Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Halftime
Time passed, and the physical labor left her no time for reflection. The soil pollution prevention and control plan began to show results. She harvested the first batch of vegetables grown in the purified soil. After testing, they proved to be of excellent quality, and she even took a few bites herself.
They plan to grow emergency staple food, and the food reserves are sufficient, but people are panic buying. She will cooperate in related publicity work.
In the early days, she filmed the videos alone, edited them with ghostwriters, and posted them on YouTube. Wearing a mask, she squatted at the edge of the field, introducing and demonstrating the freshly picked, washed, and eaten crops. The caption read: "Breakthrough in transforming polluted land into fertile farmland."
When she first published it, few people read it, and it didn't do well. She adjusted the title and continued publishing. Some people responded, but most were skeptical: Where did this amateur scientist come from?
Her only response: She's an official, a guide at a research institute, and is currently applying for a certification mark. Don't worry if you don't believe her; official media will verify it later.
The holiday and the truce came together, and people were everywhere holding laptops and making phone calls, standing, sitting, and lying down.
She also received many replies, but some people seemed to have disappeared. Out of concern for her friends, she sent messages to inquire.
In the shower, white fine foam was rubbed out from between the fingers, rushed down from the top of the head, mixed with hot water, and overflowed from the grooves. Manuel walked out, picked up the bath towel and wiped his body.
Seeing him finally come out, Bai Yang approached him with a mysterious look on his face, shook the watch strap in his hand, and said with a sly smile: "Guess who's looking for you?"
"Task?"
He was unsure and reached out to take it, but the other party suddenly leaned back and shook him. Seeing his appearance, the boy thought it was not an urgent matter and pointed to the back door. "The seat is free, you go and wash it."
"I'm not in a hurry." Bai Yang felt that not washing was fine. The real regret would be missing out on this excitement. This kind of thing doesn't happen every day. He turned on his computer. No one was allowed to set a password. He wondered if the newcomer could touch this silent heart. "Your photo is pinned to the top. Don't you want to take a look?"
With that, he threw the object out. Manuel, warning him to be careful, caught it steadily. He looked at Bai Yang and shook his head, still a child. As for the pinned news he mentioned… the man clicked on it expectantly. Sure enough, it was a letter from Guide Shanshan: How are you doing lately?
He replied briefly, then choked it off and started changing.
The light brain made a sound, but he didn't look at it. Bai Yang was speechless. Just pretend. Don't think he doesn't know. He just reads those messages back and forth every night. Now someone else has written to him, but he doesn't reply. He will be anxious again when the girl really falls in love with someone else.
After saying hello to the new captain, he took a shower and took the old captain aside.
The two men sat side by side. The man's eyes raised and lowered, his thumb rubbing the edge of the metal equipment, hesitant. His shoulder was patted, "What are you nervous about?"
Bai Yang: "Why would she care about you if she doesn't like you? Listen to me, stop being a coward and take the initiative."
Before he could respond, a voice suddenly came from the man's headset, "There are two enemies at nine o'clock."
Making a pause gesture, Bai Yang rushed forward, quickly harvesting the harvest before running back. He was already checking the messages. There was good progress. The doting smile was unfamiliar to him, and the voice was whispered softly. Curiously, he leaned over to see what was going on. It was a video call.
I accidentally entered the camera, said hello and walked aside. I heard someone say, "I've gotten a little tanned recently, so you may not recognize me." No, I had healthy wheat-colored skin, smooth body lines, and looked full of energy.
Manuel shook his head and said, "It looks just as good as before."
On the screen, she looked at him with a smile, the soft light making her hair look like a cloud. She had just learned that the other party had returned to the team.
"They didn't bully you, did they?"
Although Manuel used to be the captain of the squadron and had the highest command authority, he later resigned from the position. Now he is back in office for the second time. She is a little worried that he will be squeezed out by the newcomers.
Hearing this, Bai Yang held his forehead and sighed. "Excuse me?" First of all, considering his size, physical fitness, combat skills, and record, who is bullying whom? Is the captain just a pitiful little figure in her eyes? Perhaps this is the character setting. He understood the captain's double life.
The conversation quickly ran out. The other party was not a talkative person, and her purpose was purely to find out about his recent situation.
Xu Shanshan: "You must take good care of yourselves. Thank you for your hard work."
Bai Yang heard her say this and felt that he was also being warned. He stepped into the camera, waved goodbye, and said with a heart shape: "Take care of yourself too, Miss Guide. I look forward to seeing you~"
The other person covered her mouth and smiled, with seductive eyes that made Bai Yang's ears feel a little hot. She looked very beautiful, everything was fine. If she ignored the extra man who kept hanging around, was she trying to win them over in this way?
After the call was disconnected, Bai Yang asked in confusion, "Who was that person?"
"Her sentinel."
Ah, so the captain is Xiao——
It's okay, he clenched his fist and continued to encourage, as long as the hoe was swung well, there was no corner that could not be pried down, "Go find her when you are on vacation, you can't always wait for others to take the initiative. If you do this, she will forget you one day." There will always be people around such a lovely guide, and he felt his teeth itching.
"Yeah," the man agreed, surprised by how quickly he changed his mind.
After ticking the box on the list, she confidently contacted the next person until everyone was confirmed safe. There was a hidden message in the app, and she knew who it was. Thinking she had left him alone for too long, she clicked on it and discovered the last message was from a month ago.
This wasn't Ares' style. Thinking of the death ending, she decided to call, but the call didn't go through. She waited a few minutes, but there was no return call. With some concern, she called again.
Ares was moving bricks in the distance. Yes, that was all he had, and he used it as a dumbbell for training. He'd been doing this since he was a kid, never having the tools, and he'd gotten used to it. It was just too light, ineffective. His optical computer was broken, and he and Falk shared it. The problem was, the signal was spotty in this area, so they had to go to a different location, and it was terribly laggy.
He had given up hope. The roar of pollutants accompanied him to sleep like a background sound, and he only listened to the distance of the sound to decide whether to get up. The land was small, so everyone had to make choices, and sometimes they had to move boxes and stand on tiptoe to find a signal.
The man looked at his bloodshot arm, the longing in his heart a little difficult to suppress. Shao Jiang asked him to apologize and give her some more time, and he did so, but it was no use. Before, he would read the message but not reply, but now he would not even read it. He was heartbroken.
It's the holiday season, and I don't know where she is or who she is with. The thought of someone snuggling in her arms at this moment makes me feel jealous. Every day feels like a year. It was not this hard for me to endure when I was alone crossing the snow-capped mountains before.
His fingers loosened, and six heavy bricks fell from his toes, kicking up dust on the ground. He couldn't take it anymore and decided to continue harassing her, even if he was scolded. He walked back to the communication room and saw Falk was still playing games. He waited until he finished, took it from him, switched accounts and logged in. There were three missed calls.
I called the video, but the signal was poor, so I switched to a phone call. The other party's first reaction was silence, "Who are you?"
"It's me," Ares quickly explained. The reason he didn't answer the call was because he hadn't seen her for so long, and he was so excited that he didn't know how to speak. But the other party sounded a little weak, out of breath. "I'm fine."
After she said this, she was silent for a while and wanted to hang up, but Ares didn't give her the chance. When people meet someone they like, they can become talkative. Even if the other person doesn't listen carefully, the occasional "hmm" sound from him/her makes him feel so happy that he is bursting with joy.
Ares wanted to visit her after his vacation, "Where are you?"
"I'm not in the tower anymore, I'm in a research institute." She wasn't quite sure what the place was called, so she gave the name of a nearby hospital and said she was on a special mission.
Since she didn't tell him, he didn't ask, but he knew that the hospital was a field hospital. How could she be arranged there? His prejudice against Shan Hao increased. "Are you safe over there?" He wished he could grow wings and fly to her side, but the other party's next words were like a piercing cold wind.
"Don't worry, Carl is by my side and he takes good care of me."
The man was silent. When she thought he had said something wrong, he continued, "That's good."
Ares quickly changed the subject. She felt a trend: no matter who she praised, from now on, this person's name would never appear again in the chat, as if it had been blocked by the server.
But she was still hesitant about his idea of coming to visit her. "This place is very small and there are not many facilities. You seem quite far away from me." She almost crossed the safe zone diagonally. There was no need to waste the hard-earned vacation on the road, so she advised him not to come.
"No, I must go." After all, a man follows his wife wherever she goes, and wherever she is is his home.
"Okay, but you're not allowed to use violence anymore, okay? Don't touch him."
The jealous cat, seeing these words, the captain's tail popped up and shook irritably, but he still reluctantly agreed. After the call ended, he sent several more messages, as if he had separation anxiety, which made the other party send him away in a bad mood, or even not reply, before throwing the laptop to Falk.
The man lifted his shirt and looked down at his exposed abs, grinning idiotically as he already thought about what he would wear that day.
The internet buzzed with activity, perhaps thanks to the website's promotion. Her videos attracted even more viewers, and she received numerous messages backstage, though her verification process hadn't yet been completed. Amidst the chorus of doubters, one friendly response stood out. She politely replied, and later, she left comments on every video, effectively forming a bond with her fans.
At night, the moon is as round as a pancake and the flowing water is sparkling.
On the river, in the boat, a man sitting at a computer desk yelled, "He's online!"
This pervert, using a fake account, pretended to be a guide, wanting to "exchange experiences" with everyone. This was definitely a lie. He also said he wanted to meet other guides and work together to purify the soil. This was such a crude scam, but he persisted in it, and we couldn't report him. He was a blatant fraud, and everyone hated him.
Krish: "Let me meet him."
Yes, in their minds, the other party was a sentry who was deliberately deceiving them. He was obviously a kidnapper and trafficker with bad intentions. Once they found out his location, they would put him behind bars, chains and handcuffs, and let him spend the rest of his life in prison.
His teammate patted his shoulder and said, "You know it's fake, but you're still watching it? Are you obsessed with it?"
"nonsense!"
Why would he be attracted to the voice changer? He was looking for evidence in these fake thief videos to expose the other party in one fell swoop, okay? Despite his explanation, others didn't believe it. What kind of good person would investigate criminals and download their videos and listen to them before going to bed with the audio turned on?
However, it sounded like "she" did have a sleep-inducing effect. The vegetable planting was definitely fake, but the voice changer he used was very good, and it made him feel weak all over.
Krish: "He agreed to the video call."
"Remember to record it. You'll need it when you present evidence."
After washing up and changing into pajamas, Xu Shanshan came to the table. Her hair wasn't even dry yet, and Karl, worried she might catch a cold, chased after her to dry it. She was thinking about the guide she had just met, whom she felt was a kindred spirit. Amidst the skepticism of the crowd, she was the only one who had discerned the truth.
Carl disagreed. It was hard for someone who didn't know the truth to believe it. After all, there were so many rumors that the public had lost trust in it. Even if the other person was a guide and knew the inside story, he wouldn't be so attentive.
Yes, he used that word, it wasn't right, he was going to watch the whole time.
The video call was on, the ceiling light was too bright, and the exposure was so high that the face was unclear, but the screen on the other end was black. She felt a little strange and thought it was because of the bad network. She waited for a while and called several times, but the other party did not respond.
Carl: "She might have a bad signal, hang up."
Staring at a pair of men's hands approaching, covering the camera, and hanging up the phone, Krzysztof and his teammates fell into a kind of frozen state, at a loss, their fingers in front of the screen. Someone asked, "Still recording?"
"Turn it off, turn it off."
What did they see? This face seemed familiar, as if they had seen her somewhere before, as did the people around her. This scene completely broke Krish's interrogation before it even began. What should he do now?
"She's quite the guide, isn't she?" His teammates looked at him gloatingly. "How are you going to explain this?"
Regardless of the explanation, they still wanted to see her again, so they called back and the call was connected after a while. At the same time, a man walked in from outside the cabin and shouted, "Here, brother, let me teach him a lesson."
"Shh——" Someone made a gesture, and the man approached quietly.
Xu Shanshan was surprised and asked, "Did I hear it wrong? Who are you going to teach a lesson to?"
The man took a deep breath, stretched out his index and middle fingers on his right hand, pointed at his teammates, and then pointed at himself, indicating that what they did had nothing to do with him.
"No, you heard wrong."
A man's voice? The smile on Xu Shanshan's face disappeared, and she was a little confused. The man next to her had a serious expression that was frozen like an ice cave.
"Shasha, can you please start the video? Didn't you say you wanted to help me promote it?"
Seeing his teammates' lip movements full of silent mockery, Krish gritted his teeth and started the video. A handsome face appeared in front of the screen, and everything was pitch black, with only that face illuminated.
"Sasha, you...it turns out you're a male guide. How rare."
His tense body relaxed again, "Yes, it's me." He pinched his throat and said, "I didn't expect you to be so..." His shoulder was suddenly patted and the light was turned on.
The surroundings were illuminated, and everyone appeared. A man approached from the right, leaning forward to block the others. He blinked and said, "My name is Yang." He was pulled back by the waist, looked down at the person, and said hesitantly, "I have nothing to do with him."
The others introduced themselves one by one, each claiming they had nothing to do with him. It felt a bit strange, like they were banding together to exclude him? She frowned, but it was difficult to get involved in other people's private affairs, so she started talking about food purification, and the other party was as interested as ever.
"Did you grow this?"
"Yes," she replied affirmatively. At least those that appeared in the video were all handled by her, so the quality was guaranteed.
It felt a bit realistic. Krish watched the image on the screen, and the aroma seemed to be transmitted across the network. He swallowed his saliva. It was like an old-fashioned egg cake. It was the "wooden" in the back. He spared no effort to slander it. Let's see, whose trapezius muscle is bigger?
After everyone had introduced themselves, it was Krish's turn. "I'm from Team Shark..." The ending was too soft for her to hear. "My name is Krish, you can also call me Shasha. By the way," he added, "I'm not familiar with them either, don't get me wrong."
She probably didn't misunderstand, but the question is, these people don't know each other, how did they get together?
"Krish," Karl wrote down the name. He was a guide, it was too much of a stretch to call him that. He had never heard of this name before. Was he recently transferred? This was strange. He wrote down their faces. It would be better if there really was a guide there.
Although she kept talking about mental power to assist cultivation, Kezhishi didn't listen at all. Strangely, he didn't want to hang up the phone and stared at her intently. The other party kept explaining, probably because he said he was interested. But now, the fluffy hair blew to her mouth, and her lips were rosy, looking very kissable, but the hand next to her was disgusting. Don't touch her!
"Shanshan, it looks delicious. Can I order it in advance when the next batch is ripe?"
Well, she had to ask the director, and after getting a positive answer, she agreed, "How many do you want?" These would not last for a few days, so next time, she would send him something that would last longer.
Krish was calculating his food intake. They couldn't keep food here for a long time, but someone kept interrupting his thoughts, "Sasha, I want one too."
"Order me one."
"I."
He suppressed the urge to murder his teammates and submitted the team's share, hoping to pay in advance, mainly to add him as a friend, but the other party was not in a hurry and said that he would contact him when they got to know each other better. After the business was over, the rest was just small talk.
Xu Shanshan: "It's so dark here, and the picture is a little shaky."
Krish: "We're patrolling along the river." He was chatting with her about interesting things on the boat when he saw a huge fish tail suddenly appear behind him. Who was carrying the spoils around? He was about to scold him when he heard the other person exclaim, "How amazing!"
"Hey, I caught it." Yang walked around carrying a fish that was bigger than a man.
Carl looked up information on the official website and found no guide named "Sasha." Krish was a member of the Shark Squad, a sentinel. These clumsy sentinels who coveted his guide were truly despicable.
He lowered his head and said, "It's time to rest. I have to go to the research institute tomorrow morning."
Well, she waved goodbye to everyone, "Sasha, I wish you all the best."
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