"Steady the stretcher!"

Wei Ran yelled, and then, ignoring the stones that had not stopped falling, he quickly ran to the side of the donkey, picked up a medical bag, held it in his arms, and began to slide down the valley, almost like riding a slide.

Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, his speed was getting faster and faster. He hung the medical bag around his neck, took out the paratrooper gravity knife from the metal book and threw out the blade. Then he turned around and lay down on the steep hillside, holding it with both hands.

The handle of the knife presses the tip of the knife against the rock and acts as a deceleration device in conjunction with the feet.

It was only then that he noticed that Kirill and Hakim had also rushed down. He looked up at the stretcher. Fortunately, Habibullah and Multaza had already taken over the job of holding the stretcher.

"Slow down! Slow down quickly!"

Weiran and Kirill shouted the same reminder to each other almost at the same time. The latter pressed a stone as big as a volleyball against the mountain, and Hakim used it as a brake pad.

The one is the AK74 assault rifle he is holding.

No matter what method they used to slow down, when Wei Ran was only more than ten meters away from Ruslan, he finally stopped, and the other two people also stopped with difficulty. The three of them also heard Lu Silan's voice at the same time.

The sound of a baby crying came from the direction of Sri Lanka.

"Watch out for butterfly mines around you"

Wei Ran reminded the two men and at the same time put away the paratrooper knife he had been holding in his hand, and cautiously walked towards Ruslan who was lying at the bottom of the valley.

After walking the last ten meters, Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. At this time, Ruslan's legs and lower back were all opened with large and small wounds by butterfly mines. Even at this time, there were still wounds around his body.

There were a large number of butterfly mines scattered around, and he knew that Ruslan would not survive.

Putting the medical bag aside and taking out a scalpel, he carefully approached Ruslan and gently cut open the blanket tightly held in his arms, removing the two people who were almost unharmed.

The baby was taken out and handed to Kirill behind him, who in turn handed it to Hakim.

"I'll drag you out now"

Wei Ran threw away the scalpel and said, "Then I will help you..."

"Ahem..."

A little blood spilled from the corner of Ruslan's mouth. He ignored Wei Ran who injected him with mapine and with difficulty took out the wine bottle from his blood-stained trouser pocket.

The leather jacket of this hip flask has been blown apart by butterfly mines, and the iron sheet on the same side has also been blown apart.

Pulling open the tattered leather case, Ruslan used trembling hands full of blood to pull out a photo of him, his wife and daughter from the intact side of the wine bottle, and looked at Wei Ran and Kirill with pleading eyes.

"Tell Faina...I'm sorry..."

Ruslan waited for Kirill to take the photo, then tremblingly took off his watch and handed it over, "I...can't...attend...her birthday..."

"Click"

Just when Wei Ran was about to drag Ruslan out of the minefield, his hand fell weakly to the sandy ground.

"Ruslan? Ruslan?"

Kirill gently called Ruslan's name, and at the same time reached out and carefully tried it on his nostrils.

"Victor..."

Kirill calmed down and said, "Victor, stop, Ruslan... Comrade Ruslan Petrov... was killed in action..."

Hearing this, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, but then he carefully pulled out the other party's body.

It was only then that he realized that not only Ruslan's legs and waist were injured by the butterfly mines, but his back was also blasted with a huge wound, and his spine could be seen.

"Are those two kids okay?"

Wei Ran asked without looking back while wrapping Ruslan's body in a blanket.

"It's... not bad"

Hakim replied, "No harm, no... no harm at all."

"He can't stay here"

As Kirill spoke, he had already moved closer to Wei Ran and helped wrap Ruslan's body in a blanket. "Hakim, for the sake of not injuring the two little guys, let us take him with him."

Can you take his body and find a place to bury him?"

"Take him with you..."

Hakim was silent for a moment and then said, "There is a cave over this mountain. Leave him there."

"Thanks..."

Kirill responded with a hoarse voice and then, together with Wei Ran, struggled to pull the blanket wrapping Ruslan's body and climbed up the mountain little by little. On this steep rock wall,

A zigzag bloodstain was left behind.

When they returned to the stretcher, Ayana finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her two children were not injured, but then she fainted.

In this rush, Wei Ran and Kirill got a rope and tied the blanket wrapped around Ruslan. Hakim also conveyed Kirill's request to Mahbub and got the other party's consent.

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When they were on the road again, Multaza was at the front and was responsible for holding the sheep. Hakim and Habibullah were responsible for carrying Ayana who was awake and the two children who were tightly held in her arms.

, Wei Ran and Kirill worked together to carry Ruslan's body.

The silent group spent more than half an hour climbing over the steep stone mountain, but what they saw was a large area of ​​scorched earth that had been blasted by aerial bombs.

"There used to be a small pool there. We should be able to see the reflection of that pool when we stand here."

Habibullah raised his hand and pointed to a low mountain with a flattened top and said, "It's at the foot of that mountain."

Looking in the direction of the opponent's finger, there was no pool there, and even the small col at the foot of the mountain had been plowed by bombs.

"Let's go down"

Mahbubu sighed and urged the donkey to go first.

This side of the hill is not that steep, and because of the aerial bomb explosion just now, even if there were originally butterfly mines, they have been detonated. This may be the only good news.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Before reaching the bottom of the mountain, Mahbubu stopped at the entrance of a hidden small cave.

This cave is really not that big, only two meters deep, and the diameter of the cave entrance is probably only one meter.

There is also an auxiliary fuel tank for a Su-25 fighter jet half-buried in the cave. The top of this auxiliary fuel tank has a section cut diagonally, and the cut part is like a plug, which is inserted into the auxiliary fuel tank in reverse, and is covered with iron wires from four surrounding areas.

The direction opening is fixed tightly.

Mahbub limped to the entrance of the cave and sat down. He reached out and unscrewed the wires, then pulled out the aluminum cone-shaped "plug" and took out a small bag of beans and a small bag of flour.

.Obviously, this is the storage point for their supplies midway.

"Just leave him here." Mahbub patted the half-buried auxiliary fuel tank, "Just put him in here."

"Thanks"

Kirill thanked him seriously, and he and Wei Ran worked together to lift Ruslan and stuff his body bit by bit into the auxiliary fuel tank.

Finally, placing the blown wine bottle on the chest of Ruslan's body, Kirill couldn't help but ask, "We still have a chance to send him away..."

"If the war is over, if we are all still alive, he will come home."

Habibullah said, but he emptied the magazine of the silent submachine pistol that belonged to Ruslan and put it into the auxiliary fuel tank. "This was originally his weapon. In any case, he saved my sister's life."

Child, so I returned the weapon to him, and from now on, he is no longer our prisoner."

"Thanks"

Kirill sighed in vain. After thinking for a moment, he took out the miniature camera from his arms and took a final photo of Ruslan lying in the auxiliary fuel tank. He also asked for permission from Mahbub and others.

Afterwards, I took photos of the surrounding terrain.

"Let's continue on our way while it's still dark."

As Mahbubu spoke, he handed the wires he was holding to Wei Ran and Kirill, and then got back on the donkey with the help of Habibullah.

Looking at each other, Weiyan and Kirill tied up the auxiliary fuel tank that was divided into two parts with wires, and buried it as much as possible with the sand and soil that could be seen everywhere.

Without further delay, the two took over the task of carrying Ayana and her two babies again, and Hakim also walked at the end of the team again.

Only this time, he did not pick up the AK74 assault rifle he was carrying. Although the team that was busy rushing to Kandahar remained silent, Wei Ran could sense it because of Ruslan's death.

No, it should be said that because Ruslan protected the two babies with his life, Mahbub and others' attitude towards them seemed to have quietly changed a little.

The most intuitive guess about this is that an hour later, Habibullah and Hakim took over the stretcher-carrying job from them.

"Aren't you worried that we will escape?" Kirill said, raising his camera to take a photo of the two people carrying Ayana.

"If you think you can run faster than a bullet, give it a try," Hakeem said nonchalantly.

"Do you mind if I go to the front of the line and take a picture of you?" Kirill asked.

"Be careful of landmines," Mahbub warned unexpectedly.

"Thank...uh, thank you."

Kirill reacted immediately and then quickly walked to the front of the team. Taking advantage of the moment he passed by the leader, he held up his small camera and took a picture of everyone including Wei Ran.

photo.

After standing there obediently until they reunited with Wei Ran, Kirill took another step in the tiny snowflakes.

"Aren't you going to run away?"
To be continued...