Chapter 64: 064 The Secret in the Mountains Halfway through the meal...
2 hours, once every 1 hour, there is no abnormality. After dawn, An Yizhen and Zhuang Zimo returned to the hotel, and they met in the breakfast room quite tacitly.
The two of them tacitly agreed that the free buffet breakfast presented by the hotel would never be missed. The hot buffet breakfast, although not as good as An Yizhen’s in the main **** space, has a unique local flavor. Of course they eat more of each, and they don’t know when their next hot meal will be.
After eating was almost done, Zhuang Zimo raised his head and said: “There is indeed an airport ten kilometers outside the county town, where helicopters and other rescue aircraft are parked. According to your description, I quickly found Liang Shuang. He lives near the hangar. In the peasant house, he has a separate yard all the year round. When he is not with a group, he lives there by himself. It is convenient and quiet, and he rarely interacts with people.
Just as I was about to do something with the helicopter, I saw Liang Shuang slipped into the hangar as well. In the small hangar, the plane is also packaged for him, and no one cares when he comes in and out. I thought he was trying to fix something wrong with the rear wing, but it turned out that he moved all the umbrella bags, only one umbrella bag he didn’t move, the one under the seat near the hatch. ”
“Oh, in the dream, that was Xiao Xu’s seat. Xiao Xu is very obedient. She sits wherever she is arranged. There is a problem with the safety buckle on her seat. So is she the only person Liang Shuang doesn’t want to kill? Her physique is not up to standard, and she can escape the disaster. If the rest of the people did parachute at that time, most of them would not end well.”
An Yizhen sighed, and then said about her situation, “I wandered around the nearby hotels and homestays and found Xue Po and Xu Xiaomin, as well as the black-faced young man, that man’s name is Ma Xu. The three of them met on the train. They lived not far away and had dinner together. The slender-eyed man didn’t know his real name and where he came from, and they couldn’t find him in the serious accommodation. Ma Xu and the others had his connection. The way and the screen name, the man was called Fox, and he said that he didn’t go to the county town for dinner. The other three guessed that he was driving by himself or someone who lived nearby.”
“It turns out that the slender-eyed accomplice of Liang Shuang you mentioned is a fox. There is a separate communication between Liang Shuang and the fox. After Liang Shuang came out of the hangar, he called the fox and said that everything would be as planned for the meeting tomorrow. “Zhuang Zimo said, “Liang Shuang pulled a group, the fox and the people in the hiking group were all together, and they left a message saying the time and place of the meeting.”
“Then should I have a mobile phone? We have to send a prop to match our identities.” An Yizhen hadn’t used a mobile phone for a long time, and it was only when Zhuang Zimo mentioned it that she thought of this question.
“The monster came here just now, and your phone was smashed by the monster. My phone is still there, I changed your card, and after a little try, I logged in to your communication number.”
An Yizhen didn’t care what method Zhuang Zimo used to log in to the mobile phone of this prop, and to decipher her communication number. Anyway, the information was to be shared, and it was the same for anyone who used the mobile phone.
She wondered: “I didn’t have you in my dream at first, how are you going to show up then? Follow us and suddenly fly to the toilet door?”
“The plane can’t leave, then I’ll be your chartered driver. I’ve already found a car and arranged it.” Zhuang Zimo smiled and gave An Yizhen a cell phone.
An Yizhen didn’t answer the phone, and asked sternly, “Have you done other things besides getting the car?”
Zhuang Zimo nodded and admitted: “There’s still a little time, I took my phone to investigate other things.”
An Yizhen pushed the phone back: “Then you should hold the phone. Walkie-talkies will be issued in the hiking group, so it’s enough to have a contact between us.”
“You don’t ask me what I’m looking for in private?”
“Anyway, it shouldn’t be a side quest. Maybe you think of something in the real world, and you want to use the highly similar time and space to verify some of your assumptions, right?”
“Yeah, some things have been destroyed in the real world, but there may be some opportunities to restore them in this trial site. Just like the relics of Hirayama that have been realized in reality, they may bring unexpected surprises. ”
Zhuang Zimo didn’t elaborate on what he did, and An Yizhen didn’t ask much. This is a tacit understanding that has long been cultivated. She knew that he was measured and responsible and would not affect the overall situation, which was enough.
After breakfast, the two went directly to the meeting place. An Yizhen took the bag into the station building, while Zhuang Zimo ran to the car and waited to pull it off.
Almost exactly the same as the scene in the dream, An Yizhen stood beside the other teammates and was checked by captain Liang Shuang. There is still a lot of food in the bag, and Liang Shuang’s lines are exactly the same as in the dream.
The door to the hangar opened, and she saw a small bug crawling onto the tail of the plane, but this time she shouted, “Look, what is that?”
“What?” Everyone followed her fingers to the tail of the helicopter.
Naturally, I didn’t see any bugs, but Xue Po was emotionally infected by An Yizhen, and suggested: “Otherwise, let’s check again. This helicopter looks a bit old, and I don’t know if it is reliable.”
Liang Shuang called the maintenance technician in the hangar. He was pretending to go through the scene, but he didn’t expect the technician to say seriously after checking: “There is a one-inch-long crack in the rear wing, it’s very deep, I don’t know how it was caused, this It must be repaired in time, otherwise it may fall apart when it flies.”
Liang Shuang’s face changed slightly: “Then do you have other planes? My team is all assembled, and we must leave today.”
The maintenance personnel were sweating profusely, but this was the only helicopter that could be rented out.
Liang Shuang asked the person in charge of the hangar to argue that the person in charge would rather refund or even compensate for the loss of time than rent out the helicopter in question. In the event of an accident, if something fell from the sky, it would be a human life, but it would not be more than the current amount of compensation.
Xu Xiaomin has a good nature and suggested: “I heard that I used to drive there. Since the helicopter is no longer available, let’s charter a car. I don’t know when the plane will be repaired. Don’t waste time. There is no such good weather.”
An Yizhen also agreed: “Yeah, the weather in the mountains is unpredictable, and the weather is so good today, we should leave early. Isn’t there a chartered car in the county to enter the mountain? It’s not too late to find a car now.”
Seeing that the two girls said this, Ma Xu also supported: “Actually, I drive very well. Let’s go back to the county to rent a car. I can be a driver without a driver. Can’t I get a refund here in the hangar? Money should be cheaper than chartering a plane, right?”
Liang Shuang glanced at the fox and saw that the other party didn’t express any objection, so he could only say: “Well, let’s go back to the county first, I know there is a rental car shop. By the way, how did you get here in the morning? The six of us take a taxi. Can’t sit still.”
“I took a car this morning, it’s a 7-seat business. I don’t know if I’m leaving now, I’ll go out and see.” An Yizhen mentioned something with ulterior motives.
A few people went out in frustration, and naturally they met the Zhuang Zimo who was driving a business car parked on the side of the road and hadn’t left. Originally, everyone said that they would take a taxi back to the county to rent a car. After a few chats, when they heard that they wanted to charter a car into the mountains, the price was not bad. Master Zhuang immediately took up the job.
Xu Xiaomin, who was sitting in the middle, whispered to An Yizhen secretly: “This driver is very handsome, how do you know him, is he a local?”
“I don’t know him. I just ordered a car from the hotel in the morning. I thought it was a waste for a commercial car to pull me by myself. But in a hurry, they didn’t ask for much money, so it seems honest. “An Yizhen’s tone was very casual, as if he didn’t care who the driver was.
“Master driver, what’s your surname? Commercial vehicles were rarely seen in the county town.” Liang Shuang, who was sitting in the co-pilot, took the initiative to ask.
“My surname is Zhuang, you can just call me Xiaozhuang. I’m a full-time driver of a boss in Linxian County. The boss’s family travels abroad. I’m free to stay here. I’m here to visit relatives and friends, and by the way, I’ll have a private life for two days.” Zhuang Zimo He didn’t say his full name, but he vividly portrayed the identity of a sophisticated and slick professional driver, not close to the customer’s initiative, and not as cold as he usually does.
Liang Shuang didn’t talk to him, and kept looking outside.
An Yizhen sat right behind Zhuang Zimo, pretending to be asleep without talking to him. Xu Xiaomin was sitting on the right hand side of An Yizhen, just in time to see Zhuang Zimo’s handsome profile. After chatting a few words, the car turned into a mountain road. She did not dare to talk anymore for fear of affecting the driver’s attention.
There were three boys in the back row, and the space was a little crowded. Xue Po sat on the right, Fox sat in the middle, Ma Xu sat on the far left, and An Yizhen was right behind.
An Yizhen listened to their nonsense, and the content was similar to what he said on the helicopter in the dream. It was nothing more than Xue Po bragging that his father’s company was developing drones, saying that he was familiar with this hiking route. Anyway, it was just a show. .
Liang Shuang was even more silent. He looked down at his phone, as if he was chatting with someone else online. Fox and Ma Xu patiently accompany Xue Po to chat, and the atmosphere is not too embarrassing.
The helicopter can fly into the mountain in half an hour, but if the drive to the outpost goes smoothly, it will take three and a half hours. If the road is blocked by landslides and debris flows in some places, I don’t know how long it will take. It is said that someone drove up in the morning and did not enter the outpost by night.
They were lucky today, with few accidents and no congestion on the road. This is the best season in the mountains. In addition to green trees, there are flowers of various colors outside the car window. Occasionally, some small animals jump out of the mountains. They are very clever to avoid the roads on the mountain, and only move in the woodland within the **** protection.
Liang Shuang suddenly said: “There are a lot of protected animals in the mountain we crossed on foot. I heard that DM countries have sneaked in and poached recently. They all bring wooden warehouses, and they can’t speak the language. It’s very dangerous. So everyone, don’t be alone. Girls are best friends when they go to the toilet in the wild.”
The fox continued, “Captain, you prioritize girls over boys, can’t we boys go to the toilet together?”
Xue Po sneered: “They are all big men. Are you ashamed to go to the toilet together?”
Ma Xu said, “To be on the safe side, if there are any poisonous snakes or something, we can look at each other in pairs.”
Xue Po said: “Then the two of you are good friends. Don’t follow me when I go to the toilet. There are no large wild animals in the mountain we went to. I brought the powder for repelling insects and snakes. Do any of you need it?”
Several boys and Xu Xiaomin all said yes. An Yizhen didn’t mix as if she was really asleep.
Along the winding road, you will occasionally pass by some small villages. There are many business door curtains on the side of these village houses along the road. There are restaurants, car repair shops and small supermarkets. The target customers are people who drive to and fro.
After 2 hours of driving, Xu Xiaomin said that he wanted to use the toilet. It happened that a new public toilet was built in the village by the roadside. The public toilet was covered with white tiles and charged 5 cents per person. It looked quite clean. She hurriedly called to stop, invited La An Yizhen to go to the toilet together, and collected 1 yuan.
When the boys saw that the toilet was charging, they ridiculed a few words and said that they would solve it on the mountainside, but after teasing a bit, it was more convenient to spend money to go to the toilet. Only Zhuang Zimo sat in the driver’s seat and did not move, pretending to close his eyes to rest, but in fact calmly observing the surrounding situation.
After going to the toilet, Xu Xiaomin saw the small supermarket beside selling cold drinks. He bought 7 bottles of functional drinks and distributed them to everyone. He said generously, “I mentioned going to the toilet just now, which wasted everyone’s time. Please drink a drink.”
Liang Shuang took the drink from the plastic bag in her hand and distributed it to the rest of the people who got on the bus.
Zhuang Zimo took a bottle and thanked him, but didn’t unscrew it, just put it aside.
Xu Xiaomin brought An Yizhen a bottle, but An Yizhen looked at it and said, “I want to drink peach flavored one. If you have one, please change it with me.”
Liang Shuang happened to have a peach flavored one in his hand, and took the initiative to hand it to An Yizhen. An Yizhen exchanged drinks with him and asked with a smile, “Captain Liang, if we feel unwell during the hike, we should stop, or Go back to the outpost, is there any medical supplies there? Is it too late to call for ambulance?”
Liang Shuang was stunned for a moment, then replied with a smile: “The outpost stores emergency medical items, which can basically handle some falls or snake venom bites. But if you have any uncommon diseases or other serious injuries, you must be Call an ambulance. Don’t worry, as long as the ambulance helicopter is willing to pay, they can find us in half an hour.”
“If you eat a bad stomach, is there any medicine?” An Yizhen asked again.
“Standing medicines and antibiotics are available, and supplies are regularly changed at the outpost. There is a rest camp for forest rangers, and there is a warehouse to store various supplies.” Liang Shuang explained patiently, “I also brought some medicines with me, you should I also prepared my own common medicines according to the list, right?”
Xu Xiaomin said, “My mother runs a pharmacy, and I carry all the medicines.”
An Yizhen just saw that Liang Shuang used the metal wrench on his left hand to smear something near the bottle cap when he handed it to Xue Po.
But all beverage bottles do not open the lid, and if you smear something on the lid, the effect will be much worse. In order to be safe, she asked for the drink in Liang Shuang’s hand, and took out a pack of disinfectant tissues to distribute to everyone, wiped the bottle cap schematically, and reminded: “I don’t know how much dirt has fallen from the things sold in small places. There are still insects, snakes, rats and ants in the mountains, everyone wipe it and drink it.”
When he was at the small airport, An Yizhen appeared to be frail and frail. Now he drinks a bottle of beverages and wipes them off. Xue Po did not pick up the tissue and laughed, “Miss An, do you have any common sense? Unscrew the bottle cap to drink and touch it. There is no ash when it reaches the mouth. Your non-woven wet wipes have poor degradability, but instead pollute the environment.”
An Yizhen glanced at the schadenfreude that flashed in Liang Shuang’s eyes, and was even more sure that the drink bottle might have been manipulated. She lowered her head and quickly typed a message to Zhuang Zimo’s contactor as a reminder.
Zhuang Zimo touched his left ear to show his understanding.
Their liaison device was conceived by Zhuang Zimo in the main **** space before the copy of the beast. It can type and turn speech, and when worn on the ear, it is also the kind of ear studs that are highly decorative and concealed, which is different from ordinary common earphones.
An Yizhen was very fast. In addition to typing, he also exchanged the drink in his hand with the bottle of Xue Po.
The drinks in Liang Shuang and Xue Po’s hands are all peach flavored. She didn’t ask Xue Po to exchange them directly. First, Xue Po ridiculed her that it was impossible to exchange anything with her, and Liang Shuang drank this bottle of theory. should be the safest. She got it over, and quietly changed it with Xue Po’s bottle, which was more secure.
In exchange for the problematic drink, An Yizhen wiped it carefully with a tissue, but did not twist it off immediately to drink it. A sudden drowsiness struck, and An Yizhen closed her eyes reluctantly. Is it because Liang Shuang gave a potent hypnotic medicine on the bottle cap, even her physique couldn’t handle it?
No, with her physique, it’s difficult for medicines to take effect so quickly. Soon, her sleepiness disappeared again.
Because the road ahead suddenly collapsed, a pile of rocks rolled down. There was no danger, Zhuang Zimo stopped in time. Liang Shuang took out the engineer shovel in his backpack, and beckoned the boy to move the stone in his way. It seems that this situation is very common on this winding mountain road. The stone is moved to the side of the road where it is out of the way, and then it is enough to drive away.
Xue Bo and the fox carried a large rock to the side of the cliff, but the sun hat on their heads was blown off by the wind for some reason. The hat almost fell off and was hung on a bush. It grows on the outside of the road metal guardrail. The guardrail is not too high. Most people can reach it by holding the guardrail with one hand and reaching for the hat.
The hat was a high-end brand, more than 200 yuan. Xue Po admitted that he was unlucky and complained and went to pick up the hat.
At this time, Xue Po and others were separated by a certain distance, and the movement of reaching for the hat seemed to be difficult for him, but an accident happened, like a whirlwind on the ground, he fell off the cliff like that, and let out a scream.
An Yi really wanted to rush over and hold Xue Po, she could have done it at her speed, but her body couldn’t move, and she opened her eyes suddenly.
It turned out that it was a nightmare just now, and she was startled in a cold sweat and almost crushed the drink bottle in her hand. This state of having nightmares anytime, anywhere may be the setting given to her by the copy. Is this the true meaning of the nightmare copy?
Zhuang Zimo was driving the car, and he could see that An Yizhen suddenly closed his eyes, his breathing rate plummeted, and then opened his eyes again a few seconds later, blinking at her three times.
This is a hint that there is danger near him, and then he hears something hidden in the forest not far away. It wasn’t human breathing, it sounded familiar, like the invisible monster who visited the hotel last night.
Is this a point guard to attack them?
Zhuang Zimo braked, pulled over to the temporary parking space, and said, “I’ll take it easy. Looking down the mountain here is a good place to take pictures. You can take a look at the scenery and wait for me for a while.”
In less than 2 minutes, Zhuang Zimo returned. The scenery here is really good, everyone is still taking pictures, and there is no hurry to get on the bus.
An Yizhen learned from the contactor that Zhuang Zimo was in a hurry just now, went to the mountain to catch the invisible monster, knocked unconscious, broke his limbs and threw it up a tree. Is this Zhuang Zimo’s way of communicating?
Zhuang Zimo also left a message saying that stealth monsters are not always invisible, and they are much weaker after being injured. There are no obvious passes, positioning devices or contacts on the monsters, and they are probably embedded in the monsters. The monster’s throat was mutated and he couldn’t speak. He looked at the teeth, and suspected that the problem teeth with the positioning or self-exposure device were also pulled out for the monster.
An Yizhen typed and asked: Does the monster look like a human?
Zhuang Zimo replied: Well, it should be alienated from a human embryo, with black scales all over his body, and the number of teeth in his mouth is the same as that of a human being.
An Yizhen asked again: Monsters won’t die, right?
Zhuang Zimo replied: This thing can’t be bitten by most animals, and it also has self-healing power. It should be able to grow well in a day and a half. The place where the scales were removed by me before had new pink scales, and I removed them again. Let’s test his self-healing speed.
An Yizhen began to sympathize with this monster now. The monster reminded her of the female NPC translator who had a problem with her teeth in the runaway dungeon. The monster’s teeth were pulled out, and it showed gratitude. Could it be that the monster was really under control, and also wanted to break free from being under control?
Everyone got in the car and continued on.
When the car passed the road safely and there was no danger, An Yizhen glanced at Liang Shuang in the co-pilot, and found that his expression became more anxious, and the frequency of his eyes looking in the direction of Fox and Xue Po through the rearview mirror higher.
It seems that the danger in the dream is caused by the monster? Indeed, it was not difficult for the invisible monster to push Xue Po down. Liang Shuang, the fox and the monster are on the same line? Does this further prove her initial guess that there is a secret laboratory in the mountain, and Liang Shuang is responsible for selecting the appropriate experimental “materials”.
However, it can be seen from some details that between Liang Shuang and the fox, it seems that the fox has more authority. Liang Shuang should act according to the wink of the fox?
An Yi really thought that it was fortunate that Zhuang Zimo was driving, she only had to dream. If she was driving, she might not need a monster. She couldn’t control herself to doze off, and all the people in the car would fall off the cliff.
Arriving at the outpost smoothly is exactly the same as what An Yizhen saw in his dream. The layout of the station building, including the location and number of cameras outside the house, as well as various details are not different at all.
Xu Xiaomin and An Yizhen went to the toilet together, but this time there was no exclamation, Xue Po was with everyone. 4 boys and 1 girl, everyone is alive and well.
It was noon at this time, everyone decided to have a lunch first, rest for about an hour, and then officially start the trekking.
Zhuang Zimo asked to eat lunch before leaving. Normally, it was almost dark when he returned to the county seat. He rubbed his lunch not too much.
Lunch is simpler than expected. There are induction cookers and pots in the station building, and all we eat are noodles, instant noodles, dried vegetables, sausages and chili sauce. Cooking noodles needs to be done by yourself, but Xue Po actually volunteered to stand up as a cook.
Although he is very picky about others, when it is his turn to cook, he fully shows the characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cooking noodles is timed by a stopwatch, and the control of each seasoning must be extremely precise. An Yizhen believed that if there were scales and weights here, Xue Po would definitely use them for cooking.
Therefore, other people can’t help the cook at all.
An Yizhen saw that anxiety and helplessness appeared on Liang Shuang’s face again.
While eating noodles, An Yizhen and Zhuang Zimo both quickly dispose of things outside the house.
The fox took the health supplement pills before moving his chopsticks, and Liang Shuang also took out a dietary fiber tablet and swallowed it. Although the two people’s medicine bottles were very different, the appearance of the pills appeared to be similar.
An Yizhen and Zhuang Zimo looked at each other and felt that the plot should progress.
Sure enough, halfway through the meal, Xue Po, Ma Xu and Xu Xiaomin fell on the table and fell asleep.