Xu Anran and her companions were driving when they came across a charging station and fully charged their car. There was an outdoor gear store nearby; it was still open. Li Xue and Grandpa Li went inside to check. There were signs that someone had lived there, but it was now covered in dust, indicating that the person who lived there had left some time ago.
Xu Anran stayed in the car to watch it, while the chubby boy and Xiaoyue went to help Grandpa Li and the others move their things. They took three large tents, a small electric stove, storage batteries, windbreakers, sleeping bags, and so on.
I tied this thing to the roof of the car with the store's safety rope and continued on my way. When I passed a hardware store, I also found some electrical wires to take with me.
We arrived at the mountainous area on the outskirts of the city at noon. Since we hadn't eaten since morning, we found a shady spot under a tree, parked there for 10 minutes, and each of us quickly ate our bread and bottled water.
They searched for a suitable place to stay along the way. The area was sparsely populated and had very few surveillance cameras, but they decided that for safety reasons, they would not stay in the village houses. They parked the car in a secluded spot at the foot of the mountain. Grandpa Li and Li Xue stayed behind to watch the car, while Xu Anran took Xiaoyue and the little fat boy and went up the mountain separately to look for a suitable place to stay. They agreed to meet up at the parking spot two hours later, whether they found a place or not.
Xu Anran and Xiaoyue found a small wooden cabin halfway up the mountain. It was surrounded by trees and the terrain was flat, so they went down.
After waiting for a while, the chubby boy also came down the mountain. He found a temple at the top. The temple looked a bit dilapidated and hadn't been visited in a long time, but there was a spring at the back door, which looked quite nice. The chubby boy told everyone about the temple he had found. They discussed going to the top of the mountain to take a look first, and if it was suitable, they would stay there; if not, they would go to the small wooden cabin halfway up the mountain.
Xu Anran carried a bag and a box of bread, while the chubby boy also carried a bag, with a large bundle of supplies in front of him, and they led the way. Grandpa Li and Li Xue wanted to help carry things, but Xu Anran refused, telling them to watch the car and that she and her husband would carry things first, and they could take over when they got too tired. Xiao Yue was still too young to carry much, so she just followed along to memorize the route.
The mountains here are relatively easy to climb, with man-made steps, but it's still not an easy climb; soon enough, everyone was drenched in sweat. The chubby boy stopped to rest several times along the way. They climbed for over an hour before reaching the temple at the top of the mountain. Xu Anran felt alright because of her recent exercise, so she put down her things and told the chubby boy to stay and rest for a while and watch over the items. Then, Xu Anran went down the mountain to continue carrying the loads.
Xu Anran carried a lot of things this time. After climbing a short distance, she put the things into her spatial storage. When she was almost there, she took them out and carried them into the temple.
The next time, the chubby boy helped Xu Anran carry things. Xu Anran carried things four times, and the chubby boy carried things twice. They carried most of the things, and both were panting heavily. The next time, the chubby boy stayed at the temple, Xu Anran watched the things in the car, Li Xue carried things upstairs, Grandpa Li helped out, and Xiao Yue led the way. They took turns several times. On the last trip, Li Xue and the chubby boy carried things together. Xu Anran parked the car in a secluded grove of trees and covered it with branches and weeds.
When Xu Anran climbed back up the mountain, she saw Li Xue and the chubby boy slumped on the stone steps of the temple, while Grandpa Li and Xiaoyue were cleaning up. The temple wasn't large, divided into front and back courtyards. The main hall in the front courtyard housed a Buddha statue. There were also two small side halls; one looked like an office with a large desk, and the other had many cabinets, suggesting it was a warehouse. The back courtyard had a back door with a mountain spring, making it very convenient to get water. Like the front courtyard, it had three rooms. The main room resembled a library or activity room, with many chairs, tables, and books. The room on the left was the kitchen, containing a clay stove and cabinets. The room on the right was the living quarters, but everything had been moved out, leaving only two large beds covered in dust.
After touring the entire temple and resting for a while, Xu Anran, Li Xue, and the chubby boy joined the packing-up team.
Grandpa Li and Xiaoyue had already cleaned the kitchen; they would be cooking there from now on. Xu Anran and the chubby boy went to clean the east-facing room. After cleaning it, they tried out the two large beds; they creaked and groaned, suggesting they weren't very sturdy after being stored for a while. The two moved the beds out of the room, cleaned the floor and walls, and then set up a tent inside.
There was only enough room to set up two tents, one large and one small. So everyone cleaned up the main room, moved the table to the wall, and set up another large tent. Two air mattresses were placed in each large tent, and a small one was placed in the small tent. Grandpa Li and Little Fatty stayed in the tent in the main room, Li Xue and Xiao Yue stayed in the large tent in the east room, and Xu Anran stayed in the small tent by herself.
By the time they finished cleaning up, it was already dark, and everyone was too exhausted to move. Xu Anran told everyone to go back to their tents to sleep. She would keep watch tonight, and from now on, everyone except Xiaoyue would take turns keeping watch every day.
No one objected, and everyone went back to their tents to rest. Xu Anran found a chair she had brought from an outdoor gear store and sat alone in the courtyard. The mountain nights were still quite cool, but there were a lot of mosquitoes. She took out a bottle of floral water from her spatial storage and sprayed it on herself. She also put on the mosquito-repellent bracelets she had previously stored in her spatial storage. She had bought about ten of them, and Xu Anran covered her hands and feet with them. The effect was good; she didn't feel any mosquitoes after wearing them.
Then she took out a bottle of coffee and her favorite snacks, and enjoyed eating and drinking while looking at the starry sky.
As the night wore on, Xu Anran grew sleepy and decided to use the time to organize the contents of her three spatial rings.
She put three boxes of mixed-flavor European bread, two boxes of mixed-flavor bagels, one box of braised beef noodles, one box of spicy beef noodles, one box of Sichuan peppercorn chicken noodles, two large boxes of chocolate, twenty boxes of compressed biscuits, 20 bags of cucumber-flavored potato chips, one box of spicy strips, two boxes of crispy noodles, one box of jelly, two boxes of cola, 30 cases of mineral water, four boxes of sparkling water, five boxes of latte coffee, ten boxes of pure milk, and other food and drinks, as well as toiletries such as toothpaste, toothbrush, facial cleanser, and soap, toilet paper, sanitary napkins, and all her clothes and shoes into the first three cubic meter space she got from the fake uncle.
I received two spatial rings from Sister Liu, one with a volume of three cubic meters and the other with a volume of five cubic meters.
In a three-cubic-meter space, she placed: two military shovels, five safety ropes, three outdoor lights, two small tents, three air mattresses, three folding chairs, an electric bicycle, two portable toilets, six trekking poles, a storage battery, two solar panels, a generator, four high-powered flashlights, two portable stoves, a small pot, a grill, and other outdoor supplies, as well as medical supplies such as cold medicine, allergy medicine, antidiarrheal medicine, iodine, alcohol, masks, hemostatic bandages, hemostatic agents, plasters, liniment for sprains and bruises, antibiotics, and painkillers.
Finally, the two black knives, six stun guns, and the gold were placed separately into a five-cubic-meter space.
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