Chapter 34: Snow Forest

(From this chapter onwards, each chapter is three thousand words!) Two more chapters a day! )

After leaving the barracks, it was deep in the mountains and old forests, Wu Qi really wanted to go back to the Lao Ye Ling outpost to have a look, but he felt that the communication squad leader seemed to be in a hurry, and kept urging him to send it quickly, so naturally he didn't have time to go back and have a look. But he finally got the gun on his back again, and the heaviness of the gun belt on his shoulders made his heart a lot more stable, and he didn't care about the somewhat distant road ahead.

After Wu Qi walked a distance, he put down all the things on his body, picked up the ordinary Soviet-style 7.62 air rifle, and pulled the bolt inside to see that it was full of five bullets, although it was full, but only five rounds, but it is estimated that it will not be used, unless it meets a beast in the mountains, then it has to fire a few shots in self-defense, and it is a bit nonsense to say anything like encountering an enemy.

The few days spent in the barracks made Wu Qi gain a lot, he met a lot of people, many people with different personalities but dressed the same way, that is, in just a few days, Wu Qi gained a lot of knowledge, and the most important thing is that it seems that after half a year, he can perform that mysterious and special task with the same identity in the same place with Li Huan, which is what makes him the most excited.

Along the path that the communication squad leader asked him to take, Wu Qi didn't know how long he had walked, anyway, he had been climbing with his face up, and before he knew it, it was dark, and Wu Qi was so thirsty and tired that he couldn't walk.

Counting from the place where he started, it was actually not too far away from the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, but it was not easy to pass through that primeval forest, in that kind of inaccessible forest, anything could happen, and it was even possible to be smashed through the top of his head by branches falling from the sky. There are countless dangers hidden in the thick snow under your feet, but the most terrifying ones are the black blind man who can always meet unexpectedly and the Siberian tiger, the king of the mountains and forests.

However, Wu Qi had never seen it in Lao Yeling, because the location where his outpost was stationed was relatively high altitude, and the average temperature throughout the year was three to five degrees Celsius, even in summer, the Zhu Peak of Changbai Mountain in the distance was covered with snow. Locals also call Changbai Mountain Baitou Mountain.

I wanted to tremble a little when I walked on both legs, but I still had to pick up my spirit to observe the movements around me, and one hand tightly grasped the gun belt, and if I heard strange movements, I would directly put the gun head in front of it. Wu Qi's mental burden gradually exceeded the exhaustion of his body, and even he felt that he heard the sound of a black blind man roaring nearby, and that sense of fear made Wu Qi tighten the things he was carrying and run quickly through the forest.

The steeply rising terrain was like a huge terraced rice field one by one, and after just a few steps and a slightly flatter place, there would be a steep slope in front of him that could only be climbed with both hands and feet, and as Wu Qi walked deeper and deeper, he found that the situation was getting more and more wrong. Because there was almost no road, there was no way to climb on this snow-covered dirt slope, and in the end, he wasted a lot of his body in vain, but rolled back from a higher slope, lying on his back in the snow, looking at the darkening sky and falling snowflakes, the feeling of loneliness hit Wu Qi's heart, but because of the task in his body, these things did not affect him too much. On the contrary, it also inspired Wu Qi to hurry quickly, and he tried his best to get out of this secluded primeval forest. I want to go and see the Baishan Cold Lake, which I have always heard of.

Wu Qi didn't eat before leaving, and at this time he slowly sat up from the snow, and first looked around to see if there were any wild beasts or other kinds of things, but it seemed that there were no living creatures in this forest except for himself, and the snow became bigger and bigger. Wu Qi dragged his tired and hungry body to a sunken cliff, opened his backpack, and tapped what was inside.

This bag was prepared for him by the communications squad leader, and it should contain edible food, but the moment Wu Qi opened the bag, he was dumbfounded, and the bag actually contained a piece of frozen meat. It also comes with a few bones and looks like a piece of pork rib meat. Wu Qi blinked his eyes and stretched out his hand to poke a few times, it was hard and seemed to be raw.

"Is this food? How do I eat this? Wu Qi looked at the frozen raw ribs in the bag and suddenly became worried, and pulled off the dogskin hat on his head with some irritability, rubbing his hair that couldn't stand up after being pressed by the hat all day, thinking about what the squad leader was doing? I'm afraid he won't need to do this if he's hungry? Isn't this a pit man? How does this make him speak? Did he forget to give him a pot for boiling water and stew? What's going on!

Wu Qi was still so solid at this time, and he couldn't see that something was wrong with him, but he embarrassed a piece of frozen pork ribs, took out the meat and looked in a circle, and looked around again, and looked nearby thinking about how to eat the meat. At this moment, Wu Qi suddenly wondered if there was something in the bag, otherwise why would he give him a piece of frozen meat? While thinking about it, he took out all the things in the backpack and scattered them at his feet, and there was a small thing in it that made Wu Qi's eyes light up, it was actually a box of matches, or the kind that was wrapped in paper and unopened. At the same time, the things that came out of the bag were a knife and a blade saw that was not long, and there was nothing else that Wu Qi felt useful.

The appearance of this box of matches made Wu Qi excited for a long time, looked at the meat and looked at the matches again, and his stomach screamed a few times, and he was also a little forced to feel helpless, Wu Qi picked up a lot of branches nearby with a gun and brought them back, used the small saw to cut the branches into small pieces, piled them into an awl shape towards the middle, and pulled a lot of dead grass under the snow and pressed it on the branches. As the flames spread, the moisture in the dead branches was dried, and finally the fire was ignited, and the hot feeling suddenly warmed Wu Qi a lot.

Pick up the slender branch and take a knife to cut off the surrounding branches, and then cut the frozen pork ribs along the bones with great effort, first throw them next to the fire and roast them for a while, wait for the thaw and then use the branches to pass through the gap between the bones and the meat, and roast them directly on the fire, it took a long time to roast the meat to exude a fragrant smell, put it in front of the nose and smell it tastes good, but a little bite, but the hunger comes up Wu Qi can only gnaw hard, and it is also something to eat, Otherwise, this night would not have been able to survive in the frozen primeval forest.

In the same way, Wu Qi roasted the remaining pieces one by one, and threw the eaten bone sticks to the side where the fire could shine, and after a while, he saved a small pile of bones. But I don't know if it's the firelight or the fragrant kiss of the barbecue, it seems to have attracted something strange, and before Wu Qi noticed, he had quietly approached.

Wu Qi was holding the hot meat and gnawing on it, and suddenly found that something was wrong, as if there was something missing around him, but he couldn't remember what was missing, and he was about to take his mouth again, when the corner of his eye stared at the place where he threw the bones just now, those bone sticks were actually gone, only the traces left on the surface of the snow remained, and then a closer look seemed to find the footprints of something.

This sudden situation, Wu Qi, who was shocked, threw down the pork ribs and meat that had not been eaten in his hand, rubbed his hands on his clothes a few times, grabbed the 7.62 air rifle beside him with his backhand, and raised the gun violently and cautiously aimed everywhere.

The snowflakes are really as big as goose feathers, and the large pieces are smashed down, and in an instant, they form a visual obstacle around Wu Qi, and the snowflakes also like to pierce his eyes, and the cool Wu Qi squinted his eyes and tears flowed out, but he didn't dare to wipe it because he found that there were living creatures around, so he stood up and circled around the fire and kept observing the movements around him, wondering what it was that quietly ran around him and took the bones away.

The eyes that flowed out of the stimulation froze into two lines of ice on Wu Qi's face, and Wu Qi's face was frozen very uncomfortable, but this rifle had to be held with two hands, and he really couldn't spare one hand to take care of the ice on his face, so he could only squeeze his eyes hard, trying to get rid of the ice on his face. Just when he was busy working in circles, suddenly the fire of the fire flickered, Wu Qi quickly turned his head and pointed the muzzle of the gun, but there was nothing next to the fire, but the half-gnawed bone stick he had just gnawed was gone, and only a few small footprints were left on the snow, it seemed that something had just run from behind him and took the bone stick away, but the fire with a gust of wind swayed slightly for Wu Qi to notice.

The light of the fire is particularly weak in this environment, more than a dozen steps away is a dark and lightless world, there are occasional bursts of night owl calls in the forest, and the movement screams Wu Qi, who was already nervous enough, trembled a few times, not that he was timid, but spent the night alone in this barren mountains and mountains, that is a particularly terrifying thing, a person's vigilance will become extremely high, and the slightest wind and grass will make the scalp tingle, not to mention that there is something like this scurrying around him.

Wu Qi's breathing became heavy, he slowly moved his steps to lean his back against the almost vertical slope, on his right hand was the depression where he had just avoided the snow, three steps forward was the fire, many things were still scattered on the ground and he didn't have time to gesture, Wu Qi's eyes were always seen by the sight on the rifle, his eyes could only see a small range of objects, and what was going on around him had to be heard by ear.

Yi Qiē was very calm, and nothing ran in front of Wu Qi, but the bones would not run on their own long legs, and there were still a few strange marks left in the snow. Wu Qi kept his upper body posture unchanged, his legs slowly bent to make himself squat, and after quickly scanning the surroundings with his eyes, he quickly looked down to see what animal left the traces, but he was stunned when he saw it, and what was left in the snow was actually the size of a string of palms, which seemed to be footprints that the child had run barefoot. (To be continued......)