Chapter 11 10. Sacrifice

This road was running in the dark, and I only saw the flashlights of the few people in front of me. Once we ran to a place where the light of the fire we ignited could not be reached, the speed could not be increased at all. jump forward. This is not so easy to jump, people are not kangaroos, every jump is extremely thrilling.Sometimes if you slow down your feet, you will slip under the stone.I can only do my best to keep up. Shooting was still going on in the distance, and I soon saw the tracer of the bullet, which was about 600 meters away. It didn't take long for Pei Qing and the others to walk away. Such a distance is considered fast. .

Halfway through the chase, I ran out of strength. Running like this was too exhausting. When I stopped, I felt like my lungs were about to burst out.But after stopping for a few seconds, I realized something was wrong. It was dark all around, and the soldiers in front were still running. Seeing that they were getting farther and farther away from me, the scattered sacks and the skeletons exposed from inside made my scalp feel a little numb. I could only Grit your teeth and keep going. When I got there, the gunfire had stopped, and I saw Pei Qing holding the gun, and the soldier with him was gone, and the deputy squad leader ran back with another soldier with a pale face. I asked why What happened, they ignored me and ran back past me.

I had no choice but to climb up to Pei Qing's side and ask him what was going on, Pei Qing's face was livid and he didn't speak, a soldier next to him explained to me, he couldn't even speak clearly, pointing to one side and stammering.I listened for a long time before I heard it clearly. Someone fell, and the deputy squad leader went back to get the rope. I had already heard the sound of rumbling water at this time, and when I got closer, I realized that when I arrived here, the terrain suddenly broke, and a fault appeared in the river channel, and the dark river water rushed down directly from here, forming a waterfall.But it's not too high, more than 20 meters at most, the flashlight shines down and there are rocks under it, I suddenly saw the soldier who set out with Pei Qing stuck between the two rocks, his face was covered with blood, I don't know if he is dead or alive , obviously slipped and fell.

My head buzzed, this was already a major accident, so I hurriedly asked Pei Qing what was going on.Pei Qing said that they planned to go back when they came here, but he saw that the waterfall was not too high, and thought that since they came here, it would not be easy, so he wanted to go down a little deeper.The little soldier said that the squad leader asked him to protect him, and he was required to come to such a dangerous matter, so he gave him the gun and climbed down by himself.I don't know what's going on, Xiaobing just climbed two steps, and suddenly fell down, he immediately called for help, and we didn't respond after calling for a long time, so we could only fire a gun to notify us.

I have experienced this kind of thing. Stumbling is the most dangerous situation that geological survey team members face. I hurriedly asked the two soldiers who did not go back to call the name of the soldier who had stumbled down the waterfall. If he is still awake, he cannot fall asleep.However, the two soldiers barked for a long time as if they were called Zhong Huzi, who should be a little soldier with a nickname, but they still didn't respond at all.My heart sank, and it seemed that there was more danger than good luck. Wang Sichuan and the others arrived after me, and they were exhausted, but as soon as he heard that someone had fallen, he immediately went down to rescue them, but was grabbed by me and the soldier.

Finally, after waiting anxiously for 20 minutes, the rope was brought, and the deputy squad leader hung it down by himself, and carried the little soldier up.At that time, when he came up, his hands were covered with blood. At first I thought it was on the soldier, but later I found out that it was all on the deputy squad leader himself.The waterfall is actually covered with barbed wire, hidden in the water and cannot be seen. It is probably because of this that the little soldier stumbled. As soon as I checked, I closed my eyes, already sacrificed, and I never got a chance to learn the name of this warrior in the end.At that time, we were speechless all of a sudden, and several of us knelt down and began to wipe away our tears.

Because I was wearing a hard hat, I never took a closer look at these engineering soldiers. Now it seems that this soldier is only nineteen years old at most. If he is now, he still knows nothing and tramples on his youth wantonly.At that time, he didn't have any last words, and he might have died easily without even tasting love. The deputy squad leader was a person who had been on the battlefield, and he was only smoking at this time. Several other soldiers were crying, and Wang Sichuan was also crying. He grabbed Pei Qing and said that he was still a baby, how could you let him do such a dangerous thing.Pei Qing didn't say anything, and didn't resist, but his face was very ugly.I wanted to persuade those soldiers, but the deputy squad leader stopped me and told them to cry for 20 minutes, just 20 minutes.

This matter hit me hard. In the past, we were very aware of the dangers of exploration activities. Although we seemed to be very relaxed, we were very vigilant on key issues.It's a pity that long-term habits have made us accustomed to managing ourselves and not thinking about others.This time we didn't expect that those engineers had no experience in geological exploration. Except for their physical fitness, other qualities of these soldiers were the same as ordinary people. It can be said that our negligence killed this little soldier. This feeling is very uncomfortable, because this is the truth, there is no way to escape, I thought if I brought him here, would I remind him of something?Probably not.We are very good professionally, but we are really slack in other aspects, no wonder Pei Qing.Thinking about it makes me feel extremely guilty.

That night, we carried the body back to the camp and spread sleeping bags on him. The body cannot be transported back, but the task has to be completed, and we can only deal with it when we return.The deputy squad leader asked us to go to bed early, but how can we be calm, everyone has a sleepless night. The next day, it didn't matter whether it was morning or evening, we each got up, tidied up, paid respects to the little soldier's body, and continued on our way. In 1962, the country was more important than everything else. At that time, we never had the idea of ​​going back to rest and come back.Just thinking about getting things done.And modern exploration missions, if they encounter such a situation, must have been cancelled.

We ate lunch under the waterfall. The number of body bags here is very small. The stones behind are relatively small and closely spaced, so it is easier to walk.At that time, Wang Sichuan proposed that he also wanted to explore the way, but we stopped him for no other reason, and it felt inappropriate. After lunch, there was a 20-minute break. At this time, something happened, which made me feel very abrupt. I took out my pocket to smoke, but I touched a crumpled piece of paper in my pocket.I'm surprised I didn't have this in my pocket before.Opening it up, I found that it was a piece of paper torn from a labor insurance notebook, with a few words written on it: Be careful of Pei Qing!