"It's enough for us to pick this piece. There's no need to keep looking." Li Xin suddenly grabbed Liu Xiang and stopped her. "Sister Xiang, let's just pick these here before we leave!"
Li Xin said this to Liu Xiang as well as to men.
The identity of this man has not been figured out yet, and he suddenly appeared on the mountain with a gun on him. Li Xin felt that his identity might not be that simple.
Taking advantage of the fact that this man was not on guard against them, Li Xin rolled her eyes and decided to stay.
“…” The man took a look at their two backpacks and shoulder bags, which looked like they were only half full.
There were indeed a lot of mushrooms nearby, so he thought about it and agreed.
"Sister Xiang, let's continue picking." Li Xin turned and smiled at Liu Xiang.
"Okay, let's pick them quickly." Seeing that she insisted on staying to pick mushrooms, Liu Xiang followed her and walked over to get his backpack to continue picking.
Li Xin squatted down, picked a mushroom and put it in his bag. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he took out the small metal detector he made yesterday from the space in his bag.
This was originally placed in the room, but He Beichen suddenly wanted to sleep with her last night. She took advantage of He Beichen taking a shower to put the detector back into the space to avoid He Beichen discovering that she had dismantled his radio.
She took out the detector, covered it with her shoulder bag, and pretended to pick mushrooms while secretly tying the detector to her ankle. Because of the large trouser legs, it could not be seen at all even when she was squatting.
While Li Xin was doing this, she did not forget to look at the shape of the thing on the man's waist, confirming that it was a pistol, but she did not rule out the possibility that she was wrong, so she used a metal detector to check it out, just to confirm.
The man was originally squatting in the grass, but after being discovered by Li Xin and the others, he kept walking back and forth beside them, glancing at the two of them from time to time, looking a little anxious.
"Comrade, the two of us will collect here and leave after we're done. If you have something urgent to do, you can go and do it first and don't worry about us. And you just said that we will definitely not go any deeper." Li Xin looked at him and said to the man with an understanding look.
She had a sweet smile on her face and looked very well-behaved and harmless, which was very deceptive.
"Oh, I'm not in a hurry. I'm waiting for my companions here." As expected, the man looked at her and spoke without any special guard.
Li Xin was picking mushrooms while moving closer to the man. Her movements were very slow and it seemed like she was picking mushrooms all the time, but she only picked very few. The mushrooms in her bag grew very slowly.
"Your companions haven't come yet? It would be unsafe to go hunting too late, right?" Li Xin muttered, seemingly chatting with the man about family matters.
Liu Xiang was looking at this side from a distance, feeling puzzled. She felt that Li Xin was talking more than usual, even though she was not a talkative person.
"It's okay. There are many of us. It won't be too dangerous if we don't go too deep into the mountains." said the man.
"Oh." Li Xin nodded and moved closer to the man. The man's eyes were always fixed on her. Li Xin felt that he became obviously nervous, and his body was slightly tense when he walked.
The man seemed nervous about her approach?
Why, because you have a gun on you?
It should be unlikely. The gun was hidden. If the clothes were not opened, the gun would not be exposed. He should not be afraid that she would find the gun on him.
What are you nervous about?
Li Xin stopped and pretended to concentrate on digging the mushrooms in front of him, but his peripheral vision was following the man's movements.
He kept walking over there, but his route was back and forth on the same line, and it seemed that he was still trying to prevent her from getting closer.
To be precise, he was preventing her from walking closer to the other side of him.
Is there something on the other side?
Li Xin suddenly remembered that when she saw the man just now, he was also squatting.
If they weren't hiding, does that mean that men should have been working on the land?
Li Xin's eyes swept subtly across the area where the man had just squatted.
"When I was in my hometown, I saw them digging traps when hunting. Do you also dig traps to catch small animals?" Li Xin put the small mushrooms he had just picked back into his bag, then raised his head and continued talking to the man.
“…” The man was stunned for a moment, his expression was obviously abnormal for a moment, and then he nodded.
"That's indeed quite dangerous." Li Xin said with a smile.
She was now certain that the man must have buried something in the ground before they found him.
The reason you are so anxious now is because it is not finished yet?
That's why I'm so anxious to get them to leave.
Now she was so nervous that she moved closer. Was it because she was worried that she would accidentally step on it?
Li Xin continued to move slowly towards that side, changing the position where the man had just squatted, looking like he was interested in the big mushroom.
The man was indeed very nervous, and even subconsciously took a step towards her. It seemed that he could no longer resist stopping Li Xin from approaching.
However, seeing Li Xin stop in front of the mushroom, he stopped again after taking a step. Perhaps he felt that he was too obvious, so he coughed twice in a pretentious manner.
Li Xin did not get too close to that location, but squatted down and adjusted the sensitivity. This distance was enough for her detector to detect it.
Sure enough, there was a vibration at the ankle and a small noise.
In order to avoid being discovered by the man, Li Xin turned the alarm volume to the minimum.
As expected, the man had buried something underground here. Feeling the intensity of the vibration, Li Xin's eyes dimmed.
She picked the big mushroom and walked away with it. Only then did the vibration on her ankle slowly stop.
The man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw her step back.
"Then where do you live? It's been so long, and your companions haven't come yet. Do you live far away?" After stepping away, Li Xin asked him again seemingly unintentionally.
"Not far, not far, just a few miles away." The man may have seen that she was about to leave, so he didn't speak as harshly as before.
Li Xin even asked the man to point her in a direction, and the man actually pointed her in.
"Ladies, I think you've almost finished gathering. Can you go back now?" After dragging on for so long, the man began to chase them away. "It's going to be hard for us to catch any prey if you keep staying here."
"That's right." Li Xin looked at the sky. If he continued to hesitate, the man would probably become suspicious.
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