Chapter 62 What is the scariest thing in the no-man’s land?
It is now basically certain that Qi Ruibiao has run away.
As an officer with many years of military service, this is not the first time that Luo Shan has encountered such a situation.
The reason why he reacted so strongly was because this was no-man's land.
The recruits didn't know what the no-man's land meant, but he knew it very well.
Not to mention that it will soon be dark, even if it is broad daylight in an uninhabited area, as long as you are alone, you may face all kinds of dangers.
The new recruits remained silent, following Luo Shan silently towards another exit of the valley.
There are steep cliffs on both sides of the river, so if Qi Ruibiao wants to run, there is only one direction forward.
Seeing that the little dog was having difficulty running on the gravel beach, Xu Ge bent down, picked it up and put it in his trouser pocket.
Luo Shan originally wanted to call the instructor and the company commander to report, but the signal in the valley was very poor. After trying several times, he gave up and kept urging everyone to speed up.
More than ten minutes later, everyone came out of the valley and saw a stream in front of them. The water flowed slowly among the gravel. Further ahead was a hillside with scattered weeds growing on it.
After stepping on the stones to cross the stream, Luo Shan and Kai Youmu bent down and began to examine the ground carefully, while the other recruits stood there and looked around.
It was already dark, and everything around was gray, with visibility of only a few dozen meters at most.
"Platoon leader, look at these footprints, they should be heading south." Kai Youmu said, pointing to the ground.
Luo Shan nodded: "I think so too. Where's the white tiger? Let it come over and sniff it!"
Xu Ge immediately took out the little Si dog and brought it to the footprints that Kaiyoumu had discovered: "White Tiger, sniff!"
The little Si dog lowered its head and sniffed the ground, then began to circle around the soldiers, and finally ran towards the south with a hop and skip.
"Let's go! Keep chasing!"
Luo Shan waved his hand, and the recruits immediately walked up the hillside and prepared to move south.
"Platoon leader, I seemed to see someone over there just now!" Li Dongshui suddenly said from the back of the team.
Everyone stopped and Xu Ge looked in the direction of north indicated by Li Dongshui's finger, but all he could see was fog.
"Where is it?"
Luo Shan looked back twice but saw nothing. "Are you sure you saw anyone?"
Li Dongshui hesitated. "The light is bad, so I can't be sure. I just felt like a shadow flashed behind the slope over there."
Luo Shan was in a dilemma. The earthen slope that Li Dongshui mentioned was about seventy or eighty meters away from here. If he was mistaken, it would take a lot of time to go back and forth.
I took a look at the little Si dog, and the little guy was still walking south with his butt sticking up and sniffing.
"Here, Xu Ge, you and Li Dongshui run over and take a look. If no one is there, come back quickly. If there is someone, call out."
Luo Shan looked at Kai Youmu again and said, "Take two people and wait here. The others will follow me south to check the situation."
"yes!"
Xu Ge and Li Dongshui turned around and ran towards the earthen slope to the north, while Luo Shan continued to move south with a few new recruits. The ten of them were distributed in a straight line with a distance of two to three hundred meters.
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"Did you see it clearly?"
When they were almost at the slope, Xu Ge couldn't help but ask.
"I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and when I turned my head, I felt that the figure had already turned around and went to the back."
Li Dongshui spoke more directly in front of Xu Ge, "But my feeling is very accurate, almost right!"
"Okay, let's climb up the slope and take a look. We can see farther this way."
Xu Ge knew that Li Dongshui's eyesight was very good, so he cursed,
"If it's really that Qi Ruibiao, I'm going to beat him up! Damn it, we're still out looking for him so late at night. I'm starving!"
The two climbed up the slope and began to look down.
"Xu Ge, look, isn't there someone sitting there?" Li Dongshui pointed down the slope more than 30 meters away. "I told you I wasn't seeing things!"
Xu Ge looked carefully and saw that there was indeed a figure sitting below. There seemed to be a hat on his head, and the shape looked a bit like the boonie hats that everyone wore during training.
"Fuck, it really is this kid. He must be tired from running and is sitting there to rest."
Without giving it much thought, Xu Ge immediately determined that the figure below was Qi Ruibiao, and immediately shouted, "Qi Ruibiao!"
After shouting, Xu Ge shouted towards Kaiyoumu behind him: "Deputy squad leader, here!"
Kaiyoumu was startled when he heard the shout and immediately prepared to bring two new recruits over, but at this moment he heard Luo Shan's voice in front of him:
"Kaiyoumu, bring everyone here, Qi Ruibiao has been found!"
Kai Youmu, who was about to run towards Xu Ge, was stunned for a moment. He looked around. What was going on?
"Zhou Meng, did you hear what Xu Ge shouted just now?" Kai Youmu asked Zhou Meng beside him.
"It seems like he just called me deputy squad leader." Zhou Meng said uncertainly.
"Fuck! What the hell are they doing?"
Kai Youmu clearly heard Luo Shan's voice, so he prepared to call Xu Ge and Li Dongshui back.
"Xu Ge, you two can come back..."
Halfway through shouting, Kaiyoumu was stunned again. The two men actually went down the slope!
On Xu Ge's side, after calling out Qi Ruibiao's name, he saw the figure sitting below immediately stand up.
Now the two men were absolutely certain that the other person was Qi Ruibiao. Li Dongshui shouted down, "Hurry up, Ah Biao! The platoon leader and the others are here."
The figure below turned to face the two of them, said nothing, and just waved.
"He asked us to go down." Li Dongshui guessed.
"This kid is very strong physically. Remember to hold him down as soon as you get down there. You may not be able to catch up with him if he really runs." Xu Ge said in a low voice.
He planned to pretend to go down with Li Dongshui to get close to him first, and then find an opportunity to catch Qi Ruibiao.
"good!"
Li Dongshui nodded, and the two began to walk downhill. As they walked, Li Dongshui called out, "A Biao, why did you run so far just to take a shit?"
The figure didn't say anything, just stood there and looked at this side.
"This kid must be regretting this now. He's just thinking about how to tell this story in front of the platoon leader!"
Xu Ge sneered, "I really suspect that the gas guide on my gun is him..."
"Xu Ge!"
Xu Ge, who was walking in front, noticed that something was wrong with Li Dongshui's voice and turned around: "What's wrong?"
Li Dongshui's expression was tense as he pointed downwards: "Why do I feel like he... seems fatter than Qi Ruibiao?"
Xu Ge was startled and immediately looked carefully at the figure below.
Now that the distance was closer, the other person's outline could be seen more clearly, and it indeed seemed to be a little wider than Qi Ruibiao's body.
Xu Ge suspected that it was because of the sky that he couldn't see clearly, and shouted again: "Qi Ruibiao, can you say something?"
The figure below still didn't say anything, but just stretched out his right arm and waved again.
Li Dongshui's slightly trembling voice came from behind: "Xu Ge...his...his arms are so long!"
"Also, look at his feet. He's not wearing our yellow combat boots!"
Xu Ge felt a chill on his back, and recalled what Kai Youmu had said during their previous chat:
Do you know what's the scariest thing to encounter in a no-man's land? It's not wild animals, but people!
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