Imagine, with no partner to help, this nearly sixty-year-old man, stubbornly survived in this forest for several months, the amount of effort he put in and the hardships he endured.
Chen Zhou and Paul collected all of Gromov's belongings, confirming that his survival items lacked fire-making tools, and there were no medical supplies.
Inside the old man's military uniform was a bottle of water purification tablets and a bottle of salt.
Perhaps due to frugality, or not expecting to die so soon, the bottle of water purification tablets they found was barely used, and there was still more than half a bottle of salt left.
...
They had thought they could "meet an old friend in a foreign land", but unexpectedly, they found the dead body of the old general.
Paul was very downcast, and at the same time, many questions arose in his heart—
Why were he and Gromov, both from the same world, not assigned together?
