At eight o'clock in the morning, a large open space on the periphery of the Xishi Mountain District was already full of black pressed heads, dozens of organizer staff wearing gray and white striped shirts were busy, and the members of the participating parties were arranged in their respective designated areas, and a special area was also set up, with four or five sunshade tents, to entertain the organizers specially invited industry celebrities, senior medicinal appraisers and other heavyweight guests.

An hour ago, the organizer's official platform had released a roadmap of guidelines, and all participants could browse it by simply logging in through fingerprint recognition, provided that they were in a location that received a normal signal, that their mobile phones for the competition still had a battery reserve, and that they were still alive...

Half an hour earlier, jeeps had driven into different parts of the forest to find the people who would take them to the races.

All of this foreshadowed the final conclusion of the five-day tournament.

The scene from noisy to dull, the atmosphere from relaxed to dignified, it only took four hours, the sun came to the sky, and it was noon, among the sixteen parties participating in the competition, only two parties returned, equivalent to one-eighth, one of which was full of four people, but all of them looked embarrassed, one person was seriously injured internally, unconscious, dying, and the other side had only two people, when asked about the other two companions, they shook their heads vigorously, their expressions were dejected, and the answer jumped on the paper.

There are still four hours left before the deadline set by the organizers, and based on the experience of previous competitions of this type, it is normal for half of the participants to return at this time.

The sky is still clear, but everyone present felt a large dark cloud slowly pressing down from the overhead, one by one frowning, showing anxiety and grimness, the staff of the organizer are like ants on a hot pot, the pace of shuttling back and forth has accelerated a lot, holding the walkie-talkie to contact the other end, the speed of speech has increased significantly, the tone is becoming more and more urgent, and from time to time there will be a few swear words, foul language.

"Liu Qing, here, it's Liu Qing..." In the area where Huayuan people were, Wang Chao's eyes were sharp, and he saw that it was Liu Qing sitting on the co-pilot of a jeep coming from the far end.

I haven't seen him for a few days, Liu Qing seems to have lost a lot of weight, his clothes and pants are stained with a lot of dust, and the overall image is okay, after jumping out of the car, looking at his face full of excitement, he only felt a bitterness in his mouth, and he didn't know how to speak.

Since that night and Ye Ning were separated, he wandered around the forest like a lone ranger without a sense of direction, fortunately he did not encounter any danger, of course, he did not meet the person he was looking for, whether it was Fang Lan, Ye Ning, Ah Dui, or Liu Hongfei and others, all mobile phones were in a state of inability to contact.

"Liu Qing, Brother Ye, Sister Fang, and Ah Dui? They didn't get together?" Before they could say hello, Sun Hao said "Huh".

Liu Qing's expression darkened, and he shook his head silently.

The originally lively scene suddenly cooled down, and Wu Kexin, who was standing at the front of several people in the business department, said urgently: "Liu Qing, what's wrong?"

Liu Qing looked over, met Wu Kexin's nervous and expectant gaze, opened his mouth again and again, and finally shook his head silently, his performance was seen by everyone, and he invariably had a bad premonition, and his face darkened.

"I'm sorry, please go over there and count the results first. A staff member of the organizer walked over and pointed to a makeshift tent not far away.

Liu Qing still shook his head, indicating that he had nothing to gain.

The staff member sighed with regret and walked away.

"Don't get stuck here, let's go back first. Xu Dechang commanded everyone to go back, raised his eyes to look at Qiu Ruoyu who stayed in the area where Huayuan was located, and was very worried in his heart, Fang Lan was Qiu Ruoyu's favorite general, Ye Ning was Qiu Ruoyu's husband, and any of these two people had an accident, it would be an unbearable blow to Qiu Ruoyu, especially Ye Ning, and it was also related to whether Huayuan could stand firm in the provincial ranks.

A quarter of an hour later, after Liu Qing explained the situation in a low tone, the anger of all Huayuan members burned to their faces, and their eyes were full of eyes to the Cai family, the Jin family, the Zhang family (Liu Qing only knew that it was a tripartite alliance), and the area where the Ouyang family was located...

"The Cai family, the Jin family, and the Zhang family are too hateful, if Brother Ye has three long and two short, I will fight with them. ”

"There is also the Fenghua Group, bullshit's cooperative allies, if they hadn't seen the wind and retreated, how could Captain Fang be taken hostage, and how could Twilight choose to enter the central forbidden area. ”

"Let's go over now and ask Fenghua for justice..."

Huayuan's side was furious, and he was about to rush towards Fenghua and the others, but at the critical moment, Qiu Ruoyu stood up and said coldly: "Give me calm down, everything will wait until four o'clock in the afternoon." ”

The scene suddenly fell silent.

Qiu Ruoyu's face was like frost, his cold gaze turned around, and he didn't miss anyone, and said in a low voice: "Impulse can't solve the problem, aren't the people from those parties still coming out, don't you have confidence in Ye Ning, Fang Lan, and Ah Dui?" Hmph, give me some peace." At the end of the sentence, he turned around and walked to a chair and sat down, lowered his eyes, and secretly suppressed all kinds of negative emotions in his heart.

In the next hour or so, there are three parties to the participants one after another, twelve people are a lot, only one is said to be a black bear on the back slapped on the back injured not lightly, the other eleven people are not a big problem, the only pity is that the three sides of the harvest are relatively limited, respectively: 31 plants of fourth-grade medicinal materials, 23 plants of fourth-level medicinal materials, 16 plants of fourth-level medicinal materials.

Such results should be placed in the past, the top five iron protection is not playing, but this time it is really hard to say, there are only more than two hours left before the deadline of four o'clock, and these three parties are temporarily occupying three of the top four.

And after these three parties, a full hour, there was no jeep return, the parties gathered in the venue finally gradually lost patience, have come to the organizer to talk about things, this kind of bidding all parties are psychologically prepared for casualties, but there must be a limit, a total of 64 participants from 16 parties, if 60 people come back alive, no one will complain to the organizer, the loss of soldiers can only consider themselves unlucky, but now, less than a third of them have returned...

The head of the organizers, the president, the vice president, the director, etc. are sweating profusely at this time, accompanied by laughter to the "Xing Shi Question" of all parties to soothe each other, the heart is anxious and what, if the result is fixed, it will cause the largest "accident" in the industry in the province for more than ten years, the whole industry will be in chaos, and even reshuffle, the Provincial Medicinal Materials Association will also face the largest change of class since its establishment without any suspense.

Just when everyone's restlessness rose higher and higher, and the scene faintly showed signs of getting out of control, a long-lost jeep drove in the billowing smoke and dust, and the co-pilot was a zombie face with an indifferent expression, and after seeing such a familiar face, Huayuan's originally dark faces suddenly rose with a look of overjoy.

(End of chapter)