"I finally gave up, OK." Li Qing suddenly interrupted Zhong Ruoxi and said hurriedly.

Zhong Ruoxi pursed her lips, her eyes twinkled, but she didn't say a word.

Li Qing took a deep breath: "Qiuqiu is too smart. I'm really afraid of revealing something between words, so she will guess what I'm doing right away."

"Have you ever thought about..." Zhong Ruoxi paused slightly. "You may never come back. Don't you feel sorry that you didn't say goodbye to the people you love before you leave?"

A smile welled up at the corners of his mouth. Li Qing shook his head again and again: "how could it? I promised Qiuqiu to take care of her all my life. I will go back and never get stuck here."

Slightly over his head, Zhong Ruoxi stared at Li Qing's side face and stopped talking.

The two stayed quietly for more than two hours. The time passed silently. Zhong Ruoxi looked down at his electronic watch and stood up: "ready to go."

Ten people gathered again, crossed the vast forest and headed for the first scheduled place. There, the team will receive the first batch of air drop materials from the Longxi military, including radio communication equipment, arms, and essential food and drinking water.

Because they had carried insect repellent powder before, various poisonous insects in the primeval forest did not bring much trouble to the team, but a large number of poisonous snakes hiding in the grass and branches and leaves still attracted people's mood. The colorful poisonous snakes in different forms all imply danger. They are unique products of this rainforest, and only a small part of them can be identified by the knowledge of all the people in the team.

"It would be nice to bring colorful clouds." Li Qing thought silently. He couldn't help but stretch out his hand and press his pocket, touching the purse that the little girl shamefully presented many days ago.

This day was the 19th of the month, eight days before the memorial service for the dead soldiers in Xilong on the 27th. On the morning of this day, the team arrived at the first scheduled place.

The minute hand crossed the dial in an orderly way, and the time pointed to 7:05.

Shi Yinghui looked anxiously at the sky: "it's been five minutes. Where's the material?"

"Wait a minute." there was a trace of unspeakable cold in Zhong Ruoxi's voice.

Li Qing waved to the Qin and Wu dynasties not far away. The latter turned around and gave him a thumbs up, representing that everything was normal.

"Something should have happened." Li Qing came up to Feng Yucheng and said in a low voice.

Nodding without trace, Feng Yucheng waved to teacher Deng again. The latter immediately came back, took out the map from his bag and spread it on the spot.

"The worst case," Li Qing said in a deep voice.

Deng Shiwei was stunned, and immediately his eyes were slightly coagulated. He stretched out his hand and pointed on the map: "according to the previous agreement, our second scheduled location is here on the 23rd, that is, four days later. We have enough food now. Saving for four days is not a problem, but there is a serious shortage of drinking water and ammunition."

"Especially ammunition." Deng Shi emphatically repeated, "with the amount of ammunition we carried when we set out from Longxi, we can protect ourselves enough, but it's too difficult to get through the next blockade."

Yang Xun said in a muffled voice, "there is another key problem. Without a radio communication system, there is no way to contact the military in Longxi. In this way, we will become deaf and blind in the next few days. If the situation changes, we can only be beaten passively."

"There's nothing I can do but overcome it," Li Qing said in a deep voice. "Since there's not enough bullets, let's play cold soldiers."

"Set the white wolf with empty hands? It's really not good. It's the only way." master Deng picked up his eyebrows. "But this is just the worst case. I guess there's something wrong with Huang Jingyuan, but we're not so bad."

But I didn't expect Deng Shi to hit the mark. The action of this team was not smooth at the beginning. Now it's really bad luck to go to grandma's house.

From seven o'clock in the morning as agreed in advance, until eight thirty, for a full hour and a half, I was stunned that I didn't see Ding dianer's materials airdropped.

Li Qing went to Zhong Ruoxi and glanced at her: "it's already this time. Make an idea."

"Don't wait." Zhong Ruoxi took back her eyes, "rush to the next scheduled place."

The Qin and Wu dynasties, who were chewing leaves, stood up and spread their hands: "what's the situation?"

Shi Yinghui replied in a deep voice: "our UAV / aircraft may have been shot down by the enemy. Even stealth fighters may have been found."

"Fuck me!" Ji Wenbin suddenly said, "there's so much left. How can I eat in the next few days? If I fail the first time, I'll vote for the second time."

"Impossible." the Qin and Wu dynasties withdrew and patted Ji Wenbin on the shoulder. "If the first time has been found, Huang Jingyuan will never dare to try the second time, it will only expose our position in advance. Don't say anything. Withdraw quickly. You're ready to drink cold water these days."

The team left in a hurry, followed by another day's attack. It didn't stop to rest until dusk.

"Can you find the water source?" Li Qing asked the Qin Dynasty who had just returned from the investigation.

Qin WuChao shook his head: "there are a lot of game, but it's a pity that he can't make a fire. He's greedy when he looks at it."

"Shit, I feel loveless when I think of eating compressed biscuits in the next few days." master Deng gnashed his teeth for a while.

Ji Wenbin pulled the corners of his mouth: "I look at the big snakes in the woods. Why don't we catch a few, peel them clean, wrap them in salt and bake them?"

Master Deng slapped Ji Wenbin on the back of the head impolitely: "do you think we're out for a picnic? They all said we can't make a fire. Do you want to set off beacon smoke for the Xilong military?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Li Qing opened the tarpaulin and spread it on the ground. "It's going to be dark. Open your tarpaulin and collect dew."

The others listened and hurriedly did the same. Li Qing straightened up and suddenly caught a glimpse of the ancient moon circling around a big tree.

"What's the matter? It's like being stunned..." Li Qing walked over and tilted his head.

Gu Yue ignored him and just stared at the big tree in front of him, which made Li Qing couldn't help but turn her attention to the tree. But after watching for a long time, Li Qing repeatedly confirmed that this is an ordinary tree, which is worthless.

Li Qing said with a smile, "go back and have a rest. It's fun and can't be eaten."

"Didn't you find that the tree is empty?" Gu Yue suddenly turned her head and stared at Li Qing.

"Ah? What?"

Before Li Qing could react, Gu Yue had pulled out her dagger and inserted it obliquely into the trunk of the tall tree with a thick waist. Then she pried it, rubbed it with a crisp sound, and a piece of bark collapsed. Then, a milky white branch and leaf gushed out of the trunk.

"What is this?" Li Qing looked at the scene and couldn't help but be surprised.

Gu Yue reached into the gap just pried open and took out a white stem. It was white and fresh, like a fresh white radish.

Glancing at Li Qing, Gu Yue opened her small mouth and bit gently, with a clear voice.

"It's sweet, you have a taste." Gu Yue handed the dried tuber to Li Qing, with a small half of exquisite tooth marks left on it.

Li Qing tasted it and stared round in surprise: "what is this? Why is it so sweet?"

"Parasitic rattan." Gu Yue stepped back and looked up at the towering tree, "don't you notice that the leaves of this tree are yellow and most of them are curled up? Its interior has long been stolen by parasitic rattan."

Li Qing reacted. It turned out that in addition to Caiyun, there was a living map around him.

Master Deng immediately gathered and scrambled to eat this kind of stem from the trunk of the big tree.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a thing in the world." Ji Wenbin muttered while eating. "I've really learned a lot this time. I didn't go to the West in vain."

"It's so sweet and quenchs your thirst." Qin WuChao smiled, "Gu Yue, why didn't you say it earlier? My brothers have been eating compressed biscuits."

Gu Yue skimmed her mouth: "parasitic rattan is a kind of thing that can't be found. How can it grow casually? Even people living in Longxi all year round can eat it once in their life."

Li Qing blinked and put down the half tuber in his hand. Gu Yue said very little along the way, and with her usual temperament, she rarely had such a cheerful and generous situation.

Somehow, Li Qing always vaguely felt that some places were not right.

Shi Yinghui dug out half of the parasitic vine stem with a knife and handed it to Zhong Ruoxi: "try it. It's really delicious. It's the first time I've heard of this kind of thing in Longxi for so long."

Zhong Ruoxi stared at the thing in Shi Yinghui's hand and didn't reach out to pick it up.

Gu Yue turned back and stared at Zhong Ruoxi with a smile, but she didn't say a word.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhong Ruoxi nodded slightly, took over the stem and bit it gently.

"It's really sweet." there was a smile on the corner of her lips. Zhong Ruoxi nodded at Gu Yue and raised the things in her hand, as if she wanted to dispel her old grudges with her.

Gu Yue smiled faintly, wiped the dagger clean and inserted it into her waist again.

A big meal made the team immediately throw away all the previous troubles until the laughter of the Qin and Wu dynasties sounded in the forest: "Lao Ji, did you eat enough?"

"Where..."

Qin WuChao raised his eyebrows and asked, "what are you doing?"

"I found..." Ji Wenbin held the trunk of a big tree with one hand and tried to blink. "Why do you seem to have two heads?"

When the voice fell, Ji Wenbin shook his body again, and immediately fell to the ground with a plop. No one knew anything about it on the spot. The stem of the plant with the tooth mark in his hand also rolled out and fell silently into the grass.

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