It was noon, Lao Xu yawned deeply, after all, he had been driving for most of the day, and people would always be a little tired.

Lao Xu parked the car aside, turned off the fire, and took a sip of water. I staggered out of the car, presumably sitting for too long and my legs were a little numb.

I walked several meters forward, and at this moment, I was no longer standing in the soft desert, but on a solid rocky ground, and this feeling of walking on the ground made my heart feel steady.

After most of the day's drive, we have come to the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains.

However, the Tien Shan Mountains were not originally a single mountain, but were composed of countless peaks, apparently a row of towering and precipitous mountain ranges.

And the position we are in now is only on the periphery of the Tianshan Mountain Range, if we want to enter the center, or even go up to the top of the mountain, you can imagine how dangerous and difficult it is.

I held the water glass, took a sip of water, and looked up to see that the mountains were covered with layers of snow, and it looked like an old man in a deep sleep.

Suddenly, a cold mountain wind blew from afar, and I had to hug myself, but I still shivered unconsciously.

Lao Xu also walked to my side at this time, and looked at the silent and dangerous white-haired old man from afar, the sun sprinkled on his white hair, making it even more pale and terrifying.

I suddenly realized in my heart that if I want to find diligence in this vast mountain, isn't it looking for a needle in a haystack?

"What's wrong? Xiao Qiong, her brows are so furrowed that she can kill flies. Lao Xu saw my worried look and joked with me.

"It's okay, it's the first time I've seen such a spectacular view. ”

"For the first time?"

"Hmm...... I guess it's the first time. ”

If I didn't count what I saw in my dreams, it was the first time I had actually seen such a magnificent view.

"What about Gu Chengzi?

"Oops, forgot about him. Lao Xu patted his head, and then remembered that Gu Chengzi was still locked up in the warehouse.

Lao Xu and I trotted all the way to the door of the warehouse, and Lao Xu opened the door without saying a word.

The warm sun illuminates the dark warehouse, and if it were me, I would have been awakened by the sudden sunshine. But Gu Chengzi was still lying motionless on the bed, wasn't that the bed I slept in last night?

I don't know why my heart was beating so fast all of a sudden, so fast that I couldn't speak, I couldn't breathe. Lao Xu jumped into the warehouse, squatted beside Gu Chengzi, and patted his face with his hand.

"Wake up!"

"Hmm......" Gu Chengzi turned around, turned his back to Lao Xu, and then covered his head with the quilt.

"Chengzi?" Lao Xu called him anxiously, but he just didn't react at all.

“......”

"Gu Chengzi, what's wrong with him?Did you faint again?" I also jumped into the warehouse and stood beside Lao Xu, looking at him worriedly.

"It's not very clear, it's trouble without Mo Qingyan, and I don't know what to do at all. Lao Xu sighed and shook his head, some people just have to disappear before you know how important they are.

"He was like this when he was at the base, whether he would pass out for a few days, I have taken care of him for a long time. ”

"How many numbers are coming today?" Lao Xu scratched his head and looked thoughtful.

"Today...... Is it the beginning of the month?"

"At the beginning of the month?" Lao Xu turned his head to look at me, his eyes blinking.

I jumped out of the cargo compartment and went back to the cab, where I remember the time. I clicked around on the control interface on the cab, and finally found the information showing the time, which said that today was the third day, and sure enough, it was the beginning of the month. I hurriedly ran back to the warehouse to report the news to Lao Xu, but Lao Xu was still confused.

"What does it have to do with the fact that the city can't wake up at the beginning of the month?"

"O day of laziness!

"The day of laziness?"

"Yes, Gu Chengzi told me that his day of laziness is at the beginning of the month, which is different from you. ”

"Oh! I remembered! How did I forget this stubble!" Lao Xu suddenly realized and gave me a thumbs up.

Lao Xu hurriedly picked up Gu Chengzi's water cup, filled him with a full glass of water, and then put it next to his bed. I also took a little food and put it next to his water glass, although I don't know why Lao Xu did this, so since I want to drink water, of course I need to eat something.

"The city?"

"No~to~care~me~" Gu Chengzi said in a low voice.

"We're going out now and maybe back in the evening. Lao Xu whispered in his ear.

"Hmm......" Gu Chengzi's voice was so low that only the sound of breath remained.

Subsequently, Lao Xu took out two backpacks from the cardboard box on the side, which he had prepared in advance, he took one for himself and gave the other to me.

I hugged the rucksack, which was half a man's height and stuffed with stuff, and I thought that I would be exhausted from carrying so many things.

But the amazing thing is that when I carried it, I was surprised to find that it was not difficult at all, and it could even be described as easy.

I jumped out of the warehouse with Lao Xu, and he gently closed the warehouse door, but this time he didn't close it tightly, but left a crack, because he was afraid that Gu Chengzi would wake up and want to go out but couldn't get out. At the same time, he also pulled a handle, and a solar panel slowly unfolded on the roof of the car, Lao Xu said that he would take advantage of this time to charge the car.

"Lao Xu, where are we going?"

"Let's go to the neighborhood and survey the neighborhood to see where there is a road. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you. ”

We climbed step by step to the nearest mountain, and it took us a long time to climb halfway up the mountain. Lao Xu took off his backpack, put it on the ground, and took out a telescope and a tablet from it.

He first scanned the surrounding environment with a telescope, and the stereoscopic image of the surrounding environment was raised on the tablet, and then Lao Xu used the telescope to focus on the blurred places on the stereoscopic image.

In a short time, the surrounding environment was revealed in detail, but this was only the tip of the iceberg. So Lao Xu put all the tools back, put on his backpack and walked to the other side of the mountain.

As we got higher and higher, the cold got heavier, and I kept rubbing my arms to keep getting frostbitten. Seeing that I was so afraid of the cold, Lao Xu took out two coats from my backpack, which turned out to be full of clothes, water and a little dry food, no wonder I didn't have to carry it hard at all.

Lao Xu and I hurriedly put on our coats and stumbled in place a few times, and our bodies quickly warmed up. I don't know what material this coat is, but not long after I put it on, I feel that the whole person is very warm, as if it is in summer.

As we continued to move forward, Lao Xu and I gradually stepped into the snow, and breathing became extremely difficult, and I felt dizzy with every two steps.

In this case, I still had to rely on Lao Xu, who took out a palm-sized oxygen cylinder from his pocket and sprayed it into my mouth and nose, I only took a puff, and immediately came to my senses.

Lao Xu beckoned me and asked me to hurry up and follow him. I looked at his back, although it was not very strong and not very broad, but it was also trustworthy and trustworthy.

He held the telescope to look at the surrounding environment while debugging on the tablet. I'm looking at the environment around me, especially the path we've come across.

Suddenly, I noticed a dead tree that had fallen to the ground not far away, and there were countless dead trees that had fallen in this place, but it was more special, it seemed to have been cut off by the waist. Specifically, half of its roots are still buried in the ground, but the upper half of the middle appears to have been broken alive.

I took a closer look at my surroundings, and there were several other trees that were in the same condition next to this dead tree.

If I'm not mistaken......

"Lao Xu, Lao Xu!" I ran to Lao Xu's side, anxiously trying to tell him what I had found.

"What's the matter? I'm still surveying!" said Lao Xu with an impatient expression.

"Great discovery!

"Don't pull me, be careful with the instrument!"

I dragged Lao Xu to the broken tree, he didn't believe that I had made a major discovery, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he was so shocked that his jaw was about to drop. He quickly handed me the telescope in his hand and took out another device from his backpack, which looked like a flashlight.

He pulled a data cable from the tail of the instrument and plugged it into the tablet's connector. Then I pressed the button in the center of the instrument, and a beam of green light was emitted from the front of the instrument, which really looked like a flashlight.

Lao Xu took it and conducted a detailed scan of the structure of the broken tree, as well as the surrounding situation. Lao Xu looked at the data on the tablet and looked thoughtful.

"The instrument showed that there were burn marks on the broken tree, as did the surrounding trees. When I heard Lao Xu say this, I immediately put my face close to the boy and looked at it carefully, and it was true that some of the dead trees had been scorched in the place where they were broken.

"What caused it?" I couldn't help but ask myself, "Is it written on it? Could it be caused by the impact of a heavy object?"

"Don't worry, don't worry, it's still analyzing......" Lao Xu frowned, nervously looking at the data analysis on the tablet. After a while, the results came out, and he looked at the tablet with both eyes, then at me, and said to me, "Hey, it says that the most probable cause is a heavy impact." Joan, how do you know?"

"Hmm...... If you look at the direction of these broken trees, they are all broken in the same direction. And you see," I pointed to where the waist was broken, "the fibers in these places were uneven and uneven, indicating that they were broken in an instant. ”

"What is the cause of that?" Lao Xu scratched his head and looked into my eyes puzzled.

"I have a bold idea......

"What do you think? Just say it, little Joan, I won't laugh at you. ”

"I'm not kidding! I remember you saying when you were at the base that there was a fire in the town during the days when Diligence and Laziness were fighting, didn't you?"

"yes! ......?"

"I guess this mark was caused by the diligence that escaped from town and came here. In more detail, it should be that he was on fire at the time, and then on the way to escape, he fell into this place and knocked down several trees. ”

"Really!!" Lao Xu shouted in surprise.

"Of course! I'm not sure!"

I looked down and saw that the ground was covered with yellow fallen leaves, and a layer of snow covered the uneven ground, like a carpet covering the entire hillside.

I kicked the snow away from the snow in front of me, unexpectedly a charred black mark on the ground. I quickly crouched down and wiped a little bit with my fingers and put it in front of my eyes, but I couldn't make out what it was. So he had no choice but to raise his fingers, walked to Lao Xu's side, and slammed the scorched black substance on his fingertips in front of his eyes.

"Lao Xu, take a look at what this is?"

"Ouch, how can I see if you put it so close, I'm not short-sighted. Don't move, let me sweep it. ”

Holding the flashlight-like instrument in his hand, Xu scanned the charred substance on my fingers. The results showed that the charred material was identical to the one produced by the charring of the dead tree.

"It's diligence! it's diligence!" Lao Xu screamed excitedly, and grabbed my shoulders with both hands and threw them back and forth excitedly, and I was almost stunned by him.

"Oh, you let me go! How can you be so sure that you are diligent and staying, I can't be so sure myself!"

"It's okay, I believe everything you say, hahahaha. Lao Xu said to me with a grin.

I pretended not to hear what Lao Xu said, lowered my head, and swept the snow from the ground with my feet near the broken tree. Lao Xu saw me, understood what I meant, and immediately threw himself into the ranks of snow clearing.

In a few moments, we swept away the snow near the broken tree, and sure enough, a large area of the ground was charred black and still stretching in one direction.

We continued to clear the snow in the direction of its extension, through the dead woods, to an extremely steep hillside.

I was about to fall with one kick, and the charred black substance was gone.

The slopes here are no less steep than cliffs, and it is impossible to stand on them. The only thing that can explain is that if this person is really diligent, then he must have rolled out of this position.

"It's not going to be easy. Lao Xu sighed.

I looked up at my surroundings and nodded silently.