Episode 21 Bubble Survival**

The two of them trembled to the edge of the lake, crouching naked in the snow, Xiang Xiaoqiang was rummaging through the pockets of his clothes, while Fourteen Gege rolled his clothes into a bundle, sat under his buttocks, and then began to pull the laces from his leather boots.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's face was already blue from the cold, and he asked with a shiver:

"Huh? You...... You do...... What are you ...... doing?"

Fourteen Gege glanced at him, didn't explain, still biting his blue lip and continuing to pull his shoelaces.

"I said......" Xiang Xiaoqiang pushed her and asked in a trembling voice, "What the hell are you ...... Dry...... Do? ”

Fourteen Gege was pushed by him, and shouted in a low voice:

"Tie your clothes with shoelaces, stupid! Do you want to swim past and freeze to death without dry clothes to wear? It's tied up tightly like this, and it's held with one hand when swimming, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to turn back a few layers of clothes that can be relatively dry......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, still trembling:

"Oh...... Then you...... Then you said it earlier...... I'm also ...... What about this...... Well, there you got it! You see! ”

He suddenly lit up a large bag of things in front of his fourteen squares, and sang:

"When...... Dangdang......"

Fourteen Gege looked at the thing in his hand through the starlight, his face flushed, and he pulled down his face and said:

"Xiang Xiaoqiang, when is this! What do you want! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said:

"Hey, no, no, no...... I didn't mean that...... I mean......"

As he spoke, he took one open, took it out of it, and then put it on his mouth and blew it violently. Soon, a big bubble was blown.

"Alright," Xiang Xiaoqiang said, "help me tuck my clothes in." ”

Fourteen Gege immediately realized, his heart was overjoyed, needless to say, he quickly helped Xiang Xiaoqiang stuff his clothes into the "big bubble" with his hands and feet, stuffed one and tied it in his mouth, and threw it on the ground. Immediately after that, I will blow it for him, and then stuff another piece of clothing......

Soon, all the clothes and shoes of the two were stuffed into the "bubble". A bunch of big bubbles on the ground.

"Alright...... now that both of them were frozen, Fourteen Gege shuddered, "and now...... Under...... Let's get in the water......"

"Don't be busy...... Again...... Blow a few more ......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang took out several more and distributed them to fourteen grids.

Fourteen Gege was stunned:

"Still blowing?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, and didn't explain, just blew hard, while motioning for the fourteen grids to blow too. Fourteen Gege knew that this kind of cleverness was not as good as Xiang Xiaoqiang, although he didn't understand, he didn't talk nonsense, he just helped blow.

Soon, a few more big bubbles were blown. Xiang Xiaoqiang motioned to Fourteen Gege to pull off the shoelaces of both of them, and then tied a few "empty bubbles" and a bunch of "clothes bubbles" together to form two life jackets.

Now Fourteen Gege also fully understood. She didn't ask much, she first helped Xiang Xiaoqiang put on one, and then put this one on her body.

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, and said tremblingly:

"Now...... You can ...... Got into the water......"

Fourteen Gege also nodded, and the two of them held hands, gritting their teeth and walking into the icy lake.

"I said......" Fourteen Gege's face was pale, and he said with a forced smile while wading in cold water, "Xiaoqiang...... Only one night, you ...... You bring so much ...... What is this for......

Xiang Xiaoqiang also trembled and said:

"One night...... It doesn't mean that there is only one ......"

“……”

Tianchi is a lake in the valley, so the slope is very large, and after just a few steps, you can't reach anything under your feet, only the cold water of the lake. However, the "life jackets" that the two put on their bodies played a great role, and a few "big bubbles" on the backs immediately brought a lot of buoyancy. Although it can't completely lift a person up like a life jacket, it can be used to swim with little effort.

"Quick...... Swim quickly......" Xiang Xiaoqiang gritted his teeth, paddled the water, and said vaguely, "Don't stop...... Maintain vigorous exercise ......"

Fourteen Gege also paddled hard, but she no longer had the strength to speak, so she could only tilt her head and use all her strength on paddling.

……

Fortunately, it's already May, not winter. Now, in any case, the temperature of the lake is several degrees. If it's winter, the lake is full of ice slag, and the kind of zero-degree ice-water mixture, even if the two of them have "big bubbles" to increase buoyancy, they may not be able to swim to the opposite shore.

A few hundred meters above the lake, the two of them struggled as if they were in hell, and it took me some time to swim to the other side.

The two crawled out of the water exhausted, helped each other, found a place without snow, quickly tore open the "clothes bubble", first took out a shirt to quickly dry the water on their bodies, and then used the last of their strength to get dressed.

Xiang Xiaoqiang dressed faster, and when he put on his coat, Fourteen Gege was still struggling to put on his sweater. It looked like her limbs were already very numb and sluggish.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately pounced on her, helped her put on a sweater, and then wrapped her coat again. It's a pity that there are no coats and blankets left. These two things were too big to fit into the "bubbles" and were discarded.

After helping Fourteen Gege get dressed, Xiang Xiaoqiang already felt that his limbs, especially his fingers, were numb and he didn't listen to the call. He knew that it was too late for both of them to rely on their clothes to keep them warm to recover their body temperature, and there must be a strong heat source. Otherwise, he will soon die of hypothermia.

When he first came to this plane at the end of 35, after he climbed out of the icy river, he immediately got warm and thick clothes, as well as hot rice and soup, and stayed in a warm room. But this time, there was no warm room, no hot rice and soup, and even the clothes on the body were not warm enough - there were no coats.

Xiang Xiaoqiang pulled out a knife from his boots. Fourteen Gege asked in a daze:

"Xiaoqiang...... You...... What are you doing......

"Hold on, don't sleep!" Xiang Xiaoqiang shook her and rubbed her cheeks a few more times, "I'll warm you up right away!" Hold on! ”

He stood up and cut down the branches of a pine tree behind him. His knife was so sharp that a branch thicker than his thumb cut down a large pile of pine needles in a few strokes.

Immediately afterwards, he unscrewed the back cover of the handle and handed it to Fourteen Grids:

"Hey, wake up! Help me see the direction! ”

He was actually trying to find something to do for Fourteen Gege to keep her from falling into a coma. Fourteen Ge Yiyan took the back cover of the knife handle, and when he looked at it, it was a small compass.

"Xiaoqiang...... This...... This is the compass? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't say a word, poured out all the things in the hollow handle, and then showed the blade of the knife in front of her face, with a cockroach logo engraved on it:

"Look, I personally designed it, and Lian Feng specially customized, 'Xiaoqiang' survival knife! There are six survival tools inside: a scalpel, a tourniquet, a fishing line, a lighter, a compass, and gunpowder! ”

Fourteen Gege was originally frozen in a daze, but now he was stunned by this same treasure.

Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up one of the small tin tubes, like watercolor paint, or disposable toothpaste, unscrewed the lid, and squeezed the oil paste inside onto the pile of pine branches. It's only a little bit, but it's powerful. The surroundings were immediately filled with a strong volatile smell, alcohol is not like alcohol, and gasoline is not like gasoline.

While picking up the pine branches and applying the ointment evenly, he said:

"This potion is actually used for arson behind enemy lines in the East Factory Operations Department. As long as it is applied, the wet firewood can be lit immediately. There is also a small glass bottle of white phosphorus, which does not need to be lit, and it will catch fire when it falls to the ground. But I don't want to bring that, it's too dangerous. …… There is also this thing, a lighter, also known as a magnesium stick, which is also a thing of their East Factory. This thing can be scraped with a small piece of iron, and it can be scraped into fire. Even if you have just fished it out of the water...... But ......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang took out a lighter from his pocket and said:

"If you have a lighter in your pocket, it's for b. Look, how fast the lighter is. ”

As he spoke, he brought the lighter close to the pine branches, and "snapped" a little, and the pile of pine branches, which were still very wet, suddenly burst into a fierce fire. Pine needles, which contain moisture and grease, exploded in the fire, and sparks crackled and exploded into the sky.

Fourteen Gege saw a pile of fire suddenly appear in front of him, suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly said:

"Xiaoqiang! The Soviets are on the other side! It will be discovered! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang scolded while helping Fourteen Gege close to the fire:

"***, find out! They don't have boats, they don't have bubbles, they can't swim anyway! If you take a detour, this lofty mountain can't be bypassed in two hours! The problem now is not to let people find out, but not to freeze to death here first. ”

Fourteen Gege was held close to the fire by Xiang Xiaoqiang, feeling the warmth on his face, and immediately squinted his eyes, revealing an extremely comfortable expression, like a cat lying in front of the fireplace.

Xiang Xiaoqiang also enjoyed the warmth while turning on the fire, feeling that he had never been so comfortable since he was born.

……

The two embraced each other, enjoying the warmth of the campfire, when suddenly Fourteen Gege's eyes stared straight ahead, and then sat up all at once.

Xiang Xiaoqiang also followed her gaze, and saw that in the mountains and forests on the other side of the lake, many pillars of light were shaking, and the shouts of people were faintly heard in the distance.

"Russians! They've finally found where we were! ”

"They've spotted us, too!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang hugged Fourteen Gege and comforted:

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, they can't get by......"

"Whoosh——!

Before he could finish speaking, a bullet grazed overhead and hit the pine tree behind him with a "poof", splashing sawdust everywhere. Two seconds later, a faint gunshot floated in, echoing back and forth through the valley.

"Holy!" Xiang Xiaoqiang fell to the ground according to the fourteenth grid and scolded, "Ya shoot!" Aren't they going to be caught alive? talking doesn't count! ”

Fourteen Gege said calmly:

"I'm warm. What about you? This place can't stay, let's leave quickly. ”

"That's right. We don't know the scale of the Soviet offensive this time. Is it a small-scale provocation, or a large-scale attack...... If we provoke, we will be saved by escaping down the mountain...... If it's a large-scale attack......"

"If there is a large-scale attack," Fourteen Gege said coldly, "it is estimated that Dihua has become a battlefield by now." ”