I slowly woke up with a burst of pain in the back of my head.
Thinking back to the scene before I fainted, damn, I was ambushed.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself and Qin Lan tied to a tree stump, back to back.
"Hey, Chen Fei, are you awake?" Qin Lan asked softly when she sensed my movement.
"Yeah. Are you okay?" I replied.
"It's okay. I've been tied up here since I was caught." Qin Lan replied.
While I was asking Qin Lan about the situation, I looked around and saw that even Li Yuan was tied up. He hadn't woken up yet.
I tried to untie the ropes with my hands behind my back, but after several attempts I found it was futile.
This rope is tied very skillfully.
This reminds me of the bondage techniques I learned in the army.
It seems that this savage is not a real savage, and his identity is not simple.
Could it be that someone is deliberately playing tricks there?
While I was thinking, a tall figure walked towards me from a distance.
I was worried about some danger, so I stretched out my legs and kicked Li Yuan, who was not far away, to wake him up.
It wasn't until the man walked right up to me that I was able to get a good look at him.
His skin was dark, his facial hair was unkempt, and his complexion was difficult to discern.
The blue and white striped shirt he was wearing was completely out of place with his whole body.
But this person gave me a familiar feeling.
I lowered my voice and asked, "Who are you and why are you arresting us?"
The man opened his mouth, as if he was trying very hard, and finally uttered a hoarse, monotonous syllable, then shook his head at us.
Seeing my wary look, the man took a step back and fed us the wild fruits he had picked.
Realizing he meant no harm, I opened my mouth and ate it.
This action obviously made him very happy, and he, who couldn't speak, kept shouting with joy.
I quickly took the opportunity to ask, "Can you let us go?"
But unexpectedly, the man's expression changed in the blink of an eye, and he left us and walked into the cave.
The three of us were left looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Fade Chen, do you think he'll eat us? Aren't they said that savages eat people?"
Qin Lan saw that the man was obviously scared and was probably very frightened. She asked me in a trembling voice.
"No, he doesn't look like a savage. Don't worry, I'm here." I comforted Qin Lan.
"The most important issue now is how do we escape?" Li Yuan said from the side.
"Before we escape, we have to get clues about Xiao Chen from him. This is the key."
I calmly analyzed that if the shirt on that person belonged to Xiao Chen, then there must have been some connection between the two.
"But this guy can't even speak, what kind of information can we expect to get?" Li Yuan looked at me and said.
"Everything depends on human efforts. How can you know if you don't try?" I answered Li Yuan while searching for information in my mind.
I guess this person was probably stranded on a desert island like us and never left.
Living alone on a deserted island for a long time resulted in the loss of his ability to speak.
But this can be recovered slowly, but why do I have an inexplicable sense of familiarity with him?
This is the man who came back and took out a wild rabbit from the cave.
Then he started to make a fire and set up a rack at the entrance of the cave. He skillfully prepared the rabbit and placed it on the rack to roast.
We hadn't eaten meat for a long time, but when we smelled the aroma, our stomachs started growling.
However, the man was only concerned with eating and didn't even look at us.
In desperation, I bit the bullet and said, "Brother, can you give us some food? We are starving."
"How about this? As long as you give us some food, I can teach you to speak and help you train to recover your speaking ability." Based on my previous guess, I tentatively asked.
The man's eyes suddenly lit up. As I expected, he was not stupid.
"Hey, Chen Fei, it's already this time and you're still busy eating?" Qin Lan said to me in a low voice in annoyance.
"You need to have enough energy to run. What do you think, brother?" I answered Qin Lan in a low voice while shouting at the man.
Then the man took out the roasted rabbit legs and fed us, but still did not let us go.
After filling his stomach, the man took my knife out of my backpack and walked towards us.
"You, you, don't do anything rash." Qin Lan trembled when she saw this scene.
I held Qin Lan's hand from behind her back and comforted her, "It's okay, don't be afraid."
Although I said this, my body was still tense and my eyes were fixed on the man, just in case.
Just when the three of us didn't dare to breathe, the man walked straight past us without even looking at us.
Phew, it was a false alarm.
After a while, the man came back, holding a bamboo tube of water, and sat down by the fire again.
Start shaving the beard on your face little by little with a knife.
Oh, so that’s how it is.
Just like that, as the messy beard and hair on his face were shaved off bit by bit, the man's original face became clearer.
He had the same skin color as us, but he still had some stubble on his face, which he couldn't shave completely.
But despite this, the face still shocked me.
Isn't this the former squad leader in our military academy?
"Are you the squad leader? Jin Peng?" I shouted in disbelief.
The man paused holding the knife, turned around and looked at me blankly.
The squad leader walked up to me little by little, pointed at me, and then pointed at himself.
I understood what he meant and nodded quickly, "Falcon Military Academy, I'm from the 22nd class. Squad Leader, you taught us."
The squad leader's eyes were full of disbelief, and tears slowly filled his eyes after listening to what I said.
To completely dispel the squad leader's concerns, I continued, "If you don't believe me, you can look at my back. There's our military academy's logo tattooed on it."
Squad leader Jin Peng nodded, and after confirming my back, he lifted up his clothes on the back, revealing the pattern of the goshawk on the lower back. I did the same with mine.
After the squad leader confirmed my identity, he suddenly felt as if all his strength had been drained away, and he squatted on the ground and howled. His hysteria was like he was venting all his past.
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