Chapter 33: Walking through the desert day and night
During the day, I hid through the desert at night, and the clouds were dark, the moon was dark, the wind and sand were evil.
They have been lost in the desert for five days.
Ever since that day, they fled to the depths of the desert and finally got rid of the pursuers, but they were about to face a more difficult situation than the Rouran cavalry.
In the real world, those adventurers are neatly equipped and walk in the desert, and more than half of them are still buried in the vast desert.
Not to mention they have nothing now.
In just five days, more than one hundred casualties were killed, half of the horses were killed, and if there was no water source, they would drink horse blood and eat horse meat without food.
Chen Chu tried every possible way.
The sword is hung to get water, covering the helmet and distilled, but the water obtained in this way is still a drop in the bucket.
Fortunately, there are many ways to make fire. Chen Chu watched the video of survival in the wild before, only made fire bows, and used those dry shrubs to make fire.
Even so, on the tenth day, their number was only thirty.
Food is one aspect, and the lack of medicine and harsh environments are the biggest problems they face.
Sandstorms, diseases, injuries.
The seriously injured soldier refused to drink water and eat horse meat. After Chen Chu forced him to eat it, he woke up the next day and all the people disappeared.
There were no Rouran people, and even beasts that were seen.
They left on their own.
Chen Chu sat dejectedly on the yellow sand. When he learned that the soldiers were leaving, Chen Chu was so crazy that he wanted to find them back.
But she was knocked to the ground by Mulan.
"How to find it!" Mulan roared with her chapped lips, and blood could still be seen on it. This is horse blood. "The desert is so big! Can you come back after you go? In order to let us live for a few more days, they took the initiative to exile themselves in the desert. This is how you repay them?"
Chen Chu was on the ground with his back on the sky, and the scorching sun seemed to be ruthlessly mocking them: "Twenty thousand people! We came out with 20,000 people! It's gone!" Chen Chu covered his eyes with his hands and screamed in sorrow, his eyes full of blood: "I'm useless, I'm dead, the soldiers die, I can't do anything."
Mulan has known Chen Chu for ten years and this is the first time she has seen Chen Chu like this. No matter what difficulties she encounters on weekdays, Chen Chu will face it with a smile, as if nothing can stump him.
During the first military town construction, Chen Chu was thinking about a way to break through. When everyone felt desperate, Chen Chu was the light of dawn.
Faced with the death of his own soldiers and the serious casualties of the soldiers, Chen Chu was only lost for a while, but soon recovered and continued to join the next war.
But now, Chen Chu is collapsed.
Seeing one person after another who could call his name but could not call his name, in order to keep himself alive, he put all the food and water stolen from nature in front of him, and walked towards the boundless polishing without saying a word, and finally disappeared on the other side of the sand dune.
"General Chen, you are the one I admire most in the army. I can recite your glorious deeds like a stream."
"General Chen, why do you know so much? It would be great if I could be like you."
"General Chen, you are so educated, please help me name my son. My fiancée is still waiting for me to go back in the village. If I go out of the desert this time, I will get married and give birth to a big fat boy. I have never read any books, and I don't want to name my child like the villagers, Niuwa, Goudan, etc., please think about it."
"General Chen"
One comrade after another flashed through Chen Chu's mind. At first, he was very angry. Who said he couldn't get out of this desert! We want to walk out of this desert together!
But later, one person shrank and disappeared into the night in the darkness. Chen Chu now only had numbness and self-blame.
Fifteen days.
The number of people continued to drop sharply, leaving only seven people.
These are all lucky people who were not injured in the war, but even so, they would not be able to do so.
By last night, all the horses had fallen.
Those who died of thirst, those who starved to death, and those who were killed by them.
All the food they could eat was roasted into jerky meat and put it on their body, their lips were full of cracks, and their hands and feet were not spared.
The tongue coating turns white, and when eating dried meat, it starts to bleed as soon as it bites.
If it were normal, it would have been a mouthful of saliva and blood to the ground.
But at this time, even such a trace of his own blood seemed to have become a life-saving holy water.
My mind began to become dull. A few people fell on the sand dunes without saying a word, got up and continued walking, not knowing where the road ahead was.
"Sir, there seems to be water in front of you." Suddenly a soldier shouted on the hill, running down excitedly, but felt that he was running too slowly, so he lay down and rolled down.
Chen Chu shook his head: "It's probably a mirage again." But he didn't say it, there was no water, maybe they would reach their limit tomorrow morning.
"Let's go and take a look." Chen Chu said in a hoarse voice.
Mulan also knew in her heart that their chances of encountering an oasis were too low.
He climbed up the sand dune with his hands and feet, and Chen Chu suddenly rubbed his eyes.
"Mirage?"
Chen Chu walked down a little further, but found that the scene in front of him still existed and there was no change.
A mirage is a refraction caused by the rise of hot air. Generally speaking, the viewer will see different places up and down more than three meters, and the picture will disappear or change.
But Chen Chu did not see any changes.
That means.
"It's really an oasis?" Chen Chu felt a little incredible, it was simply a road that would be boundless!
Sure enough, my own protagonist template!
Chen Chu led his men to the oasis, running wildly, while Chen Chu was scared. What if he had read it wrong? What if he could never reach this place?
All the questions in his heart disappeared the moment Chen Chu touched the water with his trembling hands.
Everyone was cheering, holding the water in both hands and drinking!
Chen Chu quickly stopped him: "No, drinking this kind of water will kill people!"
Then they worked together to find dry firewood, and when they came back, they started the fire. The group watched the water in the helmet in front of them boil little by little, and they didn't dare to come out, for fear that they would blow out the fire in one breath.
Boil the water and let it cool down. Although there are still many impurities in it, it is much better than drinking it directly.
A moment of hell, a moment of heaven.
That night they camped by the water, saying that they were camping, but in fact they were lying down on the spot.
After eating jerky meat and drinking water, they slept the most stable sleep since they entered the desert.
A soldier is responsible for the night watch and then switches to others in the middle of the night.
But it is inevitable that you will doze off even if you are vigilant.
Chapter completed!