She triumphantly caught up with Li Yue and Zhang Man.

Su Tang and her three companions were currently moving forward at a steady pace along the main road.

After running about four kilometers, they had far surpassed those unlucky guys who had run out of the mud pit and chosen to change routes.

Although the road is long, the surface is flat and solid, making it very easy to run on.

"Su An... I... I feel like I'm not so tired anymore," Chen Xiaocao said with surprise, her voice filled with disbelief.

"Me too!" Wang Xiaoya nodded vigorously, her face flushed with a healthy rosy glow from the exercise, and her usually fearful eyes now shone with excitement. "I feel like I can run another ten miles!"

Su Tang could sense the changes in the three people behind her, and she was somewhat surprised. She hadn't expected these three girls to be so quick to understand.

In particular, Liu Landi is calm, humble, and has a special skill; she is an excellent prospect.

It seems that those who were selected are all quite perceptive, but they haven't seen much hardship and their temperament still needs to be tempered.

Perhaps, bringing them along wouldn't be a bad thing.

The four ran around a corner, and ahead was a path clinging to the mountainside.

Suddenly, Wang Xiaoya, who had been following Su Tang, stopped abruptly and grabbed Su Tang's arm tightly.

"Snake!" she whispered, almost spitting out the word, "There's a snake!"

Chen Xiaocao was startled and looked around nervously: "Where? Where is the snake?"

Liu Landi immediately became alert.

But all around was quiet; apart from the sound of the wind, there was nothing to see or hear.

"Little girl, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" Chen Xiaocao asked softly.

“No!” Wang Xiaoya’s tone was unusually certain. She pointed to a pile of rocks at the foot of the mountain wall, dozens of meters away. “I smelled it! That fishy smell, cold and pungent, smells just like the black-headed five-step snakes that live in the crevices of the rocks behind our village! It’s in that pile of rocks, there’s definitely more than one!”

Su Tang's gaze instantly sharpened.

She carefully observed the direction Wang Xiaoya pointed out; the stones there were warm from the sun, exactly where snakes liked to coil up.

She herself could smell a very faint, fishy odor carried by the wind, but it was far less distinct than Wang Xiaoya had described.

This seemingly smallest and most timid little potato actually possesses such a keen sense of smell!

Her nose is even more sensitive than a military dog's.

"Go around it." She made a quick decision, leading the three of them away from the roadside and around the pile of rocks from the other side.

Sure enough, when they circled around to the upwind side, the fishy smell became even stronger. One can imagine the disastrous consequences if they had run over unprepared and disturbed the venomous snakes hiding in the rocks.

Wang Xiaoya saved them once.

"Thank you, Xiaoya." Chen Xiaocao patted her chest, still feeling a little shaken, and sincerely thanked her.

Wang Xiaoya blushed slightly and waved her hand shyly. This was the first time she had been thanked for her "unconventional" talent, and a warm feeling welled up in her heart.

She remembered her time in the village, where her nose was so sensitive that she could always smell what kind of meat someone was secretly cooking, which family's adults were hiding candy, or who had an unclean smell on them.

There was even a time when I smelled the scent of the village chief's wife on Old Wang next door...