Chapter 7 The Great Glacier

I stood up and stood upright, and replied to him in the accent of the squad leader: "No, no, why am I wrong?" It should also be the turn of Lamcuo's Gawazi to say that equality for all is the principle of socialism. ”

The second squad leader said: "Comrade Xiaohu, why are you talking so much?" I asked you not to learn to speak, I am the class leader, I let you say it, don't talk about what is wrong in absolute egalitarianism? ”

I looked at a few comrades-in-arms around me, they all sat seriously and waited for me to speak, Gawa took advantage of the squad leader's disappointment, and stuck out his tongue at me, these pieces of material are too unrighteous. Now I can only find a step for myself: "Report to the squad leader, what are we discussing today?" You haven't said it yet, you don't say how can we speak? ”

At this time, the instructor came over, the instructor Li Jian was in his thirties, of medium stature, a very gentle person, a veteran of more than ten years, he treated the officers and soldiers very well, there was no arrogance, he came over and said to everyone: "Comrades are in a meeting? I'll listen to it too. ”

The second squad leader hurriedly saluted the instructor, and the instructor waved his hand and said that you continue, don't affect your discussion because of me.

The level of the second squad leader is very low, and he is very nervous when he sees the instructor next to him, and he doesn't know what to say, he may think that singing is relatively simple, so he said to the soldiers: "Comrades, let's sing a revolutionary song together to boost morale. ”

The fighters replied in unison, "Swollen." The instructor almost laughed when he heard it, and quickly pretended to cough twice to cover it up.

The second squad leader didn't hear anything ridiculous, raised his hands with a serious face, and made a musical conductor's action: "Comrades, I'll start first, Erlang Mountain, prepare, sing." ”

"Erlang Mountain, even if you are ten thousand feet tall, the People's Liberation Army is an iron-clad man, you are determined to break through, you are not afraid of the wind blowing, not afraid of the snow drifting, you want to build the highway to Tibet." The snow in the sky is getting bigger and bigger, and the chorus of more than a dozen soldiers echoes in the white snow flying in the sky of Kunlun Mountain, and I don't know whether it is the vast mountains and snow that sets off the majesty of the military song, or the songs of the soldiers embellish the desolation and loneliness of Kunlun Mountain.

Finally, the instructor said a few words to everyone: "Like all of you, it is the first time for me to go to Kunlun Mountain, the conditions here are indeed very difficult, the environment is very harsh, and we are facing the most severe test. But my comrade brother, we are not ordinary troops, the title of our company is "Fighting Hero Company", this honor is the predecessors of the Sixth Company with their lives and blood in exchange, we can not give this banner a black in any case, now the Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee has handed over this glorious task to us, which is a huge trust in our Sixth Company, we must carry forward the revolutionary military style of not being afraid of hardship and death to successfully complete this task. Comrades, are you determined? ”

We all replied, "Yes"

The instructor nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Rest early today, our team will cross the big glacier tomorrow, everyone must prepare in advance, okay, disband." ”

On the morning of the third day of entering the mountains, the team arrived at the Great Glacier, which is said to be a very low-lying small basin near which our destination was located. Since it was a classified mission, it was impossible to find a local guide to lead the way (in fact, no one knew the way), so he had to make a rough military map and find his destination in the grassy contour lines.

The big glacier is composed of three parts, the drop is very large, the slope is very steep, the highest altitude is more than 6,000 meters, the snow does not melt for 10,000 years, the longest section in the middle, all are mirror-like slippery ice, the ice thickness reaches hundreds of meters, the lowest is lower than the average altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, like a crack deep into the earth, here the ground atmosphere is warm to form a rare green plant belt, in the lowest place, the altitude sickness is also reduced, if you want to continue to go to the depths of the Kunlun Mountains, you must pass through the valley under the big glacier.

Before leaving, the engineer warned everyone not to make any too loud noise when marching under the glacier, otherwise they would have to be buried alive if they caused an avalanche at the top of the mountain.

The crowd didn't even dare to catch their breath, but there was an accident on the way, and in the process of descending from the glacier into the valley, an engineer from Beijing fell down the glacier, and we found his broken body in the oasis below the glacier. Luo Ning, a female geological prospector, and he were colleagues in the same unit, and when they saw this tragic situation, they couldn't help but want to cry loudly.

A geologist surnamed Wang hurriedly covered her mouth with his hand and whispered, "Don't cry." ”

Luo Ning buried his head deep in Wang Gong's arms, sobbing in pain. The instructor took the lead in taking off his hat and said a silent farewell to his companion's body, after which Gawa and I collected his body and buried it in a bag. This engineer was with us for less than three days, and I only knew that he was from Beijing, and I didn't even have time to know his name, so he died silently.

The big man gently dug the soil on the ground with a sapper shovel, dug a few times, and suddenly from the pit he dug, a big blue fireball, the size of a basketball, circled twice in mid-air, and rushed into the crowd at once, and the members of the team hurriedly dodged.

The fireball fell to the ground, the blue flame gradually extinguished, it turned out to be a strange little ladybug, the whole body is like a red transparent crystal, the wings are even more crystal clear, through its transparent carapace, you can vaguely see the translucent internal organs inside, there seems to be a faint flame flowing, it looks indescribably mysterious and weird.

Everyone looked at each other and wanted to ask what kind of bug this was? But no one can give an answer, probably a species that has not yet been discovered, Wang Gong leaned over curiously, pushed the deep myopia glasses on the bridge of his nose, and excitedly pinched the ladybug like a red flame with two fingers, and looked at it carefully, but at this moment, the place where his fingers touched the ladybug was ignited by a blue flame, and in an instant, the majestic flame engulfed his whole body.

Wang Gong's whole body was engulfed by blue flames, and his skin was instantly covered with a layer of large bubbles, and then it was burned again, and the myopia glasses on the bridge of his nose burned and deformed and fell to the ground, and he also fell to the ground in pain and twisted and struggling.

It was too late for us to save him, and the screams of him being burned by the fire demon resounded through the valley, and everyone shuddered to hear it, and it seemed that he would not breathe for a while.

Someone wanted to use a shovel to shovel soil to extinguish the flames on his body, but the burned area of his whole body had reached 100%, which was a deep burn, even if the fire on his body was temporarily extinguished, in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, where there was a shortage of medical treatment, I am afraid that he would not be able to endure for an hour or two, wouldn't that make him suffer alive?

This scene of a living person being burned by fire was too cruel, Luo Ning didn't dare to look at it anymore, she turned her head over, her expression froze, she covered her ears, opened her mouth, and didn't know if she wanted to cry or shout. The youngest, Kobayashi, was also frightened, hiding behind the big man, his whole body shaking.

The second squad leader took out a pistol and wanted to help him end his pain, but he really couldn't bear to see him suffer so much, and if he continued to shout, he would have to cause an avalanche.

The instructor pressed the hand of the second squad leader, who was pulling the bolt, and whispered to him: "You can't shoot, use a bayonet, let me come." ”

Tens of thousands of tonnes of snow hang over the glacier at the top of the mountain, and the slightest noise could have catastrophic consequences. Now the only thing we can do to help Wang Gong is to put a bayonet on his heart, and let him die a happy death.

Without delay, the instructor took the bayonet-mounted Type 56 semi-automatic rifle from the hand of a soldier, and said softly Brother Comrade, as soon as he closed his eyes, he plunged the military stab into Wang Gong's heart, Wang Gong finally stopped his heart-rending howl, fell to the ground and did not move, and the flames on his body continued to burn.

The instructor was just about to pull the bayonet out of his heart, when the strange blue flame suddenly lit up, and it actually passed down the bayonet and from the body of the rifle.

The speed of the flame transmission was so fast that it didn't even take more than a blink of an eye, and before people could see what was happening, the instructor's whole body was already engulfed in blue flames.

The instructor is also the same as Wang Gong, struggling and screaming in pain, everyone usually knows the instructor too well, he is definitely a tough guy, although the appearance is weak, but his endurance and perseverance are up to the standards of the best professional soldiers, I don't know how tragic the pain of being burned by that strange fire will make him let out such a sorrow.

The second squad leader raised the pistol with tears in his eyes, now he doesn't care if it will cause an avalanche, he really can't bear to watch the instructor suffer anymore, just at the moment when he was about to pull the trigger, the instructor who was on fire all over his body suddenly said: "I order...... None of you are allowed to shoot...... Get your comrades out of here......"

The instructor's pain was unbearable, but he was still sane, and he realized that his screams might cause an avalanche, and in order not to make a sound, he reversed his red-hot bayonet and plunged it into his heart. After a long, long time, his body was burned into a fine pile of ashes.

The remaining members of the squad watched this heroic and tragic scene in pain, everyone clenched their fists tightly, gritted their teeth, and tried to hold back the tears rolling in their eyes, and some of them had their lips bitten by themselves.

There is no sound in the valley, and the blue sky overhead is reflected on the ice surface of the big glacier, giving people the illusion that there seem to be two identical skies in this world, and it is not clear which one is above and which is below, and the magnificent scenery like a fairyland is full of strange and terrifying atmosphere.

There were two piles of ashes on the ground, and just a few minutes ago, they were all alive, but now they were small piles of ashes, burned so that there were no bones left. Who would have believed that something like this would happen in the world if it weren't for someone who witnessed what happened.

Suddenly, from the ashes left after Wang Gong was burned, a blue fireball flew out, it hovered in mid-air in front of everyone, as if it was choosing the next target, its speed was extremely fast, and within its attack range, no one was sure that it could escape. There was a slight vibration in the air, presumably the sound of the strange ladybug flapping its wings in flight.

Now the team has lost three people, all of whom are the most important members, as the instructor of the team leader, and two engineers have died, and the remaining two engineers, one is Luo Ning, a surveyor, and the other is Liu Gong of the Shanghai Geological Exploration Institute, it seems that this task cannot be completed.

The absence of the instructor made the soldiers feel less distracted, but almost all of them had the same thought in their hearts when faced with this strange blue fireball: "I would rather be buried alive by an avalanche than be burned alive by this ghostly thing." ”

A few soldiers who couldn't hold their breath had already raised their guns and aimed at the ladybugs in mid-air, and the second squad leader suddenly took a step forward and said to everyone: "Comrades, the instructor has sacrificed, and now I am the captain!" I ordered you all to give me a life to go back, right? ”

I understood what the second squad leader wanted to do, he wanted to sacrifice himself to buy some precious time for the others to evacuate. I grabbed his arm and choked up, "No, you're not a party member, why are you going?" I'm going to go. ”

The second squad leader pushed my hand away: "You Xiaohu, you are not even a member of the group, I asked you not to learn to speak, why don't you listen." Before he could finish speaking, he rushed towards the fireball hanging in the air without looking back.