Although the Northeast is the traditional heavy industry base of the Xinming Dynasty, except for a few core cities, the average population density and land development degree here are lower than those in the Central Plains and the south, but hidden under the amazing forest cover area and harsh climate is rich in natural resources, in this forest and snow field from ancient times to the present day are a group of hunters who rely on hunting for a living, although due to the acceleration of urbanization, many young people put down their shotguns and poured into the city to work, out of the life passed down from their ancestors, but until nowMany retired old people would rather go back to the icy and snowy villages to farm and play roe deer, rather than nest in the city to watch the children for their children and receive pensions to spend their old age, this may be their guardian of traditional customs, right?

(Because I really don't want to use **** This kind of ridiculous name is too heavy, so I set up a country by myself, after the end of World War I, the Qing Empire collapsed, and the former imperial family supported by the national capitalists took over the struggle for power with lightning speed, and gained a firm foothold in East Asia, and the new Ming coalition government is a monarchical parliamentary system.) ）

Ning Yi is one of the diehards who returned to the snow in the twilight of his life, but unlike many 'old hunters', he grew up in the city and received a higher education, and when he decided to come here, he didn't even have hunting experience, but the skills he had honed during his service made him quickly get used to this kind of life.

Today, Ning Yi found two very suspicious guys driving away from here, you must know that during this time period, although the snow has not yet started, the cold frozen soil makes many mountain people too lazy to enter the mountains.

The most suspicious thing is that except for the appearance of green pickup trucks transporting supplies in a small training base nearby, no one will drive to such a damn place, and it is also a civilian minivan.

Ning Yi, who was suspicious, immediately let go of his hounds after the two young men left, and let it start to look for it in retrograde along the place where these two people had just walked down.

Ning Yi hurriedly dropped the shotgun, took out the convenient shovel from his bag, and began to dig, probably because the surrounding area was frozen soil, so the pit was not dug deeply, and the old man quickly dug out a strange-shaped wooden barrel.

"Could it be that those two boys went up the mountain at this time just to bury a bucket? But what about the blood on the ground? Could it be that there is something unsightly hidden in this barrel? What protects the carcasses of animals? Are these two poachers? ”

If you think about it this way, it makes sense, because the old man caught a few poachers when he was wandering around the mountain, and the volume of this bucket is just right for a small sika deer.

"Whatever it is, wouldn't it be clear when you open it up? What's the use of pondering like that? ”

As a result, after opening this strange barrel, Ning Yi's heart, which had been running for more than sixty years, suddenly fluttered.

There were no protected animals in the bucket that the old man imagined, only a little girl who looked like she was only a teenager curled up inside.

She was dressed in a thin white garment, and a woolen coat that did not match her outfit at this time, and the child's face was still pale from the cold.

"Girl? Girl? Are you awake? Girl? ”

Ning Yi reached over and tried to wake up the little girl curled up in the bucket, but this made him discover something terrible.

The back of this child's neck and collar are wet to the touch, and when I get it in front of me, it is full of blood?!

Ning Yi finally understood that the two people who had just fled in panic were not poachers at all, but murderers who killed and abandoned corpses!

Ning Yi nervously picked the little girl out of the bucket, and then tested her pulse.

"It's fine! OK! It's faint, but the kid is still alive! Those two things that kill a thousand knives! ”

Old Man Ning now regrets why he didn't directly collapse those two guys of unknown origin just now, but compared to regretting, there is a more important thing in front of the old man - saving this child.

After hastily bandaging the wound on the child's head, Ning Yi stretched out his hand to hold down the depression between the child's ear and the occipital tuberosity, and at the same time took out a small pistol and pulled the trigger at the sky.

A bright red flare flew into the sky, sending a message asking for help to everyone around who saw it.

After doing this, Ning Yi pulled away the down jacket on his body, and then held the child with blood loss and a sharp drop in body temperature in his arms, quietly waiting for the arrival of rescue, while his hound also lay quietly beside his master, and at the same time prick up his ears vigilantly.

Time passed minute by minute, Ning Yi didn't know how long he had waited, and he didn't know how long this child who had only been simply bandaged could last, at this time, the hound that had been lying at his feet suddenly stood up and barked with his teeth.

'Is it someone who comes to help?' ’

Ning Yi couldn't hide the joy in his heart, but the wolf howl that sounded next made him nervous.

In such a barren mountain and wild place, and in this kind of season, the smell of blood can easily attract hungry wolves, but this very basic common sense is left behind by hunters because what happened is too shocking.

Ning Yi didn't have time to regret his mistake, he shot the five remaining flares from the flare gun into the sky together, and then threw the flare gun in his hand and picked up the shotgun in his hand.

To be honest, this kind of broken gun that can only fire ******** rounds is undoubtedly quite uncomfortable for a retired soldier who is used to firing with automatic weapons, but Xinming United is not the kind of country where you can buy it in the Olma supermarket, where only certain professionals are allowed to carry guns.

Usually, this shotgun has no problem shooting roe deer, hares and the like, even if he encounters a bear, Ning Yi is sure to retreat, but even the black blind man in the mountains and forests is not willing to provoke a group of hungry wolves.

The hound was faithfully barking in front of its owner, but it could hear a strong uneasiness in its barking, and seeing his dog's virtue, Ning Yi's heart suddenly cooled half, and it seemed that he was not a lone wolf but a wolf pack.

"It's really unfortunate that this kind of thing will happen, today."

Ning Yi nervously held the shotgun in his hand, looked at the wild wolf who did not dare to approach for the time being because of the light of the signal flare, and suddenly showed a very strong smile, the old guy in his sixties actually took off the down jacket on his body, wrapped it around the girl, and wore a leaky sweater to the wild wolves wandering around.

"Come here, you wolf cubs! I'm standing right here! If you take a step back, you're not a gentleman! ”

Ning Yi roared and brandished his shotgun, and the hound at his feet seemed to be encouraged, and he barked incessantly.

Unless hungry, wolves rarely provoke humans, wolves living in this era have suffered enough at the hands of humans, this intelligent animal has a strong ability to learn, once a smart wolf pretended to be a husky and ran to the place where humans live to cheat and drink, but it was greeted by a bullet (mouth).

To make a noise for yourself, to make the cunning wolf hesitate, and to try to buy time, this is Ning Yi's strategy.

If no one in the vicinity sees the flare, then you can only blame yourself for not looking at the yellow calendar when you go out.

Fortunately, Ning Yi's luck was good, just when the wolves hesitated, there was a sudden sound of people in the middle, and at the same time there was the sound of automatic firearms firing, and the wolves, who knew that the situation was not good, quickly left here with their tails between their legs.

Soon, twelve men in camouflage uniforms ran out of the forest, they were still holding guns in their hands, it seemed that these were the people who had just scared away the wolves, and the leader obviously knew Ning Yi, and he came over to talk.

"Uncle Ning! We just saw your flare during training. What happened? ”

"There were two little rabbit cubs who came up to the mountain early in the morning to bury a girl, so I could see it."

As he spoke, Ning Yi dropped his shotgun and picked up the little girl, and said to the leader.

"Squad leader Wang! Are there any decent hospitals around? I think this child needs surgery, she was hit in the head, she was bleeding a lot, and it will be too late if she doesn't save her! ”

"Come on! Show her to me...... Well, this place is not in front of the village and there is no store in the back, and the only place that can be rescued is ......"

The squad leader gritted his teeth, as if he had made some major decision.

"Human life is at stake, after the big deal, I will go to the colonel myself to receive the punishment! All of them! Hurry up! Back to Bootcamp! ”

After finishing speaking, he first ran towards the training base while holding the little girl.

Ning Yi and the warriors started running with him, and the old hunter asked very strangely as he ran.

"You didn't seem to react at all when I fired the first flare, why did you come so quickly the second time I fired the flare?"

"Today we were doing confrontation training in groups, and we thought that the opposite side was doing some tactical arrangement for the first signal flare, but when the five signal flares were lifted into the air together, we found that the situation did not seem to be right......

A young warrior replied, and then said to Ning Yi very seriously.

"Uncle Ning, don't ask too much. We are also disciplined here......"

Ning Yi nodded and said that he understood very much, he himself was the one who had carried a gun, and the discipline of the army was very clear.

Finally, after running some distance, someone stopped him in place, it was the little soldier who had just answered his question.

"Uncle Ning, from here on, you can't continue to walk. I'm so sorry! But trust us! This child will be saved! ”

The back of the head was hit hard and there was so much blood flowing, Ning Yi actually vaguely felt that this child was hopeless, he just didn't want to give up like this, but this little warrior was very confident.

"Alright! It's up to you. What a lucky little guy! Labor a group of adults running around for her......"

Ning Yi accepted the other party's words and asked again about what he was already worried about.

"Do you need to call the police about those two guys who sneaked up the mountain?"

"I don't need that. There will be special people to deal with it, Uncle Ning, you'd better not interfere indiscriminately, those people will admit death. ”

Who those people were, Ning Yi didn't want to know at all, after he received the assurance that he was at ease, he stood in place, watching those soldiers take turns holding the girl and running away, and suddenly the old man suddenly sneezed.

"Ahh It's cold! I forgot to ask the boys to borrow a piece of clothing! I'm going to get out of here, because if I see a wolf again, I'll be miserable. ”

Here it is...... Where? I remember as if I was climbing a mountain, and then what happened? ’

Dizzy, she opened her eyes and saw a white ceiling, she wanted to remember what had happened before, but her head hurt badly, she swayed and propped herself up, and found herself lying on a bed.

At that moment, she heard a clear conversation coming from outside the room, but she couldn't understand what was being said.

Maybe it's because it's too far away, right? Shall I get closer and listen to it? ’

Thinking like this, Xiao Mao Yuqiang supported his weak body, supported his heavy head, and slowly approached the door with his bed and the wall.

Outside the custody room, squad leader Wang handed over a thick stack of manuscript paper to a half-grown child who was at least half his age with a serious face, and said at the same time.

"This is my review! Please hand it over to the troops and punish me for my self-assertive behavior! ”

The half-grown boy took the handwritten review, which was at least thirty pages long, and placed it on the table, without even glancing at it.

"It's completely meaningless behavior, and this kind of thing will only be used as positive material to publicize, and your desire to take the blame and maintain the discipline of the army will be misinterpreted, even if it is, do you have to hand it over?"

After hearing the boy's words, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed on Squad Leader Wang's face, and he puffed up his chest and said loudly.

"I'm a soldier! And as an officer, I ......"

But the boy, who seemed a little impatient, used only one sentence to silence the one-one-two-two.

"That girl is resting next door now, and although she has passed the dangerous period, I don't know what will happen to her."

After watching the other party remain silent with satisfaction, the boy turned his gaze to the fruit basket on the coffee table on the side, which was brought by squad leader Wang.

"It's a beautiful fruit, I'll hand it over for you, if there's nothing to do, let's go."

Knowing that his superiors had given the order to evict the guests, squad leader Wang had to walk to the door, salute with a glance and turn to leave.

"Wang Xia? A decent soldier, but unfortunately it is only the wisdom of mortals......"

After the boy drove Wang Xia away, the first thing he did was to take out the reddest and brightest apple from the fruit basket that was supposed to be handed over to the patient, and gnaw it on it.

Suddenly, he noticed some movement coming from the intensive care room behind him.

"Huh? Awake? I didn't expect to regain consciousness so quickly, and it seems that her physical fitness is not as fragile as it seems. ”

The expressionless boy walked over and opened the door to the intensive care room while nibbling on an apple, just in time to see the person walking against the wall.

"Not only wake up, but can already barely walk around? It's really rare...... What is your name? ”

He asked in an unheaving voice that sounded more like an order than an inquiry.

“……？”

Dong Dong tilted her head, she couldn't understand what the person in front of her who suddenly opened the door and came in was saying to herself, she wanted to speak, but she was surprised to find that she couldn't say a complete sentence.

"Can't speak? Could it be that the brain has been accidentally traumatized? Let's take a look at it tomorrow. ”

The boy thought for a moment, and then said to the sightly wisdom in front of him, which was still below the mortal, and whose eyes shone with a divine light that could usually only be seen in the eyes of newborn animal cubs, in short, a pathetic being that exuded the aura of a weak man.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Chu Xuan, the one who pulled you back from the line of death."