Chapter 472: Back Road
She tried her best to keep her tone calm, but her speech got faster and faster. How could Mu Xi not understand the panic in her voice? He reached out and held her in his arms to comfort her.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was too impatient. Maybe, as you said, they are here just for the rare earth ore and won't really cause trouble for us. So let's wait a little longer."
Zhao Yeqing wrapped his arms tightly around Mu Xi's waist, burying his whole face in his chest. Even though he felt a little suffocated, he was reluctant to let go. The two hugged each other tightly, as if this was the only way to give themselves and each other a sense of security.
When she calmed down, her eyes were red and her eyelashes were condensed by water vapor. She said in a deep voice: "Let's leave ourselves a way out."
Although they don't have to worry about human nature in the mountains, the friction with nature over the years has made their characters more resolute.
There is nothing difficult about it. It’s just a matter of encountering problems and solving them, that’s all.
Zhao Yeqing's idea was simple. "You said you wanted to move out before. It's not easy to move so many things in the house. It's also not easy to find a suitable place to live. Even if you don't want the cattle and sheep, what about the electrical appliances? Do you have to start from scratch to build a house?"
If that's the case, the time span would be too long. I don't know when I'll be able to move in. I can't just find a cave and squeeze myself in it.
If it is a ready-made house, there are three places to choose from. One is the tourist area, which is the closest but has the largest destination and is no different from living in your current home.
One is a village, which is a medium-sized target. After all, looking down from the sky, the entire village is still too obvious, and grazing is not allowed. The advantage is that vehicles can be used to transport furniture and electrical appliances in the middle, and there are ready-made houses.
The last place is Meishan.
That place is the most secluded, hidden deep in the mountains and surrounded by trees. Unless there is a plane flying overhead, few people will notice this small open space. But it is too far away and it is impossible to drive there. If we go back, almost everything may have to be abandoned.
Zhao Yeqing analyzed the pros and cons, and Mu Xi added a sentence or two from time to time, but in the end, neither was the best choice.
The most feasible option seems to be the village, but in fact, apart from a car that was blown up nearby a few days ago, making the target of home obvious, the village is actually no different from this side. Even the direction is the same, and it can be seen by airplanes.
Zhao Yeqing thought of his original idea: "Why don't we live here? I thought of digging a tunnel in the basement that leads directly to the nearest forest, which is under the slope where we first burned charcoal. If they really come, we can go through the tunnel."
Mu Xi lowered his eyes and thought for a while before nodding. When he raised his head again, there was a fierceness in his eyes that Zhao Yeqing had never seen before.
"If they don't have many people, we will fight back as soon as we get the chance."
The two men had guns in their hands. How many people could the small helicopter last time hold? Mu Xi was familiar with that type of helicopter. Including the pilot, it could seat up to four people. As long as he could seize the initiative, he might be able to eliminate the trouble forever.
Mu Xi has been holding back his anger for so many days. The two of them have been hiding in the deep mountains and forests for so many years to stay away from people. If they come to provoke him, don't blame them for being ruthless.
Zhao Yeqing knew what he meant, and her hands suddenly went weak. She still remembered the feeling of the weapon piercing human skin after all these years.
She was the most ordinary child who grew up healthily under a brilliant education. She would be criticized even for breaking some branches in the mountains. The cruelest thing she had done before the ground cracked was to retaliate against the colleague who spread the dirty rumor about her.
The only person killed after the ground cracked was the one infected with the virus. She was able to convince herself that it was because that person was incurable, but it still took her a long time to really recover after that.
But now hearing what Mu Xi said...she clenched her fists lightly and couldn't help but chuckle.
The somewhat oppressive atmosphere was broken. Mu Xi was a little confused by her smile and couldn't help laughing, "What are you laughing at?"
Zhao Yeqing pursed his lips and shook his head, his eyes still smiling.
"After listening to you, I found that it was not as hard to accept as I thought. My mind turned and I thought of a sentence... After killing chickens, ducks and fish in the mountains for seven or eight years, my heart is colder than the knife in my hand."
Zhao Yeqing's jumping thoughts quickly changed his mood, and the two of them couldn't help laughing when they looked at each other.
That’s right. After living in the mountains for so many years, those who were not steadfast in their character would have died the year when Meishan suffered from water shortage.
Besides, I won’t offend others unless they offend me. Even if those people were really killed by the two of them, they deserved it.
With a plan in mind, the two of them went to refill the gasoline as originally planned. They filled up everything that could hold oil in case the gas station was discovered.
The gas station was actually not very conspicuous. From the angle, it was just below the cliff, and the side closer to the meadow was blocked by a small forest. As long as the helicopter did not fly a little to that side when flying over, it would not be discovered.
When Mu Xi went there this time, he pulled out a lot of vines and cut grass in the woods above, which roughly covered the conspicuous red roof of the gas station.
Those who had originally planned to go to the village to get things did not go again. Instead, after getting the gasoline back, they started digging a tunnel at home.
The two men had experience in underground digging. Unlike before, they didn't need to build a large basement. They only needed a tunnel that could accommodate one person. It didn't need to be very high and they could just crawl in.
The smaller the space inside, the less likely it is that the top will collapse.
Digging is not difficult, and the two estimate that they can finish it in less than a week. A lot of time is wasted because of the small space and difficulty in transporting soil.
After the tunnel was dug, the two men never saw the helicopter fly over again.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but wonder if the two of them weren't actually that special. Maybe they had seen many people living on their own in the mountains along the way.
It's impossible that there aren't any, Zhao Yeqing thought. There are quite a few villagers in the nearby mountains, and many of them seldom go outside. As long as they don't go out and get infected, the farmers in the mountains can definitely support themselves by being self-sufficient.
Both of them, half-baked farmers, survived, while the old farmers in the mountains have lived off the mountains since childhood and have their own way of survival.
If it weren't for the fact that the ground cracks blocked many places, I might have bumped into people while walking in the mountains over the years.
Mu Xi crawled out of the tunnel, his body covered with mud, some of which was still slightly moist.
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