Zhou Tao glanced at Mu Qingli, feeling reassured. Seeing Captain Wang and the others looking serious and cautious, he couldn't help but want to tell them. However, not telling them also had its advantages. They would know to be cautious in their words and actions and not be impulsive and reckless, as that could cost them their lives if they were not careful. His thoughts were consistent with Mu Qingli's.
After waiting for a while, Sun Hai came into the yard, sweating profusely. It was obvious that he was pedaling very hard! The people in the house rushed out in a rush.
"Haizi! Are you tired? Do you want to take a rest?" Zhou Tao took Sun Hai's towel and handed it to him to wipe his sweat, asking with concern.
"I'm fine, just take a rest and drink some water!" Sun Hai put down the bicycle panting, took the towel handed to him by Zhou Tao, wiped his face and head, and wiped the sweat.
"Water! Yes! The temperature is just right. You're sweating and can't drink cold water!" Zhou Tao turned back to the house and brought out the teacup that had been poured with water but no one had drunk from it.
After wiping the sweat off his face, Sun Hai took the teacup, sat on a small stool in the yard, and gulped down the whole teacup of warm water.
Sun Hai rested for a while, catching his breath, and stood up from the small stool: "I've rested! It's time to go!"
"Then let's prepare separately. I'm afraid of spending the night in the mountains, so we need to prepare some dry food, mosquito repellent, flashlights and other things. Let's meet in the suburbs west of our town later! I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. Captain Wang, you go to the drugstore to buy some mosquito repellent. Comrades wearing short sleeves, change into thicker clothes! Comrade Zhou, you go to the state-owned restaurant to buy some steamed buns, dumplings and the like. Let's act separately!" Mu Qingli spoke quickly when he saw that they were about to set off.
"Well! The female comrade is still thoughtful! Let's do as she says! Let's go to the drugstore first, Xiao Wang! Xiao Zhang! Let's go! You two quickly get in the car and change your shirts first! Then we'll set off for the drugstore! Xiao Chen, follow me!" Captain Wang said as he walked out, and the three comrades behind him hurriedly followed.
Watching them drive away, Mu Qingli said goodbye to the two men and left quickly. Zhou Tao and Sun Hai changed their clothes, took the only flashlight they had, one put on a backpack and the other put on a military water bottle, then locked the door and walked out to the state-owned hotel.
Mu Qingli said she was going to the supply and marketing cooperative, but in fact she just found a quiet corner and took things out of the space.
She was thinking about what she could take out, matches, two large thin plastic sheets, and if possible, she would like to carry two quilts. At this time in the mountains, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and it is very cold at night.
After thinking about it, he took out some gauze, bandages, and hemostatic powder and put them in his bag. Maybe those straightforward comrades would buy whatever I asked them to buy and would not prepare anything else except anthelmintics.
Mu Qingli also packed some egg cakes, compressed biscuits, and beef jerky in her bag, enough food for six or seven people!
When they arrived at the west entrance of the town, Mu Qingli was actually the first to arrive. It seemed that those people were not as fast as him in terms of speed. He completely ignored the fact that he was taking shortcuts and did not buy anything from the supply and marketing cooperative, but took it out from the space.
After sitting on a big rock by the roadside for a while, the two groups of people left the town one after another.
"Mu Zhiqing, you're walking pretty fast!" Zhou Tao and Sun Hai came over first, and Sun Hai teased with a smile.
"I'm used to it!" Mu Qingli answered with a smile, looking up at Captain Wang and the others behind them.
Several people were walking. Zhou Tao and Sun Hai were carrying bags and backpacks. The net bags in their hands were filled with food for them. Everyone was carrying a backpack, which was bulging. It seemed that they were all filled with things. No wonder they were so slow.
"Everyone is here! Let's go! Set off!" After Captain Wang and the others got better, they didn't feel tired anymore, so they set off together and headed towards the West Mountain.
"It's true that you never reach the destination until you run to the top! We've been walking for so long, but we still haven't arrived!" After walking for a while, Xiao Chen stopped with his hands on his hips to wipe the sweat off his face, and looked up at the West Mountain that seemed to be just around the corner.
"It just looks close. Xishan is twenty or thirty miles away from the town entrance! I really don't know how the traffickers took the children away!" Sun Hai also wiped his sweat, feeling exhausted. After all, he rode his bike to the county town, took a break for a while and then started on the road again. He must be exhausted.
"Once we leave the town, there must be someone driving to pick us up! Look at the tire tracks on the road!" Mu Qingli said, looking at the ground thoughtfully.
Several people also looked down.
It rained two days ago, so the marks left by the tires won’t disappear so quickly, and both deep and shallow tire marks can be seen.
"Ordinary people probably wouldn't drive to Xishan! It's possible that there are people in that village living outside, specifically to pick us up!" Zhou Tao walked and looked around. Thinking that this car had picked up human traffickers, he felt uneasy and wanted to move faster.
Mu Qingli also looked at the deep and shallow ruts on the road and frowned in thought. Are those people doing bad things so blatantly?
As the sun was setting, the group of seven quickened their pace and ran towards the west mountain. They had to walk along the narrow path on the cliff before it was completely dark.
After running as fast as we could, we finally reached the foot of the western mountain before the sun set.
Several people sat breathlessly at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the West Mountain, which was not particularly high but covered with lush vegetation. When they got closer, they saw that the lush green top of Turin Mountain was shrouded in mist, and it looked even more mysterious and majestic under the setting sun.
"Okay, let's hurry up the mountain! Otherwise, we won't be able to cross the West Mountain before dark, and we'll have to do it tomorrow night!" Mu Qingli rested for a while, then he recovered, stood up and looked at the West Mountain and said.
"Okay! Let's go and speed up!" Captain Wang also stood up and said in a deep voice.
In a subtle way, the few of them had a tacit understanding and tacitly agreed that Mu Qingli would be the leader.
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