After Staff Officer Chu finished speaking, the lieutenant company commander surnamed Duan next to him nodded, and then lifted the curtain out of the tent and went to find clothes.

Li Xiaodong was slowly drinking hot tea, while thinking about what Staff Officer Chu had just said in his heart, he thought for a while, then raised his head and asked, "How many times have you met those savages you mentioned?"

Staff Officer Chu replied: "I have met twice, and there are a few that I can't tell, and as far as we can see, there are at least four savages of different sizes. ”

Li Xiaodong nodded and didn't ask any more.

He had just arrived here, and he was not very familiar with the situation here, so it was better to pay attention and observe than to ask some innocuous questions.

Before it was time to sleep, Staff Officer Chu accompanied Li Xiaodong out of the tent and walked around the camp.

There are more than 20 tents in the whole camp, large and small, including tents for officers and soldiers to rest, tents for field hospitals, tents for logistical support, and tents for researchers and special areas for scientific research.

"Who lives in that area? a journalist or an international organization?" Li Xiaodong asked, looking at that direction.

"No, it's not journalists, they're all scientists from the United Nations Organization of Biological Organisms, they've been here two months ago, and they've stayed here since they were attacked by savages and caused heavy casualties. Staff Officer Chu replied.

"Won't you go? Why? They still want to explore the wild people?" Li Xiaodong felt in his heart that the wild people who haunted this place must have some kind of mysterious connection with the Ghost Sorrow Organization, and everything that will be discovered here should be included in the top state secret, and there should be no irrelevant outsiders involved.

"Their work to find the wild people is already a secondary goal, and their main goal now is to save people. One of the female researchers in their team was abducted by the wildlings during the wildling attack, and they wanted to find her. Staff Officer Chu said.

"I can understand the feeling of wanting to rescue the missing people. But this kind of thing should be done by our soldiers, don't they understand such simple rules?" asked Li Xiaodong.

"It's not that they don't understand, it's that they don't believe us. I talked to them many times and wanted them to go back and wait for news of our rescue, but their person in charge said that in order to save their researchers, they had to track down the wild man who attacked them, and when it came to their ability to search for wild people, they were more professional than us, so they refused my advice and refused to leave. ”

Li Xiaodong frowned slightly, and Staff Officer Chu further explained: "Their actions here are authorized by the United Nations, and we can't forcibly expel them, so the superiors are also very troubled by their arrogant attitude......" He lowered his head slightly, and continued: " A few days ago, they also transferred a tactical team from the United Nations base in South Korea to specialize in anti-chemical and anti-terrorist warfare, and they broke away from our protection and carried out search and rescue operations alone. ”

After hearing this, Li Xiaodong thought in his heart that he would rather transfer a search and rescue team from South Korea than rely on a ready-made search and rescue force, and he did not know what the composition of this research team belonging to the United Nations biological organization was, they were not only arrogant, but also arrogant.

Accompanied by Staff Officer Chu, Li Xiaodong went around and several tents were empty, and sure enough, as Staff Officer Chu said, the people inside never came back, and all of them stayed in the depths of the jungle.

The next morning, Company Commander Duan brought a soldier over early in the morning, delivered clean toiletries, and brought a set of half-used camouflage training clothes for ordinary soldiers.

Changing into training clothes that are convenient for movement, Li Xiaodong moved his hands and feet, feeling much lighter than wearing a military dress, and the Chu staff officer on the side saw it in his eyes, picked up the military dress he took off and said: "Colonel Li, the military rank on your shoulders should be changed." ”

This camouflage uniform was borrowed from a certain soldier, and the rank of private on his shoulder was still there, so it was obviously inappropriate for Li Xiaodong, a colonel officer, to carry the rank of private on his shoulder.

But it's a pity that there is such a thing as a military rank, which is matched according to the clothing.

For example, the officer dress like a small suit, the matching military rank is a hard military rank, with a metal five-pointed yellow star on it, which is often used in formal activities such as reading and awarding medals, and camouflage training clothing, its matching military rank is a soft military rank, the five-pointed yellow star on the military rank is not a metal texture, but a print-like embroidery pattern, and the wearing method of the two military ranks is not the same, if you want to forcibly mismatch different styles of military ranks on different styles of military uniforms, there will be jokes.

Li Xiaodong came over and wore this set of officer uniforms, and there was no extra soft rank for camouflage training clothing, so he waved his hand and said to the kind-hearted Chu staff officer: "Forget it, there is no need to change the military rank." I wore such a set, there is no other rank, private will be private. ”

"......" Staff Officer Chu hesitated for a while, feeling that it was inappropriate, but Colonel Li didn't mind, and he didn't say anything more.

Fortunately, many of the officers and soldiers in the entire camp had already seen him, and they would not make a joke about the colonel as a soldier. Besides, with him and Company Commander Duan always by his side, there should be no embarrassing scenes.

After breakfast, Staff Officer Chu specially invited Li Xiaodong to go up to the top of a mountain and use a telescope to observe the terrain where wild people had been encountered in the distance.

Staff Officer Chu pointed to a tall snow-capped mountain in the distance and said, "At the foot of that snow-capped mountain, there is a river canyon, and that is where the United Nations research team was attacked, and it is also the place where we first met the savages. And in that deep canyon, the air is humid, the temperature is very high, and there is a thick fog all year round, a poisonous fog. If we are to continue to move in that canyon, we must wear gas masks and hazmat suits. ”

Li Xiaodong put down the binoculars, nodded, and said, "In which direction is their team moving?"

Staff Officer Chu still pointed to the snow-capped mountain in the distance and said, "It should be at the foot of the back of that snow-capped mountain." I contacted them last night, they were on this side of the snowy mountain, and they said that they would go to the back side of the snowy mountain this morning and go to the bottom of the valley on that side to investigate. ”

At this time, a signal soldier hurriedly ran over, saluted and said: "Report to Staff Officer Chu, in the direction of Snow Mountain, they said that there is an important situation to contact you." ”

(End of chapter)