Chapter 43: The First Special Task (9)

  Dong Li Mao opened his round, red-rimmed eyes just as the truck was about to collide with the train head. He leapt out and landed on both feet, doing a forward roll before tumbling into a ditch filled with muddy water. His body was completely submerged in the water, so he held his breath and buried his head deep in the ditch. A deafening crash shook him, making his eardrums ache, and his body swayed back and forth in the water as a wave of heat washed over his back.

  Gu Hao and Xu Hongming jumped off the car without getting hurt. They quickly ran to the middle of the steel tracks from both sides of the railway, just in time to see the truck and train collide. They thought Li Yuanyuan and Dong Limao were finished. Gu Hao's eyes welled up with tears, despite having only recently met Dong Limao and not being close friends. However, he had a deep, unspoken respect for Dong Limao, not because of gratitude for being promoted from a partner to an instructor, but because of a genuine admiration for another man. Before this mission, Gu Hao was unsure what kind of person the company commander was, but after this mission, he felt that he had not misjudged him. He couldn't believe that such a good company commander could be gone just like that. He stood there in stunned silence for a long time before shouting out: "Company Commander..."

  "Miss Li! That's Miss Li! She's still alive! Haha... she didn't die..." Xu Hongming saw the figure of Li Yuanyuan standing in front, seemingly Li Yuanyuan was alive, extremely important to him, and excitedly shouted: "Miss Li...", rushing towards Li Yuanyuan.

  Gu Hao heard Xu Hongming excitedly shouting and laughing, wiping away tears with his sleeve, looking forward to see Li Yuanyuan stumbling and running forward, as if chasing after something.

  Li Yuyuan also thought that Dong Limao had driven the car into the train and they had both perished, but she was unwilling to accept this fact. At the same time as the truck and train collided in a fierce explosion, she crawled up from beside the tracks, dazed and disoriented, not even noticing the wound on her knee that was bleeding from the impact, shouting "Jiacheng..." as she rushed forward.

  Just as Li Yuanyuan was about to rush into the raging flames, Xu Hongming grabbed her from behind and shouted: "Dong Lianchang has already died for his country..."

  Dong Li Mao and others finally couldn't help but lift their heads, panting heavily, just in time to hear Li Yuanyuan's shout. He shook his hair, crawled out of the ditch, slipped and fell, then got up again, looking towards the location where the train and truck collided. All he saw was a huge fire burning after the explosion, with long tongues of flame spewing out with the wind. He also saw many people on fire along the side of the train, wailing and dancing wildly. It was a small train with only two cars, seemingly used by the Japanese devils for short-distance troop movements.

  Dong Li Mao looked at the Japanese devils covered in flames and burst out laughing. He wiped the mud off his face with his hand, spat out a mouthful of muddy water he had sucked into his mouth, and muttered to himself, "Damn it's exhilarating!" After that, he walked towards the railway tracks, just in time to hear Xu Hongming say something to Li Yuanyuan. Dong Li Mao shouted loudly, "Who said I died for my country? I'm still alive and kicking!"

  Li Yuanyuan heard the voice of Dong Limao coming from behind, and with a joyful surprise, she shook off Xu Hongming's arms, which were also stunned, and rushed towards Dong Limao.

  "Jia Cheng, you're still alive! Hehe...... I thought you......" Li Yuanyuan rushed into Dong Laimao's arms and burst into tears.

  "I won't die!" Dong Li Mao hugged Li Yuanyuan tightly, turned his head to see Gou Hao, and shouted: "Gou Hao, go take a look if there are any more living devils, wipe them all out for me!"

  "Yes! Comrade Long! Wipe out all those little devils!" Gou Hao saw that Dong Li Mao was still alive and could hear his orders, so he felt great, picked up the submachine gun and rushed over.

  Xu Hongming stared blankly as Li Yuanyuan rushed into Dong Limao's arms, a strange flame of jealousy burning within him.

  "Mr. Xu, you're on the left, I'm on the right..." Gu Hao reminded him as he saw Xu Hongming spacing out.

  "Oh, okay!" Xu Hongming turned around and ran quickly to the left.

  "Sister, there's no time! We have to hurry up! Blow it up before the bacteria are transported away!" Dong Li Mao forcibly pushed away Li Yuanyuan who was tightly hugging him.

  "Ah, it shouldn't be far from here, ah..." Li Yuanyuan said as she took a step forward, but her left knee suddenly felt a sharp pain and almost fell over.

  Dong Li Mao supported Li Yuanyuan with one hand and asked, "What's wrong? Are you hurt?" He squatted down, saw that the left knee was still bleeding, and decisively tore open Li Yuanyuan's torn pants. He used a cloth strip to bandage her wound: "How is it? Can you still walk?"

  Li Yuyuan took a few tentative steps forward and said, "It should be fine, just a flesh wound, didn't hurt the bone, let's hurry up!"

  At this time, the carriage was constantly transmitting explosive sounds, as if the ammunition on the carriage had exploded.

  Those little devils who escaped from the carriage and were still alive were solved by Gou Hao and Xu Hongming like targets with guns.

  Dong Li Mao and Li Yuanyuan had nothing left on them except for a few hand grenades and a handgun, only one military knife remained.

  "Mr. Xu, please take care of my sister, Gu Hao, come with me!" Dong Li Mao had to rush for time, otherwise, that batch of bacterial bombs might be taken away. Looking at Li Yuanyuan's struggling appearance, he could only make such a decision.

  "You all go, don't worry about me!" Li Yuanyuan replied with a wave of her hand.

  "Maybe I'll stay behind and accompany Miss Li, we might encounter devils on the road." Xu Hongming hastily said to Dong Limao, as if worried that Dong would change his mind.

  "Sister, Mr. Xu is right, if we encounter devils on the road, it's good to have someone to take care of each other, don't worry, I and Gou Hao are enough." Dong Li Mao said, then he and Gou Hao ran forward along the railway together.

  "Commander, what are we going to find?" Gu Hao asked, following behind Dong Li Mao.

  "Bacterial weapon!" Dong Li Mao replied. He didn't need to hide it anymore, and this might put Gou Hao on guard.

  "What is a bacterial weapon?" Gou Hao didn't know about these new tricks.

  "A tiny invisible bug that can make people sick and die." Dong Limao said simply.

  "Is it worse than fleas?" Gou Hao thought fleas were the most vicious little bugs, because when he was in death row prison, they drove him crazy all day and night so that he couldn't sleep soundly.

  Dong Li Mao burst out laughing and slowed down his running speed, waiting for Gou Hao to catch up. He then patted him on the back of the head and said: "No matter how fierce fleas are, they can't kill people, but bacterial weapons can silently kill you in your sleep, and you won't even know how you died."

  "My goodness! So fierce!"

  "Of course, otherwise why would we take the risk of destroying the bacterial weapons?" Dong Li Mao added another sentence with some concern: "If you see something in an iron can, don't touch it no matter what!"

  "How can we destroy it then?"

  "Bacteria are afraid of fire, we use fire to burn!" Dong Li Mao accelerated his running speed, he liked playing soccer in high school and had good physical strength and speed, no problem running 7-8 kilometers at a stretch, didn't think it would be useful here.

  Gu Hao stopped talking and closely followed Dong Li Mao, he was a martial arts practitioner with explosive strength, but after running for a long time, he still felt a bit exhausted, which made him even more admire Dong Li Mao.