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Chapter 236: The Special Medicine Bottle

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An Yinan waved her hand, "I want to see him as soon as possible."

"Besides, you have already been pushing for two days and two nights; your body cannot keep up with the rescue speed."

Zhang Qian quickly decided, "Sister-in-law, stay safe."

An Yinan had better physical strength, and for emergency rescue, physical strength was everything; the rescue team could not stop marching for rescue just to wait for someone.

An Yinan nodded, took her large bag, and then followed the troops, marching quickly.

After walking for more than half an hour, the soldiers had already trampled out a path here.

"The fixed point before losing contact is right here." On a pillar, a red cloth was still tied.

"According to the marching tracks, the boss should be searching in this direction; Team One, continue the search."

"Team Two, go in this direction; according to the map, there should be a village over there."

"Team Three, guard the surroundings and keep an eye on the avalanche situation at all times."

With the leader's order, everyone began to act.

The only people standing in place were the leader and An Yinan.

An Yinan was the team doctor; she had to cooperate with the rescue team as much as possible, rather than acting alone.

Moreover, in this heavy snow, all traces were hidden, requiring the rescue team to search bit by bit.

Her abilities could not compare to scouts, and even her observational skills could not surpass those of ordinary soldiers.

"Report, Team One has pushed forward fifty meters; no trace of the target." The person from the search team returned to report.

"Continue advancing." The Rescue Team Captain issued the order.

An avalanche is different from other natural disasters; visibility is less than ten meters.

Apart from the sky full of white snow, there was only snow mist.

Snow mist is different from ordinary fog; it is formed by the gathering of fine snow particles, which float in the air because they are too small.

The thick and heavy snow mist was a vast expanse of white, connecting heaven and earth, and nothing could be seen.

The current search distance was at most fifty meters; otherwise, if they traveled too far, the snow would cover the path they came from, they would get lost in the snow, and they would lose the main team's objective.

Therefore, as they traveled, they left clear marks on the road.

Just then, someone approached quickly, "Report, Team Two has pushed fifty meters toward the village; no trace of the target."

The Rescue Team Captain thought for a moment, "Make sure to leave Red Marks on the road, continue advancing."

"Yes!" The reporter from Team Two ran away quickly.

And the Rescue Team Captain said to An Yinan, "Doctor An, we are going to continue advancing with Team One; we will leave Red Marks here to make it easier for us to return to the command post."

An Yinan nodded, and the two moved very quickly, like leopards on the snow.

The Rescue Team Captain looked at An Yinan with some surprise; if he remembered correctly, the people at the command post all called her Doctor An, so even if she were a soldier, she should be a military doctor.

Her physical strength was truly impressive.

He used to think she would hold them back, but now it seemed he had underestimated her.

The two ran quickly, catching up to the position where Team One had left a Red Mark.

Once the captain moved, Team Three also began to spread out, guarding the surroundings at all times and serving as coordinates for their teammates in the confusing snowfield.

"Team One reports, we have a discovery." Just as the two arrived at Team One's Red Mark, someone from Team One ran over quickly.

The Rescue Team Captain said with pleasant surprise, "Speak."

"We found this in the snow." The soldier brought over the thing in his hand.

The captain looked at the item in his hand, feeling somewhat puzzled; this thing did not seem to belong to the military.

An Yinan's eyes lit up, "I recognize this."

The soldiers of Team One and the Rescue Team Captain all looked over; this was a porcelain bottle for hemostatic pills, which she had specially customized in Quanshui Village; it could be said to be one of a kind in the world.

Only those to whom she had gifted hemostatic pills would have one.

And among the current people, only Chen Xun and Zhang Qian had them; Zhang Qian was still at the command post, so the result of this medicine bottle appearing here was self-evident.

"This porcelain bottle is Chen Xun's possession." An Yinan said affirmatively first.

Chen Xun did not know she had come to the disaster area; he probably really had nothing else to throw, so he threw the specially made medicine bottle.

He did not expect that she would see the medicine bottle and directly confirm his identity.

"And it was tied with a red cloth; perhaps there was no suitable place nearby to tie a red cloth, and their situation was urgent, so they didn't have time to look for other places and used something on their person to tie the red cloth." An Yinan guessed.

Given Chen Xun's meticulousness, it was impossible for him to tie a red cloth to an item and throw it away; after all, the snow was constantly falling and would soon cover it, which showed he had no other choice at the time.

Even, he had no other options.

Although the Rescue Team Captain was surprised by An Yinan's familiarity with Chen Xun, one had to know that the Snow Ghost Chen Xun was not only famous in the Northeast Camp, but even among the China Elite Soldiers, he was a top-tier existence.

Back then, he was unconvinced, and the two had a real contest.

The final result...

Was obvious.

"What is the situation at the scene?" The Rescue Team Captain asked the members of Team One.

The soldier shook his head, "The situation was urgent at the time, the Team Leader told me to report quickly, and I haven't had time to survey the scene yet."

The Rescue Team Captain decisively issued the order, "Everyone advance, Team Two continue to rescue the village, Team Three set up coordinates to ensure the rescue team does not lose contact."

The village was in this mountain depression, surrounded by mountains on all four sides, forming a basin; there were three villages in this place, and it was said that they only came out of the mountains twice a year to purchase necessary supplies and food.

And the people of Team Three dispersed at equal distances, acting as human megaphones to quickly pass on the captain's orders.

The Rescue Team Captain and An Yinan, however, moved quickly toward the direction where Team One was.

"Captain." The Team One Team Leader stood at attention and gave a military salute after seeing the captain.

"Tell me about the surrounding terrain." The Rescue Team Captain said.

The Team One Team Leader pointed to the surroundings while introducing, "Within a radius of at least twenty meters, there are no pine trees at all, and the surroundings are a vast snowfield."

The Rescue Team Captain's thoughts already coincided with An Yinan's, and now they were even more certain about the surrounding environment.

Then what was the meaning of Chen Xun leaving this thing behind?

Were they right nearby?

As a Red Mark fixed point? Was there any other meaning?

"Change formation now, spread out laterally, ten meters between each person, start counting off in five minutes, adjust distance based on the center point." The Rescue Team Captain made a prompt decision and quickly issued the order.

It had already been six hours since they were last able to make contact with them.

If they were crushed underground by the avalanche, these people would likely be in grave danger.

An Yinan was afraid, but at this moment she was also incomparably calm; as long as there was even a sliver of hope, she would never give up.

The soldiers knew the current situation, but none of them gave up; these past few days they had grown accustomed to seeing corpses buried under the snow, had seen too many partings of life and death, and had grown indifferent to the warmth and coldness of human relationships.

But now, at this very moment, they wanted to try their best; even if there was no hope, they had prepared for the worst—they would see the person if they were alive, or see the body if they were dead.

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