Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing were in Ye Yunxi's car. Gu Qingqing was sitting next to Ye Yunxi on the sofa.
I heard her voice, though it was very soft, but I could still hear it, so I asked her out of curiosity.
"Sister Yunxi, what did you say goodbye for?"
Ye Yunxi turned to look at her and saw Zhang Jing looking at her as well. So she spoke.
"I'm saying goodbye to the First Base. I don't know when I'll be able to come back."
Gu Qingqing felt a little sad when she heard Ye Yunxi say that.
"Yes, I don't know where my senior brother is. It would be great if we knew his exact location."
Zhang Jing wasn't sad. Right now, all she had at the base were Chen Zhe and Ye Yunxi, her group of friends. There was nothing at the base she felt she should stay for.
Gu Qingqing suddenly seemed to remember something and asked Ye Yunxi.
"Sister Yunxi, how do we find our senior brother? Which direction should we go?"
“Aheng and I checked the map. There are caves in the nearby mountains. We can go and take a look. It’s also possible that Senior Brother is at some private base. We’ll go to the base then, whether it’s private or official. We found out before that Senior Brother was in a place that looked like a cave, but didn’t quite look like one.”
Ye Yunxi told Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing about the route she and Fu Heng had planned.
"Okay, then we'll keep following the road."
Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing didn't have anything to say, so they just listened to Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng's advice and followed them.
Ye Yunxi chatted with them for a while, then told the two of them.
“There’s a bed in the back. If you’re tired, you can lie down and rest for a while. I’ll go to the front and keep Aheng company.”
Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing joked with each other.
"Go, go, don't worry about us."
Ye Yunxi smiled, said nothing, left the sofa, and sat in the passenger seat.
Yunzi was in the back seat, leaning against the window looking at the scenery outside.
When Fu Heng saw Ye Yunxi coming over, he smiled and asked her.
Why weren't you staying behind them?
"I'm not here because I'm worried you'll be bored. I'm here to keep you company, give you directions, and chat with you."
"Alright then, Xixi, can you check where those caves we marked yesterday are located, and which way should we go?"
Without saying a word, Ye Yunxi took out the paper map that she had prepared beforehand, which she had asked Wu Jiji for earlier.
Looking carefully at the marked locations, he pointed to the map and said to Fu Heng.
"We'll drive straight from here, about 200 kilometers away. There's a small road there; we'll take that road and drive for about another hour or two to reach the foot of the mountain. Then we'll see if we can drive the car up there."
Fu Heng looked ahead and said, "Alright, let's go over there first."
Ye Yunxi did not reply, but just looked ahead.
There were no rocks or branches on the road, so I drove quite fast. Since there were no pedestrians or traffic lights, I wasn't speeding.
Time flew by. Fu Heng drove for more than an hour and arrived at a small road. He drove the car straight down the small road.
Zhang Haiyi and Lu Hengyi, who were driving behind, followed Fu Heng the whole way without communicating via walkie-talkie.
The path has some pebbles, making it less easy to drive on than the main road, so driving on the path is slower.
Two more hours passed, and it was already past 1 p.m. when they finally arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing were both a little hungry, but they didn't say anything.
Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng were also hungry, so they decided to eat something once they arrived at their destination.
Fu Heng stopped the car and turned to Ye Yunxi.
"Xixi, let's rest here for a bit, have something to eat, and then see how to get up the mountain."
Ye Yunxi had the same idea, so she agreed to Fu Heng's suggestion and turned to Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing to say it.
"Let's rest here for a bit, have something to eat, and then set off again."
"Okay, let's eat then. Should we eat in the car or outside?" Gu Qingqing asked Ye Yunxi when she heard about the meal break.
There's not enough room for everyone on the bus, so let's just put a table and a few chairs outside.
Before Ye Yunxi could speak, Fu Heng spoke first.
"Let's eat outside. There aren't enough seats in the car for everyone. We have brought folding tables and chairs; we can just set them up outside."
Just as Fu Heng finished speaking, Zhang Haiyi came over and knocked on the door.
Gu Qingqing quickly went to open the door, and Zhang Haiyi looked at Fu Heng and Ye Yunxi and asked them.
"Heng-ge, Yunxi, shall we rest and eat here?"
Gu Qingqing immediately responded and repeated Fu Heng's words to him.
"Okay, then you can come down."
Fu Heng and the others nodded. After they got out of the car, Ye Yunxi took out a folding table and chairs from her spatial storage and got out of the car with Fu Heng.
I found a spacious, flat area and set up the table and chairs.
Ye Yunxi returned to the RV and put some food in Yunzi's bowl, telling her to finish eating in the RV before coming out.
Then he took out several boxes of self-heating rice from his storage space, got off the RV, put the self-heating rice on the table, and said to Chen Zhe and the others.
"Let's eat together, you don't need to take any food."
The group of people who were rummaging through the food in the car stopped searching after hearing Ye Yunxi's words. They didn't distinguish between themselves and others; it didn't matter whose food they ate.
Without any hesitation, he took the initiative to heat up the food. Lu Hengyi ran back to the RV, found three cans of food, got out of the vehicle, put the cans on the table, and said...
"Don't just eat self-heating meals; add some canned food too. Even when you're out, you can't skimp on yourself."
Ye Yunxi and the others smiled but did not speak.
"The self-heating meal won't be ready for a while," Chen Zhe asked Ye Yunxi.
"Sister Yunxi, which way should we go next?"
"After we finish eating, let's see if there's a road we can drive up the mountain. If not, we'll have to walk. If there's no one in this cave, we'll go to the next place."
"We'll search every place, from caves to the base."
After hearing what they said, Chen Zhe and the others nodded and agreed to follow Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng's arrangements.
After waiting a few minutes, the self-heating meal was ready, and they began to eat and chat.
After a twenty-minute lunch break, the men decided to go find a path up the mountain, leaving three women to watch the car.
Although they had arrived at the foot of the mountain, it wasn't the place to climb it. The mountain was quite large, but not that high. If they found the path up, cars couldn't drive up, and walking wouldn't be too difficult either.
Chen Zhe and his group split into two teams, with one team heading to one side.
After searching for a while, Fu Heng and his group finally found a road leading up the mountain, but it was a road that could not be driven on and could only be walked.
Fu Heng and Xuan Yu discussed it and decided to go back and talk to them about leaving some people to watch the car while the rest went up the mountain.
So Fu Heng took out his walkie-talkie and contacted Chen Zhe and the other two, saying that he had found the way up the mountain and asked them to return to the camp so they could discuss something.
After Fu Heng finished speaking, he put away the walkie-talkie and returned to their camp with Xuan Yu.
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