32 days

Yi Alan stood up in shock and looked around, but there was only the swaying birch forest, only the high and low hills with no end in sight, and only silence.

For a moment, his heart also seemed to have experienced a fall, and suddenly fell to the ground, so flustered that he didn't know what to do.

Yi Alan wandered around meaninglessly, before finally settling on the satellite phone in the pile of emergency supplies on the ground, and pounced on it.

Yi Alan fiddled with the military satellite phone in confusion for a while before he had to give up the idea of ​​actively contacting Zhou Yanan. He might have to wait for Zhou Yanan to contact him.

The waiting time is very difficult, because the more nervous the cerebral cortex is, the more active it is, and I can't help thinking wildly, such as whether Zhou Yanan was shot down by the enemy, and if so, whether there is still time to skydive, and whether the height is enough; encountered an accident...

About half an hour later, Yi Alan still hadn't waited for the satellite phone to respond, and the bad premonition was restless, making people restless.

But soon he discovered another restless thing.

It's a locator.

Several groups of numbers on the display screen of the locator kept beating, and the amplitude was large.

Although Yi Alan doesn't know the specific operation method of the locator, and the office has not provided him with skills training other than programming, but based on his understanding of mechanical software, he also knows that there is a problem with the locator, and it cannot accurately locate.Either the locator is broken, or the radio in this place is jammed.

Yi Alan is more willing to believe that it is the latter, which can explain why Zhou Yanan did not contact him immediately through a satellite phone using radio electromagnetic waves as the medium.

Although the children know that it is best to wait in place after being separated from their families, Yi Alan does not think that she should continue to wait passively, in case Zhou Yan'an is injured and needs help from others.

After watching carefully, Yi Alan caught sight of the mountain on his left. There is a protruding area on the mountainside with little vegetation. You can also see exposed gray rocks at the bottom of the mountain. You should have a considerable view when you climb there. .

Yi Alan packed all the items back into the tactical vest, put it on again, and broke off a coin-thin branch to serve as a walking stick, and resolutely went to climb the mountain.

Fortunately, Yi Alan has often climbed the undeveloped Xiaoye Mountain, and her climbing skills are full, and the Qingyun Mountain Range is full of deciduous broad-leaved forests and coniferous forests. .After spotting the target visible to the naked eye, Yi Alan climbed to the protruding mountainside platform in less than an hour.

Yi Alan checked the weathering of the rocks down the mountain, and stepped on the platform carefully, for fear that it would suddenly fall.

At this time, Yi Alan could see the back of a mountain directly opposite without the help of a binoculars, and a puff of black smoke rising obliquely.There is a fire there, and judging by the color of the smoke, it is not a simple wildfire, but also chemicals.

One of the crash points.

Looking at other directions, the higher field of vision brings greater confusion, the mountains are layered on top of each other like waves, and he can only see some of the tops of the waves, and there is only infinite loss between the mountains.

Yi Alan tried to send a signal flare, but the signal flare could only rise to a height of 300 meters. In this rugged mountain range, it would most likely be blocked.

Sure enough, Yi Alan waited for 10 minutes but still didn't get a response.

Yi Alan put away the flare. He didn't know if the fire place near him was the place where Zhou Yan'an's plane crashed, but he had to go and see for himself before he could rest assured.

Yi Alan turned his head and went down the mountain again, continuing towards the mountain ahead.There are no poisonous insects or beasts, so Yi Alan walks boldly, and the flight suit and helmet he wears can effectively avoid cutting branches. You just need to be careful not to slip, not step on moss, and not fall into the mud of fallen leaves, so Yi Alan Although Lan has a broken foot, his speed is not very slow.

At the foot of the mountain, beside the shallow stream, Yi Alan found several wild fruit trees, which looked like pear trees, but the fruits were as small as plums, green and hard.Maybe the birds that ate pears outside brought the seeds here, and the pears are not used to the water and soil.

Yi Alan was a little hungry, but looking at these young wild pears really didn't have an appetite, but considering that he didn't know what to do afterwards, he still picked a branch with a lot of fruit and washed it in the stream, When forced to have no choice but to swallow.

Yi Alan walked along the stream to the foot of the mountain on the back of the mountain in front of him, and looked up at the place where the fire started. In three-quarters of the 500-meter-high mountain, there was no open fire, only a continuous black cigarette.This will be a very difficult climb.

Yi Alan put his head down and stuffed the pears into his mouth one by one. They didn't have the sour taste he imagined. To be precise, they couldn't taste the taste. They were hard and dry without much moisture, biting like dry bark.

In any case, Yi Alan replenished his physical strength, visually detected a relatively gentle uphill route, and began to climb.

Two hours later, the sun had gradually moved westward, and the dense forest was even darker.

The orange glow is stingy with its general illumination. Yi Alan walks through the cold light and shadow, stirring the branches and leaves that only the wind has moved. The wildly growing trees are full of strong and overflowing scents. At this time, he really wants to hear the sound of birdsong.

Yi Alan finally heard the crackling sound of beeping, and then smelled some burnt smell.

It should be approaching the crash point, and Yi Alan couldn't help being both happy and scared, and traced the source of the smell nervously.With the remnant of daylight, Yi Alan saw the warplane burnt out of shape under the scorched branches and leaves about 100 meters away, but couldn't tell whether it was Swift 10 or not.

Yi Alan had no choice but to get closer, and only took two steps, a gust of cold air rushed from his feet to the top of his head, freezing his entire breath.

A man was lying near the fighter plane, in the bushes, with his back against a tree trunk, his head tilted to one side, and seemed to have lost consciousness.

Yi Alan walked over lightly, and saw in horror that under the helmet was a bloody, young but very strange face.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and had a despicable thought: as long as it wasn't Zhou Yan'an.

The person who thought he was dead suddenly opened his eyes

Yi Alan met his eyes for two seconds, backed away in shock, and immediately hid behind a thick arborvitae, took out the pistol/gun he could use skillfully from the pocket of his tactical vest, and loaded it.

Coughing with blood foam, the young dying pilot looked at Yi Alan's direction with vacant eyes, and said intermittently: "I'm sorry..."

Yi Alan didn't say a word.

"I don't want to stop you, but I can't help it." The pilot groaned in pain, "I belong to the 48th Division of the Huaguo Air Force, and I was sent to the Northwest R&D Center as a test pilot two years ago. At that time, I thought about the worst It ended up being killed in an accident while testing an imperfect new fighter jet. Now that I think about it, maybe that was the best ending, at least without entering this damn world.

"The first two times when it appeared on the 32nd, I really regarded him as a partner who could fight side by side. I thought we were survivors of some kind of terrorist conspiracy. At that time, all the researchers in the research center disappeared, and the headquarters could not be contacted. Today, we drove a fighter plane to inspect a radius of [-] miles, and what we saw and heard was such a desolate world... I won’t tell who you are, I just don’t want to die in such an obscure and humiliating way!”

His last words were full of anger, but they were not addressed to Yi Alan.

Yi Alan guessed that if this person's words were to be believed, then that "partner" must be monitoring him in a special way.

The pilot gasped: "When I realized that the repeated 32nd would have a bad impact on the country and the world, it was too late. I didn't know that my sister, who was only seven years old, was also on the 32nd. So young When she suddenly couldn't find her parents, the first thing she thought of was to call my brother who was thousands of miles away, but her phone calls were intercepted by that person. That person arranged for his accomplices to kidnap my sister on the 32nd and threatened me Do as he bids. I have done something wrong and there is no turning back."

"She's still so young..." The pilot's voice became weaker and weaker, his eyes filled with the last light that fell from the gaps in the leaves, "I haven't seen my sister a few times. After I joined the army, maybe my parents felt lonely. The next child. Over the years, that sister is more like a neighbor’s child. I only know that she is growing up year by year, but I have never participated in her growth. However, in the 32 days, I heard my sister’s soft voice, It was only then that I felt the love that blood is thicker than water, and how my parents missed me. My parents must have talked about my brother many times in front of my young sister, and how I defended my family and the country, so she is so attached to me ;Every time they call me, they must hold my sister by the side, so my sister asks me for help when she is most helpless. It's a pity that I can't protect her well."

"You promised me that if I intercept Swift 10, I will release my sister!" The pilot shouted at the "partner" with the last of his strength, "She doesn't need your so-called 'care', let her live in this world Destroy yourself."

Yi Alan held the gun tightly and hid behind the tree to listen. He didn't know whether to believe this man's words.After hesitating for a moment, Yi Alan poked his head out cautiously, and asked the pilot, "Do you know where my companion crashed?"

The pilot remained silent as if dead, and struggled for a long while before saying, "I don't know."

He tilted his head, looking in one direction, his brown pupils dilated and dilated.Suddenly there was a howling night wind, and a leaf fell on his face, but he didn't brush it away, and he couldn't brush it away again.

Yi Alan looked at him for a long time, put back the gun, took out the flashlight, and decided to go to the direction he was looking at before he died, and continue to search for Zhou Yanan.I could feel the temperature cooling outside, the wind rustled the leaves, but the flight suit kept the cold out well.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the sky was really dark, and the mild starlight could not penetrate the dense canopy.With only the light of a flashlight, Yi Alan waded through the dark night, walked along the valley, picked edible wild fruits when he saw them, and stuffed them into his mouth after encountering a water source to wash them.A certain clump of dark red wild raspberries tasted surprisingly good, full of water and sweet, and Yi Alan plucked that piece bald in one go.

Yi Alan went to look at the locator again, but the data was still out of order.

Ahead, in front of an unknown number of peaks, suddenly lit up.Only at night can the faint light pass through multiple mountain peaks and reach human eyes.

A mass of red light continued to bloom for more than 30 seconds.

Yi Alan was about to cry, feeling that she was gradually coming to life.

That was the light of the flare.

Yi Alan hastily loaded his flare gun with one of the few flares, and fired a shot in response.The rise was not high, but Yi Alan knew that Zhou Yan'an could see the light circle on the edge of the flare after it exploded.