Chapter 12 Earthquake
Luo Ning suddenly thought of something and leaned over the stone wall and yelled to me, “Comrade Xiao Hu, the glory bomb!”
The rest of the people thought at the same time, yeah, we still have a grenade left, has not been used, at the moment it is loaded in the big man’s armed belt, Chinese-made standard wooden handle grenades are waterproof, some soldiers stationed at Qinghai Lake often use grenades to blow up fish in the lake, just now, although all the people fell into the water, but the grenade should not be affected by the moisture. Thanks to Luo Ning’s reminder.
The big man pulled out the grenade: “Old Hu, catch it.” It was thrown at me from the top of the incline.
I hurriedly took the bayonet across my mouth, took a swipe with my right hand, caught the grenade, pushed off the safety cap with my thumb, opened my mouth to throw away the bayonet, bit down on the pull ring, and the grenade’s fuse was ignited, giggling and emitting white smoke.
I looked down to the big mouth of the king salamander, threw the grenade in, the king salamander where to know what the grenade is, see the black whirring fly over, according to its usual hunting habits, with a long tongue a roll swallowed into the mouth, bang a muffled sound, the grenade exploded in its mouth, the king salamander’s body although the epidermis of the hard, but the skin and flesh of the oral cavity is very soft, this time it blew its head from the inside to the outside of the thinly disguised, fell to the bottom of the stone wall. The head of the salamander was blown to pieces from the inside out, and it fell to the bottom of the rock wall, its huge body twisted a few times, and it died on the rocks by the river with its white stomach.
I let out a long breath, my whole body was drenched in cold sweat, just now I did not feel afraid, but at this time my hands and feet were weak, and when I looked down, I felt dizzy.
Suddenly the mountain wall shook violently, the water of the underground river burst, the air was filled with the smell of sulfur, and a wave of heat rushed up from below.
The volcano under the riverbed began to move, and it happened so suddenly that the crowd was caught off guard and nearly fell. Scrambling up a gentler slope, they sat down to catch a few breaths, stunned, but saw that the vibrations under the ground were getting more and more violent, and the volcanic rock piled up into the mountain wall could collapse at any time.
Luo Ning said there is not necessarily a volcanic eruption, look at the situation should be just the periodic activity of the volcano, the time of this cycle of activity is uncertain, there may be a few days once, there may be a few hundred years and a few thousand years before it happens once. Volcanoes are also divided into many kinds, the common kind of inverted trumpet chimney-shaped volcano is a large-scale eruption after the formation, there are also some volcanoes, although it is not a dead volcano, but tens of thousands of years has never erupted, it has been deeply buried in the ground, and occasionally vibrations will occur.
But no matter how many years it is active once, we are considered unlucky, just in time. Would like to look for the exit along the underground dark river, but the river below are boiling, go down to become a pot of boiled dumplings, it seems that the next is not down, is at a loss, Ga Wa tugged at my clothes, pointing to the top for us to see.
A few hundred meters from the top of the head, there is a thin white light, I see the eyes blurred, eyes a sting, what is that thing? Is it another long-extinct creature?
Luo Ning was pleasantly surprised, “It’s the sky! It’s the sky!”
The shaking of the underground volcano produced an earthquake, and the earth above me cracked open, it’s been so long since I’ve seen the sky outside, I’ve almost forgotten what the sky looks like, is it blue or white?
I said to the rest of the people, “Comrades, it’s really heavenly, stick to the end is victory, for the sake of the new China, forward!”
Originally already exhausted four people, suddenly saw the hope of escaping from life, flat earth born of infinite strength, dragged open two legs, swinging round arms, desperately down the slope to climb up.
Below the vibration sound more and more intense, heat wave, strong smell of sulfur choking people’s brains, we are worried that the cracks and earthquake shocked closed, everyone wants to go out the faster the better, all in the forty-five-degree steep slope to make a hundred-meter sprint strength.
The more up the volcanic rock is more broken, some of them are like sand, it’s hard to get a foothold, climbed up three feet, and fell back to two feet, the skin on the hands are worn off, but also can not care about the pain, clenched his teeth, and even stirrups with a planing, five or six hundred meters high, as if the Long March through the snow-covered mountains as difficult, in all the physical exhaustion, and finally back to the ground, the blue sky and white clouds, the mountains on both sides of the rolling hills, we climbed up to where the place! Is a section of the Kunlun River Valley, is also the lowest altitude in the Tibetan Plateau in the area, from the first class “Frozen Springs” military station, only a few kilometers away.
Luo Ning physical strength can not, Ga Wa foot injury, the two of them in the last minute fell behind, I can not rest, hurriedly and the big man to the two people on the body of the armed belt load-bearing belt strung together, hanging down to let the Luo Ning them pull.
Earthquake more and more violent, this more than a meter wide crack may collapse at any time, Luo Ning and Ga Wa can only hold on to the belt, affected by the underground vibration, step on a step to slide down a step, even half an inch can not climb up.
The big man and I used all our strength to pull upward, but no matter how strong two people are, it is impossible to pull them up at the same time. That’s when Ga Wa let go of the strap and held Luo Ning hard from below, and with us pulling from above, we pulled her up through the crack in one fell swoop.
By the time I wanted to throw the strap down again to save Ga Wa, a violent tremor came and the earth closed in again, with Ga Wa squeezed alive in the center.
At a low temperature of twenty degrees below zero, our coats and hats had long since disappeared, and the three of them forgot about the cold and wore only thin clothes while crying and digging futilely with their hands and bayonets into the sand and gravel on the ground ……
Three days later, I was lying on the bed in the military hospital, the chief of staff of the military region held my hand and kindly condoled: “Comrade Xiaohu, you have performed bravely this time, on behalf of the military commission I would like to express my condolences to you, and I hope that you will get well soon, and make a new achievement on the road to revolution ah. How is it? Are you feeling okay now?”
I replied, “Thank you for the chief’s concern, I’m still ……… still …… still …… still …… “I want to say okay, but when I think of those comrades who have left me forever, Xiaolin, Ga Wa, instructor, second squad leader, this “good” word held in the chest, never be able to say.