Chapter 37: Danger

When he put his feet on the stove where the wood was burning, Wu Qi relieved himself, but looking at his hard feet like wooden boards, he couldn't help but worry that his feet were frostbitten and could not be restored. But just as he was thinking, the soldier who dragged him to the outpost called the other two people, and they turned out some bottles out of nowhere, which felt like the bottle containing medicine in the blind man's medicine box before, and directly put one bottle on the hot stove board, and after a while, he pulled out the lid and applied some steaming green viscous stuff inside to Wu Qi's feet that were almost frozen solid, and instantly Wu Qi felt a tingling sensation on his feet, and then it was a burning feeling, as if it was on fire. Wu Qi, who was frightened, hurriedly retracted his feet, wanting to erase the green things painted on it, but was stopped.

"Comrade, don't be afraid, this thing is a local herb, specially used to treat frostbite and chilblains, let me grind it into a paste and put it in a bottle when you want to use it, it must be painful at first, but if you don't take medicine, your foot will be wasted, just hold back and wait for a while, hold on!"

Wu Qi relaxed after hearing this, because he was afraid that his feet would be wasted, and he would not be able to do anything in the future, enduring the pain of the fire, he gritted his teeth and looked at a few people around him, but suddenly found that their expressions were a little strange, it seemed to have an indescribable nervousness, yes, they seemed to be afraid of something, and they deliberately avoided Wu Qixun's gaze, which was a bit strange.

It may also be because I forgot about my feet because I was thinking about what was going on with them, and when I remembered them, it didn't hurt anymore, and my toes could still move slightly, and I could still feel the baking heat when I was close to the stove, not the burning sensation of medicine. It's really hot, and the warmth is a little hot.

Knowing that at this time, Wu Qi had the leisure to look everywhere, this outpost was different from their Lao Ye Ling, there was no separate sentry box, only a small wooden house built on the mountainside, which was also made of round wooden piers. The top is reinforced with wooden strips, which is better than their wooden house in Lao Yeling.

Wu Qi stretched out his hand and pressed the soles of his feet, which were still a little stiff, turned his head and asked a few soldiers around him, "I sent the letter, have you read it?" Do you need me to bring some more messages when I go back? ”

The soldiers were still holding the letter paper that had been opened, their faces suddenly turned pale, and then everyone seemed to be startled by something, grabbed their clothes and put them on their bodies, and rushed out with guns, running in the direction of Wu Qi's arrival.

"Hey! What's wrong? Where are you going? Wu Qi shouted at them.

The last soldier who ran out stopped, turned around and shouted at Wu Qi: "The intelligence says that there is an enemy stronghold near our outpost. We'll have to go over and investigate, comrade, wait here first! Be right back! After that, without waiting for Wu Qi to react, he followed the person in front of him and went downhill and disappeared from view.

Wu Qi's mind turned around for a long time, looking at the direction they left, what kind of enemy stronghold might be the big iron gate built on the cliff he met when he came, so the group of people who came out of behind the door were enemies?

Sitting in the warm wooden house, feeling the heat wave of the stove in front of him, Wu Qi's whole body was hot from the inside out, and at this time he raised his hand and touched it everywhere. Nose, ears, toes, etc., I want to see if I still have any sense. In addition to the frozen feet and a little wood, this circle is good to touch the whole body, and it should be fine. But until he was hungry, he didn't see those people come back, at this time Wu Qi was very uneasy in his heart, he felt that those people might have been arrested. If you don't get it right, you'll be shot.

Wu Qi waited for a long time, but no one came back, and his mind began to think wildly, remembering all the war scenes he had heard of, but he was flustered in his heart, but he couldn't sit still at all, and hurriedly put on his shoes and clothes. glanced at the rifle he brought, took a few breaths before he put the gun on his back and pushed the door and rushed out.

Because when he came, Wu Qi saw the big iron gate, as well as strangely dressed people and vehicles coming out of it, so the place where these soldiers went to investigate must be there, feeling that the situation was serious, Wu Qi wanted to find rescue, but there was only one outpost near this mountain pass, and it was too late to go back to Nanling to find someone, and at this time, he couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, and followed the footprints left in the snow. After a few downhills, he heard the sound of the iron gate opening and closing again, and the movement was particularly loud, as if he deliberately wanted to let the people nearby hear, but Wu Qi was bent on looking for the soldiers at those posts, and the others didn't bother to think about it, and rushed over directly looking for the things that came out of the sound.

It was silvery white in front of me, and even if there was no sun on the snow-covered mountainside, the light reflected from the ground was very dazzling. Wu Qi squinted his eyes and ran very fast in the snow, after a few big downhills, he got closer and closer to the place where the iron gate opened and closed, but this position was different when he came, and he also passed by a stream with it, and the part of the bank was frozen into ice, and the water flowed out quickly along the middle, but he couldn't see where the water in front of him went.

But when Wu Qi crossed the stream and continued to run forward, he suddenly remembered that when he came, he was blocked by a vertical cliff more than ten meters high, and there was a waterfall on the cliff that seemed to be frozen, forming a huge icicle, and then looking at the direction of the stream, it seemed to disappear not far ahead, Wu Qi only then realized that he had run to the edge of the cliff, and in the case of no obvious markers in the snow-covered terrain, it was impossible to distinguish the height from the distance. The most terrifying thing is that you have walked to the edge of the cliff but you can't see the abyss because of the dazzling white in front of you, and when you step on the air and fall off the cliff, I'm afraid it's too late to think about anything.

Wu Qi wanted to stop, but because he was on a downhill slope, he couldn't stop at all because he was brought by inertia, but he fell to his death after running a few steps forward and falling under the cliff. In a hurry, Wu Qi turned around violently and grabbed the body of the rifle with both hands, threw himself down in the snow, pressed the rifle hard into the depths of the snow, and slid about two meters Suddenly, the body of the gun in his hand stopped, Wu Qi stopped, he raised his eyes and looked up, he actually slid out of a deep groove in the snow, exposing the basalt on the cliff, and his rifle was just stuck on a raised basalt to stop Wu Qi, but both feet were already suspended in the air.

After carefully retracting his feet, the whole person curled up and knelt on the edge of the cliff, Wu Qi took a few breaths in a panic, and slowly looked behind him. The primeval forest could be seen in this place, and the difference was more obvious, but at this time, the light could hear the grinding sound of the iron door opening and closing with his ears, but he could not see it at all in this position, and no one came out into the clearing below.

Wu Qi clasped the rocks on the ground with his hands and carefully stayed away from the edge of the cliff, making sure that he would not fall down because of slipping, so he lay on his back in the snow and gasped for breath. Swallowed a mouthful of saliva with his eyes closed, his mouth was thirsty, Wu Qi was patronizing his warm body and frozen feet in the outpost, and the gang didn't have time to get him some water to drink, so they rushed out as if they were blowing the assembly trumpet, but they didn't come back, Wu Qi was worried about their safety, and he forgot about it. But after running all the way just now, his throat was hot and painful when he was thirsty, and his lungs were like sucking in a blade, and he imagined that if he had a bowl of hot water to drink at this time, he would let him use the money he saved as a soldier in exchange for him, but the reality was that he didn't.

Just now a little bit of a bit of a dash, he ran over in a daze and almost fell under the cliff, after calming down, he didn't know what to do, sat on the ground and turned his head to look around, and did not find the soldiers in the outpost, he had to struggle to get up and look around, he didn't dare to shout, he could only look everywhere, and he also paid special attention to the movement of the iron gate under the cliff, for fear that someone would find him after the toss just now, if a group of people rushed up to arrest him, he would rely on his own gun and four bullets, Who can you fight?

Wu Qi walked back along his footprints, intending to find the footprints of those people to see if they were taken away or what's going on, but he hadn't gone far, and the scarlet tebi on the silver-white hillside was eye-catching, Wu Qi saw this, quickly grabbed the gun in his hand and squatted in the snow, held the gun and looked around a few times, and only ran over in a panic after making sure that there was no one.

It was a pool of blood, frozen in the snow, surrounded by messy footprints and large indentations, and it looked like a large number of people had come running from the side, pushing the soldiers of the posts to the ground, and possibly shooting and wounding one. Wu Qi was shocked, he clenched his fists tightly, and kept asking himself: "What should I do?" What to do? ”

Now the situation is obvious, the big iron gate is indeed a stronghold of the remnants of the enemy, but I don't know whether it is the national army or the Japanese or Lao Maozi, but no matter who they are always very dangerous, there are many people and equipment, and the place where this secret base was built is extremely hidden, deliberately find this place that seems to be a natural depression into the rock wall cut out, even if there is a three or four meters high iron gate, but in many directions are not visible, only after getting close can you know the true face of Lushan.

Wu Qi didn't know if it was a coincidence or what's going on, he actually let him accidentally bump into him when he came, this kind of coincidence made him feel a little strange, but this is the route that the communication squad leader asked him to take, and he can't think of what the problem is. At the moment, Wu Qi looked at the puddle of bloodstains, he didn't know whether to go to the reinforcements, or wait in place to observe the situation, when he was gritting his teeth and making a difficulty, suddenly found out of the corner of his eye that there was smoke rising from the fine wood forest not far away, not the gray smoke emitted by the burning, but the white heat. (To be continued......)