Chapter 119 This knife has killed people!
After dinner, everyone returned to the temporary camp, and nearly 10 of the original 36 beds were empty.
The remaining 20 or so people have already gotten to know each other and are now gathered in front of Kai Youmu to discuss tomorrow's open subjects.
"What does it mean to be bold, careful and smart? Kaiyoumu, can you explain it more clearly?" Zheng Tiannan looked confused.
Kai Youmu: "I can't really explain it. The content of the subjects is different every year. At the beginning, the contestants were asked to work in teams, but later on, each person was tested individually."
"So what was your content last year?"
"First, we found the location based on the coordinates and walked dozens of kilometers along the border... I don't know about the subsequent projects, as they were eliminated early."
Kaiyoumu roughly recounted what happened last time.
Chen Wei frowned. "Why does it sound a bit like long-distance reconnaissance?"
The others nodded as well.
"I don't think it's that simple. Their selection standards are quite high. The elimination rate on the first day was over 30%. I'm afraid that more people will be eliminated in the future!" Zheng Tiannan said in a deep voice.
"These people think differently from us. Take this morning's physical fitness test, for example. Damn, I never thought we'd have to come back and pack our bags."
"Do you think this will happen again tomorrow morning?"
"Who knows? I think we'd better pack our backpacks in advance tonight."
Everyone discussed it for an hour or two but couldn't come to a conclusion.
Even though Xu Ge and Li Dongshui had come into contact with the Thunder God so many times, they still couldn't guess how this guy planned to test everyone.
Since that was the case, everyone simply didn't bother to care and made preparations according to their own ideas. They all went to bed early at dawn.
For a soldier, it is most important to keep his spirits up and in good condition at all times.
Just after midnight, Xu Ge, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by the sound of footsteps on gravel. He immediately turned over and sat up, and woke up Kai Youmu and Li Dongshui one after another.
"What's wrong?" Kaiyoumu asked.
Xu Ge whispered, "Someone is coming!"
At this time, several other contestants were also awakened by the noise and asked, "What's going on?"
“Someone’s coming!”
"Is this true? What time is it now?"
"Just after 12 o'clock!"
"Fuck! Get up, get up, it's already the second day!"
Now everyone woke up and quickly got up to put on their clothes and shoes.
Just when everyone was hesitating whether to pack their backpacks, a sharp whistle sounded.
Beep beep beep!
"Everyone gather at the door, bring your satchel and water bottle!"
Hulala!
Everyone quickly picked up their things and ran out.
Xu Ge and his group were the first to come out, and Thor was standing outside with his hands behind his back.
"Eight people form a team. Find your teammates. After forming a team, choose a team leader and come to me to receive the mission!"
Zheng Tiannan, Chen Wei and other familiar players quickly surrounded Xu Ge and the other two.
"We are all here! Do you have any objection to me being the team leader?" Zheng Tiannan shouted loudly.
Everyone shook their heads: "No!"
Zheng Tiannan immediately rushed to the Thunder God: "Report!"
Lei Shen was a little surprised. He glanced over and casually threw an envelope over. "You are the first group. Now go to the gate of the Sirius Camp and board the bus!"
"yes!"
The eight people hurriedly ran in the dark.
Fortunately, the moonlight is bright enough tonight and the visibility in the Gobi Desert is still acceptable.
By the time everyone rushed to the gate of Tianlang, they found that there were already five cars waiting there.
"Over here! Hand in all your personal belongings! Yes, everything! Everyone come over and get some dry food and water!"
A member of the Tianlang team shouted, "Once you get yours, get on the first car!"
The person in charge of distributing the rations was his old acquaintance Yuan Chuan. As Xu Ge received the rations, he whispered, "Why are there only five cars?"
If there are eight people in a group, and each group has one car, then there should be ten cars here.
Yuan Chuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this question, and said with a smile: "The starting directions of the first five groups and the last five groups are different. Anyway, those in the front must be more comfortable."
"I understand! Thank you!"
"come on!"
After their belongings were checked, Xu Ge and his eight companions quickly got on the first car.
The driver didn't say a word. He counted the number of people and found that there were eight of them. Then he stepped on the accelerator and drove off.
Everyone was a little confused at this time and didn't know where to go. The only thing they could be sure of was that the assessment of open subjects had already begun!
More than half an hour later, Xu Ge felt that the car stopped shaking and the road became smooth, so he immediately leaned out to look.
"We're on the national highway! Heading north!"
"Squad Leader Zheng, didn't the chief instructor give you something? Open it and take a look!" Kai Youmu reminded.
Zheng Tiannan was stunned: "Who is the chief instructor?"
"It's the examiner!"
“Oh oh!”
Zheng Tiannan then remembered the envelope in his pocket, and quickly took it out and opened it. Everyone gathered around him.
"Shit, I can't see clearly! It's too dark in the car!"
"Give me!"
Xu Ge took it and found a piece of paper inside. He looked at it carefully and saw a coordinate written on it and a sentence below:
The second coordinate is on the knife.
Xu Ge immediately repeated the content.
Chen Wei immediately asked, "What are the coordinates?"
Xu Ge: "79°87'34" east longitude, 33°43'53" north latitude."
“What the hell???”
Everyone in the car was stunned.
Zheng Tiannan was shocked: "If I remember correctly, we are around 36 North Latitude and 77 East Longitude. Damn, where are they going to take us?"
Kai Youmu frowned: "With such a big difference in longitude and latitude, the distance must be hundreds of kilometers, right?"
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. . .
The car was still speeding through the night.
No one wanted to sleep at all, and everyone was very nervous.
Since everyone's personal belongings were confiscated and the exact time was unknown, we can only guess that it must have taken several hours.
Gradually, Xu Ge felt that the scenes on both sides of the road were somewhat familiar. He patted Li Dongshui and said, "Look outside. Are we at Shiquan River yet?"
Li Dongshui leaned out and carefully identified it for a while, and was a little surprised: "It seems to be true!"
Just when everyone thought the car was going to stop at Shiquan River, the driver had no intention of slowing down. He crossed the Shiquan River directly and continued driving forward for nearly an hour before turning off the national highway.
At this time, the sky was already slightly brighter, and everyone felt that the surroundings were gradually becoming desolate during the bumpy ride.
squeak!
The car stopped and the driver signaled everyone to get off.
"Who is the team leader?"
"It's me!" Zheng Tiannan came to the cab.
The driver handed over a map and eight wristbands and said, "Everyone gets one wristband. If anyone can't hold on any longer, just press the rescue button and someone will come to pick you up."
Xu Ge could tell something was wrong with the driver's words and asked, "Pick us up?"
"Yes, as long as one person asks for help, the entire team will be considered to have given up." After the driver said this, he stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
The eight people stood there looking at each other.
"No, are you just going to abandon us here and ignore us?"
"Let's first figure out the location and direction!"
Zheng Tiannan was about to distribute wristbands to everyone, but was stopped by Chen Wei.
"Since the entire team will be eliminated if one person gives up, we have no way out. Let's have one person keep these eight bracelets."
Zheng Tiannan looked at the others: "What do you mean?"
"Then you will keep it alone!"
“We have no objection!”
"Okay!" Zheng Tiannan put all the bracelets into his bag and spread out the map on the ground.
Kaiyoumu looked towards the place where a faint light appeared on the horizon and pointed: "That's the east!"
Zheng Tiannan immediately aligned the map with the north: "Let's determine our position first."
"Xu Ge, what are those coordinates?"
"79°87'34" East longitude, 33°43'53" North latitude."
"Without a ruler, who can calculate?"
"I'll do it!"
These people were all experienced veterans, and after about ten minutes they had determined their own position and target direction.
“It turns out it’s near Swan Lake!”
Zheng Tiannan began a meeting with everyone. "The situation is now clear. The target location is approximately 90 kilometers away from us. I don't know if Tianlang and the others have a time limit, but we must get there as quickly as possible!"
Everyone nodded.
Xu Ge asked: "Normally how long would it take us to get there?"
Zheng Tiannan thought for a moment and said, "I don't think anyone has experience with this. I estimate it will take more than 12 hours. This is mainly because our supplies are too low. From now on, we must formulate a strict food distribution plan, and everyone must resolutely implement it!"
"No problem, that's how it should be!"
Kaiyoumu nodded and said, "Let me remind everyone, don't think 90 kilometers is easy. In the case of food and water shortages, it is actually a huge challenge!
I think the most important issue for us is not how long it will take us to get there, but to ensure that everyone can reach their destination, even if it takes a little longer!"
"Right! We need to conserve our energy! I've participated in a 50-kilometer forced march, and Kaiyoumu is right."
"The current altitude is around 2700 meters. We are not carrying any weights, so let's take turns leading the team!"
After a discussion, everyone quickly decided on the general plan for the next step.
In fact, when Xu Ge first learned that he needed to hike 90 kilometers, his first reaction was to add 5,000 general skill points to his physical fitness.
But he soon remembered that this was an action involving eight people, and it would be useless no matter how fast he rushed alone, so he decided to continue waiting for the opportunity.
Everyone then found the right direction and headed west.
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. . .
This walk takes a whole day!
We all set out at around 5am, and it's already late at night.
The state of the eight people at this moment was completely different from when they first set out. Everyone had a numb look on their face and walked unsteadily.
Before setting off, everyone had anticipated that it would be difficult and had made various plans to save energy and food, but they were completely useless.
After fifty kilometers, the water and food that everyone brought with them were used up, and they had to drink boiled stream water.
Fortunately, these people have good survival skills in the wild. At least making a fire is not difficult for anyone. The real difficulty lies in the fuel problem.
In the wilderness, everyone worked together. It took more than half an hour just to find flammable plant roots, and they also burned three kettles.
By this time, everyone's body has reached its limit.
Li Dongshui was supported by Kai Youmu and Xu Ge. His lips were chapped and it was difficult for him to even speak a word.
"Where's the map? Are we there yet?"
Zheng Tiannan looked around. They were now at the foot of a square mountain. The mountain sloped upwards gently, with a flat area every few sections, like a large terraced field.
We spread out the map and looked at it for a long time in the moonlight, and finally confirmed that we had arrived!
“What the hell!”
The eight of them immediately lay down on the grass and were too lazy to move for a long time.
It's more than 90 kilometers, of which at least 80 kilometers are through the wilderness, and we even crossed three mountains in the middle.
It wasn't until the last few kilometers that meadows and the marmots, which were not afraid of people, appeared.
Li Dongshui, whose eyes were red from hunger, clamored to eat rat meat, but was told by others that it was easy to get plague.
"Gurgle! Gurgle!"
A large bird flew in the sky and circled over everyone's heads, making a sound that made their scalps tingle.
Kaiyoumu sat up suddenly and shouted, "Get up, get up! Don't lie down!"
"What the hell! What the hell is that?"
"It's a vulture! They're treating us like corpses!"
As soon as the eight people stood up from the grass, the vultures above their heads immediately flew up the mountain.
Chen Wei's face turned grim: "Why are there vultures here? This is weird!"
Zheng Tiannan waved his hand: "Let's go, go up the mountain to find a knife!"
It was clearly written on the note that the second coordinate was on the knife.
Everyone walked up the mountain in a line, cursing.
"Damn it! You're asking us to look for a knife in the middle of the night in the wilderness, okay? But at least tell me what kind of knife it is?"
"How do I find it in such a huge mountain?"
"Who cares what kind of knife it is? There's only one, right? Can Tianlang and the others just throw knives all over the mountain? If that's the case, I'd say it's awesome..."
"knife!"
Li Dongshui suddenly bent down, picked up a short knife from the grass, held it high, and said excitedly,
"Hahaha! I found the knife!"
The others were instantly alerted and quickly gathered around.
"Holy crap! There's a real knife!"
"Quickly check if the coordinates are written on the blade?"
Li Dongshui looked over the dagger twice and was stunned: "There's nothing!"
Xu Ge had just arrived at this time and was about to get closer when he suddenly smelled an indescribable smell coming from the knife.
There was a hint of blood, but more of it was the stench of rotting flesh. This smell instantly made his face change drastically.
"Fuck! This knife has killed people!"
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