He asked Thomas to lie on the warm ground next to the campfire, examined it carefully, and said, "Thomas, your injuries don't matter. You are well nourished and have a super good physique. It's just that the superficial layer of the skin is infected. Gotta cut it all out! ”

As he spoke, he took out his first aid kit and took out a scalpel from it. First squeeze the yellow water with cotton wool, and then little by little, carefully cut off the rotten skin and muscle tissue on his legs. Finally, sprinkle with anti-inflammatory powder and wrap it with gauze. From the beginning to the end, Thomas bit the dagger and did not say a word.

Liu Guodong took out two more anti-inflammatory pills and asked him to swallow them.

After the operation, there was already a pool of blood in the ground. Thomas stood up and walked around, "Wow, it's so comfortable, it's so much easier." It's been more than two years, I can't see it all myself, I can't clean it up, I can't get better, I'm just fed up. Thank you, thank you Maria! ”

Yu Songyuan stood up, solemnly handed him an AKS-74 and two spare magazines, and then said, "This is your gun, and in the future, your position will be a sharp soldier." ”

Thomas knelt on one leg, took the rifle with both hands, and after kissing the butt a few times, he actually shed tears, "A Germanic warrior, two years, I haven't touched a gun." It's a great shame, and I'm going to fight to get my honor back! ”

"When will this big cold snap end?" Yu Songyuan ignored his emotion, he was more concerned about the life-and-death cold current.

"Captain, this cold snap on the mountain does not end in winter. The winter here is long, and it is not until April and May next year that the cold winds and heavy snowfall stop and the people down the mountain can come up the mountain. From June to July, herders come to graze their animals, and in October, they come down to the mountains to avoid the cold......"

Thomas's language has deteriorated slightly, but the meaning is still understandable.

"What's the matter with this bird and this wolf?" Hirsalma asked curiously.

"Dear Maria, they are no ordinary birds and wolves, they are warriors I trained! This snow sculpture is called Ruth, and this she-wolf is called Anna! With Thomas finished, Anna looked up at him and began to fall asleep again.

The addition of Thomas also added vitality to the team, and it can even be said to be poetic.

The team hibernated in the bear cave, not only to resist the cold, the food was limited and too simple, and the harsh environment made the team members gradually weakened. Almost all the team members have symptoms such as weakness of hands and feet, constipation, cleft lip, chilblains of hands and feet, chapped skin, peeling and itching, etc.

During the incubation period, Liu Guodong twice specially led people to quietly collect wild fruits in the alpine meadows, and he most wanted to catch fish in the alpine glacial lake to solve the food problem. But he was not professional in fishing, the ice was too quiet, and there were people "stationed" in the meadow, so he didn't do it twice.

The addition of Thomas solves this dilemma. Early the next morning, Yu Songyuan ordered Thomas to take six team members in good physical condition, including Havash and Mahmoudi, to return to the burned alpine meadows to hunt.

Thomas said, "Captain, don't hunt, just ask Anna to go and drive a few sheep, and that's it." After saying that, he walked out of the cave, raised his hand, and after Ruth rose to the sky, he led the team to set off.

Before Anna set out, she walked affectionately in front of the little landlord, and the two wolves sniffed each other's noses, saying goodbye to the little landlord, before chasing Thomas.

"The little landlord is in love!" Hissarma sighed.

Thomas took Havash and the others to the alpine meadows. Surviving in the alpine meadows, he is more experienced than Liu Guodong. Instead of hunting the wild sheep that escaped the fire, he led his team to cut down the rattan, went to his "palace" to rest, and then spent the night weaving five or six simple baskets.

In the early hours of the next morning, the snow on the lake was cleared and the ice was ready to be fished.

This is an extremely cold area, the temperature is extremely low, and the ice surface is too thick, so it is most difficult to drill ice holes. Thomas drew a half-square-meter circle on the ice, and the team members took turns digging the ice with the spines and stones of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. The ice was more than 70 centimeters thick, and from early morning to early afternoon, a large hole with an area of about half a square meter was finally chiseled with great difficulty.

Soon, the excessive exhaustion of the players was washed away by the joy of harvest. After a short time the hole was opened, the small fish slowly gathered, and then the bees swarmed to the mouth of the hole, densely packed, head-to-head to the surface, crowded into a ball. All you need to do is take a basket made of rattan and scoop it, and it is half a basket of small fish jumping around.

The group poured the fish onto the snow on the ice, and it instantly froze into dried icefish. This alpine glacial lake is a cold-water lake with no other fish. These small fish are like loaches in China, with the thickness of a thumb, about ten centimeters long, and round.

Thomas picked up the fish and threw a few small fish that froze instantly to Anna. Then he picked up two of them himself, threw them into his mouth, and chewed them open.

The temperature is too low, you have to keep scooping, and after a while, you will scoop a lot, enough to have two or three hundred catties. You can't scoop it, and you can't transport it away if you have more. After they stopped for a short while, countless small fish were refrozen to death by the ice and solidified into a tragic "sculpture".

Thomas whistled at the sky, and Ruth swooped down from the sky, standing firmly on his shoulder.

Ruth and Anna watched their prey, and Thomas returned to his "palace" with Havash and the others, and there was a pool in the cave for storing some of his collection of dried fruits. In the past, these dried fruits would have been enough for him to eat the entire long winter. Use two large baskets and fill them with dried wild fruits. After everyone had a good meal, they took turns carrying the prey overnight and marched towards the snow-capped mountains.

After Thomas led the people away, Hirsalma said uneasily, "You guys are so relieved, he won't run away with people, right?" ”

Liu Guodong joked, "Before leaving, didn't you secretly tell Havash and Mahmoudi? ”

Hirsalma was a little embarrassed by her cautious eyes, "But I'm still not at ease. He could survive on this snowy mountain alone, and Havash and Mahmoudi were his opponents. ”

But a few days later, Thomas returned with his teammates. Hundreds of catties of fresh small fish and 100 catties of dried fruits rejuvenated the team. In fact, not only Hissarma was worried, but Yu Songyuan and Liu Guodong also deliberately wanted to test Thomas. When he returned with a full load, the two of them were really relieved.

That evening, dinner was grilled fish with dried fruits, and the fish was delicious and salty. The dried fruits are also salty and sweet, and they are eaten with great taste. Thomas first put the grilled fish in front of Ruth. Watching Ruth feast, she happily began to eat as well. The small landlord, on the other hand, hit it off with Anna at first sight, and only began to eat it when Anna had eaten well.

"Puppy Day, see and forget friends!" Liu Guodong touched the little landlord's head, and Anna raised her head and glanced at him dissatisfied.

"What kind of fish is this? Never eaten in Kabul. Hirsalma was full, stood up and walked around, and finally held back, so that she didn't snort. She asked curiously, wiping her mouth.

Thomas said flatteringly, "Dear Maria, I have asked the herders who have come up to the mountains that this is a highland loach. The glacial lake is a mile in diameter, and there are countless such small fish in it. Every winter, I have to catch fish several times. This fruit is from a shrub, I can't name it, but it has a very high salt content and can replenish the body's salt. ”

"Why are you still following us? There are fish, mutton, dried fruits to eat, and hundreds of sheep mothers can feed you milk and drink, how can you still do this good thing? Liu Guodong teased.

Thomas said seriously, "Guodong Liu, you don't understand. The snow-capped mountains are too boring and lonely, and they can't be done for a long time. Here NO road, NO streetlight, NO bus, NO beer, NO girl...... If I continue like this, I will become a wolf myself......"

The addition of Thomas, Ruth and Anna made the boring life in the bear cave joyful and lively.

At this time, on the bank of the Kunar River, far away from the Great Snow Mountain, two men were carrying bloated equipment bags, like strange shadows in the night, along the slopes of the river, stepping on the snow, slowly and quietly searching in the direction of Asadabadad.

These two men are none other than "Savage" and "Scorpion".

The "savages" are Slavs who are 1.9 meters tall. "Scorpion" is a Tajik, still a small man, only 1.76 meters. They were originally two "bombs" of the CIA lurking in the Kabul government army, and they have been lurking for several years without instructions. The first mission after activating it turned out to be to enter the Hindu Kush Mountains and assassinate the Chinese "ghost".

It's an almost impossible task.

They were instructed to infiltrate the Hindu Kush Mountains and search, find, and kill the Chinese "ghosts." But where is the "ghost"? What kind of people are they? How is the combat effectiveness? None of the two knew anything about the situation.

Still, after thorough preparation, they moved quickly. They are just two living killing machines, one of the CIA's tools for subversion, assassination, and sabotage. They take pleasure in completing the treacherous task of killing people and must unconditionally carry out any orders of intelligence officer Gates.

The Chinese "ghosts" have been besieged by Spetsnaz on the snow-capped mountains for so long, and they are already at the end of their crossbows, and it is not impossible to kill them at this time. The Savage and Scorpion are fit to survive in the wild, having flown countless similar impossible missions around the world while serving in the British Army.

In the name of vacation, they quickly got rid of the National Army. They did not enter the Great Snow Mountains from the outskirts of Kabul, and having lived in Kabul for many years, they knew that it would not be easy to climb over the Great Snow Mountains. Instead, drive to Jalalabad and then follow the Kunar River towards Assadabad.

A week later, on a snowy night, they arrived on the outskirts of Asadabadad. At night, they followed the map and found the scene of the helicopter crash. The helicopter had already been buried in the snow, and after they scooped up the snow and plant ashes, and surveyed the cab, everything inside confirmed Gates's judgment.

Generally, after a helicopter is hit and crashed, there are usually traces of the corpses of the pilot in front and the shooter in the back, or the residue and equipment residue on their bodies. But this crashed Mi-24P, the cab was clean, and there was not a trace of it.

There is only one consequence of this situation, the "ghost" was not in the plane at the time of the crash. The bow of the plane burrowed into the riverside bushes, indicating that the plane was hit at a low altitude and crashed after the volley exploded, igniting a raging ground fire and burning the riverside bushes to ashes. Is there still time for low-altitude skydiving? It's a bit of a bizarre.

But "Savage" and "Scorpion" are sure that the opponent is a "ghost" and everything is possible......