Chapter 20 The Road Ends
Under the blue sky, there are two suns, one large and one small, that continuously shoot heat to the earth, and the wilderness located fifty miles outside the city of Beijian is under the light of the small sun, the temperature is about 35 degrees, and the people who march on the wilderness draw a water mark on the ground with sweat, but in a blink of an eye, the water mark is evaporated by the sun.
This kind of thing continued, but the hot weather still did not allow people to slack off, and the burial alive that day planted a seed called fear in this group of villagers who had never experienced the army, and this seed had taken root and thrived on the road of these days, so that they did not dare to resist the hard work.
This is the Minfu Brigade where First Ming and the others are, and they are being 'transported' to the front line to deliver grain and grass. The whole team is extremely long, except for the dozen or so armor soldiers at the head and end of the team, the rest are people's husbands, two people in a row, and there are some people outside the team who keep whipping the people who fall behind, which is also the reason why people dare not slack off.
"Eh, what's wrong with you?" one of them shouted when he noticed that the person next to him had suddenly collapsed on top of him.
The sound caught the attention of the people around them, and they stopped, causing the team to stop. The first Ming mouth is full of dry skin, basically relying on the subconscious to move around, due to the extreme lack of water makes him feel very painful in the brain, his thoughts can't gather, the brain is chaotic, seeing that the queue stopped, he subconsciously thought that it had arrived, and hurriedly raised his head, but found that the distance was still boundless wilderness, and his heart was disappointed, it turned out to be another death. He swallowed with difficulty the non-existent saliva, and asked the soul beside him, "How far is it?"
Soul Sheng's original black hair has turned into a ball of dry grass, his blackened lips are covered with white broken skin, and his eyes are a little sloppy, listening to the first Ming's question, his sloppy eyes gathered some brilliance, and said: "It's not far away, there are still dozens of miles to go." ”
"Dozens of miles... Road. The first Ming read in his mouth, stood on tiptoe, and saw the person thrown out of the commotion of the front team, sighed, and said secretly in his heart: "It's terrible." ”
The man's heat stroke was only a little episode in the procession, and after being thrown out of the queue, no one paid any attention to it, and since that night, these people had become numb to death, and in the past few days of penance, no less than fifty people have been left on the road, unattended, and left to fend for themselves.
The team kept moving forward, like a long snake that kept shuttling, and from time to time someone would fall out of it, and then someone would go up to solve it, in case someone escaped under the pretext of illness, so that even if someone was seriously ill, they insisted on marching, because if they didn't enter, they would die!
The temperature on the ground was so high that the scene began to distort, and I don't know how long it took, but I only felt my brain shrink into a ball, vacating the space in the skull, and with every step, my brain slammed into some space, making every step of his life feel like a pinprick. Suddenly, he felt as if his head had entered a spike, and he trembled violently, his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness.
When the first Ming said that he wanted to drink water, he suddenly felt a little moist in his mouth, just like the spring rain moistened the dry fields in summer, and the moist feeling made him have vitality, and he subconsciously swallowed it hurriedly, and found that there was more and more water, one mouthful, and he opened his eyes with happiness.
In front of his eyes, Heiwa looked concerned, the first Ming felt at ease, this thing saved himself again! He opened his eyes wide, and found that the soul was in the distance, his eyes were full of concern, and longing, the first Ming reacted at this time, and the water on his lips!
Heiwa saw that the first Ming woke up, and hurriedly tilted the angle of the bamboo tube even more, and the water gradually poured to the mouth of the first Ming. The first Ming looked at it and took another sip until he felt saliva in his mouth, and then he stopped. In one bite, only a quarter of the original two-thirds of the bamboo tube remained.
The soul on the side smacked his lips, but he didn't dare to show anything, so he simply turned away.
After the first drink, he pushed the bamboo tube to Heiwa, he knew that this was a small amount of water transported in front of the team, and each time it was distributed regularly and quantitatively, each person who went to receive it had only one copy, and the one who reclaimed it was killed, so Heiwa must have only one copy.
Seeing that the first Ming pushed back, Heiwa was not hypocritical, and hurriedly drank the water, and then licked the bamboo tube until there was not a drop of water left.
The first Ming looked at it, and was secretly sad in his heart, but he had to drink, if he didn't drink, he might die on the road, and if he drank it, he might stay up until the next time he released the water and then give more water to Heiwa. He also expected to wait for Heiwa to finish drinking and hurry up to get a piece of water, but before he could get up, another order came from the distance, "Keep going!"
It wasn't just water and food that were in short supply along the way, but many people brought food from home, so no one starved to death along the way. The first two of them also brought dry food, and in addition, they also had some magical dried red fruits in their baggage, although the effect of satiety would be reduced, but one could still eat half full. Along the way, Heiwa thought about eating it, but was stopped by the first Ming, which was his last guarantee for backup, maybe he could use it in the future!
It is almost certain that the first Ming suffered from heat stroke, and he knew it himself, otherwise he would not have been weak and dizzy, but he still held on, and tried his best to move forward with the support of Soul Sheng and Heiwa. Originally, from the appearance, his body should be stronger than the thin soul student, but the soul life not only survived by himself, but also did not have much difficulty in the process of supporting the first Ming, which made the first Ming feel that the physical fitness of the people in this world is really strong, and at the same time gave him a lot of courage to hold on.
After a few hours of noon, the sky gradually began to cool, and the two suns fell in opposite directions, so that people would not worry about whether they would collide, and the first song finally survived to release the water again.
Heiwa and Soul Sheng came to the water with the trembling first Ming, and couldn't help but let the water release armor take a look more, but the armor only glanced at it, and basically sentenced the first Ming to death, now that he is so sick, the back is even worse!
After drinking the water, the first Ming felt that he had recovered some of his spirits, he gave some water to Heiwa, because the temperature was dropping, so the demand for water was not so great, he asked Heiwa to eat some dry food for this water first, somehow, he suddenly felt very hungry.
There are not only bread in the baggage of the two, but also pieces of meat, which makes the people around them salivate, and few people who can come here can often eat meat, and the soul is too, seeing the meat strips, although his mouth is still very thirsty, he still begins to secrete saliva.
The first Ming saw the coveted looks of the people around him, and he didn't care, someone had already come to test the water with his own courage before, and after the black baby almost broke his leg, few people came to cause trouble again. The meat strips in the baggage have been completely dried, and dozens of catties of meat are only about ten catties after they are completely dried, and the two of them have eaten a lot in the past few days, and there are still five catties left.
When the soul saw the first move, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly turned out the meat strip, the meat strip was afraid that it was not more than half a catty, so that his chapped lips also showed a smile, and then he was not hypocritical, and ate it in a big gulp.
The jerky was dry, but they ate it with great relish, and by the time they set out again, they had a lot of stuff in their stomachs.
I don't know if it's the effect of snake gall bladder, the first Ming feels that he will be hungry as soon as he has pain, as long as he eats, the pain will be relieved, just like at this time, he ate jerky, and it didn't take long for the things in his stomach to be digested, and with it, his body gradually strengthened, and the headache gradually eased. The alleviating heat stroke pulled the first Naru back from the brink of hell.
Leaving the borders of the Polar Nation does not give people a clear feeling, and few people in this team know that they have stepped into another country, and only after dawn, waiting for a long period of stable weather, will they feel that they have left the Polar Country. However, the impact of climate on people is relatively small in a short period of time, and the only change they feel is that the wilderness begins to change, the ground gradually protrudes, sometimes uphill, sometimes downhill, walking in the open front with some giant shadows.
The gradual increase in the number of trees made First Ming's heart move slightly, and he asked the soul life, "Are you coming?"
The soul sheng walked with his head down, listened to the first Ming's question, looked around, and said, "It should be there." ”
The first Ming said, "Shouldn't you have been here?"
Soul Sheng sneered and said, "Have you been here?" No, you underestimate Beijian City too much, the territory under the jurisdiction of Beijian City is several times larger than that of the Second Pole Country, even if all our people are captured, no one may be able to see the same city." Judging from the direction of our journey, it should be farther west than the city I was last visiting, I don't know what kind of city it is, but I know that the further east we go, the more important the town, and the farther west we go, the looser the garrison. ”
The first Ming said, "Why?"
Soul Sheng said: "Because the west is the north of the Mochen Country, with a large population, and the east is the north of the Two Pole Country, so the place is sparsely populated and there are few beasts. ”
The first Ming said, "In this way, there will be less danger in the west?"
Soul Sheng thought for a moment and said: "Definitely, the beast clan we have always faced is only a few beast clan invasions, the east and the west are almost the same, but there are more armor soldiers in the east than in the west, so the danger in the east is less. ”
, First Ming almost blurted out that he was really unlucky in his life, and he was afraid of something! But he just complained, but in fact, the pressure in his heart did not increase much, because the main person who acted was still Heiwa. And Heiwa, walking with her head down, chewing jerky in her mouth, as if the conversation between the two had nothing to do with him.
The fact that the day's march was rare and did not allow people to rest, and that the march continued after nightfall, caused many people to complain, and some wondered what this might mean, and the reactions were mixed, but none of them were enough to affect the fact that the march had been carried out overnight.
In the second half of the night, the serpentine procession finally stopped, and the first Ming behind the team could be seen in the distance, between the two huge black shadows, there was a rectangular object, he guessed, that was the last stop of this long journey, Beijian City.