From the day the Western Line Squad disappeared, it snowed for three consecutive days.

With the lack of supplies, the heavy snow blocked the roads, and the temperature in the mountains plummeted. It was basically certain that the missing soldiers had died on the road due to lack of water and food or hypothermia.

It was snowing heavily, and it was unrealistic to enter the mountains to rescue people. The commander of the stationed troops and the chief of the support troops agreed to wait until the snow stopped and some of the snow in the mountains melted before entering the mountains. However, at that time, it would not be a rescue, but a search—a search for the bodies of the missing soldiers.

Finally, the weather cleared after the snow, and the sky was clear and cloudless.

Under the sunlight, most of the snow on the mountains quickly melted. When the mountain roads could be cleared with simple snow removal tools, the first search plan was finalized.

Since the people of the stationed troops knew more about the Kunlun Mountains, the search team was composed of a mixed team of stationed troops and support troops. The first wave sent out a total of five teams, each search team consisting of ten soldiers.

Fatty was still young at that time, and he was not familiar with field operations, so the army arranged for him to temporarily fill the vacancy of the stationed troops and perform some daily tasks. He was not allowed to participate in the search mission, and Fatty thus avoided a disaster.

The weirdness in the Kunlun Mountains did not end because of a snow. The first wave of search teams set off at sunrise, but by sunset, none of the teams had returned to the station.

Before these five teams left, the officers had already ordered them to return to the team before sunset.

Moreover, before they left, they had specially tested the communication equipment, signal guns, and signal flares (test-fired one, and there were no problems) to ensure that they could report at any time in case of emergencies.

But these five search teams, like the first few missing teams, disappeared bizarrely among the Kunlun Mountains.

No one knew where they went, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive.

Five teams, a total of fifty people, disappeared into thin air, and no one could accept this result.

After the five teams disappeared, the commander of the support troops no longer agreed to continue searching in the mountains, but since most of the missing were from the stationed troops, the stationed troops insisted on trying again.

So they worked out the second, and last, search plan overnight.

This time, ten soldiers who volunteered to search for people were selected from the troops on both sides (mainly the stationed troops). They were divided into two teams.

These ten soldiers knew in their hearts that this trip would be fraught with dangers, but their comrades and brothers were missing in the deep mountains, and they could not stand idly by, so they decided to take a gamble.

Moreover, among these ten soldiers, there was also a deputy company commander leading the search, and the fact that these people were willing to risk their lives was also related to the deputy company commander taking the lead.

In order to ensure their safety, this search also equipped each of the two teams with a very long safety rope. The ropes were of excellent toughness and strength, not afraid of fire or knife cuts. One end was tied to the team members, and the other ropes were left here at the station.

The length of each safety rope can extend several kilometers, and the search range is limited by the length of the rope. If there is a problem with this search, the soldiers in the camp can also pull the rope in time to pull them back.

The situation in the mountains is complicated, and this method is not absolutely safe, but at least the team members who set out to find people have some confidence in their hearts.

But the second wave of teams had the same experience as the first wave. The two teams that went out to search for people in the second wave still lost contact.

The last two teams disappeared silently like this. The two safety ropes were pulled out for about two thousand meters, and then there was no movement.

The situation in the Kunlun Mountains is complicated. Sometimes the altitude rises and falls, and the reaction on the road is not as obvious as walking on a flat road. Therefore, the length of the rope varies. Sometimes there is no change for several minutes, and sometimes the rope is pulled out for dozens of meters in a few minutes.

Therefore, for a long time after the safety rope was pulled for the last time, everyone did not know that the two teams connected by the rope had encountered an accident.

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In the evening, in the last ray of the setting sun, the people at the station pulled the two safety ropes back little by little. There were no obstacles, and the ropes were successfully recovered.

The two fireproof, cut-proof, and even acid- and alkali-corrosion-resistant safety ropes were inexplicably broken, and hundreds of meters of rope in front of the broken rope ends disappeared.

The broken surface of the rope was very neat, without any traces of knife cutting or burning, and it did not look like the rope was broken due to external force squeezing and tearing.

The missing section of rope seemed to never have existed.