My Little Poplar - Chap 75
the next day before dawn, they were all set to go.
The latest tip off revealed that the group had split up to avoid detection and they had to divide into three teams. The four men from Bai Xinyu’s dormitory, all with Huo Qiao’s team, had infiltrated the Kunlun Mountains without a trace.
It is just the beginning of winter, the snow is not yet thick enough on the Kunlun Mountains, the paths are not difficult, there are still exposed rocks in places but the temperature is not at all unpleasant, the cold is gnarly.
At the border between China and Afghanistan, there are seven connected villages, it is a region whose name is not even blocked on the internet, all kinds of fish cross the border from the Kunlun Mountains, terrorists, smugglers, smugglers, drug traffickers, poachers, miners, almost all have to supply or trade here, there is no law there, it is a local tradition passed down over thousands of years, the inhabitants’ rules are the same as those of the other countries. It is an awkward area, the reason why it has not been cleared, apart from respect for the indigenous folklore, is that it has an ulterior motive.
Crossing the border is inherently dangerous, the terrorists could not have crossed the Kunlun Mountains with truckloads of supplies on their backs, most would have had to be resupplied secretly in one of these villages and their task, to find the group and kill them. But finding them was not easy, these villages were all sparsely populated, sometimes a kilometre from each other and without roads or electricity, finding them in such places was akin to playing guerrilla in the snowy mountains, not to mention the fact that they only had the faces of a few of them.
They had been walking for a day, when it suddenly started to snow.
Bai Xinyu looked up at the sky and exclaimed: “The first snow of the year.”
Huo Qiao took a long breath and said, “Oh dear, I want to write poetry again.”
Chen Jing said with laughter: “That’s enough, Lieutenant.”
Huo Qiao winked and said, “What’s wrong, I’m not a writer and a martial artist.”
Bai Xinyu thought of Huo Qiao’s sappy poems and laughed: “Lieutenant, to whom did you write those poems?”
Huo Qiao “Tsked”, “It’s a sentiment, it’s not necessarily for anyone.”
Bai Xinyu laughed and said: “Just say you don’t have a girlfriend.”
Huo Qiao kicked him in the ass and said, “What do you know, I’ve given my time to the country, who has a girlfriend here? Who has a girlfriend here? Take them out and shoot them.”
The men burst out laughing.
Yan Shaozhen laughed and said: “Lieutenant, what do you like? I’ll introduce my sister to you?”
Huo Qiao said with a wink, “Do you have a picture of your sister?”
Yan Shaozhen points to himself, “She looks just like me, is that convincing enough?”
One of their team, nicknamed Baldy, immediately came over and said, “Little Swallow, don’t give her to the Lieutenant.”
Out on a mission, they couldn’t call each other by their real names, they all needed a nickname, Chen Jing was called Little Sergeant, Yu Fengcheng was called Little Yu, Bai Xinyu’s was awkward, Little Princess Bai, he couldn’t remember, he couldn’t think of anything else. He couldn’t remember which one of them had given him his nickname to the Snowleopard team.
Yan Shaozhen pushed his face away in disgust and said, “My sister doesn’t want to see you.”
The crowd burst out laughing again.
