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02 The Time of the Beacon

The casualties caused by the artillery fire and the kite people were beyond what this isolated island could bear.

The tunnel is full of painful wailing, pungent smoke, and evil blood.

Therefore, the upper management planned to use the support ship that entered the port earlier when the artillery fire was empty, to carry the wounded on the island back to the mainland.

Haiping and the other baggage workers carried these wounded patients or corpses back and forth, with muddy feet and blood-stained hands.They even practiced the calm skill of eating cigarettes, drinking water, and swallowing food by the side of the broken limb and arm.

When it was almost the end of the day, the superior issued a notice, saying that the waterway was safe, and the replenishment ship was ready to set sail and return to the mainland.The trackers and soldiers all took the boat rope and began to pull the boat.

Just after the replenishment ship left the entrance of the tunnel, a group of people ran anxiously and panicked.

"Wait a minute!" the leader asked like a cannonball, "Has the ship set sail? Has it set sail?"

"Leaving port early. What's wrong?"

"Call me back! Quick!"

"How is it possible? How far have you gone?" Everyone was nervous. "Let's go if you can before the cannon fire comes down!"

Some people noticed something was wrong and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

The young man was flustered and couldn't speak clearly. At this moment, someone gently pushed him away from behind and walked towards the crowd.

Haiping took a deep breath, lowered his head, and avoided the man with his eyes.

That man—Guan Yuangui also saw him, and when he saw him avoiding him, his face darkened, but he quickly got involved in the conversation with everyone.

"I just observed the news from Taishan," he said calmly, "an enemy ship broke through the defense line and appeared in the channel of the supply ship."

Inside the tunnel, there was no sound.

"That's a gunboat," he added.

Everyone feels hopeless.

Someone proposed to light the beacon and recall the support ship, but the next moment, a distant and sharp sound came from the sea. When the sound got closer and closer, everyone's body almost made a reflexive movement── Ears, head, stand, steady body.Then, the whole tunnel moved like a thunder—yes, the shells came again.Lighting a beacon on the mountain at this moment is tantamount to setting a target for yourself and being hit by the enemy.

Replenishment ship, how to recall this?

Haiping even thought that when he was transporting a wounded person on board, the wounded person said with pain but joy, "I'm going home soon!" Haiping was envious and jealous.

But even though he was jealous of him, he didn't want this person to end up in the bottom of the sea the next moment.

Everyone wants to go home, but why is their journey home so far and long?

Amidst the rumble of gunfire, Haiping kept hating on this question.

Guan Yuangui, like the others, knelt down to the side, waiting for the cannon blast to pass, but the difference was that his mind was not blank or dazed, and his attention was all on Haiping's gradually condensed expression. .

He really wanted to know what he was thinking that made him look so bright and show such a resolute expression?

Haiping, let him fix his eyes again.

The artillery shock stopped for a while, and everyone stood up one after another with ashen faces, ready to return to their jobs.It seems that no one intends to think of any way to save the poor support ship.

But Guan Yuangui waited silently.

"Sir!"

At this time, Haiping met Guan Yuangui's eyes.

Sure enough, he waited, with this gentle and brave eyes.

"I have a solution!" Haiping said, "But I need the help of the officer!"

The response Hai Ping received was a gaze that was deep and firm, full of trust, and firmly grasping his heart and soul.