After walking about two kilometers, we finally came to the side of the dirt road where the slope crosses the border. After following Ruan Yunshan to stop a passenger car with Vietnamese license plates on the side of the road, a group of seven people squeezed into the truck-front bus that looked shaky with a load of luggage on their backs.

"Yo, the little couple is also going to cross the border to play?" Hearing this melodious and melodious female voice, my heart couldn't help but tremble! Sister, you are really ghostly!

It was Linda who spoke naturally. When she saw Ah Xia and I squeezing over, she politely moved to the window, forced to make room for three people in the seats for two people, and warmly beckoned us to sit down. Seeing that Jin Siniang and the others also found their own positions, I had to follow Ah Xia and sit next to Linda with a hint of reluctance.

"Miss Linda is also going to cross the border to collect wind?" Ah Xia felt a little embarrassed to squeeze next to her, so she had to open the conversation box and talk to her.

"Well, I wanted to take a set of thematic photos that reflect the real life of the border people, and I didn't have any inspiration anyway, so I took a random car and planned to walk along the way, who knew that I would meet you again. According to the old Chinese saying: It's really fate! Linda also replied to Ah Xia generously, while fiddling with the long guns and short guns in her camera bag - although I don't know photography, I still have a little hearing of these expensive equipment - generally speaking, this kind of professional optical lens, I really can't get it for tens of thousands of dollars.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but interject and ask, "Miss Linda came to the border alone with such valuable equipment, isn't she afraid of meeting bad people?" I heard from the fellow that there seemed to be drug dealers in the neighborhood from time to time...... "As soon as the words came out, I immediately regretted it: Bah, crow's mouth!" Aren't we going to the border too? Opening the breach so early doesn't mean that you have cursed yourself!

"Oh, afraid? Definitely scared. But I'm used to being alone, and I don't want to trouble others. Besides, if you want to shoot a good work, you can't take some risks and spend a little price. Life in the world is originally a game of exchange. As he spoke, he smiled meaningfully at me. For a moment, I seemed to see a kind of freedom from birth in her deep and confused eyes, or a kind of loftiness that saw through the red dust, and I vaguely felt in my heart that this expression, this word, seemed to come from a person who had been more weathered and experienced vicissitudes......

This woman who exudes a sense of mysterious disobedience is really incomprehensible.

Nothing to say all the way. After checking the border pass at the border checkpoint, our group followed the bus across the border. At this time, some Vietnamese people came up in the car one after another, although the language was a little incomprehensible, but they felt that the dress was similar to that of the villagers, the currency was also mixed with the use of RMB, and even one or two Chinese buzzwords often soared out of the conversation...... It's amazing how these people are caught in different cultures, systems, and beliefs.

Ah Xia and I are still sighing, Linda has already taken out her camera, and vigorously captured the real life conditions of the border people up and down the road, inside and outside the car, but her eyes are still unmoved and have been showing the indifference overlooking all living beings - is this woman tired of seeing the warmth and coldness of human feelings, or has she seen through the cycle of fate? From the beautiful eyes that don't see a trace of pity and sympathy, I think the answer is unknown, probably.

While thinking about it, the sharp-eyed Ah Xia suddenly pointed to the flow of people rushing in from the front one after another and called me to look, and Linda also rolled open the car window and stretched out her head to observe the situation. When I looked out, Linda had already put away her body and shrunk back, then quickly put away her camera gear, pulled up her backpack, and slid out of the window with a "swish" - leaving only a faint and long afterword:

“good luck！ live on and live well！ little ones，trust your fate until i see you again……”

(Good luck to both of you!) Let's live! Little ones, believe in your heart, and see you soon...... ）

"Good luck to us? What are you talking about, this crazy woman! When I heard Linda's words, I couldn't help but complain when I saw her back disappear into the tide of people, and I was thinking about how Ah Xia, who usually always sang to my husband, didn't respond, she had already taken my hand and became nervous:

"Plums! We seem to be in trouble......" As he spoke, Ah Xia, who had squeezed to the window, had already retracted her head and beckoned me to pack up her things, and Jin Siniang and the others also grabbed their luggage under Ruan Yunshan's reminder - at this time, the Vietnamese driver who was driving had already stopped the bus with a sharp brake, and then stood up and yelled at the overwhelmed people in the car, opened the car door suddenly, and he himself slipped away from the side door of the cab.

"Don't go yet!" A middle-aged woman who was supposed to be a villager in a border city couldn't help but remind us when she saw that we hadn't reacted for a while: "Hurry, it's too late for the drug dealers to kill us!" As she spoke, she had already used a kind of vigor that did not match her age, holding her one- or two-year-old child, squeezing into the flow of people like a desperate person, and running to the back of the car as if flying......

Hey, hey! Also TM really appeared! You can't blame me for this, I didn't mean to open it, but casually, give it back to me! Seeing that I was in turmoil, I only hated myself for daring to fight for something with a bird's beak that said anything! However, complaining is always to no avail, as Ruan Xiaodao shattered the car window with "rootless energy", a group of seven people had already broken out of the window, caught in the flow of people and fled.

While running, I looked back in the direction of the front of the car, only to see that three or four hundred meters away, there were several off-road vehicles parked on the dirt road with a temporary sentry post.

I'm still thinking, in broad daylight, so many people, do they really dare to shoot? I saw the man with a felt hat and sunglasses who looked like a leader standing on the front cover of the off-road jeep pinched out the cigarette butt, straightened the brim of his hat, turned over into the car, beckoned a dozen subordinates, started the jeep and rushed over-

"Dada, dada!" Oh, my God! I really shot it! Is there a royal law?! By the way, we are now in Vietnam, where to go to the People's Liberation Army to protect the people?

Hearing the gunshots, the surging crowd immediately doubled its speed as if it had exploded, and for a while, the sound of guns, shouts, screams, wild laughter, and the sound of the engine were all in one, like a symphony at the Shura feast - there were constantly people in the surrounding crowd who did not know whether they had been shot or knocked over, and as soon as they fell, they were immediately trampled by thousands of pairs of feet, thus losing their vitality in the rushing crowd......

I watched the drug dealers shoot indiscriminately at the crowd, and I already lied in my heart - we grew up in an era of peace, not to mention war, that is, we have never even experienced turmoil, so have we seen such crazy bloody scenes? If it weren't for Ah Xia by my side, I really wouldn't be sure when I would have a weak leg and fall to the ground! Fortunately, with this belief in protecting her, I caught up with Jin Siniang's mother and son who were walking like flying, the energetic blind master and apprentice, and Ruan Xiaodao, who went up the mountain to collect medicine all year round.

After running for nearly a kilometer, the shrill horn of the jeep behind me was getting closer and closer, and in the noisy voices, I only heard Ah Xia in front of me hurriedly turn around and say to me: "Plum, pay attention!" Enter the mountain from the intersection on the right side of the front and follow Uncle Ruan......"

Although her voice was very faint in the horrible noise, I finally heard the key information, and as soon as I nodded to her to indicate "Yes", I already saw the junction that led to the mountain road. I was about to run a few steps to catch up with Ah Xia, but there was a "sudden" gunfire behind me, and a crowd of people suddenly fell around me. In a panic, I quickly lowered my head and made a leap, leaning near a raised boulder beside me, and then looking at the other side of the road, Ah Xia had followed Jin Siniang and others into the entrance of the mountain road safely, and was looking at me anxiously.

"Da Da As soon as I wanted to rise up, a series of roaring gunshots had already sounded around me, and they followed the flow of people directly and strafed to the side of the mountain road where Ah Xia and the others were hiding, leaving more than a dozen innocent corpses in the blink of an eye. When I saw it, I quickly waved Jin Siniang to take her first, and I pointed to the woods on the dirt road behind me, and told Ah Xia with gestures that I would go to the woods to avoid first, and ask her to send me the coordinates later, and then go to her when the limelight is over. Seeing that I insisted, Ah Xia suppressed the firepower of the drug dealers fiercely, and finally nodded, and was dragged by Jin Siniang step by step and disappeared into the deep mountain road. Seeing that she left safely, a big rock finally fell in my heart, but how can I get out of danger when I am trapped?

I was thinking about what to do, when I suddenly felt a bloody hand squeeze my calf slightly, and I almost jumped in fright. When we looked closely, it turned out to be the middle-aged woman who had just reminded us to run fast in the car. When she was shot and fell to the ground, her legs were completely stained red with blood, leaving a bloody path more than ten meters long behind her; The arm that was used to crawl on the ground was even more fleshy and bloody...... If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed what kind of belief she had made to climb in front of me.

In a moment of suspicion, I saw her slowly open the other arm that was tightly covered in front of her chest, and saw the little face of the frightened baby crying in the blood-soaked quilt!

"Save ...... Save... The three words he ......" were her last words.

I couldn't tell whether she was the baby's mother or grandmother, none of that mattered anymore, and when I turned my head to look at her, her body had been splashed with blood by a bullet from a shuttle whip, and I was so frightened that I hurriedly withdrew my hand that had reached out to the baby under her physical shelter, and instinctively shrank my head and crawled into the woods just over ten meters away from me. It's just that after just a few steps, I still couldn't stand the inner struggle, so I turned around, braved the rain of bullets, sandwiched the helpless baby under my armpit, took a deep breath behind the stone whose edges were smoothed by bullets, grabbed the moment when the drug dealers loaded their ammunition, and desperately ran towards the nearby woods—

Ten meters, eight meters, five meters...... "Toot toot!" I heard a rush of gunshots hitting the gravel at my feet, and a few more that seemed to hit my bulging backpack - thankfully it was filled with cans in metal packaging, and it should be fine to resist the bullets.

After running non-stop for more than ten minutes, I felt that I had narrowed the distance with the drug dealers, and I dared to breathe a sigh of relief. After slowing down, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my ribs, could it be that I was shot!?

After stopping to check, I realized that the baby under my armpit had died, and the bullet that had taken his life had passed through his young body and left a terrible blood mark on my forearm. And my back was also hit by a stray bullet, and blood was gushing out of the terrible bloody hole...... If it weren't for the cans in the backpack that resisted the damage of some bullets, it is estimated that he would have died. After the initial sterilization to stop the bleeding, I judged that the bullet should not have hurt my internal organs, muscles and bones. For the rest of your life after the catastrophe, I was glad that I only felt that this child who had just arrived had promised your relatives to save you, but as a result, I didn't do it......

After wiping away my tears, I took out the bullet with the surgical forceps in my medical bag, and after putting on the gauze, I hurriedly washed the blood stains off my clothes with salt water, and applied a layer of mud to my body to cover up the smell. After about ten minutes, I finally found a hidden bush, just felt the pain of the wound unbearable, I finally couldn't bear the sleepiness and lay in, who knew that as soon as the person lay down, the fatigue actually hit my mind with the pain, and I fell asleep without paying attention.

By the time I was woken up by a commotion, the night was already cold. Peeling off the camouflage blades of grass on his face and looking out through the cracks in the bushes, more than a dozen drug dealers with wolf dogs happened to have a bonfire lit nearby. It seemed that they had captured a few surviving captives, and when I adjusted my gaze, it was supposed to be two adults, a man and a woman, and a timid little girl. The man in the sunglasses in the felt hat was holding the cheek of the woman with his back to me, smiling obscenely while speaking Vietnamese I didn't understand.

I couldn't help but feel nervous when I saw this, and I don't know if Axia Nanazi will be stupid and run back to me?! It wasn't until the little leader of the drug dealer commanded his subordinates to put down the woman who was tied up with her back to me, that I could see her face clearly, but fortunately it wasn't Ah Xia. While breathing a sigh of relief, I couldn't help but feel a sense of compassion in my heart, maybe it was the reason why I hadn't saved the middle-aged woman and the baby before, and I actually had a hope in my heart that the strange woman in front of me could be saved.

However, in reality, the cruelty of the world will always exceed your expectations.

In the blink of an eye, the Vietnamese woman who was lying flat on the grass in a large shape had been stripped of her pants by several frenzied drug dealers. The other few saw that they were lagging behind, and they also swarmed into the woman's face.

Seeing his lover tragically ravaged, the Vietnamese man who was kneeling on the ground with his hands tied behind his back, and looked like a merchant couldn't sit still, and desperately tried to break free from the rope in the hand of the felt hat and sunglasses, with angry flames in his eyes, he crashed headlong into the little man who was wantonly venting his beastly desires, opened his bloody mouth, and bit the tip of his abrupt ear! With a flick of his head, half of his chewed ears had already spit out of the merchant's gritted mouth.

"Phew!"

With a gunshot that pierced the night sky, the desperate merchant finally stopped his senseless resistance, and leaned against his lover's chest with his eyes wide open. The next moment, his body was carried aside by several smiling drug dealers, along with the little man who dragged his pants and fell to the ground in pain. And the helpless Vietnamese woman only had time to cry for her man, and was immediately pushed to the ground again by a reckless man who had filled the position. On the other side, the little man who had already gotten up cursed Vietnamese swear words that I didn't understand at all, hatefully pulled out the large-caliber pistol that shot the merchant, viciously shot all the bullets at the corpse on the ground, and then released the wolf dog to gnaw on the body that was still warm. However, this unconscionable scene only brought bursts of unbridled laughter from the surrounding drug dealers and the little boss in the felt hat and sunglasses......

If the sky has eyes, why not punish this thief!

In this hellish ten minutes, I gritted my teeth, and I didn't know how many ideological struggles I had experienced in my heart: I wanted to rush out to save the woman I didn't know, but I was afraid of encountering that merchant-like ending; Stay where you are, but how tormented your heart is...... That's right! If you can use "Vipassana Channeling", you can solve these dregs that exterminate humanity in one go, right? Probably.

With this faint hope, I had to try to use Vipassana, hoping to enter the world of my heart and ask for the help of the white-robed people. Who knows, every time I close my eyes, I will always see the despair in the eyes of the merchant when he died, and the heart-rending cry of the screaming Vietnamese woman will never be separated from my ears......

Oh, my God! I don't have to pay attention at all!

I was getting agitated, and a cold hand was silently resting on my shoulder through the glove, and my heart trembled wildly, and if someone hadn't subdued me when I was startled, I really wouldn't have jumped out of the grass. When I calmed down, I hurriedly looked back—

It turned out to be Linda.

Seeing that I was confused, she didn't say much, made a "shhh" gesture to me, calmly and gently put down her backpack, and took out two shiny pistols from the waterproof compartment of the inner tank, which looked especially dazzling in this dark night. I didn't know much about firearms, except for a vague feeling that these shiny silver twin guns resembled the handsome "wingers" in a game I had played before.

When Linda saw my eyes staring at her as she reloaded the magazine, she couldn't help but hold up the handle of the gun and ask me in sign language: Will you use this thing? Of course I won't! For thirty years, he has been a law-abiding and good citizen.

Seeing that I shook my head, she only shrugged her shoulders slightly, didn't say anything, and still quietly loaded the bullet. For a while, I felt as if I had suffered some unspeakable grievance, but I was helpless, and just as there was a timid scream from outside the grass, I hurriedly turned my head to look out.

It turned out that it was the little leader of the sunglasses wearing a felt hat, and seeing that his subordinates were still tirelessly taking turns to release their distorted animalistic desires on the Vietnamese woman whose expression had been frozen, he couldn't hold it back, and actually grabbed the little girl who was sobbing softly, and also tore off her already tattered skirt with a few handfuls, and let her scream hoarsely with a cruel smile, and simply pressed her next to the merchant's mutilated body, and was about to spoil her body.

These brutes! I see that this tragic scene is about to happen again, the blood is already boiling, and I feel that the pulse of the blood in my heart is about to lose control - death is death, if you don't save it, are you still human?

As I got up to show the grass, a shadow was already floating beside me—

Like the fairy who fell into the mortal world, and like the Shura who despises all beings. Linda, who flew up and down, shook two silver twin guns, pointed east and west, and opened her bow left and right, just like the vampire hunter who swept away the darkness of the world, dancing gracefully and arrogantly, shooting the silver bullets that punished the evil one after another into the filthy flesh hidden by the twisted souls, and even the few hounds who instinctively felt the danger and broke free from the reins and escaped with their wolf instincts.

Twenty bullets, with twenty deafening gunshots, had already been fired impartially into the eyebrows of the sixteen vicious gangsters and the eight wolf dogs who were helping to abuse, without the slightest deviation.

When I saw Linda, who had finished the work, elegantly blowing away the heat of the muzzle and turning to smile softly at me, I only felt a complex feeling that had never risen in my heart before.

Needless to say, this woman saved two innocent lives and, by the way, a cowardly me. But, in the blink of an eye, the woman also deprived twenty-four of the same breath of life under the same sky. Dizzy, I only felt that the education I had received, the world I knew, and the humanity and morality I understood collapsed in an instant when she glanced back.

Linda, who the hell are you sacred!?

Perhaps sensing the doubt in my heart, Linda, who withdrew her twin guns from her waist, walked past me and whispered to me in a whisper:

“already told you im really a joualist”

(I've already told you.) I'm just a journalist. ）

Standing in this bloody purgatory, I watched in a daze as Linda wrapped the frightened little girl's slick lower body in rags, then looked expressionless as she stripped off the clothes of several relatively clean drug dealers, pulled the lost Vietnamese woman from under his reckless corpse, and put her on her. Then, he picked out a few submachine guns with plenty of ammunition, and seriously ordered the two women who had survived the catastrophe to learn how to use firearms.

Watching Linda still put on her trademark smile poker face, pointing a gun at the mother and daughter, forcing them to learn to load, load, aim and even shoot at the corpse of the drug dealer, I just felt quite uncomfortable. It never occurred to me that a woman would need to learn these fighting and survival skills, but at this moment, I can't deny what Linda did.

That's right, in the face of a world full of dangers, if you can't teach the people around you how to protect yourself, it's tantamount to cruelty to them. Although Linda's actions shocked me, honestly, what better way could I come up with in this situation?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help gritting my teeth, and walked to Linda's side, mixed with mixed feelings, handed the frightened girl a piece of chocolate, forced myself to swallow my dry throat, barely suppressed my disgust at these weapons stained with blood and sin, and begged Linda:

"Can you teach me too?"

I took a submachine gun thrown over by Linda, who didn't say a word, with a light smile, and I took it as if she agreed.

I knew very well that I still had a lot to learn if I wanted to meet Ah Xia again in this dangerous rainforest. So, when Linda looted supplies and ammunition from drug dealers, I kept practicing the use of the AK-47 submachine gun, which I often used when playing CrossFire, but was the first time I saw it in reality, and the M-16 automatic rifle. It's a lot heavier than I expected, this thing with a gun.

Ten minutes later, Linda divided the collected supplies into four parts, the two mother and daughter hesitated, consciously took two copies, silently packed the things in the field bags of the drug dealers, and after carrying them, they bowed deeply to Linda lightly and looked for the direction of their home. The moment the two of them left, I only felt a shock in my heart: it is said that women are weak creatures, and if you don't see it with your own eyes, who can believe that when a timid woman holds a gun, her eyes will become so strong.

"So, what do you say?" Linda still had that inscrutable smile on her face. Hearing her ask me like this, I just thought that it was finally time to part ways with her, so I nodded, and learned from the two mothers and daughters, picked out my own supplies and ammunition, put them in my backpack, raised my head, and prepared to thank her and say goodbye.

"It's time to tell me the true purpose of your trip, right?" Unbeknownst to me, Linda ignored my reaction and immediately threw me a heavier question. And in her hand, she was holding the copy of "Survival in the Wilderness" that fell out of my backpack at some point!

"Honestly, with this level of survival teaching, I'm sure you're looking for death here—" Seeing that I was stunned and didn't answer, Linda patiently added. What I didn't say, I can guess and guess, it must be: my sister is very curious, you have such a reason to be fearless.

"Well, I'll tell you." Finally, under Linda's slow interrogation, my psychological defense line collapsed along with my three views. In the face of this "life-saving benefactor" that people couldn't guess at all, I couldn't help but tell Linda all the key points about the previous experience of the Gu Tomb in the Great Black Mountain, as well as the purpose of coming to Miaoling to find the ruins of the ancient village of Laoshan.

"Ho~ Sounds like a lot of fun." After hearing this, Linda actually held her hands and squinted her eyes and thought about it, and just when I felt overwhelmed, she had already said: "It's decided!" I'm fine anyway, so I'll just go with you. Of course, if you find it inconvenient, or if you are sure to get out of this rainforest alone, I can go back alone. ”

Linda's words, I have to say, were very attractive to me. After all, until now, Axia's coordinates have still not been sent to my mobile phone, or is it that this is a foreign country and there is no signal on my mobile phone...... In that case, it would be great if Linda could help me find Axia.

"Alright! Thank you. After much hesitation, I finally nodded in agreement. Jin Siniang and they should not object - in this dangerous extralegal world, there is such a "special agent reporter" with accurate marksmanship to report with him, or "guard".

Along the way, Linda still had that trademark fan-like smile on her face. Sometimes, when she goes through some complicated forks in the road, she doesn't see her marking, but she always finds the right route. In this way, after a while, I followed Linda back to the dirt road where the drug dealers had slaughtered the crowd. And the entrance to the mountain road where Ah Xia and the others disappeared is being exposed on the other side of the road impartially!

Seeing this close passage, I could not control it in my heart, and when I realized it, my body had already pulled out its legs and ran to the middle of the dirt road. It's just that while being pulled by Linda, who rushed to her side at some point, I clearly heard a crisp sound of "pop" under my feet - this is not unfamiliar to me, who usually likes to watch action movies - isn't this the feeling of stepping on a landmine?

For a moment, I only felt that my backbone was cold from the tail vertebrae directly to my neck, and all kinds of life had begun to flash back in front of my eyes - is this the legendary return to the light? It is said that when a person is about to die, the silhouette of his life will instantly appear in his mind, and the unforgettable things of this life will be played back quickly in his eyes like a montage. Unexpectedly, this kind of legend is quite reliable.

With the replay of all the warmth with Ah Xia in front of me, my heart has completely melted, and tears can't help but fall big drops - I'm not ready! You're the only one, and I'm reluctant to leave no matter what, my dear......

"Well, there should be a limit to the second disease—is that how it is used, this sentence?"

Linda's voice interrupted my sentimental thoughts, and I realized that she was holding a freshly dismantled mine striker, without which the bomb under her feet would not have exploded. Looking down and taking a closer look, Linda had dug out a dirt pit under his feet, and the side of the mine was also cut out by Linda in some way, and the section was extremely smooth, as if terrazzo had been polished.

"Let's go! Follow me carefully. With that, Linda had already taken the lead. I saw that she had walked briskly out of the distance in a blink of an eye, and hurriedly held back her heartbeat and raised her foot, and sure enough, the explosion was not triggered, so I suppressed my nervousness, carefully followed her footsteps, waded through the dirt road in one breath, and came to the entrance of the mountain road.

At the entrance of the ramp, Linda, who turned around to wait, saw that I finally staggered to follow her, and couldn't help but show her charming charm again, showed me a sinister smile, and whispered a sentence:

(End of chapter)