This is a fatal choice.

However, at that time, no one in the third squadron of the first squadron knew about it.

Going along this open mountain road full of gravel, the road becomes narrower and narrower. After a kilometer, the original road completely disappeared, replaced by dense bushes and virgin jungle.

But even so, no one in the third class raised any doubts.

In military decisions, one mistake will always be superimposed on another, resulting in irreparable losses in the end.

In the field of survival, the most terrifying thing is the impact of the environment on people. Therefore, if you want to survive in the harsh conditions of the field, you must have a strong willpower.

Once the willpower is lost, people will have various negative emotions due to the influence of harsh environmental conditions and a large amount of physical consumption, the brain will become dull, and even hallucinations will occur, resulting in errors in judgment.

The same is true of people who survive in the desert, who often experience hallucinations due to extreme thirst and then see a mirage, step by step towards death.

Under the siege of exhaustion, hunger and thirst, the third class at that time had made the wrong choice, and they chose to continue to drive forward.

This has indeed happened in the past few days. Often the route marked on the map is right, but there is a dense bush and jungle in front of you. After crossing in the correct direction, you will find another open world in front of you.

Therefore, all the students thought that as long as they passed through this dense forest, they might find the right path later.

But this time, no one guessed the ending.

The bushes and dense forests seemed to be endless blocking the way of the third shift, which made Xu Yuan, the leader of the team, have to take turns to open the way in front of the team.

Cutting down the bushes to open the way takes more than twice the normal amount of energy.

Everyone's body is like a sponge that is squeezed to the limit, and the water turns into sweat and seeps out from the pores.

The air in the bushes in summer is very sultry, and everyone is bent over, the bark shavings fall off their collars and get into their bodies, and then get stuck with sweat, making it unbearably itchy.

With less water, people are getting closer to the brink of collapse.

There is no doubt that if the road is still this difficult, if the water source is still not found, the entire class will be dragged down.

I don't know how far I have traveled, and finally someone couldn't help but ask whether this is the way.

Xu Yuan, who had already been riding a tiger, was already a little irritable at the moment, and shouted at the questioning students: "If you don't want to follow, just go by yourself, there is only one way, you have the feeling to find another way yourself!"

Everyone is silent again...

The team moves on...

This is a wrestling of wills. As long as the spirit is relaxed a little, the will of a person will completely collapse.

Sweat soaked the clothes, everyone looked at the sweat dripping from the corners of the clothes, and wanted to catch it with their hands and drink it more than once.

Liu Xiangdong walked at the back of the team, and his kettle still had the last bit of water, less than 10%.

so thirsty...

He unscrewed the lid of the kettle, first moistened his mouth, and an incomparably sweet and bitter feeling penetrated his internal organs. He couldn't help but drank all the water in one gulp.

"Water! Water!"

The students in front suddenly shouted excitedly.

This sound like the sound of nature came, and the students went crazy. The people who were lagging behind all rushed forward like arrows. Some people tripped over the vines and got up and rushed up.

This is a spring on the side of a mountain. Although the water that emerges is not large, a small mountain pool two or three meters wide and more than one meter deep has been flushed out under the rock over the years.

Everyone threw away their gear, jumped into the pool, drenched their heads with water over and over again, buried their heads in the water, and raised their heads until they couldn't hold it any longer.

Water, the source of life.

The third class, who had rested by the spring, was full of energy again, and everyone forgot the question just now—whether this road was the correct marching route.

People are often like this. When they taste the sweetness, they will easily ignore the most important issues.

When we set off again, no one except Liu Xiangdong thought it was a wrong route.

After advancing for about a kilometer again, a cliff blocked the way of the third class.

On the correct route on the map, such a feature would appear without a marker at all.

Everyone finally remembered to do the map positioning again. This time, everyone finally found that the surrounding terrain was completely inconsistent with the terrain on the correct marching route!

At this time, they had deviated from the correct route by a full ten kilometers.

Everyone panicked, and once again gathered around and spread out the military map for careful backtracking and inspection.

Only then did they realize that everything had gone wrong from the stone-paved road into the valley.

That road is not a road at all, but the gravel that has been washed down by the rain for many years on both sides of the mountain.

In determining the direction and choosing the path, there was only one Liu Xiangdong in the entire class who pointed out the correct answer.

The mistake started at the mouth of the valley with the wide road, and the correct route was to cross an inconspicuous contour line along the right northeast at a 30-degree angle. From the pile of The road passes through thick bushes and thatched hillsides...

Topography is just like that.

At this time, the students were completely speechless. Xu Yuan and Chen Bin were squatting on the map and facing each other, no one could come up with an idea what to do.

They face a dilemma - go back or go forward

Disputes broke out in the team again. Most people supported Xu Yuan and Chen Bin’s proposal, completely abandoned the original marching route, and used backpack straps on the **** next to the cliff to lower the person over a ten-meter **** before choosing another shortcut. Proceed to the meeting point.

The reason is that if you start from the current fixed point, taking a shortcut is only 10 kilometers away from the meeting point.

A few supported Liu Xiangdong's proposal. Go back to the original road first, pass the water pool to replenish drinking water, then return to the intersection of the valley where the initial mistake was made, and then follow the original correct marching route to the meeting point, from the current position back to the valley intersection 10 kilometers, from the valley It is 20 kilometers from the intersection to the meeting point, a total of 30 kilometers.

One side is 10 kilometers of shortcuts, and the other is 30 kilometers of returning to the original point and starting again.

Those who support Chen Bin and Xu Yuan are in the majority.

"You can't customize your own routes, you forgot what the instructor said not to take shortcuts! Look!"

Liu Xiangdong hurriedly spread out the map, pointed to the route proposed by Xu Yuan and Chen Bin, and said, "Although the distance to the north will be shortened from here, it will take three mountains to reach the meeting point, two of which are 600 meters above sea level. Above, one of them may still have a cliff, you look at this contour line..."

He pointed to a mountain on the map. According to Xu Yuan and Chen Bin's route, he had to pass there, but the contour lines on the north face of the mountain were quite dense, which meant that the **** was quite large, and it looked like a cliff!

Xu Yuan disagreed and said: "If we turn back from here, we have to walk 30 kilometers, which is three times as long as taking shortcuts. If we go this way, we must be the last class to arrive at the meeting point. Let's not talk about how others laugh at us, our own. The results must be ranked last in the whole team, I can't if you want your results to be the last, I still say that, if you don't want to go, go back and follow me and Chen Bin!"

Liu Xiangdong's position was once again opposed to Xu Yuan and Chen Bin. More than a dozen students stood there and looked at each other for a long time...

Chen Bin said, "I agree with Xu Yuan's statement, we just replenished the water, as long as there is water, we can break through!"

Xu Yuan stopped talking, tightened the gun on his rucksack and said, "Let's go!"

Chen Bin followed closely.

The best-trained trainees in the two classes took the lead, and the others finally faltered.

Then one student, two students, three, four...

Liu Xiangdong looked at their figures gradually moving away, sighed deeply, and followed slowly.

Two and a half hours later...

On the mountain ridge, the ten students in the third class holding a machete could not accept the facts in front of them-they worked hard and worked hard to finally climb over the three mountains in front of them, only to find that the last A mountain is really as Liu Xiangdong said, the north of the mountain is a huge cliff!

Now, although it's only 5 kilometers from the brigade's rendezvous point - that's the distance shown on the map.

However, everyone looked at the smooth and vertical cliffs and the dense bushes below, and knew that they had no way to go down from such a high place to the bottom of the valley.

Chen Bin was holding a hatchet, and the surface of the knife was stained with some turquoise sap. His wrists were a little hot, and the muscles in his elbows were trembling slightly. In the past few hours, they had chopped down countless trees in front of him. And Vine, he encouraged everyone again and again, at this speed, we will soon reach the brigade assembly point!

But this time, he couldn't give everyone any more motivational words, everyone was the squad leader in advance, facing such a smooth cliff, without professional rappelling ropes and tools, the possibility of success is almost zero.

The students who were sent to scout the terrain on both sides brought back depressing news - this mountain has not been passed for a long time, the trees and shrubs have grown into a natural barrier, and there is no path at all~www.mtlnovel. com~ If you have to go down from both sides, I'm afraid it's easy to have an accident.

There is only one way, turn back!

Xu Yuan subconsciously touched his kettle. The weight is very light, and there is only more than 10% of the water in it. From the first time I made a wrong judgment at the mouth of the valley, to the decision to customize the route and take a shortcut to the brigade assembly point, the entire three classes have advanced about 15 kilometers on the wrong route.

They completed this difficult journey with endurance beyond ordinary people. From the morning to the present, after nearly ten hours of continuous forced marching, everyone's will has reached the critical point of complete collapse.

From the moment they decided to take a shortcut, they had no way to retreat. Everyone was like Xiang Yu who broke the boat and broke the boat. They kept cutting down the trees and vines across the mountains of the forward route, and kept climbing some steep and huge rocks. Tell yourself that the meeting point is not far away, and give yourself a boost.

But the reality is always cruel, and military training without gunpowder smoke is equally ruthless. God made a huge joke with them-adventured over two mountains, only to find that he was walking on an absolute path that could no longer move forward!