“Slacken the rope! Slacken the rope!” Longhawk, whose eyes were staring at Ye Jian’s figure, said without turning his head back, J5 and the others immediately loosened their grip on the rope, so Ye Jian could advance.
Fine sounds could be heard from the roof of the truck as if an extremely light-footed animal was moving slowly on top of it; the carriage that had been stable the entire time was suddenly vibrating extremely subtly, alarming everyone who was sprawled inside the vehicle, causing their pupils to constrict drastically.
“…is it a snow leopard?” Someone spoke out hoarsely, the originally dainty voice was trembling and seemed like her sails had broken, and asked the soldier next to her with a face filled with fear, “This place, do snow leopards frequent?”
Mazar Pass was a huge natural wildlife zoo; familiar beasts around here were wild yaks, goas (Tibetan gazelles), wolves, snow leopards, etc. And only wolves and leopards prowl during the night, and normally wolves could be heard howling.
Right now, their surroundings were extremely quiet; they didn’t hear any wolf howls, that’s why they were wondering if it was a snow leopard.
“It’s possible, nobody move, keep sprawling. I’ll try knocking on the glass and check whether or not the driver has regained consciousness.” The person seated in the innermost section were the Aid Command Leadership, they had plenty of experience going into Tibet, that’s why, when they regained consciousness and discovered the carriage was hanging on the edge of the cliff, whenever they noticed Someone had woken up, they immediately reminded them to maintain their original stance and not move, to prevent affecting the carriage’s balance.
The Aid Command Leadership who had been flung to the inside carefully raised his arm; he picked up his carry-dagger and gently knocked on the glass that was heavily frosted over; he didn’t dare put too much strength behind it, before, when he tried to use a bit more strength, he could feel the carriage had clearly tilted down a bit and had frightened everyone inside to sweat a layer of cold sweat.
A dagger knocking on the thick ice was hard to let the driver hear anything. He was leaning towards the steering wheel, so it would be even harder for him to hear it; the Aid Command Leadership knocked on a few times, and suddenly the carriage trembled, shocking a few soldiers who had fallen asleep to jolt awake.
“Don’t move! Nobody move!” A Tibetan soldier reminded the two jolted awake male Art troupe soldiers. After noticing the female soldier who had been flung with him to the side was so nervous her body was trembling, he couldn’t help but console quietly, “It’s okay, it’s okay, we had pulled through seven hours, we just need to wait till sunrise, the supply stations’ personnel must have cleared the road, then we’ll have gotten out of danger tomorrow.”
“Ma Min, don’t move! Be good and stay by big brother Gong Ga’s side!” The female soldier who was quite close to the tailgate said quietly, her hands gripped tightly onto the foldable seat’s iron footrest, the sparse hair strands on her forehead had turned into hard ice, her sweat had wetted her hair as it froze and turned into ice.
In the entire vehicle, she was the only one closest to the tailgate, thank goodness the carriage went horizontal before being swept off the cliff, she rammed into the other side of the carriage, and rammed hard back into the vehicle, and was spared the disaster of being flung out the truck.
“Jia Yi, don’t talk, hold on tighter!” Ma Min cried hoarsely as she reminded her comrade, the girl who was similarly sprawled on the ice-cold carriage felt like her chest had no warmth, even the tone she was speaking in was extremely stiff, “There are movement on top of us, it’s possible a snow leopard has come.”
Snow leopard?
Du Jiayi’s alarmed pupils constricted, her teeth couldn’t help but shiver, “…Not for certain; it could also be our rescuers. Leadership, please stop knocking on the glass; let’s listen for movement. How is our instructor’s situation? Is he better?”
“I’m still good, Jia Yi, talk less, Ma Min is right, you’re in the most danger now.” The instructor, who was one of the Aid Command Leadership, spoke quietly; when he was flung in the truck, his right arm had bashed into the foldable seat, and it still felt extremely painful, and it was very likely he had fractured a bone.
