Chapter Three

  When I ran down, it was accompanied by the deafening sound of gunfire. When I walked to the front of the position, I only felt two words - shock. There were corpses everywhere, ours and the enemy's, some incomplete, and some had already started to rot. The strong stench of death and the various corpses I saw with my eyes stimulated my stomach, now I just want to vomit.

  "Ugh....." The self that was disgusted to the extreme could only kneel on the ground and vomit weakly. Ah! What is this? It feels like I've touched something soft, let me take a closer look... Oh my god!! It's half an arm! "Ah....." The self that was shocked to the extreme could only utter meaningless monosyllables. Is this really the battlefield I've been expecting? Did I come here just to see these things? Discovering that I was kneeling in a place littered with severed limbs, I couldn't help but ask myself such questions. This isn't the battlefield I had hoped for. The battlefield I envisioned should have brave warriors and people who would protect themselves with their lives. We wouldn't see the enemy because they would be eliminated at a distance where we can't even see them. Although the cannon fire is intense on the battlefield, the people around me are all unscathed, and those who fall are definitely the enemy. But why is this place completely different from my fantasy? Why?

  "Doctor! Doctor! Save him quickly!" The mountain bear's voice suddenly exploded in my ear, and I was shocked by his voice, coming out of my own fantasy.

  "Huh? What?" The self that had just stepped out of fantasy still hadn't realized its own responsibilities.

  "I said save him, doctor" At the moment when he spoke again to remind me, I could hear his voice with a hint of choking. Then, something that was emitting a foul smell, bloody odor, and still bleeding, which I didn't know whether to call a corpse or a human body, was stuffed into my arms.

  "Ugh..." Suddenly stimulated, I had the urge to vomit again. Hurriedly turning my head away, I started vomiting violently, only knowing that my stomach felt like it was being squeezed into a ball.

  "Doctor, what's wrong with you? Please, save him!" The mountain bear was trying to wake me up from the numbness that had been shocked by reality.

  "Ah, I see." At this time, I could finally bear the nauseating smell and take a look at what was in front of me. Oh my god! This was the person I saw through the telescope earlier, there were bullet holes on both his legs that were still bleeding, a bullet hole on his shoulder, and a deep wound on his neck that was also bleeding. I didn't know if an artery had been severed or not? Continuing to check other wounds, oh my god, his left arm had also been shot, and the bullet was still in the flesh, his left hand was also bleeding. "Ah..." Trying to see why his left hand was bleeding, I suddenly felt a sting from something, and my own hand started bleeding too.

  "His left hand is clutching something, help me pry it open, I'll bandage the other wounds first, stop the bleeding, he's lost too much blood already, needs to be rushed to the hospital for surgery and a transfusion." Calming down, I quickly grabbed some bandages from the nearby medical kit and started dressing his wounds, while also instructing Shan Xiong to help me retrieve whatever was in his hand.

  "Doctor, I don't know what he has in his hand, but he's gripping it so tightly that I'm afraid he'll break his fingers." The mountain bear was still shouting loudly in my ear.

  What should I do? There's no other way, just help him stop the bleeding first. "You find something to tie his wrist with, we'll talk about it when we get to the hospital." The mountain bear threw down this sentence and continued to face those shocking wounds all over his body. Oh my god! When he turned him over, he saw that there were two deep bullet fragments embedded in his back. If not for the bulletproof vest, the two bullets wouldn't have just been stuck in his back like that.

  "Go find a car, we need to get him down there quickly." At this time, the sound of an approaching vehicle was already heard. Hurriedly calling Shan Xiong to find a car, he needed surgery and blood transfusion.

  Before long, the car had arrived and I had already bandaged all his wounds. Although the blood was still flowing, it was no longer as urgent as when it first started. I asked Xiong to gently put him in the car, then we both got on the car. I did so because it was my duty, but I didn't know why Xiong got on.

  Strolling... strolling... as the car bounced on the mountain road, we could only try our best to stabilize our bodies. But Mountain Bear thought the car was going too slow and kept asking the driver to speed up. Just when Mountain Bear was scolding the driver, I suddenly saw tears streaming down from his eyes, which were lying there. As I gently wiped them away for him, "Clang!" - I quickly looked down and found that his left hand had loosened its grip, and a piece of metal had fallen off. "So this is how he got injured on the neck," I said to myself. My hands had already picked up the metal piece from the ground and brought it in front of Mountain Bear, wanting him to tell me what it was.

  "This is a dagger fragment, originally he put his left hand on his neck, wanting to commit suicide, good brother, we all thought you were going to be captured, good brother" The last three words I finally heard from the mountain bear's mouth, it turned out that at that time, the mountain bear misunderstood him as being captured.

  We soon arrived at the field hospital, and then it was surgery. After the operation, he remained in a coma, and I stayed by his side. He had a pale face, not as dark as the others I saw, like coal, and his fingers were long and slender, like those of a pianist. Sometimes he would cry, sometimes laugh. Before leaving, Shan Xiong asked me to stay with him and said that if he could wake up, he would definitely take him to his unit. From his ID card, I learned that his name was Wang Kun, a very interesting name. Two days later, Shan Xiong's unit had handed over the position to the relieving troops, and I was to take him with Shan Xiong to the rear, where he could receive better treatment.

  The fragment of the dagger he was holding in his hand at that time is still being kept by me. On the second day, when Mountain Bear came, he told me about him lying on the bed. Their troops were surrounded and had no chance to receive any support from above until a few days ago when their brother unit's counterattack pushed the enemy back, allowing Mountain Bear's unit to provide support. From the captured enemy telegram, they learned that the enemy force was approximately two regiments strong, initially launching a fierce attack, then trying to escape from their position after being cut off from behind, and attacking even more fiercely. The telegram mentioned that there was a sniper on our position who seriously violated the Geneva Convention by using an anti-material rifle to shoot people. When Mountain Bear said this, he glanced at him lying on the bed, and I thought, "Is he talking about him?" Mountain Bear continued to tell me what happened next when we were already on the train heading back to the rear, preparing to receive another batch of sisters. He even smiled and told me that I was now an old sister. Then he continued to tell the story of him lying on the bed. Their position had been bombarded by artillery fire and was unrecognizable. Whenever the enemy thought no one was there and tried to come up, they would always be shot down by sniper bullets coming from who-knows-where. However, no matter what, only one person was shooting. Mountain Bear said that later they confirmed that on their position, three days before we arrived, he was the only one left, and he single-handedly guarded it for three days. He also said that once they returned to the rear, he would definitely be reported for merit, at least third-class, and many brother units wanted to take him in after learning about it, but were all blocked by Mountain Bear's superior...

  It's been 10 days and he still hasn't woken up. Today, the doctor said it was the last day, when they sent him down, he had already lost too much blood, being able to hold on without dying on the way to the hospital is a miracle. If he doesn't wake up today, he will never wake up again.

  I'm still speaking softly in his ear, I hope he can hear "In the hospital at the rear, I also met many sisters who knew about your situation and they all miss you as much as I do, hoping that you could wake up and tell us your story in person. Look, they are now standing by your bedside, cheering you on with me. Shan Xiong came today too, he brought your weapon and said that if you wake up, he'll return these to you, but if you don't wake up, he'll bury them with you. Please, wake up, okay? Please!"

  The sun was already in the afternoon, and it was about to set behind the mountain. He still hadn't woken up, and we were all getting desperate. Just as the mountain bear roared and slammed his gun onto the ground, a voice suddenly came from the bed, weak but audible to us all: "Don't touch my gun, give it back to me..."