"Phew, bro, you scared me to death." Your best friend's brother is your own brother.
"How's it going down there?"
Li Si asked nervously, his eyes fixed on Zhou Yu's mouth, afraid that he would reveal a result he didn't want to know.
"Found them, found them, found their belongings, everything's alright. I came up first, they're all waiting downstairs."
Li Si plopped down on the ground and took several deep breaths to recover.
He scrambled to his feet and rushed into the tent.
"Get up, all of you, get up now!"
The sleepy-eyed group opened their eyes. After all, they were all well-trained and did not complain. They dressed and stood aside waiting for Li Si to give orders.
The rope was pulled, and the people above began to pull upwards with all their might.
When the item came up, Li Si thought it was Gu Yanci, but when he ran to the side, he found it was a hiking backpack, which was much heavier than a person. The group worked together to put the item aside and continued to throw the rope down.
One after another, until the first person to come up was Amu, Li Si finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then one after another came up. Chu Xingyue took the initiative to stay until the end. When Gu Yanci came up, the group was careful not to touch his broken leg. Only when Li Si actually saw Gu Yanci in front of him did he completely relax and carefully hug Gu Yanci.
"Brother, I knew you were lucky and had a long life."
Gu Yanci patted his brother on the back, knowing that Li Si had suffered the most during his time down there.
"It's alright, don't worry."
Chu Xingyue was the last to come up from underground. She turned around and looked at the bottomless black hole behind her for a few seconds, hoping that she would never come to such a place again, and even more so, that such a place would not be discovered by other people with ulterior motives.
It was already past midnight, and everyone had to spend the night resting on the mountain.
Nobody's in the mood to chat this late. I need to get some rest. I'm so tired. I can finally get a good night's sleep.
The way down the mountain was much easier than the way up. Although it wasn't as easy as I had imagined, it was definitely not as difficult as going up.
When the communicator received the message, Chu Xingyue quickly contacted the military personnel waiting nearby. It would take them two or three days to get down the mountain, and a group of people would be waiting for them when they arrived.
Surprisingly, some of the people in this group were familiar faces: Xia Yijun, Chu Qingzhi, and Jiang Wang.
Chu Xingyue took off her glasses and winked at the three of them. The two groups then saluted each other without saying much, and no one liked to reminisce in such a desolate place.
Chu Xingyue followed them to the nearest military region, where the leaders of the military region personally received them.
Someone led them directly to the guesthouse where Chu Xingyue and the others took a comfortable bath.
"Deputy Regiment Commander, we made plans to visit Brother Gu together. Would you like to come with us?"
Chu Xingyue looked at Fu Jingcheng and the others waiting at her door; not one of them was missing.
"Me too, me too!" Chu Jiaojiao said as she was putting on her shoes when she stood up to the group standing at their door.
"Let's go together then."
The person was assigned to the medical clinic of their military region, apparently because the orthopedic doctors there were very skilled.
Gu Yanci didn't bother with anything else. Amu made a temporary fixation, and the military doctor put a cast on him. Right now, he was leaning against the hospital bed chatting with Xia Yijun and Chu Qingzhi.
There was a knock at the door, and the people who were speaking immediately turned to look at the door.
"Brother Gu, we've come to see you."
Fu Jingcheng peeked through the crack in the door and asked with a grin.
"Come in."
A whole bunch of people rushed in, filling the small ward to capacity.
Those who knew Xia Yijun and Chu Qingzhi greeted them and introduced themselves to the others they didn't know.
Chu Jiaojiao and Xia Yiyang greeted their two older brothers and then huddled together to chat.
Chu Xingyue was the last to enter. She greeted her two older brothers with a smile, then turned to look at Gu Yanci, who was sitting on the bed.
What did the doctor say?
"They said the rescue was very timely, but he felt down and said it was still a bit misaligned. They had already corrected it before you arrived."
Gu Yanci gave an honest and straightforward answer.
"Then it's not a big problem. Just rest and recuperate when you get back." Gu Yanci's eyes remained fixed on Chu Xingyue, his upturned lips never leaving her lips since she entered.
Judging from An'an's attitude towards Aci, it seems that Aci is the only one enthusiastic about the job. It looks like Comrade Gu needs to step up his game. They can't speak up for him casually now, otherwise they'll definitely get a beating if they anger their sister.
"We'll head back after we've eaten. You should go back and take good care of your injury."
Chu Xingyue told Gu Yanci that she was leaving that afternoon.
"So fast?" Gu Yanci propped himself up on the bed with both hands.
"We'll wait for you outside."
Xia Yijun asked the others in the ward to leave, leaving some time for her good brother.
A whole group of people went out again.
"We found the item. But with your broken leg, you probably won't be able to go out looking for things for a while."
Chu Xingyue stated the facts.
Gu Yanci looked at his legs with a sense of frustration and disappointment, but there was nothing he could do about it now.
"The most important thing now is to recover from the injury. My supervisor will make other arrangements."
"An'an, did you receive all the messages I sent you?"
"Mmm," she answered softly.
“I don’t mean to bother you. I just want to share my life with you and let you know me better. If you find it annoying, then you don’t have to look.” Gu Yanci looked at Chu Xingyue with his obsidian-like eyes.
“I’ve seen them all, they’re very interesting. I haven’t replied to you yet, do you have any other thoughts?” Chu Xingyue suddenly wanted to tease the man in front of her.
"No, no, I'm just happy that you can see me, really." He sounded like an innocent young man, which made Chu Xingyue's eyebrows twitch.
He's just an innocent young man, someone who's over thirty and has never been in a relationship.
"I've never been in a relationship, so I don't know how people in relationships interact, even though you're not my girlfriend yet." Gu Yanci's eyes looked at Chu Xingyue, making her heart skip a beat. For such a handsome man to look at her so affectionately, the meaning behind his words couldn't be clearer.
That's just too unfair.
"Being my boyfriend isn't easy. Someone like you who breaks your leg so easily, I can't protect you."
"No, it was an accident, I'll be fine soon."
"What exactly do you like about me?" Chu Xingyue stood in front of Gu Yanci with her arms crossed.
"I've never felt this way before. When I see you, all I see is you. When I can't see you, I wonder what you're doing, whether you've eaten, and how your studies are going."
"In short, I'm really hung up on you. My gut feeling tells me that you're the one. If I miss you, I think I'll never meet a girl like you who can make my heart flutter in this lifetime."
Gu Yanci looked into Chu Xingyue's eyes as he answered her, as if she were now his only one.
"In my nearly thirty years of life, I have never felt this way before. I know that my future other half is you."
"What makes you think I wouldn't like someone several years older than me if I didn't like younger people?"
Chu Xingyue's face darkened.
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