Chapter 1: Chapter of the Maidens & LBU: Winter of the Pamirs A: Gathering Muztag (Part II)
Lo E
Chapter 1: The Virgin's Chapter
LBU: Winter in the Pamirs
A: Assemble Muztag (below)
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"Pamir" in Tajik language, means "roof of the world", with an average altitude of 4,000 meters to 7,700 meters, is the "Alps-Himalayan belt" and "Pamir-Chukotka mountain belt" of the mountain knot, but also the Himalayas, Karakoram, Kunlun, Tianshan, Hindu Kush five major mountain ranges convergence, the territory of the mountains undulating, continuous, snow peaks, towering into the sky.
Muztag Mountain, belonging to the West Kunlun Mountains, the main peak Muztag Peak, Gonger Peak, Gonger Jiubie Peak and called the three peaks of the Pamir Plateau.
According to legend, there is an iceberg princess living on Muztag Peak, and the snow-capped prince on the world's second highest peak at 8,611 meters above sea level on the opposite side of the mountain prince Chaegri Peak, the king of heaven knew that he used a magic stick to split the two connected peaks, and separated the iceberg princess and the snow-capped prince The sincere lovers.
The princess misses the prince of the snowy mountain, and her tears flow into a glacier, causing the ice beads on the mountain to flicker and the snow does not melt all year round. On weekdays, the mysterious Muztag Peak is hidden in the sea of clouds and fog, and easily refuses to reveal the "true face of Lushan", but when the sky is clear, the snow-capped peaks are entrained to extend the Daodao glacier under the snow line, and the whole Muztag is like a glacier princess with a flowing white dress and long sleeves, singing and dancing for the prince of the snow-capped mountains.
The Muztag Mountain is majestic and solemn, but it is pure and elegant, and its beautiful legend is also regarded as a symbol of pure love by young Tajik men and women. But for the three poor henchmen, the few hours of going all the way up from Muztag Mountain were really deadly.
As the altitude continues to rise, the surrounding air absorbs less heat radiation from the surface of the earth, and the temperature has dropped to nearly minus 20 degrees Celsius......
Leng Fei and Yun Shang, who walked in front, had goggles to protect them, and they had snow combat boots and bandage leggings, and they didn't take this little blizzard seriously at all when they were walking easily, and the three men behind them who had not made any preparations for mountaineering pulled up their frozen ankles from the thick snow, and they all collapsed to the ground at this moment, and it seemed that they couldn't support it at all.
"Seeing that your physical fitness is not bad, why are you so disabling at a critical time?"
The burly man closed his eyes and breathed in the cold air, and answered intermittently to Yun Shang's inquiry: "I have a muscle...... It's all in the gym...... How can you be ...... with the two of you? Rushing home compared to the big snow monster. β
A big snow monster rushing home? Hehe, the other party still has the heart to joke, at least there is no major mental problem.
"Big brother, what the hell are you doing? I kept going up the mountain, and it was not good to go down the mountain when it got dark! β
The burly man's companion didn't know which god he offended today, and originally just wanted to go sightseeing at the foot of Mount Muztag, take a few photos casually, and look at the Himalayan marmots, but now they are actually pulled all the way up the mountain, shouldn't they be looking for a secluded place to bury themselves?!
"Didn't your boss say we were in a hurry to go home, we didn't even want to go down the mountain."
"Huh?" After hearing this, the burly man's other companion really couldn't stand this endless torture, so he hurriedly gave Yun Shang a look on the spot, "Big brother! I beg you, tell that uncle, okay, let us go back! β
Yun Shang was really angry with a few guys who couldn't talk well by a few guys who were born to speak well, calling himself "big brother" while calling his brother "uncle", didn't he turn around and scold himself: "Brother Leng Fei, it's all here, I don't think there is any need to continue to keep them." β
Yun Shang's pun frightened the burly man's two companions, and he knelt down on the spot and kowtowed to the two, only to say that he had an eighty white-haired mother and a child waiting to be fed...... Leng Fei has no opinion on this, anyway, the existence of the servants is dragging his feet, so he simply sent them away to get out of Qingjing, and the top priority at the moment is to find the camp on Muztag Mountain as soon as possible to settle down.
After taking his and his brother's carrying gear from the backs of the two attendants, Yun Shang took out a smoke bomb from it and handed it to the burly man, telling him that he could only use it if he was in distress during the descent of the mountain, otherwise, the person in charge of the rescue would be more terrifying than the harsh natural environment here, if they were arrested for abusing the distress signal, you would not think of it in a short time!
Now, the burly man didn't dare to disbelieve Yun Shang's words, got up and took the smoke cartridge, and quickly disappeared into the vast snowy scene at an altitude of 5,200 meters with his companions......
Leng Fei looked at their wrestling snowball figures from a high place with cold eyes, only to feel that the signal flare given by his brother for their safety was a waste, Yun Shang explained that we are all PLA [2] no matter what, even if the other party is a scumbag, we can't be killed here by you and my brother.
Also, if they have any three long and two short things on the way, they will not be able to escape the blame after they are traced from above. Leng Fei re-carried the carrying gear, took the step that he finally didn't have to wait for anyone anymore, and accelerated towards the target direction displayed by the Beidou locator, Yun Shang wanted to drink two sips of milk, but his fiancΓ©e's pot was not kept warm, and a piece of mind inside had already frozen into ice, so he had to wait until the camp to find a way.
For ordinary mountaineering enthusiasts, Muztag is a place to chase dreams, every white and vast place in the eyes is the realization and proof of the value of their own life, but for Leng Fei and Yun Shang, this is just the first step towards real difficulties and dangers, even if you wave a pickaxe to climb the ice wall in front of you, it is not to challenge nature, just to seize the time to take the nearest road, leading to the next goal in your life.
The consequence of such a combination of bitter cold and low temperature and large amount of exercise is that the cold air outside can be poured in, and the heat and sweat inside cannot be poured out, and the body temperature is lost rapidly without a sound...... Yun Shang grew up in the Pamir Plateau with difficult living conditions, and knew how to conserve energy in such environmental conditions, so he took advantage of the time to take a break to take out the two sets of snow combat uniforms in the carrying gear, and now he just gave them to Leng Fei, asking him to change out of his denim jacket, and then put on a hood and gloves to reduce physical wear and tear as much as possible.
Leng Fei didn't think that his physical functions far beyond ordinary people would be unbearable because of this, but he didn't want to refuse his brother's kindness, so he had to put on the same outfit as Yun Shang's mold, and after putting down the cold-proof goggles on the black hood, the shape was no different from the [Horror Element], so he almost met the mountaineer with a gun in his hand and scared them to death......
When the two arrived at the target camp at an altitude of 6,300 meters above sea level in Muztag Mountain, it was nearly 4 p.m. It is said that it is a camp, but in fact it is just a flat open space with 30 single windproof tents half-surrounding a large military tent, and the five-star red flag and the August 1st military flag fluttering in the wind in the center of the camp can be erected, but it is destined to be extraordinary and outsiders cannot set foot on it at will.
After checking Leng Fei and Yunshang's documents, the gun-wielding guards who were armed to resist the invasion of low temperatures were given a number plate with the words "Happy Hunting" printed on the back, and asked the two to go in and find the corresponding tent according to the number to rest for a while, waiting for the selection to start the next day. Yun Shang looked at the ominous and ominous things in his hand, and commented on the fact that he and his brother got the 14th and 13th in only six words: It's really unlucky.
Leng Fei scoffed at his half-joking claims, but when he walked into the camp, he found that the atmosphere was indeed different from where he had been.
Tents 1 to 12 already had owners, but for some reason of caution or other reasons, they did not stay in their tents to hide from the wind and snow or take the opportunity to sleep, but passed the time in the freezing cold of minus 25 degrees outside the tent, some looked through the books they carried, some polished the dagger in their sheaths, and even wore headphones to listen to music while leisurely touching up makeup in the small mirror...... Of course, the other party is a female soldier with short neck-length hair that looks good.
All in all, in the eyes of Leng Fei and Yun Shang, the people here are all of the same kind - they are also supernatural but maverick in their respective troops. They weren't too curious about the newcomers, and after a slight glance, they continued to do what they were doing.
Leng Fei came to tent No. 13, no matter what the others were, he went in to sleep and regain his energy first, leaving Yun Shang alone to do nothing, so he simply went to his tent to thaw the milk with the kerosene stove he brought.
The multi-fiber waterproof bedding in the tent is comfortable and warm, so that Leng Fei quickly forgets his current environment and falls into a light sleep. But it didn't take long for him to hear a commotion outside, and when he went out, he saw that those people who were so calm that they were dying of death were panicking to scoop snow with various utensils, and then rushed over and splashed it not far from him, and Yun Shang, who was in the middle of it, was busy salvaging all kinds of items from his burning tent at the moment......
In less than two minutes, the last bit of spark was extinguished, and before Yun Shang could thank his colleagues for helping him, everyone scattered back to their tents, leaving behind the cold eyes of contempt when they left. Leng Fei asked what his brother was doing, why did it ignite inexplicably? This is a snow-capped mountain at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and it is not easy to even build a bonfire! Yun Shang said that he wanted to hot milk, but accidentally knocked over the kerosene bottle, and the result was ...... I can only borrow my brother's tent for the time being.
Leng Fei didn't know if Yun Shang was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger or if he hadn't seen him for a year and really changed into a pig, anyway, the place where he lived had turned to ashes, and he couldn't let him freeze into a popsicle outside alone, so he had to move the rescued quilt and bedding into the No. 13 tent, and was about to take off his coat and continue to rest after cleaning up, but the tent door in front of him was opened by someone, accompanied by an angry female voice and a biting cold wind poured in at the same time.
"Hey! You two, who was here just now to 'burn down the company camp'?! β
The owner of the voice is a woman with a natural posture, her smooth and flawless skin is like a white wall, she looks less than twenty years old, her lips and eyebrows are like eyebrows after taking off her hood, her fine curls are braided into a ponytail, and although there is a gloomy color under her bright eyes, it does not hinder the natural beauty of her face in the slightest.
The sudden questioning made Yun Shang, who was arranging the quilt, kneel in place for a while, and Leng Fei, who sat up from the side, didn't take this seriously at all: "We burn our own tent, what does it have to do with you?" β
"You two live together and have fun, and you can [self-immolate] if you want, but you also burned down the No. 15 tent that belongs to me next to you, and you still ask what it has to do with me?!"
Hearing this, Yun Shang put on his clothes again, walked out suspiciously, and followed the direction of the beautiful woman's finger, and found that although his tent was not lit by an open flame, it was affected by the high temperature of the downwind flames, and several large holes were opened, and the holes were all high on the side, and they couldn't be blocked......
"What do you say now, should I report to the higher authorities that you will set fire to the public tent as soon as you come, or will you consciously compensate me for your tent?"
The choice given by the beautiful woman made Yun Shang in a dilemma, if her tent was alive, then she would naturally be willing and should be given to her, but at the moment she lives in a brother's tent, so she can't call Brother Leng Fei, who has done nothing wrong, to carry this black pot for herself, right?
"Or ...... The three of us huddle into a tent? β
"What do you want?!"
If it weren't for the fear of ruining Yun Shang's handsome face, no matter how he looked at it, the beautiful woman really wanted to go up and slap him twice: "I'll give you two minutes, either you and him will move everything and give me the tent, or I'll go to the guards to explain the situation, and you can do it yourself!" β
Yun Shang knew that he was at a loss, and he was afraid of making things bigger, so he had no choice but to sneak into the No. 13 tent to discuss with his brother under the watchful eye of the beautiful woman with her hands in her hands. Soon, the two of them came out with all the things, Leng Fei, who was walking in front, threw the carrying gear into the No. 15 tent without saying a word, and the beautiful woman took out a bottle of perfume from her backpack as an air freshener when she saw this, and sprayed it directly into the tent she had just taken over......
The selection competition is scheduled to officially start at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and more than a dozen participants will also arrive one after another in the rest of the time, but after everyone arrived at the meeting place, the focus was first focused on the charred wreckage of tent No. 14......
Yun Shang couldn't care about his highlight deeds spread throughout the camp in just a few hours, and after barely fixing the quilt to the gap in the tent with a knot, he felt more steady. At night, because there were no convenient utensils for making a fire, and the drinking water and milk noodles they brought were frozen like stones, Leng Fei and Yun Shang could only eat some high-energy compressed biscuits on the clean snow outside, and prepare to sleep in kimono.
Inevitably, the organizers of the event inherited the "fine style" of the army that always liked to do things at night, and the two also followed the habit of standing guard in the army before, changing shifts with each other every three hours, which not only ensured the basic rest time, but also prevented the disaster from being harmed by the large number of "hunters" who existed around them in advance.
The next day, before eight o'clock, accompanied by a roaring noise from far to near, the wind and snow and ice slag raised by the arrival of the helicopter blew and smashed on the tent, instantly waking up everyone in the camp who was generally half-asleep and half-awake. Under the gesture of the four armed guards, all the team members sorted out their costumes and stood in front of their tents in a straight military posture, waiting for the instructors to come and review this time.
However, because the No. 30 team member has not yet arrived, the man who got off the helicopter glanced at the team, picked up his black trench coat, turned around and walked directly into the large central military tent, until the moment when the minute hand of the watch pointed to nine o'clock, he opened the tent door and reappeared in front of everyone who had stood in the cold wind for more than an hour, accompanied by two subordinates.
After patrolling back and forth, the first thing the man in the trench coat said was not to introduce himself, but to the No. 14 team member who was about the same height as himself in the middle of the team: "Good job, it seems that you feel that the conditions here are not difficult enough, and you need to make it more difficult for yourself to survive in the wild." Good! I have received this suggestion and I will be happy to fulfill your wishes! But since it is necessary to increase the difficulty, it is necessary to increase the number of players who participated in the selection together! β
The man in the trench coat glanced at the guards on both sides, and the guards understood, put their guns behind their backs, and threw out the contents of the other twenty-nine tents as quickly as they could, and dismantled them all in five minutes, piled them up in a pile, and carried them all onto the helicopter. Yun Shang was expressionless about this, but he shouted in his heart, it doesn't matter if he and his brother sleep in the open, but other people are also affected because of this, isn't this a intention to make everyone hate themselves......
"First of all, I must congratulate you on passing the most rigorous assessment in your department and successfully entering the 'Pamir Winter' polar selection competition. I believe that each unit to which you belong is the elite of the elite, but it is a pity that here, you are just an ordinary person in the eyes of nature. β
After the demolition team finished work, the opening remarks of the man in the trench coat were not responded to by anyone present, but he didn't care: "I am the person in charge of your first round of assessment, you don't need to know my name, just call me 'instructor'." There may be veterans with quite seniority in your group, and there are officers with military ranks, but in front of me, you are all cadets who don't know anything. β
Speaking of this, everyone's faces showed more or less disdain, and the man in the trench coat was not surprised by this, in order to establish his absolute authority that could not be challenged, he had to drag someone out to make an example of the monkey every time. At this time, there was a panting "report" from the side, and the No. 30 team member was belated, and just hit the muzzle of the man in the trench coat.
"Humph......"
The graffiti on the black cold-proof hood of the man in the trench coat has a sneering effect, and in its inherent concept, it is better to be late than not to be late: "You think this is a vegetable market, you can come whenever you want?" β
"I'm sorry, sir! Last night I met three lost people in the middle of the mountain, they had no food and no climbing equipment, the situation was urgent, I had to send them down the mountain first, so it was too late. The other party sounded a reasonable explanation, but in exchange for the trench coat man asked in disbelief: "What a good reason, should I inform your superiors about this, and let them reward you for doing good deeds in the local area?" β
Leng Fei and Yun Shang glanced at each other, and among the people present, only they could instantly think of what was going on. It must have been that the three followers who had been driven away yesterday were frightened, and even if they got lost, they did not dare to use the smoke bombs, so that even this kind-hearted brother would not have left him behind with the unkind temper of the man in the trench coat......
The late male soldier said that what he said was true, and if the commander didn't believe it, he could ask someone from the village at the foot of the mountain to ask. The man in the trench coat waved his hand after hearing this, and he didn't have the leisure at all: "For me, it doesn't matter why you're late, anyway, when it's the specified time, there are only twenty-nine team members in front of me who participated in the selection, if you want to stay, you can pick one of these twenty-nine people, win him, and then tell him to get out." β
MD, what kind of bastard logic is this?! Leng Fei is very dissatisfied with the completely unreasonable style of the trench coat man, and he sets the rules as he wants, which is not only unfair to those who are not late, but also unfair to several female soldiers in the team, how can they be the opponents of male soldiers in terms of martial arts?
The same thought exists in the hearts of the late male soldiers.
"As a [Chinese People's Liberation Army], if you think that arriving at a certain place on time is more important than human life, then it is okay not to participate in such a selection!"
The late male soldier did not accept the so-called "choice" given to him by the instructor, but took out a letter from his bosom to prove that he was qualified to participate in the trials, stepped forward and threw it directly on the snow in front of the man in the windbreaker: "However, you have heard me clearly, now it is not you who drive me away, but me who voluntarily quit - I disdain to be in the company of you and others!" β
His resounding words were supported by the sincere applause of a team member behind him, and the other team members who participated in the selection around him also applauded to see off the male soldiers who resolutely left. However, in this way, the man in the trench coat, whose face was already ugly, was even more unhappy: "The one who takes the lead in applauding, is out of the ranks!! β
Before the words fell, in the eyes of Leng Fei and Yun Shang, the short-haired female soldier who was listening to the song and putting on makeup when she came took a step forward.
"It turned out to be an abusive female bird...... I was lucky not to be selected by that deserter, so I got a cheap sale, right?! β
For the close-range roar of the windbreaker man after pulling off the hood, the short-haired female soldier only removed the snow goggles with spittle on her face, wiped her face, and then threw her hand violently: "Don't call us infighting if you have the ability, you came to fight with me, you won, I'll go; I won, you! β
"Wow......"
No one would have thought that the woman in front of her would be so bold that she would dare to argue with the instructor of the tryout who decided her future fate face to face? Suddenly, everyone who had a good show to watch was waiting to see, only Yun Shang covered his smashed head, and said in his heart, sister, if you want to go it alone, you can do it alone, inexplicably take the snow goggles and hit me with a water drift, what's the matter, pray for blessings or sacrifice flags?
"Wow, that's interesting...... Just do as you say. β
In front of everyone's eyes, the man in the trench coat had no room to refuse, and after untying his watch and handing it over to his subordinates for safekeeping along with other obstructive items in his pocket, he moved his muscles and bones a little, and turned his head to the short-haired female soldier who was 180 cm tall not far away, and gestured, meaning: Come on.
Seeing this, the short-haired female soldier did not attack, or even make any moves.
"You don't come to me, I'll go look for you."
The windbreaker man stepped on the snow and left two rows of solid footprints on the road in a straight line, facing the pace of his feet suddenly accelerated to send a set of greeting combination punches, the short-haired female soldier only dodged left and right with the light movements of a civet cat, and the continuous attack of the trench coat man against his upper body failed, but the whistling wind of the fist arm waving between hook and swing still made the onlookers feel his strength, and at the same time pinched a sweat for the short-haired female soldier's current situation: if he was unfortunate enough to receive a blow, he was afraid that he would break his muscles and bones.
However, after finding out the opponent's fierce fist path, the short-haired female soldier finally made a move. The first is to move to the side to aim at the soft underbelly of the armpit with a whip leg hit, and then lean back to avoid the fist back bone knot that it smashed sideways, and at the same time the left leg kicks forward with both feet off the ground, and kicks heavily in the heart of the man in the trench coat......
The man in the trench coat barely blocked the short-haired female soldier's vicious tricks against his throat and temples, and before he could retract his arms, he was hit in the knee again in the left ribs, and immediately dissipated all his defensive strength, becoming a person who was about to lose in the eyes of the other party......
Now is the time!
The short-haired female soldier no longer made any reservations, and used all her life's strength to fight up and down, all of which were firmly bombarded on all parts of the body of the man in the trench coat who was constantly retreating, and when her face was hit hard and her vision was blurred, her feet took off again, and her left and right calves jumped high to clamp the sides of the windbreaker man's head, and used the inertia of the back bouncing and the strength of her waist and abdomen to roll the opponent 180 degrees from top to bottom, so that he fell to the ground with his head down in a whirlwind!
"Pretty !!"
"Well done, girl!"
Seeing such a violent and beautiful fighting action, many people in the team couldn't help but let out an excited shout. The trench-coat man was holding his hands on the ground, and before he could fully raise his head, the short-haired female soldier had reached the end of the battle, and the elbow that jumped off was slammed into the back of the target's neck, burying his entire face in the snow......
Now everyone didn't dare to cheer, because it was a killing move!
The short-haired female soldier stopped the pursuit, not because she didn't know the weight of the attack, but her intuition told her that the other party who didn't have any pain reaction during the whole process was not so easy to die...... Sure enough, the man in the trench coat, who maintained a crouching position in the snow, still had the strength to speak: "What is your name and which unit are you from?" β
In this regard, the short-haired female soldier only smiled coldly: "What, if you can't win, I want to take revenge in the future?" Have the ability to check it yourself. β
"Huh. You're fast, but with the strength of a cat, you're still far, far from defeating me......" The man in the trench coat slowly stood up amid the incredulous gazes around him, with a look of pleasure on his face, as if he was only warming up for the deadly attack he had suffered earlier.
At this moment, in his eyes with a hint of excitement, the real battle against everyone here has just begun......
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[2] PLA: The abbreviation of "People's Liberation Army of China" means "People's Liberation Army of Chinese", which is the most important armed force of the People's Republic of China.