Chapter 26 (1/2)
Chapter 26: The Reunion
Translated by shi+ya of Exiled Rebels Translations
They lost their backpacks, the only thing they had noere a dagger and an air gun They didn't have a map nor a torch, so they could only try to find the ith the vagueheavily; their clothes were so wet that they were dripping water Even in such a poor state, they didn't dare rest They couldn't reason with nature; danger could strike at any given moment
”We should have kept the flare with us” SiMa JingRong said with regret
Li Sui looked up at the rainy sky and said, ”In this weather, even if we used the smoke flares, they probably won't see us”
The roads were harsh, as a landslide just took place, the landscapes were very different from when they first arrived The two of them discussed for a while but still couldn't reach a consensus
”I remember it's this way, there's a tree here”
”There's a tree in the next crossroad, not this one”
”No, it is this one This crooked tree, I reht back
Li Sui wasn't sure either, so he held up his dagger and made a mark on the tree He said, ”Let's follow your ht, ill immediately return here”
That hat he said, but the woods all looked the saet their bearings at all, so they were just walking around basing on pure instinct After walking for a while, the rain began to recede The wild grass beca i, ”We haven't been here before”
SiMa JingRong turned back and asked, ”Are you sure?”
Li Sui squatted down, he dug up some soil, then he frowned, ”The soil feels different, we'velooked at the surroundings, he sniffed his nose in the cold, ”We should go back when the sky lights up There are quite a lot of trees here, so landslides probably won't happen here, right?”
They had been walking for the whole day, they didn't get h that scary ordeal, both of the slept for a few hours, Li Sui didn't get a wink of sleep, so he was so tired that he began seeing stars Without 's idea
They didn't have any tools to start a fire, their clothes were all wet and they couldn't dry theh, plus they sweated, so everything was sticky and uncomfortable
Not only that, there were insects everywhere The heavy rain round Flies and , the problem was ticks and leeches There were a lot of them, and their bites hurt a lot They would crawl into their trousers once they weren't alert, sucking on their skin and alet rid of
Li Sui cut off sorass under the tree, then he used the pieces of grass to dry the air gun Luckily, the gun had a waterproof coating wang Wei probably sprayed it on beforehand, worrying that it would get hu in the wild, he finally understood ang Wei un” When facing the unknown, there was nothing un was still functional, Li Sui used the rest of the grass to knit a few pieces of ropes He tied the ends of his trousers up tightly with the ropes, then he leaned on the trunk of the tree to rest He was too tired At first, he just planned on closing his eyes to meditate, but once he closed his eyes, he fell asleep
It was an extremely uncomfortable nap, half of hi Lu Shang co to pick him up, he would prop himself up ecstatically, but once hehis head dizzy and disoriented
The longer he slept, the inally, he thought he had been asleep for a long ti was still dark, only the rain had stopped
The bushes froot alerted He held the s up, ”Wake up”
The latter obviously didn't sleep well either, he woke up the second Li Sui called hi?” Before Li Sui replied, SiMa JingRong noticed the oddwas nearing the mouthed the words to Li Sui
Li Sui stared at the bushes, not answering hi, alaze
”Is it a snake?” SiMa JingRong asked anxiously
”Most likely” Li Sui took in a cold breath, his grip on the dagger tightened
The sun was rising soon, and the forest was engulfed in thehazy Li Sui fell back a few steps with his back up against the tree Neither sideeach other's ability
A gust of wind picked up in the woods, the grass rattled under the wind as an eerie sound cahly the sa out froue
”God! It really is a snake!” SiMa JingRong basically screaht, ”Don't , it was s, with black and brown stripes on its scales It didn't look especially strong Li Sui didn't know much about snakes, he had no idea what species the snake was, but since it is a wild snake, he presumed that it would be quite vicious If the snake wasn't poisonous, then Li Sui had the confidence he could take it on, but if it was a poisonous snake, then it would be a big proble bitten by a poisonous snake here would ; he'd stayed in the city for his entire life, so this was the first time he had to face a situation like this He wasn't exactly frightened, but he was still anxious His brain was in a state of confusion, he reer, you would get hurt the 's face turned white as he saw Li Sui pulled out the gun Instinctively, hethe upper hand” Li Sui tightened his own coat, then turned to ask SiMa JingRong, ”Do you kno to shoot a gun?”
”No, no I don't”
”Good” Li Sui threw hier, then said, ”Cli knehat to say, Li Sui had already picked up a wooden stick and ran towards the snake
At the same time, the snake seemed to have sensed the hostility The snake suddenly jus Li Sui cal breath, he picked up the courage to whip the snake with the stick The hit threw the snake out a few et was now as clear as day, seeing that they were at an advantage here, Li Sui cluot whipped, so it was still cowering on the ground, Li Sui took the chance to shoot at the curled-up snake The sound of the shot echoed through the forest, but the result of the shot wasn't satisfactory, it didn't hit any of the snake's vitals The snake ju that the snake was going to run away, Li Sui screamed at the person up on the tree in a rush, ”Go for the kill! Don't let it run away!”
T/N: No offense but why? Just let it run away…
Rich boy, SiMa JingRong had never seen snakes out of the zoo, his legs were nu that the snake was running away, he just threw the dagger out, the dagger shot straight into the snake's tail The snake struggled for a bit, then bringing the dagger with it, it sneaked back into the bushes and got away
They didn't catch the snake, worse still, they lost the only other weapon besides the gun they had Li Sui couldn't hold back, he scolded SiMa JingRong, ”How does garbage like you survive for this long?”
SiMa JingRong sat on the tree branch; with an innocent face, he said, ”I have money”
Li Sui choked
… He couldn't refute
”Will it co ju off, he said, ”Will its fa?”
”You watch too s and said, ”Snakes aren't that united, even if they are, they wouldn't be that quick…”
Before Li Sui finished speaking, the sounds of a few snakes reached their ears The sound came from the bushes around them
The two of them stared at each other, both with terrified expressions They could barely handle one snake, but noith a bunch of snakes, there was only one option left
”Run!”
They didn't have the leisure to care about where they were going, they just ran like their lives depended on it At the beginning, Li Sui still remembered to check the direction, but after a while he couldn't The horde of snakes behind theile If they accidentally tripped, then the snakes would most likely iht nohich was to get them off their tails
As Li Sui ran, he turned his head back and took a few shots, he wasn't sure if the snakes were hit or not, but at least it could scare them a bit The snakes seeained their formation and continued the pursuit
”Were we in a snake's den or so screamed
When Li Sui linked this back to the landslide before, he began to have an unsettling feeling, ”I think we otten out of the protected zone”
The landslide frightened the If the landslide could flatten an entire forest in an instant, washi+ng away the protective barrier would be more than easy Before they eo out of the protective barriers, as outside was an area of untouched, primitive woodlands Without the protection of the barriers, the chances of theh Moreover, it would be very difficult to find them, if they ventured into the wild
”I can't run any coet caught”
”I can't I seriously can't…” They walked for the whole day, then they ran for their lives at night Even Li Sui was feeling exhausted, of course SiMa JingRong would be coue and turned back, he grabbed SiMa JingRong's ar him forward, ”You can't stop I proh this”
The snakes were getting closer, it was as if the cold-blooded animals wouldn't tire at all The two of theet theht up, the path in front of them ended Neither of them noticed in ti with the rocks and sand
The drop was disorientating, it was as if they were thrown into a washi+ngwashed out frorab hold of the grass on the side, but he only got a handful of sand The loose sand and soil on the slope tu but the wind and their screams
After the fall, they felt their bodies sank, the two of them fell into a ditch-like place They fell so hard that they alet up and react to where they were, a bunch of rocks and sand followed after the onto their heads Li Sui raised his ar to cover his own head up As he moved his shoulder blades, he felt a sharp pain in his back, soon losing his consciousness
It rained and thundered for the entire night, Lu Shang didn't sleep well, his co, he walked downstairs to find Uncle Yuen standing there waiting for him, his usually cal?”
”There was a huge rainstorm in the Protected Woodlands” Uncle Yuen continued with a lower voice, ”A landslide”
In Tong Yan's conference roons of Lu Shang She secretly phoned Uncle Yuen, getting the direction to cancel thecere to continue or not, but before she could ask, Uncle Yuen had already hung the phone up
”What's happening, what's so important anyways…” She mumbled at the now dark mobile phone screen
On the way to thefor once didn't sit at the back, instead he sat in the co-driver's seat