Chapter 1: Ambush in the Jungle
In the dark jungle, the sound of insects chirping lingers in my ears.
Gathering by parachuting, we watched as the huge iron bird flew high into the air, and then quickly disappeared on the other side of the ridge.
Because Zhilu Dao and the other teams will be separated by more than ten kilometers, so we don't have to be too nervous, in the dark, we will first find the personnel, me, Qin Zhen, Teng Xiao, Lao Zhao (Zhao Xingrui), Zhu Chenchen, Bai Lutan and Wang Xiaojia, seven team members, plus the instructor Yin Yue, who acts as a supervisor, everyone gathered together.
We crouched down, formed a circle, and then under the light of a flashlight, we used a map and compass, as well as a reference object that we could see, to determine our approximate location.
In this operation, in addition to personal belongings, we also brought maps, climbing ropes, water bottles, compasses, sapper shovels, three-day doses of compressed rations, waterproof lighters, strong flashlights, first aid kits and other wilderness survival tools in the military backpacks, in addition to the sapper shovels that can be used for self-defense, we also brought the common D80-tiger tooth dagger in the army to prevent snakes, insects and beasts. As for the rest of the firearms, none of them are available.
After making sure that the situation was okay with each other in the dark, we began to set up camp on a large tree and waited for the official arrival of the trial at eight o'clock the next day.
And all exploratory behaviors before that are against the law.
This is supervised by an instructor, and there is no leave to do it.
There was very little camping in the jungle, and the few people next to me seemed very excited, but after the excitement, there was fear. Looking at the dark jungle, the owl cry in the distance, and the strange branches swaying in the wind, make people a little wood. What they fear most is not the enemy's approach, but the countless snakes and insects hidden in the grass or thorns of this jungle.
Fortunately, they were in the same team as me, as a Gu cultivator, and a Gu cultivator with a golden silkworm Gu, there were almost no insects and snakes that could break into the range of the domineering little guy of the fat worm alone. Ever since I landed, in the dark corner, there were countless insects and long snakes crying while silently moving, away from me and the golden silkworm Gu in my body.
In about half an hour, we worked together to build a wooden shed.
I found some slightly dry branches and blades of grass, threw them on the ground, and asked the team members to wrap themselves in blankets to recuperate and wait for the trial to officially come tomorrow. I promised Zhu Chenchen and them that I would help everyone watch, and there would not be half a bug to trouble them, and they would recharge their energy with peace of mind. Tomorrow, we will face a high-intensity march and a potentially brutal melee.
After a period of getting along, everyone knew that I usually don't pack tickets randomly, so I slept with peace of mind.
And I rode on the branches of a big tree and kept a sentry for everyone.
I rubbed the blackened tiger tooth dagger on my right hand, the 32-centimeter-long dagger was refined and tightly structured, worthy of being a military product. And Yin Yue stood not far from me and asked me, "Aren't you sleeping tonight?" I shook my head and said no, I just couldn't sleep. She raised her head, her eyes were shining, and she said that she was excited?
I said no, she said nervous? I shook my head again, and saw that she looked tangled, saying that it was fear, fear of death.
Yin Yue smiled and said that you are afraid of death?
I nodded and said yes, yes, I'm so scared of death, so I don't want to die. I always felt that a lot was going to happen in this trial, and I was used to fighting side by side with a brother who knew each other well, and he was behind me anyway, and now that he was suddenly gone, my heart was empty and uncomfortable......
Yin Yue said that the brother you are talking about is Boss Chen's junior brother, Xiao Keming, right?
I nodded, and said you know the truth. Yin Yue disdainfully said nonsense, in August last year, we crossed the border in a hurry and ran to the mountain nest in Myanmar, and we also used the Shenxing paper armor horse, not for that little Taoist. But speaking of which, Boss Chen is in a high position, although he is modest on the surface, but he has always been arrogant, and there are not many people who are often mentioned by him, his little junior brother is counted as one, Boss Chen said that his uncle Li Daozi is a legend of the Maoshan Sect, and the world admires it, but if there is a generation that can surpass him, it is estimated that only he is a little junior brother - such a high evaluation is really rare.
I shook my legs and boots in thick trousers, and said that that guy did have a furrow in his heart, and I thought he was a deceitful little trash fish.
Yin Yue said, do you know who Boss Chen often mentions?
I shook my head and said I didn't know what to do, and then joked that it was me? Something surprising happened, Yin Yue actually nodded, and said yes, Boss Chen is proficient in the emperor's art "Great Liuren", and he said that you will definitely become a person who shocks the world-otherwise he will be so good to you? But I'm strange, just a few times like you, can you be worthy of Boss Chen's reputation?
I was looked down upon by her, and I said forget it, I didn't dare to be shocked by the world, and I didn't have that life, I just hope that this trial can come back alive.
Yin Yue shook his head, smiled, and did not speak, but looked up with me at the faint crescent moon in the sky.
There was no sound all around, only insects screaming.
Having said that, there were so many bugs in the jungle that night, the fat bugs ate a lot of fat.
In the early morning of the next day, the morning sun sprinkled down from the swaying branches and leaves in the woods, and the gold was reflected on everyone's faces, and the team members, who had been beautifully refreshed, were waiting for Yin Yue's order. We need to leave on time at eight o'clock. Before that, the wild fruits, yellow essences and other foods that Duoduo and the little demon helped me get have turned into food in the stomachs of these people.
Everyone was very satisfied with what I had done as a temporary captain, and they praised it without words.
Almost everyone here can draw, and they know a little about repelling spirits, but few people can have this ability to repel insects, and other teams may be able to prepare drugs to repel insects and snakes through herbs, but it is not as immediate as mine, so this alone is enough to win everyone's trust.
Trust is never blind, but all the details, bit by bit.
Before starting the operation, our entire squad had been studying the plan discussed yesterday on the map, and decided to surround from the side of the hill and go a little farther away, bypassing possible ambushes and not participating in the fiercest confrontation at the beginning. You must know that we have hundreds of miles of mountain roads to walk, and wasting our energy in the initial scramble is really too much to lose, and even if we can defeat the other party, it is easy for other teams to pick up the leaks and take advantage of them in vain.
If this is really the case, it is too much, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Among us, Qin Zhen, a handsome man with a beard, is from Baise in Guangnan and has relevant jungle marching experience, and Lao Zhao is also a person who has been staying in the mountains all year round, knowing how to hide himself and discover the enemy, so they will exist as a rotating vanguard soldier; Bai Lutan and Zhu Chenchen are in the center, while I am also in charge of planning and directing in the middle, and Wang Xiaojia and Teng Xiao are in charge of the back road.
This is the formation of our march.
As the deputy commander, I thought twice and decided to hand over the seemingly thin, but very calm Wang Xiaojia to the position.
As for instructor Yin Yue, she was an off-site person, outside our squad.
This is really an easy thing for her to be young but experienced - not to mention, this woman seems to have a lot of treasures on her, she is a rich little girl.
As the time passed, the wait was a bit tiring, but we were all able to control our emotions well and take time to rest.
At eight o'clock, Yin Yue nodded at me, and I clenched my fist vigorously.
Qin Zhen and Lao Zhao walked into the road ahead of them one step ahead, and after ten meters apart, we began to walk forward. There has been an explanation above, saying that the altitude of Gaoligong Mountain is very different, in feng shui, it belongs to the big mountains and rivers, the straight road may only be a few kilometers, but it may be more than ten kilometers or dozens of kilometers to walk down, and the road is very difficult to walk, very steep. From the very beginning, we struggled with this treacherous mountain road, and in the hot and humid environment, we began to make a difficult progress.
But fortunately, because of the choice of route, I didn't meet anyone in front of me, and I walked quietly for several hours.
However, when we walked to about eleven o'clock, Lao Zhao in front suddenly stopped, and we all hid. After a while, Qin Zhen came back and told me that they had found traces of human activity in front, according to Lao Zhao's judgment, if we go further, we should be able to find the place where the other team camped yesterday, and asked me what to do?
I was surprised, I didn't expect to go around in a big circle, and I actually copied it on someone else's back road, what a coincidence.
The first one to be excited was Zhu Chenchen, she encouraged me to come forward and take a look, if I ran into Huang Pengfei's kid, get him first, right? ——As a person from the same province, Zhu Chenchen originally had a good relationship with Huang Pengfei, but in the days of the training camp, when Huang Pengfei showed hostility to us, Zhu Chenchen immediately became jealous and hateful, and began to have endless contempt for that kid.
However, when the friends around me put their trust in my hands, my first feeling is a heavy responsibility, not a spirit.
So I thought about it for a while, and asked Lao Zhao and Qin Zhen to alternately go to visit and then return.
The two nodded and left, and came back after more than ten minutes, saying that there was indeed a camping site, but the building was already empty, and depending on the situation, it could not take two hours to go. I nodded, and headed to the first destination of Ji Lu's plan, "Climbing Ghost Slope", there was only one way in this direction, and we had to move forward, but we still had to be more careful. Then I walked forward, turning over a small ditch in front of me, and suddenly there was a strange movement in the forest, and I heard Qin Zhen's suppressed scream, coming from the front. I looked up, and the smoke was billowing in front of me, and the shadows of the trees were shaking, as if someone was doing something.
My heart jumped, knowing that I had been ambushed.