This is a fatal choice.

However, no one knew about the third squad of the first squadron at that time.

Walking along this open mountain road full of gravel, the road became narrower and narrower. After one kilometer, the initial road completely disappeared, replaced by dense shrubs and pristine jungles.

But even so, no one in Class 3 raised questions.

In terms of military choices, one mistake is always superimposed on another mistake, and ultimately causing irreparable losses.

In the wild survival, the most terrifying thing is the impact of the environment on people. Therefore, to survive under the arduous conditions in the wild, you must have strong willpower.

Once you lose your willpower, you will develop various negative emotions as the harsh environmental conditions and the large amount of physical energy are affected, and your brain will become dull and even hallucinations will occur, leading to misjudgment.

Like those who survive in the desert, they often see mirages due to extreme thirst, and move towards death step by step.

At that time, the third class had already made the wrong choice under the siege of exhaustion, hunger and thirst, and they chose to continue to move forward.

This situation did happen in the previous few days. Often, the route marked on the map is right, but there is a dense shrub and jungle in front of you. After passing through it in the correct direction, you will find another open world ahead.

Therefore, all students believe that as long as you pass through this jungle, you may be able to find the correct path later.

But this time, no one guessed the ending right.

The bushes and dense forests seemed to be boundless and blocked the third team's way forward, which forced Xu Yuan, the leader, to rotate and open the way in front of the team.

Cutting down shrubs and opening up paths, this way of moving forward consumes more than twice the physical strength that is normal.

Everyone's body is like a sponge that is squeezed by extreme pressure. The moisture turns into sweat and seeps out of the pores.

The air in the bushes in summer is very stuffy. Everyone bent over, and the fine bark of the tree fell into their collars and penetrated into their bodies, and then was stuck by sweat, making them unbearable.

The water is getting less and less, and people are getting closer and closer to the brink of collapse.

There is no doubt that if the road is still so difficult to walk and if the water source is still not found, the entire class will be dragged down.

I don’t know how far I went, but someone finally couldn’t help but ask if it was this path?

Xu Yuannu, who was already in a difficult situation, was already a little irritable at this moment. He shouted at the student who questioned: "If you don't want to follow, go by yourself. There is only one way here. If you have the will to find another way, you can see it yourself!"

Everyone was silent again...

The team continues to move forward...

This is a fight of will. As long as the spirit is relaxed a little, the will of a person will completely collapse.

Sweat soaked the clothes, and everyone looked at the sweat dripping from the corners of their clothes, and wanted to catch them with their hands more than once.

Liu Xiangdong walked at the back of the team, and his kettle had the last bit of water, less than 10%.

Too thirsty...

He unscrewed the lid of the kettle and moistened his mouth first. A feeling of incomparable sweetness and sweetness penetrated his internal organs. He couldn't help but drink all the water in one gulp.

"Water! Water!"

The student in front suddenly screamed excitedly.

This sound like the sound of nature came, and the students went crazy. The people who were originally listless behind were all rushing to the front like arrows. Someone was tripped by the vines and got up and rolled up.

This is a spring on the edge of the mountain. Although the water is not large, it has rushed out under the rocks for years and a small hill pool of more than two or three meters wide and one meter deep.

Everyone threw away the gear, jumped into the pool, poured water over and over again on their heads, buried their heads in the water, and raised their heads until they couldn't hold it in.

Water is the source of life.

The third class who had been resting by the spring was once again energetic, and everyone forgot the question just now - is this road the correct marching route?

People often just like this. When they taste the sweetness, they will easily ignore the most important issues.

When we set out again, no one except Liu Xiangdong thought this was the wrong route.

After moving forward for about a kilometer again, a cliff blocked the way for Ship Three.

Such a land object will appear on the correct route on the map without any marks.

Everyone finally remembered to do the map positioning again. This time, everyone finally realized that the surrounding terrain and the terrain on the correct marching route were completely inconsistent!

At this time, they had deviated from the correct route and were a full ten kilometers away.

Everyone was panicked and once again surrounded and spread out the military map for careful retracing and inspection.

They realized that everything was wrong from the stone-covered road entering the valley.

That road was not a road at all, but the gravel that had been washed down by rain for years on both sides.

In terms of direction determination and path selection, Liu Xiangdong, whom they didn't take seriously, pointed out the correct answer.

The mistake started at the entrance of the valley with a spacious road, and the correct route was to pass through an inconspicuous contour line along the northeast 30 degrees northeast to the right, passing through the hillside where the bushes and thatched trees that don't look like roads...

This is how topography is, a slight difference can lead to a thousand miles of mistakes.

The students were speechless at this time. Xu Yuan and Chen Bin were squatting beside the map and looked at each other. No one could come up with an idea what to do.

They face a dilemma - to move back or to move forward?

There was another dispute in the team. Most of them supported Xu Yuan and Chen Bin's proposal, completely abandoned the original marching route, put people down the slope of more than ten meters with a backpack strap from the slope next to the cliff, and then chose another shortcut radial meeting point to move forward.

The reason is that if you start from the current fixed point, you will take the shortcut only 10 kilometers away from the meeting point.

A few people supported Liu Xiangdong's proposal. First, turn back according to the original road, replenish drinking water by passing through the pool, then return to the intersection of the valley where the initial error occurred, and then follow the original correct march route to the meeting point. It is 10 kilometers from the current location to the intersection of the valley, and 20 kilometers from the intersection of the valley to the meeting point, a total of 30 kilometers.

On one side is the shortcut 10 kilometers, and on the other side is the 30 kilometers to return to the origin and set off again.

The majority of people support Chen Bin and Xu Yuan.

"You can't customize the route yourself. You forgot what the instructor said? Don't take a shortcut! Look!"

Liu Xiangdong quickly spread the map and pointed to the route proposed by Xu Yuan and Chen Bin and said: "Although the distance from here will be shortened, you have to cross three mountains to reach the meeting point. Two of the mountains have an altitude of more than 600 meters, and one of them may have a cliff. Look at this contour line..."

He pointed to a mountain on the map, and according to the route of Xu Yuan and Chen Bin, he had to pass there, but the contour lines on the north side of the mountain were quite dense, which meant that the slope was quite large and very much like a cliff!

Xu Yuan disagreed and said, "If we turn back from here, we have to walk 30 kilometers, and the distance is three times the shortcut. If we walk like this, we will definitely be the last class to arrive at the gathering place. Let's not talk about how others laugh at us. Our own grades will definitely be at the end of the team. Are you willing to take the last score? I can't do it, I still say the same thing. If you don't want to leave, you will turn back, and if you are willing to leave, you will follow me and Chen Bin!"

Liu Xiangdong's position once again confronted Xu Yuan and Chen Bin. More than a dozen students stood there and looked at each other for a long time...

Chen Bin said, "I agree with Xu Yuan's statement. We just replenished water. As long as there is water, we can break through it!"

Xu Yuan stopped talking, tightened the gun on his backpack and said, "Go!"

Chen Bin followed closely behind.

The two students who trained the best in the class took the lead, and the others were finally shaken.

Then there is one student, two students, three, four...

Liu Xiangdong looked at their gradually moving figures, sighed deeply, and followed slowly.

Two and a half hours later...

On the ridge, ten students in the third class who held a mountain knife could not accept the facts in front of them. They worked hard and finally climbed over the three mountains blocking the front, but found that the last mountain was really as Liu Xiangdong said, and there was a huge cliff to the north of the mountain!

Now, although it is only 5 kilometers away from the brigade's meeting point - this is the distance displayed on the map.

However, everyone looked at the smooth vertical cliffs and the airtight bushes below, and knew that they could not go down from such a high place to the bottom of the valley.

Chen Bin held the hatchet, with some green juice of plants on the surface of the knife. His wrists were a little hot, and the muscles on his elbows were trembling slightly. In the past few hours, they cut off countless trees and vines in front of him. He encouraged everyone again and again that at this speed, we will soon arrive at the brigade assembly point!

But this time, he could no longer give everyone any motivational words. Everyone was pre-received the class monitor. Facing such a smooth cliff, without professional sling ropes and tools, the possibility of success was almost zero.

The students sent to scout the terrain on both sides brought back frustrating news - it was unknown how long the mountain hadn't passed by, and the trees and shrubs grew into a natural barrier, and there was no path at all.

If you go down from both sides, something may easily happen.

There is only one way, turn back!

Xu Yuan subconsciously touched his kettle. The amount was very light, with only more than 10% of the water inside. From the first time he made a mistake at the entrance of the valley, to the decision to customize the route and take a shortcut to the brigade assembly point, the entire third shift had already advanced about 15 kilometers on the wrong route.

They completed this difficult journey with patience beyond ordinary people. From morning to now, after nearly ten hours of continuous forcing marching, everyone's will has reached the critical point of complete collapse.

From the moment they decided to take the shortcut, they had no way out. Everyone was like Xiang Yu who had been burning his boats back then. They kept cutting off the trees and vines that were crossing the mountain, climbing some steep and huge rocks, and constantly telling themselves that the meeting point was not far away, and cheering themselves up.
Chapter completed!