Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After Ling Ren and Fang Chang realized that their entire team was lost, they began to quarrel fiercely.
Ling Ren: “If you hadn’t led us astray, we wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.”
Fang Chang: “If you hadn’t asked us to play real-person CS, I wouldn’t have led us astray!”
Ling Ren: “When I proposed to play real-person CS, I never expected that someone would be so cowardly that he would not dare to face the enemy head-on and encircle the city from the countryside.”
Fang Chang said, “I suspect you are insulting the country’s leader, and I have evidence.” Recorded on mobile phone.
Ling Ren: “…You are such an insidious villain.”
The two of them had an unpleasant quarrel and sat on opposite sides of the tree stump to get angry. Others sat around in frustration, no longer interested in acting, only feeling that their future was uncertain and their life or death was unknown.
Lu Rong saw that the time was ripe for him to enter the next extreme survival script and sat quietly next to Fang Chang: “No one wants to encounter such a thing.”
Fang Chang had been criticized by Ling Ren before, and he felt aggrieved. So, his face was very bulging like an exploding pufferfish. Feeling Lu Rong’s comfort at this time, the pufferfish, which was covered in spikes, immediately became discouraged and admitted his mistake in a frustrated voice: “I’m sorry, Ling Ren is right, it’s all my fault for keeping everyone trapped here. I’m really useless.”
Lu Rong: “If you think so, you’ve fallen into his trap.” He glanced at Ling Ren and said, “Tell me, who is Ling Ren?”
Fang Chang: “… Bitch.”
Lu Rong: “… Just be happy. What I want to say is that he is the enemy. Don’t forget, he is the commander of the army. If he can successfully make you lose your fighting spirit and completely forget about your subordinates except for Xiao Yi who is almost dead, then he has won this war. Murderous Zhu Xin, he wants to destroy your plan to take Yan Gou and Xiao Yi to find a way nearby.”
Fang Chang’s eyes lit up: “That’s right. Yan Gou has a good memory, and Xiao Yi has a good eye. I will take them around the area, maybe they can find the main road.”
Lu Rong: “You have such a loud voice, don’t forget to call for help. If our comrades are nearby, we can turn defeat into victory.”
Fang Chang squeezed his hand: “Thank you, Political Commissar Lu! ——Xiao Yi, Yan Gou, come out!”
Yan Gou helped Xiao Yi, who was half-lying down.
Lu Rong told Yan Gou: “Listen to Squad Leader Fang’s instructions. Be careful not to get lost. Take two Easter egg bullets with you to mark the route. Meet here in 20 minutes.”
Yan Gou raised his hand: ok.
Fang Chang left with Xiao Yi and Yan Gou in high spirits. Before leaving, he gave Ling Ren a look of disdain, which made Ling Ren unbelievable.
Lu Rong walked leisurely to Ling Ren with a thermos cup and smiled.
Ling Ren glanced at the retreating figures of the three people, and then his eyes fell on Lu Rong: “If you have anything to say, just say it.”
Lu Rong: “Battalion Commander Ling, you will definitely lose.”
Ling Ren: “I’m not in the mood for this now.”
Lu Rong: “Squad leader Fang is now taking his men to find a way out for help. If he successfully brings our comrades back, but you don’t even find a high-lying camp that’s not humid, and you don’t even have a decent bonfire lit, I’m afraid your career under Chairman Chiang is over.”
Ling Ren immediately stood up and said, “Liang Wendao, follow me.”
Lu Rong said, “Li Nanbian, you go with Commander Ling.”
Ling Ren gave him a strange look.
Lu Rong wrote lightly: “We are in the same boat in these extraordinary times.”
Ling Ren glanced at him suspiciously and coughed twice: “…is that what Squad Leader Fang meant?”
Lu Rong: “He needs your help. You are a strong leader, he is very sad to be rejected by you. Don’t tell him what I said, he will be ashamed to death.”
Ling Ren couldn’t help but smile lightly: “I understand.”
Lu Rong told Liang Wendao and Li Nanbian: “Follow the battalion commander’s command and pick up some dry branches and leaves, and then see if there is a high-lying, non-humid place nearby where you can make a fire. Don’t move more than 100 steps away and keep the distance so that you can hear each other shouting.”
Liang Wendao and Li Nanbian: “Yes!”
Ling Ren led them out of the camp, and the atmosphere in the camp of sitting on the ground and waiting for death was gone. Not far away, Fang Chang’s team was shouting for help, scaring the surrounding birds so much that they didn’t dare to go in, so they stood on the trees to defecate.
Ling Ren raised the corners of his lips and asked Liang Wendao and Li Nanbian behind him: “Has Lu Rong always been like this?”
Liang Wendao: “…”
Li Nanbian turned down the volume of his earphones and mouthed to Liang Wendao behind Ling Ren’s back: “He doesn’t know that he’s the boss, right? I’m even from Class 8. How does he know my name? You must have revealed it.”
Liang Wendao replied, “I don’t know.”
He replied: “Now I know why you are all willing to follow him.”
Fang Cheng’s cry for help echoed in the valley. It was heard far away and came back from far away. Except for the flapping of birds’ wings, nothing disturbed them, it was estimated that they had gone far away from the main road.
Lu Rong frowned in confusion.
The thin-soled Feiyue shoes made his toes ache slightly, and he was exhausted from the long journey all day long. Lu Rong calmed down and forced himself to wake up. Now was not the time for him to complain, he had to bring these friends back safely.
Lu Rong opened all their backpacks and took out the Snickers bars, candies, chocolates and other high-calorie snacks inside, and stuffed them all into Ling Ren’s bag. They didn’t know when they would be saved, so they first needed to collect the food and proportion it uniformly.
He called Deng Te: “Let’s go.”
Deng Te’s remaining right eye flickered and he rushed to his side coolly.
Lu Rong: “Let’s go pack something.”
He carried everyone’s bags on his back and took Deng Te with him, and ran into the forest, took out a knife to cut branches and make traps.
Deng Te was dumbfounded as he watched him arrange all kinds of animal traps in a fancy way.
Deng Te: “Why do you know this?”
Lu Rong glanced at him: “Knowing some wilderness survival skills is good for everyone.”
Deng Te: “What, good.”
Lu Rong: “One day if the world will be destroyed: because of Nuclear explosions, zombie apocalypse, or the arrival of aliens, etc., and the human civilization collapsed, and cities are deserted, what do we eat and what do we use?”
Deng Te was stunned, he had never thought about this problem.
Lu Rong held the knife and handed it to him: “Here, you come and cut the branches.”
Lu Rong was a very crisis-conscious person and had felt insecure since he was a child. The reason why he worked so hard to make money was to survive in this world, because in the human world, having money would prevent him from starving to death.
And he considered far more than just the human world, he also considered the end of the world.
He was well aware that the current situation was not normal. There had been peace for more than 60 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, without major disasters or local wars. This was unique in human history. Looking around the world, the crisis in the Middle East, the greening of Europe, the Sino-US trade war, tensions in Iran, the North Korean nuclear crisis… coupled with environmental damage, ozone layer holes, genetic mutations, deep space probes entering the depths of the universe, flowers blooming before our eyes, peace could vanish in an instant.
During the summer vacation of his second year of junior high school, when the homework industry chain was at its most stable, Lu Rong took a month off from the previous school bully and returned to his hometown in the countryside. He went deep into the mountains, forests and rivers with his cousins, and mastered the knowledge of species. Everything from ground to hunting skills. At that time, he watched Bei Ye’s Wilderness Survival every day, and also bought Hausman’s Self-Defense and the US Army’s Wilderness Survival Guide and studied hard. He didn’t even take the high school entrance examination that seriously.
While other students were crazily making up classes or falling in love, Lu Rong learned thirty-eight types of hunting traps and knew how to capture, tame and cook various living animals from rabbits to wild boars.
He even read in depth to study human anatomy and which parts of a person were the most delicious.
After all, no one knew how long the apocalypse would last, and whether they could wait until the day when the rice matured when resources were extremely scarce…
Deng Te couldn’t help but sigh: “Boss, you know a lot.”
Lu Rong: “Just preparing for a rainy day.”
He even spent a small amount of money to secretly transform a piece of land in the deep mountains and old forests, together with building a wooden house on it. He stocked it with pure water and compressed biscuits and replaced them regularly. Once a large-scale epidemic broke out in the city, he could take Fang Qing up the mountain to take refuge. The wooden house stood on the top of the mountain, with two acres of land in front of the door. It was currently ownerless, and the abandoned village where it was located was completely unattended. The entire village had moved down the mountain due to the construction of a new rural area, giving him room to move his hands.
Lu Rong set up traps in several corners where wild beasts were obvious and took Deng Te back.
The two teams released by Lu Rong also returned.
Fang Chang didn’t gain anything and lowered his head in frustration.
Fang Chang: “We screamed but no one came to save us.”
Ling Ren: “I found a high ground with clean water and a bonfire with dead branches.”
Lu Rong hummed: “Squad leader Fang, battalion commander Ling, you all did a great job.”
The large army began to pack their backpacks and planned to move with Ling Ren.
Liang Wendao and Yan Gou privately reported to Lu Rong: “We didn’t find the main road, but we left marks all around. If someone comes up the mountain to look for us, they can follow the marks to find this place.”
Lu Rong nodded: “Very good. Continue.”
Fang Chang opened his backpack and was shocked to find that all the snacks he had brought were gone. He picked up his schoolbag and shook it, but nothing came out. Fang Chang was so desperate: “The raccoon stole my snacks.”
Ling Ren just opened his backpack to get water and found that his bag was bulging. At first glance, they were all snacks.
Fang Chang was angry: “You are that raccoon!”
Everyone else also found that their schoolbags had been tampered with, and glared at Ling Ren’s schoolbag that obviously did not meet the size.
Ling Ren was wronged. He had no idea why those snacks were in his place. He had clearly gone out with Fang Chang just now, so there was no chance he could commit a crime.
Li Nanbian spoke: “Battalion Commander Ling, when you arrested us, did you really confiscate all our personal belongings?”
Ling Ren wanted to explain a few words, but Lu Rong said: “I agree with Battalion Commander Ling’s approach.”
Everyone’s eyes suddenly turned to him.
Lu Rong said: “We don’t know how long we will be trapped here. How much food did we bring? If we can collect it and uniformly proportion it, we can prevent food waste to the greatest extent – isn’t that so, Battalion Commander Ling Ren?”
After thinking about it, Ling Ren hugged his schoolbag and said: “That’s right. Especially for people like Fang Chang, it’s not okay to eat chocolate like crazy once the mood is unstable. You must know that sugar is an important source of energy and cannot be used to vent emotions. I have taken over everyone’s food, and I will ensure that it is distributed fairly and equitably to everyone. At this critical moment, let our two armies work together to survive this natural disaster.”
Deng Te: “Okay!” and took the lead in applauding.
Although everyone was wondering why they were still acting this script at this time, they were all shaken by Ling Ren’s righteous and clear words, and they clapped along with Deng Te. Ling Ren shared a Snickers bar and a glass of water with each of them, and then set off to march.
Lu Rong breathed a sigh of relief.
The first step to survive the apocalypse: A strong leader and a reliable team, achieved!
It was getting darker.
Everyone was still sweating profusely when they came back from exploring outside, but now they were all shivering when the wind blew from the mountain. There were frightened doubts in everyone’s eyes, and everyone was thinking about one thing: they might have to spend the night in the wilderness tonight.
Ling Ren was designed by Lu Rong to become the leader of the people. As soon as he walked into the new camp, he realized that they needed a campfire: “Who has a lighter?”
Lu Rong took out the lighter from his pocket and handed it to him.
Everyone stared at Lu Rong, their eyes seeming to say: I never expected you to be like this, Classmate Lu.
At a young age, he had started smoking.
Lu Rong: “…”
He carried fire with him just because it was the source of human civilization. He had no idea where it could be used. Just like he carried a saber with him, he even tied a rope around his waist, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to make those traps just now.
Ling Ren took Lu Rong’s lighter, but he couldn’t make a fire, or it would go out as soon as he hit it.
Lu Rong dug up his bonfire, put some hay underneath, and then built the bonfire into a triangle to ensure air circulation. After a while, the bonfire was burning vigorously.
Ling Ren glanced at him meaningfully: “Lu Rong, it’s okay.”
Lu Rong said modestly: “I just did a little bit of work.”
At this moment, a shrill cry suddenly came from not far away.
Fang Chang screamed in fright, and everyone leaned back holding their schoolbags. Some boys even jumped up and hid behind Ling Ren.
Ling Ren turned pale with fright: “What is this sound?”
Lu Rong calmly picked up the torch: “Let’s go over and have a look – who wants to go with me?”
Ling Ren grabbed his hand: “Lu Rong, don’t go. We should stay by the fire. Wild animals are afraid of fire… Should we abandon this place and move to another place?”
“That makes sense!” Fang Chang agreed.
Xiao Yi, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, also rolled up on the spot: “This time I… I will go by myself.”
Lu Rong said to Captain Fang: “Squad Leader Fang, I remember you once told me that the greatest enemy of human beings is fear itself. If we don’t understand what we are afraid of, we will always be like a frightened bird. If there is a scourge in the forest, someone must take a look at it in order to be fully prepared. Let me go!”
Fang Chang was so frightened that his teeth chattered. When he heard Lu Rong say this, he walked to him even though he was scared to death: “Commissar Lu, I’ll go with you!”
Ling Ren walked to him: “I’ll go too. By the way, ‘The greatest fear of mankind is fear itself’ was said by Roosevelt during a fireside chat with people across the United States.”
Fang Chang shook his head: “Commander Ling, please stay here. If I can’t come back, please take my team out of Yakexia Snow Mountain.”
Ling Ren patted Liang Wendao on the shoulder and said, “Commander Liang, I’ll go with you, it’s only fair.”
The two looked at each other, both of them being heroes.
Lu Rong: “…” If you keep acting like this, the rabbits will run away.
Lu Rong rushed to the trap with Ling Ren, Fang Chang and Deng Te.
Fang Chang and Ling Ren used flashlights from a distance to approach the creature that kept screaming: “It doesn’t sound like a wolf when it screams so miserably…”
Ling Ren: “Have you ever heard of a wolf howling like this?”
Stepping forward to check on the rabbit, Fang Chang shouted hurriedly: “Wait a minute!” He took out his mobile phone and turned on the camera, “Okay, go ahead now, I’ve recorded the whole process. Political Commissar Lu, you have to be careful. The country will add you as a martyr, all for the sake of New China!”
Ling Ren turned on the flashlight ten miles away: “I will give you a light.”
Lu Rong: “…”
Lu Rong winked at Deng Te and asked him to put his foot down. There was a gap from his position to the trap. He held the knife in his mouth and planned to climb down.
At this time, his right foot was so painful that it was about to explode. He originally wanted to stand in a sunken place, but unfortunately he couldn’t use his toes, so he slipped down as soon as he tilted.
Deng Te quickly grabbed his arm: “Are you okay? I’ll come.”
Lu Rong shook his head. This trap was very complicated, and Deng Te might get hurt if he came to pick it up.
He stood up again with Deng Te’s help, went down into the pit, and lifted the rabbit up with its leg clamped.
When Ling Ren and Fang Chang saw Lu Rong holding a rabbit in his hand, their eyes lit up: “Damn!”
“So that’s what rabbits sound like!”
Lu Rong climbed up and dusted off the mud on his pants: “Report to Squad Leader Fang and Commander Ling, I captured a rabbit.”
Ling Ren gave the order: “Bake it.”
Fang Chang and Deng Te: “How can you eat rabbits when they are so cute!”
Ling Ren: “Extraordinary time, extraordinary measures! Lu Rong, roast it!”
Lu Rong sat alone on the side of the campfire killing rabbits.
The remaining nine people sat at the other end of the campfire with their backs to him.
Although the rabbit had stopped croaking now, the smell of blood blowing in the wind still made these big boys who had never put hands in the water feel dizzy and nauseated.
Lu Rong smashed the rabbit’s head with a stone, peeled off its fur, disemboweled it, washed it with mineral water, wrapped it in wet mud, and threw it into a small hole dug under the campfire. This was the recipe for beggar’s chicken, but there were no lotus leaves and no salt, otherwise it should taste pretty good.
After about half an hour, Lu Rong dug out the rabbit and broke it into pieces. His friends were finally attracted by the scent and turned their heads, but they still didn’t dare to come over.
Lu Rong sighed, suppressed his exhaustion, cleaned up the internal organs on the ground, threw them aside, and then scattered the soil to cover the fresh blood on it.
Lu Rong: “It’s okay now.”
Several older boys rushed forward. Lu Rong gave up his seat and found Deng Te sitting there without looking back.
Lu Rong walked over and held his shoulders. Deng Te wiped his eyes with his sleeve. Lu Rong was surprised that he actually cried.
He understood immediately: “Is it because of the rabbit?”
Deng Te lowered his head.
Lu Rong sat down next to him: “I’ll buy you one after we go down from the mountain, okay?”
Deng Te nodded vigorously.
Lu Rong secretly pushed half a Snickers bar hidden in his pocket to him. Deng Te probably wouldn’t eat rabbit meat even if he died. Being cold and hungry in this deep mountain and old forest would make him catch a cold easily, and he couldn’t eat hot food, even if it was a little cold.
Deng Te glanced at his Snickers bar, took it hesitantly, took a bite, and suddenly remembered that Lu Rong had never eaten, so he handed the Snickers bar to his mouth.
Lu Rong: “I’m not hungry.”
He checked and found that they didn’t bring much food. He was relatively hungry and had already eaten half of a stick just now. His friends had never endured hardship, so any good things were given to them first. He was afraid that they would not be able to eat enough and would become even more emotionally unstable.
“Come with me after eating.”
Lu Rong planned to pick up dead branches and leaves to make a few beds for them. It was already autumn. Although it was autumn during the day, the air was already cold at night.
The racecourse was brightly lit.
The horse racing vendor worked overtime for the first time in a long time, eating instant noodles and guarding the horse pen, watching two part-time equestrian coaches frantically soliciting customers for him.
It was already 6:10, but the high school girls present had no plans to go back yet. All the first-grade teachers in the school came here to drive people away, and Gu Yijun was one of them. While waiting in line, he begged them as his grandfather and grandma to ask the girls to go home.
Girl: “I haven’t learned to ride a horse yet! Teacher, this may be the only chance in my life that I can learn to ride a horse!”
Gu Yijun: “I’ve seen what you’re learning, and you’ve even learned to sit sideways! You just want to eat the tofu of other people.”
The girl said confidently, “Since you know, why do you want to stop me? This may be the only time in my life that I eat the tofu of the school grass.”
Gu Yijun said, “I want to send you all away. I can’t go home until you go home!”
Girl: “Teacher, please come too!” She pulled him into the waiting area of the racecourse and lined up.
Ji Wenfeng saw Gu Yijun in the crowd and rode up to him: “Teacher Gu.”
Gu Yijun was flattered: “Hello, monitor Ji!!”
Ji Wenfeng: “Teacher Gu, the monitor of your class and the deputy monitor of our class took a group of classmates to play real-person CS, are they back?”
He never found Lu Rong in the crowd, and he didn’t reply to his WeChat messages. In addition, he couldn’t contact Ling Ren, and he was always uneasy.
Gu Yijun: “Hey, they should have gone home. We haven’t seen anyone.”
While the two were talking, Niu Yanling pushed Guo Jing’s wheelchair and rushed to the racecourse, followed by a bearded man with beards: “This is our class teacher.”
A bearded man wearing a camouflage uniform came forward with a paintball gun and said aggressively: “You need to pay me for ten sets of equipment.”
Gu Yijun raised his hands: “Why!”
The big man said: “Your student stole my equipment and ran away.”
When Ji Wenfeng heard this, he felt something was wrong: “Didn’t they come back?”
The big man said: “No, they ran away.” He looked at his watch and said, “He said twenty minutes, but they didn’t come back for three hours. He deposited 100 yuan and took away more than 2,000 yuan of my equipment.”
Gu Yijun didn’t believe his nonsense at all: “How can 10 guns and 10 sets of clothes be so expensive?”
Ji Wenfeng: “Your gun can locate their location.?”
The big man rolled his eyes: “If it could, would I still have to ask their class teacher to compensate?” He coldly put the safety on the egg gun, “If I knew their location, I would kill them all!”
Ji Wenfeng stopped entangling with them, turned his horse’s head, took two steps back, and said to the girls on the side of the ring: “Get out of the way.”
The girls were scolded by him and stepped back one after another to make way for a passage.
Ji Wenfeng retreated ten meters away and suddenly pulled the reins of his horse: “Hyah!”
He saw the white horse under him rolling his hooves and charging towards the fence. He jumped up in front of the fence and crossed the fence which was more than one meter high. While the horse drew an arc in mid-air and landed lightly.
Everyone was stunned.
Ji Wenfeng escaped from prison on horseback in full view of everyone.
The girl and Gu Yijun came back to their senses, looked at the back of the horse galloping like the wind, and clapped one after another: “Beautiful!”
The horse dealer: “…Oh my horse?!”
Zhao Yihuan gritted his teeth. He had just relied on his unremitting efforts to win in horse riding. When the number of people was tied, Ji Wenfeng actually played a dirty trick and rode his horse over the obstacles and raced straight away!
“Get out of the way!” Zhao Yihuan turned the horse’s head and wanted to jump again where Ji Wenfeng jumped, surpassing him in distance, height and beauty!
He took a few steps back, then lifted his horse into the air!
And he made a cross while flying into the air!
Girl, Gu Yijun: “…”
What happened in mid-air just now?!
Zhao Yihuan landed firmly and sped towards Ji Wenfeng in complete silence.
“They were all shocked by me. After all, it’s more difficult for me to fly than him. Now I just need to beat him in this lap.” Zhao Yihuan thought secretly proudly.
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