In the summer and autumn of 1980

The roar of the train broke the silence of the deep mountains, this is an ordinary passenger car, every station along the way must stop, up and down most of them are ordinary workers and some small businessmen, large bags are piled up and full of carriages, in some remote small stations there are almost few passengers up and down, but, unlike the passenger cars that passed through here in the past, behind it, there are two carriages with heavy curtains, ordinary passengers can not enter the two carriages.

Deep in the mountains, in a small town of only a few square kilometers, the train came to a slow stop on the edge of the platform, and almost no one paid any attention to it. Fan Peng routinely patrolled the platform, as the station manager in this town, there were only a few shuttle buses every day.

"Fantou, haven't gotten off work yet?" Vehicle inspector Lao Liu was greeting him.

"Lao Liu, are you on duty today? I'll be off work in a minute, are you going to work? ”

"yes, I'm still early, why don't you come to my place and drink two cups before leaving?"

"No, I have to hurry home today, your sister-in-law went to the south to load the goods again today, and I won't come back until a few days, I have to go home and serve the child, no way, next time."

The two of them walked down the carriage towards the back of the car without a ride. When the two of them walked to the back of the car, Fan Peng vaguely heard the sound of a child laughing, he subconsciously looked around, there was no one else except Lao Liu, let alone the child, but it was clear that the child's voice was beside him.

"Fantou, is there someone in this carriage? Didn't see the door open? It seems that they are all children, so what are you doing. Inspector Lao Liu seemed to have heard the voice.

Fan Peng realized that he hadn't heard it wrong, he looked at the car door, only to see that the door was locked, and there was no attendant nearby. He patted the carriage heavily and casually shouted, "Who's in there?" ”

The sound in the car stopped abruptly, and the surroundings returned to silence.

"Fantou, what are you talking about? Maybe it was the child brought by the crew, and now that he is on vacation, he came out to play. ”

This is also a common thing, and generally people who work on the railway will take advantage of this convenience, which can be regarded as a kind of welfare.

Fan Peng smiled, stood aside, and gave the signal to start at the same time. The train roared and moved slowly. He subconsciously glanced at the two strange carriages again, and for a moment, he was startled. The curtain of one of the windows was opened, revealing a child's face, with clear, bright eyes watching him closely. What surprised him was not the bright eyes, but the four or five pairs of eyes staring at him next to her, their eyes full of curiosity. At this time, the outermost child suddenly smiled at him and waved at him, and Fan Peng also subconsciously raised his hand. The train was getting faster and faster, gradually moving away from his sight......

At midnight, in Southwest City C, the two carriages were thrown to the freight platform in advance before the train entered the station. The freight platform, which had been busy for a day, was deserted at this time, and the lighting near the platform was turned off, and only the afterglow of the elevated lights in the distance was sparsely sprinkled around the platform, which looked a little gloomy.

The door opened softly, and a young man in civilian clothes jumped down, looking warily at both sides of the platform.

A line of ordinary city buses was parked in the depths of the platform, and young men walked towards them. In the darkness, a soldier in military uniform walked up quickly, and without speaking, he reached out to stop the young man. The young man took out an officer ID card and a letter of introduction from his pocket and handed them over, and the soldier stood up after reading them.

"Are you all ready?" The young man asked in a calm tone.

"Report chief, everything is ready, please instruct!" The warrior replied in a quiet but firm voice.

"Okay, thank you, according to the pre-determined route and time, ready to go." The young man commanded.

"Yes," the warrior hurried back. Immediately after, the row of cars started up.

The young man turned and walked towards the two carriages, and looked to the left and right alertly, in fact, he knew in his heart that all aspects of the mission had been properly arranged, and caution was just the instinctive reaction of an old scout. The area a few hundred meters from the platform had been temporarily taken over by well-trained fighters, and on their periphery there were plainclothes officers from the local police station, who, although they did not know the details of the mission, had enough police presence at various street intersections outside to spy on every suspicious movement.

The young man jumped up, and after a while, he came out reflexively, but with the difference that he was carrying a rather large military backpack behind him.

Immediately after, from behind him, a middle-aged woman wearing glasses walked out, she was fair-skinned, slightly chubby but not bloated, with short ear-length hair, a white shirt, a knee-length skirt, and black mid-heeled shoes on her feet, and the whole person looked very capable. "Teacher Wang, you take the children to the first car first, and they will take you to the designated meeting place, and we will see you there."

"Okay," the teacher surnamed Wang didn't have any extra words, and stood sideways by the car door. At this time, a seven or eight-year-old boy jumped down, and Mr. Wang touched the child's head lovingly, and said softly: "Yifei, you take everyone to the first car over there, walk slowly, and look at the classmates behind you." Yifei nodded and walked towards the first car that had disappeared in the darkness. Behind him, the same seven or eight-year-old children got out of the car one after another and walked forward in an orderly manner. No noise, no noise, everything goes on in silence. In the end, there were a dozen or so girls of the same size, and as soon as they stepped into the dimly lit stands, their instinctive reaction made them huddle together, although there was no crying, but there was obviously some nervousness and fear. The last girl who appeared at the door of the car was a long and thin girl, with handsome facial features matched appropriately, fair skin with some vegetables, at first glance, she was a little malnourished, and the most memorable thing was that pair of clear eyes, as if they could penetrate people's hearts. This is the smiling and waving girl behind the curtains. She was obviously much calmer than the girls in front of her, and I saw her jump out of the car lightly, and look around, with a smile on the corner of her delicate mouth, as if she had returned to a familiar place. Teacher Wang walked up to her and asked softly, "Xiaoqing, are all the students in our group together?" "It's all right," replied the kid named Xiaoqing just as softly. Teacher Wang nodded to the young man, turned around and put his arm around Xiaoqing's shoulders and walked towards the car on the side of the platform.

By this time, the children who had come up first had already sat down in order. When the soldier saw Teacher Wang coming up, he saluted, "Chief, are you all together?" The teacher smiled and said, "It's all together, you can go, but you don't call me the chief in the future, just call me Teacher Wang." "Yes, chief, uh......, Mr. Wang." The car slowly drove out of the gate of the station's freight yard.

At midnight, the streets of City C were deserted, the street lamps were not very bright, and most of the light was obscured by the dense foliage on both sides of the road, casting some mottled shadows. As soon as the car full of children left the gate of the yard, it was immediately disappeared in the shadows of the trees, and it sped out of the city in the thick of night.

A few minutes later, a second car pulled out and headed in the other direction......

When the last children boarded the car, the young man got into the car and drove down the path of the first car into the darkness of the night.

Outside the gate of the freight yard, two people got out of a military jeep, quickly closed the gate of the freight yard, and then sped away towards the city center, and the surrounding area was quiet again.

In the following month, every week, there would be one or two or three of the same wagons, parked in this freight yard, all of them seven or eight years old, and their destination was the same, a county elementary school with many children of the army, where these children from all over the country, dressed in different clothes and speaking different dialects, would be changed into uniform clothes, and after a brief rest, they would be sent to their final destination, an idle civil air defense fortification deep in the mountains. It's a secretly remodeled, state-of-the-art underground space that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and they will spend their years here.

This is a top-secret military-led program that covers all disciplines and fields, with an eye toward cultivating secret elites for future wars, and it is a completely unfamiliar territory for the Chinese military, which has just emerged from the turmoil and has just experienced a war of self-defense and counterattack. Those veteran generals and commanders who have been baptized by war do not have any experience in this area, but through self-defense and counterattack wars, these veterans who have fought bloody battles for the republic all their lives have a keen sense that if our army is still intoxicated with the war thinking of the past and lies under the halo of the past to eat the old book, then sooner or later it will sink into vulgarity, and with their full support, a top-secret plan codenamed "Snow Wolf 717" will be quickly rolled out throughout the country.