After five hours of continuous marching, we were already deep in the mountains, and the terrain here was similar to that of Afghanistan, with bare cliffs, huge rocks, and the occasional sight of a few trees and two barren grasses was rare.

The mountain road is extremely rugged, climbing over cliffs, crossing trenches, every step has to be cautious, and if you are not careful, you will fall to pieces, even if the government army knows our location, I am afraid that they will not come to encircle and suppress it.

At noon, we rested in front of a cliff with an ancient tree on the edge of the cliff, which looked to be some years old, and whose roots grew in the crevices of the rocks, as thick as two people hugging each other.

The March sun was not very strong, and it was very comfortable to shine on my body, sitting under the tree and leaning against the thick trunk, I took out the electronic map to find our position, Eric faced the cliff and used a telescope to observe the situation in the distance.

Heidi took a sip of the kettle and handed it to me, saying, "Drink some, your clothes are soaked with sweat." ”

I was really a little thirsty, so I took the kettle and poured it up, then gave it back to Heidi, and asked softly, "Are you okay?" Hold on? ”

"It's a little tired, but no problem, I can persevere!" Heidi rubbed her ankle and whispered.

"What's wrong with your foot, sprained? Let me see! As I spoke, I reached for her foot.

"It's okay, it's a little sour after walking too far!" Heidi retracted her foot to avoid my hand, then grinned and said, "You care about me?" ”

"Who cares about you? I'm just afraid you're dragging us down! I gave her a blank look, and my eyes fell on the map, this woman was too thick-skinned to pay attention to her.

"From the coordinates, another ten kilometers is the road to Benghazi, speed up a little, you should get out of the mountains before dark!" Eric leaned over to me and said.

"Well, the mountain road is difficult, and the march at night is too dangerous, so you must reach the road before dark." That's my opinion.

"Haha, I didn't expect you to be afraid of danger, I thought you weren't afraid of anything." Eric teased.

"If you have the ability, you can go at night, look at this cliff, falling down can break you into eight petals, Lao Tzu doesn't want to die so much!" I put away the map, got up, picked up the binoculars, and looked into the distance, this place is inaccessible, I wanted to find the location of friendly troops, but since entering the mountain, there is no trace of it, such a large mountainous area, to find them can only rely on luck.

"Let's go, we don't have much time to delay!" I lifted my backpack, buckled the shoulder straps, and waved my hand to say hello to the two of them.

Continue to move forward over the mountains, climb a steep slope with the rocks, there is a valley below, and a dry riverbed, come down from the mountain, go along the riverbed, this is a rare flat road, the feet are all rocks washed down from the mountain, about two kilometers or so, and the road is blocked by the mountain in front.

At about five o'clock in the evening, I stopped at the bottom of a hillside, took out a map, looked at it, and then pointed to the front and said, "If you cross this mountain, you can see the road, we have to hurry, it's going to be dark!" ”

The two of them nodded, tightened their backpacks, and walked all the way to the top of the mountain, marching continuously for a day and a night, even Eric and I felt that our steps were getting heavier and heavier, and Heidi had become the last of the strong crossbows, although she still did not speak, but I saw that she was a little faltering, and her face was also painful.

I slowed down and deliberately walked behind Heidi, in case she fell off from physical exhaustion, I could also help her, it was not easy to come all the way, I already regarded her as a comrade-in-arms.

When I climbed to the top of the mountain, I looked into the distance and sure enough, I could see the road to Benghazi, which was about two kilometers away, but the road ahead was a little easier than before, there were not so many steep cliffs and valleys, which made us breathe a sigh of relief.

"Let's go, we won't be far from our destination when we go down the mountain." I took a deep breath and was about to descend the mountain, but I had just taken two steps and suddenly stood still.

"Why don't you leave?" Eric asked curiously.

"Look at the valley at five o'clock, are there a few cabins there?" When I was about to go down the mountain, I suddenly found that position out of the corner of my eye, and I suddenly felt that something was not right.

Eric took the binoculars and looked at it carefully, and said, "There are a few dilapidated houses, maybe it's a village, right?" It's close to Benghazi and it's normal to find a few villages. Eric didn't take it seriously, his face full of disapproval.

"There is smoke floating there, there must be someone, let's go and have a look!" I have a strong hunch that they may well be former allies.

"Since it's a village, of course there are people, so it's not surprising." Eric wanted to keep going and get to Benghazi as soon as possible.

"Are you going or not? If you don't go, stay here, I'll go by myself! I trusted my instincts, and ran straight in that direction.

Heidi saw that I was gone, and hurriedly followed, Eric rolled his eyes helplessly and followed, and when he got closer, he lay behind a boulder, and I looked closely, it was only three dilapidated wooden houses, not a village, and it seemed that it should be a place for herders to rest when they were herding sheep.

I turned the telescope to the maximum, and I could see a swaying figure in the room, and I was sure there was someone inside, and there was more than one.

"What are you still looking at here? Just walk over and ask if you can't, it's all friendly anyway. Eric was about to pass as he spoke.

I grabbed him and said, "Don't be impulsive, it's still unclear whether it's friend or foe for the time being, even friendly troops may not believe us, let's take a look first." ”

Eric nodded, thinking that I had a point, so we hid behind the rocks on the hillside and continued to watch, I wanted to wait for them to come out and see if it was Caesar's brother, but no one came out until it was dark.

There was a fire in the house, which was very conspicuous in the night, and I frowned slightly, this is not Caesar's practice, although this is not an enemy-occupied area, but it does not mean that it is safe, this kind of behavior of exposing the location, Caesar's brother will not do.

"What to do? Do you want to keep waiting? "Eric is a little anxious, if we don't care about these people, we're walking on the road by now.

"You stay here to cover, I'll go down and have a look." I knew that this was not the way to go, so I decided to take a risk, I just wanted to see if these people were my brothers, and if not, whether they were friends or foes would have nothing to do with me.

"I'll go with you!" Heidi hurriedly chased after her.

"No, you stay to cover me, you take this!" I threw the sniper rifle to her, there are only a handful of people who have touched this gun, I used to think that the gun was my life, and no one was allowed to move it, but now I find that I don't feel that way, after Thea's death, I look down on many things.

Heidi didn't follow willfully, but lay down on the hillside, set up a sniper rifle, and the muzzle of the gun never left me, her greatest advantage is that she is absolutely obedient when she shouldn't be willful.

(End of chapter)