Not everyone is willing to be a subject of the empire.
But everyone wants to survive. For Billy, when facing torture, he almost compromised, and his sister's arrival gave him a reason.
Once a person's will collapses, he will no longer have any scruples. Faced with his sister's lobbying, the physical pain and the yearning for the good life in the past, he made a decision quickly.
Let’s collaborate!
After all, Billy wanted to survive.
It is not about surviving as a guerrilla fighter, but about surviving as an ordinary person. After all, it seems difficult to survive as a guerrilla fighter, but what is more difficult?
It's life!
Even though the guerrillas fighting in the Rocky Mountains were very familiar with this dense forest, so what?
In the past, hunting in the mountains and living in the mountains were two completely different concepts. Last winter, when the mountains were covered with snow, the guerrillas felt hunger and even cold for the first time. Although there were many animals in the mountains, in winter... all animals were suffering.
It was not until the arrival of spring that they finally got enough food from the foot of the mountain, which allowed them to survive.
It was when he went outside the mountain to purchase supplies that Billy exposed his identity.
The guerrillas lived in a valley between mountains, surrounded by a forest of tall redwood trees. Mist floated for more than ten hours every day, combining with mosses and lichens, making everything under the trees moldy.
The smoke rising from the woods and the low chorus in the woods represent this camp. There is no house here, but a simple thatched hut is built on a wooden platform made of wooden beams on the trunks of dozens of fir trees, where people sleep directly, which not only avoids brown bears in the forest, but also many other risks.
The guerrillas usually moved around on the ground and only lived in trees when they slept. The guerrillas lived a simple life, using fresh ferns and hay as bedding. The only thing they were thankful for was that there was enough food in the forest.
As usual, Billy sat by the campfire, staring at the venison in the pot. His mood seemed a little complicated. Which camp is this?
After the previous camp was destroyed by the security forces, he and the survivors fled to this camp. The camp leader, Captain Will, received them warmly and took them in.
Billy sang along with the others as he had done in other camps. These people seemed as happy as Billy's former comrades, as if they were in a tavern instead of a camp in the forest. The only difference was that they had glasses in their hands before, but now they had weapons in their hands and were going out to shoot at the enemy tomorrow.
This is different from the past. In fact, all of them are different from the past. These people don't know how to think about other things, such as love. When they chat, their fingers will occasionally touch the scales of their rifles. They are talking about the battle with the Ming army. Of course, they will sing love songs, and of course, they will sing some of their own songs on the spur of the moment - songs written with blood and life. Although there is no melody, the more exciting it sounds.
In the past, when Billy heard these songs, his blood would boil and he would be eager to fight with them.
But now, all he was thinking about was when all this would end.
The guerrillas were not numerous, they would only attack some Ming army squads, and most of the time, they lived in the forest like this. They chatted, they sang, and they went to sleep at night. Billy dreamed again, he dreamed that he was back home in a comfortable bed, and there was a naked woman in the bed, and when he woke up in the morning... everything disappeared again.
As the dream ended, Billy glanced at his watch.
"Today is the day!"
Today is the agreed day.
That morning, when Billy went to the nearby river to check if there was any catch in the fish dam as usual, the guerrillas were sitting around the campfire, chatting and bragging as usual. At this time, they were not aware of the danger and had no idea that they had been exposed.
In fact, their position had been exposed as early as half a month ago, but in order to protect the safety of the informant, the security forces did not launch an attack at the first time.
Today is the appointed day. An airship cruising at high altitude has arrived at the nearby area. Using airships to carry out clearing missions is an innovation of the security forces. After all, with more and more aircraft appearing on the battlefield, although airships with poor survivability cannot be used on the front lines, they are perfect for clearing out guerrillas.
After the observers on the airship discovered the smoke coming out of the forest, they immediately adjusted their course and quickly flew over the camp. Although the camp seemed hidden, the observers on the airship were still able to find the camp through telescopes.
"The resistance camp is right below us."
"Fly over them and drop bombs!"
Many times, everything is so simple. Faced with the dense primeval forest, the imperial military did not simply send security forces into the forest to clear it out, but adopted another method - airship. Perhaps it is destined that airships will be replaced by airplanes, but airships with large payloads still have their uses, such as search and reconnaissance and bombing, especially search and bombing of guerrillas.
While the airship in the sky was moving its position little by little to ensure that it was aimed at the camp, the guerrillas in the camp were still singing and chatting there. This day was no different from the past, except that they did not know that danger had come.
However, not everyone was unaware of this. Billy, who was fishing at the fish dam by the stream, knew about it. At 11 o'clock in the morning, he took a special look at the sky.
"Billy, when this is all over and we return to Olympia, I will definitely pursue your sister."
Listening to his friend's words, Billy looked at him without denying it, and then said.
"That's your business. The most important thing is that we get this over with."
End it all? When will it end?
Just as this thought came to Billy's mind, he heard an explosion coming from the direction of the camp. The violent explosion engulfed the entire camp, and billowing black smoke rose into the air.
"Billy, what's going on..."
Just as Jerry was screaming in fear, Billy had pulled out his pistol at some point and shot his friend in the chest.
Jerry, who was shot in the chest, looked at his friend with astonishment. When he fell down, his eyes were still full of confusion. He didn't know what had happened. He didn't even know why Billy shot him until his death.
"Jerry, don't blame me. I have no choice. You once said that we will survive no matter what. Yes. I will definitely survive. And I will live well. I don't want to be like this anymore... But don't be angry. After all, this is a war. In a war, it's either you or me, right?"
When Billy said this, he didn't feel any regret or annoyance in his heart, but only a sense of determination...
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