Chapter 47: Missing
"Look! Chicken shoot soup with shiitake mushrooms. β
Xu Yi triumphantly picked up a bowl and handed it to Zhang Wenshu, and Zhang Wenshu was even more surprised.
"You... How did you do it? β
"Forget it, even if you pass the test this time, Aunt Ben won't care about you."
He took a sip of soup along the edge of the bowl and said with a satisfied face.
"This, it's the food I've been saving for a long time, and I've been reluctant to eat it, so I'll take it out and share it with everyone this time."
"Don't be complacent, praise you twice and you will go to heaven? However, where did this chicken bamboo shoot come about? β
Zhang Wenshu picked up a piece of meat and asked.
"You say this, naturally it's air-dried chicken, and the bamboo shoots I bought on the way here."
"How's it going, it tastes great, isn't it?"
Xu Yi smiled evilly, and Liu Meng on the side also echoed:
"That's right, Zhang Wenshu, in the future, you can't say that my Xu Yi is useless, he is a chef!" γ
Liu Meng's tone was full of pride.
"Come, come, come. Try them all, Li Yi, Chen Dong, Xu Fei, come here. β
Then, Xu Yi served a bowl to everyone, and I have to say that his soup is really good.
"Xu Yi, when did you learn such a good craft?"
Chen Dong praised him with a drink.
Xu Yi was also unkind, and immediately said:
"That's because you don't know the goods, I'll know it a long time ago, okay."
Each person had a bowl of chicken soup and dry food, and they were very full for breakfast.
After eating and packing up, Chen Dong began to arrange tasks for each of us.
"Let's all come here, and I'll arrange things for everyone in the next two days."
Chen Dong sat at the mouth of the tent and shouted at us.
After a while, whether it was Xu Fei, who had been sitting in the distance, or Zhang Wenshu, who was lying in the tent reading a novel, Qingqing, Xu Yi and Liu Meng all came over.
It seemed like there was one less person, so I asked:
"Where did Zhang Qiang go?"
"Oh, Zhang Qiang went around and looked around."
"Isn't the route planned in advance?"
Zhang Wenshu asked.
"That's right, I'm wounded, I'm afraid we won't be able to go the way we wanted. So we need Zhang Qiang to look around and take a look around, let's just go around here. β
"Oh, that's right."
"Well, now I'll arrange it."
For a moment, everyone came up and listened attentively to what he had to say.
"Xu Fei, you give some trauma medicine to everyone, there may be a lot of thorns on the next road, and it's too late to deal with the injury, everyone should bring some."
As he spoke, Xu Fei began to pick up his bag.
"Xu Yi, you are still in charge of the food, but everyone also brings a little bit on the road, if something goes wrong, the food is gone, there is still a spare."
"yes, okay."
Xu nodded and replied.
"Liu Meng, Li Yi, Zhang Wenshu, I may have to trouble a few of you to cook in the past two days. Although Xu Yi can do it, it is estimated that it will only be this one, right? β
As they spoke, the three of them laughed secretly.
"Hey, hey."
Xu Yi didn't care, and smiled innocently.
After arranging things, everyone knows their position, and now the actions have become much more decisive.
Today's sun is much bigger than usual, and I don't feel the cold of winter at all.
I walked alone by the river, and the dull appearance of the dead grass and trees made my mood depressing.
Everything was asleep, and the day passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was dusk, and the sky was quickly darkened.
In this valley, a puff of smoke rose again.
From time to time, there were sparks bubbling in the fire, and several young people sat around the fire.
Tonight, everyone seemed to have nothing to say.
They went back to their tents early, and only Xu Fei and Zhang Qiang were left outside.
Originally, it was Chen Dong's turn to keep vigil, but because he was bitten by a snake, he had no choice but Xu Fei and Zhang Qiang came, and as for tomorrow, it was Xu Fei and Xu Yi.
It is difficult for Xu Fei to live and keep vigil twice in a row.
Outside......
"Xu Fei, you seem to be a little abnormal in the past two days?"
Zhang Qiang said to Xu Fei with a little playfulness.
He and Xu Fei are classmates, and they are relatively close to Xu Fei, so they are more careful in their observations.
"Huh?"
Xu Fei seemed a little surprised at why Zhang Qiang said this, but he just snorted.
"Don't pretend, follow me, you still pretend?"
Zhang Qiang smiled evilly, and as he spoke, he came up to Xu Fei and bumped Xu Fei with his shoulder.
"Li Yi, the two of you are weird this morning, what's the matter with the two of you coming back from a water and blushing more than the other?"
"Don't think I can't see it, there's definitely something wrong with you and her."
Xu Fei ignored Zhang Qiang, and just spoke.
"Okay, okay, don't joke with you, don't you like Li Yi?"
Zhang Qiang began to tease him again.
This time, Xu Fei was not idle anymore, and immediately retorted:
"What nonsense are you talking about?!"
Seeing Xu Fei's righteous rebuttal, Zhang Qiang seemed to understand something instantly, and he didn't continue to ask him, but a strange smile rose on the corner of his mouth.
Presumably, only he knows.
"Alright, it's not early, let's go to bed."
......
At twelve o'clock in the evening, the two men continued to add some firewood, and went back to their tents.
It's late at night.
I don't know what time it is, but there was a small sound outside, as if someone was moving.
What the hell is the sneaky guy doing?
I fell into a deep sleep, unaware of what was happening outside.
Zhang Wenshu seemed to be a little alert to these, but just raised her head and fell asleep again.
"Hey! Wake up! Wake up! β
"Oh no, Xu Yi is gone!"
Outside, it seemed that Liu Meng's voice was shouting, and his voice was full of anxiety.
The first to react was Zhang Qiang, who was the most alert in this team, and immediately bounced up from the tent and shook Xu Fei beside him.
"Hey, something happened, wake up, Liu Meng is shouting outside."
Xu Fei opened his hazy eyes in the dark, and suddenly woke up when he heard that something had happened.
Several people got dressed, climbed out of their sleeping bags, and walked out of the tent, and when the cold wind blew at night, everyone couldn't help but buckle their arms, hugged themselves and shivered.
"What's wrong?"
"It's Xu Yi, Xu Yi is gone! Help me find it! β
Liu Meng shouted eagerly at everyone, her voice full of crying.
"What's going on, you tell everyone first, don't worry!"
Zhang Qiang comforted Liu Meng and said.
Liu Meng held back her crying and said one by one:
"That's the case, before, Xu Yi told me that he went out, I thought he was going to go to the toilet, so I didn't reply to him, but after a long time, he still didn't come back, I felt that something was wrong."
"I was just a little uneasy at first, and then continued to sleep for a while, looked at the time, and found that it had been more than an hour, and he hadn't come back yet, where could he run to the barren mountains and mountains at night?"
"I'm afraid, will he get lost in this?"
"Don't worry, I guess he may just run away, let's look around, besides, there is a big fire in this mountain, no matter how you go, you probably won't get lost."
Chen Dong analyzed that he was the most experienced in surviving in the wild, and he must have encountered such a thing before.
"Let's do this, find out the flashlight, there are six of us, Zhang Qiang, Liu Meng, you are in a group of two, Xu Fei, Li Yi, you are in a group of two, and Zhang Wenshu and I are in a group of two."
"Let's go our separate ways, each with a flashlight, don't go too far, and if you can't see the camp fire here, we'll come back immediately, you know?"
Chen Dong once again admonished:
"Don't go too far, you know? The terrain in this mountain is complicated, and it is difficult to find it if you get lost. β
"yes, okay."
Liu Meng nodded immediately, and couldn't wait to find Xu Yi.
When he met Xu Yi, it can be said that he met his true love, and after being with Xu Yi, he found that his love for Xu Yi was far stronger than he thought.
"Okay, let's go, we'll set a deadline of half an hour, and we'll be back in half an hour, you know?"
Several people nodded in agreement.
The three groups of people scattered in three directions, and the bright flashlights flickered around.
The road Xu Fei and I walked along the mountain road, and the potholes were very lame.
"Xu Yi ββ!"
Xu Fei and I shouted loudly, hoping that he could hear our shouts.
"Be careful, Lu Weijiao."
Xu Fei later reminded me,
"Thank you."
"It's okay, you can hold me, if you don't find Xu Yi, it's not good to lose you too."
As I spoke, I carefully grabbed his hand.
It's just that what no one knows is that in the dark, the roots of the ears of both people are red, and they are hot.
"Xu Yi ββ!"
In the empty valley, I heard Zhang Wenshu's voice or someone else's voice from time to time, but as the distance became farther away, I gradually couldn't hear it clearly.
Xu Fei and I walked around for a long time, but we still didn't see Xu Yi.
"I think we'd better go back, I guess we can't find it, besides, if we go any further, we won't be able to see the fire, and it's not good if we get lost."
Xu Fei looked back and reminded, as if he was asking for my opinion.
"Well, let's go back, maybe Xu Yi has already gone back."
After the talk, the two of them walked back together. No one spoke to anyone on the way, just followed closely.
When they returned to the camp, the fire on the ground was still burning vigorously, but they had not yet returned.
"Ahemββ!"
I coughed, and Xu Fei realized that he was still holding my hand tightly, and immediately took it back.
"No, I'm sorry."
"It's off..."
As he was talking, Zhang Wenshu and the others also walked back, and when they saw that Xu Fei and I had already come back first, they shouted:
"Did you find it?"
"No, what about you?"
Not far away, Zhang Wenshu and Chen Dong also rushed back, Chen Dong was limping because of a foot injury, and he was easy to identify.
Zhang Wenshu and Chen Dong both shook their heads, and they also found nothing.
"I guess Xu Yi is probably lost, but there is no way to find it when the moon is dark and the wind is high, if it is daytime, there is still a sense of direction, but now..."
Chen Dong sighed and said.
"What now?"
Zhang Wenshu said anxiously.
"Keep watching, if they don't find it, we'll leave here tomorrow, hurry up and call the police, it's still too late for search and rescue."
Chen Dong had no choice but to express his opinion.
Xu Yi's inexplicable disappearance is really weird, and it stands to reason that even if you go to the toilet at night, you won't get lost.
What's more, with such a big fire, Xu Fei and I could see the light just now, and it was a bit unscientific to say that it was lost.
It's impossible to run more than half an hour to go to the toilet, I think, it can't be an accident, artificial? Or is it something else?
I think Chen Dong should have also thought of these situations, he has the most experience, and he should have thought of something.
I'm afraid it's for the sake of settling everyone, let's not make it clear, just look at the frown he has been frowning, you can guess.
The four of them stood in place and continued to wait for more than ten minutes, but they didn't see Zhang Qiang and Liu Meng come back, and they couldn't help but start to get anxious.
"Where did Zhang Qiang and Liu Meng go? Why haven't you come back yet? Didn't you say that it would take up to half an hour? β
Zhang Wenshu was the first to say uncontrollably.
"yes, it's long overdue to come back. Could something have happened along the way? β
I asked.
"Probably not, I think it is estimated that Liu Meng has been looking for it without giving up, and Zhang Qiang has no choice but to accompany him."
"It's just, why did Zhang Qiang let her? If you don't come back on time, everyone is worried, and it's not that they don't know. β
Chen Dong said in a slightly reproachful tone, more full of worry.