Chapter Thirty-two: You Are My Eagle (Two)

  "Avalanche!"

  A loud rumbling sound suddenly came from the mountains, Xiao Lie looked up to see that the snow on the upper slope more than 200 meters away had started sliding down. The massive snow brought with it a layer of ice that was swaying precariously. The soldiers and herdsmen quickly moved forward, running as fast as they could. In that instant, the knee-deep snow seemed to be no obstacle at all.

  "Ah."

  Xiao Ran heard someone calling from behind, he turned his head and saw Kasha falling to the ground, they were at the end of the team, and the snowballs kept hitting her body.

  Xiao Lie hurriedly ran to her side and helped her up. About two meters away from them was a cliff of nearly thirty meters, with ice and snow below.

  "Run!" Xiao Lie supported Kasha Li and shouted.

  The two people's belongings added up to nearly forty kilograms. When Xiao Lie helped Kasha get up, he heard someone exclaiming in surprise.

  "It's snowing heavily."

  Xiao Lie saw a huge block of ice and snow falling from above, at that moment he pulled up Kasha Li and ran desperately to the front. The ice and snow brought a loud rumbling sound, like ten thousand horses galloping down, in the face of nature's power, any human strength seemed extremely small, if it was said that everyone's heart did not have fear at that time, it would be impossible.

  "Hurry up!" Zhang Zhiqiang shouted loudly when he saw the situation behind him in front.

  Xiao Lie heard the rumbling sound behind him, a strong gust of wind disturbing the air, making his back hair stand on end. He felt as if there was a pair of giant hands pulling him from behind, he didn't dare to look back, nor could he look back. In his heart, he knew that only by running quickly and non-stop would he have a way out. Fortunately, Kasha's footsteps beside him hadn't fallen behind.

  Wei Qidong and others saw Xiao Lie running out when a huge snowslide was rushing down just a few meters away from them. If they had hesitated for one second, they would have been buried in the snow. Wei Qidong had just let out a sigh of relief when he saw a large snowball hurtling towards them above Xiao Lie.

  "Be careful!" Wei Qidong had just finished saying these two words when Xiao Lie and Kasha were hit by a snowball, and then rolled down the mountain with the snowball.

  Xiao Lie felt an unstoppable force pushing him forward, and in that instant, he saw Karisa also falling down. The surroundings were all snow-covered, and the two people were like ants unable to control their fate in a flood. He stretched out his hand and immediately hugged Karisa in his arms. His thinking was simple: as a soldier, when encountering the most dangerous situation, of course, civilians should be given top priority.

  One second can seem like a very long time, or it can be so short that people don't even bother to count.

  As the snow swirled around Xiao Lie, he had no idea where he would drift to or where he would end up. Now wrapped in the snowstorm, he thought that this time, he was definitely going to die.

  He felt his body finally stop, but all around him was icy cold snow. His body was embedded in the snow, and Xiao Lie moved slightly, he could still move. He stretched his hand upwards, but it didn't reach the surface of the snow. Now he dared not move, because the snow was loose, and the more he moved, the deeper he would sink. After struggling a bit, he finally managed to create some space.

  "How are you?" Xiao Lie asked Kassari, whom he had just been holding tightly.

  "Uh-huh, I'm fine," Kasha said.

  "We need to figure out a way to get to the surface now, there's not much oxygen left. I'll move, you stay still, okay?"

  "Good."

  When Xiao Lie and Kasali were swept down the cliff by the snow, the entire team took a deep breath. Although the 30-meter cliff was not high, and there was accumulated snow below, the chances of survival were still quite high. However, for rescue personnel to go down, they would have to go from another mountain, which would take three hours. Now, on the cliff, it was no longer possible to hammer in ice nails, and without fully confirming the ice layer, doing so could easily trigger another avalanche. What's more, the weather was getting worse and worse, with thickening dark clouds, increasing wind, and a new blizzard looming. Everyone looked at Zhang Zhiqiang, and if he said a word, the soldiers would immediately form a rescue team.

  Zhang Zhiqiang looked at the weather, looked at the thick ice and snow on the mountain, in such weather, the satellite signal had completely disappeared, and visibility was getting lower and lower. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "All units accelerate forward, retreat to a safe area below the mountain."

  When Wei Qidong heard Zhang Zhiqiang's words, he was stunned for a moment, but immediately regained his composure. Yes, Zhang Zhiqiang was right, under such weather conditions, the probability of successful rescue was extremely low, and it might also put others in danger. Moreover, their main task now was to escort the herders down the mountain, and they could not afford to spare more manpower at this time, nor did the weather and timing permit them to do so.

  Many times, war is just a choice for commanders to sacrifice a small number of people in exchange for the survival of most people.

  After a long time, Xiao Lie finally dug a hole from under the snow and climbed up to the surface. To say that at that time they were only about one meter away from the surface, but at first, they couldn't distinguish directions in the snow.

  "What shall we do?" Kasha asked, seeing the increasingly heavy snowstorm.

  "Find a place to hide, we can't move tonight." Xiao Lie said with a deliberately casual tone, looking at the weather. He knew that in such weather, he couldn't expect anyone to come and rescue them. Having been a soldier for several days, he still had some sense of sacrifice for the greater good.

  Xiao Lie led Kasha down to the foot of the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain, they unexpectedly found a cave. The cave was three meters deep and one meter seven high. If it weren't for Xiao Lie's sharp eyes, he wouldn't have seen it. Normally, such a gloomy cave would be beneath Xiao Lie's notice, but in this weather, finding such a cave was already a great stroke of luck for him, which meant that the chances of the two people surviving tonight had greatly increased.

  Before long, the sky turned dark, and the wind mixed with snow outside made a huge howling cry, just like a giant creature was foraging outside. Any living thing that could survive outside would be torn apart and swallowed by it if it encountered it.

  "Does anyone know if Ah Ma and them have come down from the mountain?" Kasha Li's voice was tinged with a hint of tears.

  "It's all right, they've been taken down the mountain, now they're much safer than we are. Are you hungry? I still have some biscuits here."

  Xiao Lie finished speaking and opened the bag he was carrying, inside which were two more packets of compressed biscuits. He opened his thermos flask and found that the temperature of the water inside had not changed much, still scalding hot, and he was amazed at the quality of this military product.

  Before Kasha fell off the cliff, there were two woolen blankets in her bag, which were originally intended for use when going down the mountain. She didn't expect to use them here, but the ground was too cold, so one blanket wasn't enough, and she simply put both on the ground. Then she took the biscuits and warm water handed over by Xiao Lie.

  "This is quite delicious, when I was a kid, I followed my mom to visit the Liberation Army uncle's place, they gave me two pieces of such cookies, I thought it was very tasty, and every time my mom went to visit the Liberation Army uncle's place, I would follow her just to eat two pieces of cookies."

  "Then you can tell your mother and let her bring it back for you." Xiao Lie said.

  "Hmm, no way, at that time the Liberation Army uncles didn't have much to eat either." Kasha understood military rations better than Xiao Lie.

  Then Kasha began to talk about some things when she was a kid, and Xiao Lie only knew then that her mother was from the Uyghur ethnic group, while her father was Russian, so they had a mixed-blood child like her. However, her father passed away when she was fifteen years old, leaving behind just the two of them, mother and daughter.

  "Your nose is quite pretty." Xiao Lie was afraid that she would recall those unpleasant things, so he changed the subject, after all, he had also experienced such things.

  "Is that so? You're kidding." Kasha Li smiled and said, "I'm not as pretty as you Han girls, but your clothes are really beautiful."

  "I think girls with a high nose are pretty, and your eyes are also very beautiful."

  Xiao Lie said that although he didn't know Kasha for long, but he felt she was different from other Han women. This is normal, after all, the girls he had contact with before were all Han, and suddenly seeing a Russian-blooded mixed-race beauty was quite different. If there's anything bad to say, it's that there's nothing in the cave to start a fire with. He now thinks that what's written in movies about male leads and a woman falling off a cliff in heavy snow without dying, then starting a fire in a cave is pure nonsense. First of all, don't mention whether you can find wood or not, even if you do find some, the problem is that the wood in the wild on snowy mountains is wet, and at that time Xiao Lie hadn't learned how to make wet wood burn from his special forces training, so he thinks those things are utter rubbish.

  The two of them chatted for a while, and the temperature in the cave became lower and lower, they started to shiver.

  "Are we going to freeze to death here?" Kasyari asked.

  "No. Because the People's Liberation Army is here, you won't freeze to death." Xiao Lie tried his best to make his voice sound less shaky, this was his first time experiencing such coldness, he even thought that by the second half of the night when the temperature dropped to its lowest, would he really freeze to death? Even standing in the wind during roll call hadn't been this cold before. He could feel a layer of frost on his eyebrows. He kept rubbing his hands and moved his somewhat stiff body around in the darkness.

  "It's so hot, it's so hot, why is everything on fire around me? Why is the temperature so high? Even if I'm completely naked, I'm still sweating profusely. It's too hot, I really can't take it anymore." Xiao Lie hinted to himself that he had heard that if one's mind was strong enough, they could use suggestion to become immune to cold, but he soon discovered that at least he didn't have such a strong mind, because he was still feeling the chill.

  "I'm so cold, can you hold me?" Kasha said softly.

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