Farewell, this school bully is too unruly

"Do you have colored pens or round nails?" Bai Yuan asked after looking at the map for a while.

This was not a difficult request, Zhang Wenhao immediately went to the liaison officer to get what Bai Yuan needed.Noticing the commotion here, the explorers who were resting and waiting for their physical strength to recover also gathered to see what this seemingly frail young man was going to do.

Bai Yuan drew dozens of markers and symbols on the map with blue and red pens.

Geography has never been Zhang Wenhao's strong point, he can only understand that the tributaries marked with "×" should be excluded by Bai Yuan.He couldn't understand more.On the contrary, Captain Ma and the others communicated with Bai Yuan after watching quietly for a while.

They all spoke Chinese, and Zhang Wenhao felt that he knew every word, but he couldn't hear it together.

After more than half an hour, Captain Ma and Bai Yuan seemed to have finally finalized the final draft of the map, and called the liaison officer over: "As soon as it dawns tomorrow, we will search around these red circles. If the calculation of the flow rate is correct, as long as Xi Jing is not buried at the bottom of the river, then there is a high chance that he will be in one of the circles."

Zhang Wenhao, who was already a little drowsy because he couldn't keep up with the rhythm, was immediately refreshed when he heard the words, and looked at Bai Yuan with confirmation, and the latter nodded to him firmly.

The liaison officer's focus is another: "Old Ma, what did you mean by what you just said?"

Captain Ma stroked his bearded chin, and said with a smile: "If it's a random search without a target, my physical fitness is really not enough to handle it, but now the scope has been reduced to this, and Sui Jing is the team member I lead. Of course, I, the captain, will be responsible for finding him back. The rest of the team, including you, Chen Wei—stop fooling around and go back to the base to rest for a few days. The progress of the exploration during this window period has lagged a lot. Next, we will speed up to make up the progress before the secret realm is closed."

A few explorers who opened their mouths to say to stay had to shut up again.

The discussion came to an end. In order to recharge their batteries for tomorrow's action, everyone stopped wasting energy and chatting, and each found a corner to climb into their sleeping bags and huddle together to rest.

Bai Yuan lay in his sleeping bag, although he closed his eyes, the turbulent thoughts in his head couldn't stop.

Up to now, thinking of his own feelings when he learned of Xi Jing's disappearance, he has already realized what kind of emotion he has for the other party, but he doesn't know if he will have a chance to tell Xi Jing himself.

Use rationality to force yourself not to think about the future, but to take care of the present first.Bai Yuan didn't dare to turn over, for fear of disturbing other people's sleep, so he maintained an awkward posture, and after an unknown amount of time, he fell asleep hazily and had a dream.

In the dream, he was floating and sinking in the fast-flowing river, and strange-looking fish sometimes approached curiously, brushing his skin with their slippery fish bodies, and sometimes there were some fish with jagged fangs Tear one after another on his body, taste the taste of his blood.It stands to reason that he should feel pain, but maybe the cold water has a certain paralyzing effect, or people in the dream don't feel pain at all, so compared to the troubles caused by the wound, the discomfort caused by low temperature and soaking in water It bothered him even more.

Finally, when passing a narrow river channel, he grabbed a protruding stalactite with his extremely quick reaction, struggled to climb ashore, and found a corner where he could temporarily rest.

The panther hovered around him twice, and lay down comfortingly close to his body.

……

Bai Yuan woke up.He realized that this might not be his dream, but Xi Jing's dream, or in other words, what he subconsciously hoped to happen to the missing Xi Jing was reflected in the dream.

Feeling that half of his body was numb, and hearing the rustling of people waking up one after another, Bai Yuan sat up and moved his body.

After lying down for half the night without changing his position, when the blood circulation returned to normal, the pain like needle pricks along with the blood vessels all over his body made him feel extremely uncomfortable.But his mood is much better than yesterday when he arrived at rest stop No. [-] and learned the details of the situation - it was because it was not a dream just now, and also because they were one step closer to finding Sui Jing.

Because the only goal of this operation is to save people, not to explore the secret realm, and it is taking the old road that Captain Ma and the others have thoroughly explored before, so the joint team of explorers and mercenaries advances very fast, within half a day. The time has come to the crack in the ground where Xi Jing fell.

Bai Yuan saw four safety cables hanging down to the underground river at the edge of the ground fissure. Obviously, before they came, Captain Ma and the others had indeed searched for Xi Jing as hard as they could.

Fasten the hook used for the zipline to the safety line, and while Captain Ma was about to jump into the cracks in the ground, he reminded everyone: "That white orangutan has fought us two or three times so far, but they haven't caused too much damage to each other. Injury. With its intelligence, it may already know that we have been taking actions here recently, and you remember to leave a few people with strong combat effectiveness on the ground to guard against it from sneaking again."

"Is this bastard still fighting with us?" Zhang Wenhao said in disbelief.

Captain Ma smiled very quickly: "To be precise, it is just driving away the intruders who invaded its territory. There is nothing wrong with it. And considering its scientific research value, the order given to us is to drive or capture. Don't kill it, or I won't be able to explain it." After speaking, he didn't delay, and immediately slid down with agility.

Bai Yuan whispered to Zhang Wenhao: "You stay on top to balance all parties, and I'll just go down."

"Then what can I do, I brought you here, if I don't follow you closely and ensure your safety, if something happens to you, that kid Xijing won't be grateful to me when he is back. "Zhang Wenhao strongly objected.

Bai Yuan said: "We are all guides, and there is limited protection for each other. You might as well stay and watch, and send two elder brothers from the mercenaries to follow me."

Are you disgusted by yourself?

Zhang Wenhao was a bit shocked, but he had to admit that Bai Yuan's judgment was correct.He looked at Bai Yuan's calm and consistent face for the past two days, and suddenly wondered what he was thinking about Xi Jing.

To say that Bai Yuan doesn't care about Xie Jing, which guide who hasn't graduated would risk his life to participate in the rescue for the sake of his roommate;

To say that Bai Yuan cared deeply about Xi Jing, and his mood was so stable, there was no trace of caring and chaos.

Contrasted with the undisguised desire for protection and possessiveness that Sui Jing showed when he was ill before Bai Yuan, Zhang Wenhao wanted to light a candle for his dear cousin.

Bai Yuan didn't know where Zhang Wenhao had been distracted. He imitated the sentinels, fastened the shackle on himself, and slid slowly into the crevice of the ground cautiously and clumsily.At this moment, Zhang Wenhao came to his senses, squatted beside the crack in the ground and shouted: "Bai Yuan, you must protect yourself, don't have any accidents, don't take risks, think about your grandma!"

"Okay." Carefully observing the rock formations on both sides of the ground fissure where you can step on it, Bai Yuan simply replied.

In addition to the people who stayed on the alert, they came down a total of 24 people this time.According to Captain Ma's arrangement, the 24 people were divided into six teams, and each team was responsible for the exploration of two red circled areas. If all went well, they would be able to eliminate about two-thirds of the red circles today.Everyone's intercom channel remained on, but no one spoke. Apart from the subtle electronic sound from the machine, only the sound of water flowing and the sound of footsteps echoed on the intercom.

Although there are not many points circled, due to the complex situation of the underground river and the many tributaries, some places even require diving to pass through. The six teams took three hours to go around and only checked out one responsible target point.

"not found."

"not found."

"not found."

……

The repeated four words came from the walkie-talkie one after another, occasionally accompanied by the sound of fighting. Obviously, some teams encountered other creatures operating in the underground river basin.

Every time Bai Yuan passed a fork in the road, he would stop and concentrate to sense whether there was any fluctuation of Jing Jing's mental power.His white falcon has also been released a long time ago, but the large and small caves eroded by the underground river are different from the vast sky, which is not a space suitable for birds to move about, and the role that the white falcon can play is also very limited.

Glancing at his watch, he found that it was dusk again. For the first time, Bai Yuan felt that the time was passing so fast, which made people feel at a loss.

Teams with fast progress have completed the search within the area of ​​responsibility without any gains.Including Bai Yuan's team, there are only three teams still on the search road.

They came to the last possible red circled area.

Bai Yuan's mental perception had clearly told him that this time, too, would be a disappointing result.He stopped at the entrance and didn't go inside.The fellow mercenary took a look at him, probably understanding that he was feeling uncomfortable at the moment, so he didn't ask any more questions, and just sent a man to sneak into the small cave in front of him for a routine inspection.At the same time, the other two teams also sent back the bad news that the search was completed and no target was found.

The atmosphere was suppressed to a new peak.

The areas they explored today are the most likely places for Xie Jing to hide and rest after landing. If they can't find these areas, it can only mean... Sui Jing may have been buried at the bottom of the river.

"Jie..." The boss of the mercenary looked at Bai Yuan, whose face was as pale as paper, and tried to comfort the young guide, but he found that the other party's eyes suddenly seemed to find focus after a short blur. Brighten up again.

"This way!" Bai Yuan pointed to the direction opposite to their previous search area, "I'm sorry, but please accompany me to search here again."

Knowing that this is a person specially brought by the employer, the mercenary boss thought about it for a while, and then gave his brothers a look, signaling to do as Bai Yuan said—it took two days anyway Well, if it takes two more hours to make the other party give up, it will be spent.

However, the boss of the mercenary still has some doubts: "Did you sense something?"

Bai Yuan shook his head: "No. But, I dreamed about this place yesterday." It was also when he was looking around aimlessly that he suddenly realized that this area looked familiar, and then remembered that he had seen it in a dream before, just like looking in a mirror, It was the opposite direction, so he didn't notice it at first.

Two thin and nimble sentries entered the area designated by Bai Yuan first.

Ten minutes later, an excited voice suddenly came from the intercom: "I found it! I'm still alive! But his mental body won't let me get close to him, so I don't dare to force it. That classmate, can you come in?"

Bai Yuan was refreshed, and he followed the instructions of the man on the walkie-talkie to get into the caves of different heights.

Then, he saw a skinny, huge black panther with messy hair standing in front of Xi Jing who was lying on the ground, baring its teeth at the strange sentinel.