Time passed by a moment, and in the evening, Qi Lu and they set up camp in a valley with a small river meandering, and after Sai Lei lit a bonfire, arranged for two Shan companions to cook, and then smoked and chatted with Qi Lu beside him.

Several idle Shan youths put down their weapons and backpacks and jumped into the river to catch fish. Ding Xiaolan said to Qi Lu with a smile: "I didn't expect to be able to eat fish tonight, I decided not to lose weight." ”

Sele then said with a wicked smile: "I will not eat the fish in this river, and I advise you not to eat it." ”

"Why?"

"Because these fish have corpse gas in their bodies."

"Corpse gas? Don't scare me. ”

"I didn't lie to you." Sai Lei looked at Ding Xiaolan's puzzled look, so he replied to her: "In Myanmar, most of the ethnic groups living in the mountains have a custom of water burial, and if you see it, you will be scared half to death. ”

Ding Xiaolan said disapprenously: "Isn't it just burying people in the water, there was no such custom in our country before." ”

"We have a water burial here that is different from China, but we cut out a lot of small holes in the coffin with the body in it and sink it into the lake, do you know why they did that?"

"I don't know." Ding Xiaolan replied honestly.

"The purpose is to let the small fish swim into the coffin and eat the corpse, and use the corpse to raise fish. After a few months, the coffin was scooped up and opened, and the fish had eaten all the flesh on the corpse, and it was fat, large, and delicious. This kind of fish, I don't think Miss dares to eat it. ”

Ding Xiaolan suddenly felt uncomfortable in her stomach and almost threw up, Qi Lu and Sai Lei were amused by her funny appearance.

Sele added a few more sticks of dry wood to the fire and said, "Tomorrow we will get up early and hurry." ”

Qi Lu asked: "Are you afraid that there are too many wild beasts in the mountains and forests, and they are not very safe?" ”

"I'm not afraid of wild beasts, mainly because this mountain forest belongs to the territory of the Rohingya."

"You mean those, aren't they living in Rakhine State in western Burma, how did they come to Kokang?"

Qi Lu knows something about the Rohingya, who are not native to Myanmar, but outsiders.

In 1826, after the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War, Arakan in Burma was ceded to British India. The British had made a lot of war money and owned a lot of land. In order to obtain more cheap labor, they began to recruit Bangladeshi to work in Burma, and the Rohingya are a mixed ethnic group formed by the fusion of these descendants with some local indigenous peoples.

Outsiders can easily come into conflict with the local indigenous population, and as religious tensions continue to intensify, local Rakhine Buddhists have been at odds with the Rohingya, sometimes breaking out into large-scale armed conflicts, resulting in numerous casualties on both sides.

After the establishment of Myanmar at the end of World War II, the Rohingya even formed their own armed forces to confront the Burmese government in order to seek independence, and attempted to occupy the land as the king and establish an autonomous state. Although the Burmese government has since suppressed the Rohingya rebellion by force, many armed factions have sprung up among the Rohingya, and they have created some bloodshed in the area, either overtly or covertly.

Sele replied: "Don't you know, when the little Japan invaded our Burma, the British set up a Rohingya detachment in order to stop the Japanese, hoping that they would take the lead as cannon fodder for themselves. However, these hateful Rohingya, the Japanese devils did not kill a few, but in the name of ethnic cleansing, they killed more than 100,000 local Buddhists. Later, after the end of World War II, these miscellaneous pieces were also beaten to pieces by the government army, and a small branch of them retreated to this deep mountain to live in seclusion, and it is said that they have grown to the size of three or four villages. ”

"Doesn't the government care about them?"

"What's the matter?" "This handful of Rohingya are the most radical and cold-blooded, they hate any foreign race, and they have killed anyone who strayed into their village. They also grow opium poppies and exchange money from drug trafficking for sophisticated weapons, not to mention the locals, and even the police dare not provoke them. ”

The bonfire burned more and more, and Qi Lu and the other three people who were sitting next to the fire were hidden in the dancing blood-red light, revealing a dull atmosphere.

Qi Lu sighed: "I hope we don't run into this group of Rohingya." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp voice suddenly came from a distance, which sounded neither human nor animal, but it not only pierced the deep night sky, but also seemed to penetrate everyone's heart. Then there was a deathly silence, so quiet that even the river beside them had stopped flowing by this strange and terrible cry of suddenness.

"What's this weird noise?" Ding Xiaolan was stunned for a while before asking in a low voice.

Sai Lei did not answer Ding Xiaolan's question, but his expression was already nervous, and he bent down and listened carefully, as if he was expecting the strange voice to appear again.

Qi Lu seemed to smell some dangerous smell approaching silently, and he quickly pulled Ding Xiaolan away from the fire and hid behind a protruding rock.

"So, are we in danger?" Ding Xiaolan asked.

"That sounds like a warning, we"

"Listen, the voice is coming again!" Ding Xiaolan interrupted him.

Without reminding her, everyone heard it, and the same cry rang out again, and it crossed the riverbed, undulated through the forest, and finally disappeared into the distance.

Saile was so shocked that he shouted: "It's not good, this is the trumpet of the Rohingya, everyone hide quickly!" ”

In an instant, the fire on the other side of the river flickered, and about a dozen rifles on the opposite side opened fire quickly. The gunfire continued for about a minute, as if the devil had rushed out of hell everywhere, venting his mad hatred with a rough howl.

"Ahh Ding Xiaolan screamed.

"What's wrong?" Qi Lu asked her.

Following Ding Xiaolan's eyes, Qi Lu saw that the companions swimming in the river were killed by the enemy before they could go ashore, and the blood stained the surface of the river red, and his eyes suddenly dimmed.

Except for Qi Lu and Ding Xiaolan, the others seemed to be old Jianghu who were used to fighting, and they quickly picked up their weapons and scattered and hidden, ready to wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

A semi-automatic rifle that Sai Lei threw at Qi Lu, he took it and shot lifelessly at the riverbank, only to hear a muffled grunt, as if an enemy had fallen in response. Qi Lu couldn't help but let out a cry of victory when he saw that he was victorious, and the Rohingya over there were not to be outdone and responded to Qi Lu with a threatening gunshot, so frightened that he quickly shrank his head behind the stone.

The gunfire was loud again, and a fierce gun battle ensued between the two sides, and it seemed that both sides had a lot of combat experience, and neither of them revealed a single target for the enemy to shoot. Ding Xiaolan experienced the battle scene for the first time, her whole body was trembling unconsciously, she was nervously lying on the ground, her heart was pounding, and she felt that her only way out at the moment was to run away quickly.

The gunshots slowly thinned out, and Ding Xiaolan's heart was beating less violently, and she dared to stretch out her head to look at the movement on the other side, when she saw a flash of fire flying out of the rock above her, and heard a fierce curse, followed by a scream of pain. It turned out that Qi Lu's rifle fired a fatal bullet and killed an enemy.

The battle lasted only seven or eight minutes, and the enemy lost five or six people, and Qi Lu's side also suffered heavy losses, with a total of eight people killed by the enemy's guns.

However, Qi Lu's counterattack also worked, and the powerful firepower effectively forced back the attackers. Gradually, the mountains and forests were as calm as they had been before the sudden battle.

Qi Lu immediately seized this favorable opportunity, picked up Ding Xiaolan, and led her into a small cave more than two meters high behind her.

"How can you shoot?"

"I used to be a soldier." What Qi Lu said was not the truth. He lowered his head and examined the gun in his hand.

After a while, the companions also came to this relatively complete place one after another to rest for a while.

"This poor fellow has finally been spared." Sele touched the pulse of one of his wounded companions, then helped him to the cave and sat down, bandaging his wounded forehead.

"Do you think they're going to attack again?" Qi Lu asked Sai Lei while changing the rifle.

"The wolves have smelled blood, and they will not let us go easily, they will definitely come again, and use new tactics to win and take our lives." Sele raised his rugged face and continued: "What I hope for now is to be able to break out smoothly and reduce casualties as much as possible. ”

"Why don't I cover for it, and you take the opportunity to find a breakthrough?" Qi Lu had already loaded his magazine when he spoke, and walked towards the outside of the cave. Although he is a little afraid of death, he also clearly knows that this is not the time to be timid, otherwise everyone will die here, so it is better to let it go.

"Qi Lu!" Qi Lu had just walked a few steps when he heard Ding Xiaolan calling him. So she looked back and saw her pale face and staring straight at him with tears in her eyes. This expression of concern made him immediately return to her side.

"Remember Qi Lu, you must be careful." She said softly: "Promise me, you will come back alive!" ”

"Hehe, why do you suddenly care about me?" Qi Lu's face appeared with the familiar expression of Hang'er Langdang again.

Ding Xiaolan's face flushed, and she said lightly: "You are my boss, I want to count on you to pay me a salary." ”

"Hehe, in the end, money is cuter than people."

"Mr. Qi, don't do it to me. You keep me honest in my own hiding spot, because no one can predict when the Rohingya will attack. Seray interrupted their conversation impatiently, for a man who had grown up in a hail of bullets, Serey's mind was still quite clear.