At about 1 o'clock in the night, the panting Wei Ran finally couldn't bear the exhaustion of his body, so he put the knife squad leader down and sat on a big rock by the roadside, breathing heavily.

At this time, the moonlight above the head had long been covered by dark clouds, and the drizzle of rain had fallen again, giving the invisible night an unconcealable chill.

Using the cover of his backpack, Wei Ran took out the British kettle from the metal book. He took a sip and handed it to Squad Leader Dao.

"I'm not thirsty, you can drink." Squad Leader Dao didn't ask where the kettle came from, and in the dark night, he couldn't see the shape of the kettle clearly.

"Drink something"

Wei Ran stuffed the kettle into the other person's arms, "It's going to rain soon. We're not short of water."

Hearing this, Squad Leader Dao took the kettle and took a sip.

"Wei Ran, you said...did that child survive?" Squad Leader Dao asked confusedly.

"Survived," Weiran gave an unequivocal answer.

"As long as you survive..."

Squad Leader Dao sighed, but he believed Wei Ran's "guess" so easily.

Wei Ran opened his mouth and was about to say something when the rain began to get heavier. But what was even more terrible was that an extremely dim light turned on behind them in the direction they came from.

The two looked at each other, and Wei Ran immediately pulled out the submachine gun from his backpack and turned on the safety, and hid in the grass on the side of the road with Squad Leader Dao one after another.

Soon, accompanied by a clanking noise, a 28-inch bicycle rode over from the direction they came from. The light came from the electric lamp on the front of the bike.

After squinting and observing, and after confirming that there were no other cars behind the bicycle, Wei Ran gently patted the squad leader Dao on the shoulder, turned off the safety of the submachine gun in his hand and handed it to him.

Taking the hint, Squad Leader Dao also put down his submachine gun and replaced it with a more convenient and flexible silent pistol.

Waiting patiently for the car lights to get closer and closer, Wei Ran, who was bare-handed, slowly took off his bamboo hat and got ready.

Almost at the moment when the car passed directly in front, he also jumped out of the grass, ran two steps to catch up with the bike, grabbed one of the cyclist's arms, threw him over his shoulder, and pushed him down.

He fell on the muddy dirt road.

Before the man could scream or scream, Wei Ran put the cold Mauser bayonet on his neck and whispered in Vietnamese, "Be honest."

Under the threat of life and death, the man's body froze and stopped struggling. It was only then that his bicycle fell into the mud with a crash.

"What are you doing so late?"

Wei Ran pulled out the opponent's cloth rope belt and tied his hands and feet together while asking in Vietnamese, "Are you an agent sent by China?!"

"No! Sir! I am Wu Ming, the head of Ganzhu Village."

The captured man immediately explained in Vietnamese, "Tonight, gunshots and explosions were heard from the mountains behind our village, so militiamen were sent to the mountains overnight to arrest people."

"Caught?" Wei Ran asked in a deliberately bossy tone.

"Caught a white man wearing our military uniform"

The village chief named Wu Ming revealed a piece of information that neither Wei Ran nor Squad Leader Dao expected, "He was bitten by a poisonous snake and was shot in the butt. We have ways to remove the snake venom, but his wound

He bleeds whenever he moves, and is now unconscious.

The local doctor we invited said that he did not dare to move, and asked me to go to the town overnight to find the troops for help. Sir, please send someone quickly..."

“I’ll contact you later”

Wei Ran pretended to be hasty and said, "You only found a white man? Didn't you find anything else? What weapons does he have on him?"

“Only one white person”

The village chief immediately said, "When we found him, he was holding a Chinese folding submachine gun and several grenades."

"Where are the wounds?" Wei Ran asked, "When you found him, had his wounds been treated?"

"The wound on the buttocks was wrapped with gauze, and a wet medical bag was also found. Our local doctor used the contents of the medical bag to re-bandage him."

"Have the handcuffs on his hands been unlocked?" Wei Ran asked abruptly.

"How do you know... Kaba!"

Before the village chief's rhetorical questions had even ended, Wei Ran had already violently pulled his neck and broken his spine.

"Go down and ask me how I know."

While answering the village chief's questions, Wei Ran took off his raincoat and the Soviet-made SKS semi-automatic rifle he was carrying, and then dragged the body into the bushes on the roadside and hid it.

"Is it possible that Squad Leader Cha is still alive?"

Squad Leader Dao took the raincoat from Wei Ran and subconsciously made a guess that even he himself didn't believe.

"Not too possible"

Wei Ran flicked the sword-shaped bayonet of the semi-automatic rifle while analyzing calmly, "I guess he discovered the bodies of Squad Leader Cha and Xiao Xifeng."

Before he finished speaking, he had already slung the rifle on his shoulder, lifted up the 28-bar in the mud pit to support the feet, and untied the luggage tied with ropes from the shelf at the rear of the car.

After opening the package layer by layer, what was found in the package was the more difficult military uniform worn by the prisoner Ivan and a small glass bottle.

He took out the flashlight and turned it on with his hand covering the lamp head. With the faint light between his fingers, Wei Ran discovered that the glass bottle that seemed to have been used to hold medicine was actually filled with dark red viscous blood.

After thinking for a moment, he understood the purpose of bringing these two things. Obviously, the military uniform may be the only thing that can prove the identity of the captive Ivan, and what is in the small bottle is used to verify in advance when calling for help.

Blood sample of captive Ivan's blood type.

Of course, this also shows that the condition of captive Ivan is probably very serious, not to mention that he was poisoned by snake venom.

In other words, even if the village chief can successfully call for help, the captive Ivan may not survive. Now that they have intercepted him, if Ivan is still alive, it is better to gamble on the probability that the Soviet Union will not disintegrate.

After thinking for a while, he put on the raincoat he used to wrap things on his body, and shared his analyzed guesses with the knife squad leader who seemed to have thought of the same thing.

"Let's go, let's go get help for him." Squad Leader Dao said with a smile.

"Are you going to be the village chief?"

While Wei Ran was talking, he was already holding the 28-inch front wheel of the permanent car with his legs, and correcting the handlebar that had just fallen out of alignment back to its original direction.

"Then you are the militiaman Nahan." Squad leader Dao smiled and gave Wei Ran a new identity.

"Get in the car, village chief"

Wei Ran made a joke as if he was having fun. He first kicked off his legs to get into the car and stepped on one of the pedals. Then he reached out and tore off the wire of the electric motorcycle lamp and threw it into the grass on the roadside.

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Seeing this, the squad leader also put up his backpack again with some effort and sat sideways on the spacious back seat of the heavy-duty 28 truck.

"Where should we go for help?"

Wei Ran asked in a low voice amidst the growing rain as he pedaled forward on the muddy dirt road.

"There is a town about ten miles ahead."

The squad leader Dao replied very familiarly, "There must be a lot of enemies stationed there and we can't get through, so we have to go into the mountains before then. With this car here, we can go into the mountains in advance and find a place to rest."

"What if we can pass through that town?" Wei Ran asked unwillingly.

"If you can go through it, you can find a road that we helped build back then. If you continue along that road, you will reach the Panlong River. Going downstream along the river is Ha Giang City. But there are too many white-eyed wolves patrolling that road.

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The knife squad leader tightened his raincoat and reminded, "So don't ask for trouble. Let's go into the mountains before we get to the town."

Hearing this, Wei Ran responded, working harder and harder, even standing up and pedaling furiously.

Although the road is not that good, riding a bicycle is always much faster and easier than running with someone on your back.

Unfortunately, within half an hour, the squad leader patted him on the back to signal him to stop.

"Turn around the corner and you'll find the town."

The squad leader said as he got off the back seat, "It's time for us to go into the mountains. Remember to hide the car."

Hearing this, Wei Ran simply picked up his bicycle and followed Squad Leader Dao into the paddy field on the side of the road in the dark and rain.

They found a spot where there were few seedlings and placed the bicycle lying down and soaked in the water. The two of them bent over and carefully crossed the paddy field and then got into a corn field.

When they passed through the cornfield and reached the edge of the mountain, the squad leader rummaged around in his backpack, took out a metal flashlight, covered it with a thick red cloth, covered the lamp head with his hand, and let out light through his fingers.

The faint light carried the satellite fire into the jungle.

"This is the first mountain"

As the squad leader walked, he whispered, "There will be a cave after we climb over. Let's go in and rest."

"Are you familiar with this place?" Wei Ran couldn't help but asked in a low voice.

"Um"

The squad leader responded dryly, but did not give any further detailed explanation.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped asking any more questions and followed the other person obediently, following the faint light leaking out from between the other person's fingers, climbing step by step towards the top of the mountain.

Under the cover of heavy rain and dense tree canopy, when the two of them climbed to the top of the mountain, they came down the other side of the mountain. Finally, under the leadership of Squad Leader Dao, they got into a narrow place that was more like an animal cave than a cave.

In the cave.

The depth of this cave is only two or three meters, and its height is so high that a person cannot straighten his waist or even his legs. Even its width is only less than two meters.

But in such a small cave, Captain Dao dug out a pack of candles and a bucket of 761 compressed biscuits from the deepest stone crack.
To be continued...