Searching for someone in northern Myanmar, and you call that earning tuition fees?

The flames from the crashed helicopter were still burning, and thick smoke rose into the air, like a black tombstone planted in this sea of ​​death.

Zhao Gang's mind was buzzing, and it took him a long time to come to his senses.

He glanced at the loose nylon rope slingshot in Su Ming's hand, then at the distant firelight, opened his mouth, and finally managed to stammer out, "Mr. Su, have you... practiced this skill?"

"No." Su Ming casually tossed the slingshot to the ground.

"Used for hunting birds when I was a kid."

Bird hunting?

You call shooting down helicopters "shooting birds"?

Gu Weiguang emerged from behind the bodyguard, her face still streaked with tears, but her eyes were fixed on Su Ming.

She didn't say anything, she just stared.

It's like looking at a monster.

Gu Changfeng also got up. Looking at his daughter's expression and then at Su Ming, he suddenly felt a pang of heartache for his daughter.

This girl has been a genius since she was a child; she has to explain everything with science.

As a result, he ran into Su Ming, a guy who was "anti-scientific," and his worldview was probably shattered to pieces.

"Let's go," Su Ming interrupted everyone's daze.

"The Black Fox people definitely have more to do; we need to leave this area immediately."

Zhao Gang snapped to attention and quickly nodded, "Yes! Mr. Su is right! Which way do we go now?"

Su Ming glanced at the sky, then at the sand patterns on the ground, and pointed to the northwest.

"Over there, the border is just 30 kilometers away. The Chinese military patrol will be there to meet you."

"Thirty kilometers?" Gu Changfeng's face turned green.

Gu Weiguang finally couldn't hold back any longer. She stepped forward, staring intently at Su Ming's finger pointing northwest, her voice sharp with agitation: "Wait! You just...pointed like that? By what right?"

She looked around at the boundless sea of ​​sand and questioned, "No GPS, no star charts, even a compass can malfunction due to geomagnetic anomalies! You just looked at the sand and determined the direction? Is that reasonable? Our lives are hanging on your finger?"

Faced with her questioning, Su Ming slowly lowered his hand.

He wasn't angry or impatient; he just looked at her calmly with the eyes of someone looking at an outsider.

"Dr. Gu, your GPS may malfunction, your instruments may break down, but the wind doesn't lie, and neither does the sand," Su Ming said calmly.

He squatted down, picked up a pinch of sand, rubbed it between his fingers, and then watched the sand being blown away by the breeze.

"The black storm just now came from the southeast, which is the seasonal prevailing wind path. After the storm, the counter-current will stir up cold sand from the ground, forming unique sand patterns."

He pointed to a fine line on the ground.

"Look, the direction of this pattern is the most effortless path, which will lead us to the edge of the lowest basin, that is, the direction of the boundary line."

After saying that, he stood up, clapped his hands, and looked at Gu Weiguang, who looked astonished: "The wind has a direction, and the sand remembers it. This is what my grandfather taught me. It's much more useful than your pile of malfunctioning iron lumps."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over Gu Changfeng and Zhao Gang's pale faces, and added, "Or, do you want to stay here and wait for Black Fox's next helicopter?"

"Shall we... walk over there?" Gu Changfeng's voice trembled.

"What else?" Su Ming glanced at him.

"Do you want to take a taxi?"

Gu Changfeng was speechless.

Zhao Gang didn't waste any words. He directly instructed his bodyguards to reorganize the sand sled and then distribute the supplies.

The black storm has passed, but the wind is still blowing.

Su Ming led the group to continue gliding on sand sleds.

This time, no one questioned it anymore.

Everyone obediently lay on the sand sled, with Su Ming leading the way, gliding forward through the sea of ​​sand.

Zhao Gang silently followed behind Su Ming, looking at that slender figure with immense respect in his heart.

He now felt that he wouldn't be surprised if Su Ming pulled a Gundam out of his backpack the next second.

Compared to shooting down airplanes with a slingshot, that's just standard practice.

Night fell once again over the desert, and the temperature plummeted.

Everyone was exhausted and was barely holding on by sheer willpower.

Gu Changfeng nearly fell several times, but Zhao Gang caught him each time.

"Mr. Su... how much further?" Gu Changfeng's lips were chapped and his voice was hoarse.

Su Ming didn't turn around, but simply pointed ahead.

"Cross over that sand dune ahead."

Upon hearing this, everyone's spirits lifted, and they used their last bit of strength to climb up the sand ridge that was more than ten meters high.

When they reached the top and looked into the distance, everyone was stunned.

In the deepest darkness before dawn, a faint red dot stubbornly flutters in the cold wind at the horizon.

It was a five-star red flag that had been eroded by wind and sand and looked somewhat worn.

It was stuck in a simple steel pipe, without a sentry post or barracks, standing all alone in the sea of ​​sand.

But it represents the border, the footprints of the patrol team, and—security.

"It's...it's the national flag!" A bodyguard cried out first, kneeling down and wailing.

Even Gu Changfeng, who had been a seasoned businessman for decades, couldn't help but shed tears at this moment.

live!

They actually made it out of this sea of ​​death alive!

Just then, a more powerful and intense engine roar than that of a helicopter came from the direction of the national flag.

A dozen bright beams of searchlight pierced the darkness and illuminated the night sky.

Three "Warrior" off-road vehicles painted in military green camouflage were speeding towards them, kicking up clouds of dust.

On the roof of the vehicle, several fully armed soldiers had already set up machine guns, their dark muzzles pointed directly at them.

The military personnel have arrived!