Chapter 124 Chapter 124 Lost in the Mountains

"David, we seem to be lost."

As soon as He Junxia entered the mission world, she heard a panicked voice. The voice was a bit unpleasant, with a drab voice, like a teenager using a voice changer.

He Junxia turned to look at the person who was speaking. It was a boy with brown hair and brown eyes, who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The boy's face was covered with sweat, and the wisher's body was no exception. His clothes stuck tightly to his body, making him feel very uncomfortable.

He Junxia looked around and found that they were in a dense jungle. Considering what the boy had just said, the difficulty of this mission became clear.

So he suggested: "Let's take a break first."

The brown-haired, blue-eyed boy agreed immediately, opened the plastic bottle in his hand, tilted his head back and took a big sip of Coke.

The two of them found a random spot to sit down. He Junxia closed his eyes and pretended to take a nap, but in reality, he was quickly browsing the mission information and wisher's memories sent by Xiao Si.

The wisher is named David Roberts, a 15-year-old boy, and the boy next to him is his good friend Matteo Ricci.

This morning, the wisher discovered that his parents were arguing again about the division of property during the divorce, and they accused each other of cheating, and even smashed the kitchen and living room at home.

The wisher tried to stop his parents' quarrel but was ruthlessly scolded by both sides. In a fit of rage, he ran out of the house and invited his friend Matteo to go on an adventure hiking in a large mountain range in the next city.

Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The two teenagers wandered around in the unfamiliar mountains and successfully got lost.

This time, the main task is to send his good friend Matteo home alive, and the secondary task is to join his beloved football club and play an official game in the Y Country A Football League.

From this we can also see that the fate of the wish-makers and their friends after getting lost in the forest is not good, and some even paid the price with their lives.

"David, what should we do now? I can't remember the path we just took. Will we be unable to return?"

Matthew was worried.

Although adolescent children always boldly carry out all kinds of strange ideas in their minds, this is the first time they have encountered such a situation.

He Jun soothed him, "Taiou, don't worry. Let's sort out the things we have now. We might need them later."

Matthew nodded. He opened the shrunken backpack on his back and took out the meager items inside: two cans of luncheon meat and a roll of toilet paper.

In addition, he had a half-drunk bottle of Coke in his hand.

He Junxia felt even emptier.

He didn't even have a bag, he just took out half a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a knife, and half a bottle of Coke from his pocket.

He Junxia: ...

What a troublesome couple they are. They dare to run to the mountains where they are unfamiliar with the place with just these few things. No wonder there are so few foreigners.

The scene before him reminded him of his second internship assignment, where a group of young people stayed up late at night to explore by boat and eventually lost their lives.

There was a terrifying giant crocodile in that mission. I wonder if there will be black bears or wolves in this mission.

He Junxia felt that the probability of a black bear appearing was a little higher because he found news reports about black bears appearing in the wisher's memory.

He Junxia couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the wisher's thin arms and legs.

Although the black bear's stats are not as good as the brown bear's, it is still a piece of cake for it to deal with two unarmed human teenagers.

It's really a headache.

Fortunately, they had lighters, food, and a gurgling stream nearby, so their basic survival needs were met.

He Junxia said, "Taio, we have to save our food." Taio was the affectionate name that the wisher gave to his good friend Matteo.

The boy nodded dejectedly.

He Junxia added, "Now let's find a higher ground and see if we can find any traces of human activity from above."

The boy continued to nod.

Between this pair of good friends, wisher David Roberts has always been in the leadership position, and he was not dissatisfied with He Junxia's words that were almost like orders.

He Junxia breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

According to his survival experience, returning to the human world from the lost forest is not difficult. What is difficult is the lack of cooperation from his companions and some self-righteous people who are only half-baked.

Fortunately, Matteo is not one of those people.

He Junxia stood up and looked around, then pointed to a slope not far away that was higher and had fewer trees. "Let's go there first."

In fact, there is a better and simpler way. Just find a strong and tall tree and climb up to look into the distance.

However, when he entered the mission world, Wishful and Matthew had already been running for hours, their strength running low. Continuing on foot was still possible with willpower, but climbing a tree over ten meters tall was a pipe dream.

There is a 99% chance that you will fall down after climbing a few meters due to exhaustion. If you don't get hurt, it's fine. But if you break a bone, the difficulty of completing the task will increase a hundredfold.

…

As the saying goes, a horse will die if it runs too high.

Now He Junxia has also experienced this feeling.

The hillside looked not far away, but he and Matteo fought their way through the thorns and walked for more than half an hour before they successfully reached their destination.

He Junxia stood on a high slope and looked into the distance. Up and down, left and right, forward and backward, all of them were dense and continuous mountain ranges.

They seemed to have walked into the heart of the mountain.

He Junxia narrowed his eyes slightly, searched for a long time, and finally stopped in a small corner.

"Theo, look, is there a house over there?"

Matthew tried to open his eyes wide: "Sorry, David, I can't seem to see, but I believe you."

The boy's eyes, as blue as the sky, were full of trust.

He Junxia smiled and said, "I won't let you down." Not only his trust, but also the trust of those who wished.

The two began to walk down the mountain along the stream, and the blurry little house was right at the edge of the stream.

The journey was extremely boring and tedious. They had no time to appreciate the almost unchanging scenery around them.

Even survival documentaries that always seem to feature encounters with all sorts of new or dangerous plants and animals are only because the production team deleted those long, tedious and boring segments.

One hour, two hours, three hours...

Time is like running water, never to return. The gentle sunset dyed the clouds red, and the sky gradually darkened.

After walking for almost a whole day, He Junxia and Matteo decided to stop and set up camp. Walking in the dark was not a good idea, especially since they didn't have a cell phone flashlight to illuminate the area.

He Junxia and Matteo sat down on a dry area near the stream. He first cleared away the fallen leaves, branches, and other combustibles on the ground before starting a fire with a lighter.

The night was windy, the climate here was dry, and the air was low in humidity. If he didn't clear the flammable materials near the campfire in advance, once the fire spread, he could say goodbye to the mission world.

This is also the reason why He Junxia did not consider using fire and cigarettes to ask for help from the outside world. If he is not careful, he will get burned.

Even if they were lucky enough to be rescued, the damage caused by the fire would be incalculable, and the wisher and his friends would be burdened with huge fines.

Even if the mission is completed at that time, the wisher's and the Space-Time Administration's scores will fall below the lower limit, and they may be judged as terrorists and expelled from the Space-Time Administration.

He Junxia wouldn't do something so foolish as to risk so much for so little. Failing a D-rank mission only deducted 100 points, so he didn't need to take the risk.

He Junxia and Matteo shared a can of luncheon meat, and used the remaining tin can to boil water.

Mountain streams may appear clear and clean, but they are actually raw, untreated water. Avoid drinking directly from them unless absolutely necessary.

If you are unfortunately infected with diarrhea, in this case, it is like stepping into hell.

"David, would you like some water?"

He Junxia glanced at the scalding tin can. Iron conducts heat quickly, and after a while, bubbles of varying sizes began to form in the can.

He Juanxia glanced at the watch on her hand: "Let it boil for a while longer, the water is not completely boiled yet. I will call you when it is ready to drink."

"good."

Matthew licked his cracked lips and stared at the water in the can without blinking.

He actually still had half a bottle of Coke left to drink, but David told him that Coke was high in sugar and suitable for replenishing energy. Drinking Coke just because he was thirsty would not only fail to quench his thirst, but would also consume a lot of water in the body.

Ten minutes later, He Junxia put down the wicker weaving work in her hands and took down the red-hot iron can through the stone.

"Taio, you can drink the water once it cools down a bit."

Matthew continued to stare at the can, muttering to himself and praying to God that the water would cool down quickly.

He was really dying of thirst.

Another five minutes passed, and He Junxia reminded again: "The water should be drinkable."

Matteo couldn't wait to pick up the tin can. The warm water flowed into his dry mouth and gradually moistened his esophagus as he swallowed the liquid.

He took several big gulps of water before stopping.

Matthew smacked his lips. "It's still too hot. It doesn't taste good. It has a strange taste. David, if you want to drink it, you can wait until the water cools down a bit."

He Junxia smiled: "It's just the right temperature."

He is not a genuine foreigner. Warm water does not taste very good, but it is more suitable for the body than hot or cold water.

He took the tin can handed to him by Matteo and drank it in small sips. After a while, the whole can of water was drunk by the two of them.

Matteo scooped another can of stream water and put it on the fire, while He Junxia continued to finish the rattan weaving work in her hands.

Matteo asked curiously, "David, what are you going to make up?"

He originally thought that his good friend was just weaving some rattan for fun out of boredom, but as the rattan products in David's hands gradually took shape, he realized that his good friend seemed to be doing more than just killing time.

He Junxia pointed to the stream not far away.

"There are fish in the river. I want to make a basket to see if I can catch some."

Matthew was surprised: "You can actually weave wicker baskets?"

The two of them were neighbors and grew up together, but he had never heard that David had such a skill.

He Junxia said proudly: "Of course, I can not only weave rattan baskets, but also make traps to catch small animals."

"I lived with my grandfather when I was little, and he taught me all this."

Matthew suddenly understood.

David was nine years old when he moved in as his neighbor. He must have learned these skills before moving in, so it's no wonder he didn't know about it.

Matthew began to praise He Junxia for her good memory again. If it were him, he would forget everything he learned before he was nine years old, even things he learned last month.

"Is there anything I can do?"

Matteo didn't want to just watch his good brother work.

He Junxia thought for a moment and said, "Find some more dead branches and don't go too far away. I'm afraid I won't be able to find you."

Matthew: “Okay.”

He Junxia quickened his movements, and after Matteo came back with a bunch of dead branches, his wicker basket was finished.

"Let's go to the river and set up some traps to catch fish."

The orange-red bonfire reflected the boy's surprised expression, as if even the fatigue in his body disappeared at this moment.

He Junxia directed Matteo to move stones to block most of the river, and then bent down to insert the woven rattan basket into the specially left outlet.

"More stones?"

"No."

He Junxia straightened up and paced back and forth, stretching his body several times with his hands raised and his head tilted back. On the way back, he came across a banana tree and cut off a large banana leaf with the knife he carried with him.

A temporary shelter for just one night doesn't need to be elaborate; a few leaves will suffice to keep out insects crawling on the ground.

After returning to the rest area, He Junxia spread the huge banana leaves on the ground. The water in the tin can had completely boiled.

Without He Junxia's reminder, Matteo used a thin piece of stone to pick up the hot tin can and put it aside.

He Junxia said, "I'll pour my Coke into your Coke bottle. We'll keep a plastic bottle for water so we can drink it on our way tomorrow."

Matthew nodded.

The two men carefully opened the bottle caps and poured the Coke, making sure not to waste a drop. These Cokes were the good stuff that kept them alive at the critical moment.

After doing all this, He Junxia handed over the task of fetching water, boiling water and storing water to Matteo, while he himself used some relatively strong dead branches picked up by the boy and the ropes he made when weaving rattan baskets to make several simple traps nearby.

In principle, these simple traps can catch some small animals, such as squirrels and hares.

Of course, theory and practice cannot be confused. Whether you can catch some small animals depends on luck.

He Junxia brushed the dust off his hands. He felt that his luck had always been good. It was impossible that he could not catch any prey underwater or on land.

I don’t think so.

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The author has something to say: I am still 3,500 words away from the list, and I am typing furiously. If there are any typos, I will correct them tomorrow. Dear children [star eyes][star eyes]