I kept walking, walking, like I would never get to the end.

Both of my shoulders were bloodied from the rope, and I had to change them or grab a handful of weeds from the ground and put them behind me to slow it down.

The pain in my body began to intensify, and although the bullets in my stomach and upper chest did not directly damage my vital organs, I already felt that these areas were starting to go numb.

Every step under my feet is like stepping on a cloud, light and fluttering, as if I can ascend to the sky in two steps. So I shook my head and forced myself to pull myself up.

I kept talking to Yang Yuan to raise our spirits, I was afraid that I would lose consciousness and fall here, and I was also afraid that Yang Yuan would never be able to open his eyes after sleeping.

Our conversation was intermittent until Yang Yuan's voice gradually weakened, I stopped and turned my head, only to see that he had stopped moving, I walked over in fright and tried his breathing, and his breathing, but it was already very weak.

"Yang Yuan! Yang Yuan! ”

I shook him twice, and he struggled to open his eyes: "What... How.. It's not there yet. ”

"It's coming soon, it's coming, you can't sleep!"

Yang Yuan closed his eyes and muttered, "This way... Why is it so far ... ”

I was stunned, yes, this road, why is it so far?

It is a road that eats people, and those who walk on it will die inexplicably, and it is a road that cannot be stopped, and as you walk, you will lose your way.

"It's definitely close, it's definitely close, wait, wait, I'll take you back!"

I wrapped the rope around my shoulders, roared, kicked the ground with my legs, and pulled the raft on with the last bit of strength.

I'm going to take them back! I must take them back! I can't fall, I can't fall.

I don't know how long I've been walking like this, my consciousness has lost my sense of time, but I know that heading north will lead to our country, and our rescuers are waiting for us.

After a while, I lost my strength and fell to the ground, my whole body trembled, I gritted my teeth and stood up, and then continued walking.

Just when I was about to give up.

"Woo~Woo!" The sudden movement in the headphones made me smart.

Then. A phrase came from the earphones that brought tears to my eyes: "This is a Chinese border outpost!" Unidentified armed men, please identify yourself! Unidentified armed men, please identify yourself! ”

I stopped, and saw that there was already a figure in the dense forest in front of me, shuttling swiftly and agilely.

I looked up and let the rain keep lapping on my face.

My tears slid down my face like water, the corners of my mouth slowly grinned, and I couldn't help laughing and crying.

I turned my head and threw myself down in front of Yang Yuan, shaking him with tears of extreme excitement: "Yang Yuan! Did you hear that! We are saved!! We did it! We did it!!! ”

Yang Yuan opened his eyes, his eyes were also full of tears, his face was trembling, and he turned his head to look at the unconscious magpie: "We, we did it. ”

This kind of scene is the scene that each of us dreams of, but now, I'm the only one standing here. Xiao Wu, Ercheng, and Li Xiao stayed in a foreign country behind them.

I wiped my tears with excitement, and reached out to hold the headphones with trembling: "This is ,,, scarecrow. Action Team. I.. I'm a team member. Whistling dust. ”

There was silence on the other side for more than ten seconds, and then there was a familiar voice, it was the team leader: "Xiaochen, welcome home." ”

I put down my hand, and as soon as I stood up, my eyes were dark, and my whole body seemed to be drained, and I fell straight to the ground.

--- "Have you always felt guilty or blamed yourself for the sacrifice of your comrades?" "There was darkness around me, it was like a dark space, and the voice rang out again.

I said, "Maybe, I can't even make a judgment myself." ”

"So do you think their sacrifice has anything to do with you?"

"Of course it matters, if I die in prison, the mission may not fail, and they may not die."

"So you're still really guilty of yourself."

I did not answer his words.

"Perhaps, you have shirked some of the blame."

"I don't have !!" I shouted like I was yelling.

The voice was silent for a moment.

"When people are faced with very right pressure and responsibility, they will subconsciously shirk part of the responsibility, this is a human self-protection mechanism, this is a very normal thing, you don't have to escape."

I was exposed to this sentence, but I just froze in place and didn't answer.

"So, let's move on."

---When I opened my eyes, I was already lying in a hospital.

I had an oxygen mask stuck in my face and an oxygen tube in my nose, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a nurse running up.

"How does it feel? What's uncomfortable? ”

I hurriedly said, "Yang Yuan! Yang Yuan! And Zhao Jianhua! What about them? ”

"You should take care of yourself now, is there anything uncomfortable?"

"I don't, I don't, what about them?"

I tried to get out of bed, but I found that I couldn't exert all my strength.

"Oops, you can't move now, you want to know, I'm telling you, they're all fine, you're the last one to wake up, ah, be obedient, calm down."

The nurse was wearing a mask, and all I could see was her big bright eyes full of worry.

When I heard this, I quieted down, Yang Yuan and Magpie, it's okay if they're okay, it's okay if they're okay.

I looked through the nurse's white nurse's outfit and knew I was in a military hospital.

I looked at the ceiling above me, and my whole body became wooden.

"Stay there, I'll go out." The nurse saw that I had quieted down and settled me down, and then walked out quickly.

Then a sound of footsteps came from outside: "I'll just say that kid has a big life!" That's my soldier! If something happens to this kid, then Lao Tzu has no soldiers available! ”

The door was pushed open, and a four-star colonel walked straight towards me with two bars and four stars on his shoulder, followed by the detachment leader and our platoon leader Zhao.

The colonel who walked in the front was the captain of our special forces, and I wanted to salute, but I still had a little drip in my hand, so I could only raise my left hand.

The detachment leader walked over and stretched out his hand to signal that I didn't have to salute.

"If you are in good health now, don't move."

The captain waved his hand: "If you two have anything to say, hurry up, I will have something to talk to this kid about later." ”

Then go to the window and push it open.

The squad leader didn't speak, just looked at me, and Platoon Commander Zhao came over and held my left hand.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back, you kid scared me to death, do you know?"

I just looked at the platoon commander and smirked, really, my mood really can't be described with good words, isn't it good to live? Of course, it's good to be alive, especially when you escape from the brink of death, and the feeling is simply indescribable.

I looked at the squad leader's stumbling opening: "Squad leader. ”

He nodded: "Take care of your injuries and wait for you to go back." ”

The captain looked at it for a while and shouted: "The two guys are like a girl, hurry up and get out of the calf after speaking, I want to talk to this kid." ”

The captain's personality is like this, he looks fierce, but in fact, everyone knows how good he is to his soldiers, a typical knife mouth and tofu heart.

"I'll come back to see you in two days." Platoon Commander Zhao smiled at me, turned around and walked out with the team leader, and now there were only two people left in the ward, me and the team leader.

The captain walked over, and his voice was obviously lowered a lot: "I know the situation almost, Xiao Wu, they have been posthumously recognized as martyrs, and now they have negotiated with their country to send the body back." ”

Hearing this, I felt like I had been poked in the heart, and I turned my head and didn't speak.

"The mission is well done, no one expected things to turn out like this, this time, I came here for two things."

I turned my head to look at the captain, "You say." ”

He sat on the bench next to him: "The first thing is that there is a place for you in a military academy above, do you want to be a cadre?" ”

I didn't speak, this sentence Yang Yuan has asked me many times, and I have always refused, I really don't want to be an officer, I know that this is because my superiors saw that I performed well, completed the task well, and it was not easy to escape death to make an exception to leave me a chance, if I don't cherish it, I don't know what to do.

Non-commissioned officers directly enter the military academy for further study, this is an opportunity that many grassroots non-commissioned officers have been missing, and now it is placed in front of my eyes, how can I not be moved? To be honest, I was a little shaken, even though I had been saying that I didn't know what it would be like to be an officer, but this time I was really a little shaken.

I said, "I, I want to think about it." ”

"Ahh Of course, there is no rush for this, and there is a second thing. ”

The captain continued: "The second thing is a good thing. ”

As I spoke, I took out the contents of the bag in my hand with a puzzled gaze, and it was a small box.

He handed it over, and I reached out and took it in my left hand.

It is clearly written: Second-class military merit medal.

Second-class merit! There was also a small red notebook with the same sentence written on it.

I trembled and held it in my hand, where is the second-class military merit medal of the special forces so easy to take?

"You fought bravely to kill the enemy, rescued your comrades-in-arms, protected the comrades of the Information and Security Bureau, and brought the two of them back with injuries, originally the superiors wanted to give you a first-class merit, but thinking that your kid's action was revealed and the informant cuckoo was killed, I demoted you to a first-class and second-class merit, don't feel wronged."

I shook my head: "No grievances, no grievances, no grievances at all." ”

"Well, for reasons of secrecy, I can't hold any ceremony for you, just take it, and I'll come back to see you in two days."

The captain said that he was about to leave with his hat on.

I said, "Oops, hey, Captain." ”

"What's the matter?" He turned his head.

"What about Yang Yuan and the magpie?" I asked.

His eyes changed for a moment, and he said, "Them, they're fine, you take care of them." ”

After finishing speaking, he pushed open the door and walked out without looking back.

I suddenly had a hunch that Yang Yuan and they must not be optimistic.