Chapter 397: The Only Way Out
For the squad leader's explanation, Gao Chao nodded in belief, he knew that although he and the fat man had offended them a lot just now, these soldiers would not hold grudges, after all, their main duty was to protect everyone in their line.
So Gao Chao took the opportunity to say: "Okay, now you finally understand, sometimes orders are not necessarily all right, although Professor Liu has experience, but he has some problems with his personality, he is obstinate, stubborn, and self-serving, this will not only hinder us from completing the task, but will even cost everyone's lives." ”
The squad leader only smiled bitterly and whispered: "Brother Gao, I won't tell you, we are helpless, after all, Mr. Wang gave an order, and we only have unconditional obedience." ”
Gao Chao saw that this squad leader was also a good man, and cast an understanding gaze, and said: "I have also been a soldier, and I understand your hardships very well, but there is a saying, called 'The general will not be subject to the orders of the king outside', and now the situation is special, if we don't work together, it may be a problem to get out of here." ”
The squad leader looked at Gao Chao, and thought about Gao Chao himself just now to cover their retreat, and knew that Gao Chao was a trustworthy and good comrade-in-arms, and he had already been moved and impressed by his actions, otherwise he would not have risked his life to come back to support them.
So the squad leader immediately nodded and said, "That's right, I will not be affected by the foreign monarch's order, Brother Gao, from now on, I will listen to your arrangements." ”
Gao Chao saw that he finally expressed his determination, so he relieved himself and said, "Great." We'll be good comrades from then on. ”
The squad leader smiled and said, "My name is Xu Bing." Brother Gao can call me a soldier in the future. ”
Gao Chao nodded and said, "Okay." Bingzi, then I'm not welcome in the future. ”
The soldier said briskly: "If there is something to do, Brother Gao should give orders." ”
The fat man watched them become good comrades from the sidelines, and he was happy for them, but he was anxious, so he hurriedly said, "Old Gao, what now?" The front is already blocked, how can we get out? ”
Gao Chao thought for a moment and said, "If the wind stops outside, the yellow sand will probably have buried the entire mountain range again. If we want to dig out of here with one hand, it is absolutely impossible, and now it seems that there is only one way. ”
As he spoke, he was already looking into the depths of the cavern, where the swarm of flies had just flown in.
The fat man couldn't help but be shocked: "Old Gao, don't you want to go in again?" ”
Gao Chao said: "There are cracks in the mountains, and if those flies can fly out of it, it means that this road is definitely not a dead end, and that kind of big fly also needs to eat to live." So I think we need to try our luck, we can't wait to die here. ”
Superb talking. He looked at the soldier on the side, wanting to hear his opinion, and asked, "What do you say, soldier?" ”
The soldier nodded and said: "What Brother Gao said makes sense, the road ahead is not passable, the road behind is open, it is taboo for soldiers to sit and wait for death, since we are trapped here now, there is only such a way to go in front of us, no matter whether you can go out or not, you have to go and see, I agree." ”
When the fat man saw that these two people agreed, he only sighed and said, "Okay, then let's get out, but there are a lot of big flies, what if you encounter them again?" We have a number of bullets. ”
Bingzi said: "This is easy to say, we use kerosene to make torches, although those flies are powerful, but after all, they are still insects, if they appear again, we will use fire to deal with them, it should not be a big problem." ”
Gao Chao nodded and said: "Okay, that's it, fat man......" Gao Chao glanced at the fat man and said: "You go to the front of the mountain pass and call Xia Qing and them out, I and the soldiers will go forward to reconnoiter first, you try to keep up with the back, by the way, give the extra gun to another brother." ”
The fat man was already very jealous of the flies in the depths of the cave, and when he heard that Gao Chao had broken him, he was too late to be happy, so he hurriedly answered and ran towards the mountain pass behind.
Gao Chao and the soldiers roughly sorted out the two corpses in the cave, and covered their corpses with the tent cloth he carried with him, which can be regarded as giving them some dignity after death.
Then they made a few torches out of trekking poles, poured kerosene, lit them and left them in the cave for the fat man, while the two of them carried one by one, carried their backpacks and guns, and walked towards the depths of the cave.
It was pitch black, and the ground was full of flies corpses, and the black juice emitted a foul smell, which made them miserable and struggling, and they didn't even bother to open their mouths to speak.
After enduring this for a long time, at last there were fewer and fewer dead flies on the ground, and the smell of the cave was much lighter, and they began to pay attention to their surroundings.
The deeper they went, the more spacious the cave became, and they looked around with the help of the firelight, and found that this cave was indeed a fissure in the mountain formed by the force of nature, but the further they went, the lower and lower the road, the whole was downhill, and if they wanted to escape, they undoubtedly had to go up, and they didn't know where they could lead if they went on like this.
Just when both of them were a little discouraged, the crack in front of them suddenly became clear.
Gao Chao and Bingzi immediately glanced at each other, and they both hurriedly ran forward, but when they rushed out of the crack, they couldn't help but be stunned.
It turned out that the road they were on had come to an end, and out of this wide chasm, there was a cliff, and this fissure was opened on a mountain wall.
The two of them stood at the end of the chasm, and looked around with the help of the light of the torches, only to find that they were surrounded by steep mountain walls, basically enclosing a circular space, looking up smaller and smaller, like a dome, and down at least forty or fifty meters high, looking a little dizzy.
The light of the torch was difficult to illuminate below, so the soldier immediately took out a cold flame from his backpack and wiped it on the stone wall, and the cold flame immediately ignited, releasing a dazzling blue light.
The soldier threw it hard, and the cold fireworks were thrown at the center of this circular cave, slowly falling, illuminating the surroundings one by one, until the cold fireworks fell on the ground at the bottom, Gao Chao and the soldiers could see the situation below.
The circular area surrounded by the mountain wall was not very large, but it seemed to be full of dry branches, all of which glowed gray and white, but it was strange that the cold fireworks fell into it and failed to ignite the dry branches.
Just when they were at a loss, Xia Qing and the four of them in the back had already rushed here.
(To be continued.) )