Suddenly, he remembered that the voice that had just spoken was a female voice, and among the three battalions participating in the competition, only their battalion had two female soldiers, and these two female soldiers were actually in their second company. So the two of them looked at each other, put away their guns, and walked out from behind the tree where they were hiding.
As they approached, Zhao Gang and the others saw the two men clearly. He recognized them both. The one who first asked was indeed Guo Daming. The other was Lian Yansheng. They were both from the Second Company. Although these people had only been in the barracks for a short time, Guo Daming was the platoon leader of the Second Company's first platoon, and Lian Yansheng happened to be his squad leader. Both of them were usually at the top of the class, so it was no surprise that they knew each other.
Guo Daming and Lian Yansheng also recognized Zhao Gang and Jia Dongsheng, not to mention the two girls. There was no soldier in the entire battalion who didn't know them. After all, the sudden appearance of two girls among a group of male soldiers was bound to attract attention, so Guo Daming and Lian Yansheng finally put their minds at ease.
"Platoon Leader Guo, why are you still traveling so late at night? And there are too few of you two. If you meet people from other battalions, won't you be surrounded?" Zhao Gang asked.
"There's nothing we can do. Originally, there were more than ten people in our group. We encountered people from the Second Battalion twice and were shot and killed by them. Although they also suffered casualties, our people were also scattered. I don't know how they are doing now. Have they reached the finish line? By the way, why are you four here? We are not far from the finish line. Why don't you move forward?" Guo Daming asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Guo Daming is about 1.78 meters tall, with a slightly burly build, muscular body, a strong physique, a square face, and a righteous look. He also has very good fighting skills and is considered outstanding in the Second Company.
"Several groups of people from our battalion went there during the day today, but only one group of four people were from our second company. However, they were led by the third platoon leader of our second company, not from your first platoon!" Zhao Gang said with a frown.
"What? You are talking about Lian Tianlai? They are with us! I didn't expect them to run ahead of us. Now we don't have to worry about them." Guo Daming said excitedly.
"Hey, it's Liantian and the others. What a coincidence. By the way, Juan'er, bring some food and water for us so that Platoon Leader Guo and the others can have a rest before continuing on their journey. Anyway, there's no place safer than here. We can't walk hungry for another night, right?" Zhao Gang said.
"That won't do. If you give us the food, what will you eat? We can get there if we just hold on a little longer. Besides, how can we let you new recruits take care of us two veterans?" Guo Daming and Lian Yansheng kept refusing, but their words stopped as soon as they saw what Zhang Juan brought over, because they were shocked!
Although both of them were veterans and had eliminated several people along the way, they did not get much food and water, especially since they had to share some with other team members, so what they got was limited. They had only managed to survive until now by eating frugally, and their bags were now empty.
Water is easy to deal with. It is not difficult for the two veterans to find a water source along the way. But there is no way to get food. They can't make a fire, and they are unwilling to eat raw food. Besides, pheasants and rabbits are not that easy to hunt. Not everyone has the same ability as Liang Yiyi!
So in the past few days, the two of them have not had a full meal, otherwise they would not have traveled all night, just looking forward to reaching the destination as soon as possible so that they can have a hot meal. Even a bowl of hot porridge is better than going hungry.
But what was in front of them now? A bag of food. Not just a few dozen grams, but a backpack full of it. Inside was not only the compressed biscuits they'd been given for the competition, but also two roasted pheasants. Even though it was cold, the smell was enough to make anyone crave it. Especially for two people who'd been hungry for six days, this amount of food was enough to last them a state banquet. Were they here to train for a competition? They were here to have fun! How many people would they have to rob to get this much? And there were roasted pheasants to eat. Oh my! They were both about to cry with happiness!
"Eat quickly, and then take a rest. Our tent is over there. You can take a nap and continue your journey tomorrow morning. There is plenty of time anyway, so there is no need to rush." Jia Dongsheng could hardly hold back his laughter when he saw the reactions of the two people. They were too funny. Their eyes were shining green when they saw the food in the bag. Seeing that they just looked at it but did not eat anything, Jia Dongsheng quickly reminded them.
Guo Daming and the other man were no longer polite and reached for the roast chicken. Everyone knew that compressed biscuits were unpalatable! Of course, they wouldn't touch the good ones. However, the two of them were quite restrained and only took one of them to share. The other one was obviously not going to touch it. They couldn't eat all the good things!
Zhang Juan whispered to him, "You must eat slowly, otherwise your stomach won't be able to handle it. It doesn't matter if you've eaten all the roast chicken. There's only tomorrow left anyway, and we won't starve."
The two men didn't even look up, just uttered a few "hmm" sounds. Suddenly, Guo Daming remembered something and quickly stopped talking to the others, "We've been chased by the Second Battalion for quite some time, otherwise we wouldn't have arrived here just now. Although we've temporarily shaken them off, they're definitely not too far away. Isn't this place too safe now? Should we take shelter together?"
Alas, we were all hungry. We couldn't walk when we saw food. We almost forgot such an important thing.
Zhang Juan immediately became alert when she heard this. "How many people are there in total? How strong are they? How far away are they from you?"
"It's all Li Zhining's gang," Lian Yansheng said bitterly, "Seven or eight of them chased us relentlessly, as if they wouldn't stop until we were dead. If it weren't for our decent physical fitness, we would have been taken care of by him and his men long ago." After saying that, he chewed the chicken bones in his mouth vigorously twice, looking resentful as if he was chewing Li Zhining's flesh.
Guo Daming standing next to him also had a look of disgust on his face, as if Li Zhining was some kind of dirty thing and he hated it very much.
Zhang Juan and the others exchanged glances, their eyes sparkling with excitement. Something was about to happen. This Li Zhining was truly a jack of all trades. He wasn't dead yet! Wasn't he just here to deliver food to them? Seven or eight people might be a bit much, but with eleven of them now, it should be no problem. But don't forget, they had a big trump card.
So Zhang Juan said, "You don't have to avoid them. Just eat your food and listen to my instructions later."
twenty three
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