My historical mission 1

When I returned to our carriage, Fatty was talking to Lao Hu. It seemed that he was making Lao Hu happy. I sat down and said to Lao Hu, Brother Hu, if you really don’t want to go to the snow mountain, you can go to the military camp at the bottom of the mountain. Wait for us there. Professor Chen and I will take a walk.

Lao Hu said, you can't go either, it's too dangerous there. You don’t know, I was a soldier here. At that time, a comrade and I drove a truck to transport supplies. When we were pulling the supplies back to the military station, there was something wrong with the truck. We got out of the car and saw that it couldn’t be repaired. Because we were very close to the military station, I said I would go back to find someone and asked my comrades to wait in the car. Before I left, I saw a small beetle with fluorescent lights flying over. My comrades looked at it. I caught the bugs and put them in the bottle because they looked good. When I came back, I didn't find any of my comrades. I only saw traces of a human figure being burned on the snow. Only the burned backpack and shoe soles were left there, and the bottle he had filled with morning snacks was shattered on the ground.

We guessed that it was the bug that set my comrades on fire. This incident has always appeared in my nightmares, making me not want to step into the snow-capped mountains again.

While Lao Hu was talking, Shirley Yang's voice came from the carriage door."Lao Hu, I saw the bug you mentioned from an adventurer's notes." That kind of bug is called rotting firefly. I thought it was just a legend, but I didn’t expect that there really is such a thing. What nonsense are you talking about? I have actually seen it.

I interjected and mentioned that I have also heard of the rotten fireflies, also called Dap ghost bugs. They make a living by eating carrion corpses. Because they eat too many corpses, the phosphorus in the corpses accumulates in their bodies, leaving them with a large amount of of phosphorus. It can also emit bioelectricity, and can instantly release a high temperature of 2,000 degrees, causing everything it comes in contact with to burn.

If we could get some protective clothing for firefighting, it might be able to block it for a while. Professor Chen said at this time that I would contact the local fire brigade about the protective clothing, and asked Comrade Hu to rest assured. I told Professor Chen, Uncle Chen, please go back and I will talk to Brother Hu.

After everyone left, I said that I had brought insect repellent before Brother Hu came. This medicine is effective against all bugs, and its smell can scare the bugs. I think that since Roying is also an insect, it should be useful to him.

Brother Hu, don't you always want to avenge your comrades? We may have the opportunity to completely eliminate this insect, so that those who come to serve as soldiers in the snowy mountains in the future will no longer be threatened by this insect. Maybe I can. Do you want to give it a try? Again, if you really don’t want to face it again, then you and the fat man can stay in the military station. We also need people for logistics, and no one will say anything if you stay.

Lao Hu lowered his head and said nothing more. He needed time to overcome his psychological problems.

After getting off the train, someone from the army that I had contacted before came to pick him up and took him directly to the military station in a truck. The company commander and Professor Chen at the military station said that there will be a heavy snowstorm in the weather forecast recently. If you can't go up the mountain in these two days, you will have to wait for at least half a month. Shirley Yang was very anxious and didn't take much rest. She decided to set off the next day. That afternoon, the fire brigade delivered protective clothing.

Early the next morning, led by three People's Liberation Army soldiers, we headed for the snow-capped mountains.

As soon as we walked out of the military station, Lao Hu caught up with us. He told us, I will go too. I will not look at that devil again and I will feel sorry for my dead comrades....

I patted Lao Hu on the shoulder and told us to face it together. There is no difficulty that is too difficult for us to overcome.

Soon we reached the edge of the crack in the snow mountain. The big man in the People's Liberation Army said that we need to leave two people up there to serve as radio contact stations. He left behind a soldier, and our archaeological team left behind a little girl named Ye Yixin.

After fastening the safety rope, Hu Bayi and I told Hu Bayi that we should go down first to explore the road. No one else had any objections, so the two of us tied on the safety ropes and rappelled down below. Chu Jian from the archaeological team saw how easily we went down and said,"It looks pretty easy." If I had known, I would have gone down first, the fat man said politely, you go down first, don't look at how easy it is for them to go down, you can try it later, if your legs don't shake when you go down, I think you are good. The fat man is a bit afraid of heights, and he doesn't really want to go down there, but the thought that there might be a treasure down there keeps him wanting to go down there.

Lao Hu and I soon reached the bottom of the cliff, and when our feet touched the ground, we took the flashlight and shined it everywhere. While I was still looking around, Lao Hu called Xiao Bei, come and take a look, there is a body here. I walked over and saw a foreigner wearing work clothes. Lao Hu stepped forward and rummaged through the man's bag. In addition to some tools, there was also a pistol. Lao Hu said to me, can you tell how he died? I walked up and said, let me take a look, then took out the medical gloves from my backpack and put them on. Just when I was about to step forward to check, Shirley Yang and Fatty also came down. He saw what we were surrounding and walked over. She took one look and said, the clothes this man is wearing are the uniforms of my father's expedition team. I ignored him and just stepped forward to inspect the body. While inspecting, he said that there were no obvious external injuries and no signs of poisoning. Judging from the degree of freeze-drying of the body, this person had been dead for at least two or three years. Because the temperature here is low, the body did not rot. Judging from his expression, he must have been severely frightened and died of a heart attack.

After I finished the inspection, I turned around and saw that everyone had come down. Several people from the archaeological team were supporting each other. It seemed that the rappelling had put a burden on their bodies.

Lao Hu said, what could scare a grown man to death? I shook my head and said I don't know. Come on, let's go inside and take a look.

Everyone walked forward in a row, Lao Hu and I took the lead, followed by Fatty and Shirley Yang. As he walked, Lao Hu said to me, Xiaobei, you can also perform autopsies. I smiled and said, Brother Hu, the many anatomy classes I took when I was in college were not in vain. You've seen a lot of corpses on the battlefield, and I've seen a lot of them in medical school. We walked in front and knew that the fat man walking behind was making a joke again. He looked at the mica shining all over the mountain bank and wondered if it was very valuable. He wanted to get a few pieces and take them back. Shirley Yang saw it and laughed at him, saying that if he wanted to make money from mica, he would have to bring several tons back with him. The fat man made such a big fuss that he hated Shirley Yang even more, so he walked from the back of the team to the front and walked together with Lao Hu.

People from the archaeological team who lived there discovered petroglyphs on the rock cliffs. They all stopped to take photos for future study. At this moment, Chu Jian suddenly said loudly that Miss Yang was missing. I looked at the back of the team, and I really didn't find Shirley Yang. I knew she was fine, so I told everyone, you guys go to the front and take a rest while I look for her. Lao Hu and I walked back. After walking for a while, we saw Shirley Yang. Miss Yang, where have you been? Shirley Yang said, I saw she was very beautiful over there and went to take some photos for a social assignment for the magazine. Not to mention, I also forgot that Shirley Yang also has a magazine photography job.