My Little Poplar - Chap 61

The canoes soon reached the other side of the river, already lagging behind, they had no time to rest or eat, they had to press on and a run of some seven or eight kilometres awaited them.

Da Xiong panted as they walked, “If I hadn’t taken a rest in the car, I wouldn’t be able to walk now.”

Bai Xinyu said breathlessly: “I feel more tired after the rest, my feet hurt more…”

Chen Jing said: “Because the pain was numb before, now the muscle soreness is coming out.”

“Are we really going to make it…” Liang Xiaomao sighed: “What if we get to the base and find out we’re still out, then what.”

No one said anything, because no one wanted to answer that question, after all this exhaustion and pain, what if we still failed, what would we do? What else could be done but accept it but no one would give up now until the final result was known, even if they had to crawl to the end.

After dawn, the patrol helicopters reappear and surround them from the sky, they have no time to dig for cover, they have to run through the trees, dodging bullets through the trees. The helicopter was flying very low, the blanks were hitting the trees they were hiding in, lifting a bit of bark, the thumping sound was frightening, they couldn’t got out of cover, they had to follow the angle of the helicopter around the trees, they would have been stuck here forever, burning up time.

“Shit, can’t we just kill them? Do any of you have any bullets left?”

There was silence, Yu Fengcheng and Chen Jing, the two in charge of the assault, had run out of ammunition early on, Da Xiong and Liang Xiaomao were also out of ammunition, finally, Bai Xinyu said: “I I still have half a clip.”

Chen Jing said: “Can you hit it?”

Bai Xinyu looked up slightly, the bullet hit the tree immediately, he pulled his head back quickly, gasped, “The distance is about 400 metres, I’m… I’m not sure.”

“You can hit it.” Yu Fengcheng said in a quiet voice: “You tried to hit the bullseye at 500 metres.”

Bai Xinyu gulped, “But that’s not moving, this…”

Yu Fengcheng looked at him and said, “I’ll draw the sniper’s attention, you shoot.”

Bai Xinyu immediately said: “No, you’ll get hit for sure if you go out there.”

“This is a waste of time, I’d rather take the risk.” Yu Fengcheng took off his backpack and said, “Listen, I’ll throw it out now, it’ll draw the sniper’s attention for half a second, if I’m lucky he’ll shoot at it, that’ll give me another half second, then I’ll run to the tree next to me, draw him to shoot at me, I’ll give you 3 or 4 seconds. I’ll give you 3 or 4 seconds, you have to aim and hit the target.”

Bai Xinyu’s eyes widened and his voice was unsure, “Yu Fengcheng, what if I don’t hit and you… What if you get hit.” He had never been tasked with a heavy responsibility before, nor had he developed the courage to take responsibility, he was usually confident in his sniping ability but that was just confidence from shooting at dead things and comparing himself to other soldiers, asking him to shoot a sniper with a gun in a helicopter and to do it all in three to four seconds, he just didn’t have it in him. If it was his own success or failure, the point was that the first time he took on such a task, it was directly related to whether Yu Fengcheng would be eliminated, Yu Fengcheng risked being shot as a decoy, if he failed, how would he face Yu Fengcheng? He remembers what Yu Fengcheng said, let’s not be that “What if” but what if… They looked at each other through the trees, Yu Fengcheng saw clearly the timidity in Bai Xinyu’s eyes and said, “Bai Xinyu, look at me.”