Li Yifei has been on several missions here, and he is quite familiar with the environment here, and knows that the most dangerous thing here is not necessarily snakes and insects, not necessarily the changeable environment and poisonous insects, but mines hidden underground, without a trace, all kinds of mines, plastic mines, anti-infantry mines, and so on.
Especially plastic mines, the validity period can reach 20 years, and the war is now, not only half has passed, there are still decades of validity period, the entire border, countless villagers have been brutalized, Li Yifei remembers that when he first went out on a mission, he passed by a village, the whole village had a hundred people, but there were less than a hundred legs, many men and women had only one leg, some had two legs blown off, and even a few years old children had their legs, arms, and eyes damaged, and there was a deminer at that time. was rescued from the mountain by Li Yifei and several other teammates.
The deminer accidentally stepped on a mine during the voluntary demining, and one of his legs was directly blown off, and his eye was blinded by shrapnel, and there were even more than a dozen shrapnel in his body, which have not yet been taken out.
These deminers are all villagers from nearby villages, many of them are spontaneous, the land is the foundation of their survival, and this land is full of dangers, if they do not eliminate them, then their sons and daughters will be killed and injured, rather than let their children face the danger at any time, they would rather face the danger themselves.
After Li Yifei finished his mission, he also helped the villagers in that village to clear mines for a day, and together with his teammates, knocked out more than 800 mines of various kinds in one day and cleared mines from several mountains.
There are so many mines in a few small hills, and there are also countless mines in the countless mountains and hills along this long border.
Danger is everywhere, Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan did not carry modern investigation equipment, relying entirely on Li Yifei's experience and observation, and the speed of travel is okay.
The two of them crossed the two mountains, and they saw a person, a very old woman was moving forward with both hands and feet, the sudden appearance of this woman startled Xu Shanshan, standing behind Li Yifei, looking at this woman vigilantly.
The old woman's face was very scary, one eye seemed to be gone, only a terrible scar, half of the face was also twisted together, and what was even more terrifying was that the old woman only had one leg and only one leg of the other, and her left hand was gone, only the part above the wrist.
No wonder she had to crawl in this mountain forest instead of walking normally.
Xu Shanshan's heart was beating a little fast, she had no intention of showing hostility, but a woman like a female ghost suddenly appeared in this dense forest, if Li Yifei hadn't been by her side, she would have screamed in fright.
Li Yifei was not afraid, after he saw the other party clearly, he knew what was going on, in this mountain, there are many people who are worse than the old woman, but there is no village in front of here, and there is no store in the back, how could the other party come here Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan said a word, and then walked over.
The old woman's remaining eye could only open a little, she turned over, sat up, looked at Li Yifei approaching, and said in a hoarse voice: "People outside, this is not where you should come, it's too dangerous, turn around and walk back."
It was spoken in Huaxia, although the accent was a little weird, Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan understood it.
"Old man, thank you for the reminder, we know that there are a lot of mines here, so we will be careful."
Li Yifei walked over, took out a bottle of mineral water and a piece of bread from his bag, handed them to the old man, and at the same time squatted down and asked, "Old man, why do you want to be in this mountain forest, I'm afraid there are big beasts here." ” On the way, Li Yifei saw wild boar feces and traces of destruction, and even saw the footprints of some kind of feline, and the fight with the tiger that he and Prince Sashar had said happened in southern Xinjiang.
Not to mention a large beast, even some small animal is enough to kill such an old man.
The old man did not refuse Li Yifei's kindness, the hand behind her back was withdrawn, and Li Yifei saw a bag, a little tattered, as if it was sewn from some kind of animal skin, with a few things exposed, a machete, a wooden-handled axe, an old shotgun, and a few gadgets.
No wonder the old man dared to stay alone in such a place, if she didn't have a weapon to defend herself, any random animal that appeared could kill her.
Xu Shanshan saw the old man revealing his weapon, and hurriedly walked over and explained: "Old woman, we have no malicious intentions, you" The old man grinned, looking a little hideous, and said hoarsely: "I know that you have no malice, otherwise you won't give me food, and I have no ill will towards you, because I am only here to clear mines." ” Hearing the word demining, Li Yifei was in awe of the old man, Xu Shanshan also squatted down, and asked with some curiosity: "Old man, how do you clear mines like this, I don't mean that, I mean, you are not in good health, and the work of demining is still handed over to young people, otherwise you yourself are also very dangerous."
The old man smiled a little miserably, and said: "Heh, there are no young people anymore, my wife and son are one, and they will live for a day, and if they die in the mountains one day, they will be buried by others, just with my old man and son."
It turned out that the old man's wife and son were killed by a mine in the mountain, the wife was to clear the mine, did not pay attention to the foot, accidentally stepped on a trigger mine, did not find it, so after the touch, it was directly exploded into pieces of meat, and the son was because of the mountain farming, a pickaxe went down, directly on the mine, triggered the explosives, when the rescue was returned, there was only one breath left, the transportation in the mountains was not convenient, did not wait for the hospital, the old man's son also died.
The old man was in great pain when he lost his husband and son, and at the same time hated the mines in the mountains to the extreme, so he asked people for advice on how to find and dismantle mines, and then went into the mountains and forests with his tools.
The neighbors didn't persuade her, but the old man was even more stubborn, and directly said that even if I drained one at a time, then the children in the village would be less dangerous.
With the increase in the number of mines, the old man's experience has become more and more proficient, and thousands of mines have been lined up over the years, but once when he was clearing, he encountered a situation where two mines were juxtaposed, an ordinary mine above, and a trigger mine below, the old man thought that there was no danger and was ready to clear the mines, but as soon as he touched the mine, the trigger mines below exploded, and the old man was directly blown up like this.
A few days later, she was found and rescued by the people in the village, and raised her for a full year, the old man has no income, and now she relies on relatives and neighbors to help, as well as a little money given to her by the state every month, the money is not much, not enough for the old man to live on his own, this must be because she has no disease.
After recuperating from the injury, the neighbor persuaded the old man to stay at home after all this, and if he continued to toss, he was afraid that he would not live long, but the old man became more stubborn, she said that even if she crawled, she would continue to clear mines, so that the children in the village would not be disabled in the future, and they would not lose their lives at any time.
The scope of demining is getting bigger and bigger, at first the old man can walk around the village with one leg, go out in the morning, go home at night, and then the range is far away, the old man may go to the place, it will take most of the day, so he can only take Yu Liang, a few days into the mountain, and this, often need the old man to eat and sleep in the mountains and forests.
Whether it is facing a beast, a poisonous snake, or a mosquito and poisonous insect bite, the old man has to face it himself, and she is a disabled person Li Yifei also saw that the old man was carrying the broken bag, and there were already several mines that had been discharged, plastic, triggered, conventional, several, and the fuses had been dismantled by the old man.
She is not a soldier, she is not a government worker, and theoretically she has no obligation to go into this kind of deep mountain to clear mines, and after being bombed like this, she can let go, but the old man still insists, this time she has been in the mountain for four days, the old man does not go out of the mountain today, and must go out of the mountain tomorrow, otherwise she will have nothing to eat, and there is no food in the deep mountains, which is a desperate situation for her.
The old man did not refuse Li Yifei's food, a piece of bread quickly went down, drank half a bottle of water, Xu Shanshan couldn't bear to take out another bag of compressed cakes and a bag of beef from the bag, and put them in the old man's hand.
The old man didn't refuse her kindness, but just smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Thank you, you two are good people, so don't go to the mountains anymore, it's really not fun in there." ” "Thank you, we know, otherwise we will send you out first," Li Yifei said.
The old man shook his head and said: "I am full, I have the strength, you can go out by yourself, if you must go in, then hurry up, the mountains and forests during the day are much safer than at night, if it is night, don't walk around, the demons in this mountain have harmed too many people." ” The two nodded again and again, and the old man stuffed the food that Xu Shanshan handed her into the broken bag, sorted out the contents of the bag, tied the mouth of the bag, and slowly climbed down the mountain.
Li Yifei couldn't bear it, but even if he sent the old man to his home, he couldn't help her all the time, so he chased after him, pulled out a knife, and cut a cane for the old man, hoping that after she climbed to the road, she could walk back.
The two kept watching the old man's figure disappear, and the old man would not keep climbing, but would crawl forward with both hands and feet when he had no strength to walk.
"Let's be careful" Xu Shanshan took Li Yifei's hand and said with a complicated mood, until this time, after listening to the stories told by the old man and seeing the old man's appearance, Xu Shanshan realized that it was really not fun here, it was really very dangerous.
Li Yifei nodded, let go of Xu Shanshan's hand, looked up at the sun, and said, "We can still walk for two hours, strive to go out for a distance, and stop and rest when we are done." ” t1706231537: