Chapter 109 Life Forbidden Zone 08
Almost everyone can be said to have a grudge against Jiang Wenxue, and no one is willing to help her explore the way and let her reap the benefits.
Fu Bo immediately became furious and was not willing to let Jiang Wenxue cling to him and suck his blood. He turned around and wanted to go find Jiang Wenxue to argue with him.
"Wait!" Jiang Ran held him back.
"Don't stop me!" Fu Bo said angrily.
Jiang Ran: "There's nothing wrong with her following."
"No! Of course not!" Fu Bo's eyes widened. "I don't want a little follower following me while I'm competing so hard!"
"But..." Jiang Ran asked with a smile, "Don't you want to take this opportunity to trick her once?"
"Oh?" Fu Bo stopped.
Others looked over curiously: "Can you tell me more?"
Action speaks louder than words. Jiang Ran did not explain in detail, but directly concealed his clever way of cheating everyone.
She continued to lead them forward, but she chose some strange roads, such as the indistinguishable permafrost salt soil road, or the empty wasteland where the only cover was a thorn bush.
Jiang Wenxue and the others still followed behind, but in order not to be discovered, they had to be extremely careful.
After a while, Jiang Ran pretended to look back at the road. In order to avoid being seen by her, Jiang Wenxue and others had to quickly run to the side. Then they slipped on the wet and slippery salt soil and fell heavily on the ice next to them.
After a while, Jiang Ran timed it perfectly and pretended to have made a new discovery, looking around to both sides. In order to avoid her sight, Jiang Wenxue and others dived into the thorn bushes next to them.
"What a master!" Fu Bo exclaimed.
"Fortunately, we are in the same group." Ren Xiayang shuddered.
"Do you have any questions now?"
"No more! No more!"
"Then let Jiang Wenxue continue to follow?"
"Of course! It's nice to have a follower!"
If Jiang Ran only cheated people from time to time, it might not be so unacceptable to Jiang Wenxue. After all, her purpose of using others to pave the way was achieved.
Unfortunately, Jiang Ran was not heading towards the summit of Mount Qomolangma at this time. Instead, he was concentrating on finding a flock of sheep so that he could feed the crying wolf cub with milk and water.
After a while, the bodyguard noticed something was wrong: "We seem to have been to this place before?"
Another bodyguard echoed, "And it seems we've been traveling sideways, not climbing much... Isn't the end of this race a peak?"
Jiang Wenxue of course also vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and his expression gradually became gloomy.
Half of her body had rolled in the snow and was now wet. The wind chilled her to the bone.
It was she who made the decision to follow Jiang Ran and use him to explore the way. She had paid so much along the way, was it all in vain?
No.
She doesn't believe it.
Jiang Wenxue signaled everyone to cover their tracking balls to prevent the sound from reaching the live broadcast room. Then, in a deep voice, he said, "For the second stage, the tracking balls won't indicate the route. They'll only tell us which K2 is. But looking at that snowy peak, can you find the most suitable route up?"
The bodyguards looked at each other and shook their heads.
Looking around, Mount Qomolangma almost looks like a vertical drop, with most of its surface covered with ice walls. How is it possible to climb up directly from there?
But it is impossible to tell where it is easy to walk and where you can walk just by observing with the naked eye.
Jiang Wenxue continued, "I have inside information from Blue Sky Culture. Jiang Ran has been here before, so she definitely knows the way. We just need to follow her first and then overtake her when we're almost at the finish line. That way it will be much easier."
The bodyguards generally agreed with her.
Only one person asked, "What should we do if Jiang Ran and the others continue to go around in circles?"
Everyone looked at Jiang Wenxue.
This is indeed a problem.
Even if Jiang Ran had been here before, who could guarantee that she still remembered the way?
"One day, one more day with them."
Jiang Wenxue gritted her teeth and said, "If there's still no progress by this time tomorrow, we'll find a way out ourselves!"
When Jiang Wenxue was frustrated and irritable, Jiang Ran had just seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
After searching for most of the day, they actually saw an antelope!
Fu Bo was the most excited of all.
He has been teasing the little wolf every now and then these past few days, and they have become very good friends. He is also the one who is most worried about the little wolf's food these past two days.
After seeing the antelope, Fu Bo rushed forward in a flash, and Jiang Ran didn't have time to grab him.
Fortunately, the antelope was quite gentle and did not kick him in the face with its hoof.
"Why--"
Fu Bo sighed in disappointment.
"No, this is a male. It has no milk."
Jiang Ran followed and checked it out. Instead of being disappointed, he felt relieved.
"It's still young, so if it were to survive here alone, it would have a hard time. But look, this lamb has fine, dense fur and isn't stained at all, which shows it's living a comfortable life."
Fu Bo: "You mean..."
"Its herd should be nearby," Jiang Ran nodded and said, "It's just temporarily alone. As long as we follow it, we will definitely find the lactating ewes in the flock."
In order to avoid scaring the lamb and making it afraid to go find its own group, Jiang Ran and others chose to keep a distance from it and follow it quietly.
After the lamb finished eating the few green grasses in the area, it began to walk slowly up the mountain. Jiang Ran and others immediately followed behind.
Behind Jiang Ran, where Jiang Wenxue's team was, a bodyguard finally asked a soul-searching question: "Why would they quietly follow a sheep? I don't understand."
Someone speculated: "Maybe... maybe they have nothing to eat and want to find a suitable place to catch the sheep and stew it?"
When people heard about stewed lamb, they immediately swallowed their saliva.
In order to get ahead of many other contestants, they have been sleeping in the open air, traveling day and night for the past few days, and have not had a single hot bite to eat. They have been eating compressed biscuits soaked in snow water to fill their stomachs.
The few milk and fruits in the backpack were originally brought specifically for Jiang Wenxue, and only she could eat them. After Jiang Ran and others stole a wave of supplies, even Jiang Wenxue hadn't had a good meal for a long time.
Everyone was tortured.
If only I could have a bite of lamb stew...
"Gudong."
Jiang Wenxue also swallowed his saliva, waved his hand and said, "Follow me."
Jiang Ran and the others had already been careful to hide and were following Xiaoyang from a distance. In this situation, it would be much more difficult for Jiang Wenxue and the others to follow them without being discovered.
Sometimes, they even had to crawl in the icy snow and water, and were so cold that they lost all feeling. But when they thought of the fragrant and hot mutton soup, endless strength would always surge out of their bodies.
Finally, before the sun set, Jiang Ran and others stopped.
Jiang Wenxue breathed a sigh of relief: "It finally stopped."
She couldn't even feel her toes because of the cold.
"Look there!" the bodyguard shouted.
Beyond the cover of branches and leaves, not far away, a large group of antelopes gathered on the edge of the cliff, leisurely eating grass.
"So many sheep..."
“Mutton soup!”
The bodyguards were all very excited and couldn't wait to pounce on him.
Only Jiang Wenxue was still worried about asking Jiang Ran to lead the way and not be discovered by her, so she could only temporarily suppress her inner desire for food.
Jiang Wenxue calmed the restless bodyguards and arranged their work, saying, "Jiang Ran and the others will definitely try to catch sheep later. The flock will be scattered, so we can take this opportunity to catch a lone one. It will be enough to eat, so there's no need to rush."
The bodyguards all responded in agreement.
After finding the flock of sheep, Fu Bo was the most excited. He took the little wolf forward without any instruction to find his temporary mother.
The little wolf was also very excited. It must be a little hungry, so it grabbed the nipple of a ewe and started sucking milk.
Of course the wolf was happy to have milk to drink. Its short tail was wagging and its ears were standing straight up.
The wolf cub's eyes are blue, and because it's still young, its fur hasn't yet turned gray. It's still mostly black with a hint of brown. At this moment, the black wolf cub stands out among the snow-white sheep.
I don't know if the little wolf was very hungry or if it was just the nature of wolves, but when it was sucking milk, it was very ferocious. It often bit the mother sheep's nipple and pulled its head back, scaring the mother sheep so much that she bleated repeatedly.
Fu Bo was afraid that the little wolf would hurt its mother, and was also afraid that the antelopes that came to help would bully the little wolf. He quickly brought the little wolf back and asked Zeng Pei to help take care of it first. Then he took an empty bottle and ran into the flock to milk the sheep.
He was busy here, but Jiang Ran stood quietly there, observing the flock of sheep.
Xu Yang noticed her strange state and walked over to ask, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Ran hesitated for a long time before hesitatingly saying, "I think there's something wrong with this group of sheep."
"What's wrong?"
"They seem to be... raised by humans."
"How is this possible?" Ren Xiayang exclaimed.
Even Zeng Pei, who was used to watching the little wolf, looked up. "No way! Humans have been away from Earth for thousands of years. Look down the mountain. Where are the cities? Where are the houses? There's no one here."
Xu Yang didn't rush to refute. He looked at Jiang Ran quietly: "Why do you feel this way?"
Jiang Ran smiled bitterly.
She had once followed a herder to herd sheep for a year, so she could certainly tell whether the sheep were wild or domesticated.
She tried her best to explain the various reasons for her judgment, but the others had never raised sheep, and they had hardly even seen sheep, so of course they had no way of judging whether Jiang Ran's words were correct.
The conversation came to a standstill.
Seeing that everyone was beginning to doubt their lives, Xu Yang was the first to say, "Let's go and take a look. If these sheep are raised by humans, they should return before dark. We just need to follow them and we'll find out."
This is also what Jiang Ran hopes for. She really wants to know whether the people who lived here in the past still have their bloodline continued.
but……
Jiang Ran looked at the others.
"Let's go and take a look." Ren Xiayang said.
Jiang Ran: "But this will delay the progress of the game."
Zeng Pei said bluntly, "You haven't even participated in the competition, why are you worried about the progress of the competition?"
Jiang Ran: "But you..."
"Okay," Zeng Pei interrupted her, "To be honest, compared to this competition, I'm more curious about whether there are really native humans on Earth."
Ren Xiayang nodded: "If this is true, it would be a big discovery."
Jiang Ran was very moved, but the next second.
Zeng Pei: "Anyway, I have enough money to last for several lifetimes, so I don't have to worry about the championship prize money."
Jiang Ran: “…”
By the time Fu Bo finally finished feeding the little wolf, the next itinerary had already been planned.
Fu Bo: “?”
Zeng Pei held the wolf cub's paw and handed it to him: "You won't have to worry about not having milk to feed it in the next few days."
Fu Bo instantly became happy: "That's right!"
Jiang Ran: “…”
As the sun was about to set, everyone followed the flock on an unknown journey.
Jiang Wenxue and others behind were watching all this in bewilderment, not understanding what was going on at all.
"Don't they eat sheep anymore?"
"God knows!"
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