When Wei Ran woke up from his sleep due to thirst, the rising sun on the horizon had already peeked out from the top of his head, and there was also a layer of mist that seemed to be absent on the vast meadow.

Thanks to the thatched vest, the simple tent, and of course the clear night with no wind or rain, except for being woken up by thirst a few times last night, he had a fairly comfortable sleep.

But now he woke up with thirst again. Not only was his mouth as dry as if it was on fire, but the stomach cramps caused by hunger also made him lose the idea of ​​continuing to sleep.

After carefully getting up, Wei Ran noticed that Squad Leader Liu had woken up a long time ago, and he didn't know where he had gone.

Looking around, he soon spotted the other party's back on the slope at the edge of the small plateau.

Stepping closer, Wei Ran was stunned. At this time, the old squad leader of the cooking class was kneeling on the grass, holding the copper ladle in one hand, and gently shaking the green weeds with the other hand, carefully letting go

The dew on the grass blades fell into the copper ladle that reflected the water waves.

Behind him, there was a track that had been crushed by weeds while kneeling. The track meandered nearly a hundred meters into the distance and then circled back again.

He didn't know when Squad Leader Liu started collecting dew, but the clothes on his body were completely wet. Even his hair, which was not very thick and was already mixed with white hair, had condensed on it.

There are fine mist beads, but he is... only about thirty years old.

Taking out the camera silently, Wei Ran slowly sat down and bent his legs. After adjusting the camera very carefully, he put it on his knees to help keep it stable. Then he moved Squad Leader Liu and the others behind him who were still collecting dew.

The long trajectory and even the sunlight that had just appeared on the horizon were all included in the viewfinder frame.

Almost the second before he pressed the shutter, Squad Leader Liu seemed to have noticed something and subconsciously turned his head to look over. A bright smile dyed golden by the rising sun appeared on his face.

"Comrade Wei Ran, water, I found water!" Squad Leader Liu lowered his voice and greeted in surprise, "We will have water to drink later! Clean water!"

"I'm going to light the fire right away!"

Wei Ran responded quickly, then turned around and put away the camera, and quickly ran towards their campsite.

The movement on his side naturally woke up the others. After learning what Squad Leader Liu had done, everyone became more energetic and took out their enamel jars to collect dew.

"Don't go, don't even go."

Squad leader Liu took advantage of Wei Ran's efforts to chop the last pieces of firewood, waving his hands to stop him and saying, "This is enough for us to moisten our throats, keep it... let's keep our strength and go on the road."

Before anyone could say anything else, Squad Leader Liu continued, "Comrades, our firewood is about to be burned out. Along the way, we will not only look for wild vegetables and dead grass, but also anything we can use to burn.

They have to be picked up too.”

"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.

"Come! Let's have breakfast!"

Squad leader Liu said, taking out the bag of highland barley grains again, "Let's make breakfast with five grains per person. Today we will cook it with the broth."

"I haven't eaten yesterday's food yet," Li Zhuang said, rummaging through yesterday's five highland barley grains and throwing them into the copper ladle.

"I have four left," Zhang Erwa said.

"Me too, I haven't eaten mine either." Nurse Ji said, also finding five grains of highland barley and throwing them into the copper ladle.

"And mine, I have four left." Wei Ran agreed, taking out a few grains of highland barley leftover from yesterday's meal and handing them to Nurse Ji, who helped put them into the copper ladle.

"Comrades, you need to eat something."

Monitor Liu sighed and saw the little lama also opening his prayer wheel, pouring out a few grains of highland barley and throwing them into the pot.

"Let's all eat together today and supervise each other's eating." Nurse Ji suggested, "Especially supervise Monitor Liu."

"Yes, Nurse Ji is right, especially the old monitor who supervises us." Zhang Erwa agreed.

Shaking his head helplessly, Squad Leader Liu counted out the corresponding number of highland barley and threw it into the pot.

While everyone was waiting, the little lama lit the bonfire with a fire sickle, and Nurse Ji also took advantage of the time of cooking soup to place the two aluminum kettles containing filtered water next to the bonfire for secondary heating.

"Li Zhuang, how are you feeling?" Squad Leader Liu asked slightly nervously.

"It's okay," Li Zhuang assured him, patting his chest.

"We have burned all the firewood."

Wei Ran took over the conversation and said, "Put everything in two bamboo baskets today, and then stack them on the other two bamboo baskets and let me carry them."

"No..."

"You have to help hold the pole."

Wei Ran said before Li Zhuang could say anything, "In addition, I have to help find wild vegetables, dead grass and firewood. These tasks are not easy at all, but I am lazy and just pick the picks. Finding wild vegetables is really not my specialty.

of."

"That's...ok" Li Zhuang finally nodded and agreed.

Before the sun fully rose, everyone drank the broth distributed in their own bowls, as well as an equal but small amount of highland barley grains - and also supervised Squad Leader Liu to eat his own portion.

Finally, he extinguished the bonfire and put the few remaining charcoal into the basket. Wei Ran put on his bamboo hat, stacked the bamboo baskets together, and then called on everyone to put all the extra things into the baskets, patiently

After my body got used to the symptoms of darkening of the eyes caused by hypoglycemia and the weak dizziness when I stood up, I slowly picked up the bamboo basket.

"Comrades, start the roll call."

Before setting off, Squad Leader Liu said loudly, "Cooking Squad, Li Zhuang!"

"Yes!" Li Zhuang, who was holding a pole in his hand, raised his chest and raised his head in response.

"Zhang Erwa!"

"have!"

"Ji Chunlan!"

"have!"

“Jianpa Kelsang!”

"again!"

"Wei Ran!"

"have!"

"Comrades, move forward!"

"yes!"

Everyone responded to Squad Leader Liu's order in unison and followed him out of this small highland.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Taking advantage of the cool weather in the morning, everyone speeded up their pace as much as possible. Correspondingly, along the way, everyone really did not have much time and opportunity to collect possible information.

For wild vegetables, at best, you can only pick up a few dry grass sticks and put them in your pocket or pin them to your belt.

Compared with the lack of resources, the floating corpses that appeared from time to time along the way and the smell of corpses that seemed to be always permeating the surroundings, trying to mix with the stench of the swamp mud, made everyone more cautious.

"Pfft! Gululu..."

While Wei Ran was staring at the swollen corpse in the distance in a daze, the little lama walking at the front stepped into the mud and exclaimed in a series of bubbles.

"Don't crowd around me!"

Squad Leader Liu shouted to stop Zhang Erwa who was walking behind him, "Get down! Everyone get down! Give me the pole quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhuang quickly handed the pole in his hand to Squad Leader Liu who was already lying on the meadow. The latter took the pole and quickly handed the other end to the little lama whose waistband had been submerged in the mud.

"Hurry up..."

Before Squad Leader Liu had finished speaking, Wei Ran had already thrown the two diabolo baskets to the little lama one after another. Then, he crawled to the edge of the meadow and handed the pole in his hand to the little lama.

There was no need to command at all. The little lama first hooked the wooden hooks of the two poles on his belt, then placed the two bamboo baskets on the left and right beside him to use force, pressed them with his hands, and slowly tilted them little by little.

Little by little, his body lay on the slowly sinking bamboo basket, and then little by little he pulled out the two legs that were sucked by the mud.

At the same time, Wei Ran and Squad Leader Liu also tightened their grip on the pole and exerted their strength at the same time. Behind them, Li Zhuang, Zhang Erwa and even Nurse Ji, who were also lying down, gripped their legs to prevent them from falling.

Then sink in.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the little lama, who was like a mud monkey, was dragged up to the meadow with difficulty. Wei Ran and Squad Leader Liu immediately swung the poles and hooked the two men who were almost all trapped in the meadow.

The bamboo basket in the mud pulled them up one by one.

They looked at each other thankfully. Wei Ran took a few deep breaths, climbed up with difficulty, poured out the mud from the bamboo basket and inspected it carefully.

It's a pity that there is still not a single small fish or shrimp in this mud.

At the same time, Monitor Liu and others also comforted the little lama, who was pale and obviously frightened - even though they did not understand the language at all.

After the little lama put on the new straw sandals provided by Zhang Erwa, everyone set off again. At the insistence of squad leader Liu, the little lama walked behind him.

Even the burden originally carried by Wei Ran was taken over by Zhang Erwa.

Because of the danger just now, Squad Leader Liu who was walking in front slowed down a bit, while Wei Ran, who was empty-handed, took the opportunity to take a few steps quickly and raised his camera towards the people walking towards him.

But this time, he did not press the shutter. Instead, he straightened up and said, "Comrades, how about stopping for a few minutes?"

"What's wrong, Comrade Wei Ran?"

Squad Leader Liu, who had already walked up to him, asked curiously, and at the same time subconsciously glanced at the camera hanging around his neck.

Ever since Zhang Erwa took away his job as a porter, he took out this precious camera from the bamboo basket. From that moment on, Squad Leader Liu knew that they were going to be photographed again.

“The film in my camera can still take five pictures.”

Wei Ran said, "Why don't I take a single photo of each of you? Then I can put in new film. When we can get out of the grass, I will develop the photo and everyone can send it home.
To be continued...