Chapter 262 - Spring sandstorm (2/2)

Hiking was an activity that had only recently started gaining popularity in China. Most ordinary people would at most maybe find a small forest to walk through around their city.

However, a certain group of people in China found it fun to conquer various dangerous mountain peaks and barren deserts for fun. Although the people in this group weren’t professional hikers, hiking suddenly became immensely popular in this social circle. That was because a super business owner from Hong Kong had started this hiking group.

Normally, it would be quite difficult to establish a connection with someone like a super-rich business owner. You would only be able to get a connection by sharing a hobby. So, in this hiking group, even a rich business owner who was worth tens of millions of yuan would be nothing more than an ordinary member! No matter if the hiking group members truly loved hiking or not, they would always pay the membership fee every year.

Near Chasu City’s snowy mountains was a rather complex primeval forest. This forest’s environment was complex because it contained cliffs, lakes, rivers, and swampland. However, it didn’t have any large carnivores. There also weren’t any special venomous snakes, as Chasu City wasn’t a tropical area. Over time, a certain business owner in the border province discovered this to be an excellent place for hiking.

This business owner then contacted others and organized a group of rich hikers to come over for adventuring. Since these hikers were rich as well as non-professional, the business owner had chosen a place for adventuring that looked rather dangerous but was actually relatively safe.

Since these rich people wanted to hike, it also meant that they didn’t want to be bothered by others. So, apart from hiring a few locals as guides, they ventured into the forest with only the people they came with.

The planned hiking route through the forest was a bit more than 10 kilometers. The hiking route would also go over rivers, over mountains, and through the wilderness. Only rich people with lots of energy would enjoy such a hobby. Ordinary people wouldn’t choose this as a method of having fun even if they were paid… if the pay was insufficient.

No matter how you looked at it, city dwellers were weaklings compared to the wilderness. The really powerful Hong Kong business owner, who was in his mid-40s, the prime of his life, needed to go to the bathroom, so he left the hiking path that the guides had blazed.

Right when he walked over to a large tree, he suddenly fell into a deep pit! This large pit had likely been dug by poachers trying to hunt wild deer. Unluckily for the business owner, this pit also had sharp wooden stakes, one of which pierced him right through the anus! In a way, the business owner was also quite lucky as he probably wouldn’t have survived if he had fallen into the pit stomach-first!

“AAAAH!!!” The businessman’s scream of pain sent a flock of birds flying in fear! The businessman’s subordinates were quite skillful. They immediately went down and rescued him, cutting off the wooden stakes and carrying the rich man on a simple makeshift stretcher as they ran out of the forest.

This location was close to China’s border and far away from any major city. Even a rich man like this businessman wouldn’t be able to do anything with money here. They could only leave the forest using the most primitive method: running. Some of the businessman’s subordinates had basic medical knowledge, and knew that it would be dangerous to just pull out the wooden stake. Originally, they wanted to help bandage the businessman’s injuries, but when they saw that the injured location was rather special, bandages wouldn’t be required!

These people really did have good hiking equipment. They were wearing highly durable clothing which shouldn’t have been easily penetrated. However, due to the pull of gravity and how the businessman’s body had reflexively tensed up during the fall, a wooden stake coincidentally managed to penetrate through his pants and directly into his anus. Luckily, the hiking pants really were of high quality and durability, which helped to cancel out a large portion of the impact. Otherwise, the businessman still would have instantly died.

The border province business owner who had organized this hike really felt like he wanted to die. He had caused the most powerful businessman in the hiking group to become like this. Even though the border province businessman was also worth several tens of millions of yuan, he ran as fast as a marathon sprinter together with the makeshift stretcher, to the point where his face became red! His face was so pale that it almost seemed as if he was the one who was constantly bleeding.

The local businessman first contacted a medical expert in Raptor City. The closest major city to this forest was Raptor City, which was still a whopping 800 kilometers away.

“Immediately take him to the local hospital,” the medical expert recommended.

“Can we instead transport him to Raptor City by helicopter?” the local businessman asked.

“That will probably be too difficult. It’s likely that the patient has major bleeding. You should first take him to Chasu City Hospital.”

The roads in this area weren’t paved. The SUVs that the hiking group came in should have been able to drive super fast on these dirt roads, but they didn’t dare to drive too fast with the Hong Kong businessman’s condition.

The local businessman from the border province, as well as the Hong Kong businessman’s subordinates, started using every connection that they possibly could. If this powerful Hong Kong businessman died such a random death here, they would all be in serious trouble.

They contacted Chasu City Hospital as well as experts in Raptor City.

At this moment in spring, the sandstorms of the border province also arrived on schedule.

The majority of locations in northwestern China would always be colored dirt-yellow in spring. Raptor City was no exception. Today, Raptor City was dark yellow. There was a tremendous sandstorm, reaching the extent where it seemed like dirt was raining from the sky. All planes were grounded!