13 • Let Me Look At You

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By the afternoon, the team had cleared thirteen mines, all of which had been defused and laid out in a row on the ground.



Song Lisa squatted nearby to take pictures. Seeing Li Jungkook placing the mines in two rows, she asked, "Is there any difference?"



"These six are trip hairs, and these seven are press hairs."



Song Lisa held up the radio microphone and asked, "What is hair compression?"



"It explodes once you step on it."



"What about the ones in the movies?"



"Movie?" He turned to look at her.



"In the movies, they all step on something and then let go so it explodes."



"That's loose hair," Li Jungkook said. "It usually appears in movies. It's rarely used in real life. It explodes as soon as you step on it, so there's no time for expression."



"Oh." She suddenly realized.



When I watched movies before, I always wondered why the landmines had such a big bug, which always let the protagonist escape. It turned out to be the screenwriter's design.



At around 4 p.m., the detachment cleared a safe passage. The Dongguo soldiers accompanying the detachment marked the passage with a line and sent people to the village to inform the locals.



Everyone packed up their instruments and tools and went back.



After a whole day of working in the field, everyone was exhausted and kept on going in silence. The relaxed feeling they had in the morning was gone, leaving only fatigue.



The sky was cloudless and as blue as the sea; the sun was still scorching, shining brightly on the mountains and fields.



Passing a hillside, the wheat fields all over the hill looked like a golden ocean. Song Lisa saw an old man wearing a sweat towel and ethnic costume, hunched over, walking slowly on the ridge of the field with a sack on his back.



The old man was skinny, but the sack on his back was extremely strong, making him look like a fat man, bending his back.



Song Lisa turned on the camera and lowered the lens, then spoke softly into the microphone: "I met a local old man on the road. He was carrying a large cloth bag. Could it be...food?"



After listening to this, Li Jungkook looked up and saw an old man in coarse clothes and cloth pants walking among the wheat fields under the blue sky, like an oil painting.



He squinted his eyes to identify it and said, "It's food. When I came here this morning, he was harvesting wheat in the fields on the other side of the mountain."

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