The transfer team walked for six days, and six days later, a group of people arrived at a snow slope.
"Uh, isn't this still a mine?"
Wu Ke looked at the mine in the distance. With his excellent eyesight, he could see the guard soldiers wearing Ursus uniforms standing on the ice brick wall built around them. One of them even held a long barrel in his hand. The telescope is looking here.
"It's a mine, but it's the mine of our guerrillas. Our base is hidden in these mines in the snowfield, together with the mines in Ursus."
Wu Ke understood. This was an operation where wood was hidden in the forest and water was dissolved in the sea. No wonder a guerrilla group with only a thousand people was able to fight guerrillas in the snowy fields for more than ten years and still has not been wiped out.
Everyone stopped on the snow slope, and a black armored shield guard took out a black flag that was very conspicuous in the snow environment, and began to raise the flag towards the mine in the distance, and the people at the mine in the distance also Start using the same flag and then respond with semaphore.
"This is?"
"In order to ensure that the people inside are indeed our people, our guerrillas use different flags every time they go out.
The only people who know about it are the three flag bearers inside. They are old friends who have followed me for many years and are people who can be absolutely trusted. "
Bodrokas explained for him, he waved his hand, moved the team and moved on.
It's a dead horse to run in Wangshan, but it's not much different to walk in Wangshan.
The snow here is extremely deep, and Wu Ke was directly covered by the snow up to his waist and abdomen while walking in front of him to clear the way.
Although the snow was not much resistance to him, Wu Ke was afraid that the rope in his hand would be broken by himself, so he floated up and kept the front of the snow scooter behind him slightly above the accumulation. The condition of the snow surface.
"Is your base like this?"
"This is not our base area, it is just a transit place for our guerrillas. The thick snow here is intentional. It is a special terrain that was specially selected to form quickly."
"The purpose is to allow enemies who may discover this place, even if they do discover its location, the companions in the mine can take advantage of the environment to gain time to evacuate here."
"Evacuate? Isn't this a snow valley?"
The mine over there is built against a raised snow mountain.
From Wu Ke's point of view, there is a road on the side they are walking on now, and the others are steeper mountains.
"We dug a tunnel inside the mountain."
Bodrokas explained.
"All right."
Wu Ke understood that this guerrilla group had already mastered the principle of a rabbit twisting into three holes.
"But do you have to do this every time, walking back through the snow?"
"No, we usually use a snowmobile to paddle across."
"Eh?"
"But this time with your snow groomer here, there's no need to use that strenuous method."
Bodrokas followed behind the boy. The heavy equipment caused him to step on the compressed snow, and he would still sink into the snow a little, about the crook of his calf.
But others don't have the same weight as him. When walking on these compacted snows, compared to the ground, although there is still a slight difference in foot feel, it is not much different.
The snow scooter Wu pulls is a magical snow machine.
It took more than an hour from seeing the mine to arriving at the mine.
After arriving here, Wu Ke was taken in directly by Bozhuokas, while the miners were left outside.
They have to sort out the materials they brought here, and then accept the resettlement of the mine here. In short, they are assigned accommodation.
"This is just a place where they live temporarily. At night, our people will also ask those people if they are willing to join the guerrillas. Those who are willing to join will be taken to the real base area."
"For those who are unwilling to join, have other ideas, and want to leave here and live a new life, we will also help them and let our partners take them out of here when the next material transaction comes."
"If you let people go like this, aren't you afraid of being discovered by the enemy?"
Wu Ke was a little strange.
"Who can find the way in this vast white snowfield?"
Bodroka asked instead.
"I can, eh!" Wu Ke thought carefully about the distance they walked in six days, and suddenly realized with some surprise: "You actually took us and turned back for a while."
"..."
Bozhuokasti did not expect that he would actually meet a guy who could find his way on the vast white snowfield. They walked together along the way, and he was sure that the other person had never flown into the sky at all.
"At least, you are one of our own now and will not lead the way."
"But others don't have the same abilities as you!"
That's all Bozokasti could say.
The boy's temporary residence was arranged next to his own residence.
. . . .
At night, the mine here became lively. In addition to the group of miners they brought here, there were originally miners from other mines here.
Wu Ke mingled among the crowd and listened carefully to the conversations around him.
"Are you a little grizzly?"
"yes."
"Where did you originally come from?"
"Blagovi."
"What a coincidence, I am also from Blagovi's side."
"Hey, fellow?!"
Scenes like this where fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, with tears streaming down their faces, don't happen too much here.
During the conversation, Wu Ke discovered that the fellow villagers here would talk to the new miners about whether to stay or leave.
"We are the ones who choose to stay here. Although the environment in the snowfield is difficult, it still makes us feel safer here than the outside world that we don't know what it has become like."
"indeed."
"However, if you choose to stay but not join the guerrilla fighting team, you will still have to do mining."
"Ah, do you still need to dig when you come here?"
"Everyone here must make a contribution in order to have food. It may not necessarily be mining, but mining is the most important thing that can be done. If you work, you will get something, and if you don't work, you will not get it. This is the decision of the leader. rules."
"..."
After learning about these things, the new miners showed different attitudes on the surface.
Wu Ke listened quietly. Although he heard the words about asking people to dig mines, he knew that the guerrillas themselves had a difficult life in the snowfield.
However, there is nothing wrong with the principle that those who work must be rewarded and those who contribute must be fed.
However, he still had to hear more about the specific situation. Whether the guerrillas were a Zhenshan organization or a Huang Shiren organization depended on their attitude towards the infected miners.
Soon, there were people who wanted to stay and asked about the specific situation inside.
"Can we have enough food and clothing here?"
The inquiring miner was uneasy.
"Of course, we can. This is not the mine that oppresses and enslaves us."
The bear-eared man who answered patted his chest and assured.
"Everyone here is like a real family. We help each other. We are warmly dressed and not hungry. Don't worry."
The new miners were relieved, and Wu Ke nodded in his heart, but some still chose to leave.
"My wife and children are not infected. When I was caught and came to the mine, my youngest child was only two months old. I have to go back and see how they are doing..."
People who choose to leave more or less have their own difficulties, which is completely understandable.
“You have to think about these things in advance, the team for trading supplies will be here in a few days.
At that time, those who want to leave will have to follow that team. If they miss it, they will have to wait until the next team arrives, which will take a long time. "
The guerrillas gave everyone the freedom of choice, but it seemed that the miners who were transferred here were not allowed to leave here at will.
In addition to the reason of confidentiality, there is also the fear that miners who leave alone will die on the snowfield if they cannot get out of the snowfield.
Bodrokas had told him this kind of thing when the guerrillas first started operating in the snowfields.
At that time, when it came to dealing with the issue of rescuing the miners, the guerrillas' attitude was that they could stay or go as they pleased, and for those who chose to leave, they would provide some supplies and then let them leave.
But the result was that either some miners were captured, and the main force of Ursus found the location of the guerrillas through them, and then a battle broke out, resulting in a lot of losses.
Either some miners were unable to get out of the snowfields at all, and were killed in the snowfields by the harsh environment around them. Their frozen bodies may still be buried under the deep snow to this day.
Yelena and other mining children are crowded together. It is difficult for them to have the right to choose. It is not that they cannot make choices, but that they are a group of orphans who have lost their parents.
If they choose to leave here, no one can take care of them outside.
Neither can the guerrillas. The guerrillas do not have this capability.
However, there were some adults who wanted to leave and expressed their willingness to take care of Yelena if she wanted to follow her.
But these invitations were all rejected by Yelena. The rabbit-eared girl did not want to leave the side of her friends in the mine.
"I think it is difficult for us to survive in the outside world. I want to stay here and join the guerrillas."
Yelena spoke her mind.
"But if you don't work, you won't get anything. If you work, you will have food to eat. And we are just children, so what can we do?"
asked one of the children, a recently orphaned man whose father had died in an execution that had been prevented.
"Although we have little strength to move the ore, we can still do it if we move it little by little." said a child.
"Besides, we can also do cleaning chores." Another child added.
In the mines, these children who have lost the protection of their parents will also be enslaved to work. In the past, the guard soldiers in the mines would guard against the adult miners, but for the younger children, they were ordered to clean their own rooms. It couldn't be more suitable.
"This should always be easier than the original mine."
The dinner, which was like a country dinner, was about to end. The black-armored shield guard who had presided over public trials and shoveled snow stood up and explained the situation of the guerrilla leader's departure and stay on behalf of Bodrokas.
As a result, one-third of the people chose to leave here, and two-thirds planned to join the guerrillas. However, among the two-thirds who planned to join the guerrillas, only a small number volunteered to join the combat team.
. . . .
Three days after the transfer team arrived at the mine, a team transporting supplies appeared outside the snow slope.
After a period of gaudy and incomprehensible waving of flags, and after confirming that it was one of his own, Wu Ke saw the correct operation of entering the mine here.
I saw the group of people put down a large board, and people stepped on it and supported it with poles. If it was a single person, it should be able to achieve the effect of skiing, but if it is like carrying heavy supplies, it has to be like this Do.
. . . .
The leader of the supply team was a middle-aged man named Notenora. After politely paying a courtesy visit to Bodrokasti, he started talking to the snow shoveling shield guard who was following Bodrokasti.
After being taken to the open space where the ore was stored, he was a little surprised by the amount of ore this time: "The amount of unrefined ore seems to be a lot. Did you bring back all the unrefined ore from a certain mine?"
"Yes."
The Snow Shovel Shield guard did not explain the detailed process, but only confirmed the other party's question.
"We didn't bring enough exchange materials this time. We plan to convert the extra supplies into supplies next time. Is that okay?"
"Can."
After a short conversation, hard currency such as source stone ore began to be loaded onto the transport truck that had unloaded various materials.
This team of about a hundred people took a temporary rest in the mine for a night. Early the next morning, they returned with the exchanged source mineral materials, together with the miners who wanted to leave.
Wu Ke monitored the mine for one night. Although the guerrillas did not conspire with the other party, he was worried and followed the team quietly after they left.
Of course, before leaving, he and Bozhuokasti had greeted each other. The old man was very calm and said that he could understand.
"Outside of the snowfield, the intelligence our guerrillas have is limited. Although I know the person behind this team, he is not a bad guy.
But I just knew that this team would transport those who left with them to the nearest village and drop them off.
As for what will happen to the people who are put down, I have no way of knowing. You can help me find out. "
This was the first official task Wu Ke got after joining the guerrillas, and it was a smooth process: to find out what happened to the miners who left!
. . . .
"Although we will take you out of the snowfield, we will only take you to some villages on the edge of the snowfield. As for going elsewhere, or even leaving the northern border of the empire, you have to find a way on your own."
"Of course, if you need some help, I will help you as much as possible, but this help is not free."
"As miners, although you have no personal property, the guerrillas should have distributed some necessary supplies to you when you left.
Our caravan is willing to purchase those things at a price higher than the market purchase price, and then convert it into money for you. "
