Xixia dead book

Chapter 55: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (55)
Han Jiang had never seen Tang Feng contradict himself like this before, and shouted at Tang Feng: "Don't think that saving my life today can change my determination! If you want to go back, go down by yourself!"

After Han Jiang yelled, he felt a lack of oxygen in his brain and almost fell down. Looking at Tang Feng again, he did not show any weakness, and retorted to Han Jiang: "No! I didn't say I want to go down, we need a camp for the night. Don't you Have you ever climbed a snow-capped mountain over 5000 meters? When you climbed the mountain, did you climb to the top in one step without setting up a camp?"

Tang Feng's words reminded Han Jiang that he felt that he was really too impatient. This time, although their mission was not to climb the Daxue Mountain with a height of more than 6000 meters, their mission this time was not inferior to climbing Daxue Mountain. This several kilometers long glacier is enough for them.Looks like it's time to build a camp.But on this increasingly steep glacier, how can there be a place to build a camp?Han Jiang calmed down a little, and asked Tang Feng: "Then you said here, how can there be a place to build a camp?"

Tang Feng looked back at the glacier he passed by, pointed to the rocky place below and said, "The terrain of the ice field below is relatively flat, so you can find a place with a leeward side to build a camp."

Han Jiang looked at the place Tang Feng was pointing at, nodded, and said, "The place you chose is good, but I won't go there to build a camp. Building a camp there means that we have spent the past two hours in vain. Tomorrow we have to start again. This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that if our opponents take the lead, then all our efforts will be in vain."

"But there is already the nearest suitable place to build a camp! Where else can you find?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang loudly.

Han Jiang looked around, and there was indeed no better place nearby, but he still stubbornly shouted at Tang Feng: "My determination remains the same, those who are willing to follow me will continue to move forward, and those who do not want to go can go back!"

Han Jiang's roar echoed for a long time in the empty valley and on the desolate ice field.Tang Feng was speechless. He didn't know what other words could persuade Han Jiang, a stubborn ass, to change his mind. Maybe it was an earthquake!Tang Feng thought, and suddenly felt the ground under his feet start to tremble.How is this going?Tang Feng's eyes widened in horror, could it be... Could it really be an earthquake!
Xu Renyu and Makarov were also stunned in place, at a loss, but Han Jiang was the first to react: "Throw away all the unnecessary equipment, and quickly retreat to the rocks over there! Avalanche! This is an avalanche! "

Tang Feng finally came to his senses. It turned out that this was not an earthquake, but a sudden avalanche...

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Tons of snow and ice poured down from the ridge at the end of Glacier No. 2, overwhelming and deafening.That is the aura of swallowing everything, anything that stands in front of it will be engulfed by it, not to mention the four flesh and blood bodies.Fortunately, the location of the four of them was closer to the rock beside the glacier. Seeing that the situation was not good, Han Jiang pulled Tang Feng and threw himself under a rock not far away. The rock above his head resisted the pouring water. Huge chunks of snow fell, but there were still many scattered snow chunks that rushed into the small space under the rock.Tang Feng only felt dizzy, his whole body was cold, and his eardrums were about to be smashed by the deafening sound. Slowly, slowly, he closed his eyes...

I don't know how long it took, when Tang Feng regained consciousness, there was a dead silence in his ears, there was no deafening avalanche, and no other people's voices, everything seemed to have stopped.This is another world?Tang Feng raised his head, shook his head vigorously, and finally breathed fresh air again, but just as he was about to get up, he suddenly felt that his entire lower body could not move.Could it be suppressed by snow?Tang Feng looked back, and it was Han Jiang who was pressing on him, and what was pressing on Han Jiang was thick white snow!

Tang Feng called Han Jiang softly, but he didn't answer, so he had to move his body out little by little, and then remove the snow on Han Jiang's body.Tang Feng called out again, but Han Jiang still didn't answer.Tang Feng was so nervous that he was overwhelmed, and his eye circles were a little moist. Just when he was about to cry, Han Jiang's body suddenly shook slightly. Tang Feng hurriedly raised Han Jiang's head, and called softly: " You are still alive, you scared me to death just now!"

Before Han Jiang opened his eyes, he laughed dryly, and jokingly said, "Huh! I'm so lucky. The chief has seen my face and said that I can live to be 120 years old, haha!" Suddenly, Han Jiang remembered something , opened his eyes and asked Tang Feng, "Tang Feng, look at your bag, is the jade screen okay?"

Tang Feng opened the bag and checked it. Yu Chaping was still lying quietly in the red sandalwood box, and Han Jiang's hanging heart finally fell.He patted the snow on his body, stood up, and comforted Tang Feng: "It's not a big deal, just a little shock just now!"

"Hearing your tone, you're going to go into a big shock!" Tang Feng said, suddenly thinking of Makarov and Xu Renyu, "Where's Makarov and Dr. Xu? They won't be buried in the snow, right?"

Hearing this, Han Jiang felt nervous, and he and Tang Feng began to look down.The route they had traveled along the way had been covered by thick snow at this time, completely changing their appearance.The two walked down for 5 minutes, calling out the names of Lao Ma and Xu Renyu while walking, but only the whistling wind answered them.The strong wind mixed with snowflakes hit Tang Feng's face. Tang Feng felt that his face was about to be torn apart by the wind. He called out again in despair, and the huge echo echoed for a long time on this ice field that had never been conquered by humans.Suddenly, under a "little snow mountain" that fell from an avalanche, the voices of Makarov and Xu Renyu came...

The four survived a catastrophe and reunited. Makarov said with emotion: "In the words of you Chinese, this is called 'surviving a catastrophe, there must be a future blessing'!" When I was washed down by the snow, I thought this time I The old bones were about to be thrown here, but I didn't expect that the 'little snow mountain' resisted the snow behind and saved my life!"

When Makarov and Xu Renyu were rejoicing, Tang Feng suddenly said in shock: "No! A lot of our equipment is missing!"

During the avalanche just now, everyone only cared about running for their lives, how could they care about those heavy equipment?Much of the equipment has disappeared without a trace, including everyone's only tent.The loss of the tent meant overnight accommodation was a big problem, along with many other important pieces of equipment, all of which foreshadowed that the operation would almost die.

Han Jiang was more anxious than anyone else at the moment, but he couldn't show it. He tried his best to comfort everyone: "It doesn't matter if you lose your equipment, as long as you and Yu Chaping are there!"

"But what shall we do tonight? What about our actions?" Tang Feng expressed the worries in everyone's hearts.

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Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng, did not answer his question, but counted all the equipment that could be collected, and then said to everyone: "One thing, I have not told you, I am afraid that you will be mentally burdened after knowing. Do you know under what circumstances the operation can be suspended?"

"Under what circumstances?" Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang puzzled.

"As long as there is only one person left, we can't stop! What's more, the four of us are all intact now, so our actions can't stop!" Han Jiang said firmly, but then Han Jiang added, "Of course, I am The old horse does not have such high requirements. In addition, in some special cases, such as the wounded needing timely rescue, etc., we can suspend operations. And now these situations have not occurred, so I will not end because I lost some equipment This action!"

"Han! I hope you can also regard me as one of you. We have come so far together, and I already consider myself one of you!" Makarov said to Han Jiang.

Han Jiang looked at Makarov's sincere eyes and said, "Okay! Since this is the case, there is no need for us to discuss whether to suspend the operation. Next, we will see where we will spend the night tonight."

Han Jiang looked up at the glacier above. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the end of the glacier was so far away!Maybe... Maybe it's because I'm too tired, I really should have a good rest.

His eyes narrowed into a line, staring at the end of the glacier for a long time, when his sight slowly fell, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.He saw that on the cliff next to the glacier, a large piece of flat land facing the sun was exposed.Why didn't you find out just now?Maybe, maybe it was because of the big avalanche that took away the snow that originally covered the cliff, which made the cliff appear.Seeing this, Han Jiang pointed to the flat land on the cliff and said to everyone: "It faces the sun from the wind, so it can be used as a camp. If there is an avalanche above, the rocks above the camp can also block it, which is enough to avoid the avalanche!"

"What? You asked us to live on the cliff tonight!" Tang Feng and Xu Renyu were astonished.

"Yes, there is no other place now, but this is the only way!" Han Jiang seemed to have regained his original self-confidence.

"But we lost our tent?" Tang Feng asked.

"Isn't the sleeping bag still there?" Han Jiang asked back.

Tang Feng was even more dizzy, but he had nothing to say. He was even more convinced that the person in front of him was a lunatic!Everyone stopped talking, took the remaining equipment, and followed Han Jiang to the cliff.

When they rushed to the cliff, it was already dark. As Han Jiang said, the place is facing the sun from the wind, but this is far from meeting the needs of the camp!The gasoline stove was also lost, so everyone had to eat some dry food.Han Jiang checked the equipment, and every time he found a surviving piece of equipment, he fiddled with it exaggeratedly in front of several other people, as if he was using this to boost everyone's morale, but Tang Feng only felt that Han Jiang's behavior was a bit funny, even childish!Han Jiang sorted out all the surviving equipment and said to everyone: "The map, sleeping bag, food, and compass are all here. And the most important thing is this!"

Everyone followed Han Jiang's hand, and it turned out that Han Jiang was referring to the gun!After packing up the equipment, Han Jiang jokingly said: "This is our advance base. Everyone, rest early and recharge your spirits. We will enter the mysterious C area tomorrow!"

"Advance base?" When Makarov heard the word from Han Jiang's mouth, his heart trembled, and he actually muttered the word in Russian.

Both Tang Feng and Han Jiang looked at Makarov in surprise, not knowing what Makarov said. Although Xu Renyu could understand Russian, he couldn't understand what Makarov said just now.The three asked what happened to Makarov, and Makarov prevaricated: "It's nothing, I just remembered some things from the past."

Everyone stopped asking, for tomorrow's action, the four got into sleeping bags early, but everyone knew in their hearts that this was likely to be another sleepless night!
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At night, the temperature on the mountain dropped sharply to -30°C. For the four people lying in sleeping bags, it was a difficult night. No one fell asleep, but no one spoke.

Makarov, who was lying in a sleeping bag, was troubled by the severe altitude sickness and the low temperature of -30°C. He had a splitting headache and could not fall asleep.At this time, Tang Feng said to Makarov: "Since everyone can't sleep, old horse, why don't you tell us about your past! For example, what happened after you joined the KGB?"

Tang Feng's words caused Makarov to fall into deep memories, and Xie Lepin's serious face appeared before his eyes again.

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Since the long conversation with Shelepin in the Kremlin, Makarov’s life has completely changed. When he brought his own “Black City” operation report and went to see Shelepin again a week later, he had already Made his final choice - to join the KGB!

Next came four months of closed study at the KGB Junior School.After studying, Makarov was sent to the KGB Verkhovnoye School on the outskirts of Kazan, where he began hard physical training.Here, he must first learn to climb rocks, climb over obstacles, walk through swamps, forests, swim through turbulent rivers and other sports that challenge the limits of the human body; Finally, there must be training in special agent skills such as eavesdropping, sending reports, poisoning, taking pictures, and opening safes.The one-year study and training ended soon, and Makarov finally completed his studies with honors.

With the personal care of a big man named Shelepin, coupled with Makarov's excellent grades in the KGB school, Makarov's life has been given a green light all the way, and the KGB has regarded him as Shelepin's favorite student.After completing his studies, Makarov was directly sent by Shelepin to the counterintelligence department in Leningrad (Petersburg) with the rank of second lieutenant.This job pays well, is stable, doesn't have much risk, and is in a big city like Leningrad, which is the dream position of many KGB agents.Makarov had a mentor like Shelepin, coupled with his hard work, half a year later, his rank was directly promoted to captain.

Soon, a beautiful female college student walked into Makarov's life. This female college student is Makarov's future wife and Victor's mother.During those days, Makarov himself couldn't believe that happiness came so suddenly, which made him, a foolish boy, flattered for a while.A year ago, he was just a small warrant officer serving in the cold winds of Siberia. Strictly speaking, this rank is not even the lowest rank of officer.

However, everything is different now, and Makarov suddenly remembered the Chinese saying that his Chinese friend said to him in the scientific expedition team - misfortune and fortune are unpredictable.I wonder how Liang is doing now? After the failure of the "Black City" operation, within two years, Sino-Soviet relations broke down rapidly, and later developed into military confrontation.At the beginning, Makarov also received a letter from Liang. In the letter, Liang expressed his distress. Makarov wrote back to comfort him, but there was no further news from Liang.

Fast forward a few years, Captain Makarov has become Major Makarov, because he and his wife have never had children because of busy work, but he feels that life is still fulfilling and happy, and the terrible nightmare is gone. Heicheng, the scientific expedition team, and his friend Liang have also drifted away from his life...

However, the happy days will not last long. Over the past few years, the international and domestic situations have undergone earth-shaking changes. Internationally, Sino-Soviet relations have broken down; domestically, Khrushchev was ousted.Originally, in the event of Khrushchev's ouster, his teacher Shelepin played a big role. Many people believed that after Khrushchev stepped down, in terms of age, seniority, and ability, Shelepin was a party leader. He is the most promising person in China to ascend to the pinnacle of power, but the facts have disappointed Makarov.The real power faction headed by Suslov in the party did not want to see another strong leader like Stalin and Khrushchev, so they elected Brezhnev, a "good man" with mediocre ability, Thus began the 18-year "Brezhnev Era".And Shelepin, once known as the "strong man Shulik", tasted the bitter fruit of failure for the first time in the brutal political struggle. At this time, he is no longer the chairman of the KGB.Makarov vaguely sensed the approaching crisis.

A few years later, Shelepin was kicked out of the Politburo and completely lost power. Makarov knew that his good days were coming to an end.Sure enough, as soon as Shelepin fell, those colleagues who had disliked Makarov in the past complained to his superiors one after another, trying to drive him away.Makarov ignored these people, but his work was inevitably disturbed, and his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel, which should have been promoted long ago, was also ruined.

Those former friends and colleagues have all left him. Makarov, who doesn't care about politics, doesn't understand why life has become like this?He suddenly felt that except for his wife, other people in this world were unreliable. He wanted to change all this through his own efforts, but he didn't know how to do it.He thought of Shelepin, and wanted to go to Moscow to talk to him, but he knew that everything would not escape the surveillance of the KGB, and would only bring unnecessary trouble to himself and Shelepin.In the panic, Makarov hesitated until a transfer order from Moscow brought him into No. 11 Lubyanka Square again.

When Makarov in the sleeping bag recalled this, he slowly closed his eyes. Makarov actually fell asleep in such a harsh environment.Maybe he was really tired.

Tang Feng, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu were shivering from the cold in the tent. They couldn't bear to disturb Makarov. None of the three said anything. Just like that, they have been quietly looking forward to the early dawn.

(End of this chapter)