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It was a sunny afternoon, with daytime temperatures ranging from 7 to 13 degrees Celsius.

Ahead is a coniferous forest, and the driveway winds in. The two lanes have become uneven in some places due to lack of maintenance for many years. The wheels rolled across the road, drove past the lawn, and stopped in front of the coniferous forest.

This coniferous forest is tall and dense, and they like sunny places, so they decided to take a short rest and have lunch before entering the forest.

In the silver RV, Tang Yatong turned off the car. You Xi, who had been driving for most of the night last night, jumped down from the bed above the driver's seat, hugged You Qi who was studying the route map in the booth, and entered

Wash up in the bathroom.

When she came out, Tang Yatong had already placed lunch on the table.

Two boxes of salmon, a seafood pizza with double cheese, crab meat and lettuce salad, steaming grilled oysters with garlic paste, and three cups of hot cocoa milk.

"We only have half an hour to rest, and the lunch time is short, so just eat whatever you want." Tang Yatong said casually when he saw her coming out.

You Xi:......?

She looked at the table again, was this a casual snack?

Four days ago, when they took the "Tailwind Train", their lunch was a bottle of Coke and two pieces of fried chicken. That was just a casual meal...

You Qi saw You Xi's thoughts and laughed: "Your sister Yatong's biggest advantage is her adaptability. She has lived in an RV with water, electricity, air conditioning, and a stove for four days. She had this meal at noon.

In my heart, I really can only eat whatever I want."

You Xi thought of the day before yesterday. Because the original road was destroyed by a meteorite, they took a detour through another path in the woods. In the evening, they unexpectedly passed by the famous Lake of Tears in an uninhabited area.

The moment they saw the lake, the three of them were shocked.

In the end, Tang Yatong gave up the idea of ​​having dinner after dark, parked the car directly, opened the awning of the car, and opened the grill facing the sapphire lake, the rolling green mountains, and the endless sky rendered orange by the setting sun.

He cooked them a feast of barbecue and seafood.

Top-quality snowflake steak, tender and crispy; king crab legs from Peninsula A, fresh and juicy; grilled sockeye salmon head, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside; freshly grilled oysters, salty and plump; teriyaki chicken steak, charred and fragrant

Delicious; also toasted with pesto…

That meal, for You Xi, was simply the pinnacle meal in her barbecue history.

With the freshest and top-quality ingredients, coupled with Tang Yatong's craftsmanship, she felt that she could remember it for a long time.

So, is a meal like that the standard meal?

She recalled the scenes of Tang Yatong attending various fashion parties and banquets in the industry, and suddenly understood something.

With the need to travel and various living conditions being severely restricted, Tang Yatong naturally kept things simple, so they bought a lot of convenience food during their last shopping trip.

Unexpectedly, not long after they drove into the no-man's land, You Xi took out the RV.

She looked at the two people who were speechless for a moment, and took the initiative to explain that the car had been collected in the desert town before returning to L city. At that time, she thought that it would be more comfortable when escaping in the future, because it was a second-hand car and it was not safe.

expensive.

At that time, Tang Yatong was still knocked unconscious by her, so it makes sense that she didn't know about it.

However, she knew that You Qi was very careful, so she had already removed the license plate on the RV early in the morning. As for the place of production of the car, it didn't matter much. There were also many cars produced in other countries running on the streets in country M.

You Qi and Tang Yatong boarded the RV to visit. It not only had a bed, water and electricity, but also a shower and a clean toilet. This kind of surprise, not to mention Tang Yatong, even You Qi couldn't suppress it and wanted to open a bottle.

Celebrate with wine.

The difficult driving experience suddenly changed. Even though there was still the threat of meteorites in the sky, they sat in a comfortable RV, even lying on the bed and driving along with the car. They could also listen to the radio and adjust the news. Some disaster threats also appeared.

Becomes less anxiety-provoking.

People are always good at self-regulating movements. Wouldn't it be great to make oneself more comfortable under relatively safe conditions?

Of course, despite being comfortable, the three of them are still very vigilant. They always maintain the mode of one driving, one checking the map route to monitor the situation outside the car, and the other resting peacefully.

They drive for about 18 hours every day, and they will arrive at the planned resting point at about the same time, and then park for five to six hours. These hours are mainly to let the RV's engine rest.

In such a wilderness, they would not fall asleep at the same time. Each time, one person would be left on watch to watch for movements in the sky.

Just like last night, a small earthquake occurred where they were resting.

It was You Xi's night watch at that time. The first moment she noticed it, she immediately started the car, left the mountain slope where she was resting, and drove to the wilderness to avoid accidents caused by the earthquake and falling rocks.

Fortunately, the earthquake stopped quickly and the roads were not seriously damaged.

This is why Tang Yatong said that lunch time is short and they can eat whatever they want. Because they want to climb the previous mountain trails before dark today and spend the night on a relatively open slope after going down the mountain.

Those mountain roads were different from the road next to where they spent the night last night. One side of the road last night was a mountain wall, and the other side was sparse forest land. They were all flat land. But today's mountain roads have a mountain wall on one side.

On the other side is a steep cliff.

They couldn't stay there overnight because if something unexpected happened, they wouldn't have anywhere to escape.

Unfortunately, the distance between these mountain trails today is quite long, and it will take a lot of time to travel through them all.

"If the mountain road is not easy to drive after we get up the mountain, we can replace the RV with an SUV." You Qi made a mark on the map with a pen, and then quickly finished lunch with them.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, they changed the RV into an SUV in front of the winding mountain road.

This time it was You Qi who was driving. She drove steadily and drove slowly. The first third of the mountain road went smoothly. It was not until the car turned a 90-degree bend that she discovered the road ahead.

was blocked.

On the narrow two-lane road, there is a cliff on one side and a mountain on the other side. At this moment, this mountain road is blocked tightly by many large and small rocks and soil blocks, making it impossible for cars to pass.

This situation was not recorded on the map. It is not known whether the mountain was hit by a meteorite and caused a landslide, or whether it was caused by an earthquake or something like that.

You Xi got out of the car, temporarily took out the large items from the Star House Warehouse, and then tried to collect rocks to get in. Then he took out the rocks from the cliff. Taking advantage of the fact that picking up items from the Star House Warehouse requires no effort, he wanted to clear the mountain road.

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However, not long after taking the rocks, she discovered that the mountain path exposed in front of her was already full of cracks and was on the edge of fragmentation. Even because of her action of taking the rocks, some of the gravel on the top of the mountain frequently slid down, and the mountain path was put under pressure again, approaching the cliff.

The place has begun to fall apart.

There was still a long part of the mountain road blocked by rocks ahead. She looked at the cracked mountain road under her feet, carefully stepped back, and put the items she had taken out before back into the Star House warehouse.

"What's wrong?" Yu Qi asked.

"The mountain road is cracked and may collapse at any time. Even if the rocks are cleared, cars and people will not be able to pass due to the current condition of the mountain road. We have to take a detour."

"A detour..." You Qi was in a bit of a dilemma now. This mountain road was originally a must-pass. If he took a detour, he would have to go back down the mountain and go back to the previous place to find another way. But that would be too big a circle.

Now, she didn't know if she would be able to reach the right road in the end.

Tang Yatong had already gotten into the car and turned the car around: "Let's go down the mountain first. It's getting dark. If not, let's spend the night nearby and think of a solution tomorrow."

Although they often drive at night, this is on flat ground. They find new detours near mountain roads like this. It is easy to get lost if they drive randomly at night.

The three people got in the car and headed back down the mountain road. They chose the former of the two forks marked by You Qi. Then, with the help of the compass, they successfully found an almost invisible lane in a mixed leaf forest.

The driveway was overgrown with moss and weeds. If it weren't for the small pavement markings at the entrance of the driveway, they wouldn't have known it was a road.

This mixed-leaf forest is sparse at the front, and the vegetation gradually becomes denser as you go inward. The road under the car is unusually winding. Judging from the direction, it should be correct.

"Drive along this road for another hour and you will be able to leave this mixed leaf forest. There will be a fork in the road there. Then choose the fork on the right. After driving for another forty minutes, you will reach a branch of the original road.

Go up and go straight from there.”

You Qi was sitting in the passenger seat with a map in front of her and a compass in her hand.

"We won't be able to arrive before dark that day." Tang Yatong looked at the time and said, "It's already five-thirty. After leaving this forest today, we'll find a place to rest first and continue tomorrow."

They will not spend the night in the forest because the branches and leaves will block the movement of the sky, and the trees are flammable objects. If a meteorite falls, a fire will easily break out.

There was a fire in the forest and they couldn't escape at all.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is better to spend the night on the mountain wall than in the forest.

Of course, the best place to spend the night is in the wilderness next to the road. In the past few days, because of the high latitude and little vegetation, the place to stay overnight was very easy to find.

But as they headed southwest, the temperature rose, the vegetation became denser, and the scenery on both sides of the road was gradually replaced by woods, making it harder to find a place to spend the night.

"Yes." You Qi nodded towards Tang Yatong, "As long as we leave the woods today, we will find a place to rest."

At this time, the three of them had not thought that they had already deviated from the right path twenty minutes ago.

I found out I was lost because after driving for more than an hour, I still didn’t see the side road You Qi mentioned.

Not only did they not see the side road, they did not even drive out of the mixed leaf forest. There were still large trees in front of the car. The sky was darkening and the surroundings were quiet.

In such a dense forest, you don't know if there are wolves or other wild animals at night.

"Am I not looking in the right direction?" As someone who looked at the map to guide the direction, You Qi felt a little guilty. She turned on the flashlight again and studied the map on her lap little by little.

You Xi reached out from the back seat, took the compass in her hand, and then compared it with the other one he just took out from the Star House warehouse: "There is probably a magnetic field nearby, and the compass is wrong."

She handed them the two compasses in her hand and saw that the directions indicated were inconsistent.

"So we are really lost?" You Qi sighed, and for a while, all kinds of bad thoughts came to him from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't worry, I paid attention to the setting sun when we drove just now. We are still driving generally towards the west, maybe more to the southwest, but it is still within the controllable range.

It's just that the map doesn't mark the trail here in detail. It probably has a branch. Let's continue driving forward. The surrounding vegetation is a little sparser than before, and there are a lot more shrubs. We should be out of this forest soon.

"

Sure enough, after another twenty minutes, the surrounding tall trees were gradually replaced by low shrubs, and the soil quality gradually changed. It was no longer dark and fertile, and looked much lighter in color, dry and soft.
To be continued...