Chapter 2: Shadows in the Mist

Xu Peng's appearance was frightened at first glance, Li Chuang and Zhang Hu were also nervous, the gun in their hands was loaded, and they looked like they were facing a great enemy.

Where the soldier's body was placed last night, now there is only a shallow mark left, and the body is gone.

The squad leader squatted next to me and whispered: "Xu Peng said that he kept vigil with Gao Chuan last night, and everything was normal at first, but when it was almost early in the morning, there was a sudden fog, and they couldn't see anything clearly seven or eight meters away, and at this moment they found that the corpse on the snow moved, Gao Chuan got up and went over to check, but he didn't move for half a day." Xu Peng was afraid that something would happen to him and followed, and when he got closer, he heard Gao Chuan laughing, as if he was talking to someone, he was frightened and shouted Gao Chuan, but Gao Chuan stood up and ran, and soon disappeared into the fog. Xu Peng realized that the situation was wrong, so he woke me up and Li Chuang, and when we came out, the bodies on the ground were gone. The fog is too big, and we don't dare to chase far! ”

I glanced at Xu Peng, his eyes were still in a trance, and he kept his head down and muttered to himself. I walked over to hear what he was talking about, and when I got closer, Xu Peng suddenly grabbed me by the collar excitedly, and said in a loud voice: "Chen Xiu, Gao Chuan is talking to the corpse, he was taken away by the corpse!" ”

"Smack!" The squad leader stepped forward and slapped him, and said angrily: "Turtle son, as far as his mother knows, nonsense!" ”

Xu Peng was slapped in the face, regained some senses, and looked at me with empty eyes, full of fear. When I saw him like this, I knew that I wouldn't be able to ask anything for a while, so I turned around and asked Zhang Hu if he had contacted the outpost.

Zhang Hu shook his head and said that the signal was interrupted and could not be contacted.

Anyone who has been to Xinjiang and Tibet knows that in some specific areas, both mobile phone and Internet signals will suddenly be interrupted, and that is because the satellites of the US imperialists are overhead, and all signals will be blocked to avoid detection.

But the radio station belongs to short-wave communication and is not in the category of shielding, is it because of this sudden fog?

I guessed in my heart, faintly uneasy. Suddenly, Li Chuang yelled at the fog in front of him: "Who? ”

I immediately looked up and saw a black shadow in the fog, standing motionless at a distance of ten meters, Li Chuang aimed at it with a gun, and tried to shout: Gao Chuan?

The shadow remained still, and did not respond. The squad leader immediately ordered: "Pack up and go over and have a look!" Xu Peng, you turtle son, if you dare to drop the chain, Lao Tzu will collapse you now! ”

Zhang Dezhu is not a veteran, if he is replaced by an ordinary person, I am afraid that he will immediately order to chase him. It's foggy right now, and if we can't find the camp after chasing too far, we'll all have to freeze to death in this snowfield after losing supplies.

Xu Peng got up from the ground and trembled and followed to pack up. After the things were packed, the black shadow was still there.

The squad leader carried Gao Chuan's backpack on his back, and the five people lined up in a "◇" shape, the squad leader took the lead, Xu Peng and Zhang Hu were on the wings, after I broke off, Li Chuang occupied the center, he was a sharpshooter, and he could support in time no matter which side had a problem.

The five of them cautiously walked into the fog and approached the black shadow, but after only a few steps, I saw a few pairs of green eyes behind me flash away, and hurriedly reminded: "Those wolf cubs were still following last night." ”

Li Chuang immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and fired two shots quickly, two screams came from the fog, and those pairs of eyes disappeared immediately, it seemed that they were hit, but they were not fatal.

I don't dare to be careless, the plateau snow wolf has a white coat, it is difficult to be found when walking in the snow, and the fog is thick, it may be lurking a few meters away without detecting it, and I can only cheer up twelve points on the way.

After walking for about four or five minutes, I was confused, the distance of ten meters or so should have been long ago. At this time, the squad leader suddenly shouted: Stop. Chen Xiu.

Li Chuang came up in his place, and I retreated to squat down next to the squad leader.

"That thing kept its distance from us, but just now, it suddenly disappeared!" As soon as the squad leader spoke, my heart jumped suddenly, "He's not Gao Chuan!" ”

The squad leader nodded.

If it was Gao Chuan, he couldn't have avoided us, but who would it be if it wasn't Gao Chuan? On the vast snow-capped mountains, is there anyone else besides us?

"Could it be the corpse of a warrior?" Xu Peng stumbled and said.

I thought of it too, but didn't say it. Li Chuang turned around and spat, and scolded: "You turtle son, as far as the fuck knows, bluffing, that comrade-in-arms has been frozen into ice mounds, and you can't cheat the corpse if you want to!" ”

Xu Peng muttered back: "Can't you deceive the corpse?" Where did the corpse go? ”

Li Chuang originally wanted to divert the topic, but Xu Peng didn't open the pot, Li Chuang kicked it, and the two almost fought.

"Want to rebel?" The squad leader glared at the two of them, and as soon as he spoke, Xu Peng and Li Chuang didn't dare to squeak. After a while, the squad leader ordered: "The front team becomes the back team, go back!" ”

Li Chuang retreated to the middle, maintaining the formation just now, and I became a front.

The fog is very large, with only a visible range of five or six meters. After walking a few steps, there was a sudden rustling sound behind him, and the damn radio station received a strange sound again.

The piercing scream made people shudder to hear at this time.

"Zhang Hu, shut that thing down!" The squad leader roared, his voice trembling a little.

Zhang Hu hurriedly turned off the radio. However, he had not gone far when a black shadow suddenly appeared in the mist ahead.

"Stop!" The temperature was a few degrees below zero, but my palms were covered in cold sweat. The squad leader came over, saw the black shadow in the mist, and asked me with a gloomy face: "Wasn't that turtle grandson still behind just now?" Why is this here again? ”

I would also like to know the answer.

The squad leader spat out the ice slag in his mouth, picked up the Bayi bar in his hand, and fired two shots at the black shadow.

Although his marksmanship is not as good as Li Chuang, the distance is less than ten meters, and it is difficult for a veteran to miss.

Anyone who has ever shot a gun knows that when a bullet hits the target, the sound will be slightly dull and short, but the two shots fired by the squad leader, the gunfire is long, and it is far away, and they all miss!

However, as the gunshots rang out, the black shadow also flashed away in the fog.

"What should I do?" The current situation is too strange for me to make up my mind. The squad leader was silent for a while, and then ordered to continue walking, feeling back to the high ground where the camp had been encamped.

I continued to lead the way with a gun, and after walking for two or three minutes, the squad leader suddenly shouted to stop, and then scolded: "Chen Xiu, how the hell did you lead the way?" I was a little puzzled, and hurriedly retreated to his side, without his explanation, and my face changed suddenly.

The squad leader threw two glow sticks, and the footprints behind him could be clearly seen, and we went back and forth a total of two times, but the footprints in front of us were clearly left by walking three times.

I had a chill in my back, and there were only two possibilities for this to happen, the first was that there was a squad of the same number as us, following us in the same formation. The second possibility is that we've been going around in circles.

Ice and snow, the first scenario is unlikely, it can only be the second case.

Li Chuang, Zhang Hu, and Xu Peng all panicked when they heard my conversation with the squad leader. The squad leader stared at me with dead eyes, and said inexplicably: "Chen Xiu, I believe in you." And what we see today, we won't say! ”

He knows what I know.

It's just that now I may encounter a ghost hitting the wall, and if I don't solve it, I will keep going around here, plus the surrounding environment is bad, and the time is sleepy, and the five people have to explain here.

After thinking about it, I nodded, closed the safety of the Bayi bar, opened the thick cotton jacket, pulled out the military bag that fit the body, took out a few pieces of yellow paper from it, took out a red pen, and explained: "Now we can only continue to go deeper, not back to the high ground." You'll all follow me later! ”

The squad leader and I swapped positions, I walked to the front to stand on the ground, the body, the teeth knocked each other thirty-six times, spread the yellow paper in the palm of the hand, drew four verticals with a red pen, and then drew five horizontals, and read in my mouth: I travel today, King Yu is in charge, Chiyou retreats, thieves are not allowed to rise, tigers and wolves are not allowed to invade, and they are far away from their hometown. When I die, and he who betrays me dies, haste like a law.

After the spell, I crumpled up the yellow paper, put it in my mouth and walked forward.

Xu Peng, Zhang Hu, and Li Chuang were all stunned, but they didn't dare to ask questions in this case.

I raised my head with my chest up, and walked forward without squinting, and after ten minutes or so, the fog faded, and the mountains in the distance came into view again, so I stopped, spit out the yellow paper in my mouth, and looked back, there was still some fog behind me!

Li Chuang, Zhang Hu and Xu Peng were all surprised.

The squad leader breathed a sigh of relief and explained to them: "Chen Xiu's grandfather is Mr. Yin and Yang, he learned a lot of things in this area before joining the army, but these are not allowed in the army, and no one is allowed to mention today's events after he goes out!" ”

"Yes!" Li Chuang, the three of them all answered immediately. Xu Peng, who graduated from the Military Medical University, was highly educated and timid, and whispered next to me: "Chen Xiu, what kind of Taoism did you use just now?" ”

I said: "This is not a Taoist method, but it is a Taoist vertical and horizontal body technique, which can stand up and raise qi, and can break delusion, but the vertical and horizontal technique can only advance and not retreat, otherwise it will be invalid." ”

In fact, I didn't know the bottom of my heart before this, after all, after arriving in the army, what my grandfather taught me could only be learned secretly to pass the time, and I didn't practice it.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, as if my existence gave them great courage, but to be honest, in this current environment, I believe in the Bayi bar in my hand more.

The squad leader called out to me, and when I passed, I saw him pointing to a long series of footprints on the snow.

Judging from the footprints, it was two people who walked by. Li Chuang half-knelt on the ground, measured one of the footprints with his hand, and said, "It's Gao Chuan!" ”

"Are you sure?" I couldn't believe it.

Li Chuang said with certainty: "My father is a hunter in the mountains, he can remember the footprints of his prey after seeing them, no matter how long it takes, as long as he appears again, he can recognize it at a glance, and I will do it." ”

I looked back at the squad leader, fear in my eyes for the first time.

Two footprints, one is Gao Chuan, and who is the other?

At this moment, everyone had the answer in their hearts, especially Xu Peng, the corners of his mouth trembled and wanted to say something, but before the words came out, the squad leader glared at him, and the words that came to his mouth could only be held back.

In addition to being scared at the moment, I also have a question in my heart, among the six of us, each has its own usefulness and ability. My existence is to solve the kind of thing just now, and Zhang Dezhu not only knows my details, but also knows that my grandfather is Mr. Yin and Yang, does that mean that before we came, he already knew that something unusual had happened here?