soldiers to garrison it in advance. ”

Su Xueling nodded, and suddenly asked again: "Ye Ming, Gong Pengju obviously knows that there is only the road we just walked from Youlong Valley to this side, why didn't he arrange for soldiers to intercept us on the road?" ”

Ye Ming thought for a moment and replied: "I estimate that there are two reasons: first, Gong Pengju has already arranged for four top masters to chase and kill us, and it is estimated that it is impossible for us to escape from the range of Youlong Valley, so he feels that there is no need to arrange any more soldiers to intercept us; Second, my brother's comrade-in-arms said when he was separated from me: he would make his mobile phone unreachable, so that Gong Pengju could not know the result of their pursuit for the time being, and if Gong Pengju wanted to ask him in the future, he would say that he had been shot and fell unconscious, so he did not report to him in time. I guess that the eldest brother has not told Gong Pengju that we have escaped until now, so that Gong Pengju misjudged, thinking that it was impossible for us to escape from those four masters, so he did not arrange for anyone to intercept us on the road. ”

Next, Ye Ming picked up Su Xueling again and began to climb along the winding uphill path, struggling to climb to the top of Silver Elephant Peak in the northeast.

Although Ye Ming has good physical strength, he is not an iron after all, he has just run more than ten kilometers of mountain roads with Su Xueling on his back, and his physical strength is extremely exertional, so when he climbs to the peak with her on his back at this moment, he is already a little unbearable, although he is gritting his teeth and persevering, his pace is getting slower and slower, and his wheezing sound is getting heavier and heavier. After climbing four or five hundred meters, he felt as if his feet were filled with lead, and he could barely lift his feet.

Su Xueling felt that his physical strength had been exhausted, and hurriedly said, "Ye Ming, you put me down and help me climb to the peak." It's still a few hours before dawn, so it's okay for us to slow down. ”

Ye Ming knew that he was already at the end of his crossbow, and if he insisted on carrying Su Xueling on his back, it was very likely that he would collapse from exhaustion, so he put her down, wrapped one arm around her waist, and took her to continue to climb to the top of the peak.

Because Su Xueling walked on almost one foot, the next climb was very slow, and it took nearly six hours for the two of them to climb to the bottom of the cliff on the west side of Silver Elephant Peak with difficulty. At this time, the winding mountain trail has come to an end, and beyond that is the Dongta River.

Ye Ming looked at his phone, and the time showed that it was 5:40 in the morning. At this time, the sky in the east has been white, and the nearby mountains and ridges have shown blue-white outlines, and the general topography can be seen: in front of them, is the upper reaches of the Dongta River. Somebody built a single-plank bridge over the river that led to the bottom of the cliff on the opposite bank. However, from here, the trail disappears beneath the towering cliffs opposite.

Ye Ming estimated: This single-plank bridge was erected by those mountaineers who collected medicine, and after crossing the river, they could use climbing tools to climb to the top of Yinxiang Peak to collect medicine.

However, for herself and Su Xueling, this trail is really a dead end: first, they don't have any climbing tools in their hands, so they can't climb at all; Secondly, Su Xueling sprained her ankle, and even if she had climbing tools, it was impossible for her to follow her to climb up.