In his dream, Lu Zhan felt as if he had returned to the military guesthouse.
Through the bright moonlight outside the window, he saw Shao Jingque curled up in the quilt and sleeping soundly, with only half of his little face exposed. His eyes were clearly closed, but his brows were furrowed, and he seemed to be sleeping not very soundly.
He walked over gently and wanted to help her pull the quilt down so that she could breathe more easily, but he found that he couldn't touch the quilt at all.
Just as he was surprised, Shao Jingque suddenly shouted loudly:
"No, don't go over there! Run!"
Obviously a nightmare.
Lu Zhan hurriedly wanted to hug her to comfort her, but his hands reaching out to her went straight through her body. Only then did he realize that he seemed to be transparent, floating in the air like air.
Shao Jingque was still screaming in her sleep, and crystal tears were sliding down from the corners of her eyes, which made Lu Zhan's heart feel as if it was being squeezed by a big hand.
But no matter how hard he tried to hug her, she was always like a mirage, untouchable.
Just as he was getting extremely anxious, a shrill scream suddenly reached his ears, instantly pulling him back to reality from his dream.
Lu Zhan immediately opened his eyes, stood up alertly, and scanned the surroundings with a sharp gaze:
"What was that sound just now?"
Obviously, many people were just awakened by the shrill scream. They looked at each other, not knowing what had happened, with a blank look on their faces.
I only heard a little soldier shouting in panic in the distance:
"We're missing one person on the team!"
Lu Zhan's expression started to stern, and he quickly ran towards the sound, followed closely by Ma Jun and Liu Jincai.
The young soldier was so anxious that his face turned red. Seeing several leaders coming together, he was so nervous that he even stuttered:
"Report, report to the battalion commander, a girl from our team is missing!"
Ma Jun widened his eyes:
"Weren't we supposed to each of you take care of five? How come they disappeared?"
The little soldier blushed and explained:
"She just said she needed to go to the bathroom and didn't want me to follow her, so I asked her to find a place nearby to relieve herself. But after waiting for a long time, she didn't come back. Then I heard that scream. I called out to her again, but she didn't respond."
Lu Zhan felt uneasy, fearing that the girl might be in danger, and immediately asked:
"Which direction did she go just now?"
The little soldier pointed to the west side of the woods:
"She went west, and I told her not to go too far."
Lu Zhan turned around and said to Ma Jun:
"You stay here and continue to keep watch. Report as usual. Liu Jincai will come with me to find someone."
There are a total of 415 soldiers in the first battalion, but there are 2,082 people in Anfeng Town who have to follow the transfer. Under the current conditions, each soldier must ensure the personal safety of at least five people. No one can be withdrawn. Even the young soldier just now can only stay where he is and continue to take care of the other four people.
Lu Zhan and Liu Jincai each took a torch and headed in the direction the young soldier had indicated.
Anfeng Town is backed by a mountain with dense vegetation. It is a mountain range stretching from north to south. The terrain on the mountain is complex and there are many wild animals.
During the famine years, residents near Anfeng Town relied on the mountains for their livelihood and only dared to go to the outskirts of the mountains to pick some wild vegetables and catch small animals such as rabbits and pheasants. Even the most experienced old hunters did not dare to go deep into the mountains.
As Lu Zhan and his men were leading the residents to the top of the mountain, they heard the roars of many ferocious birds and beasts. Fortunately, they were numerous and the beasts did not dare to approach them easily.
It is very difficult to walk in the dense forest at night. The ground is covered with fallen leaves and the ground is wet and slippery due to the heavy rain for several days. It is easy to trip if you are not careful.
The torches had a limited range of illumination, so the two men carefully searched in the direction pointed by the young soldier, but they didn't see anyone even after walking a long way.
After walking all the way without seeing anyone, Liu Jincai felt very strange and turned back to Lu Zhan and said:
"Captain, how could a girl dare to walk so far at night? Could she have been carried off by a wild animal in the mountains?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zhan grabbed his wrist:
"careful!"
Liu Jincai, who didn't have time to stop, felt his feet go empty and he fell backward instantly. Fortunately, Lu Zhan grabbed him in advance and pulled him back.
Liu Jincai was startled by this sudden move. After he stood firm, he quickly turned around and took the torch to look for it. He broke out in a cold sweat on his back.
It turned out that if he walked half a step forward from where he had just stood, there would be a step more than one meter high, and below it was a slope that seemed to have no end. If he had missed the step and fallen down, he didn't know where he would roll to.
He patted his chest in fear:
"This dead-end road is too scary. If you fall down, you might not die, but you'll be scared to death!"
Lu Zhan frowned. The road was cut off suddenly. If he hadn't been concentrating on looking for someone with a torch, he probably wouldn't have found it so easily. Could the little girl have accidentally fallen from here?
He squatted down and carefully shone the torch around the area. He didn't see anyone, but he did find a clue:
"Look, there's paper."
Liu Jincai quickly shone his torch over and saw two pieces of soaked straw paper scattered on the slope. His eyes lit up:
"Captain, it seems that the little girl may have fallen down. I'll go down and look for her!"
With mental preparation, jumping down a hurdle more than one meter high was definitely not a problem for Liu Jincai, and Lu Zhan followed suit.
The torches could only illuminate a limited area, and the slope was so slippery that people couldn't stand at all. The two could only move forward in a half-squatting position, ready to fall to the ground if they slipped at any time.
Fortunately, hard work pays off. After searching about fifty meters down, they actually found the unconscious girl on the trunk of a crooked tree.
The two were overjoyed and hurried over to help the man up and lean him against the tree trunk. They reached out and felt his breath, which was warm and normal, so it seemed that his life was not in danger.
But faced with this steep and slippery slope, how to get an unconscious person up the slope became a problem.
Liu Jincai suggested that he could carry the person up, but Lu Zhan felt that this was too risky. If he accidentally slipped and the person fell down, it would cause more serious injuries.
The best way at the moment is to use a rope to secure the person to one person's back, and the other person climbs to the top of the slope first, then secures the rope and throws it down, allowing the person carrying the person to pull the rope and climb up safely.
Liu Jincai volunteered to return to the base camp to get a rope, and Lu Zhan stayed there to look after the unconscious girl.
After rolling down such a long slope, the girl's clothes were torn by the sharp gravel on the ground. There was a bleeding cut on her left cheek, and the fingertips of both hands were also worn out. It was obvious that she had tried to save herself while rolling.
In the damp and cold air after the rain, a faint smell of blood floated in the air, becoming particularly dangerous in the darkness.
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