Chapter 8 My Ass

  "Everything's packed up, let's go!" The old devil shouted and took the lead.

  "No, Ghost Brother, just now we saw a cavalry company in the enemy's troops!" I grabbed Old Ghost and said, blurting out the question that had suddenly popped into my head. Before acting, I had momentarily forgotten about this matter in the heat of the moment, and now it seemed like bad luck was befalling us.

  "That's right, it's cavalry, they'll be here soon." As soon as I finished speaking, Hǎozi immediately put his ear to the ground and confirmed my idea. Running along the road was definitely not going to make it in time. Hǎozi looked at the steep mountains on both sides and anxiously said: "This mountain is too damn steep, we won't make it."

  "What's wrong with you? Let's just get it over with!" Zhang shouted.

  "Wait... maybe there's still a chance. Change clothes, put on the enemy's uniform, hurry up and bring all of the enemy's equipment." As soon as I spoke, it gave everyone a glimmer of hope, although they didn't know what my plan was or how likely it was to succeed. But now that we were at a dead end, we had no choice but to try anything. This glimmer of hope still greatly encouraged several people. They quickly changed into the enemy's uniforms while listening to my arrangements.

  "Alright, nobody say a word, just shoot and climb up the mountain, let the cavalry think we're pursuing the enemy, as long as we get over this broken thing, we'll be safe."

  "What if they ask us what to do?" asked Zhu Zi while putting on his clothes, and Lao Gui and Hao Zi also looked at me. This was a big problem, after all no one could speak Japanese, and would directly expose themselves.

  "They're crazy from fighting, get it? They won't answer any questions, they just charge and shoot. Even if they suspect someone, they won't directly shoot at their own people." There's no other way, I can only comfort everyone like this. We threw the devils' corpses down the hillside, simply covering up the bloodstains. The devils' cavalry is approaching, a whole company of them running, making quite a commotion.

  We were firing as we climbed up the mountain. The Type 38 Arisaka rifle was really too damn long, it got in the way during the climb. Before we had even climbed a dozen meters or so, the enemy cavalry arrived.

  "Here." Haozi said in a low voice.

  "Shut up and climb!"

  "!@#$!@#$!" The devil's voice came from the foot of the mountain, this damned sound made my legs suddenly weak, I bit my teeth and continued to climb up, fortunately the summit was not far away.

  "!@#@!#!@##￥@#￥#@￥#￥" The devils let out a loud shout, this time it seemed like several people were shouting together.

  "What's going on? It sounds like they're calling us!" said Haoszi as he climbed.

  "Don't look back, fire desperately and use the gunfire to drown out their shouts. Let them think we can't hear." I panted as I crawled at the end, damn it, I really wanted to throw away this Type 38 rifle and compared to these Guangxi monkeys, my climbing skills were really not good.

  The pillar that understood the cause shot up one after another, but even so, the speed of climbing was still faster than me and Lao Gui.

  "Damn it! Damn it! The devil downstairs started shouting again."

  "Speed up, don't wait for me, one who can run counts as one." I was struggling to crawl at the bottom, and I didn't even know what I was thinking, yet I uttered such a sentence.

  "Cut the crap, we've got twenty meters left, let's move!" said the broken husk that had already climbed up.

  "Hurry! The devils seem to have found the bloodstains, one of them is looking down at the mountain where we threw the devil's corpse." The mouse who had already climbed up the slope hid behind a clump of grass and reported this situation to me and Old Ghost, at which point Zhu also climbed up.

  "Bah! !@#@！￥！@￥#@￥！” The devils shouted for half a day, and I only heard this sentence. As soon as the two words "Bah" came out, I knew that I was exposed, but fortunately, the old devil had already climbed up, knowing that I was exposed, I didn't pretend anymore, with a loud shout, I flapped my arms and climbed up desperately, Haozi and Zhuzi had already run to the other side to counterattack, helping me to divert some firepower.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The devils' cavalry carbines began firing.

  "Grass, quick climb, quick climb, damn it," shouted the pillar while shooting.

  These days have been on the road, physical strength has been exhausted long ago. The knife that was ambushed by the ghost just now seemed light and easy, but because it was the first time to kill someone with premeditation, and I didn't know the resistance of stabbing into the human body, so the knife just now was a full-strength one. And before climbing the slope, the few mouthfuls of the ghost's single soldier rations that I bit are still not integrated with my stomach, the energy produced by food has not been transmitted to my limbs yet. My fingers are numb, my arms are numb, my legs feel like they've been emptied, and even my toes, which are stuck to the rock, want to cramp up. Looking at the top of the slope not far away, I feel dizzy in front of my eyes. No way, really can't do it anymore. Looking at the old ghost above, I shook my head helplessly.

  "Damn it, climb up for me, don't think about giving up. Look at Hǎozi and Zhùzi, they're helping you share the firepower, hurry up, if you can stand up and pee, then climb up here." Lǎo Guǐ was shouting hoarsely, thinking of every way to stir up my fighting spirit.

  Looking over at Zhu and Hao, the two of them were desperately counterattacking, drawing most of the firepower. Fortunately, the carbine was inaccurate at long range, or else they would have been done for a while ago. I really wanted to crawl, but my arms felt like lead from using too much force for too long, my muscles unable to relax and generate power. I fell onto the slope above, and Lao Gui was shouting loudly at me with gritted teeth

  "Damn it, hurry up!" The voice of the pillar also came over.

  "Ah!" My butt suddenly felt a burning heat, and the scorching pain spread throughout my body. I'd been shot! The pain instantly activated my muscles, which had become stiff from prolonged exertion, and it also snapped me out of my dazed thinking. My desire to survive overcame everything else. "I don't want to die!" I shouted in my heart. A hot flow surged out from the small of my back, and suddenly my body was filled with strength again. With a few scrambles, using both hands and feet, I rolled onto the summit.

  "Damn it! Shit! Dammit!" As I climbed up the mountain, a string of unintelligible words came from below.

  "Haizi, see if the ghost is climbing up? Liu Lang, how's it going? Which one got hurt?" The old ghost said as he crawled over.

  "My butt got shot." I said, lying on the ground.

  The old devil ripped open my pants, took a look and said: "Nothing's wrong, just tore off a piece of flesh. You little guy is lucky, bear with it for now. How's the mouse?"

  "Devil brother, the cavalry of the devils' sons has withdrawn."

  "My grass, your butt is really white, I haven't eaten meat for a long time, looking at it makes me drool." After experiencing life and death battles, it seems that the pillar has recognized me as his brother, and hearing that the devils have withdrawn, he even started joking.

  "Haha, I haven't washed my butt for half a year, it doesn't stink, you can take a bite." Enduring the pain and teasing with Zhu Zi, although only a layer of skin was taken away by the bullet, the burning sensation was not light at all. At the same time, his arm was also increasingly sore due to excessive force. However, Zhu Zi's joke made all the pain much lighter, the feeling of being accepted is really great, this kind of friendship established through life and death cannot be compared in peaceful times."

  The bullet didn't stay in the flesh, but my butt still hurts like it's on fire. From rebirth to participating in the Battle of Songhu and just now personally stabbing a devil with a knife, I've had a dull feeling all along, as if I was dreaming. Although I knew it wasn't a dream, I still felt a sense of unreality until my butt sent a burning pain, which made me feel like I woke up from the dream. I felt the cruelty of war and felt that I could also be shot and die.

  "Lend a hand and deal with it quickly, bite down!" The old devil stuffed a wad of cloth into my mouth, damn it, it reeked.

  The pillar pressed against my arm, and the body with its knee as the focal point pressed on my back, 200 pounds of weight made me unable to breathe, and the rat firmly pressed down on my leg. I knew something was wrong, but the authoritative power of the pillar made me completely give up resistance.

  "Owwwwwwww!" A sharp pain shot up from my butt, and the old devil sprinkled some white powder on me. Later I found out that this powder had anti-inflammatory and hemostatic effects. Then he started stitching me up. As soon as the first stitch went in, I felt a jolt of pain all over my body, and sweat burst out of every pore, instantly soaking me from head to toe.

  "Thud, thud, thud", the intense pain made me bang my head against the ground to distract myself from the pressure of the pain. My hands and feet were pressed by pillars and something else, I couldn't move at all. The constant twisting of my butt made me feel like I was going to be raped, this feeling is really bad, those rapists should try it themselves. "Owwww...owwww...owwww", my mouth was stuffed with cloth, so I could only make this sound to tell them how much pain I'm in.

  As the old ghost finished tying the last knot, I finally let out a breath of air, and the painful feeling gradually became bearable. Seeing that I was no longer struggling much, Zhu Zi and Hao Zi slowly loosened their grip.

  "Damn it! Fucking hell! I'm dying of pain!" He cursed while panting heavily.

  "What did you just say? Is that a dialect from your hometown?" asked Lao Gui.

  "No, it's a foreign language, what the blonde-haired and green-eyed people say, understand? It means scolding. I learned a few sentences from a foreign student before."

  "Vak, vak~~~~~~~" The old ghost muttered a few words and patted my butt with his hand, which hurt so much that I jumped up high. "Don't use foreign language to scold me next time, I remember it." The old ghost tapped his own temple and said. Who would have thought the oldest old ghost had such a strong desire to learn?

  "This embroidery is really ugly!" Zhu Zi pointed at my butt and said to the old ghost: "Ghost brother, your craftsmanship has really deteriorated!"

  "Just climbed so urgently, haha, hands a bit shaking, a bit shaking." The old ghost said to me with an embarrassed expression.

  "What does it mean?" He carefully lifted his pants and looked at the old devil who spoke.

  "Haha, you'll see for yourself when you get the chance, this is the ugliest butt I've ever seen!" The mouse laughed loudly in response to me, this guy rarely laughs out loud, usually just grins.

  "Hehe, a bit shaky, a bit shaky!" The old ghost looked at me as I continued to shake my hands, looking at these lovely brothers, a warmth spread throughout my body. This warmth even surpassed kinship, and I was willing to be his shield. But then, a scene that entered my line of sight made this warmth instantly disappear. The old ghost picked up the gag cloth I had just spat out and was wrapping it around his foot.

  "Spit! Spit! Spit! My hand is shaking, I can forgive you for this question, but you stuffed the foot cloth into my mouth, I won't forgive you for that! Old ghost, don't you dare run! You also try a taste of my socks!"