"Snapped!"

A hailstone the size of a broad bean hit less than 20 centimeters away from Wei Ran's butt. In the violent collision of hailstones, the ice lump hit his ear like a ricochet, bringing with it

There was a tingling sensation with a chill attached to it.

Wei Ran curled his neck and rubbed his shoulders. Wei Ran, who was almost squatting in the water, carefully moved his numb feet.

According to his estimation, almost 20 minutes had passed since they ended the topic about ice cream, but the deadly hail did not stop, but instead fell more densely. The only thing worth celebrating was the size of the hail.

It's just much smaller.

But compared with this change, now a thick layer of ice has accumulated around them, especially under their feet. Even the little lama squeezed in the middle has a layer of ice floating around.

Precisely because of the presence of these hailstones, everyone had to keep their butts facing out and faces inward, surrounding the little lama who was sitting cross-legged in the ice water with an oil lamp in his hand.

"Ah sneeze!"

Nurse Ji buried her head in her arms and sneezed, but she didn't dare to let go of the oilcloth and bamboo basket in her hands.

"How long will this hailstorm continue to rain..." Li Zhuang muttered, shivering, his lower body was almost unconscious due to the cold.

"The hailstorms I encountered before were over in a quarter of an hour at most."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he tried his best to move his body forward. A few hailstones just hit his back. Even through the thatch vest, the force still made him feel too painful.

"Before I joined the army, I never... sneeze! I never caught a hailstorm." Nurse Ji also arched forward and trembled uncontrollably.

"We will set off as soon as the hail stops."

Li Zhuang sucked in his clear nose as he was about to cross the river, "You must find a place where you can get out of the water and make a fire to keep yourself warm, otherwise something will happen."

"We don't have much firewood."

After Nurse Ji finished speaking, she sneezed uncontrollably again. Seeing this, the little lama also put the kerosene lamp in his hand that could release some warmth in front of her.

"Burn it first, and then we'll talk about it after it's gone."

Li Zhuang paused and then said, "Nurse Ji, when we set off, give everyone another piece of dried meat."

"Return it?"

"hair"

Li Zhuang said categorically, "You can only go far if you have food in your belly. Survive tonight first before thinking about anything else."

Nurse Ji gritted her teeth and finally agreed, "Okay, let's give each person another one."

"Nurse Ji, how much food do we have?" Wei Ran asked.

“Only the last pot of fish soup left”

Nurse Ji replied without thinking, "They are all in your bamboo basket. There are also a few pieces of leather and a dozen grains of highland barley that Squad Leader Liu secretly hid to save lives. I guess they were all saved by him."

After sneezing twice in succession, Nurse Ji sniffed and continued, "I still have the last two red peppers and a finger-sized piece of ginger. I don't have much salt, so I have to save some."

Then there are those dried meats. There are quite a lot of them, weighing about four kilograms. Not only was my lunch box full, but there was also a lot in my bag. After freeing up the lunch boxes I picked up in the afternoon, I

It’s all packed in, it’s packed to the brim, it’s definitely enough for us to get out of the grass.”

"Where's the medicine?" Li Zhuang asked.

"There are only half a bottle of medicine buns (horse dung bags) and a small butter candle," Nurse Ji replied, "and a lot of charcoal."

What kind of medicine is this... Wei Ran sighed secretly.

"Enough! Enough!" Li Zhuang was full of confidence, "We can definitely go out!"

As if waiting for his words, Li Zhuang finished speaking with his front foot, and the crackling hail that hit the cover of his head with his back foot stopped without any warning.

As they looked at each other, Wei Ran struggled to move his sore, numb and cold legs back, and then shivered uncontrollably.

He stood up slowly while holding on to the bamboo basket. His legs were numb and sore as if his nerves were being chewed by ten thousand ants.

He glanced at Li Zhuang and Nurse Ji who were grinning in pain next to him. Wei Ran gritted his teeth and stood up straight. Then he unscrewed the lid of the kettle with a trembling hand, and stretched out his hand to take out the small piles on the cover.

He grabbed a handful from the ice cubes in his hand and poured it into his own water bottle.

After the little lama also managed to get out, everyone carefully took out the kettle and copper ladle from the basket, and filled them with white and clean ice cubes - this was a rare source of clean water.

The four people filled all the containers, Wei Ran picked up the pole again, and Li Zhuang took over the oil lamp again and turned up the brightness. After Nurse Ji gave everyone a piece of dried meat, they took another step.

At this time, because the ground was covered with a layer of white ice, and because the clouds overhead had cleared, the field of view was much better than before. But even so, they could not find any place where the terrain was slightly higher, which would allow them to temporarily

Leave a mixture of ice, water and mud beneath your feet.

Wei Ran bit off a thumb-sized piece from the dried meat he was given with difficulty, and temporarily stuffed the remaining portion into his coat pocket, chewing it while following Li Zhuang who was walking in front.

Compared with the optimism of the former before departure, Weiran is secretly vigilant. They are not short of food and water for the time being. But the hailstorm that lasted for half an hour just now made everyone feel anxious from time to time.

sneezing.

If I can't warm myself up when I find a campsite later, I'm afraid...

Just when he thought of this, a flash of lightning lit up in the distance.

But even with this bright lightning, he couldn't see where the terrain was higher in the distance.

In just three or four seconds, the rumbling thunder reached everyone's ears from a distance, urging them to speed up their pace again.

Wei Ran, who was carrying a pole, was still thinking about it. One side of his pole contained an oilcloth and a blanket, and the other side contained some pots and pans, three anti-Japanese knives and two native guns. In addition, there were four horsetail grenades.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The remaining three people each carry an old muff on their shoulders with leggings. The little lama also has an extra box pinned to his waist.

gun.

In addition to the last bit of firewood carried by Nurse Ji in a bamboo basket, she also had a satchel on her shoulder. In addition to the two glass medicine bottles left by Squad Leader Liu and the copper lunch box left by Nurse Wang Zhen, there was also a bag containing horses.

Large glass bottle for poop bags.

Not to mention that in the afternoon, she took away the imitation German army lunch box and put the dried meat originally packed in her satchel into it and carried it herself.

Is there a problem with this? Of course there is a problem, a big one - their loads are too high, and that's not even counting the fact that each of them is carrying a water bottle filled with ice cubes.

You have to lose weight...

Wei Ran worriedly thought to himself, but...how to lose weight?

According to his own opinion, those three anti-Japanese broadswords must be thrown away. The four horsetail grenades weighing one kilogram each and even the two native guns from nurse Wang Zhen and squad leader Liu should not continue to be carried.

the value of.

But...but if he thinks so, do Li Zhuang and Nurse Ji also think so?

They would definitely not abandon these weapons that they did not like at all, these weapons that Nurse Wang Zhen had protected with her life.

After changing the shoulder of the pole, Wei Ran looked at the dark clouds getting closer and closer in the night sky, but his heart became increasingly uneasy.

Whether it was intuition or the vigilance given by surviving so many battlefields, he always felt that if they didn't go faster, there might be great trouble and danger waiting for them.

Can...

Wei Ran glanced at the cold mud that once again submerged his knees. Under these conditions, even without so much weight, how much distance could they walk?

"Wow!"

Just when he was distracted, the sound of water splashing suddenly came from behind him and the little lama exclaimed, "Dolma!"

Thanks to the Zang language taught in the metal book, he clearly knew that the little lama's subconscious exclamation meant "goddess".

Something happened to Nurse Ji!

Wei Ranke didn't care to pay attention to the little lama's address to Nurse Ji, and immediately put down the carrying pole and turned around to look over.

With the light provided by the oil lamp carried by Li Zhuang behind him, he could clearly see that Nurse Ji had fallen into the mud. At this time, the little lama was trying to help her up in panic.

But looking at Nurse Ji, she...she seems to be in a coma?

When he thought of this, Wei Ran had already run over and helped Nurse Ji up from the other side, "Nurse Ji? Nurse Ji? Comrade Ji Chunlan?"

"What's wrong with her?" Li Zhuang also ran back through the mud and asked anxiously.

Not caring about answering the other party's questions, Wei Ran put his hand to test the other party's breath.

No?

Wei Ran's heart sank, and then he realized that his hands were numb due to the low temperature.

Thinking of this, he directly put his ears, which were also red from the cold, to Nurse Ji's mouth and nose.

Fortunately, although the other party's breath was weak, it was enough to make his ears and eyes extremely itchy.

Slightly relieved, Wei Ran subconsciously reached out to touch Nurse Ji's forehead, but immediately reacted and rolled up his sleeves, making the inner side of his arm more sensitive, at least not numb from the cold, pressed against her.

On the other person's forehead.

Sure enough, almost instantly, he felt the scalding temperature.

At this moment, Nurse Ji reached out and grabbed his clothes tightly, opening and closing her mouth as if she was saying something.

Bending down to the other person's ear again, he only heard Nurse Ji say, "Don't...leave me alone...you...go on your own..."

"She has a fever"

Wei Ran didn't listen to what Nurse Ji continued. He straightened up and said, "Li... Squad leader, we need to find a dry place to light a fire as soon as possible. She must be cold."
To be continued...