Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Ji Wenfeng rode on the horse and asked people along the way: “Have you seen ten high school boys wearing camouflage uniforms with paintball guns pass by? Where did they go?”
Pedestrians on the road expressed their deep memories of those idiots, and nine out of ten pointed at the mountain.
Ji Wenfeng anxiously called the police: “At the coordinates xx zoo, ten high school students strayed into the mountains and need emergency rescue. Prepare medical support.” He was also worried that the police equipment was insufficient, so he ordered Assistant Bai to dispatch the security team to search the mountain: “Air unit support is needed!”
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yihuan also caught up with him.
Zhao Yihuan: “I admit that you do have a lot of ideas. When I was comparing numbers with you, you changed from one-on-one personal training to small-class teaching; after I also adopted small-class teaching, you changed the track to compete in obstacle courses. But I won’t admit defeat. Even if you have the first-mover advantage, my solid equestrian skills ensure that I can come from behind…”
Ji Wenfeng didn’t listen to what he was talking about at all and saw a staff member putting away a long roll of solar energy. He snatched away the wires of the small LED light tube and rode up the mountain road.
Zhao Yihuan: “…mountain climbing on horseback?” He only encountered this project when he went to tourist attractions. This was not orthodox equestrianism at all, it was just something used to cheat people’s money.
“I understand. You must have thought that I can only do some horse shows at the racecourse, but my feet would become weak once I get to the wild. No, mountain climbing and cross-country riding are also completely fine. When I was a child, I also guest-starred as an extra in costume TV series.” Zhao Yihuan turned the horse’s head, kicked the horse’s belly, and followed Ji Wenfeng’s footsteps.
Since Ji Wenfeng wanted to compete, let’s give it a try.
Lu Rong and Fang Chang sat together on a big tree, with a thick layer of dead branches and leaves underneath. Lu Rong put some disposable tissues on it, so that his butt was not so cold.
Deng Te had fallen asleep on Lu Rong’s lap. Lu Rong was holding a knife and whittling a wooden pole, sharpening one end. A trace of sawdust fell on Deng Te’s hair, and Lu Rong gently removed it for him.
Fang Chang whispered: “Comrade Xiao Deng, why did he go to bed so early?”
Lu Rong: “Aren’t you tired?”
Fang Chang suppressed a big yawn: “I’m here to stand guard today.”
Lu Rong: “Forget it.”
Although there were no large animals on this mountain, there might be wild boars. Lu Rong set up several traps around the camp and took the time to cut wooden poles to make simple spears. If they were really in danger, they would need at least three spears to stab the wild boar to death. Fortunately, they had no shortage of men, but he was afraid that they were inexperienced.
Fang Chang saw that everyone around him was lying on the ground to rest, and no one was paying attention, so he took out a white lump of something from his pocket. Lu Rong took a closer look and saw that it was a small piece of rabbit meat wrapped in a napkin.
Fang Chang stuffed it for him: “You haven’t eaten it yet.”
Lu Rong smiled.
Fang Chang: “Eat quickly, eat quickly.”
Lu Rong: “Have you eaten yet?”
Fang Chang snorted: “I’ve eaten it a long time ago. I’m warning you, Political Commissar Lu, you must maintain your strength to fight long-term.”
Lu Rong was careful as he untied the napkin and took a bite of the rabbit meat that contained Fang Chang’s body temperature.
Fang Chang suddenly said: “We all depend on you.”
Lu Rong was stunned, and his bulging cheeks stopped moving. Fang Chang met his unexpected look and smiled a little: “We all know that you are the most powerful one among us.” Lu Rong calmed down first and directed everyone to save themselves in an orderly manner, otherwise they would still be running around like headless flies. “And I’m useless.” Fang Chang said, hugging his knees in frustration.
“But you are our monitor.” Lu Rong put his arm around his shoulder. “Do you know why I asked you and Ling Ren to come forward? Because everyone believes in you two.”
Fang Chang was shocked and raised his head: “Really, really?” Then he said unconfidently, “Maybe everyone believes in Ling Ren, but I’m far behind him. I’m always chattering.”
Lu Rong: “Everyone believes in Ling Ren, but everyone likes you. In such a harsh situation, if you only have Ling Ren’s majesty, this will not be enough and the team would have long since fallen apart. It’s you who connects everyone. You two are complementary partners and cannot exist without each other.”
Fang Chang was stunned for a long time: “Are you kidding me?”
An invisible gentle smile appeared on the corner of Rong’s lips: “What do you think? I was recruited into the army because of you, Squad Leader Fang.”
Lu Rong, the tyrant of the school in Chengnan, ignored everyone’s invitation.
Fang Chang was recognized, and he scratched his hair sheepishly, then laughed, and the two brothers bumped their shoulders nicely with each other.
After untying the knot in his heart, he started chattering happily again: “Hey, did you say they will come for us tomorrow?”
Lu Rong: “They will come tonight.”
Fang Chang: “It’s hard to say, just think the teacher has such a bad temper, he might have thought that we have gone home early.”
Lu Rong said firmly, “Monitor Ji will come to see us.”
Fang Chang: “Monitor Ji from Class 1?”
Lu Rong looked at the full moon hanging in the sky and gave a faint “hmm”.
Ji Wenfeng picked up the Snickers wrapper on the ground: “They have been here.” It was the brand Lu Rong bought yesterday. He was looking for cheap ones, so he bought a pheasant brand, which was hard to find elsewhere.
Zhao Yihuan didn’t understand why Ji Wenfeng suddenly reined in his horse while running, let alone what he meant by squatting down suddenly: “Them?”
Ji Wenfeng looked around: “Ling Ren and the others were playing real-person CS and got lost on the mountain. It should be around here.”
Zhao Yihuan: “There is only one road. If you go further, you will reach the top of the mountain.”
Ji Wenfeng: “They are not taking the main road, otherwise there is no reason why they would not have come back when it is so late. Go along the road to the top of the mountain and take a look. If they are not trapped there, check if there are any bonfires around. I will go into the forest to find them.” He wrapped the stolen solar LED light around the tree trunk and got on his horse. Holding the light strip in hand, he walked into the depths of the forest.
Zhao Yihuan: “…” Why did the good competitive script suddenly turn into wilderness survival?!
He looked at the dark mountain road in front of him, and then at the flashing lights behind Ji Wenfeng, then he caught up with his horse’s belly: “Wait for me!”
Ji Wenfeng said angrily: “I asked you to go up the mountain, why are you following me?! They may also be in danger on the top of the mountain and need rescue!”
Zhao Yihuan swallowed, he didn’t dare to go up the mountain alone at night.
Ji Wenfeng saw the fear in his eyes and said angrily: “Zhao Yihuan, are you learning equestrianism just to look cool in front of girls? What is the difference between this and a man who betrays people for his lust? A real man will not abandon people while not caring about his companions who were in trouble. If you can’t even do this, what qualifications do you have to refuse to accept this and that all the time!”
Zhao Yihuan blushed: “…Who said I can’t do it? Come on! Just wait, I’m going to…”
Ji Wenfeng whipped his horse’s butt: “Quickly, don’t push.”
Zhao Yihuan: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” screaming and galloping onto the wide and flat road.
Before he finished screaming, he had already run up the hill.
Zhao Yihuan: “…”
Not long after, Zhao Yihuan returned from the mountain and caught up with Ji Wenfeng again: “They are not up there, but there seems to be a bonfire to the west.”
Ji Wenfeng followed his finger and looked up to the horizon, and sure enough he saw a thin black line.
Ji Wenfeng’s eyes lit up, and he whipped his horse and stepped forward: “Let’s go!”
Everyone was asleep, and Lu Rong was vigilantly holding a spear in his hand for the night shift.
There were all kinds of sounds in the forest at night: crickets chirping, birds chirping, owls flapping their wings, and the sounds of various small animals walking through the land. He listened carefully to these sounds, which were colorful and diverse and much more interesting than a night in the city.
When Lu Rong was listening intently to the mice pulling their plastic bags into their holes, he suddenly heard a discordant sound, which seemed to be – horseshoes?
“Impossible, there can’t be horses in this place.” Lu Rong made this judgment and almost immediately grabbed the spear and ran up. He pushed Fang Chang and Deng Te awake and threw the spear to them, “The wild boar is coming.”
Fang Chang rubbed his eyes: “…Huh?”
“Get up, get up!” Lu Rong clapped his hands. This situation was not something he could handle alone.
After he woke everyone up, the sound of horse hooves got closer, and even human voices could be faintly heard, and flashing lights could be seen.
Ling Ren reacted: “We are saved!”
Lu Rong still did not dare to be careless: “Who would ride a horse to save…” He suddenly realized something and shut his mouth tightly and stopped talking.
Ling Ren and Fang Chang shouted together: “Hey – is it a human being!!!”
From the distance, Zhao Yihuan shouted impatiently: “If it isn’t a human being, is it a ghost?!”
Ling Ren: “Zhao Yihuan!!! We’re here!!!”
After a few seconds, the other side shouted: “Here it is!”
The entire camp cleared away the previous gloomy atmosphere, and everyone cheered and dusted themselves and their bags off, all waiting to meet them.
“Let’s go! Go find them!” Fang Chang happily turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, and more than a dozen beams of light lit up behind him.
Lu Rong also stood up, but as soon as he took a step, he felt heartbreaking pain in his toes.
He retracted his steps and leaned his back against the tree trunk.
Ji Wenfeng’s calm words came from closer: “Don’t move, I saw you, I’m coming over.”
“Ji Wenfeng is so fu**ing awesome!” Fang Chang said, “How did he find us??!”
“Why do I think his footsteps are a bit strange?” Ling Ren listened.
Just when everyone was curious, Ji Wenfeng rode out of the woods on a white horse and appeared beside the bonfire as if a god had descended into the world. The horse kept trotting, so Ji Wenfeng reined in the horse hard, and the white horse neighed, standing on its hind legs and unable to look up.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then cheered!
Fang Chang stepped forward crying, and if he wasn’t afraid of the white horse, he would have barely hugged Ji Wenfeng’s thigh: “Commander Ji! You are finally here!!”
Ji Wenfeng: “…” Commander Ji, what the hell, wasn’t he the monitor of Class 1?!
Fang Chang: “All the personnel of the 3rd Platoon and the 8th Squadron of the 25th Company are reporting here!”
Ling Ren: “All the personnel of the 13th Battalion of the Military Command are reporting here!”
Zhao Yihuan pushed aside the leaves and walked beside the bonfire, looking at them speechlessly: “Why does our class belong to the National Army?”
Everyone was trapped for three hours. When it got dark, reinforcements finally arrived. They didn’t care whether they were from the National Army or the Communist Army. They were happy and that was it. Ling Ren looked behind Ji Wenfeng, his face gradually becoming serious: “Captain Ji, you didn’t come with the 38th Regiment?”
Ji Wenfeng: “…I don’t have the 38th Regiment.”
Ling Ren: “There are no airplanes, tanks, transport vehicles, or sampans?”
Ji Wenfeng: “…What do you need a ship for?”
Ling Ren nodded to express his understanding: “At this time, we need to first move our injured as they were out of luck.”
Ji Wenfeng became nervous: “Who is injured?” He looked up and looked for Lu Rong among the crowd. He had been looking for Lu Rong in the crowd since just now, but now he realized that he was standing silently in the darkness, calm and quite easy to be ignored.
Xiao Yi, who was originally standing, went to the ground and screamed “Hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh”.
Fang Chang: “He was hit in the ribs by a stray bullet and needs to go down the mountain for treatment. Commander Ji, take him away first.”
Ji Wenfeng: “…”
Ji Wenfeng: “Well, I marked the road along the way for the follow-up troops. I’ll take you up the mountain soon. I’ll take the wounded down for treatment first. I’ll leave this to you and Secretary Zhao first.”
Zhao Yihuan was confused: “Why did I become a communist again?”
“Sure, sure.”
Lu Rong closed his eyes and smiled lightly as he listened to their conversation. With Ji Wenfeng here, everyone would be safe and at ease.
The young man on horseback jumped off the horse, stepped on the dead branches and leaves, stepped forward firmly step by step, and stopped in front of him.
With a thought in his mind, Lu Rong opened his eyes, and Ji Wenfeng was right in front of him.
The two looked at each other for a moment. Ji Wenfeng took out a pair of slippers from the bag behind his back, squatted down, untied his shoelaces, freed his feet that had been uncomfortable all day, and put them into the slippers.
Lu Rong watched him do all this blankly.
Ji Wenfeng helped him put on his slippers, tied the laces of the Feiyue shoes, and threw them into his schoolbag. He squatted in front of him, raised his head and asked him, “Can you still walk on your own?”
Lu Rong nodded silently.
Ji Wenfeng stretched out his hand towards him.
Lu Rong hesitated for a few seconds, then silently put his hand into his.
Ji Wenfeng’s hands were warm and solid, and he carefully helped Lu Rong take a step forward.
Lu Rong staggered.
Ji Wenfeng held his hand tightly and supported him.
So Lu Rong took the second and third steps.
Walking to the side of the white horse, Ji Wenfeng held Lu Rong’s waist and gently put him on the horse’s back. Then he flew onto the horse, held him and pulled the reins, and nodded to everyone: “We are leaving first.”
Ling Ren panicked: “Then what should we do?”
Ji Wenfeng smiled slightly: “The thirty-eighth regiment is already in place.”
There was a huge roar of helicopters overhead, and the security team’s air transport unit was approaching the location of everyone.
Fang Chang looked at the helicopters approaching in formation from the horizon and pinched his thigh hard: “F**k!” This was not a dream!
In the strong wind as the helicopter slowly landed, Ji Wenfeng turned his horse’s head and galloped away, like a white phantom in the forest, going far away along the starry light strip.
Li Nanbian silently turned on the Bluetooth speaker and started playing: “I’m riding a white horse~ Go through three levels~ I’ll change into plain clothes~ Go back to the Central Plains~ Leave Xiliang behind~ No one cares~ I only want to~ Wang Baochuan…”
Zhao Yihuan suddenly remembered what Ji Wenfeng said to the girl in the horse pen today: There is already someone in front of me.
Zhao Yihuan: “I can’t do it…”
At that time, Ji Wenfeng hugged Lu Rong in front of him, riding a horse in the autumn night…
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