Chapter 42: Entering Myitkyina
As soon as Tan Jian said this, I woke up like a dream, and Song Qiaoming on the side said anxiously: "Old Zhou, what the hell is going on, you give me an explanation." ”
Zhou Xuanye looked apologetic and said, "I'm sorry, this is a personal grudge, it involves you, and I don't want to go." ”
Junko said: "Then there must be a solution now, right?" Wouldn't it be ...... if they followed us all the time and kept making trouble?"
Ermao nodded hurriedly and said: "I can see it in the battle just now, these people are really murderous, this place is sparsely populated, killing people is too simple, if they are allowed to follow behind, sooner or later they will find an opportunity." "After all, the enemy is in the dark now, and I am in a state of light, and Ermao's analysis is not unreasonable.
Zhou Xuanye's face was not very good-looking, and he said that he would deal with this matter, it was getting late, so he should rest on the spot, after all, we had already walked for a day and a night, even if we were interrupted halfway now, it was impossible to continue walking, and my physical fitness did not allow it at all.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye took out the phone, the signal in this place was not good, he simply climbed a tree to call, at first I didn't know who he was calling, and soon, through the conversation between Zhou Xuanye and Fu, I guessed the identity of the person on the other end of the phone.
It should be Fu Nan, Zhou Xuanye is calling him.
"Don't stumble, you'll talk about it when we get back." In the end, Zhou Xuanye ended with this sentence, and after hanging up the phone, he got off the tree, rubbed the sun tiredly, and said: "Those people have retreated, we don't have to worry about it, just complete the task with peace of mind." ”
"Brother Zhou, did you promise him?"
Zhou Xuanye glanced at me, with a look of you not knowing me at all, and said: "How is it possible, this is a delaying tactic, we can't let those flies follow us all the time." The next day we got up and ate something hastily, and then we took our gear and set off, and everyone thought of leaving the place as soon as it was dawn.
Sometimes, it's not the dangerous natural environment that's really scary, it's the crowd. Although the environment of this primeval jungle is not harsh, the people stationed here make me feel the urge not to stay for a moment, and only want to enter Myitkyina quickly.
In the evening and afternoon, we entered the Burmese region, which was a primeval jungle with no clear border dividing line, and was estimated by our time and distance. After entering this area, the surroundings are really inhuman, the further you go, the worse the environment, the air is filled with a smell of dampness, for the sake of insurance, we all put on gas masks, one by one can not see the face, only see the eyes, through the gas mask to speak, the voice is also a little muffled.
The trees here are very thick and tall, the kind of big trees that can only be hugged by a few people can be seen everywhere, the feet can't even see the soil, the dead branches and leaves, piled up layer after layer, stepping on it is very soft, the leaves of the trees in some places are very strong, and when you step on it, you will fall into it, and when you pull out your legs, it is full of silt, although you can't smell it, but you can know just by looking at the color of the silt, it must be very smelly.
That's it, the point is that there are many small creatures in the mud, some unknown small worms mixed in the mud, and they are brought out with the mud and wriggle on their legs, not to mention how disgusting the scene is.
Tang Linlin didn't come with her before, and it is estimated that if she really came, she wouldn't be able to cry.
Soon, the people found some sticks to hold in their hands, and when they left, they first used the sticks to explore the way in front of them, so that they did not step on the air again. Before we set off, we had done our homework beforehand, so we were prepared for the environmental conditions in the jungles of Yunnan-Burma, where rotting leaves were piled up and poisonous miasma was overgrown, and there were many invisible swamps on which people walked and would be tricked if they were not careful. A large part of the Chinese expeditionary force died of diseases bred by the miasma, and the rest was a swamp.
The Myitkyina jungle area has the title of 'treasure trove of flora and fauna', which is home to elephants, rhinos, brown bears, black bears, leopards, bison, wild boars and other large wild creatures, and most importantly, various snakes, pythons, monitor lizards, etc.
But these large creatures, in fact, can be avoided, the most unavoidable is insects, mosquitoes, poisonous spiders, mountain locusts, etc., they can be seen almost all the time. We did our homework, wore long hiking boots, and tightened the cuffs and necklines of our pants and clothes, so as to eliminate most of the areas that could be attacked by poisonous insects.
In the jungle, mountain locusts are a terrible thing.
Grasshoppers are available everywhere, but the locusts here are large and numerous, and Song Qiaoming told us that his grandfather would often tell them about some things on the expedition, among which the mountain locusts made Song Qiaoming impressed.
At that time, some of the female soldiers who retreated into the jungle had menstruation halfway, and the smell of blood attracted locusts, which was simply crazy. There was a female soldier who came with her the next morning, and found her companion lying on the ground with a pale face, and when she uncovered her clothes, she saw that her body was full of grasshoppers, especially the ones with the most lower bodies, and they were sucking and bulging one by one. The female soldiers of the expeditionary force, due to physical strength and other reasons, were almost completely wiped out.
This is also one of the reasons why Tan Jian resolutely did not let Tang Linlin come, this jungle is a place of death for men, let alone women.
Our group of men, fully armed, marched through the jungle, and because of the weight and the uncomfortable gas masks on our faces, we all talked less, and as we walked, we kept an eye out for the bones of the expeditionary force around.
Of course, we didn't find anything, and even if there were bones, they were already covered in layers of fallen leaves. Our main purpose is to find the remains of the three bodies that were placed in the hollows of the trees.
The plants in this place are very lush, and as he walked, Zhou Xuanye suddenly sighed, then turned around, went to the right, squatted down again, took out a dagger, and seemed to be digging something in the ground. The rest of us took a closer look and noticed that there weren't as many fallen leaves on the higher ground, and there was a strange plant growing on the ground, like a pineapple.
After Tan Blade dug it out of the soil, I found that it was indeed a pineapple, the wild one, but the pineapple we usually see has a slight difference in appearance. Zhou Xuanye peeled the skin directly, revealing the flesh inside, although he didn't smell it, but the quality of the meat made people feel like they wanted to eat it.
The environment of this place is harsh in the eyes of people, but for plants, it is a paradise for survival, so the development of water is sufficient, the flesh is delicate, and the taste is definitely incomparable to the outside. Zhou Xuanye divided the glass, and we each ate a small piece and continued on the road.
There are a lot of wild fruits and wild vegetables in this place, and the expeditionary force of that year relied on these wild animals to survive without food and clothing.
We stayed until evening, and then we found a place on a slightly higher ground and set up camp. Due to the dense trees and dead leaves, we had no way to make a fire, so we hung up camplights and sprinkled some homemade sulfur water to repel insects and snakes.
At night, I set up camp, and when I took off my clothes, there were some small insects in the folds or cracks, and there were one or two locusts, and I almost went crazy to see it. After cleaning the clothes and entering the tent, we pulled the tent tightly, except for the side ventilation holes, the tent was completely closed.
Due to the large number of people, we used a large tent for four people, in this tent there was my Zhou Xuanye Tan Jian Ji Song Qiaoming, divided into two people to keep vigil for one and a half hours, and Song Qiaoming and I kept the last shift, so the time was still early.
After a whole day of hiking, I lay down in the tent and drilled into the sleeping bag, not to mention how beautiful it was. Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye were writing and drawing on paper, calculating our progress, according to their estimates, according to our current speed, it would take at least five days or so to enter the Savage Mountain area.
In fact, if you simply calculate the straight-line distance, it won't take that long at all, but the environment here determines the speed of progress.
Savage Mountain is separated by the junction of China, India and Myanmar, with high mountains and mountains, turbulent valleys, stretching for thousands of miles.
Where the primeval forest is dense, the grass and vines are all over the mountain, if there is no pioneer, it is absolutely difficult to move an inch, although we have not officially entered the Savage Mountain area now, but the dense vegetation around is already too abundant.
In the midst of it, the human gaze is suppressed to the extreme, and you can often only see a distance of about one meter, and the broadleaf vegetation that is unique to the tropical rainforest is often a meter away. There is no road here at all, we take the 'wild road', relying on the compass to shuttle through this completely roadless forest, from time to time we will see a colorful snake in the distance, at this time, we have to hurry up and detour.
In such a situation, five days is actually the fastest speed.