The two of them trembled as they walked to the edge of the lake, squatting naked in the snow, preparing to go into the water. Xiang Xiaoqiang was rummaging through his pockets, while Shi Shigege rolled up his clothes into a bundle and sat down.
The bottom of his buttocks, and then started to pull out the shoelaces from his leather boots.
Xiang Xiaoqiang's face turned blue from the cold, and he asked shivering:
"Huh? You...what...are you doing..."
Shi Shi Ge Ge glanced at him and did not explain. She still bit her blue lips and continued to pull out her shoelaces.
"I said..." Xiang Xiaoqiang pushed her and asked tremblingly, "What on earth are you doing...?"
Fourteen Gege was pushed off by him and shouted in a low voice:
"Tie your clothes with shoelaces, idiot! Do you want to freeze to death without dry clothes after swimming? Tie them tightly like this and hold them with one hand while swimming. If you are lucky, you can look back to the inner layers.
The clothes can be relatively dry..."
He nodded to Xiaoqiang, still trembling and said:
"Oh... then you... you should have told me earlier... I am also... doing this... OK, I found it! Look!"
He suddenly flashed a large bag of things in front of Shi Shigege's face and sang:
"Dang...dang dang dang..."
Shi Shi Ge Ge used the starlight to look at what was in his hand, blushed, lowered her face and scolded:
"Xiang Xiaoqiang, when did this happen? What do you want!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned and said quickly:
"Hey, no no no...I didn't mean that...I meant..."
As he spoke, he opened one, took it out, put it to his mouth and blew it hard. Soon, a big bubble was blown.
"Okay," Xiang Xiaoqiang said, "help me put my clothes in."
Fourteen Gege suddenly understood and was elated. Needless to say, she quickly helped Xiang Xiaoqiang stuff clothes into the "big bubble". After stuffing one, he tied it in his mouth and threw it on the ground. Then he helped him blow on it.
, and then stuff another piece of clothing...
Soon, all the clothes and shoes of the two people were stuffed into the "bubbles". There was a pile of big bubbles on the ground.
"Okay..." Now both of them were shaking from the cold, and Fourteen trembled and said, "Now...get...into the water..."
"Don't be busy... just... blow some more..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang took out several more and divided them into fourteen grids.
Fourteen was stunned:
"Still bragging?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded and didn't explain. He just blew hard and motioned for Shi Shi Ge Ge to do the same. Shi Shi Ge Ge knew that he was not as clever as Xiang Xiaoqiang for such a clever thing. Although he didn't understand, he didn't say nonsense and just helped to play.
Soon, several more big bubbles were blown. He signaled to Xiaoqiang and Shi Shigege to pull off the shoelaces of both of them, and then tied a few "empty bubbles" and a bunch of "clothing bubbles" together.
, tied into two life jackets.
Now Fourteen Gege also fully understood. Without asking any more questions, she first helped Xiang Xiaoqiang put one on, and then put her own one on herself.
He nodded to Xiaoqiang and said tremblingly:
"Now... you can go... into the water..."
Fourteen Gege also nodded, and the two of them walked hand in hand into the cold lake with gritted teeth.
"I said..." Shi Shigege looked pale and forced a smile while wading in the cold water, "Xiaoqiang... you only have one night, you... you bring so much... why are you doing this..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang also trembled and said:
"One night... doesn't mean just one time..."
"..."
Tianchi is a lake between valleys, so the slope is very steep. After just a few steps, there is nothing you can reach under your feet. There is only bone-chilling lake water. However, the "life jackets" that the two of them put on played a big role.
Several "big bubbles" on the back immediately bring a lot of buoyancy. Although it can't completely lift a person like a life jacket, it is very effortless to swim.
"Hurry...swim quickly..." Xiang Xiaoqiang gritted his teeth, paddled in the water, and said vaguely, "Don't stop...keep exercising vigorously..."
Shi Shigege also paddled hard, but she had no extra energy to speak. She could only raise her head and use all her strength to paddle.
…
Fortunately, it is already May, not winter. Anyway, the temperature of the lake water is still several degrees. If it is winter, the lake water is full of ice slag, and the zero-degree ice-water mixture state, the two of them will have "big bubbles"
"If you increase your buoyancy, you may not be able to swim to the other side.
A few hundred meters across the lake, the two of them seemed to be struggling in hell. It took them no idea how long it took them to swim to the other side.
The two of them climbed out of the water exhausted, supported each other, found a place without snow, quickly tore open the "clothes bubble", first took out a shirt to quickly dry the water on their bodies,
Then I used my last bit of strength to get dressed.
Xiang Xiaoqiang put on the sweater faster. When he put on the coat, Shi Shigege was still struggling to put on the sweater. It seemed that her limbs were very numb and slow.
Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately rushed to help her put on the sweater, and then wrapped her in a coat. Unfortunately, there were no coats and blankets. These two were too big to fit into the "bubble", so they were discarded.
After helping Shi Shigege get dressed, Xiang Xiaoqiang already felt that his limbs, especially his fingers, were numb and could no longer be used. He knew that it was too late for both of them to rely on clothes to keep warm and restore their body temperature. They must have strong
heat source. Otherwise, you will die quickly due to hypothermia.
When he first came to this time and space at the end of 1935, after crawling out of the cold river, he immediately got warm and thick clothes, hot rice and soup, and stayed in a warm house again. But this time, there was no warmth.
There was no hot food or soup in the house, and even the clothes on my body were not warm enough - there were no coats.
Xiang Xiaoqiang pulled out a knife from his boot with a click. Shi Shigege asked in a daze:
"Xiaoqiang...you...what are you doing..."
"Hold on, don't sleep!" Xiang Xiaoqiang shook her and rubbed her cheeks a few times quickly, "I'll warm you up right now! Just hold on!"
He stood up and cut off the branches of a pine tree behind him. His knife was extremely sharp. He cut through the branch a circle thicker than his thumb and cut off a large number of pine branches and needles in a few strokes.
Immediately afterwards, he unscrewed the back cover of the knife handle and handed it to Fourteen Gege:
"Hey, wake up! Help me look in the direction!"
In fact, he just wanted to find something for Shi Shi Ge Ge to do to prevent her from falling into coma. Shi Shi Ge Ge followed the instructions and took the back cover of the knife handle. When he turned it over, he saw that it was a small compass.
"Xiaoqiang...this...is this a compass?"
Without saying a word, Xiang Xiaoqiang poured out all the contents of the hollow knife handle, and then showed the knife blade in front of her face, with a cockroach symbol engraved on it:
"Look, I designed it myself and customized it for the Lianfeng, the 'Xiaoqiang' style survival knife! It contains six survival tools: scalpel, tourniquet, fishing line, fire stick, compass, and ignition powder!"
Fourteen Gege was already in a daze due to the cold, but now he was stunned by all these treasures.
Xiang Xiaoqiang magically picked up one of the small tin tubes, which looked like watercolor paint or disposable toothpaste. He unscrewed the cap and squeezed the oil inside onto the pile of pine branches. Although it was only a little, it was powerful.
Incomparable. The surroundings were immediately filled with a strong volatile smell. Alcohol was not like alcohol, and gasoline was not like gasoline.
He picked up the pine branches and applied the ointment evenly while saying:
"This kind of potion is actually used for arson behind enemy lines in the Dongchang Operation. As long as it is applied, firewood, no matter how wet it is, can be ignited immediately. There is also a white phosphorus-type small glass bottle. There is no need to light it, just throw it on the ground.
It'll catch fire. But I don't want that kind of thing
It's too dangerous to bring...and this thing, a fire stick, also called a magnesium stick, is also a thing from their Dongchang. This thing can be scraped with a small iron piece to create a fire.
Even if it is just fished out of the water...but..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang took out a lighter from his pocket and said:
"If you have a lighter in your pocket, then this thing is for use. Look, how fast the lighter is."
As he spoke, he put the lighter close to the pine branch and clicked it, and the pile of still wet pine branches suddenly burst into fierce fire. The pine branches and pine needles, which contained moisture and oil, exploded in the fire, and sparks crackled.
Jump to the sky.
Fourteen Princess saw a fire suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, suddenly woke up, and said anxiously:
"Xiaoqiang! The Soviets are on the other side! They will be discovered!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang helped Fourteen Gege get closer to the fire while cursing:
"Grandma, if you find it, you'll find it! They don't have a boat, and they don't have bubbles, so they can't swim over it anyway! If we take a detour, we can't get around these mountains and mountains in less than two hours! The problem now is not whether people will discover it, it's us
Don’t freeze to death here first.”
Fourteen Gege was held close to the fire by Xiang Xiaoqiang. Feeling the warmth rushing towards her face, she immediately squinted her eyes and showed an extremely comfortable expression, like a cat lying in front of the fireplace.
Xiang Xiaoqiang also lit the fire and enjoyed the warmth. He felt that he had never been so comfortable since he was born.
…
The two hugged each other and enjoyed the warmth of the bonfire. Suddenly, their eyes were staring straight ahead, and then they sat up all of a sudden.
Xiang Xiaoqiang also followed her gaze and saw many light beams swaying in the forest on the other side of the lake, and he could faintly hear people shouting in the distance.
"The Russians! They finally found where we were!"
"They found us too!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang hugged Shi Shigege and comforted:
"Don't be afraid, they won't be able to get through..."
"Whoosh——!"
Before he finished speaking, a bullet passed over his head and hit the pine tree behind him with a "pop", causing sawdust to scatter. Two seconds later, a faint gunshot floated over and echoed back and forth in the valley.
"Holy shit!" Xiang Xiaoqiang fell to the ground pressing the fourteen squares and cursed, "Damn it! Aren't they trying to catch someone alive? Damn it, you can't keep your word!"
Fourteen Gege said calmly:
"I'm warmed up. What about you? We can't stay here any longer. Let's leave quickly."
"That's right. We still don't know the scale of the Soviet attack this time. Is it a small-scale provocation or a large-scale attack... If it is a provocation, we can escape down the mountain and be saved... If it is a large-scale attack..."
"If there is a large-scale attack," Fourteenth Gege said coldly, "Dihua will probably become a battlefield by now."