Shen Shixun's phone was a rather old model, but compared to this remote place, it still seemed out of place. She held the phone up very high, but still couldn't see any signal.
"never mind."
She tossed her phone to Shen Shixun and walked behind him, feeling exhausted and panting from time to time.
Sensing that her breathing was becoming increasingly labored, the man turned to look at her, and Xiang Nanzhi's expression gradually darkened.
She couldn't explain why, but she just felt very tired from walking. When she met the man's eyes, she plopped down on the ground.
Her arm was gripped by a large hand, and her breath caught in her throat. "Shen Shixun, I'm so tired."
The man placed the backpack on his back over his chest, making him look like a kangaroo, and squatted down in front of her. "Get on."
Are you sure you can do it?
"OK."
"Don't dawdle, Xiang Nan."
The terrain here is too strange. Xiang Nan was afraid that Shen Shixun would carry her and they would fall together.
The grassland has a slight slope; if you roll down like that, you probably won't be able to stop.
"Come up."
The man said something again, and Xiang Nanzhi got up and tried to walk a little further, but she really couldn't take it anymore and leaned on the man's broad shoulders and didn't move.
So comfortable, so comfortable.
"Hold on tight."
She didn't want to get too close to Shen Shixun, but the man couldn't free his hands, so she had to gently hug his neck with her slender wrists to prevent herself from falling.
After walking for a while, Xiang Nanzhi realized she was being incredibly inhuman, but she could feel a bit dizzy. "Shen Shixun, I still feel a little unwell."
"Just bear with it and it will pass."
It's hard to imagine how she got through it.
Xiang Nanzhi couldn't get off the man's back, and she didn't mention getting off again. Her body was pressed tightly against the man's back, and she was covered in a thin layer of sweat.
The further they walked, the hotter it got, and the stronger the sun became. Shen Shixun found a place to put her down and put a hat on her to shield her from the sun.
He himself was fearless, walking among the towering mountains.
"Shim Sehun, I still feel hot."
"Um."
There was nothing he could do; that's just how the weather is—it's unbearably hot during the day, unbearably cold at night, and cold in the morning too.
The temperature was so high that it made people's skin feel hot. Xiang Nanzhi leaned on his shoulder and suddenly burst into tears.
He felt a warm liquid, different from his own sweat, flowing down his shoulder. "Don't cry."
"I came on horseback."
She couldn't walk any further after walking in for a short while. Luckily, she ran into Rooney and the others, otherwise she would have died inside.
It's because she hasn't seen enough of the world that she knows such places exist.
"Xiang Nanzhi, take a nap. You won't feel hot when you're asleep."
Xiang Nanzhi: ...
"My face is so hot."
Xiang Nanzhi cried on his shoulder for a while, and the man talked to her intermittently. After a while, she felt herself completely slump against him.
He bent his back even lower, trying to steady his steps as quickly as possible, without stopping.
When Xiang Nanzhi woke up, she didn't know how much time had passed. Her stomach was growling with hunger. She opened her eyes and found herself back at the roadside where she had come from.
The road was flat on both sides, with distant mountains and sand dunes faintly visible. Before she could speak, the man handed her water.
She drank most of it in one gulp, which made her cough.
"Slow down, no one's going to take it from you."
I'm hungry.
With a pitiful tone, the man handed her dried meat and a few fruits whose names she didn't know.
"We've already arrived?"
Xiang Nanzhi was a little confused. How did Shen Shixun manage to carry her all the way here without waking her up at all?
The man smelled strongly of sweat, which was pungent to Xiang Nanzhi, but after sitting on his back for so long, she wasn't exactly clean herself either.
"Eat quickly."
Before she could even take the fruit from his hand, Xiang Nanzhi gagged for a while, but nothing came out.
Shen Shixun knew he smelled bad, so he consciously spread out a towel, put the fruit and dried meat on it, squatted down to the side, and lit a cigarette.
What do we do now?
"wait."
Waiting for the bus, there's only one bus that comes here every day.
According to Shen Shixun's past memories, this trip hasn't arrived yet.
What time will you arrive?
There is no fixed time.
Xiang Nanzhi nearly fainted. "When will we have to wait?"
“There are other ways.” Shen Shixun said calmly, pointing to the road with no traffic or pedestrians. “Follow this road and head north.”
Xiang Nanzhi, basking in the blazing sun, sat listlessly by a large rock, taking a bite of a wild fruit. "Let's wait then."
Why is it so difficult? Coming here and leaving here are both so difficult.
This was normal for Shen Shixun, but Xiang Nanzhi was so angry that she cried again.
Is there a signal?
She suddenly asked, and Shen Shixun glanced at his phone, "We have it now."
Xiang Nanzhi called his older brother, Xiang Jingyi.
At that moment, Xiang Jing was in the middle of a meeting when he received a phone call. "Let's pause the meeting for now."
"President Xiang has a very urgent matter to attend to, please wait a moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang Jingyi left the conference room. "Zhizhi?"
"Big brother..."
With a sob in her voice, Xiang Nanzhi had so much to say, but as her vision blurred, she saw a car approaching in the distance.
"Big brother, I have something to do, so I'll leave now. Car, Shen Shixun, car!"
Xiang Nanzhi was so excited he almost jumped up. The man thought to himself, he felt like the day's car ride wasn't over yet.
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