Chapter 49: Confluence
It is a very risky thing to move forward in the dark, but the plants in the forest must be more dangerous. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Like the trunk of a tree wrapped in iron sheets, the grass that grips the soles of military boots like tentacles, and the plants that dodge flashlights and cold fireworks, everything in the new era is full of weirdness, and plants have become as restless as animals.
It wasn't until dawn that the two of them rested for a while on a large rock at the water's edge. After replenishing the water, the next morning's trip was much easier than the first day. The further downstream you go, the greater the radiation in the water and the higher the radiation shown by the Geiger counter.
It was only at noon that I encountered the only good thing in two days.
"Big ginger!" Li Xintong waved vigorously in front of him. The camouflage uniform, who was squatting by the river and washing his face downstream, stood up and waved his hand at it.
"You can tell who it is?"
Zhang Jiqian was quite surprised, he had strengthened his senses, and although he could see the person from such a distance, he couldn't see who it was. Li Xintong and Jiang Yang should have met after coming to the training camp.
"Huh!?" Hearing Zhang Jiqian ask Li Xintong this question, he also began to ponder this question, "I feel that it is him."
The two of them didn't discuss this topic much, and walked to Jiang Yang's side in a few steps.
"How did you two meet?"
"Coincidentally, what about you, alone?"
"Where, there are so many people, let's go!"
The creek came to an abrupt end not far away, and instead of joining a lake, it was absorbed by a large swamp. The huge mud pool kept absorbing the water from the stream, and the mud was bubbling upstream. On the shore, some distance from the quagmire, the cadets set up a makeshift camp, a bush was cleared, and the perimeter was sprinkled with plant ash. Some branches were piled up in the middle of the camp, and there were two or three canopies made of canvas.
Seeing Li Xintong and Zhang Jiqian coming, everyone was very happy.
"Did you see our flares?"
"Flares? What flares? We walked along the stream. ”
"Oh, that's it." Jiang Yang took out his flare gun, and a green flare shot into the sky.
"We used this method to bring people together."
"Huh? Hit the flare, didn't you get picked up by helicopter? ”
"No, as long as the glass tube is not broken, this signal transmitter will not send out a distress signal, and even if the instructor sees the flare, he will not decide that we are out. Anyway, there are a lot of us, and we won't be separated, just leave a few to use. We calculated everyone's travel speed, and it was time to get to the neighborhood, so we hit one every hour. ”
In this group of people, Jiang Yang seems to be the captain. It is often easy for people with ability to convince anyone, and being able to gather everyone together shows that Da Jiang still has a lot of personality charm.
"Why don't you go forward, are you going to wait for everyone?"
"It's not that we want to wait, it's mainly that we can't get over here."
Looking at the turquoise quagmire in front of him, Zhang Jiqian asked Jiang Yang: "Is it a swamp?" ”
"It's a swamp, and the swamp alone may still be able to figure out a way, the key is this."
Jiang Yang took two steps and picked up a long wooden pole with several branches joined together, slowly leaned towards the water, grabbed a stone with the other hand, and threw it into the water with a bang.
In the swamp that was originally stagnant, several tentacle-like vines stretched out, twisted in the air a few times, and then firmly wrapped around the thick branches.
"Drag and see." Jiang Yang handed over the wooden pole.
Zhang Jiqian stood up and pulled back, the power of this vine is really not small, a bit like a freshly hooked sea fish, pulling the fishing rod to death.
With his feet on the ground, there were more and more vines on the bamboo poles, and Zhang Jiqian could barely hold on to the branches. Jiang Yang took the branch, luckily, and the golden release of the thought qi rushed down the branch, and the rattan that was originally tightly held was loosened.
Curious about the ability to read, Zhang Jiqian didn't ask, this is someone's secret.
"This swamp is full of this kind of thing."
Zhang Jiqian frowned, staring at the lake that had returned to calm.
"When I camped with Li Xin last night, I seemed to see this thing, but on the shore."
"Oh?"
Jiang Yang suddenly became interested, so far the rattans on the edge of the camp are still active in the water, and he has never seen anyone climb ashore. If rattan can come ashore, the danger will have to be reassessed.
Zhang Jiqian told him about last night by the stream, and this plant would avoid flashlights and cold fireworks, Jiang Yang nodded while listening.
"In that case, we might be able to take advantage of this feature, and we'll be able to get over here!"
"Why do you have to go here?"
"I can't get around, Lao Li and I have explored one to the east and the other to the west, at least half a day is not able to get around this swamp, and the more you walk, the more difficult it is to walk, and this is the fastest way to think about it."
“…”
"If this thing is really afraid of light and fire, then maybe we really have hope!"
On the other side, Li Xintong was also talking to a few students about last night. Lao Li picked his feet and listened to the side, pondering while listening. Jiang Yang pulled Zhang Jiqian back, listened to the discussion here, and said his opinion in front of everyone.
"Lao Li, what do you think?"
Lao Li is the oldest in medicine, in his 40s, and he used to live in this part of the Great Black Mountain.
"If we can get through here, we'll walk a few days less. After here, it is the southern foothills, and you can walk a short distance to the mountain behind Ben Cheng University, and there is a highway when you arrive, so you can go back no matter how you go. ”
Lao Li Guang said that he was so close, and he didn't say that he was in favor of going through the quagmire, which was equivalent to throwing the problem back to Jiang Yang.
"Brother Li, did you have this quagmire before?"
"No, I've been here for too many years, never before."
"That?"
"It is estimated that it was shot by the soldiers, and it was originally said that there was hot spring water, and it was not developed, and it was afraid of land subsidence and pollution, but now it has been hit. Don't you feel stuffy in this forest? ”
Only then did Zhang Jiqian understand that the sweltering heat in the forest was because of the hot springs underground.
"If you are afraid of light and fire, we can pick a hard place and rush over together. Almost all of us are equipped with flashlights, cold fireworks, and a lot of camping lanterns, and I think it's okay to make two more torches! Some people in the crowd echoed Jiang Yang's opinion, it was really uncomfortable to stay in this hot and humid forest.
"Just saying that they will avoid the light, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are afraid, if they get used to it, it may not be to hide from the flashlight, right?"
"That's the only way to go, if you delay here for more than a day, and if you spend two more days, you'll starve to death."
Looking at this muddy swamp, Zhang Jiqian instinctively resisted in his heart.
"Or, let's think about it again, I always feel that something is wrong. If that's okay, it seems too easy. ”
"Is that easy? We're not special forces, and we can't cut down all the trees with our mindfulness, right? I don't care what you guys are doing, I'm definitely leaving, can't I wait for everyone to die here? ”
"That's right, it's this way to live or die, it's a big deal to hit signal flares to let them pick up people, I haven't heard of being a soldier to suffer like this."
"Don't worry, everyone, this matter has to be considered in the long run, even if it is passed, we have to prepare enough things, batteries, flashlights, redistribute, and then collect thicker branches, let's make torches."
Jiang Yang said that he would think about it in the long run, and he basically determined the plan to storm the swamp.
"Big ginger, let's wait a little longer." Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Zhang Jiqian pulled Jiang Yang to the side.
"Huh? It's almost the same, and if you wait, you can't keep up with the food and water. ”
"But I always felt that something wasn't right."
"Do you have any good plans?"
"No..." Zhang Jiqian was a little embarrassed, he really didn't have any good plan, so he didn't like to approach this swamp, except for the uneasy feeling in his heart, there was no other convincing reason.
"Anyway, it's safe for everyone to act together, you just came, rest for a while, and then discuss what is going on." After Jiang Yang finished speaking, Zhang Luo was busy again. Zhang Jiqian stood in place, and the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger.