Indiana Jones

Chapter 534 Walking Out of the Mountains (02)

When Si Xuanyi woke up, he found that someone had already carried him into the house. There was a bonfire next to him, and there were a few people covered in mud all around him. It seemed that he was dragged in when he was sleeping. It was dark, so dark that he couldn't see anything, he rubbed his drowsy head, but he didn't have any strength in his body, he couldn't even sit up, the pain all over his body began to return slowly, and finally he found that feeling again. The feeling that life is worse than death makes him sure that he is still alive.

He lay there for a long time and finally sat up with difficulty. Through the flickering firelight, he saw the people lying on the ground. Only Li Siming, Xiaolu and Ye Feng could be distinguished, and everyone else was watching in the dark. I can't tell who is who, but judging from the number of people, it is much smaller than what he had imagined. Without thinking about it, he can understand that many wounded did not persist. This incident really made him very sad. So many people died on the road. It is really sad and regrettable.

They were finally far away from the mountains. Although the journey home was still far away, they had already seen hope. At least the remaining road was much easier than before.

This is a person who flashed in from the outside. From the figure and movement, it was Lin Feng. This guy walked to the fire with an object. When he saw that he woke up, he greeted him and put the object on the fire to set it up. Sylphy saw clearly this time that it was a cauldron full of water.

"How long have we been here?" Si Xuanyi felt that he was dying of thirst when he saw the water.

"I don't know..." Lin Feng added some firewood, "But it must have been seven or eight hours since I woke up. I think I lay down and fell asleep outside for at least a day."

Si Xuanyi continued to rub his swollen temples: "You dragged us in, then..."

"We old guys are still alive. Although the old man's condition is not good, his injury is stable. No one knows how long Fang Yuanshan can survive. It depends on him. Xiaolu has already woken up once, and he is still saying nothing. If not, there are only three of her clansmen who are still angry, but the condition is quite bad. It probably only took a long time. The group of people brought by Liu Xiaotian now only has five left. There should be no problem with three, and the other two are not easy to say..."

It's too miserable. It can be said that they have experienced unprecedented losses in this mission. Although the casualty rate is smaller than before, it is basically based on the sacrifice of the Xiaolu tribe. Her three or four hundred There are only four clansmen left now. Such a huge loss is unimaginable. Although the goal of stopping and destroying the little devils was achieved with the cooperation of both parties, the price they paid was too high. That was hundreds of lives , including the old and the weak, women and children, it can be said that in order to protect their homeland, Xiaolu's tribe dispatched almost all the men, but in the end they were wiped out. It is a miracle that Xiaolu did not completely collapse under such a big blow No one knows whether she can pass this test, but Si Xuanyi feels that they have the responsibility to help this girl get back on her feet, but as for what will happen in the future, no one knows, this girl has really become a rootless vagabond Ping, where will she go in the end?
Si Xuanyi looked at the messy people on the ground and couldn't help shaking his head slightly. These people had nothing to do with him and had to experience one kind of danger in life and death. Although these people were no longer afraid of life and death, who would want to suffer this foreign crime?

After drinking some water, Si Xuanyi fell down and continued to sleep. There is no way to recover faster than sleeping. Although he was very hungry, the endless fatigue made him forget about eating. He drank After finishing the water, I held a piece of cake in my hand and fell down after taking only two bites.

Si Xuanyi woke up again at dusk the next day. He was awakened by the smell of meat. When he woke up, the others were still in disarray. Only Ye Feng was squatting by the campfire, eating in a daze. Before he even had time to say anything, he took a night into his hands.

The tangy fragrance made Si Xuanyi pour it into his mouth without thinking, but he was so hot that tears fell down, but the hunger made him ignore these at all, and continued to stuff things into his mouth, He only ate a bowl of meat. As for the meat, he couldn’t get it out. He didn’t even like it. A bowl of meat was stuffed into his mouth and gobbled it up in a matter of seconds. The skin was scalded off a layer, and then I jumped on it and made another bowl.

"Water..." Ye Feng pointed to one side and said only one word.

It was only then that Si Xuanyi saw a kettle on the ground next to him, and after touching it, he realized that it was still warm. He opened the mouth of the water and drank most of it in one gulp, and continued to gobble it up. When Lin Feng came back, the two of them almost ate half of the pot of meat.

"There is plenty, eat slowly..." Lin Feng made some soup and said while drinking it slowly.

"What kind of meat?" Si Xuanyi asked with a breath of air as the skin in his hot mouth peeled off.

"Horse meat..." Lin Feng said flatly, "This is an empty village, I can't find anything else."

"Have the others woke up?" Si Xuanyi put down the bowl in his hand and drank water.

"Most people woke up once and only drank a little water, probably because they were too tired to eat." Lin Feng said.

"How is the condition of the wounded?" Si Xuanyi asked again.

"Two more left..." Lin Feng continued to drink the soup, they were already used to life and death.

Si Xuanyi didn't say a word, he took out another cigarette and lit it on the campfire, smoking slowly, how many of these people can persevere to the end?

"My God, I can finally eat my fill." Ye Feng belched contentedly.

To put it simply, everyone else woke up one after another, and their spirits improved a lot after eating, but Xiaolu not only didn't eat, she didn't even drink water, she just leaned there in a daze, Si Xuanyi persuaded her for a long time The girl barely drank a few sips of soup, but she still didn't say a word.

"I don't know if it was the little devil or the bandits. There was no one alive in the village. Judging from the burning traces, it must have been a few days. I searched some, and found that the whole village was shot dead in the big house of the village office." Then I lit a fire, and I don't know if there are any survivors." Lin Feng said.

"Have all the usable things been robbed?" Li Siming asked.

"Basically, there is nothing left except for a few houses that have not been burned down." Lin Feng nodded, "Also, I looked at the map and it is about 80 miles away from the nearest town."

"We deviated too far from the previous route..." Si Xuanyi said while looking at the map, "But it's a short journey, we have to go to the town as soon as possible to get some medicines to treat the wounded and treat the wounds."

"The eighty miles is enough for us to walk for a while. The outside is different from the mountains. We must carefully avoid the devils and puppet soldiers. The road is not easy. We have so many wounded, it is too eye-catching. What Li Siming mentioned is indeed a problem. After all, this is an enemy-occupied area. It is not easy to get medicines here.

"We must go, but we must not ostentatiously pass through the city. We can choose to walk at night. This is not a mountainous area, and it is not so difficult to walk at night." After Si Xuanyi finished speaking, he turned to Liu Xiaotian, "Contact your people as soon as possible to explain our situation need."

"Hmm..." Liu Xiaotian nodded, but he knew very well that it would not be easy, but he had to give it a try.

After this period of rest, everyone's condition has recovered well, but the condition of the wounded is not so good. They can only set off to find medicines as soon as possible, but these wounded cannot be resettled, so they can only take them with them. It's dangerous, but these people can't just be left here.

Three days later they settled down in a village, and Liu Xiaotian had contacted their people here, but it took another five days for the medicine to be delivered, but the quantity was pitifully small, and by this time the seriously wounded were basically gone. There was not much left, Si Xuanyi and the others watched these wounded leave one by one, there was nothing they could do, none of Xiaolu's clansmen survived...

However, these medicines also played a role. Fang Yuanshan's injuries were under control, and this little life was saved. In the end, only three of Liu Xiaotian's people survived. The woodcutter was originally the one they least expected to survive. The old man finally survived by himself.

"Every time it's the rest of my life, every time I want to finish this ticket and never do it again, but every time I will lick my face and start again." Si Xuanyi said to himself mockingly, "I should really go back Doing business with big brother, at least the business is not life-threatening, and eating delicious food and drinking spicy food all day, how wonderful it would be!"

"You don't really have this way of living, you don't want to go back to Chongqing." Li Siming retorted sharply.

"That's right... I don't want to go back to that damned place, and I don't want to face those beastly things. I don't want to participate in intrigues, fight for power, flattery, and live in that smoky wolf's den." Si Xuanyi looked at the blue sky outside. , "But I don't want to be a deserter..."

"Let's talk about the injury and recovery..." Zhao Chenggong was drinking gruel on the threshold, "Why do you think about those things, and don't return them in the end? If you go back to trouble us again this time, I will go to the Communist Party."

"Shut up..." Si Xuanyi kicked him off the door, and the porridge spilled all over him.

Si Xuanyi looked around, and then cursed in a low voice: "There are some things that should not be said indiscriminately, you know?"

"What are you afraid of? These are all our own people." Zhao Chenggong got up from the ground.

"Don't forget that misfortune comes from your mouth." Si Xuanyi looked around again, as if he was afraid of any strangers nearby, "You can't say this kind of thing no matter in front of anyone, you remember it for me, even if you don't care Your own life, you have to think about everyone, you are now a military commander, don't forget, think about what is the main task of the military commander? Do you want to be enforced family law?"

Zhao Chenggong stood there in embarrassment, not knowing what to say. He knew that he was outspoken and said something he shouldn't have said, but he didn't expect Si Hezai to lose his temper so much.

"Be more careful in the future. It's okay to say this in front of the few of us. If outsiders hear you and stab you out, you will be in big trouble." Li Siming said, in fact, he understands why Si Xuanyi reacted so strongly. The detention by the Zhongtong people is just an excuse for his suspicion of communism. He already has a second brother who can't explain the relationship. Now he doesn't want similar problems to occur in his team. This kind of joke It really can't be opened, and something big will happen.

"Let's talk about this matter once it's over." Si Xuanyi glared at Zhao Chenggong, "After a few days of recuperation, we'll go back."

"It's not easy to cross the Japanese war zone, and you have to travel a long distance, his grandma." Zhao Chenggong wanted to change the subject quickly, but he still didn't forget to continue complaining.

"Don't worry about this problem, I will let Liu Xiaotian arrange everything." Si Xuanyi continued to look at the sky outside, "Although we have achieved unprecedented results this time, the number of devils killed is more than all previous missions combined." More, but there is also a problem, that is, who can prove what we have done? Although we have a clear conscience, what the higher-ups look at is the results and the results. How much can the higher-ups believe in what we have said? What have we protected? ? If the higher ups want to find fault, we will definitely face a lot of trouble."

"I don't think Director Mao will trouble us. He wants us to show our results for outsiders to see." Li Siming said.

"No matter who we show it to, we must have something to show, right?" Si Xuanyi said.

"Then what should we do? We can't go back and pull out the corpses of those devils to show them." Zhao Chenggong began to speak unreliably again.

"Liu Xiaotian and his two brothers are our witnesses, we can bring them back," Ye Feng said.

"Besides that, we need to bring something else." Li Siming said, "Our team asked Director Mao to speak for us."

Si Xuanyi understood what he meant, and of course he had to prepare gifts for his superiors, but this time they came out and they didn't have any substantial gains. It seemed that they could only start with some precious cultural relics collected from various places. The behavior is very shameless, but in the officialdom, he can't get out of the mud. After all, there are official rules in the officialdom, and it is impossible to close the relationship only by your work performance, so you are at best a capable person. But it’s hard to count as one of your own. If your superior only likes talents but not property, then congratulations, but if your superior likes everything, and you only have talents, then you will not be easy to get ahead, although it is not impossible Opportunities, but the opportunities are definitely less than others. It is difficult to go on in this sinister circle without the way of being an official and the way of survival.

"His grandma's..." Si Xuanyi smiled wryly, "It seems that I have to continue to dawdle in that wolf den..."

(End of this chapter)