Chapter 54: The Eagle of the Desert (Part II)

It's hot, it's really hot!

It's so hot that even if you lie in the back of the rock, you won't feel cool, because there is not much sweat to seep out of your body, which is a sign of absolute danger in the desert.

It was so hot that you couldn't see a single plant, so hot that you couldn't see a drop of animal droppings, so hot that there were only bare stones and grains of sand around you. Even in the basin under the hillside, not a drop of water could be found, only a grain of salt could be seen from the white flower. In this environment, even Warrior Song, who had received the most rigorous desert survival training and could be called a master of desert combat survival, could not find even a little fresh water for five consecutive days.

Zhao Haiping kept lying on the side of one stone crevice after another, trying to see if there was any stagnant water left behind when it rained. He lay on the ground, constantly searching for even a little warm soil or sand, but he used his fighting saber to dig out a weed from the ground, only to find that the roots of this weed had become dry and brittle, and with a gentle tug of his fingers, it broke a few pieces.

"Whoa......

Lying on the ground, his face was pale and his whole body was trembling slightly, he suddenly raised the automatic rifle in his hand and pulled the bolt, but he suddenly felt that his whole body was weak, and the automatic rifle fell to the ground again.

Zhan Xia Ge looked at the branch in confusion, and didn't know why, but suddenly felt that the AK automatic rifle was at least a hundred times heavier, and let out a low shout from his mouth: "Huh?!" ”

Zhao Haiping, who was looking for a water source, looked at the AK automatic rifle that fell to the ground, but the muzzle of the gun happened to be pointed at him, and was really startled by the battle song, "Master, what are you doing?" Lie down and don't move! ”

"Hehe, good apprentice, are you thirsty?"

Zhao Haiping nodded subconsciously, and just wanted to shout in surprise, "Master, are you sober?" But Zhao Haiping immediately found out that something was wrong, although Zhan Xia Ge had already acquiesced to the existence of his stalker apprentice, but when did Zhan Xia Ge use such a frivolous tone and call him a "good apprentice"?!

"Hey...... I'm going to shoot that little bird down, and although it looks skinny enough, its blood should be enough to moisten my good apprentice's throat! Tell me, good apprentice, should I hit it in the head or its wings? Alas, in fact, no matter where it hits, half of its blood will be wasted, right? ”

Alas, it's still talking nonsense!

Zhao Haiping shook his head helplessly, at this time he suddenly heard a light birdsong in the air, Zhao Haiping quickly raised his head, and sure enough, there was a small, unknown bird, flying over their heads. Zhao Haiping suddenly jumped up and shouted loudly: "Don't shoot!" Master, take a good look at our bag, I'll chase it! If you don't see me coming back in two hours, you can find a way to light a fire on the mountain and send me a coordinate signal! Master understands, if I haven't come back in two hours, you must find a way to send me a signal! ”

Zhan Xia Ge nodded stupidly and said, "Hmm! ”

God knows if Zhan Xia Ge really understood what he was saying, but Zhao Haiping didn't have time to be sure, he threw off his backpack, grabbed two empty water bottles and ran away.

Although Zhao Haiping has not received desert survival training, but he has been in the army for so many years, and there have been many veterans of the field army reconnaissance company who have been invited to the armed police force as their temporary instructors, Zhao Haiping finally knows that in the mountainous desert full of rocks, there are strange shapes everywhere, and even hollow rocks inside, and some of these rocks are natural reservoirs!

After rainfall, a large amount of rain may accumulate in some places where the sun is not exposed to the sun, or in low terrain. The birds or animals that live here should know exactly where these water sources are.

What's wrong with the bird, what's wrong with being small, no matter how small it is, it has to drink water and eat, right?!

Two eyes stared at the unknown bird, Zhao Haiping ran faster and faster on the rugged mountain, and suddenly he only felt that his feet were empty, and he only had time to scream in his heart, and he rolled down from a valley more than ten meters high.

The sharp stones hit the grenade on Zhao Haiping's body that he didn't have time to untie, making a "clanging" sound, which frightened Zhao Haiping's three hundred and sixty-five sweat holes all over his body to shrink instantly, if he didn't die on the battlefield with the enemy, but because he wanted to chase a flying bird, he stumbled and fell down the valley and smashed the grenade, then he died too unjustly, right?!

He can't die yet, Zhan Xia Ge is still waiting for him to find Qing Shui and go back to save his life!

Zhao Haiping pulled out the fighting saber on his body and plunged it into the crack in the rock under him.

"Smack!"

The high-carbon steel fighting saber was actually broken by Zhao Haiping's habitual surname who rolled down the hillside, Zhao Haiping grabbed the half-cut fighting saber, and only had time to scream "not good" in his heart, so he involuntarily continued to roll down.

"Dang!"

This time Zhao Haiping didn't roll for long, he heard a loud noise, and suddenly Venus danced in front of him, as if he had been hit on the head with a stick, and in the dull sound and the buzzing sound of dozens of flies in his ears, two warm things slowly flowed out of Zhao Haiping's nose.

But anyway, his body finally stopped rolling.

Zhao Haiping stared blankly at the stone in front of him, which was more than a person tall, erected in a triangular shape, and aimed the sharpest corners at the hillside, this kind of play was simply a murder weapon that killed people!

Zhao Haiping touched his steel helmet that was half an inch long on the rock, which had been hit by at least twelve bullets, and it was the steel helmet used by him and Zhan Xia Ge and other brothers of the Fifth Special Force to sit around and eat "hot pot"!

Suddenly, Zhao Haiping, who was lucky enough to use his steel helmet to avoid the fate of being pierced by rocks and stones, jumped up and slapped himself twice, trying to sober himself up a little, and then quickly raised his head, in the dizziness, he could barely see the unknown bird in the air The size of a mung bean, Zhao Haiping simply raised his head in the valley and continued to run wildly.

"Fucking slow me down!"

Zhao Haiping ran wildly with all his might, and shouted wildly: "If I can't find water immediately, Master won't be able to live, and if Master can't live, I, Zhao Haiping, won't live either!" ”

Tears and snot blurred Zhao Haiping's face, and in the blur of tears, the flying bird suddenly disappeared!

Before Zhao Haiping had time to look around, he stepped into the air again, and once again fell into the second valley. This time Zhao Haiping fell even harder, the sharp stalagmites left twelve or thirteen scars on his body, and the position where he fell just now is now injured and injured, the sharp pain that can directly pierce the depths of his soul made Zhao Haiping open his mouth wide, but he suddenly laughed out loud.

Zhao Haiping couldn't help but laugh, because ...... He actually saw water!

Isn't it a big pool of water in the crack of the mountain that doesn't get sunlight all year round under the big rocks?!

Zhao Haiping flew over, he twisted the military kettle and poured it wildly, while stretching out his right hand to fish out a handful of pool water from the pool, regardless of the fact that Zhan Xia Ge had warned him a long time ago, the pool water must find a way to boil, or disinfect it before it can be drunk, and directly put the pool water into his mouth.

"I ...... Bah! ”

Zhao Haiping had never drunk such bitter, astringent and salty water, his eyes widened, and after a long time, he came back to his taste and spit out the pool water in his mouth. This kind of water is more bitter than sea water, God knows if a bowl of water can be dried out of a tael of salty salt, even if you drink the water, not only can you not quench your thirst, but I am afraid that the more you drink, the more thirsty you will be, and eventually cause more serious body dehydration.

However, it seems to be a good choice to just take these pools of water to help Master Zhanxia Song pour it on his body to cool down.

Zhao Haiping didn't have time to take a closer look at the valley he accidentally fell into until this time, his eyes widened suddenly, and he roared: "Don't rob my master of water!" ”

Less than fifty meters away from him, there was a small waterhole. The waterhole was so small that there were only about five or six bowls of water left in it, and it was such a small pool, but there were seven or eight small birds, and two or three small animals, drinking in a big way. This shows that the water in this pool is the real fresh water that can be drunk, and maybe this is the last water source in this mountain desert!

Unless there is some miracle happening again, with his Zhao Haiping's ability to survive in the desert and his understanding of the desert, I am afraid that there will be no way to find a new water source!

Zhao Haiping used the fastest action in his life to pounce viciously towards the waterhole, and the person was still running wildly, so he violently pulled out his self-defense pistol and shot at the group of small birds and animals, "Get out, don't rob my master of the water!" Did you hear that, this is the water that saved my master's life! ”

At this moment, the surroundings of the small waterhole were really birds flying and rabbits jumping, Zhao Haiping pounced on the small waterhole with a fierce tiger pounce on food, and his body directly covered the entire small waterhole, announcing the ownership of this last water source. At this time, Zhao Haiping suddenly felt a slight numbness in his left arm.

Without saying a word, Zhao Haiping directly pulled out the remaining half of the fighting saber, slashed down at his left arm, and in an irrepressible scream, a large piece of flesh and blood and the two deeply discernible tooth marks that a poisonous snake had just left on his arm flew in the air together.

Zhao Haiping's whole body trembled in pain, he brandished the bloody saber in his hand, and roared loudly: "I can't die, I haven't saved my master yet, how can I die?!" ”

Sticking the saber on the ground, Zhao Haiping grabbed the poisonous snake that was more than three feet long and had just bitten him and was trying to escape. This poisonous snake more than three feet long was swinging wildly in Zhao Haiping, and the bones of the whole body made a terrible sound of falling off, Zhao Haiping grabbed the poisonous snake and waved it wildly, while hissing: "You want me to die, you just want my master to die, you want my master to die, I want you to die first!" You give me death! Die! Die! Die! Die!!! ”

The myriad creatures hiding in this valley, perhaps a small scorpion, perhaps a small bird flying in the sky, all looked with horror at the human beings who had taken possession of the water they shared, and were there in a frenzy, madness, and upheaval, shooting out streams of murderous aura in a radiant manner.

In the end, Zhao Haiping brought a pot of salty, bitter, astringent, and undrinkable pool water, a pot of drinkable pool water, and a poisonous snake that was two or three pounds in weight and died miserably with all the bones of his body, plus the dry branches he collected from the valley, and returned to the side of Zhan Xia Ge.

That night, Zhan Xia Ge actually drank delicious snake soup in this desert, considering that Zhan Xia Ge's body is not only short of water, but also lacks salt, Zhao Haiping scraped off a piece of salt grains of white flowers from the rock, although the taste is a little bitter, but it is finally good for the body, good medicine is bitter!

Zhao Haiping used a spoon made of heavy machine gun bullet casings that fell from a helicopter, raised the steel helmet that he made another cameo into a hot pot, and sent the snake soup into the mouth of Zhan Xia Ge little by little. Zhan Xia Ge's dull gaze suddenly regained his brilliance, he gulped down the food that Zhao Haiping sent into his mouth, his teeth biting fiercely on the bullet casing, making a terrifying "silk" sound that made people's hearts tremble.

But on the face of the warrior song, a satisfied and happy expression slowly appeared.

Satisfied and happy to the heart's content!

Zhao Haiping asked in a strange voice, "Master, is it delicious?" ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's really delicious!" Zhan Xia Ge nodded happily, he immediately looked at Zhao Haiping suspiciously, and asked, "Good apprentice, why don't you eat?" ”

"As soon as the snake soup was cooked just now, I ate it first, and I'm so full now!"

Smelling the fragrance coming from the steel helmet that he used as a pot again, Zhao Haiping kept swallowing his saliva. After feeding nearly half of Zhan Xia Ge's snake soup, Zhan Xia Ge's face was already much better, and after helping him cover the canvas, Zhan Xia Ge lay on the bed composed of two military backpacks, and pillowed his head in Zhao Haiping's arms, and after a while, he let out a heavy and comfortable small snoring sound.

Zhao Haiping reached out and touched Zhan Xia Ge's forehead, it was no longer so cold, it seemed that this half pot of snake soup and the water of the Three Lines Army kettle splashed on Zhan Xia Ge had played a big role.

Zhao Haiping exhaled a long breath gently, he hesitated, carefully turned the spoon made of the bullet shell upside down, a drop of water mixed with the milky white color of snake meat, slowly gathered on the edge of the bullet shell, gradually plumped, when gravity and its own mass reached almost saturation, this drop of snake soup soup drew a beautiful straight line in the air, and fell straight into Zhao Haiping's big mouth.

Zhao Haiping pouted with satisfaction, and carefully wrapped and wrapped the remaining half pot of snake soup with a canvas to make sure that no scorpions, centipedes and other insects could climb in, Zhao Haiping took out the barley flour bun that he didn't know who had bitten it and threw it in the desert from Zhan Xia Ge's backpack.

Zhao Haiping slowly used his tongue to lick the barley flour bun, which was harder than a stone and couldn't bite at all, until he soaked the surface of the barley flour bun with a little saliva, and then carefully scraped off the surface layer with his teeth. Because he had a lot of time, Zhao Haiping ate calmly and calmly.

Except for Zhao Haiping, no one knows the taste of the barley flour bun.

The dark night shrouded the whole earth, under the vast firmament, in this vast and boundless universe, even if all the wisdom and racial vitality of the entire human race were poor, it was impossible to explore the boundaries and roots, in a corner of this small blue planet, two loyal republican [***] people, two brothers who illuminated each other's path with their lives, quietly snuggled together.

There was a deathly silence all around, so quiet that they could only hear each other's breathing, so quiet that even the sound of the sand rolling slowly under the agitation of the wind could be heard clearly. It was so quiet that even the full silver moon above their heads, and the stars shining like jewels in the sky, seemed lonely.

"Daddy......"

In his deep sleep, Zhan Xia Ge let out a low and aggrieved low call, he twisted his body, and changed into a more comfortable position in Zhao Haiping's arms, the corners of his eyes, in the silver moonlight, flashed two thin silver lines.

There was a rustling sound around and the wind was blowing.

After experiencing the absolute high temperature and scorching heat at noon, staying in this world with a temperature of only a dozen degrees, Zhan Xia Ge's whole body began to tremble, Zhao Haiping took off his clothes and wrapped them around Zhan Xia Ge's body. Feeling Zhao Haiping's hand, Zhan Xia Ge was in a deep sleep, muttering softly, to himself, and even with a little pleading: "It's so cold, can I not go out for a run today?" Dad, Mom, Brother Sun Jing, Brother Long Jianhui, Brother Zhu Jianjun, two unknown brothers, Brother Zhang Xiangshang, I ...... Can you be lazy once today, really, just once! I, I, I'm so tired! ”

Zhan Xia Ge slept very unsteadily, he kept talking nonsense in his deep sleep, he would cry and laugh for a while, raise his eyebrows for a while, and bring out a gentle smile on his face for a while, "Yajie'er, you didn't listen to my explanation, you hung up my phone, you want me to die on the battlefield and never go back, Yajie'er, you are really ruthless!" Yajie'er...... I hate you! But I think about you every day......"

This is the first time Zhao Haiping has heard the name "Yajieer" from the mouth of Zhan Xia Ge, he doesn't know who this woman is, but looking at the gentle smile on Zhan Xia Ge's face that he has never had, looking at the melancholy and sadness that should never appear on Zhan Xia Ge's face, Zhao Haiping also knows that something unforgettable must have happened to Zhan Xia Ge and this woman named "Ya Jieer".

"Thank you, my brother! Thank you for not forgetting me, the 'company commander' of six years ago, for everything you have done for me, for helping me up again, for letting me find my ...... The way home! ”

Zhao Haiping knew who the brothers were in the Battle Hero Song, and he had already known from Bai Yi's mouth that there was such a group of real brothers behind the Battle Hero Song. Zhao Haiping really can't imagine that there are only more than 100 people, what method and what kind of mentality they use, in just 48 hours, for Zhan Xia Ge, the "company commander" eldest brother who has only been with each other for less than a year, to scrape together a huge amount of money of 100 million and 2 million US dollars!

In this way, a brother who can stick a knife in his friend's ribs is already precious to meet another one in this era. But Zhan Xia Ge has more than 120 such friends, such true brothers who are not related by blood, but are closer than brothers!

There are too many enviable advantages and backgrounds concentrated in the war hero song, he has the almost great power that Zhao Haiping envies the most, he has the terrible war wisdom that Zhao Haiping has been able to look at all his life, he has the surname thinking that once the real war breaks out, it will make his career soar in the military field, and he has the almost perverted persistence and strength that is most lacking in [***] now.

Although Zhan Xia Ge did not tell Zhao Haiping about his family, Zhao Haiping can also see from some details that Zhan Xia Ge must have been born in a [***] family. No matter what kind of inhuman training Zhan Xia Ge has undergone, no matter how strong he is and how big a husband he is, but on his body, the pride and emptiness unique to [***] still leave a deep mark on him.

Otherwise, Zhan Xia Ge would not be on the battlefield, repeatedly disobeying the orders of his superiors, in this regard, although Zhan Xia Ge has tried to restrain his surname, but he is still far from meeting the requirements of a qualified soldier.

Compared with those soldiers who were born in remote rural areas and were honest, Zhanxia Song is more like a man who has been influenced by too many theories of martial arts novels, likes to face the world with his own attitude and understanding, and likes to deal with things in a flamboyant, even bloody and romantic way...... Man!

A man who wears a military uniform, but who always makes amazing deeds, can be generous and righteous when necessary, stick a knife in the ribs for his friends, fight for a breath, and die vigorously in order to gamble on a glory...... Warrior of Soldiers!

The song of the warrior is so intermittent, telling Zhao Haiping about his pain and happiness, telling about his grievances and unwillingness, I don't know what Zhao Haiping is in his heart at this moment, is it his father's shadow, his mother's smile, Yajie'er's gentleness, or the powerful hugs and cheers of those "spy company" brothers?

"I hate the profession of a soldier, what I hated most since I was a child is being a soldier, I still hate being a soldier, I hate going to the battlefield even more, watching those good brothers fall in front of me one by one, my heart ...... It hurts! ”

Zhao Haiping was also stupid, and it took him a long time before he asked softly: "Zhan Xia Ge, tell me, since you hate the profession of a soldier so much, why do you still wear a military uniform, why do you still pick up a gun, why do you still work so the battlefield?" ”

The fan of the warrior replied in a daze: "We have to have someone to be a soldier, someone has to pick up a gun to defend the country, someone has to go to the battlefield to fight the enemy, right?!" ”

(To be continued)