My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 624 Escape from the Dead
"Cough cough..."

A declining figure limped forward in the bushes, faltering as if it might fall down at any time.

The storm last night has passed. Fortunately, Onozuka Jin escaped, but his body became weaker and weaker, and his eyes were purple, and he was like a walking zombie.

After witnessing the death of so many companions, he now doesn't know where to go and can only keep moving forward.

Onozuka Jin was in a daze and walked to the edge of a gentle slope unknowingly.

As a result, he accidentally stepped on the ground and rolled down.

Fortunately, the gentle slope was not too high. He rolled on the ground several times and finally stopped. However, the fall left him sore and sore that he no longer had the strength to stand up.

Lying in the weeds, Onozuka Ren was shocked by the hard object on his waist. He silently took out the grenade and looked at the only thing left on his body with dull eyes.

Slowly, his fingers unconsciously closed on the pull ring.

It's so painful...It's so painful...

If you have to continue to endure all this, you might as well get rid of it and get over it...

The hand holding the grenade was shaking. The funny thing was that he didn't even have the strength to pull the ring.

Haha... Is it so difficult to die...?Onozuka couldn't help but laugh at himself.

Or maybe, he still didn't have the real courage to die.

He seemed to have accepted his fate, lying on the ground and closing his eyes, never willing to get up again.

"Aren, get up quickly, they are coming!"

He didn't know how much time passed, but when he was dying, he seemed to see his former companion, his fellow countryman, urgently urging him.

And behind him...the squadron leader, his comrades in the team, the inhumane military doctor, and the maniac who ate human flesh from yesterday were striding towards him...

"They" surrounded each other, looking at themselves with greedy eyes, as if what was in front of them was not people, but food.

Even... his friend from the same hometown who was reminding him just now joined in, staring at him with bloodthirsty and cruel eyes along with the gang, as if he would pounce on him like a wild beast in the next second and cut him into pieces.

Do not!
don't want…

Don't eat me!

Onozuka Jin was so frightened that he yelled and tried desperately to escape, but his current weak body found it difficult to stand up and he still had the strength to run away.

Suddenly, all the "people" around him disappeared. He raised his head and looked around, and there was only half a person around him except himself.

Hallucination?…

When he was confused, Onozuka Jin saw a plant not far away. The leaves were very familiar... He didn't know how many he had found this month. They seemed to be sweet potato leaves! ?

Perhaps because he saw the hope of survival, he burst out with amazing strength at this moment, tried to hold himself up and crawled over desperately.

Sure enough, they are sweet potato leaves, and there must be sweet potatoes growing underneath!
Onozuka Hitoshi stretched out his hand to dig, and quickly uprooted the sweet potato plant. The sweet potato, which was only three fingers thick, had now become a life-saving straw. He ignored the dirt and directly ate it with the dirt.

Naturally, raw sweet potatoes with an earthy smell didn't taste good, but after being hungry for several days, he didn't care whether they tasted good or not. After making two of them in one go, he finally felt the hope and sweetness brought by the food.Only then did Onozuka Jin discover that underneath this gentle slope overgrown with weeds was actually a depression, in which many wild sweet potatoes grew. There were at least thirty or fifty plants in total.

It seems that no one has discovered it yet, which is really pie in the sky.

No, we must not let others discover it, we must dig it out and hide it quickly!
As he said, Onozuka took advantage of the early morning fog to find some dew and drank it. After regaining some strength, he quickly started digging.

After a while, I dug up more than thirty pieces of red sweet potatoes.This harvest made Onozuka beam with joy. With these, if he saved a little on food, he could last for ten days and a half at least.

But soon he couldn't laugh anymore. During the day, he ate raw sweet potatoes and drank cold water. His stomach hurt so much that he couldn't stand up. He also had diarrhea all night, and his body and mind were severely tortured again.

The next day, Onozuka Hitoshi, who had been struggling with his stomach all night, looked at the rising sun, feeling extremely melancholy in his heart.

Only then did he realize that he needed to find a source of fire. His body was already extremely weak. If he continued to eat with his current resistance, he might suffer from intestinal diseases. Malaria was fatal.

Anyway, at this juncture, he will either starve to death or die of illness. He can't be sure when he will become a corpse on the roadside.
I don’t dare to hold out any hope anymore. As long as I can still be alive, that’s better than anything else.

Now that we have finally found food, we must not waste it no matter what. Even if we risk being discovered by enemy planes, it is better than holding on to the food and starving to death.

So Onozuka Jin took off his military uniform, used the clothes as a baggage, packed up all the sweet potatoes he dug and tied them to his body, and continued walking deeper into the forest.

Soon he found a village, but the village was eerily quiet and there were still some charred ruins. It was obvious that the little devil had caused it to be in disgrace.

Because the target here is relatively large and easy to attract air strikes, the Japanese do not dare to stay here, as if they are leaving the building empty.

Unexpectedly, a severely decomposed Japanese soldier's body was found on the roadside at the entrance of the village. A big hole was opened in the head. The stench was disgusting. I don't know how this unlucky guy died here.

Onozuka Jin didn't think much, he just walked over silently and groped for a while. There was nothing on the other party that could be used, except for a Type [-] rifle and four bullets in the chamber.

Perhaps, the guy on the ground just couldn't stand it anymore and swallowed the gun and committed suicide.

Without stopping too much, Onozuka Ren picked up the rifle and walked into the village.

After entering the village, dilapidated scenes can be seen everywhere. You can tell that the place has been looted without even looking.

There was a thatched house in front that was relatively intact and seemed to have not been damaged. With some hope, he quickly walked in to take a look.

The room was extremely dark, filled with the smell of damp, moldy decay, and debris was randomly placed in a pile. It might be difficult to find matches, flints, and the like here.

While Onozuka Ren was rummaging hard, he suddenly felt something was wrong. As soon as he raised his head, he found two pairs of big, frightened eyes staring at him in the corner.

"what!"

Like a ghost, he was so frightened that he almost changed his voice. He quickly backed out of the door, tremblingly raised his gun inside, and shouted pretending to be calm:
"Who is it? Come out...come out!"

Onozuka Jin bravely shouted again, but there was still no response.

So he slowly moved to the door, while being alert to the situation inside, he carefully opened the wooden door completely, and only then could he clearly see the scene inside through the light coming in from the outside.

It turned out to be two young indigenous men and women. They were leaning on each other in the corner. The woman hugged the man's arm tightly and shivered, while the man curled up in the corner and did not dare to move. He looked at the man in front of him with a gun in fear. Japanese soldiers…

(End of this chapter)