Chapter 13: Escape
Zhou Zhen's muzzle gestured twice at the two searchers, but he still didn't pull the trigger.
He checked the laces, leaned down, and walked quickly backwards.
If you shoot and you can't finish killing people, they will know their exact location, which is not conducive to their escape.
Although the main task is to challenge the unfair world and never give in, this does not mean that Zhou Zhen must fight hard and never retreat.
Given a month to flee to Mexico and complain to the media about the government's injustices, it means he needs to make the deal even more sensational.
Therefore, in order to maximize his interests, he chose to temporarily escape from this remote snow-capped mountain area.
In just one minute, he had already crossed this mountain road of more than 200 meters, and then discerned the direction and entered the dense forest.
Yesterday, he took a different path, he was forced to the precipice, and today he can't choose that path.
In the novel, Holiday Town is a small town in Washington State, but the movie was filmed in Hope Town, a scenic town in eastern Vancouver, Canada.
He's in the same location as in the novel, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, Seattle to the east, and Portland to the south.
According to normal logic, Rambo should flee south, but Zhou Zhen chose to go north after thinking about it.
Heading north to the Gulf and then into Canada, taking a boat from Vancouver to Mexico is also an option.
Zhou Zhen looked at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, and he had been fighting non-stop for nearly five hours.
But he can't rest at this time, he must break through the opponent's encirclement as soon as possible.
This time, the route he chose didn't have a cliff, and it didn't put him in a desperate situation. But when she climbed over the two mountains and saw the snow-capped mountains in front of her, he knew that he seemed to be wrong again.
Whether it is Zhou Zhen, or Cyrus, Kevin and now Rambo, they are not familiar with this area.
Washington State in the northwest of the United States is already vast and sparsely populated, famous for its forests and snow-capped mountains, and the only major city is Seattle, which is known as the best retirement city.
What he didn't know was that the Olympic Snow Mountain Park, where he was now located, covered an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers and was inaccessible to people.
It was almost impossible for him to get from the southernmost point through the core to the north.
But seeing the boundless snow-capped mountains, he knew that it was absolutely impossible for him to go north alone and go straight north without supplies.
So, he chose to go west again, to the Pacific coast.
To the east and south are key encirclement areas, and his main task now is not to fight, but to make himself disappear from sight.
What he didn't know was that he had now become a national sensation, and he had underestimated the horrors of the state apparatus at work.
In the seventies, the Beat Generation was prevalent in the United States, and anti-war sentiment was high at home.
One of his people killed nearly a hundred people and wounded dozens of others, and the sensational news spread throughout the United States in a day.
Now, reporters from all over the country are flocking to the nameless holiday town.
He has gone from being an example to a symbol.
Some see him as a warrior, some as an idol, some as a thug, and some as a thorn in their side.
In the eyes of the government, he was a huge trouble, and his appearance gave everyone a heavy slap in the face.
The people see him as a victim of the war, but the government just wants to get rid of him as soon as possible and put an end to the turmoil.
Therefore, it is not only the reinforcements of the three helicopters that have been sent to this mountainous area, but the National Guard of the entire Washington and Oregon states has been mobilized to surround this area.
Four of the army's special operations teams were brought in, and dozens of hounds were airlifted over to conduct a search without blind spots.
Now, no matter which direction he flees, it will be in vain.
On the first day of his escape, he hunted a black bear in the mountains, took only four legs, and after overloading the bear's skin, he carried all four legs on his back.
But in the evening, he found that when there was no salt or oil, the bear's paw was tasteless.
Possessing Rambo's wilderness survival skills, he cleared a flat area at the corner of the woods, and then built a shack out of branches and covered it with thick hay.
In the evening, after roasting the bear's paws, extinguish the fire. Although it smelled of blood, the bear's breath frightened the other beasts, and he slept soundly wrapped in a bear's skin.
When he woke up the next day, he found that he only had a low-grade fever, but the problem was not serious, because he had eaten too much bear meat, and some internal fire had risen.
It was still a continuous rainy day, and it seemed that it was going to snow, but neither the rain nor the snow fell, and the direction could not be discerned all around, so I could only rely on the compass on the saber to guide the way.
The road in the mountains was difficult to navigate, so Zhou Zhen walked over the mountains and mountains for another day, and then finally found a dirt road.
Zhou Zhen did not feel happy, but became more and more vigilant.
If there is a road, it means that the pursuers can pursue by mobility.
However, having a road means that he can continue to run away at night.
That night, he stayed until two o'clock in the morning, when he found a wooden hut abandoned by the rangers, and slept in it for several hours.
Before dawn, he started on his road again.
But on this day, the pursuers finally caught up, and although they did not see the pursuers, they could hear the barking of the hounds.
From the barking of the hounds, it is known that there are at least five or six hounds. After the previous battle, Zhou Zhen believed that each squad pursuing him would not be less than ten people.
Spotting the hound at noon, Zhou Zhen decided not to keep moving forward, but to find a terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and counterattacked.
This is not the periphery of the forest, and there is no fear that the other party will form an encirclement.
The battle began at four o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhou Zhen, who was waiting for work, waited for the arrival of the pursuers with a tree root as a shield.
The two dog trainers led the three dogs, and the pursuit team was divided into front, middle and rear formations, one by one exhausted, but they could still maintain the formation, and they could also see that the other party was elite.
However, Zhou Zhen occupies a geographical advantage, he is condescending, and the first thing he aims at is the hound.
He adjusted the rifle to a three-round burst and pulled the trigger.
Thirty rounds were divided into ten rounds and covered the front and center columns of the pursuing squad.
In just three seconds, only one of the six hounds remained, and three were shot, but only one was shot in the head and died instantly.
There was only one hound left, and Zhou Zhen was much more relieved. The other party's gunfire rang out, and several people shot together, although they didn't find Zhou Zhen's specific location, they also hit this piece with a bang.
Zhou Zhen cautiously withdrew from the shooting range of the bullet and retreated to the second battlefield he had prepared.
As long as the opponent chases after him from this road, he will definitely not be able to escape his shooting range.
And from other places, it is not an easy task to come up.
For a while, the pursuing group did not appear, but the only hound, which flew from the forest, swooped down.
For Zhou Zhen, this was purely a food delivery, just a bullet, and the hound fell helplessly into a bush of weeds.
However, this shot also revealed his position, and the host team divided into cover and assault groups and began to attack Zhou Zhen.
However, Zhou Zhen's carefully selected terrain made it difficult for the opponent to attack at all, and Zhou Zhen patiently waited for them to show their heads.
In less than four minutes, three soldiers with their skills fell under his guns.
Now, the two sides are deadlocked here, the other party can't attack, and it is difficult for Zhou Zhen to take the initiative alone.
However, the days in winter are short, and soon, it gets dark.
The sight in the mountains and forests changed from hazy to invisible, and Zhou Zhen was still lying motionless in the carefully built warm nest.
Staying here, he wanted to destroy this team and get the map from the other party.
Without a map, he scurried around like a headless fly.
More importantly, he wants to catch a live mouth and understand the other party's pursuit strategy.
Now, the command must have known that this team has an accident, and starting tomorrow, they will focus on surrounding this area.
They have helicopters, they can deploy troops at any time, and Zhou Zhen still has one night to use.
From less than five o'clock, the two sides were at a stalemate, until eight o'clock.
It was already dark, and there was not a shadow to be seen all around, except for the cooing of owls and the fluttering sound of leaps.
Zhou Zhen has been slowly chewing the bear meat that has become extremely greasy when it has become cold, without a little salt, this meat has no taste at all except for nutrition.
However, it fills your stomach.
After eating, Zhou Zhen felt very thirsty, but he could only endure it at this time.
He moved his body slowly, listening vigilantly to the movements around him.
He didn't know where the other party was, and the other party wasn't sure where he was now, but he still had the initiative.
Retreating to a reserved path on the edge of the cliff, in the darkness he groped his way down the cliff seven or eight meters high along the rattan.
Then, he began to crouch and slowly grope forward.
Today he killed at least four people, and two more were injured, as long as the people are not dead, they will definitely notify the base camp to come to the rescue.
Now, the dead and wounded soldiers have become a burden to them, and all Zhou Zhen has to do is to touch the location of the first sniper.
Walking in a half-squat is very tiring, but for Zhou Zhen, it is similar to training on weekdays.
Just when he was less than a hundred meters away from the first dead soldier and could already hear the muffled snort of the wounded, suddenly, a roar came, and a bear appeared.
The appearance of the bear caught the pursuing party by surprise, and in order to protect the wounded, they had no choice but to shoot.
And the shooting also revealed their position, and before they could react, Zhou Zhen started shooting at the corners of the two shots.
He heard the screams, but he didn't bother to check the results, and hid behind a big tree four or five meters away from the place.
A burst of gunfire rang out, and an angry voice roared. "Get out, get out, you devil."
Zhou Zhen heard clearly, there were still three guns shooting.