It wasn't just Ye Zi and Tong Tong who started their journey; the other contestants also set off one after another.
Those athletes who left by plane were lucky; although they didn't get to eat any proper meals, they still had bread and bottled water.
Many of the people in the same camp as Ye Zi had not eaten any food all day.
Two thousand kilometers is no short distance. It would take at least two months to cover the distance on foot, and very few runners even know which country they started in or where their finish line is.
The Black Continent grasslands are virtually unpaved except for cities. This is a true traverse of wilderness, as participants have no way to determine the destination except for the trackers in their hands.
This tracker must be some kind of cutting-edge technology, otherwise it wouldn't be able to track a location 2,000 kilometers away.
Another issue is the battery. The palm-sized tracker uses solar charging, so it can be worn on the arm without interfering with seeing the direction or charging.
If you had a god's-eye view, you could see over three hundred people in pairs heading towards the same central point on the continent of Black Continent.
On Ye Zi's side, the two of them, having eaten and drunk their fill, walked for less than an hour when Tong Tong slowed down. Ye Zi immediately stopped and called Tong Tong to get in the car.
Tongtong also knows that now is not the time to be coy, and this situation will happen every day starting today.
She has poor physical fitness and is delicate and weak. Even if she wanted to improve her physical fitness, it wouldn't be something she could do in just a couple of days.
So get on the bus obediently.
After Tongtong got on the bus, Yezi swung her long legs and started to travel, and her speed was much faster than before.
"Yezi, won't walking like this take too much energy?" Tongtong asked, rubbing her feet as she sat in the haystack.
The hay was collected from leaves before I went to bed last night. Although it wasn't very comfortable to sleep on, it was still softer than a wooden board.
The canopy wasn't removed, and the hay was left as well. This not only made Tongtong more comfortable, but also made it easy to find something to start a fire when setting up camp.
"No, it's no different from when I'm at home."
Yezi pulled the cart, head down, hurrying on her way, while Tongtong continued to rest on the cart, rubbing her feet.
The sun was getting stronger, and Tongtong, having rested enough, wanted to get out of the car and walk by herself, but Yezi refused.
"Now is the perfect time to get a tan. Come down here and you'll be tanned to look like an African."
"Don't dark spots make you look healthier?"
Ye Zi turned around and glanced at Tong Tong, then smiled and said:
"The tan of Afrikaans and a healthy wheat color are two different things. If you get too tanned, you can only play Yuchi Gong's wife next time."
"Yuchi Gong's wife?" Tongtong asked in confusion.
“Yes, Yuchi Gong had two wives, the Black Lady and the White Lady. You will play the Black Lady.”
Tongtong instantly recalled a TV series she had watched before, in which Yuchi Gong captured an enemy general, a dark-skinned female general, and then became henpecked.
"That's not bad either, at least Yuchi Gong listens to his wife."
"Hey, fair skin, beautiful face, and long legs, you've turned into a black pearl after your trip to the continent. You're quite beautiful."
As they walked and joked, when the sun was high in the sky, Yezi discovered a forest with not only trees but also water and even food. So she pulled her cart and rushed into the forest.
Before the person even arrived, he raised his hand and shot out a pebble.
A herd of antelopes resting in the woods scattered and fled. Ye Zi laughed loudly:
"Tongtong, sit tight, lunch is ready."
After rushing into the woods, Ye Zi stopped in front of the antelope carcass. Tong Tong got out of the car and looked at the penetrating wound on the antelope's stomach, saying:
"This lunch is good; it's hard to find antelope meat in China."
Ye Zi grinned and said:
"That's the charm of the wilderness, where you can eat many things you don't usually get to eat."
Tongtong nodded, then asked:
"You really like the wilderness?"
"No, that's not it. I just don't like crowded places or the backstabbing in the workplace."
Aside from grasslands and wilderness, it seems there's nowhere else that meets this requirement.
"Is this why you, despite having a large following, always go back to live on the grasslands after each show?"
"Yes."
"With your image and popularity, becoming an actor wouldn't be a problem, and you have real skills, so you'll definitely get offers to act in movies."
Besides, wouldn't you not be able to earn money living on the grasslands?
Ye Zi said indifferently:
"There are many ways to make money, but I prefer freedom."
Tongtong nodded thoughtfully, while Yezi had already begun processing the antelope carcass.
Although the two men were unfamiliar with the animal species living in the continent, it didn't matter; they were there to make money, not to educate the audience.
Besides, even if people were to learn about the African continent, how many would actually come to the dangerous African grasslands?
As Ye Zi peeled the skin, she said:
"This leather is really good; it would be perfect as a mattress."
"Then you can lie down and rest there tonight. You can't sleep on the floor every day."
"We'll talk about it tonight," Ye Zi said with a grin, her hands still moving.
Tongtong immediately knew that Ye Zi intended to use it first, and was about to say something when Ye Zi took out the antelope heart and said:
"Look, this is delicious, and it tastes even better when grilled."
After examining the antelope's liver and finding no signs of disease, he picked up the other internal organs from its belly and threw them away.
Then they started a fire, had Tongtong add firewood to the fire, and went to the pond to wash the antelope's heart and liver. After bringing them back, they skewered them and roasted them over the fire.
While Tongtong continued to look after the antelope, Yezi began to butcher it. Then, a leg and a steak were placed on the shelf by Yezi.
The tools the production team gave him were indeed subpar, or rather, defective, but they were only for combat and were perfectly adequate for dealing with antelopes.
Finally, there's the antelope head. The reason it's kept is mainly because of the pair of horns on the antelope's head, which are about 50 centimeters long and almost straight.
If these two diagonals were made into javelins, they would definitely be a powerful throwing weapon.
Although she had this idea, it didn't seem necessary. Ye Zi didn't expect to kill her prey with a javelin. Her throwing stone skill was almost maxed out and was much better than a javelin.
However, it would be quite nice if it were for collection.
Yezi's collection is different from others; Yezi likes to collect animal skulls shaped like skulls.
Using a military knife, they skinned the antelope's head, removed the meat, and finally threw it into the fire to roast. A new collectible was born.
Tongtong ate only a small portion of the roasted antelope heart and liver, then ate a antelope chop and a roasted lamb leg and was full. The rest went into Yezi's stomach.
It was very hot at noon, but Ye Zi wasn't in a hurry to get going. She started tanning the sheepskin using fresh wood ash.
It's worth mentioning that the water that Ye Zi and Tong Tong drank, although it looked like it came from a pond, was actually released from her spatial storage by Ye Zi while the drone was filming Tong Tong.
To ensure the cleanliness of drinking water to the greatest extent possible.
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