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 rely on a rough military map to find his destination in the grassy contour lines.

The Great Glacier is composed of three parts, with a huge drop and a steep slope, with a maximum altitude of more than 6,000 meters and a snow cover that does not melt for thousands of years; The longest section in the middle is a mirror-like slippery ice, the ice is hundreds of meters thick, and the bottom is lower than the average altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, sinking deep into the earth like a rift, where the warm atmosphere forms a rare green plant belt. At the lowest point, altitude sickness is also lessened, and if you want to continue deeper into the Kunlun Mountains, you have to pass through the valley under the big glacier.

Before leaving, the engineer warned everyone not to make a loud noise when marching under the glacier, otherwise they would cause an avalanche and they would be buried alive underneath.

Everyone didn't even dare to take a breath, but there was an accident on the way. In the process of descending from the glacier to the valley, an engineer from Beijing stumbled and 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 and sobbed bitterly. 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. The engineer had been 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 dirt on the ground with a sapper shovel, and after digging a few times, suddenly from the pit he dug, a large blue fireball, the size of a basketball, flew out, circled twice in mid-air, and rushed into the crowd at once, and the members of the squad 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, you can see the transparent carapace, 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 it was. But no one can give an answer, presumably 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 watched it carefully and carefully. However, at this moment, the finger he was in contact with the ladybug was ignited by a blue flame, and in an instant, the male flame engulfed his whole body, and his skin was instantly covered with a layer of large blisters, and then it was burned again, and the myopic 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 Wang Gong end his pain, but he really couldn't bear to see him suffer like this, 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 painful death.

Without delay, the instructor took the five-six semi-automatic rifle with a bayonet from the hand of a soldier, and said softly that he couldn't help but comrade brother, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he inserted the military stab into Wang Gong's heart, Wang Gong finally stopped his heart-rending howl, fell to the ground and stopped moving, 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 flames was so fast that it didn't even take them a moment to blink 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 knows the instructor too well, he is definitely a tough guy, although his appearance is weak, but his endurance and perseverance are up to the standards of the best professional soldiers, I don't know how tragic it is to be burned by that kind of strange fire, so that he can let out such a sorrowful scream.

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, trying to hold back the tears rolling in their eyes, and some of them had their lips bitten by themselves.

There was no sound in the valley, and the blue sky overhead reflected on the ice of the great glacier, giving people the illusion that there seemed to be two identical skies in the world, and it was impossible to tell which one was above and which was below. The magnificent scenery like a fairyland, but it is full of an eerie and terrifying atmosphere.

There were two piles of ashes on the ground, which had been alive just a few minutes ago, but now they had become small piles of ashes, burned so that there were no bones left. If it weren't for witnessing this qiē with their own eyes, who would have believed that such a thing would happen in the world.

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, 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 instructor was gone, and the soldiers were missing their backbones, but almost all of them had the same thought in their hearts when faced with this strange blue fireball: "I'd 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 little hu, you are not even a member of the group." If I tell 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.

The second squad leader had just rushed out two steps before he stopped, and an incredible scene appeared in front of us, the strange ladybug that emitted flames, from one doppelganger to three, each of which was the same size as the original one.

One of the three blue fireballs went straight to the second squad leader, and the other two got into the crowd like lightning, including the second squad leader, as well as the cooker Lao Zhao and the communicator Xiaolin, the three of them were hit by the fireballs, and their whole bodies burned, and they let out a terrible cry at the same time, writhing and struggling on the ground, trying to roll to extinguish the fire on their bodies.

The terrible thing happened, because the soldiers were so nervous when facing the fireball just now that they had all opened the safety bolts of their guns, and the magazines were full of bullets.

Signal soldier Kobayashi was only sixteen years old, and he lacked the courage and psychological endurance of the instructor and the second squad leader in the face of death, and the demonic fire burned his reason. In the pain of being bitten by the flames, the semi-automatic rifle in his hand misfired, and three more comrades were hit by the stray bullets he fired and fell in a pool ......of blood.

Things went in the worst direction, and the instructor would rather kill himself than let us shoot, but in the end the gun went off. Although it is terrible to be attacked by strange fireflies, the occurrence of an avalanche means a catastrophe, and the members of the team, one counts as one, and no one can survive. In the valley beneath the Great Glacier, shouting may only have a 30% chance of triggering an avalanche, but gunshots, 200 percent, will have the most terrible consequences.

Seeing that the delirious Xiaolin rifle went off the fire, and the stray bullets flew indiscriminately and killed three comrades-in-arms by mistake, I didn't have time to think about it, gritted my teeth, picked up the rifle in my hand and fired three shots, knocking down Xiaolin, the second squad leader and Lao Zhao who were struggling in pain in the fire.

The sound of rifle bullets echoing in the valley, because the valley is very narrow, coupled with the mirror-like ice walls of the large glacier, it is simply a natural large speaker, and the sound of gunshots, shouts, and cries echoes wave after wave in the valley for a long time.

I hadn't gotten rid of the pain of shooting my comrades with my own hands for a while, and my mind was full of their voices and smiles before I died, and suddenly I felt a chill on my head, so I came back to my senses and touched it with my hand, and it turned out to be a snowflake falling on my forehead.

The sun hung in the sky shining brightly, and it was impossible to snow at this time. My heart sank, and the first thought that popped into my mind was, "Finally, an avalanche." ”

At this time, on the still burning corpses of the three dead comrades, a blue fireball flew up. At this moment, there is no need to have any scruples about shooting, Gawa's marksmanship is the most accurate among the members of the squad, he picked up his rifle, did not aim, raised his hand is three shots, each shot is in the center of the fireball, the ladybug inside is far less than the caliber of the bullet, the whole body of the insect is lost to the bullet, and the flame disappears.

After this short and brutal conflict, there were eight soldiers in our squad, plus the second squad leader and instructor, a total of ten people, and now only me, the big man, and Gava, are still alive, and then there are two intellectuals, Liu Gong and Luo Ning.

More and more snow was falling overhead, there was a rumbling sound in the sky, the whole valley was shaking, and I looked up and saw the snow on it roll up a storm like a white tsunami, rolling down the sky all over us.

The big man pulled me by the hand and shouted, "Old Hu! Mom, what are you looking at at at this time, hurry up! ”

We are in the middle of a valley, and an avalanche will definitely fill the whole valley, and there will be nowhere to run, but when it comes to life and death, humans will always instinctively have to make one last struggle.

Luo Ning had already fainted in fright, and the big man carried her to his shoulders, and Gawa and I dragged Liu Gong and ran to the opposite side of the big glacier, hoping to climb to the slightly higher slope on the opposite side before the avalanche fell, to fight for this last ray of life.

In the most desperate moments, we did not throw away the guns in our hands, guns are a part of the life of a soldier, and throwing away a gun means throwing away the honor of a soldier. But he couldn't take care of anything else, he threw away all kinds of equipment, and wanted to untie his backpack and throw it away, but in the hurry, it was too late, and the five survivors pulled each other and ran wildly.

The avalanche came so fast that it swept over the mountains and seas, and the valley shook for a moment.

I've heard people talk about avalanches before, but I never imagined that there would be such a powerful silver wave between heaven and earth, and everyone's hearts were like ashes, and even if they had two more legs, they couldn't run away.