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Chapter 1687 Deminers

Li Yifei has been on several missions here and is quite familiar with the environment here. He knows that the most dangerous thing here may not be snakes and insects, or changing environments or poisonous insects, but rather mines hidden underground, unknown landlords, various thunders, plastic thunders, anti-infantry mines, etc.

Especially the plastic thunder can be valid for 120 years, and the war has not passed half of it. There is still a validity period of decades. On the entire border, countless villagers were killed. Li Yifei remembered that when he was on duty, he passed by a village. There were 100 people in the entire village, but there were less than 100 legs. Many men and women only had one leg, and some of their legs were blown off. There was also a child who had been blown up his legs, arms, and eyes. At that time, there was a demining person who was rescued from the mountains by Li Yifei and several teammates.

The demining person accidentally stepped on a landmine when he was voluntarily clearing the mine, and his leg was directly blown off. One of his eyes was also blinded by shrapnel, and there were even more than a dozen shrapnel in his body, which had not been taken out yet.

These demining people are all villagers in nearby villages, and many of them are spontaneous. The land is the foundation of their survival. This land is full of dangers. If they do not eliminate them, their sons and daughters will be killed and injured. Instead of letting their children face dangers that are at any time, they would rather face the danger themselves.

After Li Yifei finished his mission, he helped the villagers in the village raft for a day. Together with his teammates, he knocked out more than 800 mines of various types in a day and eliminated mines from several mountains.

There are so many land mines covered by a few small hills, and there are countless land mines covered by hills on this stretching border.

Dangers are everywhere. Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan do not carry modern inspection equipment. They rely entirely on Li Yifei's experience and observation, and the speed of travel is OK.

The two of them crossed two mountains and saw a man, an old woman moving forward with her hands and feet. The sudden appearance of this woman scared Xu Shanshan, standing behind Li Yifei, looking at the woman with caution.

The old woman's face was scary, and one eye seemed to be gone, only a terrifying scar, and half of her face was twisted together. What's even more terrifying is that the old woman only has one leg and only one leg on the other, and her left hand was gone, only parts above her wrist.

No wonder she had to crawl in the mountains and forests instead of walking normally.

Xu Shanshan's heartbeat was a little fast. She showed hostility unintentionally, but a woman who looked like a female ghost suddenly appeared in the dense forest. If Li Yifei had not been beside her, she would have screamed in fear.

Li Yifei was not afraid. After he saw the other party clearly, he knew what was going on. There were many people in this mountainous mountain with miserable people than the old woman. However, there was no village in front and no shop behind. How could the other party come here?

Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan said, then walked over.

The old woman could only open one of the remaining eyes. She turned over and sat up. She watched Li Yifei approach and said in a hoarse voice: "People outside, this is not what you should come here. It's too dangerous. Turn around and walk back!"

They spoke Chinese. Although their accent was a bit weird, both Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan understood it.

"Old man, thank you for your reminder. We know there are many mines here, so we will be careful." Li Yifei walked over, took out a bottle of mineral water and a piece of bread from his bag, handed it to the old man, and squatted down and asked, "Old man, why are you in this mountain forest? I'm afraid there are large wild beasts here."

On the way just now, Li Yifei saw the feces of wild boars and traces of damage, and even saw the footprints of some kind of cat animal. The battle with the tiger that he and Prince Sashar said happened in southern Xinjiang.

Not to mention large beasts, even some small animals are enough to kill such an old man.

The old man did not refuse Li Yifei's kindness. The hand she carried behind her back pulled back. Li Yifei saw a bag, which looked a bit ragged, like some kind of animal skin sewn. A few things were exposed inside, a machete, a wooden axe, an old hunting rifle, and a few gadgets.

No wonder the old man dared to stay alone in such a place. If he had no weapons to defend himself, any animal that emerged could kill her.

Xu Shanshan saw the old man showing his weapon and hurriedly walked over and explained: "Old woman, we have no malicious intentions, you..."

The old man grinned, looking a little ferocious, and said hoarsely: "I know you have no malice, otherwise you wouldn't have given me food. I have no malice towards you, because I'm just here to clear mines."

Hearing the word "demining clearance", Li Yifei looked up to the old man. Xu Shanshan also squatted down and asked curiously: "Old man, how do you clear mines like this? Oh, I don't mean that, I mean, you are not in good health anymore, and the work of demining should be left to the young man, otherwise you will be in danger yourself,"

The old man smiled a little sadly and said, "Haha, there are no young people anymore. I am an old woman, I will be a one-day living day. One day I die in the mountains, so I can save others from burying it. I just happened to be my old man and my son!"

It turned out that the old man's wife and son were both killed by landmines in the mountains. The old man went to clear the mines and did not pay attention to his feet. He accidentally stepped on a trigger mine. He did not find it. So after a sound of touch, it was directly fried into pieces of meat. The son went up the mountain to farm and went down to dig the mines directly onto the mines and triggered the explosives. When he was rescued, he was only breathless. The transportation in the mountains was inconvenient. Before he could wait for the hospital, the old man's son died.

The old man lost his husband and son when he was old, and he was extremely distressed. At the same time, he hated the mines all over the mountains, so he asked people how to find mines and remove mines, and then he brought his tools into the mountains and forests.

The neighbors had advised her, but the old man was even more stubborn and said directly that even if I had to line up one at a time, the children in the village would be less dangerous.

As the number of mines is increasing, the old man's experience is becoming more and more skillful. Thousands of mines have been discharged over the years. However, once, when he was clearing mines, he encountered two mines parallel. There was an ordinary mine above and a trigger mine below. The old man thought it was not dangerous and prepared to clear mines. As a result, when he touched the mine, the trigger mine below exploded, directly blowing the old man to what he is now.

A few days later, she was discovered by people in the village and rescued her. She had been raising her for a full year. The old man had no income and now she relied on help from relatives and neighbors. The little money given to her every month was not much, and it was not enough for the elderly to live on their own. This was because she had no disasters.

After recovering from the injury, the neighbor advised the elderly to stay at home if they were like this. If they were tossing, they might not be able to live long. However, the elderly became more stubborn. She said that even if she crawled, she would continue to clear the mines so that the children in the village would not have to be disabled or lose their lives at any time.

The mine clearance range is getting bigger and bigger. At first, the elderly can walk around the village with their own legs, go out in the morning and go home at night, and then the range is farther away. It may take most of the day for the elderly to walk to the place, so they can only bring dry food and enter the mountain for a few days. Among them, the elderly often need to eat and sleep in the mountains and forests by themselves.

Whether it is facing beasts, poisonous snakes, or mosquitoes and poisonous insects, the elderly have to face it themselves, and she is a disabled person!

Li Yifei also saw that the old man had several discharged landmines, plastic, trigger, conventional, and several types of fuses had been removed by the old man.

She is not a soldier or a government worker, and in theory there is no obligation to enter the mountains to clear mines. Moreover, after being bombed like this, she can completely let go, but the old man still insisted that he had been in the mountains for four days this time. The old man did not leave the mountains today and had to come out tomorrow, otherwise she would have no food. If there is no food in the mountains, it would be a desperate situation for her.

The old man did not refuse Li Yifei's food. He quickly drank a piece of bread and drank half a bottle of water. Xu Shanshan took out a pack of compressed biscuits and a bag of beef from the bag with a look of unbearable expression and put it in the old man's hand.

The old man did not refuse her kindness, but just smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you, you two are good people, so don't walk into the mountains anymore. It's really not fun."

"Thank you, we know, otherwise... we will send you out first!" Li Yifei said.

The old man shook his head and said, "I have the strength to eat when I am full and can go out by myself. If you have to go in, hurry up. The mountains and forests during the day are much safer than at night. If it is at night, don't walk around. The demons in the mountains have harmed too many people."

The two nodded repeatedly, and the old man stuffed the food that Xu Shanshan handed her into a broken bag, sorted out the things inside, tied the bag mouth, and slowly climbed down the mountain.

Li Yifei couldn't bear it, but even if he sent the old man to his home, he couldn't help her all the time, so he chased after him, pulled out a knife, and cut a crutch for the old man, hoping that she could carry her back after climbing onto the road.

The two of them kept watching the old man disappear. The old man would not keep crawling, but would only crawl forward with both hands and feet when he was unable to walk.

"We... be careful too!" Xu Shanshan held Li Yifei's hand and said in a complicated mood. It was not until this time that after listening to the stories told by the old man and seeing the old man's appearance, Xu Shanshan realized that this place was really not fun and it was really dangerous.
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