Chapter 64 Crossing the River (Part 2)

  When all the T5 were busy dealing with Xiao Lie, no one expected that their own rear would also be in turmoil. In the first golden minute, those prisoners of their own suddenly launched a surprise attack from behind. When they discovered this, some prisoners had already obtained weapons. Although the combat effectiveness of the T5 was very strong, most of the T5 had gone out to pick up people, and there were only about ten T5 left, while the prisoners had more than 100 people. Among these people, many knew that they could no longer enter the T5, so they thought, why not just go all out? When faced with an opportunity to thoroughly deal with the T5, no one would refuse.

  "We're already captives anyway, bare feet aren't afraid of wearing shoes. If we can take them down on the battlefield, we still have a chance to survive." Tan Hongzhong shouted loudly in the crowd.

  His words reminded many people of the scene where T5 actually used live ammunition to bomb them. Since they are not benevolent, don't blame us for being unrighteous. Courage can also be contagious. When many new recruits saw that many people rushed up to beat T5, some followed suit. Anyway, since they were going to be sent back, they might as well take the opportunity to beat the infamous T5, and it would be a great topic of conversation over drinks in the future. Thinking of this, some new recruits became even more confident and justified.

  "Charge forward and beat them to death." someone shouted, this time it was Lei Hao Lin. Anyway, the law doesn't blame the crowd, what if they really get into a fight, can't ten people take down one person? Besides, their own hundred or so men were already furious. Those who could make it here weren't weaklings in their original units either.

  "Look, they're running away! Don't let them get away!" Yang Xian shouted. He saw that the enemy's numbers were not many, but their methods were extremely ruthless. From their actions, it seemed like one of them could take down ten of his own side without any problem. However, in war, it was necessary to crush the enemy's morale and boost one's own confidence. Shouting "T5 is finished!" seemed fitting.

  Xiao Lie hugged his head, wishing he could put it underground. He heard that the outside was already very noisy, but he found that those bullets did not decrease.

  Well, this is good, those T5s are going to drag themselves to death to make up for it, aren't they? Xiao Lie thought, these idiots.

  "Where is Shan Ying?" Pei Dongnan asked after seeing one less person.

  "I thought he was in the back." A T5 said: "When we went back, he drove to refuel. Later when I went to get the car, the oil was full, but the person was gone. I thought he had something else to do, anyway it was to pick someone up, so I didn't look for him."

  Pei Dongnan suddenly remembered something and immediately shouted: "Stop the car!"

  The car was still speeding and hadn't come to a complete stop when he immediately jumped out, then squatted down to take a look at the bottom of the car. His face changed color, and then he shouted: "Return to base! Quick!"

  Pei Dongnan's face was tense, his eyes extremely stern, and he kept saying in his mouth: "Impossible. Impossible."

  "What's wrong, Captain?" the driver asked.

  "Now I understand why we couldn't find Xiao Lie all along, it turns out he's been following us the whole time. Shan Ying was probably taken down by him. He's been waiting, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The reason he didn't make a move earlier is because there were still our people in the base at that time, but now we've all come out and the remaining people are just guards, he's made his move." Pei Dongnan said.

  Everyone was shocked by his words, the T5 special forces team, known as the elite of the special forces, had been made a laughing stock this time. They were actually kicked out of their old nest by a new recruit from the logistics department. If this got out, it would be a huge loss of face and they would likely be ridiculed by their peers for years to come.

  But then again, Xiao Lie was actually following the search team all along, so there's only one possibility - he must have been hiding under the vehicle. Although the assault vehicle has a high chassis and can handle various terrains with ease. If I'm not mistaken, from the time they lost contact with Xiao Lie to their return to base is roughly twenty hours. In these twenty hours, let alone the many places they passed through, the vehicle was constantly moving on mountain roads. A person could stay under the vehicle for twenty hours, and most of his strength was used to hold onto the bottom of the vehicle with both hands - this arm strength is not something an ordinary person can achieve. Just being able to do this in T5 already makes him a top-notch person. For a moment, everyone's curiosity about Xiao Lie grew, wondering if he had grown three heads and six arms, as if he was the nemesis of T5 - every time T5 encountered him, nothing good came out of it.

  Although Xiao Lie's attack had weakened, he found himself unable to move on the ground. He hadn't rested for a day and night, and when he discovered the all-terrain assault vehicle in the hail, he initially thought there was someone on it. As he approached, he realized that there was no one on the car. His first thought was to drive the car away, but he found that not only were there no keys, but also he didn't know how to drive. For safety reasons, he decided to hide under the car and wait for the hail to pass, but before it ended, the T5 group searching for him returned. To avoid being discovered, without thinking, he grabbed the bottom of the car with both hands and pushed against it with his legs. Although the road conditions were poor, fortunately, there was no sand or rocks, so he didn't have to worry about crashing into the ground or stones. As he hid underneath, he found that the enemy couldn't find him, which was also because those arrogant T5s wouldn't think of looking under their own car.

  Although it was impossible for anyone to discover, no one knew how he spent those twenty hours. Perhaps everyone could be like him under the car, but being able to do so for twenty hours was an unimaginable feat. As his arms grew more and more sore, there was even a feeling that as his strength slowly dissipated, a voice echoed in his mind: Give up, give up.

  Although he never thought of giving up, not in the past and not now, yet there was a voice in his heart telling him that if he didn't give up soon, perhaps the next second he would fall from down below, and the wheels would roll over his body. When the wheels passed over his body, he could even hear the sound of bones breaking, intestines bursting under high pressure, internal organs shattering, and a mixture of various organ fluids splashing onto the ground, slowly seeping into the soil.

  But then, he might never see the person in his mind again. He couldn't see Xiao Yang or his ashes, and he couldn't visit his mother's grave. It seemed like it had been over a year since he last swept his mother's grave; he didn't know if weeds had already grown all over it.

  In his hometown, every New Year's Eve, the 15th of the first month, Qingming Festival, and the 15th of July were days for paying respects to ancestors. But on those days, he couldn't visit Xiao Fang's grave. When he heard the firecrackers around him, saw the paper money burning, and watched as the ashes dispersed in the wind, he saw his relatives paying their respects at their loved ones' graves.

  Perhaps it was the loneliest time for his mother, with no one to look after her, Xiao Yang nowhere to be found, and Xiao Lie far away in the military. At that moment, the small grass on the grave swayed in the wind, as if thinking of its own children. If a mother's love could be transformed into a dandelion, then when the wind blew, the seeds of longing would be carried away to the place where her loved ones were, telling them: "Mother misses you."

  "I won't give up." Xiao Lie said to the voice in his mind.

  The body that had lost its strength seemed to be recovering a little, and he even hoped that he could be welded to the chassis so that he wouldn't have to worry about falling off.

  "I know I'm nothing, no money, no looks, no power. I know I'll never find my brother, I know I'm just a stubborn cow who knows the direction but doesn't know how to back down. I know that maybe there's no road ahead. I also know that maybe I'm nothing, if I sacrifice myself in training, nobody will know where I'll be buried. But I really want to find my brother so badly, even if it's just his grave in the end, that's still where my loved one is. I really don't want to give up."

  Time and time again, he wanted to give up, his body had no strength at all, and he was about to faint. Perhaps in the next second, he would be hit by something. The engine's heat and the car's exhaust seemed to mock him, that one second felt like a century, sorrow and despair seemed to pull him down hard. But that one sentence in his heart "I don't want to give up" made Xiao Lie hold on.

  He knew that when night fell, he would have to spend the night and only then could he reach the next morning, at which point he would be close to victory. At least this test would reach a turning point. At that time, he might forget yesterday, or yesterday would be a witness to another life. No one would know that when his legs were weak, his lower body suddenly fell to the ground, his hands grasping the wheel, and his legs on the ground, it was like putting a piece of meat on a grindstone. If you didn't take it away, the meat would be ground into minced meat. But he had nowhere to exert himself, his boots scraping against the ground, his pants worn through by sand and stones, the heel of his shoe slowly being ground away.

  "Ah!" Xiao Ran struggled not to make a sound. If he chose to give up now, he might be able to escape at night. But in the end, he didn't choose to give up. He clenched his abdominal muscles tightly and a surge of strength flowed into his legs, which once again landed on the bottom plate.

  After a long time, Yang Xian read in the newspaper that a vagrant in the United States had put himself in the cargo compartment behind the driver's cab of a truck and traveled for three days and nights from the south to the north. When many people saw this news, they were amazed by the vagrant's adventurous spirit, but he knew that compared to Xiao Lie, the vagrant was far inferior, because the vagrant was sitting on the bottom frame, and the whole journey was still on a smooth highway, while Xiao Lie was under the chassis for 20 hours.

  Xiao Lie's evaluation of himself at the time was just one sentence: "A soldier who has crossed the river can only advance, and cannot retreat."

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