Sun Tiantian was a little reluctant to go after hearing what she said, but she still said, "It's okay. Good physical strength is developed over time. Even if I go up the mountain today, I'll definitely be fine tomorrow."
Luo Jingyan and Luo Changtian did not change their minds, and the three of them went up the mountain together.
Sun Tiantian picked up the bamboo basket: "Maybe I can find some good stuff."
Luo Changtian went back into the house, took out a slingshot, and put it in his pocket. Luo Jingyan saw that the exposed part of the slingshot was made of wood, rubber bands, and rubber sheets.
She also has a slingshot in her space, which is completely modern and much more advanced than Luo Changtian's. It is also more powerful and is used by her to practice shooting.
Not long after they left the educated youth settlement, Xue Yanchen arrived, carrying a cloth bag. He found Zhao Jun and handed him the bag, saying, "Your aunt asked me to bring this to you."
Zhao Jun took the things and said, "Why didn't we get assigned to the same place? I was thinking that since you applied to the same place as me, we could work together. Sigh."
"We didn't run the educated youth office, so none of us can make decisions. We're already lucky to be assigned to the same commune."
Xue Yanchen scanned the courtyard but didn't see Luo Jingyan or Luo Changtian. He also didn't see Luo Changtian in the men's dormitory. He wondered where the two of them had gone.
Before leaving, Zhao Jun saw him to the door, took out two cigarettes, one for each of them, lit a match, and the two shared the cigarettes.
When no one was around, Xue Yanchen spoke up: "That thing should still be in the mountains."
A little over a month ago, a traitor appeared in the military's weapons research and development department. The traitor stole the new missile fuel that a group of experts had painstakingly developed from a special device in the laboratory.
The range of a missile largely depends on its fuel. If a fuel sample falls into enemy hands, they can quickly produce the same or even more advanced fuel, posing a significant threat to our side.
After the military discovered this, they sent people to track him down. After capturing the traitor, they found no samples of the new fuel on him.
Under intense questioning, the traitor finally admitted that he had accidentally left the fuel in the mountains near the Victory Battalion and the Forward Battalion.
Fearing that making a big fuss would cause panic among the villagers and arouse suspicion from the enemy, and that more people would know about the matter and cause the samples to fall into the hands of others, they could only send a small number of people here to search quietly and to secretly investigate and arrest whether there were any enemy agents in the area.
“It should still be there. I haven’t found any strange things that villagers have mentioned finding in the mountains. I go in and search whenever I have time. The thing is too small to be easily found. The mountain is so big, with lots of trees and cracks in the rocks everywhere. It’s too difficult to find,” Zhao Jun said.
Have you spotted any suspicious individuals around here?
"Most of them are quite normal, except for one female educated youth who always goes to the mountains to find mountain products and sells them on the black market. Apart from that, I haven't found anything abnormal about her. It could also be a smokescreen. I will continue to keep an eye on her."
"We still need to find that thing as soon as possible." Otherwise, even the shoes he's wearing will be a disservice.
"As long as the enemy doesn't find it first, it's fine."
"If the enemy finds it first, it will be too late once they develop the same fuel."
"Yes, if they find it first, we'll both be punished."
"Don't overthink it, believe in yourself. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
"Um."
In the mountains, most of the broad-leaved trees had not yet shed their leaves. Luo Jingyan saw a chestnut tree with a few chestnuts hanging sparsely on it.
The fruit in the lower places has probably been picked, so the fruit in the higher places is all picked.
Sun Tiantian said, "Peipei often comes to the mountain to pick chestnuts. There aren't many left on the outer edges, and she can't reach the tall ones. I reckon she's gone deep into the mountains again. She's so brave; I wouldn't dare go in there."
Luo Changtian stared at the chestnuts on the tree and said, "Sister, I'll use my slingshot to knock those spiky fruits down."
"Xiao Tian, this is a chestnut. The spiky ball is just an outer shell of the chestnut. But it's so high up, and the chestnut isn't very big. Can you knock it down?"
"Sister, just watch." Luo Changtian picked up a small stone from the ground, aimed it at the chestnut, and with a bang, knocked a chestnut down accurately, which then smashed onto the ground.
"Sister Tian, hurry up and put the chestnuts in the basket."
"Okay." Sun Tiantian happily and carefully picked up the thorny chestnuts from the ground and put them in her basket. At the same time, she didn't forget to praise Luo Changtian, "Xiao Tian, you're amazing."
"I can be even more amazing." Luo Changtian began to boast in the Luo family: "Back in the day, I was invincible with just a slingshot."
Luo Jingyan shook her head: Her little brother is also very good at bragging.
Luo Changtian raised his slingshot again and shot at the tree, bang bang bang, he shot down several trees in succession.
Luo Jingyan stood by watching when she suddenly heard Black Tiger shout: "Master, be careful! Master, be careful! There are pheasants nearby! There are pheasants nearby!"
Luo Jingyan could even hear it swallowing its saliva.
The little glutton wants to eat meat again.
Luo Jingyan didn't want this pheasant to become a common item at the educated youth settlement, so she had to act alone.
With Sun Tiantian taking care of Luo Changtian, she could feel a little more at ease.
"Sweetie, Xiaotian, I'm going to use the restroom over there. Wait for me to come back." A universal excuse.
“Alright then, you go ahead, I’ll keep an eye on Xiaotian,” Sun Tiantian said.
Luo Jingyan asked Black Tiger for the exact location of the pheasant, and she quietly approached the vicinity of the pheasant.
Currently, she has to physically touch the supplies to put them into the space; she hasn't tried moving things remotely yet.
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