Tibetan Mastiff Notes

Chapter 35 Wolf kills wolf (12)
I looked around, dumbfounded, I have never been to this place, and I don't know which corner behind which mountain the airflow threw us.If it wasn’t snowing, you might still be able to find your way, but now the sky is covered with snow and everything is white, it’s hard to find your way, and the wind direction is also unstable, as if there are winds blowing in all directions, depending on the direction of the wind alone Judging the position is also not feasible.I had no choice but to tell the truth: "Brother, I have never been to this place. I am not familiar with the prairie. In such a snowy day, it is not easy to go back. At most, we can only find that small mountain village, and we will think about it later." way."

I stood up and looked around. There was a mountain peak on the left and right sides, both of which looked steep and about the same height. I was not sure which one was Tianzi Peak, so I hesitated for a long time.On such a snowy prairie, as long as there is a deviation of five degrees, the deviation will become larger and larger, and in the end it will even run in the opposite direction.There is no other way to choose, we can only choose one of the peaks as the reference coordinates, I hope the choice is correct, if we can walk to the foot of the mountain before dark, and if the judgment is correct, we still have hope to find Xianba Uncle's house, if you make a wrong choice, you have no choice but to walk back.

Yang Zhonghua has not woken up, his pulse is still normal, but his breathing is a little slow.In fact, in such a harsh climate on the plateau, oxygen is very thin, and the clothes on the body are thick, everyone is a little panting.

I was the only one among the three who was not injured. I walked forward with Yang Zhonghua on my back. We have to go hungry, and if we can’t find that small village before dark, we have to continue to go hungry.”

In order to encourage each other, I said: "Don't worry, my choice is right, I will definitely be able to eat hot and spicy yak meat soup tonight." place, but looking back at another mountain, I feel that there is something even more wrong with that place.

The airflow down the mountain is not as strong and chaotic as in the sky, but the snow is so thick that it takes a lot of effort to walk. The violent wind blows against your face for a while, and blows hard into your ears for a while. Drill in.Liu Zhi and I took turns carrying Yang Zhonghua on our backs. We were really tired from walking, so we sat down on the side of the road to catch our breath. I pinched Yang Zhonghua again and did shiatsu, hoping that he would wake up, but Yang Zhonghua's eyelids were still closed. Open it, Liu Zhi and I's heart sank to freezing point.

In the beginning, the two of them cheered each other up, talked and laughed, and took pleasure in suffering. Later, seeing the sky getting darker and darker, the "white hair wind" was blowing crazily and brutally ravaging the whole world in front of them , the surrounding area was completely white, and from time to time, the feet would sink into a snow pit, and the mood of both of them became worse and worse.

The sky became dark, and the more we walked, the more we felt that something was wrong. When the helicopter was thrown out by the airflow, it might have been far away from Tianzi Peak. The two peaks on the left and right we saw are very likely, none of them are Tianzi Peak. , that is to say, whether we go left or right, the orientation is wrong.Snow flakes fluttered wildly in front of my eyes. Seeing that the sky was completely dark, except for the thick snow in front, there was no human habitation in sight. The further they walked, the more discouraged they became, and finally the two had to stop.Liu Zhi glanced at me and said, "What should we do? There is no village, no shop, no place to shelter from the wind, where should we spend the night?"

I looked around, and I couldn't figure out the direction myself. In this place, except for the locals who have lived in this place for many years, they can walk by feeling. Strangers will only get lost when they get here. Many methods of judging coordinates and directions are not feasible.I walked so that my throat was burning, and my stomach was rumbling with hunger. I grabbed a handful of snow, stuffed it into my mouth, chewed, and said, "Go back."

"Go back?" Liu Zhi looked at me in surprise.

"Yes, go back. At least you can avoid the wind and snow in the cabin. If you freeze in this vent for one night, you will turn into snow sculptures tomorrow morning. We went in the wrong direction. We will look for it after we find out the coordinates tomorrow morning." That little village," I said.

There seems to be no better way than turning back.Liu Zhi couldn't help it either, the thin wounds on his face and neck were blown dry by the wind, and the flesh rolled to both sides, like popcorn popped.We had no choice but to walk back the same way, and tried our best to speed up. When we saw the broken helicopter, Liu Zhi raised his wrist and looked at his watch. The pointer on the screen showed [-]:[-] in the morning. The actual time at that time was midnight, and it was pitch black all around.

"Trap!" Liu Zhi cursed, took off the watch on his wrist, and threw it far away.

We finally flipped into the helicopter, and the wind dropped a lot. Liu Zhi removed the driving seat cushion and some other broken parts, and blocked them on the broken glass window.I put down all the folding seats in the cabin, and then put Yang Zhonghua flat on the seat.One side of the fuselage is inclined, so only one side of the seat can be used as a bed, and the other side can't even sit on it. Once the buttocks touch it, the body will slide down.I turned out of the cabin again, kneaded two snow balls in, divided the snow into small pieces, stuffed them into Yang Zhonghua's mouth, and added water to him.

Liu Zhi got into the cabin, removed the folded seat cushion on the other side, spread it on the floor, found a more comfortable place to sit down, and said, "It would be great if it didn't snow, maybe we can dig in the soil." Something to eat, in this snowy day, besides drinking the wind or eating snow, there is nothing else to fill your belly.” I said: “Yes, but it’s hard to find, don’t look at the snowy day, there are actually Many creatures will come out for activities, such as some mice or insects, as well as wolves and other beasts. The temperature in the soil under the snow is not very low. When the weather is sunny during the day, they will come out to move around, but now it is dark I can't see it anymore."

Liu Zhi looked at the roof of the cabin in a daze, and suddenly asked me: "Xiao Bing, where did you serve as a soldier?" I smiled and said, "I'm a handyman, running around, and going wherever I'm transferred." Ask: "Then you are not in the army now, how do you feel? Did you feel very disappointed when you first retired?" Without thinking about it, I said, "When I first left the army, I was really disappointed, as if lost. It’s like losing half of my life. No, for me, it’s like losing my whole life. When I came to this place, I suddenly realized in my heart. It is gold, it will shine wherever it is placed, as long as it is useful to the country, why should you care about your career and identity?"

Liu Zhi was silent for a while without saying a word. I felt that he wanted to say something, so I immediately changed my words and said, "Actually, if I had to choose again, I would still choose to be a soldier, because people like us People who serve as soldiers can only contribute their greatest strength and reflect their greatest value, don’t you think so?” Liu Zhi sighed and continued: “Yes! People like us are used to being soldiers. , If I don’t serve in the army, what else can I do? My wife insisted on persuading me to change jobs, saying that she had contacted an airline company, and she had a relative who was a captain of some kind, and she was going to retire, and they discussed letting me take over.”

After a pause, Liu Zhi sighed deeply again, turned his head to look at me, and asked, "Brother, why do you want to earn so much money for a lifetime? Can you do it? I am really not at ease after leaving the army and my brothers!"

Men and women can never think the same way. I can understand Liu Zhi's feelings, but his wife may not.I couldn't persuade him any more, so I asked him if he was very hungry, maybe he would have something to eat tonight!Liu Zhi's stomach was growling long ago. When he heard that there was food, his eyes lit up and he asked, "What food? Where is it?"

I put my finger to my lips, made a silent gesture, and whispered, "Did you hear that? A wolf howling."

"Wolf?" Liu Zhi was taken aback, and listened carefully. The howling of a wolf came from a distance. At first, there were two scattered sounds, and then they gradually became one. The sound is transmitted from all directions, quite a bit of the empty swirling effect of a stereo.Only then did Liu Zhi realize that I was joking with him. Hearing this voice, he knew that the wolves were not one or two, but a group. He said that there would be food tonight, but he might not be able to tell whether people eat wolves or wolves eat people!
I have personally experienced several confrontations with wolves, and I know the cunning and ferocity of wolves, and I have lingering fears about those alien wolves that have moved in.It was dark outside, and I couldn't see anything clearly, and I couldn't tell which pack of wolves came.The wolves are still several miles away. It stands to reason that in such a heavy snowstorm, the wolves will not come out to look for food. Unless they are too hungry, the wolf king will lead a group of men out to hunt for food. The probability of successful eating is generally relatively small, because many animals in the snow area are hiding.Therefore, in such a harsh environment, once the hungry wolves find something to eat, they will never let it go, even if they lose their troops, they must get it at any cost.

The wind squeezed in through the gaps in the windows, and the night got darker, the colder the air, and when people stopped moving, their bodies became colder and colder.The temperature inside the cabin also dropped sharply, and the howling of wolves outside kept going up and down. Liu Zhi and I both shivered, not knowing whether it was blown by the wind or because of howling wolves.

It’s really leaky and rainy. I haven’t heard wolves howling in the snow for a long time, but at this juncture, I met wolves in the snowy night again. The wolves at this time are the most ferocious, let alone no. Human nature and even animal nature have been forgotten by them. As long as they can grab food, it is very possible for wolves of the same clan to fight each other.

Thinking of this, I seem to have grasped a life-saving straw, yes, why not use the cunning and suspicious character of wolves to contain them?The wolf is a very intelligent animal. It is really difficult to deceive the wolf. I guess: it is very likely that the wolves just smelled some kind of mechanical smell when the helicopter fell, so they found it along the wind. here.

Wolves also know that where there are man-made machines, there must be people active nearby, just like a shark smelling blood in the water, it will keep chasing until it catches up with the target.Wolves know how to distinguish targets by smell, and their night vision is excellent, just like snipers wearing night vision goggles to see objects in dark places, nothing can escape their eyes, but I still have a fluke mentality, Climb out of the cabin.I pried open the external fuel tank on the side of the fuselage, doused the torn seat cushion with helicopter fuel, rolled it in the snow a few times, threw it into the cabin, and climbed in.Liu Zhi asked me, "Why are you doing this?"

I dragged Yang Zhonghua to the rear corner of the cabin, covered him with the oil-smelling seat cushion, piled some broken crew debris in front of him, and then tore off the rest of the seat cushion. , told Liu Zhi: "If you do this, you can interfere with the wolf's sense of smell. If you're lucky, you might be able to hide."

Liu Zhi asked in a low voice while doing his hands: "If you are unlucky, what should you do?"

"What else can we do? Let the wolves have a full meal. You see, those wolves in the wind and snow are not easy. They have chased them all the way here. The three of us are not small, even the belt meat Counting the bones, it’s enough for a pack of wolves to eat, maybe they can’t finish it, and there are some scraps left over, as a souvenir for those who come to see us.” As I spoke, I threw the oil-soaked mat into the cabin.I asked Liu Zhi, "Is there a lighter?" Liu Zhi hurriedly said, "Yes!" He took out the lighter from his coat pocket and handed it to me.I seemed to smell a faint smell of cigarettes, so I asked him casually, "Do you smoke?"

In the army, according to the rules, smoking is not allowed, especially for some important arms, such as fighter pilots, there are stricter regulations.

Liu Zhi smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Sometimes I'm greedy, so I just hide and smoke... What are you doing? Lighting a fire? Burning people or burning wolves?" He sniffed his nose vigorously as he said, The strong smell of engine oil is unpleasant. My stomach is empty at first, but if I suck it hard like this, my stomach will be filled with the smell of engine oil, which makes people feel sick.I threw some extra flammable objects out of the window and said, "Burn it outside. Wolves are afraid of fire, and with the smell of engine oil inside, I don't know if I can hide it from the wolf's nose and eyes."

The howling of wolves seemed to be getting closer and closer. In the dark and snowy night, the wind opened its throat and howled, echoing between the mountains, which was more piercing and ugly than the cry of a slaughtered pig.The wind was very strong, and it was hard to ignite those broken things. Because I was afraid of causing the helicopter to explode, I piled those things far away near the front of the nose, then jumped into the window, and blocked some rotten things in the broken window. Chair or something.

Liu Zhigang and I huddled behind the cushion that exuded a strong smell of engine oil, and hid ourselves well. The howling of wolves sounded clearly again, as if we were close at hand, howling around outside the helicopter.

In such an extremely cold snowstorm, the wolves who had the courage to come out for food were not generally hungry and ferocious.A large pack of wolves with dozens of wolves will not act together. Generally, the wolf king will divide the members into several groups. will be much larger.

(End of this chapter)