"Mr. Xu?"
Jiang Ran looked at Xu Yang in confusion: "I don't think I told you where I was going, right?"
Xu Yang remained calm and said, "If I have to be told everything by others, then there's no point in continuing this business."
What he said seems to make a lot of sense.
But……
"Then may I ask how you knew about my actions?"
Xu Yang didn't hide his fear, pointing to the sky. Jiang Ran looked in the direction he pointed and saw a tiny, inky-spot-like ball dancing and spinning in the air, appearing and disappearing in the thick gray volcanic ash cloud.
Jiang Ran: "That's the ball you lent me."
Xu Yang nodded: "Of course I have to count the things that have passed through my hands."
Jiang Ran: "So..."
Xu Yang said, "I've linked the equipment in advance. Any images you can see on your computer, I can also see here."
Jiang Ran was speechless.
Who could have imagined that this wealthy sponsor would actually do something like this?
I really let her trust down!
Jiang Ran endured for a long time, and finally asked, "You don't do this to every piece of equipment you handle, do you?"
If he's really that vigilant, who would dare to do business with him? Isn't he afraid that he's being monitored at any moment?
"How is that possible?" Xu Yang glanced at her and said meaningfully, "If the other party hadn't revealed their true intentions in some strange way first, there would be no need to use this method."
Jiang Ran: “…”
Is it her own problem?
Jiang Ran paused and was about to say something else, but just as he opened his mouth, a roar came from not far away, and even the ground beneath their feet began to tremble.
After a long prelude, the volcanic eruption that had been brewing for a long time finally began.
From afar, lava kept splashing up from the crater, in large bursts, like fiery red fireworks exploding in the sky, and then falling out in a random pattern.
Jiang Ran and others had just climbed down from the crater and had not gone far. They were now in the most dangerous area.
A piece of exploding and falling lava flow landed not far in front of them, just missing them.
If you really get caught in the lava flow, it can burn you to death!
Jiang Ran was startled and pulled everyone to run outside: "Hurry up! The volcanic eruption has begun!"
The others did not hesitate and soon followed her closely.
Jiang Ran kept looking back while running. Only after he was sure that no one was left behind could he feel a little relieved. "Take out the life-saving bag controllers. If danger is really imminent, don't hesitate, open the life-saving bag immediately."
"No, don't take the controller," Xu Yang said. "If you give the liaison officer 100% control, they can remotely control everyone's equipment. If you're really in danger, your reaction time will be delayed for a few seconds, and that could be fatal. It's better to leave this matter to someone more professional."
What Xu Yang said made sense, and Jiang Ran also agreed. He watched everyone open the operating permissions one by one, and the tension in his heart finally eased.
Jiang Ran was the last one to open the operation permissions.
In order to avoid being tracked by everyone, she had previously cut off the signal with the security liaison. Now, she suddenly increased the operating authority from zero to the maximum of 100, which was a bit embarrassing to think about.
Fortunately, her contact was very considerate and didn't say a word from beginning to end.
Jiang Ran led everyone to evacuate. After more than ten minutes, they finally escaped to a barely safe area with lava exploding all over their heads.
It cannot be said that this place is absolutely safe, but at least you won’t be blown up on your head by the flying molten lava.
The intensity of the exercise during the emergency evacuation was so great that when they were finally safe, several people bent over and gasped for breath.
However, it didn't last long before a hoarse roar came from the distance.
Jiang Ran stood up straight and looked far ahead. He saw magma erupting from the surface along the cracks in the earth's crust, thus forming narrow and long linear volcanic channels. They spread down along the crater. At first glance, they looked like winding fiery red patterns on the brown and black walls.
The lava flowed down very quickly and soon covered the entire volcano.
Unfortunately, their pace did not stop, but only slowed down slightly, continuing to spread outward. Judging from the speed of expansion, it would probably take only a few minutes for them to reach where Jiang Ran and the others were.
Fu Bo hurriedly took steps: "Run! The lava is coming!"
Zeng Pei was relatively calm, but he also packed his bag and responded, "Let's go."
However, after walking a dozen steps, everyone realized that something was wrong.
Looking back, Jiang Ran didn't catch up at all.
Zeng Pei walked back in a rage, grabbed Jiang Ran's arm and was about to curse. As soon as he said the word "you", Jiang Ran started to complain: "Hey, hey, hey, don't move. I can't focus properly."
Zeng Pei suddenly became even more angry: "What time is it now? You still have the mind to care about your focus?"
"I can't ever drop my camera," Jiang Ran said, staring intently at the screen without even looking up. The screen showed a deadly stream of red and gray.
Upon hearing this, Zeng Pei walked around Jiang Ran, seemingly thinking about something.
After a long while, she finally stopped beside Jiang Ran, looked at him intently and said, "Okay, if you want to take a picture so badly, I'll let you."
Jiang Ran never expected that she would let go so easily. He looked up in surprise and was about to say "thank you" when he saw Zeng Pei had rolled up his sleeves. He took advantage of the moment when she relaxed, reached out and grabbed the ball and ran back.
"Hurry up! Don't let her catch up!"
“Go, go, go!”
Jiang Ran chased forward in frustration, shouting as he ran, "Zeng Pei! Give me back the ball!"
Zeng Pei was so fearless that he was worried that she wouldn't catch up. He even turned around and made a face at her: "If you have the guts, just catch up with me and take it back for me!"
Unfortunately, Jiang Ran is not Fu Bo, and he is not so easily provoked.
After chasing for a few steps without catching up, she stopped, took out the controller, and lured down the following ball that was flying around in the sky.
After finding a good position and adjusting the equipment mode, she began to quietly photograph the volcano again. And this time, she had learned her lesson and would not let anyone take her life so easily.
When Zeng Pei saw this, he turned around and walked back.
"Jiang Ran, Ran Ran, Sister Ran Ran?" Seeing that his previous tricks were not working, Zeng Pei quickly changed his strategy and began to speak in a nice way. "Even if you are not worried about your own safety, you should at least worry about everyone else's safety, okay?"
Jiang Ran tightly guarded his tracking ball, afraid that she would snatch it away again if he wasn't paying attention. "You can go first, don't worry about me. Photography is a solitary thing."
As soon as he finished speaking, even Fu Bo came up angrily: "But you're still here, how can we leave peacefully? What has happened?"
What Fu Bo said was not wrong, and Jiang Ran also understood this.
But after hesitating for a moment, she glanced at the ball in her arms and realized that there was no way she could go against her will and leave with everyone.
Jiang Ran thought for a long time, and finally pointed his finger at the molten flow that was slowly spreading not far ahead.
She asked, "Look at that molten stream. Do you think it's dangerous?"
Fu Bo didn't think twice: "Of course!"
"But I see more than just danger."
Jiang Ran pointed to his eyes and said, "In my eyes, along with crisis, there is also incomparable beauty."
"This interlaced blue and gray sky, like the apocalypse, this molten flow, like a fresco, a legacy of brown and red, this beauty and danger—these are what I'm trying to express. Perhaps in your eyes, it's more of an embodiment of danger, but in my eyes, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
She spoke seriously, and the listeners took her seriously.
Zeng Pei was still very dissatisfied, but his voice was much lower than before. "How old are you? Opportunities... there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. How can it be said that it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? How many years have you studied photography?"
Jiang Ran didn't even think twice: "Twenty-one years."
"You're still excited, aren't you?" Zeng Pei's voice suddenly rose again. "Don't you even think before you tell a lie? You're only in your twenties now, and you've been in the entertainment industry for six or seven years, right? Where do you get the idea that you've been a photographer for 21 years?"
This time Jiang Ran was silent, and she didn't know how to explain this problem.
Jiang Ran fell silent, and Zeng Pei gradually lost the strength to question.
She saw the unswerving determination in Jiang Ran's eyes.
The further the melt flows outward, the slower the flow rate.
Jiang Ran looked at the vast expanse of fiery red magma spreading towards them and said slowly, "Zeng Pei, think about it. If the person in front of you now was the possibility of you completing the construction of a top-level mecha... Ren Xiayang, if the person in front of you now was your comrade, your mission, would you still be so determined to say no, it's too dangerous, you can't go?"
Suddenly, everyone fell silent.
Everyone has some faith, more or less. It is consistent effort and unwavering determination. If it can be shaken by a little danger, it will not be the destiny throughout their lives.
"All right."
Zeng Pei finally gave in. She handed the ball she had snatched back to Jiang Ran: "You can shoot as much as you want, but you must enable the liaison's control authority to the maximum. I'm really worried that you'll be so focused that you won't even notice the lava flowing under your feet."
"Don't worry," Jiang Ran said, "It's already been opened."
But when Jiang Ran rearranged the equipment, no one else moved.
Jiang Ran asked in confusion: "Why don't you leave?"
Zeng Pei sneered: "My feet are on my own body. I can't persuade you to leave, so why do you care where I stand?"
I looked at the others and saw no sign of taking any action.
Jiang Ran's mind turned, and he understood it almost instantly.
No matter what lies ahead, whether it is danger or beauty, her teammates want to stand with her.
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【Small Theater】
Zeng Pei: If you want to die, you can die together.
Jiang Ran: Sister, Sister Zeng...can you please stop doing this?
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