Chapter 1972: Going Down the Mountain

What is it like to walk in the dark? The answer is fear.

If there is a glimmer in the dark, everything becomes shadowy, and everything looks like a demon.

If there is no glimmer in the dark, it may be better because all you see is darkness.

However, if you walk in the dark and suddenly there is a sound behind you and the sound is following you, what kind of feeling is that?

Do you want to turn back? You will feel that your neck is stiff!

If you turn back, what if a beast comes from behind and bites you with its bloody mouth?

If you turn back, what if a robber is following you and you turn back, a wooden stick or an iron rod, or even a brick-breaking planer on the construction site, hits you. What if you hit him?

Therefore, fear is a person's innate instinct.

But there are exceptions, and this person does not include Da Laoben.

Da Lao Ben was carrying a rope on his back and holding a broken lantern in his hand. The lantern contained a kerosene lamp. The light was not strong, but dim and yellow, close to the night.

When he walked to the back of the mountain, he heard a voice behind him.

Da Lao Ben grew up with Li Qingfeng in Wohu Mountain. When he was a child, he was also happy to play, which was the nature of a child.

No one knew how good his monk master was at sitting in meditation, but he had to sit in meditation every day. He was annoyed by his noise, and sometimes he would throw him into the rocks in the mountain after dark.

All Da Lao Ben could do was cry and make a fuss at first, but even after shouting his throat out, his master did not move. In the end, he could only grope his way out in the pitch-black darkness.

After walking out, he naturally made a noise to bother his master.

His master threw him into different rocks, and he continued to walk out in the dark, and continued to bother his master, and then he was thrown into the rocks by his master.

The final result is that his master's level of meditation has improved to an unknown extent, but he has become accustomed to groping in the dark.

Li Qingfeng once asked him curiously, why can you always come out?

Big Ben answered that it was because the master said, "All dharmas are empty, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor clean, neither increasing nor decreasing, so there is no color in the void."

According to Big Ben's understanding of this passage, the concept of relativity does not exist, so there is no so-called dark and day in this world.

In addition to the training of their monk master and Taoist uncle (Li Qingfeng's master), he has become more and more clear-headed.

And now, when he heard the voice behind him, he just calmly put down the broken lantern in his hand, and then turned around and said, "Don't follow me, there are traps everywhere."

"Why don't you wait for me?" Not far behind, Bian Xiaolong's voice came.

It turned out that Bian Xiaolong followed!

"Does the battalion commander know?" Da Lao Ben asked when Bian Xiaolong walked up to him and looked at him with sparkling eyes in the light of the lantern.

"I asked someone to tell the battalion commander." Bian Xiaolong replied.

Da Lao Ben said "yeah", then Da Lao Ben stretched out his hand and took Bian Xiaolong's hand, while Bian Xiaolong took the lantern on the ground.

During this process, neither of them said a word, and they were already familiar with each other's tacit understanding.

Da Lao Ben did not blame Bian Xiaolong for following him secretly, and he did not take military discipline seriously.

Half an hour later, Da Lao Ben climbed down the mountain along the rope, but he only climbed more than 20 meters and stopped on the mountainside.

Then he shook the rope regularly, and Bian Xiaolong also climbed down along the rope.

When Bian Xiaolong stood beside him, Da Laoben stretched out his hand and shook it hard, and the noose on the rope tied to the stone naturally shook open, and the rope was retracted.

It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down the mountain, this is not a matter of urgency.

Before Shang Zhen made the decision to break out, Da Laoben had already checked the terrain here.

He already knew where it was easier to climb, where it was difficult to climb, where it was suitable to tie the rope, and where the rope needed to be longer.

This process could not be fast, and Da Laoben was not in a hurry. He just needed to reach the ground with Bian Xiaolong before midnight.

Just as Da Laoben led Bian Xiaolong to climb down from the north slope, Shang Zhen, who had just finished a nap, had already climbed down from the south intersection.

Yes, the same climbing.

Da Laoben climbed down from the north slope because the mountain was steep and he had to climb down.

Shang Zhen climbed down from the south because there were Japanese soldiers on both sides of the road below, and he did not dare to make any noise.

If Shang Zhen wanted to lead these people to break out, he had to at least clear the Japanese troops on both sides of the mountain road below. As for what would happen after he actually reached the foot of the mountain, that was another matter.

It was impossible for people to see the path in the dark, and the same was true for Shang Zhen.

However, Shang Zhen naturally had a stupid way to find the Japanese troops. His method was to observe the gaps in the rocks that could hide the Japanese troops at dawn, and then divide the more than 200-meter-long mountain road into several sections. Every few dozen meters, there were several suspicious locations in each section.

But even with this alone, he still couldn't find the hiding place of the Japanese troops in the dark, so Shang Zhen also used another reference, which was the corpses on the road.

So now his memory is like this, for example, 100 meters below, four puppet soldiers were shot by Japanese machine guns and died together. One meter below those puppet soldiers, there was a stone crevice where a Japanese soldier was hiding.

For another example, 150 meters below, there were two dead bodies of Japanese soldiers next to each other. Just a few meters behind the two dead bodies, there was a stone crevice where Japanese soldiers had shot at the top of the mountain.

Other situations were roughly the same.

In order to avoid making noise, Shang Zhen's combat configuration was a Kowloon belt, a box gun, a bayonet, and he didn't even bring a grenade.

Soon, he realized what it meant to "climb out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses."

Many Japanese and puppet soldiers died on the mountain road, and a lot of blood was shed. He crawled like that. If he crawled over the corpses, he would be careful not to make any noise. If he didn't crawl over the corpses, then the places his hands touched were mostly sticky blood!

There are many rocks on the mountain road, so the snow cannot completely enter the mountain road.

Winter has not come, and the blood will not freeze.

The feeling of touching the sticky blood is not very uncomfortable for Shang Zhen. Because the sticky blood even affects his hand movements, he can only wipe the blood on his hands from time to time on the corpses he passes by.

As the crawling distance becomes longer, in the end, his elbows and knees are already covered with blood, and finally his whole body feels sticky.

But this kind of discomfort is not the theme of today, today's theme is to kill the enemy!

Shang Zhen had to try hard to get rid of this touch, constantly reminding himself to focus on the bodies of the Japanese or puppet soldiers he touched.

When he crawled more than 100 meters in the dark, he touched the steel helmet on the head of a Japanese soldier, and he knew he had to take action.

Because in his impression, under the left side of the Japanese soldier wearing a steel helmet, there was a Japanese soldier hiding in the stone gap.