Doomsday rat

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"You pretended to be a herdsman to sell mutton at the base, and you cheated me of a special pass. You really didn't work for the rebels?" Seeing that Hong Tao hadn't slept, Zhuma simply turned over and started chatting.

"No, I didn't help anyone, I just wanted to go to southern Xinjiang. Do you want to hear the story of Yuluo's heroism? Hehehe, let's start with Mayitao. Before I came to Yining, I was working there as a gold digger Guest." Just chatting, Hong Tao also turned around, and talked face to face about his glorious moments in those years, and he said that the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were dark.

"Ah, they were killed by you! Commander Sabin was furious because of this incident, and changed two resident commanders in a row. You don't know, there are shops opened by the army in every settlement, specializing in low-priced Buy goods from homeless gold diggers, and then resell them to the base at a high price, and the difference in the price will fall into Sabine's hands."

"He made all kinds of money, and even withheld the soldiers' rations. As a result, President Waker reported it to the bishop. Since then, the two of them have changed from friends to enemies, and they have targeted them everywhere."

This talk is endless, especially when Hong Tao talked about entering the house in the middle of the night and assassinating the refugee forces in the Mayitao settlement, he immediately attracted feedback from Zhuma, and took advantage of the opportunity to bring out the inside story among the top executives of the Redeemer .

"Why does that bishop of yours tolerate him continuing to be Commander-in-Chief?"

On the road today, Hong Tao heard a lot of secrets inside the Redeemer. Many things were told by Iszawi before, but the content was different after hearing Zhuma.After all, what can be spread out of the inside story is only a few words, and the real core content cannot be touched until a certain level.

"...Actually, those things are hidden, they belong to the same group." Zhuma broke out again.

"You know that too!" Hong Tao didn't quite believe it, not because he didn't believe that the top executives of the Redeemer would use this method to poach their own corners, but because he didn't believe that Juma could get access to such inside information with his status.

"The big nun has always regarded me as a goddaughter. Sometimes she talked with the bishop and didn't deliberately avoid it. She overheard it. But I don't know where they hid all the supplies. The bishop seems to hate East Asia very much. Alliance, several times mentioned that one day they will bring people back to take revenge. Biges, have you ever been to the East Asian Alliance? Is their side really better than here? "

Zhuma didn't have a specific purpose for the conversation, it was just to pass the time, and she thought of something to talk about, and quickly dragged the topic away.

"I went there many years ago. It should be better than this place, but I don't know now." Hong Tao wanted to say that it must be better than this place, at least no one would spare no effort to save lives from the refugees.But he swallowed the words again, this cowhide really didn't dare to blow it.

When I was here, I was barely telling the truth. In the blink of an eye, several years have passed, and the management may have changed how many people. Who can guarantee what it is like now.

"...Then do you want to visit the East Asian Federation?" But Zhuma seemed very interested in this topic, her big eyes blinking in the dark.

"You want to go to the East Asian Union? That's also a choice... Hey, by the way, didn't you promise to go back to your hometown with your sister and help me build woodcuts?"

Hong Tao didn't think much about it, people walked to high places and water flowed to low places.Although the East Asian Union is no longer under its control, its reputation abroad has always been pretty good.If the Redeemer hadn't cut off the two north and south roads in and out of Xinjiang Province, and strictly prohibited people from entering and leaving at will, more than half of the refugees here would have run away long ago.

Zhang Wengui, who set up the tea stall, has said more than once that he wants to go to the east to see it. Even people who have connections in the base like Iszawi and can barely be regarded as profitees have this idea.

Back when they had a special pass, the two of them had a bad idea. They planned to use the convenience of the pass to take the refugees who wanted to go to the East Asian Union to seek a living through the checkpoint near Hami.

Of course, it's not for nothing, and anyone who wants to follow along has to pay a large fee.I didn't ask how much it was, and I didn't plan to do it at all, but it can be seen that the attraction of the East Asian Alliance is quite strong.

"In the past few years, I have probably known where she is from my sister's letters. It is probably the East Asian Union. If I can find my sister, we can go home together. Not only can we herd sheep, but we can also give birth to you... a lot of babies !"

Talking about this idea, Zhuma was a little excited. She got her whole head out of her sleeping bag, deliberately approached Hong Tao, and stared at the man's eyes nose to nose.

"Cut, don't worry about this. People from the East Asian Alliance are much more powerful than the adjudicator. There are not so many mountains and forests over there. It's easy to get in and hard to get out. Besides, Camilla and Yu Jia are not out of danger yet. We I promised Teacher Fang that I must pick them up."

As expected of a professionally trained person, he is really anytime and anywhere in terms of seducing people.But Hong Tao wasn't tempted. It's too far away for the sisters to have a baby together. Whether they can live to that time is a big problem. It's more reliable to talk about the immediate things first.

"Hmph...you are one of the most cold-blooded men I've ever seen!" Seeing that her small thoughts had failed, Zhuma immediately retracted her head, hiding in her sleeping bag and complaining faintly.

"What, give me one! I really can't bear this, who are the others?" This time it's Hong Tao's turn to get his head out, and the righteous Yuro won't listen to this. It doesn't matter if you call him a bastard, but you say I'm not terribly bad but it's insulting.

"Bishop Zhao Bin! He obviously doesn't like the big nun, but he always sleeps with the big nun. Every time he sees me and my sister, his eyes can eat people, but he can always hold back. It's the same this time. Seeing that in a few months I will At the age of 20, you can break away from the protection of the big nun and go to serve him, but in order to wipe out the rebels, he sent me out without even blinking an eye."

"Although this matter was decided by the big nun, I know that there must be him nodding behind it. In the eyes of men like you, status, power, wealth... Are many good things more important than women?"

"Oh, it's him... You said he has an enmity with the East Asian Alliance, do you know what kind of enmity it is?" Hearing that he was the boss of the Redeemer, Hong Tao felt a little more balanced.That's right, although we are down and out, we can't just compare with individuals. One side's overlord is barely qualified.

"...I don't know, it seems to be someone surnamed Hong. The big nun said that the man surnamed Hong is dead, so that the bishop will not always think about the wound on his face. Hee hee hee, you don't know, the bishop will tell you every morning Put makeup on in the mirror to cover the scar on the right side of my face."

"Oh...then who is more handsome, he or me!" Hearing that there was a scar on his right cheek and that he had a grudge with Hong, a name suddenly popped up in Hong Tao's mind, Sun Dacheng!

Ever since he helped the Flying Tigers eliminate the infighting of the Wolves, this guy disappeared without a trace. It should be about nine years, and he might have come here.

"Well...he's not as tall as you, whiter than you, with bigger eyes, and a square face...I don't think he's as handsome as you!" Zhu Ma didn't focus on describing Zhao Bin's appearance. Opportunity is to please, trying to get a promise to go to the East Asian Union to find my sister.

"Hehehe, it's still you who know what to do... Go to sleep, tomorrow's road will be more difficult, don't forget to remind me to change your medicine in the morning!" Hong Tao pretended not to hear it, stretched his waist and turned around and stopped talking.

But his little squinted eyes were not closed, and he was frowning and turning around.If the plot described by Zhu Ma is not too different, then the boss of the Redeemer, Zhao Bin, is 80.00% Sun Dacheng back then.

It is said that Yuanjia Road is narrow, and it is really narrow.He and I can be regarded as mortal enemies. We started fighting not long after the outbreak of the zombie disease until the Wolves were destroyed.I thought that this grievance would be over if we didn't see people alive or dead.Unexpectedly, after such a long time, thousands of kilometers away, they are actually together again.

And this time I can't bully others, and I am completely passive.That is to say, Zhao Bin didn't know his own existence yet, as long as there was any disturbance, he would immediately become a street mouse.

Thinking about it, I was really lucky. I was wandering happily in the residential area a few months ago. I didn't know my last name after getting a broken pass, but I didn't know that the catastrophe was lingering around me.

It seems that this trip to southern Xinjiang is the right one. Even without Zhang Ke and Xibek, I have to stay away from Yining.However, I have deep doubts about whether I will be able to do what I want when I arrive in southern Xinjiang, but there is no turning back when I open my bow.

Chapter 544 Glacier

The Muzart Glacier in the sun looks a little bit better than in the evening, but it is still gray overall.If it is not marked on the map, it is more like a stone forest landform that has been hacked by knives and axes. It is difficult to feel any connection with ice.

The reason is not that there is no ice, but that the ice is covered with a layer of sand and stones.These things are definitely not blown up by the wind, just look around and you will understand.There are steep mountain walls on both sides of the glacier, and all the falling rocks and silt over the years have all rushed here, which is equivalent to covering the glacier with a quilt.

But no matter how you cover it, it is still a glacier, and some places are still exposed to the translucent ice layer, which is quite slippery when walking up.What's even more frightening is that it is covered with large and small ice crevices, some of which are several meters wide, and some of which are so narrow that you can't even insert your hands.

Some of these ice crevasses didn't go to the bottom, they were just squeezed open by the huge pressure.Some are unfathomably deep, so dark that only the sound of gurgling water can be heard. If you fall... Even if you don’t break your muscles and bones, it may not be easy to climb up again. You need some professional mountaineering skills.

Hong Tao definitely didn't have this kind of technical ability, so he walked very carefully, and would rather go around a long way than take the risk of crossing a relatively wide ice crevasse.Coupled with the fact that the wounded had to be supported by one leg, the speed of progress was even slower.

At this time, the impact of the earthquake was highlighted. Originally, according to the instructions of Crimea, this section of the road did not travel on the glacier. You only need to walk two or three kilometers across the glacier to find a small path on the opposite side of the mountain. It's right on the Shatter Trail.

But Hong Tao couldn’t find it after searching for a long time. It wasn’t that he lost his way, but the landslide on the opposite side. Not only did the ancient road disappear, but a large number of rocks also bulged the glacier, making people want to continue along the ice. Traveling south is difficult.

Fortunately, he was well-prepared, with crampons and ice axes, and he could nail pitons on the ice and hang safety ropes when he was in a hurry.A few times I was forced to be helpless and couldn't find the way, so I simply released the drone and repeated the same trick, directly putting ropes on the relatively wide ice crevasses.

It looks troublesome, but it actually saves the old way.If you make a detour, even a healthy person will have to wander around for an hour or two to find a suitable place to go. If you are unlucky, another ice crevasse may be trapped and you have to go around.

In this way, the more than 20 kilometers of glacier walked for a whole day and a half, and at night they simply got into a crevice on the edge of the glacier and camped.Despite the solid ice all around, it is much more comfortable than camping on Daban, mainly because there is no wind.

"Look, we'll be there after climbing halfway up the mountain, take a break and have lunch first!"

It was past three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, and Hong Tao finally breathed a sigh of relief.Although we did not follow the original route, we still found an important punctuation point at the southernmost tip of the glacier.As long as you don't get lost, today's task will be considered a successful completion, and the most difficult part of the road has been passed. Congratulations!

"Is that a house up there?" In fact, Zhuma's physical strength was almost exhausted, and the wound still hurt a little. I don't know if it was because he fell and touched it twice before.

Hearing that he could rest, he immediately found a big rock and lay down on it, turned his head and looked up the hillside, then sat up suddenly, grabbed the binoculars and looked hard.

"Don't worry, that house must be thousands of years old." Hong Tao opened the last generation of individual soldier rations, found the chocolate and stuffed it into Zhuma's mouth.

There are indeed a few houses, or stone ruins, on the mountainside.Fang Wenlin once said that this was the place where troops were stationed in the Qing Dynasty.In order to communicate with the north and the south, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty forcibly settled dozens of families here.They have only one job, digging and maintaining ice ladders on the glacier for people to go up and down.

Calculated according to the height of the house ruins, the glacier would have been several tens of meters thick a hundred years ago, but now it has melted to the point that there are no more than ten of them, and those houses have become miracles hanging on the mountainside.

There are two roads to continue southward from here. The first is to climb up the mountainside, bypass the stone house ruins, and go down the side of the mountain to reach the Nanmuzarte River Valley.It’s a long way to go this way, and if there is too much snow melting from the glaciers, both sides of the valley will be flooded, and it will be difficult to cross the river without a bridge.

The other road is relatively short, continue south along the glacier, and cross the river safely through the ice bridge formed by the natural glacier.But after crossing the river, the glacier will have a very steep slope.

How steep is it? In the words of the Crimea, it goes straight up and down. The two ice cliffs are almost 300 meters long, and the altitude drops by almost 300 meters.

If Hong Tao is alone, he may choose a steep slope. The ice layer of the glacier is very thick and strong, similar to a rock. It is not very dangerous to nail a piton and hang a safety rope, and there are crampons and ice axes to assist. Just look at it. Relatively hanging.

According to Crimea, the bridge behind the mountain has long been broken. No matter what method is used, crossing the turbulent Muzart River is no easier than descending the steep slope, and it takes twice as many detours.The difference is that one is basically dead when it falls, and the other has to freeze for a few minutes before it dies.

But now he can only choose a detour. Juma, who is lame, cannot climb down from the glacier, and then find a way to find a place where the rope can be fixed on the other side to cross the river.

When we go down the river valley tomorrow, the altitude will drop directly below 3000, the slope will slow down a lot, and the temperature should be much higher. If you don’t have to worry about eating and drinking, you can walk slowly, and you can pass this hurdle comfortably.

"What are you going to do?" The best camping place tonight is the house ruins on the mountainside. After setting up the tent, Hong Tao is covered with odds and ends again, and is ready to go down the mountain with his ice ax and crampons.

"I'll go to the other side of the glacier to have a look, you go to bed first, and you'll definitely be back before dark."

Hong Tao was still not reconciled to taking such a long detour. He couldn't take a shortcut this time, and it might not be possible to take a shortcut next time.There is a high chance that I will return to northern Xinjiang by this road to pick up both Camilla and Yu Jia, and at the very least, I will have to walk another half and a half round trip.

"Take this... You are a cautious shepherd, right?" Juma didn't ask why the man went to the other side of the glacier, but just took out the walkie-talkie from his backpack.

"Well, it's really necessary. Get your shotgun ready. If there are wild beasts here, it's better than an automatic rifle." Hong Tao took it for granted, took the walkie-talkie and stuffed it into his winter clothes.

"So that's how it is..." The walking speed of a person was much faster. In less than half an hour, Hong Tao had reached the end of the glacier, and most of the worries in his heart were relieved.

The southern end of the glacier is indeed steep, but it is by no means a vertical ice wall of hundreds of meters, but layered like steps.The highest floor is only 70 meters, so the difficulty of climbing down is obviously much smaller.

What I want is just a retreat, or an emergency passage. I don't know if it can be used, but there must be one. Since ancient times, he will try his best to avoid the thing of a road in Huashan.

The next work is relatively simple, nail the piton to fix the safety rope, and descend along the rope.A piton is nailed every ten meters, all the way to the valley at the bottom of the glacier, and then climbed up along the rope, and the safety rope is put away, and a backup passage is completed.

In the future, when he picks up Camilla and Yu Jia, if he can walk from here, he can descend at any time with a climbing rope. If not, he can walk on the hillside over the ancient house ruins. Another earthquake will destroy the hillside. Don't be afraid if the earthquake collapses, we still have a way out.

As for whether the piton will disappear after a few years, it should not be.The glacier is not melting so fast, and the ice on the glacier is so strong that it will not fall off for ten years as long as no one deliberately destroys it.

"Awesome workmanship..." After finishing his work on the piton, Hong Tao sat at the bottom of the valley to rest, smoke and enjoy the beautiful scenery under the sunset, and finally said a word of praise.

The end of the glacier is actually a slope. The place where Hong Tao climbed down is on the north bank of the Murzat River, and the farther part is on the south bank of the river. A huge ice cave was washed out by the river below, making the upper glacier a natural bridge. , the arc is also very regular, like a rainbow bridge under the setting sun.

The mighty Murzat River roared under the ice cave, then made a sudden 90-degree turn and headed south along the rugged valley.The river valley is full of huge rocks, some of which are almost as tall as the house, but all of them have no edges and corners. It seems that they have been washed by the river for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

Chapter 545 Fishing in troubled waters

"If it's summer, put a few bottles of red wusu..." After smoking, Hong Tao walked around a few big rocks to the river, took off his gloves and touched the river water.

Good guy, tie your hands!It is estimated that the water temperature will not be too high in summer.If you go downstream along this river and find a forest meadow with a relatively gentle slope at a slightly lower altitude and build two houses, it will definitely be comfortable to escape the heat.

Of course, the premise is that there are not too many mosquitoes.The mosquitoes on the alpine meadows are only a little less effective than those in the reed swamps, but they can't hold up to more numbers, and they fly into clusters. Let alone people, sometimes horses can't stand it.

"Oh, is this the suet jade?" Just as he took his hand out of the water before shaking it dry, he plunged into the water again, grabbed a round pebble, held it in front of his face for a closer look, and then He took out his flashlight and took a picture, a look of greed appeared on his face.

The outer shell of this stone is light yellow in color, delicate in texture, relatively high in transparency, and milky white in the inside. After being appraised by expert Hong, who is still rattling with less than half a bottle, it must be a piece of jade or seed material!

"No way, there's Tianshan Cui!" After drying the mutton jade seed material that he thought was very good, he put it in his pocket, and Hong Tao picked up a smaller pebble from the water.

After some investigation, it was changed this time, not suet jade, but Tianshan emerald!Then he didn't think the temperature of the river was getting low, so he swiped with both hands, grabbing stones all over the bank.

"Bigesi, Bigesi...there seems to be someone in the valley!" Just as Expert Hong was very busy, Zhuma's call suddenly came from the earphone. You don't need to listen to the content, just listen to the deliberately lowered voice. Can cause full vigilance.

"How far? How many?" Hearing that someone had finally fished out a large pile of jade and emeralds from the icy cold river, the key suspect was immediately given up. Hong Tao ran back to the bottom of the glacier in three steps at a time. He put on his gloves and climbed up, asking questions as he climbed. From him, he couldn't see the distance of the valley.

"I'm not very good at using your telescope. There seemed to be smoke and fire just now, but now it's gone!"

"Take out the battery box and plug it in, and press the menu button to have the distance measuring function." Hearing this answer, Hong Tao was suddenly in a dilemma.

If the enemy is relatively close and is still coming towards the river, then there is no need to climb up, and it is just right to cross fire with Zhuma one by one, one up and one down.If the enemy is far away and the direction is uncertain, I have time to climb up and re-plan the next step.

"I see, there are three people who seem to be resting temporarily. They are blocked by a big rock, and I can't see them all...the distance is 1800 meters!" A few minutes later, according to Hong Tao's remote control guidance, Zhuma finally understood how to play with the telescope, more Information follows.

"...Then I'll go up, you pay attention, don't just stare at them, look around too!" The distance of two kilometers was enough to return to the hillside by himself, and Hong Tao continued to climb.

Half an hour later, he finally returned to the ruins of the ancient house out of breath. At this time, it was already dark, but the goal was clearer.Those people should have lit a bonfire in a place sheltered from the wind on the shore. Although it was blocked by big rocks, the fire was faintly discernible.

"If the judge really blocks the north and south valleys, then we have little chance of getting out alive. No matter what the final result is, we can no longer be used as guns by others in the future. Living like a dog is meaningless. Come on, Hang this up, and if I don't come back, you can hide it yourself. If you are found, just pull it, it's very simple, it doesn't hurt at all."

Zhuma performed well, lying on the edge of the hillside with her injured leg, and she even knew how to find a few stones to cover it, and looked out from behind the gap.But Hong Tao had nothing to be comforted with. Apart from taking out all the weapons and ammunition, he also wanted to hang a glory bullet on her chest.

If the girl's leg is not injured, even if there is an interception before the pursuit, she can use the complex terrain of the glacier to deal with the opponent for a few days. It is not known who will die before the food is exhausted.

But now we can only make preparations for a tough battle. If the south is really blocked by a large number of enemies, and they don't come to die one by one stupidly, then even if they grow two legs, they will not be able to rush out.

But it is not too unjust to die here, on the top of Tianshan Mountain.The cemetery has all been thought out, and when I run out of ammunition and food, I will find a crevice in the ice and jump down, using the ancient god ice millions of years old as a coffin.The corpse is immortal, and absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon every day. If it is not preserved, a big rice dumpling will be raised one day, and it will continue to cause disasters for the world!

"...Do you need to hang so many?" Zhuma touched the cold grenade and nodded vigorously. This time, she didn't say anything like being reluctant to part with her sister, and her expression was more determined.But she had a problem with the three grenades hanging on Hong Tao's chest. How could she still discriminate against women at such a late hour!

"My life is hard... One is enough to blow up...Silly girl, I won't throw two and keep one!" Hong Tao wanted to make a joke to brighten the atmosphere, but seeing that the little nun didn't have any optimism , I had to tell the truth.

"Thank you Bires... Is your name really Bires?" Women's brains are indeed different from men's. Anyway, if Hong Tao reaches this point, he will never think of asking someone's real name.What if you know, what if you don't know?

"Elbires, Snow Leopard, what a good name. Don't be so desperate, there are at most five or six people below, not enough to fight at once. As far as I know, Baishui City is the territory of the rebels, and it may be the rebellion People in the army. Keep an eye on the power of the walkie-talkie, and try to keep the battery in your arms to keep it warm.”

Hong Tao didn't have the guts to say his real name, not to mention that it's not a time of life and death, even if it is, there is no need to give his name.If you die, you die. Hong Tao died eight years ago, why should he be beaten to death like a wild dog again? Save some face!

Put on night vision goggles, install thermal sights, an automatic rifle, a shotgun, two pistols, two paratrooper knives, three grenades, and then carry the individual communication terminal on the back, fasten the battery belt, and insert a spare Magazines, as well as coiled climbing ropes and crampons, ice axes...

Ten minutes later, the Humanoid Weapons Depot went down to the glacier again, carefully avoiding the crevasses and heading towards the southernmost point.This time, Hong Tao was going to cross the Murzat River on the ice bridge, to see if he could make another night attack by surprise, and eliminate this group of enemies silently.

The ice bridge is like a giant elephant, with its body standing on the north bank and its nose extending to the south bank. Hong Tao has to walk from the back of the elephant to the forehead, nail the piton and slide down the elephant's nose with a rope.

The ice bridge from the elephant's back to the forehead looks quite wide, more than ten meters, but in fact the slopes on both sides are quite smooth, and the place where the crampons can really hold it is only one or two meters.

Hong Tao walked extremely hard. He didn't dare to stand on his crampons alone, but squatted down and hooked ice picks on both sides of the ice before taking a small step.When using an ice ax, you can’t chisel randomly. You have to listen to the sound of squeezing and cracking inside the glacier. It sounds and chisels by itself, and you have to wait when it stops.

The same is true for the rock nails. You have to stop after a few nails. It’s okay when your feet can stand on the ice. Once your feet leave the ground and start to slide, your whole body weight is on the rope.This rhythm is not easy to master. The elephant's trunk tens of meters high took nearly two hours to get to the end, and the arms and legs, including the waist and neck, were almost tired and cramp.

"I'm on the other side, over there..." After panting for a while, Hong Tao contacted Zhuma to inform him of the location.

"Ba ba ba... ba ba... boom..." Before Zhuma could answer, there were crisp gunshots and short explosions in the distance.

"Biges, the bonfire over there is extinguished, and I can only see the flames of the gun!" Zhuma's voice came from the earphone immediately. The situation was beyond her ability to judge. A little more flustered.

"Hush...don't worry, I just arrived on the south bank of the river, and I'm still far away from them. This is a good thing, no matter who fights with anyone, it shows a problem, we can fish in troubled waters!"

There is no fear of the gun battle Hong Tao that happened one kilometer away, let's fight, the more lively the fight, the better.However, he was more curious, whether there was an internal strife between the rebels or the rebels met the adjudicator.No, you have to take a closer look.

The firefight took place on the east bank of the Murzat River, in close proximity to the group lighting the bonfire.Now that the bonfire has been extinguished, the only marker that can be used as a marker in the dark night is the flashing muzzle flash from time to time.

Based on the sound of gunfire and flashes of fire, Hong Tao quickly came to the conclusion that the fighting between the two sides was not too fierce and belonged to a one-sided situation.The group that lit the bonfire was at a disadvantage. I don't know whether it was because of the small number of people or the lack of guns and ammunition. The counterattack was sporadic.On the contrary, the side farther away had more ferocious firepower, and the long bursts of machine guns could be faintly heard.

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