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The war of the mercenaries

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By DannyMoxPublished 4 years ago 12 min read

The body was constantly being thrown up and then pulled back into the seat by the seat belt, looking out of the window, only to see the lightning at all times, all that could be heard was the sound of heavy rain beating the fuselage of the plane and thunder, and the plane was at least twenty years old broken things, these let Gao Yang for the first time for his decision to come to Africa felt regret.

The broken plane, caught in the deadly weather, Gao Yang felt that his twenty-three years of life might have to be accounted for here.

Surprisingly, Gao Yang didn't panic much, but just tried to figure out where he was now, or which place he was over, he now felt that even if he was going to die, he had to know where he was going to die.

Gao Yang turned his head to ask the guide sitting next to him if he knew where they were now, but Gao Yang immediately dismissed this idea, the guide next to him was desperately crossing his chest, hissing and praying, so Gao Yang thought it was better not to disturb people.

Only twenty people can sit in the cabin at this time has long been chaos, all into a frenzy, two at the beginning to comfort everyone hunting company staff, at this time crying louder than anyone else.

At this time Gao Yang is the most calm one in the entire cabin, but Gao Yang's calm did not last long, fear, despair, regret, all kinds of emotions together, especially after thinking of his parents, Gao Yang finally involuntarily also began to cry.

What Gao Yang fears most now is not the impending death, but how his parents will be able to bear the pain of losing him after his death.

When death is near, time seems to pass particularly slowly, long enough for people to look back on their lives, at this moment Gao Yang personally verified this statement, his twenty-three years of experience, a scene, like a movie flashed in his mind at this time.

When Gao Yang remembers his life in remorse, the plane's altitude is getting lower and lower, and finally after a huge shock, the plane plunged headlong.

As the lights in the cabin violently went out completely, Gao Yang struggled to curl himself into a ball, clasping his hands behind his head.

After a terrible bang, Gao Yang slammed into the front seat, the impact made him dizzy, his shoulders and belly were pulled by the seat belt seemed to be disconnected, almost made Gao Yang back out of breath.

Gao Yang's eyes were closed, but the sharp pain, followed by the coolness that submerged him, made Gao Yang immediately realize that he was now in the water.

Out of instinct, Gao Yang immediately held his breath, and after a few more moments, Gao Yang realized that he was not dead, the plane, crashed into the water, and what he should do now was to immediately leave the plane and go to the surface.

Gao Yuan opened his eyes, although it was still very dark, but with the bright light of the lightning, but Gao Yang was able to vaguely see the situation under the surface of the water.

The plane had broken into two sections, and the crack was right above Gao Yang's head.

Gao Yang's first reaction is to unbuckle the seat belt, but Gao Yang but how can not touch the buckle of the seat belt, time by time, in Gao Yang is about to hold his breath when he suddenly remembered that the guide around the waist, is hanging a hunting knife.

Gao Yang stretched out his left hand, first touched the guide's arm, and then felt down a few times, finally touched the knife handle.

The knife was pulled out and the seat belt that bound him cut off, Gao Yang resisted the urge to immediately float, reached out and felt around the guide, trying to cut off his seat belt, but the first time Gao Yang touched the guide that only half of the head left, Gao Yang immediately gave up the intention of saving people, reached out and pulled out the life jacket from under the seat, stretched his feet and floated to the surface of the water.

Floating to the surface, after a long breath, Gao Yang immediately put on the life jacket, a pull on the rope on the life jacket, feel the life jacket in the rapid inflation, Gao Yang let out a sigh of relief.

No one expected that the plane flying over the land would end up crashing in the water, so that no one on the plane put on a life jacket for themselves.

Gao Yang is grateful that he did not forget to tug on the life jacket at the last minute, and is glad that the life jacket is still intact, but what to do next, Gao Yang is a little confused.

The water is still stormy at the moment, although it is daytime but dark as night, coupled with the water on the surface of the rain stirred up the splash, simply can not see where is the shore, so that Gao Yang wanted to choose a ground ashore also do not know where to swim to.

Gao Yang some panic, randomly to a direction and began to swim hard, but he soon found that he kicked his legs in each time, the right knee will be painful, and, even with a life jacket to provide buoyancy, he did not have the strength to swim.

In desperation, Gao Yang stopped trying to swim to the shore, intending to float on the surface first to rest, until this time, Gao Yang found that he was being pushed by the turbulent current.

The water was flowing, which means it was in the river and not the lake, which made Gao Yang relaxed a lot, he felt that as long as he rested, and then drifted downward with the current while swimming diagonally to the shore, with a little effort, he should be able to get to shore.

The new discovery made Gao Yang slightly relieved, and then he found himself holding a knife in his hand, but Gao Yang knows the importance of a knife in the field, naturally refused to throw the knife away, but holding the knife in one hand, and affect his swim to shore, a little hesitation, Gao Yang risked the risk of being cut by the sharp blade, the knife into the ji belt, and then the belt tightened up.

The next thing Gao Yang could do was to take a break and try to dock, but Gao Yang didn't rest for long before he heard an ominous rumbling sound.

Gao Xiang strained his neck to take a look, and then he was horrified to find a large water fog not far ahead.

There is water mist, indicating that the front is either a waterfall or a dangerous beach, and these places are fatal for the current Gao Yang.

After a hateful curse, Gao Yang paddled desperately to get to shore before the danger arrived, but his current strength is really unable to fight the increasingly turbulent river.

Finally, Gao Yang was swept under a waterfall, but the waterfall is not very high, Gao Yang was just slapped into the water choked a few mouthfuls of water, but when Gao Yang dizzy head from the water again after surfacing, found that he could see both sides of the river.

Unfortunately, the fact that he could now see the banks of the river was not good news for Gao Yang, because it meant that the river narrowed violently and the current was even more turbulent, and the narrowed river was full of reefs, and the turbulent water slapped against the reefs, making the whole river full of deadly obstacles.

Gao Yang at this time completely ignored the pain in his right knee, hands and feet, desperately trying to avoid the reef, after several difficult dodging, his luck finally ended, Gao Yang hit a large reef heavily, and then blacked out, completely fainted.

I don't know how long he was unconscious, but after he finally opened his eyes, the severe pain in his body and the feeling of powerlessness brought about by his extreme weakness made Gao Yang feel as if he was better off dead.

When Gao Yang's consciousness was slightly awake, he found himself less than four or five meters away from the river bank, and the river bank is very gentle, it is easy to get to the shore, but the most critical thing is that under Gao Yang's feet, has touched the soft mud at the bottom of the river.

The survival *, let Gao Yang do not know where to come from the strength, hands and feet, struggling to crawl to the shore, after his upper body lying on the shore, and rest for at least half an hour, before finally completely on the shore.

When Gao Yang completely on shore, has been as tired as a pile of mud, the key is that he is now not only tired, but also very hungry, very very hungry.

Gao Yang knew that although he survived the plane crash, but the danger is far from gone, this is Africa, in the African wilderness if eaten by any beast, is never on the news, because this kind of thing is too common.

Gao Yang observed the environment and found that he was in a typical savanna, an endless grassland dotted with tall trees, the sun was close to the horizon, but Gao Yang could not distinguish the direction at this time, so it was impossible to tell from the position of the sun was morning or afternoon.

After a brief look, Gao Yang tried to move his body, then he found that his physical condition is not as bad as he thought, although his right knee still hurts, but the bones are fine, it should only be a contusion, in addition to this, although the body is vaguely painful everywhere, but there are no hard injuries.

As long as there are no serious injuries, it is much better to do, Gao Yang after a long sigh of relief, began to check their own things, as a military fan, as a senior donkey, whenever the psk are not away from the habit, at the moment helped him a lot.

The so-called psk is the abbreviation of the English alsurvivalkits, translated, is the personal survival equipment, as a military fan, as a great fan of the Bay wilderness survival program, Gao Yang all year round, hanging on his waist psk fanny pack, although usually not less ridiculed as a neurotic, but at this time, his persistence has been rewarded.

Gao Yang's only regret is that in order to portable, his psk fanny pack is a little too small, but Gao Yang before coming to Africa, the selected are targeted things, so the things inside the fanny pack, none of which is now his most urgent needs.

Two large pieces of chocolate, a light stick, a compass, a magnifying glass, ten meters of umbrella rope, five fish hooks and ten meters of fishing line, a survival whistle, four condoms, a medical kit, this is all the things in Gao Yang's psk.

Originally there were more things in Gao Yang's psk bag, but because of the plane, Gao Yang can only take out the knife and lighter and other things that are not allowed to bring the plane, but fortunately, Gao Yang got a knife in the guide to get the most important tool in the outdoors.

As a high-calorie, high-energy outdoor essential emergency food, two large chocolate is now the most important thing Gao Yang needs.

When swallowing the chocolate in small bites, Gao Yang was moved and just wanted to cry.

Gao Yang did not want to and did not dare to eat all the chocolate, he only ate a piece of chocolate, if not because it is too hungry, Gao Yang will only eat a few small pieces of chocolate, in the absence of other food before, these two pieces of chocolate is a life-saving thing.

After eating, while waiting for the physical strength to recover, in order to distract a bit, to calm the overly nervous and excited mood, Gao Yang took out the knife he got from the guide to examine up.

The length of the knife is about thirty-two centimeters, the thickness is about five millimeters, the tip of the teardrop head, the body is large flat grinding, brass handguard, the handle should be made of desert ironwood tumor, the color and wood grain are very good, and the essence of the knife is a curve on the blade is a perfect burn line, to the whole knife to add a lot of color, but also because of this burn line, the knife is the best. Gao Yang was able to know that this knife is hand-built carbon steel knife, because most stainless steel can not clay firing wonderful firing edge line, and the assembly line of mass production goods, more likely to do firing edge.

Gao Yang tried, the knife's edge is very sharp, can easily shave, it can be seen that the owner of this knife is very loving to the knife, which makes Gao Yang sigh, the former owner of this knife is a white South African, is Gao Yang this time to participate in the hunting group of guides or guide hunting, in the plane, Gao Yang also and he because this knife chatted a few, did not expect the final knife is finally in his hands.

The only person who survived the plane was himself, Gao Yang was a little sad, but he also celebrated his good fortune, when everyone grabbed a seat because the tail was uncomfortable, Gao Yang chose the tail of the plane, the relatively safest position, in addition to good luck, this is the only reason he survived the plane crash.

Gao Yang shook his head, no longer thinking about those useless things, took out his compass and looked at the direction, then he was shocked to find that the direction of the sun was west, in other words, it was already afternoon, and it was almost the same time when he got on the plane, so he had been unconscious for a whole day and night.

Gao Yang did not know how far he could drift with the waves in the river in a day and a night, but he knew that the farther away from the site of the plane crash, the smaller his chances of getting rescued, and there was a key problem that it was already getting dark.

Thanks to Animal World and Man and Nature, because of these programs, Gao Yang knew how scary the night was on the African savannah. Gao Yang no longer dared to delay, he struggled to get up and tried to find himself a shelter, or at least, to build a fire before it got dark.

There were a lot of dead branches washed up on the river, so it was easy to collect them. Gao Yang first found a long and strong enough stick to act as a walking stick, and then started to collect as much dry firewood as possible to prepare for his first night in the African wilderness.

While working, Gao Yang did not forget to pay attention to the surrounding movement, he needs to be alert to too many things, it is now the rainy season, the grassland grass grows tall and lush, if you do not want to be what beast suddenly appeared to pounce on the ground, you must always raise the alert.

Gao Yang decided to camp a little further away from the river bank to avoid the beasts that may come to the river to drink, but also to prevent the river surge, in the rainy season, even if there is no local rain, but as long as the river upstream a heavy rain, then the water level downstream surge a few meters are very normal.

Gao Yang's intention is to find a place to rest for the night, and then after the next day, then start looking for food in the vicinity, although mobility is limited, but he has a fishing line and hooks, the chance of catching fish is still great.

As long as there is food, Gao Yang can hold on here for a few days, waiting for the knee injury to heal at the same time, but also can send a distress signal, may be able to get help, even if no one has been passing through these days, he can also wait for some convenient movement, make a raft down the river, Gao Yang firmly believe that the river will definitely be inhabited, just a matter of distance from him.

With a few items necessary for survival in hand, Gao Yang's confidence in surviving increased, but the heavens seemed determined to work against him, and when Gao Yang was dragging a bundle of firewood with an umbrella rope toward his chosen camping site, he suddenly heard a gunshot.

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