Chapter 498: Captive
The nuns who came to the rescue took off the cotton robes on their bodies, wrapped the nuns in distress who were injured by low temperature and suffocation, and those who had the strength to carry or hold one to the mountain, and those who had no strength held one up the mountain with one on their backs, and Arabella also got a cotton robe, although she was protected by other nuns, she was still curled up in the cotton robe and shivered, her lips were white, her hands were even colder, she couldn't feel the presence of her feet, and she couldn't move at all for a while.
"Shall I carry you up?" Jiang Chanji proposed, it was better to go up to the hot spring earlier when the wind was blown by the wind on the icy and snowy mountain road, he remembered that the night when he was almost frozen to death when he was a child on the 33rd, the sect master threw the 33rd into the bathtub full of warm water to relieve himself, and the effect of the volcanic hot spring must be better.
"Good...... Good. Her upper and lower teeth were fighting, and her long eyelashes were covered with frost.
Jiang Chanji felt like a little baby on her back, and there was no weight at all.
"Thank you...... You, Chanji, if it weren't for you, we would ......"
"Needless to say, even if you don't know someone, you won't die without help, I remember you saved Ron on the mountain road, right?" he interrupted, "If it's too cold, don't talk too much." ”
"No......," she said with a hard hand, grabbing his clothes tightly, "something...... The head of the house must be told...... Avalanche ......"
"What happened to the avalanche?"
"Avalanche is...... Explode...... I heard...... Whirling ......"
"Huh?"
Jiang Chanji was taken aback, he thought that this avalanche was an accidental event, a naturally occurring avalanche, but listening to what Arabella meant, it didn't seem to be the case.
After the two groups of people separated, Arabella and their team were slightly behind Jiang Chanji's team, but their climbing speed was still faster than ordinary people, after all, these ordinary nuns had lived at the foot of the mountain for a long time, and the foot of the high mountain was also a plateau area, which was somewhat adapted to high altitude.
Arabella knew that the haze of war had shrouded everyone's heads, and the weight was overwhelming everyone, and in order to cheer everyone up, she hummed softly along the way, which was a song she learned from the teachers of Momiji Academy, and everyone listened to it very freshly, and her steps seemed to be a lot lighter.
As she walked, she suddenly stopped humming, for she heard some strange whistling sound in her ears, like the whistling sound of an arrow fired from Rafe's crossbow.
Before she could speak, she heard a muffled sound.
The muffled sound came from a side peak of Mount Aare, and if the highest main peak was a head, it was roughly equivalent to a shoulder, not too far from Arabella, but certainly not too close, about a kilometer or two in a straight line.
The others, of course, all heard the muffled noise, and saw the snow on the side peaks suddenly explode into flowers.
Everyone froze in place, still not understanding what was happening.
They are unaware of the crisis, and whatever happens, it is far away from them and does not hurt them.
"Something is flying over there...... Arabella pointed in the direction of the whistling sound, and that was on the other side of the mountain mass, in the hilly area where the two armies were fighting.
No. 22 took out the portable binoculars and unfolded them, looked over, looked at them carefully, and muttered: "It seems to be a vehicle-mounted self-propelled howitzer, right? But are they already so close?"
She put away the binoculars and urged, "Everyone go faster, in case you miss again......"
Before she could finish her words on the 22nd, Arabella grabbed her wrist hard, "Shhhh
Arabella heard something terrifying, coming from the top of the mountain, a slight cracking sound followed by a rustling sound.
The voice...... It's the sound of permafrost breaking under the snow!
Although the grenade was far away from them and did not directly hit the main peak, the sound wave and vibration became the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely crushing the area that was already at risk of avalanches.
When the temperature is high in summer and autumn, the adhesion between the snow cover decreases when the snow melts, and avalanches can easily occur when there is a slight vibration.
"It's an avalanche! an avalanche is coming!" she screamed.
It's not the first time Arabella has encountered an avalanche, but it's the first time she's seen it, and she's known what an avalanche sounds like when she's rescued climbers from an avalanche with her sisters in the past.
Her prophetic foresight had saved them all, otherwise the daylily would have cooled if everyone had sensed the signs of an avalanche.
The sisters on the mountain have experience in dealing with avalanches, although everyone's faces turned pale for a moment, but the adaptability is still good, and immediately pushed and pulled others to the nearest rock wall to get closer, in the face of the power of avalanches, except for a few super strong people in the world, it is impossible for others to block or withstand the huge waves formed by thousands of tons of snow, if you don't find cover, the whole person will be washed down the abyss by the snow.
Arabella was pushed to the innermost position without saying anything, and everyone huddled together with their heads in their hands, and the avalanche of galloping horses drowned out their screams, and the heavy snow fell on them, and the white scourge buried everything.
They made all the right choices they could, they knew that the two major causes of death in avalanches were suffocation and hypothermia, and if they were rescued within twenty minutes after the avalanche, the survival rate was very high, they huddled together to keep each other's bodies warm, and there was a small amount of air left in the gaps between people, which was the key to their survival, and more importantly, they believed that the sisters on the mountain would come to their rescue soon.
The other sisters were knocked unconscious by the snow, Arabella was still conscious, but the sisters' bodies and the rock wall behind her crushed her almost out of breath, she wanted to call for help, but she held back, because she knew that the rescue was not so fast, she estimated the time it would take for the sisters on the mountain to rush down to rescue after noticing the avalanche, if she started shouting for help now, the oxygen would not last at that time.
Thanks to her, she was used to the darkness, and if someone else were in this suffocating darkness, the sheer fear would have accelerated the consumption of oxygen.
Oxygen was running out, breathing was getting harder, it was getting colder and colder, as if she were falling into hell, and she clocked her heartbeat to the point where she began to cry out for help after what seemed like a century.
Whether they will be saved depends on whether the other sisters hear her cries, but her voice is muffled by the thick layer of snow, and who can hear her voice now that she can keenly hear the cries for help from under the snow from the avalanche victims?
In her entire body, only her heart and throat seemed to be steaming, and the rest of her body was so cold that she lost consciousness.
Just when she was almost desperate and began to pray to God for the salvation of her soul, she suddenly felt a lightness in her chest, and the sister who was pressing on her disappeared, and there was snow foam falling in her mouth, and she could breathe fresh air, and even for a moment, she seemed to see the light.
Then she learned that Jiang Chanji had found them.
She couldn't tell Jiang Chanji in such detail, her tongue seemed to be frozen and she didn't obey the call, but as long as she said a few key words, Jiang Chanji could basically guess a rough idea.
He stopped, half-turned, and looked over to the side peak indicated by Arabella, only to see that there was indeed a snow pit there, and the thick snow had even been blown up to expose the earth, and this power was obviously caused by artillery shells, missiles, and grenades.
The power of modern howitzers is very strong, it is no problem to bombard one or twenty kilometers in one shot, and if you adjust the elevation angle, it is not unexpected to hit a mountain for several kilometers, which can also explain that Arabella first heard a whistling sound and then a muffled sound, and the grenade shot so far is already the end of a strong crossbow, in a subsonic state.
The only problem is that I don't know if this shot really missed, or if it was ...... Knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger?
He didn't have time to think about it for a moment, so he quickened his pace and carried Arabella on his back to the entrance of the lava tunnel, where Catherine had been waiting to pick up a person in distress after seeing off a person in distress.
"Where are you going? and people buried in the snow?" Catherine took her sister from him, and was about to carry her into the tunnel, but found that he had no intention of coming with him, thinking that he had to go back to save people.
"I'll go over there and have a look. He pointed to the other side of the mountain," said Arabella, an avalanche caused by a grenade, and I went over to check to see if it was a missed shot or what was going on, so I could take precautions as soon as possible. ”
"Grenades?" Catherine frowned, "this should be our business, why don't you take Arabella in......"
"No, in Layla's words, we are now in the same boat, so to speak, we share honor and disgrace, we can't run away from me, and we can't run away from you, so we don't have to be so clear, and maybe it's better for me to go, after all, I'm a neutral third party. He didn't say anything more, "Take Arabella back quickly, I'll be back as soon as I can." ”
After saying that, his figure had disappeared on the mountain road.
Catherine had no choice but to chase her sister with her sister, so she had to return to the mountainside first and report back to the shepherd.
Jiang Chanji was a little regretful, it would be good if he brought Frigga with him, and flew directly up and down the mountain, now he can only jump back and forth between the cliffs and rocks like a goat, but the speed is not slow, but he has to be careful of his awkward feet.
He suddenly thought of a question - could Pegasus fly in the no-fly zone? Could it be shot down by a missile?
Every time he jumped a certain distance, he stopped to observe the next terrain, and looked at the battle on the other side of the mountain, at first he couldn't see clearly, but as the altitude dropped, he found that the battle over there was over, and he could vaguely see some people in military uniforms cleaning the battlefield.
He doesn't care who is the righteous side of the warring parties, anyway, who wins and who is justified, between countries and countries, only the fist is the axiom, even if the losing side is justified, the winner takes all, and the territory eaten does not have to be spit out, unless a stronger power intervenes, but in the final analysis, isn't it bigger than whose fist?
Towards the foot of the hill, he noticed that the victor's tanks and chariots had begun to move again, as if to continue advancing around Mount Aare to the other side.
Once the end of the war is opened, it will not end easily, and it will not stop until it has gained an overwhelming advantage enough to achieve results at the negotiating table.
Not only that, but he also saw ...... It's a picture that would be almost unbelievable if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes.
The colors and styles of military uniforms worn by the warring parties are completely different, and they can be distinguished by color when they are far away.
He saw more than a dozen men kneeling in humiliation on the battlefield with their hands behind their heads, apparently the soldiers of the defeated side had surrendered, and some of them were wounded.
The soldiers of the victorious side brandished their guns and gathered the prisoners, and just when Jiang Chanji thought that they were going to take the prisoners into the car and take them away, the soldiers of the victorious side suddenly opened fire on the prisoners.
Most of the captives were silent, and some of the captives reacted quickly and jumped up to try to escape, but how could they run away and were shot from behind.
Jiang Chanji couldn't believe his eyes, was this the modern civilized world he knew, or had he traveled to the last century?
The victorious side brutally slaughtered the prisoners of war who had surrendered, which crossed the red line of war!
What is the crime of these prisoners of war who were killed? They themselves may not want to fight, but as soldiers, they can only carry out the orders of their superiors, and if they choose to surrender, they may be sent to a military court after the war, but now they do not even have the opportunity to go to court, if they know in advance that the other side will kill the prisoners, they will definitely not surrender, but fight to the death.
After killing the prisoners of war, the soldiers of the victorious side did not look guilty at all, but laughed and lifted the dead prisoners of war and threw them into the trenches, buried them together with the enemy soldiers who had died on the battlefield, and looted the pockets of the dead before burying them, not sparing any valuable things.
He also saw soldiers search the deceased's pocket for a mobile phone, then use the deceased's finger to unlock the phone, check the contents of the phone arbitrarily, and even use the deceased's mobile phone to not know where to call.
Maybe the other side of the war won't be much better if they win this battle, but this side's performance has refreshed his three views.
Perhaps these prisoner-of-war soldiers were good soldiers, good sons, good husbands, good neighbors, warm-hearted, helpful, and kind to others, and were exemplary citizens praised by everyone, but as Luisa said, war turns good people into devils.
Then he saw a squad of soldiers, heavily armed and led by an officer, who also included two or three soldiers who had just participated in the killing of prisoners of war.
These people probably didn't climb the mountain to worship the ruins of Noah's Ark, otherwise they probably wouldn't have carried guns.
So like Ron and the other climbers, going to the mountains to find angels? But he didn't think angels and demons had any common language.
He didn't go any further, but found a place to sit and rest, and waited for the climbing team, but he was not too optimistic about the upcoming meeting.