my stealth fighter

Chapter 498 Captive
The nuns who came to the rescue took off the cotton robes on their bodies and wrapped them around the nuns in distress who had suffered double injuries from hypothermia and suffocation. If they had the strength, they carried or carried one on their own and walked up the mountain. If they were weak, they supported each other. One walked up the mountain, and Arabella also got a cotton robe. Although she was protected by other nuns, she was still curled up in the cotton robe and trembling, her lips were white, her hands were cold, and she could not feel her feet. The existence of the body cannot move around at all for a while.

"Shall I carry you up?" Jiang Chanji suggested, being blown by the wind on the icy and snowy mountain road, it's better to go up to the hot spring earlier. He remembered the night when No. 33 was almost frozen to death when he was a child, the suzerain threw No. 33 Slow down in a bathtub filled with warm water, and the effect of volcanic hot springs is definitely better.

"Okay... okay." Her upper and lower teeth were chattering, and her long eyelashes were covered with frost.

Jiang Chanji felt like carrying a baby on his back, it didn't weigh much at all.

"Thank you...you, Chanji, if it wasn't for you, we..."

"Needless to say these, even if you don't know people, you won't just leave them dead. I remember you saved Ron on the mountain road, right?" He interrupted, "If it's too cold, don't talk too much."

"No..." She grabbed his clothes tightly with one hand, and said with difficulty: "There is something... I must tell the head pastor... Xue Beng..."

"What happened to the avalanche?"

"The avalanche is... an explosion... I hear... a whistling sound..."

"what?"

Jiang Chanji was taken aback. He thought the avalanche was an accident, a natural avalanche, but Arabella didn't seem to think so.

After the two groups separated, Arabella's team lagged slightly behind Jiang Chanji's team, but their climbing speed was faster than ordinary people. After all, these ordinary nuns lived at the foot of the mountain for a long time, and so did the foot of the mountain. In the plateau area, it is more or less adapted to high altitude.

Arabella knew that the haze of the war had shrouded everyone's head, making everyone breathless. In order to cheer everyone up, she hummed a song along the way. It was a song she learned from the teachers of Hongye Academy. Everyone sounded very fresh, and their steps seemed to be a lot lighter.

As she walked, she suddenly stopped humming, because she heard a strange whistling sound in her ears, just like the whistling sound accompanied by the arrows shot from Raphael's strong bow and crossbow.

Before she could speak, she heard a muffled sound.

The muffled sound came from a side peak of Ararat Mountain. If the highest main peak is considered as the head, this side peak is roughly equivalent to the shoulder. It is not too far from Arabella and the others, but it is certainly not too close. The straight-line distance is about one or two kilometers look.

Of course, everyone else heard the muffled sound and saw the snow on the side peak suddenly explode.

Everyone froze in place, still not understanding what happened.

They are not aware of the crisis, and whatever happens is far away from them and cannot hurt them.

"Something flew over there..." Arabella pointed to the direction where the roar sounded, and that was the other side of Mount Ararat, the hilly area where the armies of the two countries were fighting.

On the 22nd, he took out his portable telescope and unfolded it. He looked over, took a closer look, and muttered, "It seems to be a vehicle-mounted self-propelled howitzer, right? But are they so close?"

She put away the binoculars and urged: "Everyone, go faster, in case you miss it again..."

Before finishing talking on the 22nd, Arabella grabbed her wrist forcefully, "Shhh!"

Arabella heard a terrifying sound, coming from a high mountain top, a slight cracking sound followed by a rustling sound.

This sound... is the sound of the permafrost ice breaking under the snow!

Although the grenade just now was far away from them and didn't hit the main peak directly, the sound waves and vibrations became the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely collapsed the area that was already at risk of avalanches.

The temperature is high in summer and autumn, and after the surface snow layer melts, the adhesion between the snow is reduced, and avalanches are prone to occur with slight vibrations.

"It's an avalanche! The avalanche is coming!" she screamed.

It is not the first time for Arabella to encounter an avalanche, but it is the first time for her to experience an avalanche. She has rescued climbers in an avalanche with her sisters in the past, and she knows what an avalanche sounds like.

Her foresight saved all of them, otherwise, if everyone noticed the signs of an avalanche, the day lily would be cold.

The sisters on the mountain all have experience in dealing with avalanches. Although everyone turned pale for a moment, their adaptability was good. They immediately pushed and pulled others to get closer to the nearest rock wall. Facing the power of avalanches, there are only a handful of It is impossible for others to block or withstand the huge waves formed by thousands of tons of snow. If they don't look for shelter, the whole person will be washed down the abyss by the snow.

Arabella was involuntarily pushed to the innermost position. Everyone hugged their heads and huddled together. Their screams were covered by the galloping avalanche. Heavy snow fell on them, and the white natural disaster buried them. everything.

They made the right choices. They knew that the two major causes of death in avalanches were suffocation and hypothermia. If they were rescued within 10 minutes after the avalanche, the survival rate was very high. They huddled together and used each other's bodies to keep warm. There is a small amount of air remaining in the gap between them, which is the key to their survival. More importantly, they believe that the sisters on the mountain will come to rescue them soon.

The other sisters were knocked unconscious by the snow, but Arabella remained awake, but the bodies of the sisters and the rock wall behind her made her almost out of breath. She wanted to call for help, but held back forcefully. Because she knew that the rescue would not be so fast, she estimated the time when the sisters on the mountain rushed down to rescue after they noticed the avalanche. If she started calling for help now, the oxygen would not be able to last until then.

Fortunately, it was her, she was already used to the darkness, if someone else was in this suffocating darkness, just being frightened would speed up the consumption of oxygen.

Oxygen is getting less and less, breathing is getting more and more difficult, the surrounding is getting colder and colder, like falling into hell, she counts according to her heartbeat, after what seems like a century, she starts to call for help.

Whether they will be saved depends on whether the other sisters can hear her cry, but her voice is blocked by the thick snow layer. In the past, she could keenly hear the avalanche victims calling for help from under the snow. Now who can hear it? Where is her voice?
In her whole body, it seemed that only her heart and throat were still 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 to redeem her soul, she suddenly felt a lightness in her chest, and the sister who was pressing on her disappeared, and snow foam fell in her mouth, and she could breathe fresh air Yes, even for a moment, she seemed to see the light.

Then she knew that Jiang Chanji had found them.

She couldn't speak to Jiang Chanji in such detail, her tongue seemed to be frozen, and she couldn't control it, but as long as she uttered a few key words, Jiang Chanji could basically guess the general idea.

He stopped, turned his body halfway, and looked towards the side peak that Arabella indicated, only to see that there was indeed a snow pit over there, and the thick snow was even blown out of the dirt. Such power is obviously Caused by shells, missiles, grenades.

The power of modern howitzers is very strong. It is no problem to blast out [-] to [-] kilometers with one shot. If you adjust the elevation angle, it is not surprising to hit a few kilometers on the mountain. This can also explain that Arabella heard the whistling sound first and then heard the muffled sound , the grenade shot so far is already at the end of its strength, and it is in a subsonic state.

The only problem is, I don't know if the shot was really missed, or... knocking the mountain to shake the tiger?
He didn't have time to think about this for the time being, so he quickened his pace and carried Arabella to the entrance of the lava tunnel. Catherine was already waiting here to pick up a person in distress after sending them off.

"Where are you going? Someone else was buried in the snow?" Catherine took her sister from him, and was about to carry her into the tunnel, but found that he didn't intend to follow, thinking that he would go back to save others.

"I'll go over there and have a look." He pointed to the other side of the mountain, "Arabella said, it was an avalanche caused by a grenade. I'll go over and check to see if it's a miss or something. Take precautions early."

"Grenade?" Catherine frowned, "This should be our business, why don't you take Arabella in..."

"No, in Leila's words, we are on the same boat now, we can be said to share weal and woe, we can't run away from me, and we can't run away from you, so there's no need to make a clear distinction, and maybe it's better for me to go, after all I'm a neutral third party." He didn't say any more, "Take Arabella back quickly, I'll come back as soon as possible."

After speaking, his figure has disappeared on the mountain road.

Catherine had no choice but to chase after her younger sister, so she had to go back to the mountainside and report to the dean.

Jiang Chanji felt a little regretful. It would be great if he brought Frigga with him. He 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, just Be careful not to twist your foot.

He suddenly thought of a question - can Pegasus fly in the no-fly zone?Will it be shot down by missiles?
Every time he jumped down a certain distance, he stopped to observe the next terrain, and looked at the battle situation 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. Some people in military uniforms can be seen cleaning the battlefield.

He doesn't care who is the righteous side of the two warring parties. Anyway, whoever wins is justified. Between countries, only fists are the axiom. Even if the losing side is justified, it doesn't matter. There is no need to expect others to spit out the territory, unless there is a stronger power to intervene, but in the final analysis, isn't it bigger than someone else's fist?
Near the foot of the mountain, he noticed that the tanks and chariots of the winning side were moving again, as if to bypass Mount Ararat and continue on the other side.

Once the war starts, it will not end easily. It will not stop until one's own side has gained an overwhelming advantage enough to achieve fruitful results at the negotiating table.

Not only that, but he also saw... a scene that would have been unbelievable if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

The military uniforms worn by the two warring parties are completely different in color and style, and they can be distinguished by color when they are far away.

He saw more than a dozen people kneeling in humiliation on the battlefield with their hands raised behind their heads. It was obvious that soldiers from the defeated side had surrendered, and some of them were injured.

The soldiers of the victorious side waved their guns and gathered the captives. Just when Jiang Chanji thought they were going to take the captives into the cart, the soldiers of the victorious side suddenly shot at the captives.

Most of the captives were speechless, and some captives reacted quickly and jumped up trying to escape, but how could they escape and were shot from behind.

Jiang Chanji couldn't believe his eyes. Is this the modern civilized world he knows?Or time travel to the last century?

The victors brutally slaughtered the prisoners who had surrendered. This is beyond the red line of war!
What was 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 orders from their superiors. If they choose to surrender after the war, they may be sent to a military court, but now they have no chance to go to court. If they knew in advance that the other party would kill the captives , will definitely not surrender, but fight to the death.

After the soldiers of the victorious side killed the prisoners of war, they didn't show any guilt at all. They lifted the dead prisoners of war and threw them into the trench with a smile, and buried them with the enemy soldiers who died on the battlefield. The pockets of the deceased were searched, not letting go of any valuables.

He also saw a soldier find the mobile phone from the pocket of the deceased, then use the deceased's finger to unlock the mobile phone, wantonly check the contents of the mobile phone, and even use the deceased's mobile phone to make a call to no one knows where.

Perhaps if the other party wins this battle, their performance will not be much better, but this party's performance has refreshed his three views.

Maybe these soldiers who killed prisoners of war were good soldiers, good sons, good husbands, good neighbors, good-natured, helpful, kind, and model citizens praised by everyone, but as Luisa said, war will turn good people into into the devil.

Then he saw a small group of soldiers climbing the mountain, fully armed and led by an officer, including two or three soldiers who had just participated in the killing of prisoners of war.

These people probably didn't climb the mountain to pay homage to the remains of Noah's Ark, otherwise they wouldn't be carrying guns.

So, like Ron and other climbers, go to the mountain to find angels?But he doesn't think angels and demons have any common language.

Instead of going down, he waited for work, found a place to sit down and rest, and waited for the climbing team by the way, but he was not very optimistic about the upcoming meeting.

(End of this chapter)