The Heart of a Smith

The backpack was lost, and the only thing left on them was two weapons. There was no map or lighting, so they could only rely on the little memory left to find the way.It was still raining heavily, and the clothes were so wet that water dripped out. Although the situation was so bad, they dared not stay for a moment. Nature has no reason to say, and the danger will not know when it will happen.

"I would have put the signal smoke next to my body if I knew it earlier." Sima Jingrong said angrily.

Li Sui looked up and said, "In this weather, I'm afraid they may not be able to receive the signal smoke."

The road was not easy to walk on. Because of mudslides and small landslides, the way back was different from the way we came here. The two of them carefully identified it for a while, but they did not reach an agreement.

"I remember this road, and there's a tree here."

"The one with the tree is the next fork, not this one."

"It's this tree with a crooked neck, I remember this tree." Sima Jingrong argued vigorously.

Li Sui was also not sure, so he made a mark on the tree with his dagger, and said: "Listen to you first, if something is wrong, return here immediately."

Having said that, the mountains and forests here are similar, and the sky is so dark that it is impossible to tell the difference between the south, the south, and the north, and it is purely intuitive to step out.After walking for a while, the sound of the rain gradually subsided, but there were more and more weeds in front of us. In the end, let alone walking, it was difficult to even step down.

Li Sui stopped in his tracks: "We haven't walked this way."

Sima Jingrong turned his head and said, "Are you sure?"

Li Sui knelt down, rubbed the dirt on the ground with his fingers, and frowned: "It's not sandy soil, I went wrong."

Sima Jingrong looked around and sniffed from the cold: "Let's go back after dawn. The trees here are quite lush, and there should be no landslide."

Walking all day during the day, without resting at night, and going through such a thrilling scene, both of them were exhausted, Sima Jingrong still slept for a few hours, Li Sui didn't rest for a moment, at this time I was so tired that I could see gold stars in my eyes, so I agreed without thinking too much.

There is no tool to make a fire, and the clothes on my body have long been drenched by rain. The humidity in the forest is heavy, and I sweat a little, sticking to my body wet, which is extremely uncomfortable.

Not only that, there are many bugs around, a heavy rain seems to drive them out, flying insects and mosquitoes are nothing, the most difficult thing to deal with in this forest is ticks and leeches, they are numerous and highly poisonous, If you don't pay attention, it will crawl into the trouser legs and adsorb on the skin, making it hard to guard against.

Li Sui cut some dry grass under the tree, and took out the gun in the leggings to wipe it clean. Fortunately, the gun has a waterproof membrane on the outside, which should be specially wrapped by Wang Wei to avoid getting wet.At this time in the wild, he finally understood Wang Wei's phrase "No gun, no sense of security". In the face of danger, nothing is more reassuring than holding a weapon in hand.After finishing all this, Li Sui wove the remaining hay into a few ropes, tied his cuffs tightly, and leaned against the tree trunk to rest. He was so tired, he wanted to just close his eyes and rest his mind, but he didn't expect to fall asleep. past.

This sleep was extremely uncomfortable, half dreaming and half awake, always seeing Lu Shang coming to pick him up, happily getting up to greet him, waking up again with a movement of the body, only to find that it was just a dream, so repeated several times, the whole person was dizzy and exhausted .

The more he slept, the more tired he became, Li Sui opened his eyes in pain. He thought he had slept for a long time, but when he woke up, he found that the surroundings were still dark and the rain had stopped.

There was some movement in the grass in the distance, Li Sui became alert, got up and held the dagger in his hand, and pushed Sima Jingrong: "Wake up."

The latter obviously didn't sleep deeply, he woke up as soon as Li Sui made a sound, rubbed his eyes: "What's wrong?" Before Li Sui could answer, he also saw the bushes moving, as if something was approaching them , the movement is not small.

"What is it?" Sima Jingrong asked with his mouth.

Li Sui stared at it closely, but did not answer.

The thing in the distance seemed to sense the sight, and lay down in the grass and did not move.

"Is it a snake?" Sima Jingrong asked anxiously.

"It should be." Li Sui took a breath and clenched the dagger in his hand.

It was almost dawn, and there was a misty mist in the forest. Li Sui stepped back on tiptoe and pressed his body against the tree trunk.

A gust of wind blew in the woods at the right time, and there was a strange hissing sound in the swaying grass. At the same time, half of the snake's body suddenly appeared in the grass, and it was spitting a message at them.

"Oh my god, it's really a snake." Sima Jingrong almost screamed out.

"Don't bark," Li Sui's heart sank, "and don't move around."

The snake was small in size, long and thin, with dark brown horizontal spots on its body, and it didn't look very aggressive.Li Sui has no research on snakes, so he can't tell what species it is, but snakes in wild jungles are probably not so easy to deal with. If they are not poisonous, it's okay, but if they are poisonous, a bite would be terrible.

Li Sui's palms were a little sweaty, it was the first time he had encountered this kind of situation after staying in the city all year round, he said that he was not afraid, but he was still nervous.At this moment, he was in a state of chaos, remembering what people often say, when in danger, the more you dodge, the more likely you will be injured.

"What are you going to do?" Sima Jingrong turned pale with fright, seeing Li Sui drawing his gun, he subconsciously tried to stop it.

"It's better to strike first," Li Sui quickly tightened his jacket, then turned to ask Sima Jingrong, "Can you shoot?"

"No, no way."

"Great!" Li Sui threw the dagger to him, "Take it, climb the tree."

"You..." Before Sima Jingrong finished speaking, Li Sui had already picked up a branch and rushed over like the wind.

At the same time, the snake seemed to have received a provocative signal, its head jumped out of the grass, and it opened its mouth to bite.Li Sui restrained his mind, saw a swift figure rushing towards him, raised his breath, boldly picked up a branch, aimed at the snake's head, and lashed out, directly pulling the whole snake's body several meters away, and curled up on the ground in a circle.

The target suddenly became obvious. Seeing this, Li Sui hurriedly picked up the gun, and before the snake could react, he fired a shot at the snake.The gunshot resounded through the forest, but it was a pity that the power was limited, and it didn't hurt the key parts. The snake violently rolled a few times, twisting and trying to crawl away.

Seeing that it was about to escape, Li Sui hurriedly said to the people on the tree: "Make up the knife! Don't let it escape!"

Sima Jingrong, a young man, has never seen a wild snake outside the zoo. He felt his legs go weak for a while, and he didn't dare to jump off the tree. It was thrown out, the blade was unbiased, and it just stabbed into the snake's tail. The snake twisted for a while, wrapped the knife on its body, and slipped into the woods.

Not grabbing the snake, and throwing away his only weapon, Li Sui couldn't bear it any longer, and cursed, "How did a trash like you survive to this day?"

Sima Jingrong sat on the tree with an innocent face: "I have money."

Li Sui choked.

...It was impossible to refute it.

"Will it come back?" Sima Jingrong came down from the tree and patted it. "Will there be a group of relatives and friends to take revenge or something?"

"You've watched too many movies." Li Sui put the gun back into his leggings, "How can snakes be so united, and it's impossible to be so fast..."

Before he finished speaking, there were several rustling sounds all around, coming from the grass in all directions.

The two of them looked at each other, their faces turned pale instantly, a snake could barely be dealt with, but a group of snakes, there would be no second choice at this moment.

"run!"

Regardless of the road under their feet, the two of them were completely driven by their survival instincts and ran forward desperately. At first, Li Sui remembered to look at the road, but then he couldn't care about it at all.The group of snakes behind them was chasing after them, moving swiftly and agilely. If one stumbled accidentally, they would be entangled immediately. At this time, the two had only one goal, to get rid of this group of difficult ones first.

While running, Li Sui turned around and fired two shots. It is not known if he hit or not, but it still played a deterrent effect. The group of snakes was obviously disturbed for a while, but then they chased after them one after another.

"Did we run into the snake's den?!" Sima Jingrong yelled.

Contacting the previous mudslide, Li Sui had a bad guess in his mind: "I'm afraid we have already run out of the scope of the training camp."

The appearance of the mudslide made the two of them confused. They forgot one thing. The mudslide can even flatten the forest in an instant, and it is nothing to crush the protective net.Before leaving, the instructor told me to never go out of the range of the protective net. There are virgin forests around here, without the protection of the protective net, it is very likely to encounter wild animals. If you run in, it will be difficult to find someone .

"I can't run anymore..." Sima Jingrong cried.

"You can't stop, it will be troublesome if you stop."

"No, I really can't..." Walking for a day in the daytime and running for a night in a row, even Li Sui couldn't stand it, let alone Sima Jingrong.

Li Sui gave a "tsk", turned around and grabbed his arm: "I can't stop, I promised your father and Lu Shang that I will definitely take you out."

The group of snakes was getting closer and closer. The cold-blooded animals seemed tireless. The two ran around in the forest without getting rid of them at all. They were about to be overtaken when a fault suddenly appeared on the road ahead. The two people didn't notice for a while, didn't stop their feet, screamed, and rolled down with the stone.

This fall was so messy, it was like falling into a front-loading washing machine, and even the internal organs were about to be stirred out.In the confusion, Li Sui tried to grab the weeds around him, but he only caught a handful of mud when he stretched out his hand. The loose sand on the slope was dragged down together, and for a moment there were only screams and roars in his ears.

Dizzy, the body sank suddenly, and the two fell directly into a pothole, almost vomiting blood.Before they could react, the earth was covered with sand and rocks. Li Sui only had time to protect his head with his hands when his back suddenly hurt and he lost consciousness.

After a whole night of thunderstorms, Lu Shang didn't sleep well. When he woke up in the morning, he looked very pale. Just after changing his clothes and going downstairs, Uncle Yuan had been waiting by the door for a long time. He, who was usually calm, also seemed a little anxious.

"what's up?"

"Extremely heavy rain in the reserve," Uncle Yuan said in a deep voice, "Mudslide."

In Dongyan's meeting hall, Secretary Yang waited for a long time for no one to come, so she couldn't help but secretly called Uncle Yuan, and got an order to cancel the meeting temporarily. She was about to ask whether the signing ceremony in the afternoon would be held as scheduled, but she didn't say anything. After speaking, the other end hung up the phone directly.

"What's the matter, it's so urgent..." She looked at the extinguished phone screen and muttered.

On the way to the reserve, Lu Shang changed his habit of sitting in the back row and sat directly in the co-pilot's seat.

"Mr. Yue has already notified the troops and launched an emergency search and rescue overnight. At present, most of the students have moved to a safe area. They have brought search and rescue dogs. Finding someone should not be a problem."

"Where's Wang Wei?"

"He is with the youngest son of the Sima family and has already returned to the aid station."

Lu Shang's expression darkened terribly: "Tell Zuo Chao that you don't need to use this person anymore."

Uncle Yuan paused: "Yes."

When the car drove into the winding mountain road, Lu Shang opened the window and inadvertently pressed his heart with his palm.

Uncle Yuan frowned: "Did you bring medicine with you when you went out?"

Lu Shang closed his eyes and tilted his head, as if trying to endure something: "Look at the road, don't look at me."

Uncle Yuan had no choice but to slow down the speed of the car, and sighed: "Yesterday, they received a forecast from the meteorological department saying that there will be rain. Team Yan originally planned to postpone the exam, but Mr. Yue is determined to make his son suffer. , said that it would be better to rain a little, but no one thought that the rain would be so heavy."

Lu Shang just leaned against the car window, closed his eyes tightly and said nothing.

After driving all the way down the mountain, the road in front of us was blocked. After negotiating with Uncle Yuan for a while, the other party also seemed very embarrassed: "It's not that I won't let you go. This road is too dangerous and there is a tendency of landslides. You It seems that the vehicles of the army are also parked here, if you want to go up, you should go up."

Uncle Yuan looked back at Lu Shang, the two of them exchanged glances, and decided to hike up the mountain.The two of them were not walking fast, and along the road they could see the remnants of small landslides, as well as rocky and grassy slopes covered in mud and sand. The conditions were so bad that it was hard to imagine the situation at that time.

After a 15-minute drive, the two of them walked for two hours. As soon as they arrived at the rescue station, they saw Yue Pengfei standing anxiously at the door and walking around, holding a walkie-talkie.

"What did you say? Didn't find it? Look again, look again, I don't care what method you use, even if you level the mountain, you will find the person!"

Turning around and seeing Lu Shang, his face suddenly collapsed, and he hurried over: "Brother, I'm sorry for you..."

"Let's not talk about that for now," Lu Shang waved his hand, "How's the situation?"

"Basically everyone was found, except for my son and Xiao Li. It was raining heavily at the time, and many people gave up their missions and came back. Only they went to the west slope. The mudslides on the west slope were very serious. Search and rescue dogs were in a Traces were found in the buried cave, and I sent people to dig it down, but only two backpacks were dug out."

Lu Shang's heart trembled: "Is it theirs?"

Yue Pengfei didn't sleep all night, and his dark circles appeared: "Preliminary confirmation, yes..."

I saw no one in the backpack. In this case, the person was either washed down the mountain directly, or escaped by luck. The search and rescue team is still looking, and they can't come to a conclusion for a while.Lu Shang's face was so pale that even Yue Pengfei, an outsider, could see it, so he hurriedly asked someone to bring some glucose and handed it to him, not only comforting Lu Shang but also comforting himself: "Brother, don't worry, these two children are together. It'll be fine."

Lu Shang's eyes were lost, and he said after a long time, "Mmm..."

In the afternoon, the two backpacks were sent to the rescue station. Lu Shang took the lead to search for them, and his face softened a little: "Everything is there, but the weapons are gone."

At least it shows that before the mudslide happened, they were alert. With Li Sui's reaction ability and the fact that they haven't found anyone for so long, they should have a higher chance of escaping.It's just that in this wilderness, the protective net was washed away again, and they didn't have any food or water on them, so every minute they stayed was more dangerous.

"Uncle Yuan," Lu Shang thought for a while, then said, "Contact Xinyou and send two helicopters over."

It was getting dark, and Li Sui woke up from the darkness. When he opened his eyes, he was very dizzy, and his chest was like a huge boulder weighing a thousand catties. He moved his legs, and found that half of his body was buried in the soil, and coughed twice fiercely on the ground. , spit out the sand in his mouth, and then slowly turned over and got up.

It was dark all around, only a little light from the top of the head shone through the gap, the sky outside was already getting dark, and this light seemed very weak.Li Sui looked around. It was a mud pit five or six meters deep. The bottom of the pit was uneven, half of it collapsed, and the inside was full of stagnant water. Sima Jingrong was lying beside the stagnant water, his body curled up into a ball.

Li Sui hurriedly walked over to check his limbs. Fortunately, he was fine, and his breathing was considered steady, but his forehead was hit by a stone, and although it had healed by itself, his body temperature was a little high, he probably had a fever.

He called twice, Sima Jingrong answered in a daze, turned over and continued to sleep.It's good to fall asleep at this time, so as not to get up hungry, Li Sui didn't call him again, and looked up to find the exit.

Only stones and a few branches rolled down together. Those snakes were really cunning animals, and they retreated immediately when they saw danger.Li Sui searched around in the pothole, but he didn't see any place to go out. This place is completely closed.There are two openings on the top of the head, they fell from there, but unfortunately the position is too high to climb up without tools.

Li Sui tried it with his bare hands, but he fell down after climbing only one meter, and even scratched his nails, gasping for breath in pain.It seems that if you want to go out, you can only rely on external force.

After looking up for a while, Li Sui felt dizzy for a while, and sat down with his hands on the mud wall. His back should have been hit by a stone, and it hurt when he moved.He has been beaten and injured continuously since he was a child, and his body's ability to resist blows is excellent. He has a lot of experience in injuries, and he knows that most of them are bone fractures. In short, it will not be a more serious injury.

The symptoms of hypoglycemia were obvious, but Li Sui didn't feel any sense of hunger. He was probably overly hungry. After all, he hadn't eaten for a whole day and night. Unexpectedly, the canned meat in the cave was his last supper.

The humidity in the cave is extremely heavy, which makes people feel uncomfortable all over. There are frogs and insects screaming in invisible places around them, which is very noisy.Li Sui looked at Sima Jingrong's sleeping face, and was a little bit envious. This man was really big-hearted, after all, he was spoiled and raised since he was a child, and he didn't feel any sense of crisis at all.

Soon he didn't have time to think about what was there and what was missing. He was very thirsty, and some water had accumulated in the collapsed place at the bottom of the pit, but the source was unknown.Li Sui didn't dare to drink it at first, but he couldn't take it anymore, so he took a handful and tasted it. Apart from the earthy smell of muddy water, there was no other strange smell, so he simply leaned over and had a good drink.

After drinking the water, Li Sui had nothing to do, so he simply lay down and went to sleep.Although this pothole can't get out, things outside can't get in either. It's like a natural barrier, and it's much safer than staying outside.Maybe it was because he was full of water and his body was satisfied. Under extreme fatigue, Li Sui quickly fell asleep again.

The next morning, both of them woke up from hunger. Sima Jingrong's fever had not subsided, and he was a little dizzy.

Li Sui realized that this was not going to work. If they weren't injured, it would be fine. Under such extremely harsh conditions, if they didn't go out to seek rescue as soon as possible, the two of them would be finished sooner or later.

"The time limit for the mission has passed. We didn't go back. Someone must have come to look for us." Sima Jingrong collapsed on the ground, his eyes rolled white with hunger.

"It's hard to say," Li Sui said, "This place is too remote. If we are lucky enough to be discovered early, we may be saved, but if we don't find out in time, should we wait here for them to dig up our bones and go back?"

"how do you want to do it?"

Li Sui took off the military badge around his neck for the first time, and twirled the jackknife in his hand: "Dig it out."

"use this?"

"There are still hands."

It's easy to say, but it's not so easy to implement. There are a lot of rocks in the sand here, and you will encounter obstacles after digging for a while. At this time, Li Sui uses a pocket knife to pry out the rocks little by little, and then replaces them. Use your hands to scrape the mud.Although the progress was slow, after a day, it was finally half a meter closer to the ground.

"According to your speed, we will be able to go out in two weeks." Sima Jingrong had nothing to love.

After digging for a whole day, Li Sui was hungry and tired, his body had already reached its limit, he leaned against the mud wall and gasped for breath.His hands were almost dug to pieces, not a single nail was left, and his fingers were covered with wounds, which looked bloody at first glance.

The folding knife is worthy of being a collection, the blade is still shiny after a day, without any wear marks.Li Sui drew a "one" on the ground with a knife, turned over and fell asleep without saying a word.

Sima Jingrong was dumbfounded, thinking that he was angry, so he wisely stopped talking.Before dawn the next day, he was awakened by the sound of digging. When he looked up, Li Sui was repeating the work of the previous day as if possessed.

"Don't you take a break?" Sima Jingrong persuaded, "You will not be able to hold on if your physical strength is exhausted so quickly."

Li Sui ignored him, just kept digging with his head down.

Sima Jingrong's fever has not subsided for the past few days, and his body has no strength at all, but it is not easy to keep watching at this time, so he has to join in the action.

The progress of the second day was a little faster than the first day, but it was still far away from the ground. Sima Jingrong collapsed. He was already lazy. Wake up, and finally gradually burned the whole person into a daze.

At first Li Sui was able to move, but later he couldn't hold on any longer, he didn't eat for several days, he was so hungry that he was almost hallucinating, he couldn't help reaching out to grab the frogs that jumped in from outside.Not caring about not being poisoned if he didn't do anything clean, Li Sui filled his stomach with all the edible weeds and bugs in the pothole. In the end, the bugs didn't have to eat, and he even began to think about the cotton T-shirt he was wearing.

I don't know how many days it was, but in the early morning of the morning when the local people made gestures to form the word "正", Li Sui suddenly heard a commotion outside, his whole body trembled, he turned over and sat up, and pushed Sima Jingrong next to him: "Wake up, wake up!" Airplane, it's an airplane, your dad is here to pick you up!"

Sima Jingrong was already a little delirious, with a persistent high fever and extreme hunger, his whole face was swollen a lot, when he heard Li Sui calling him, he only groaned twice in a daze, and didn't wake up at all.

Li Sui let out a "tsk", climbed up the slope he had dug out, and started calling for help outside.He hadn't eaten for a few days, his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't speak, and the noise of the plane outside was too loud to hear him at all. Li Sui watched the helicopter fly over his head, turned around a few times, and then left.

No, it's too hidden. The pothole is in a mountain depression, and the plane can't see it at all. We have to find a way to get out.

Li Sui's sluggish state seemed to be awakened suddenly, and his whole body became excited again. A helicopter came to search, which showed that Lu Shang had not given up on him. If so, he must get out alive.

Without knowing where the strength came from, Li Sui climbed up the slope, using both hands and feet, desperately digging out.I don't know if his behavior like a foolish old man moved a certain god, but in the evening, Li Sui stabbed hard into the ground with a knife, the front loosened for a while, and suddenly they all collapsed, just opening a path.

At that moment, Li Sui felt that his tears were about to flow out, so he hurriedly turned around and called Sima Jingrong: "Wake up, you can go out now."

Sima Jingrong didn't respond, his whole body was extremely hot, Li Sui picked him up without saying a word, and climbed up the slope with difficulty.The moment he saw the afterglow of the setting sun again, Li Sui shook his body and almost lost his footing.

After re-examining the forest, Li Sui discovered that they had indeed left the boundaries of the training camp and came to the primeval forest reserve. No wonder no one came to them.The forest here is so luxuriant that it is impossible to go down, let alone ordinary people, even if the search and rescue team comes, they have to walk and cut down with a machete to move forward.

Knowing that there is still a long way to go, Li Sui took off his coat, fixed Sima Jingrong on his back, and climbed up the hillside little by little.

Along the way, he stretched his nerves to the limit, stared carefully at various traces on the road, avoided water sources where wild animals were infested, and picked wild fruits to satisfy his hunger.

Sima Jingrong's condition was not very good, the temperature fluctuated from high to low, and he occasionally uttered a few words of nonsense.Li Sui dug some wild plantains along the road, fed him indiscriminately, and wiped his forehead with water to cool down physically. At least the situation didn't get worse, but he still didn't wake up.

When Li Sui finally saw the familiar protective net, it was already the dusk of the second day. Someone not far away screamed, and then, the sound of the walkie-talkie, footsteps, and talking... Li Sui felt that he could no longer hear it. All the senses seemed to be on strike, and the eyes looked straight ahead, only the man who strode down from the helicopter was left in his eyes.

The person on the back was picked up by someone who took it off. Li Sui stood where he was, watching Lu Shang get closer and closer. He clearly wanted to move forward, but his body suddenly lost control. He lifted his feet and felt his knees tremble soft.

Someone came to support his body that was about to kneel down on the ground, smelling the breath he had missed for a long time, tears welled up in Li Sui's eyes, and he tightly squeezed Lu Shang's hand, his voice was so hoarse that he could barely hear: "I... I didn't embarrass you..."

After saying this, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, tilted his head, lay on Lu Shang's shoulder, and passed out completely.