Under the leadership of Su Mingzhe, a group of people walked through the dense forest at night.
Because it had rained for several days in a row, the mountains were muddy.
The more people walked, the more strenuous it became.
Just as everyone was hurriedly humming, Rachel saw Su Mingzhe standing on the side of the road, counting people, and couldn't help but ask:
"Xiao Su, why do I feel like you are leading us to climb up?"
"Yes, we are just climbing up!"
Su Mingzhe knows that women are troublesome creatures, so he doesn't waste much time and tells the reason directly:
"Our new residence is on the other side of the island. If we want to travel quickly, we need to penetrate the entire island from the ridge..."
"The other side of the island?"
In fact, everyone had heard Su Mingzhe say it once before, but they didn't take it seriously. When they heard it again now, a woman asked:
"Xiao Su, how big is this island?"
"How big is this island..."
Su Mingzhe didn't want to talk about this topic, but when someone asked, if he didn't answer, it would cause everyone to panic, so he thought for a moment and said:
"I estimate that it is at least thirty miles wide from east to west and about forty miles long from north to south! Our original location was in the northwest corner, and now we are going to the southeast corner."
After hearing this, Li Lin made some calculations in his mind and suddenly felt numb:
"Thirty miles wide and forty miles long, from the northwest corner to the southeast corner... doesn't that mean we have to walk fifty miles at night?"
"Fifty miles?"
During the day, cleaning sister Qi led everyone to collect wild fruits and mushrooms. She had been tired for a day. When she heard that she had to walk such a long way again, she collapsed on the ground and cried mournfully:
"More than fifty miles, how long will we go!"
Hearing Sister Qi's noise, Li Lin had to explain:
"Fifty miles is more than 25,000 meters. Calculated according to two steps and one meter, this is more than 50,000 steps. Our salesmen have to walk so much every day when running for customers outside!"
Regarding Li Lin's words, among the thirteen people present, the other seven salesmen nodded in agreement.
Seeing that Sister Qi's voice did not resonate with everyone, Rachel regretted her question.
At this point, she could only make up for it and comforted:
"Sister Qi, let's go. Leave early and arrive early!"
At this moment, Ma Jin suddenly laughed in a joking voice:
"That's right, Sister Qi, if you don't want to, you can stay. Anyway, we haven't gone far yet."
"Ma Jin, what are you talking about? When will I stop saying you can't leave? I just sit down and take a rest, can't I?"
Sister Qi also knew that she must not retreat at this time, so she gritted her teeth and stood up again, continuing to move forward with everyone.
Su Mingzhe's team, including himself, totals thirteen people, seven of whom are women.
It can be said that this is a team where the yin is strong and the yang is weak.
Precisely because there are so many women, men don’t have to worry about the issue of ‘distribution’. When the oldest sister Qi wanted to ‘rely on her old age and sell her old age’, no man was polite to her, or even rude to her!
The girls also discovered this problem, and then they hurried on without saying a word.
Walk, walk, walk.
Half an hour later.
Su Mingzhe saw that everyone was indeed very tired, so he greeted everyone and asked them to sit down and rest for a while.
At this moment, Ma Jin exclaimed, attracting everyone's attention:
"Here...here...there is a monument...Xiao Xing, bring the torch!"
"Is there a monument? What monument?"
When everyone heard that there were traces of human civilization, they immediately gathered around excitedly.
When the torch came closer, everyone could see clearly that the 'stele' in the horse's entrance was actually a square stele no more than two feet high.
There are four Arabic numerals on the front and back of the stele.
Xiaoxing walked around the stone tablet and found nothing useful. He could only ask his unrelated cousin:
"Brother, what does the '1700' written above mean?"
"I don't know what it means!"
Ma Jin looked up at everyone and sighed:
"It's a pity that Professor Shi didn't come with us, otherwise we could have asked him! This old guy still has a lot of stuff in his belly!"
Wenjuan was a little unaccustomed to being the center of attention for the first time.
However, when she noticed that Su Mingzhe was also looking at her, she couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in her heart.
Everyone just listened to her:
"When my husband and I were on our honeymoon trip, we saw this kind of stone tablet beside a mountain road. I heard from the tour guide that the numbers on this kind of stone tablet are called 'altitude lines', which refer to the altitude here!"
"Altitude?"
Wenjuan's words were like pouring a ladle of water into a boiling oil pan.
Everyone exploded at once:
"One thousand seven hundred meters... is it that high?"
"We are at most two to three hundred meters away from sea level, right?"
"Oh, Shanshan, please help me, I'm a little afraid of heights..."
"Sister Qi, you are not afraid of heights, you are scared!"
In the past few days, everyone has heard many doomsday theories.
Wenjuan’s words at this moment are undoubtedly a favorable confirmation of the ‘doomsday theory’!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
If there is anyone in the crowd who firmly disagrees with the 'doomsday theory', it is undoubtedly Ma Jin.
The reason for his objection was not that he really disagreed, but because he had bought lottery tickets for many years and finally won the 60 million grand prize!
Now, you tell me, the sea level has risen to more than a thousand meters!?
Does Binhai City still exist?
Do humans still exist?
Who can I call to redeem my lottery ticket?
"Impossible, this is impossible, you must be mistaken!"
Ma Jin stood up!
He believed that Wenjuan must be deceiving him, and the loss and panic caused the anger that had accumulated in his heart for many days.
For a moment, Ma Jin lost his mind, waved his hands, and rushed towards Wen Juan.
He wants Wenjuan to take back what she just said!
He wanted Wenjuan to admit that she was talking nonsense just now!
However, before Ma Jin could grab Wenjuan's shoulders, he suddenly felt weak in his limbs. After a period of dizziness, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
When Xiaoxing saw Su Mingzhe hit his cousin on the head with his palm, he was startled. He quickly supported his fainted cousin and roared at Su Mingzhe:
"Su Mingzhe, you...why did you hit my brother?"
"What did your brother want to do, didn't you see?"
Su Mingzhe didn't like the two brothers, so he turned to the others and said:
"I reiterate once again, if you want to follow me, you must abide by my system! My team will never allow people to bully others. If anyone dares to rely on force to attack others, they will be punished.
Get out of my team!"
"Get out of here, who cares?"
Seeing that his cousin was beaten unconscious by Su Mingzhe, Xiaoxing became angry and announced that he had drawn a clear line with Su Mingzhe.
"Let's go!"
Seeing this, Su Mingzhe was happy to leave the living treasures of their brothers behind, and immediately led everyone to continue setting off.
With the little episode just now, there was no more noise in the team.
It's just that the fifty-mile mountain road is really difficult to walk.
After everyone has walked three or four miles, they need to take a rest.
I rested twelve times in one night.
With their eyes close, the sun was breaking, and everyone realized: