Chapter 5: A Night's Spring Dream: Twenty-Three, Rehearsal
It wasn't until later that I realized what a mistake I had made. Because I didn't persevere, a series of things happened that made me feel guilty for the rest of my life. If I had insisted on staying alone, nothing would have happened. But in this world, there are no ifs.
We didn't walk forward long before we caught up with Professor Luo, who seemed to have finally run out of strength and was running in a strange position. I saw that his arms were swinging very quickly, but he swung his arms twice before he took a step forward. To say that he is running, in fact, it is slower than walking.
Professor Luo saw us approaching and said, "I can't run anymore, who will help me?" ”
When I saw Professor Luo like this, I felt a little unbearable. Just let everyone stop and rest. I want everyone to stay in formation when they rest. Seeing that none of us went to help Professor Luo, Ah Mei walked over by herself and helped Professor Luo sit down on the side of the road. He took a compressed biscuit from his bag and handed it to Professor Luo. Because Professor Luo did too much when he ran away before, he even threw away the water glass. At this time, I had to ask Ah Mei for water. Ah Mei handed her kettle to Professor Luo, and he drank it all in one go, leaving not a single drop. When Ah Mei saw this scene, she could only shake her head secretly.
At this time, everyone also remembered that from the morning to the present, most of the day has passed, and everyone has not drunk a drop of water, and has not eaten a grain of rice. They all took out dry food and water bottles and ate and drank.
I saw that Ah Mei's kettle was being drunk by Professor Luo, so I called her back and gave her some from my big kettle. Then he took out a few remaining pieces of beef jerky from her bag and put them in her hand. Ah Mei only took one piece and stuffed the rest back into my bag.
After resting for a while, we saw that Professor Luo's physical strength seemed to be recovering well, so we continued on our way.
As soon as we hit the road, Professor Luo stepped into our formation and walked in front of Ah Mei. I was a little annoyed when I saw Ah Mei doing this to abuse good people. I sped a few steps and pulled Professor Luo out of the formation. Ah Mei said dissatisfiedly, "Can you not do this?" People are that old. I said angrily, "I don't have time to explain to you right now, in short, we can't add one more person to our team." When my sister saw my attitude, her eyes turned red, and tears fell. She stopped, glared at me, and said, "What's wrong with one more person?" ……”
As soon as Ah Mei stopped, I had to stop. In addition, Professor Luo cut in front of Ruoyu again, and our formation was chaotic.
I had no choice but to put down my body and comfort my sister, "Baby, can you not make a mess?" ”
Ah Mei curled her mouth, "Why did I make a mess?" ”
When Ah Mei and I quarreled like this, the whole team stopped.
At this time, the old cannon after the break shouted, "There is a situation!" ”
Hearing the shouts of the old cannon, the old gray picked up the shotgun and turned around, but he didn't expect to collide with Professor Luo, who was running forward, and the two fell to the ground together. I just happened to rush forward before they fell right at my feet, and I either stepped on them or tripped them. In desperation, I had to flip over with a heel fight.
When I pounced on the old cannon, I saw the old cannon looking at me with a grin. "It's fine, just a dress rehearsal. Now I finally believe that you can do it. ”
I looked at the old cannon, angry and funny.
The old cannon said, "You have to thank me for relieving you, otherwise, you will suffer." ”
I looked back and saw that Professor Luo had already gotten up and ran to the front, Old Gray had just gotten up and picked up the shotgun that had fallen to the ground, and Ah Mei was standing there stupidly and motionless. Knowing that it was a false alarm, everyone let out a long breath.
Li Lili said to Ah Mei, "See, this is the consequence of your indiscriminate use of good people." Fortunately, it wasn't the Thousand Faces Beast that really came, otherwise, because of your petty willfulness, everyone would have to die here. ”
Ruoyu also shook his head and said, "I don't know how serious! ”
Ah Mei's face was flushed, but she gritted her teeth and didn't say a word.
But Lao Ash said, "She hasn't been a soldier, she will understand these things, anyway, it's nothing now, just pay attention to it in the future." ”
I approached my sister and said, "Baby, are you okay?" ”
Ah Mei shook her head.
I said, "Got it now?" ”
Ah Mei nodded and said lightly, "I'm sorry! ”
I gently hugged my sister and patted her on the back, "It's okay, baby, just remember it later." ”
Ah Mei didn't say anything more, just nodded vigorously.
We were finally on the road again, but because of this happened, the time was delayed a lot.
After turning a few corners forward, we saw Xiao Yu resting on the side of the road. As soon as Xiao Yu saw us, it was like seeing someone closer than his relatives. "I'm so hungry and thirsty right now that I can't walk a step," he said. Handsome guys and beauties, give me something to eat and drink! ”
Ruoyu took out two compressed biscuits from her bag, and Li Lili handed the kettle over. Ruoyu asked him if he had seen Professor Luo. Xiao Yu said that Professor Luo had been in the past for a while, and this old man was weird, he didn't pay attention to his shouting, and he saw him as if he didn't see him.
This time, Xiao Yu wanted to cut in the queue, but was unceremoniously rejected by everyone. Xiao Yu was a little confused, but he looked at it from the side and said, "Hey, is your posture a prismatic offensive composed of two three-person combat teams?" ”
Old Ash gave Xiao Yu a thumbs up and said, "You have eyesight, you have been a soldier after all." ”
Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Understood, then I'll be the vanguard for you!" As he spoke, he chewed on the compressed biscuit given by Ruoyu, held Li Lili's kettle in one hand, and trotted to the front.
Further on, we soon saw Professor Luo running in that strange posture again. It seems that this old man's physical strength is indeed about to collapse. I was afraid that he would make trouble again, so I asked Xiao Yu to help Professor Luo in front, and we slowed down and followed them. I asked Li Lili to distance himself from them a little more to prevent a situation in front of them, and the two of them turned around and ran, disrupting our formation.
Fortunately, there are no dangers along the way. At dusk, we finally arrived at an open slope behind the Gongbrazan Snow Mountain, where we set up camp.
Xiao Yu and Professor Luo threw away all their things, and Ah Mei gave them her tent, saying that she and Lao Ash were squeezing. Since there was no fire in the bare area, everyone did not dare to go far to pick up dead branches, so they had to go to the stream at the bottom of the slope to get some stream water, and deal with it with dry food.
Night soon fell, and I told everyone to turn on the lights and hang them outside the tents, so that if the Thousand-Faced Beast attacked at night, we wouldn't be blind. Of course, we also arranged a night watch.