Chapter 22: Killing in the Night

It didn't take long for a second suicide to occur, a soldier who had already been wounded, and whose wounds continued to deteriorate due to the humid environment, and who had been able to hold out for so long was already a hero. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Every day we are on the road, and although I keep stressing that people in my travels should not drink cold water, the harsh environment and poor food still make the jungle killer of malaria appear. Most of the soldiers in the ranks contracted the disease, and it tended to expand, and every day people were left behind without realizing it, never to be seen again. Our team was reduced to fourteen people.

Lao Chang found some herbs for the sick soldiers, but the effect was not very obvious, although these soldiers were still gritting their teeth and persevering, but maybe one day they would fall down and never get up again. It's a pity that the newcomers are not here, they have quinoline in their hands.

Today we walked only half the way we walked yesterday, and Lao Chang and I were fine, but the other soldiers obviously couldn't hold on.

At dusk, we set up camp again in the wilderness. I took out a red-hot wooden strip from the burning fire, carefully rolled up my trouser legs, and several leeches lay on my white legs, and my swollen body was full of my blood.

This thing was disgusting, I scalded them one by one with sticks, and the leeches curled up and fell, and I threw them into the fire, which was very difficult to kill by any other means than fire.

He often went out to look for food, and the other soldiers huddled by the fire with their backs to them. Several sick soldiers left the camp to solve their personal problems, their faces already turned blue, and it was not long before a foul smell came.

"Whew"

A muffled grunt alerted me, and I pulled out my rifle and removed the tarp that had wrapped around it. There was no sound other than the muffled hum, and the insects around seemed to stop here.

"What's going on over there!"

No one answered, and the soldiers in the camp looked at me strangely. I raised my rifle and moved cautiously towards it, the darkness of the jungle holding me on my back.

"Huh"

I didn't see the attacker at all, my neck suddenly went numb, I tried to open my mouth to warn, but I couldn't make a sound, and I fell to the ground in the dark.

"Hey, wake up!"

A cold hand was afraid to hit me in the face, and I slowly opened my eyes, and the usual anxious face appeared in front of me.

"What happened, what about the others?" As soon as I came back, I saw me lying on the ground.

"Someone attacked us, I didn't see who it was" I wanted to get up but didn't have the strength, it was like a general anesthetic. I shook my dizzy head, trying to sober myself up.

"It looks like a wild man here, I think we're in big trouble!" Chang Chang looked at the jungle worriedly.

"Kachin?" I remembered that I had introduced the indigenous people of the area before, who were isolated from the rest of the world and would often attack outsiders who strayed into their territory.

"No, the Kachin will only kill us, they won't take us away, it should be headhunters!" Always have a look of fear on his face.

Thinking of the legend of the headhunters, I also had a cold war, they have a bad habit of cannibalism!

"No, why wasn't I taken away" makes me a little puzzled, headhunters don't have the habit of giving up "prey".

Lao Chang took out a blow needle made of bamboo and said: "This is smeared with blood, the flesh in the jungle is difficult to preserve, they have enough prey, there are not many dead people like you."

See the blood seal is a plant, its sap is highly poisonous, many places of primitive people use this to make poison needles hunting, and its name is the same, see the blood seal marquis! Probably because I was strengthened by space, I didn't die of heart failure.

"We need to find them quickly, it's too late," Lao Chang picked up his rifle and carefully identified the marks on the ground, and soon found the traces of this group of headhunters. I gritted my teeth and stood up, following Chang Chang deeper into the jungle.

The search in the dark was laborious, but thanks to Lao Chang, who was a good hunter, we were able to find the camp of the headhunters. The camp is a simple primitive village made of surrounding trees, and in the center of the village the wild people of the headhunters are partying.

Perhaps the wildlings didn't think anyone would dare to attack their idea, so we didn't meet the sentinels. Visually, there were more than 20 savages in this village, 14 adult warriors, and most of the others were women and children, and no old people were seen.

The soldiers of the expeditionary force were locked in a square cage made of wood with the thickness of their wrists, and they looked something was wrong, and one by one they fell to the ground motionless. The savages sat around the fire, and on the fire there was a rack roasting something, and the rich smell of meat could be smelled here.

When I looked closely, my eyes were red, and there was actually a person on the shelf! His appearance was horrible, his head had been cut off, his stomach had been opened, and the inside of his abdomen had been cleaned. Under the scorching flame, drops of grease dripped off and fell on the charcoal with a snort.

I couldn't bear to look back, the killing intent in my heart had never been so strong! I looked at Lao Chang and found a grenade.

"Boom" "Boom"

The sudden explosion overwhelmed these savages who had never seen modern firearms, and the savages who fell to the ground screamed miserably, and Lao Chang and I stretched out our rifles with red eyes.

"Bang" "Bang"

The gunfire made them even more panicked, but they also found the attackers, and these fierce cannibals rushed towards them without fear of death. The five rounds in the rifle ran out quickly, and we didn't have time to reload.

"Hurry up and reload!" I pulled out my pistol to cover the old man.

"Bang Bang"

It was difficult to aim in the dark, and I fired all 6 pistol bullets in less than 5 seconds, knocking down three cannibal warriors. When I turned around, I saw that I was still trembling and pressing bullets into the gun, and accidentally the bullets fell to the ground with a thud.

I drew my bayonet and loaded it on, but the long march and hunger had made my strength so great that I used my last strength to rush out. I was confronted by a wild man with an axe, and these wild men did not know what they were putting on their faces, and their pale faces made my hands tremble.

"Jiva Geeli"

The savage shouted that I couldn't understand the words, and raised his axe and slashed at it, and I could only dodge. The axe slashed at the tree behind him, scraping off a large chunk of bark. I seized the opportunity and stabbed the wild man in the chest.

What is shocking is that this wild man is actually very tenacious, the bayonet piercing his chest is tightly clamped by his muscles, and he holds the axe and slashes it again as if he is crazy.

"Bang"

Lao Chang finally loaded the bullet, and the bullet slashed through my face and hit the wild man's forehead, ripping off half of his head, and the warm brain splashed my face.

"Good marksmanship," I said fearfully, touching the cut on my face.

"Bang" "Bang"

Under the constant resistance, the savages hurriedly dodged, and poisoned arrows shot at us. I ducked back behind a tree and replaced the pistol with a magazine, which was better than a rifle.

Taking advantage of the rain of arrows, I stretched out my pistol and fired, regardless of whether it hit or not, just to keep them from approaching, and I did not have the strength to fight these brutes again. Lao Chang's position is at the back, and he is the main force to kill, and his years of hunting experience make his reaction speed super fast, as long as a wild man comes up, he will definitely be hit by a bullet.

"Boom"

My right hand shook and I lost consciousness. I took my hand back in dismay, the flesh and blood of my palm were blurred, my two fingers were missing, and the belated pain made me roll on the ground in pain.

"Ahh

Ten fingers connected to my heart, and bursts of sharp pain made me break out in a cold sweat. I gritted my teeth and tore off a piece of clothing, wrapping it around the wound haphazardly. Lao Chang heard my screams and hurriedly threw a grenade and rushed over.

"How are you?" Lao Chang asked anxiously while looking at the location of the savages.

"The pistol exploded, and my right hand was useless" I leaned weakly against the tree and lost my combat effectiveness.

The rainy and humid climate of the jungle had rusted pistol parts and bullets, and the continuous march left me with no time and energy to maintain my firearms, and this accident taught me a heavy lesson.

The tragic casualties seemed to frighten the wildlings, and their shadows were lost in the darkness. Chang threw a bayonet at me and groped his way into the camp himself. Fearing that he was in danger, I reluctantly got up and followed.

The wildlings fled, and the only thing in the clearing was the slight wail of the soldiers in the cages. Losing the wildling's overreach, the flames ignited the ripe soldier, a disgusting stench of burning protein. In this way, dust to dust, dust to dust, dust to dust.

After rescuing the remaining 5 soldiers, we hurriedly left the camp, and the devil knows if these wild men will go and return. The road was difficult to walk at night, and from time to time we tripped over fallen tree trunks, and thorny vines hung blood streaks on us. No one shouted that they were tired, they had seen the barbarism of the cannibals, and no one wanted to be taken back.

It wasn't until dawn the next day, exhausted, that we fell asleep on the ground, and slept straight into the afternoon, and if we were in danger, we couldn't survive, but luck was finally on our side.

We had gone a long way into the Savage Mountain, and after discussion, Lao Chang led us to the east, hoping to cross the border and return home, and we did not dare to enter the depths of the Savage Mountain.

As we were on the verge of collapse, signs of human activity appeared. We walked out of the jungle, and in the distance the fields filled with smoky villages loomed, and I fell headlong when I couldn't hold on any longer.

In a daze, I seemed to hear Wang Li's anxious shout......