Chapter 9 The march to the Urals
"I heard you're an Off-Attack Ability?" Huo Ling asked.
Xu Yifan nodded and said, "I am the ancient martial arts inheritance. ”
"Which one is more powerful, you or your captain?" Huo Ling asked seriously.
"She's better than me!" Xu Yifan scratched his head and said.
Huo Ling nodded thoughtfully and said: "I am a perceptual ability, I can release my perception, a bit like that kind of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and the skill level is one star!" The perceptual radius is 200 meters! ”
"If that's the case, it's still okay to just explore the truth!" Xu Yifan thought for a while and said.
Huo Ling nodded.
The two found Regiment Commander Gao and asked for information on the missing persons, protective clothing, and some supplies similar to 'food, drink, tools', etc., and then returned to the barracks to rest.
Early in the morning of the second day.
The sky is just dawning, and the winds peculiar to the plateau are a little cool.
Xu Yifan and Huo Ling told Regiment Commander Gao that if they did not come back after 48 hours, they must call the Internal Affairs Bureau for rescue, and then drove a military off-road vehicle from the camp and galloped towards the Ural Mountains in the distance.
The Gobi Desert and the dwarf hills along the way, without any effective reference, Huo Ling drove rapidly according to the azimuth meter.
"Sister Huo, you can drive this car, I'm going to be torn apart!" Xu Yifan said complaining.
Huo Ling glared at Xu Yifan and said, "Hypocrisy!" "But I still slowed down a little bit and made some detours on a flat road.
An hour later, all the electronic equipment of the military off-road vehicle failed, and after about 20 kilometers, it finally lay down.
The two had no choice but to pack their bags and start the Gobi Desert Journey.
Xu Yifan looked up slightly at the sun in the sky through his dark sunglasses, and then looked at an endless thick dark cloud not far away, licked his chapped lips and said:
"Sister Huo, all the timers and azimuth meters have failed, what should we do if the sun is obscured by that damn cloud?"
Huo Ling also looked up and said, "There is a low cliff on the gentle slope in front, rest there, and set off after the rain." ”
'Boom, click!' 'The rain poured down like a downstream.
Xu Yifan and Huo Ling were next to the low cliff and built a simple rain shelter.
The two took out an alcohol stove and boiled compressed biscuits mixed with beef cubes, and Huo Ling threw another piece of the newly developed 'nutritional tablet' into it.
The whirring sound of the wind, the rain that enters the canopy from time to time.
A small hourglass fixed to the ball balancer appeared in Huo Ling's hand!
Xu Yifan's eyes lit up, and he grabbed it curiously, and found that the hourglass was marked with a scale: "Sister Huo, this thing is a cow batch!" ”
"Each big scale on it represents two hours, and the balancer is rotated once every 24 hours, and there is a manual year, month and day recorder on the balancer, as long as the gravity does not disappear, this thing can accurately let us know the time!" Huo Ling glanced at Xu Yifan, who looked like a curious baby, and the corners of his mouth were fine-tuned, and explained patiently.
Xu Yifan, who was smacking his tongue while playing with the hourglass, said: "What a long insight! By the way, after a tiring day, do we have to set up camp and rest when it's dark? ”
Huo Ling took out the map and shouted to Xu Yifan to come over.
"We drove eighty kilometers and walked almost thirty kilometers, if we had walked in a straight line, we would still be about a hundred kilometers from our destination, and if it were you, it would have taken you less than three hours to get close to the Urals, but due to my constitution, I am afraid that this time will have to be tripled, that is, at least nine hours! That is, it will be dark before we can reach our destination! ”
"And now the rain hasn't stopped, but the sky has brightened, and you can see where the sun is!" Huo Ling said with a gesture on the map.
Xu Yifan looked at Huo Ling with a confused expression and said, "Sister Huo, what do you want me to know?" ”
Huo Ling raised his black face and glared at Xu Yifan, raising his voice and saying, "I mean, even if everything goes well, we shouldn't be able to return to the camp in forty-eight hours." ”
"And then?" Xu Yifan scratched his hair and asked a little embarrassed.
"And then? Then the rescue of the Internal Affairs Bureau should arrive! Huo Ling raised his voice and said.
Xu Yifan suddenly brightened, nodded hurriedly, and said, "Sister Huo, I understand what you mean!" You mean that the support will come anyway, so we might as well rush back to the camp and wait for the support to go! ”
"I mean, not only do you not have a night off! And it's best to go now! Huo Ling covered his forehead and said weakly, in addition, "We are here to save people, not to go sightseeing, not to go whenever we want!" ”
Desolate Gobi, drizzle.
Two people on the go!
"Sister Huo, you said that there are two groups of people in the front and back, why didn't we see the car abandoned by them?" Xu Yifan asked puzzled.
"You think this is the highway? This is the Gobi Desert where the azimuth failed! Then Huo Ling muttered in a low voice: "Idiot! ”
The moon is clear and the stars are clear.
The sand on the ground reflected the cold moonlight, and the swift wind was processed into low, howling music by the 'white thorn' foliage.
As night fell, the two slowed down.
Huo Ling suddenly stopped, standing motionless.
"Sister Huo? What's wrong? Do you want to go to the toilet? Xu Yifan asked puzzled.
Huo Ling didn't speak, just waved his hand to signal Xu Yifan to follow behind him, turned around and walked quickly to the left.
Huo Ling stopped, and the halo of the general's flashlight widened outward, shining on an object on the gravel ground not far away.
A military shoe!
Xu Yifan quickly ran to the front, opened his mouth and stared.
I looked at the military shoes on the ground, and then at the military shoes on my feet, they were exactly the same!
No, it's a little different, that is, the military shoe on the ground is mostly rendered by dark red bloodstains!
Xu Yifan looked up at Huo Ling and found that she was tilting her head sideways with her eyes closed......
Then Huo Ling moved his body again, using a military flashlight to look back and forth for something.
A trail of blood trails that had been dragged away, and the direction in which the trails disappeared was exactly the direction they were targeting.
After walking more than ten meters along the bloodstains, Xu Yifan found that the dragged bloodstains turned into dripping bloodstains.
Xu Yifan's expression became serious, in fact, he didn't think that there would really be any danger to the exploration team protected by armed experts in the army, at most it would be lost!
Strictly speaking, this area is really not very vast, boundless, and there are troops stationed all around, even if they get lost, according to astronomical coordinates, they can get out of the way by walking in one direction.
But as things stand, it's very likely that they've been attacked.