After a night's rest, the tenth day of the game ended with a total distance traveled of 1400 li.
Rainforest leveled the playing field with all the progress he had accumulated earlier, which was more than 400 miles less than his planned 180 miles per day.
Shi Jin sat on the footboard in the back of the truck, saying, "We have 45 days left to travel 8,600 li."
Shekh: "Reaching on day 55 will earn you an extra 10 points, which is our ideal pace. I suggest you compress the time to 50 days."
She sat opposite Shi Jinzhe, separated from him by a small fire, on which a grilled fish was being roasted on a stone slab.
"You need to rest every few days to get back into shape."
"Then I'll do as you say." Shi Jinzhe flipped the fish over. "Are you still able to get used to walking for so long today?"
On the tenth day, they walked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., taking a half-hour break at noon. This was the first time Shekh had walked such a long distance.
“I’m managing to adapt fairly well,” Shekh nodded. “I won’t force myself.”
Physical evolution has made her more accustomed to and skilled at using her legs; rather than whether she is comfortable with them, it's more about whether she is tired.
But she's not tired even when she's exhausted, so there's no reason for her to be worse.
"If you can't leave, just say so." Shi Jinzhe squeezed some lemon juice onto the fish. The fire was still burning. He used a piece of wood to pick up the scalding hot stone slab and placed it in front of Shehe, then replaced it with a new stone slab.
"It's very hot, eat slowly, and we'll rest for half an hour after you finish eating."
Aren't you going to eat?
Shi Jinzhe: "I don't want to see fish right now."
Today, not only insects are biting him, but even the fish in the stream are trying to bite him, as if he were some kind of powerful tonic.
The fish's teeth were sharp and pointed, and blood gushed out of its mouth.
The blood flowed into the water, attracting even more fish. The scene was no less spectacular than feeding koi in a park, with a huge swarm of them rushing towards you with their mouths open.
And he was the one who was being fed.
"Perhaps you are slowly upgrading and becoming more fragrant, and naturally they will crave you."
“I’ve upgraded, shouldn’t you be the first to notice?” Shi Jinzhe pointed to himself and then to Shehe. “You smelled my specialness the first time we met.”
"That's not my focus right now."
Shi Jinzhe looked down and said, "Why don't we explain it more clearly?"
Shekh remained silent, wouldn't let her do anything else, and even asked questions she already knew the answers to.
What a bad taste.
After silently finishing the two fish, she passed by Shi Jinzhe, went straight back to her car, washed up, and went to sleep.
Shi Jinzhe's face was covered in Shehe's skirt. He turned around and followed her figure, only to see her close the door without any hesitation.
He dusted off his pants, got back into the car from the footrest, and stood guard at the bathroom door.
Sheh sensed the living person at the door from inside. She waited a moment before opening the door. "Do you need it?"
"No need for a bathroom."
"and you?"
"Use you."
The door clicked shut, but Shekh's expression didn't change at all.
See? She told me long ago, this guy was just playing hard to get.
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The next day.
The two walked through the mountains for a day, the path pointed out by the golden butterfly remained unchanged, and since it wasn't raining, they were making progress at a rate of 30 li per day.
Shi Jinzhe stepped onto a steep slope and reached back to pull Shehe: "If only it were flat ground, these branches and holes are slowing us down too much."
At his and Shekh's speed, they could easily cover 60 to 80 miles a day on a flat road.
But this is in the rainforest, so the speed can only be halved.
Shekh: "These slopes are so annoying, and I always feel like we're going higher and higher."
"Let's see in the next few days, maybe we're on our way up the mountain."
"Um."
On the twelfth day of the game, Shi Jinzhe covered himself up completely with his clothes and his face, and finally he was no longer injured.
On the thirteenth day of the game, they encountered a leopard with cubs in the forest. After making eye contact for less than a second, the mother leopard turned and ran away.
She ran far away before realizing she had forgotten about the child, and then nervously ran back to retrieve the cub.
On the fourteenth day of the game, a new suitor appeared: a very beautiful blue long-glanded coral snake, which relentlessly followed the two for a whole day.
Shekh said nothing and did nothing. As evening approached, Shi Jinzhe stared at the snake and chuckled twice, only to realize it was coming for him…
He touched his brow: "...They must have come for my blood too."
"Oh."
Shekh bit into his hand, but instead of sucking blood, he made a scent mark.
Day 15... Day 16... ...until Day 19 of the game...
Shekh held up the damp map. "We're almost out of the rainforest. The Golden Butterfly has entered the next phase and opened a new map."
Shi Jin folded closer and looked at it with her: "The area that has been unlocked this time is quite large, and each part takes up a lot of space. It should be usable for cars now."
The entire central area of the map is unlocked; it's either red or yellow, with very little green.
"Let's go, let's try to get out of here today."
"Hmm." Shekh sensed the surrounding environment and, after walking for a short while, told Shi Jinzhe, "There's that river you hate the most again."
The sound was very loud; even Shi Jinzhe could hear the water, though Sheh didn't say anything.
He frowned, and after walking less than a hundred meters, a rumbling sound gave him a bad feeling.
The rushing waterfall splashes water, creating sprays like curtains. The water droplets from the impact transform into flying blossoms and shattered jade, carrying moisture that drifts onto people's faces.
A waterfall, hundreds of meters wide, cascades down into a deep, dark green pool below, creating a white mist.
The turbulent waters flowed into a new channel and dispersed in all directions.
The two stood on the bank, dozens of meters from the waterfall, facing the abruptly cut-off cliff, and Shi Jinzhe felt even more melancholy.
“The golden butterfly points to only this one road.” Shekh put away the wooden box and map. “We have to jump down from here.”
Shi Jinzhe: "At this height, I might get hit by the water and die."
The maximum height is thirty meters, but this waterfall is at least a hundred meters high; the surface tension of the water could kill it.
Even if it can cure this, the force of the impact when it hits the water will knock him unconscious, and losing consciousness in the water is equivalent to drowning.
When the golden butterfly was pointing the way, did it assume he could fly there too, without considering whether it was a path for humans to walk on?
The snow-capped mountain is one, the cliff from last time is another, and the waterfall this time is yet another.
Shekh arrived at the edge of the waterfall and stood firmly.
She bent down and carefully checked for dirt and mud. When she confirmed there was none, she reached out to Shi Jinzhe: "This time I'll take you down here."
Shi Jin raised an eyebrow and walked across the water, saying, "You are absolutely the most perfect snake in the world."
“You can praise me later.” Shekh opened his arms. “Take a deep breath and hug me tight.”
Shi Jinzhe obediently hugged her tightly, and her purple tail coiled around her, its fine scales clinging tightly like a screw being tightened, layer upon layer.
“Although I can’t fly, some snakes can still make a cocoon for me,” Shi Jinzhe said before the view in front of him was completely obscured. “You are truly captivating.”
"?"
Shekh gave him an indescribable look. "Crazy."
Why don't we make him jump down and flush the water out of his brain?
"I'm going to jump."
As soon as he finished speaking, the protective circle formed by the snake's tail tightly enveloped the two of them, and they crashed heavily into the deep pool hundreds of meters below.
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