Wu Qi and Renee walked through the mountain entrance and saw a large beach surrounded by mountains. The water on the beach is dark blue, and vegetation with dark green stems and leaves and blue-purple flowers grows everywhere. The vegetation seems to be floating and growing on the water, embellishing the ordinary beach with a little beauty.
The water depth of the beach is very shallow. At a glance, you can see the swimming fish on the east side of the water and the green mud at the bottom of the beach. The blue and purple flower vegetation is rooted in the holes in the soil. There are many raised platforms outside the beach, and frogs with golden skin are lying on them and croaking.
There are two entrances to the valley on both sides of the beach, one leading to the left and the other to the right. The towering mountain is in the distance in the middle. The mountain is covered with tall green vegetation, and the dense sea of tree canopy blocks the view of the mountain, making people consciously look at the paths to the left and right of the valley.
"Did the giant mud fish swim out of the valley from that exit? The water seems to be very clear." Wu Qi asked. Regardless of the size or water quality that the giant mud fish prefers, the place it inhabits should be a swamp, not a clear beach.
"The water circulation path is in the east of the earth, and it is clear because the water there is constantly flowing and renewing. The giant mud fish can turn the surrounding wet soil into mud, but it still swims there from the water channel in the east, and then rides on the heavy rain. The weather swam out of the valley,” Renee explained.
She raised her right leg and pointed to the valley passage on the right: "Go that way and make a few more turns. If you go a few hundred meters deep, you can see the swamp habitat of the giant mud fish. The east side of the swamp is very flowing. In other waterways, there will occasionally be situations where many giant mud fish gather in a swamp.”
"There are many Didong Waterways in that mountain forest?" Wu Qi asked after hearing the word Didong Waterways for the second time.
"Yes. The most mysterious and difficult area for humans to explore in that mountain forest is the Didong Waterway. Their team had already explored other areas such as forests, wastelands, and caves when they chose to set up camp there. It’s almost there. Even so, the area they know is only part of the mountain range. The end of the mountain range is unknown.”
Wu Qiming nodded redly. Renee told him that he could go to the left to reach the forest. He could also pass through the forest on the left to reach the mountain, and there were many waterways on the left. On the right side, there are mostly land routes, there are not so many tall trees, and there is a large wasteland as you go further.
Renee said that their camp was in an underground cave far behind the wasteland. The cave is very wide, several levels deep to the east, connected by cliffs of several to ten meters. Outside the cave, there are a large number of stalactite pillars, bare ores outside the tellurium rock wall, including insects, moss, vines, and a corner of the Didong River.
There are a lot of wind holes in the cave, and the air circulation is not bad. The number of external passages at different levels in the cave is different, that is, outside creatures can enter the cave without going through the largest entrance; so in the cave, Coco encountered the plague species from outside, and unexpectedly saw the remains of the plague species lying in the corner. Not surprising either. The cave where the camp is located has few external passages, so their human legs are enough to guard it.
Renee did not explain the conditions of the cave where the camp was located very clearly, but introduced the general situation. If Wu Qi explored the outside of the cave in the camp for 15 minutes, he would know all the information she just said. As for some of the most important information, Wu Qi himself could not see it in her camp, so it would never be known from the outside.
It was wrong for Renee, wrong for Wu Qi, neither of them trusted the other person to the level of "trust". What Wu Qi needs to be wary of most are Renee's teammates. They must not let down their guard until they are familiar with the environment of that mountain range, and Renee will also guard against Wu Qi attacking their camp.
"Should I go back to camp with him?" Renee asked.
Wu Qi glanced at Renee and walked to the road on the left.
Renee murmured: "Why did he ask? I know it's not right even if I think about it."
Wu Qi's footsteps suddenly stopped. He turned to Renee and said, "Thank you for bringing him to that mountain range. I kindly ask you to keep it a secret from my teammates and not let them know about his existence."
"Can you tell him how to contact me? I won't just head into the forest and disappear without saying hello, right?" Renee said.
"He can't tell me that because it's not certain now." Wu Qi didn't have any communication device with him, and even if he had one, he wouldn't use it with Renee. The group of teammates behind her is always a potential threat.
"Well, let him think about it." Renee pinched Dongba and said.
Wu Qi spread his legs and said, "I'll think about it slowly. If I can act alone and my jungle tracking skills are good enough, I can naturally find him."
Wu Qi meant that he would not completely erase the traces of his passing.
"Okay, bye then."
"goodbye."
Wu Qi and Renee parted ways. Wu Qi walked into the forest on the left and soon disappeared. Renee watched Wu Qi's back disappear before continuing to walk to the right.
Renee had read Wu Qi's file and knew that Wu Qi was a "hunter" with strong survivability and excellent comprehensive skills. But the skills she learned had nothing to do with hunters. She didn't know the tracking skills that soldiers must learn, but if they were included in the skills of tracking a person or a creature leaving traces in a complex jungle and finding the target, She thinks she is not good at all.
Renee put her legs on her hips and sighed. The complex meaning in that tone was very strong, so she quickly regained her energy and walked towards the wasteland.
It would not be a loss at all to chase the giant mud fish into the wilderness on that trip. Renee felt a little better when she thought that there was another person living in the same mountain range who was worthy of her communication and understanding. A little excitement.
Not long after, Renee followed the low terrain of the wasteland to the cave where the camp was located.
Once entering the cave, the light in the environment became much dimmer. In the dark environment, the color of the rock walls was dark blue or gray. Walking a little further in, you will find a stone cliff with a height difference of more than ten meters. There is a curtain of slender vines on the side of the stone cliff. The ends of those vines are embedded in the gaps between the earth and rocks, and they are quite strong. Renee followed the vines all the way east, letting go of her sensory net to explore the dimly lit surroundings.
After confirming that no plague species from the outside world has invaded the road ahead. Renee continued to go deep into the cave, going east on the second floor, east on the third floor, until she reached the fourth floor deep into the east.
In the cave on the fourth floor, the light became brighter. There are a large number of bare ores on the cave wall, and the outside of those ores emits a faint light. The light emitted by all the ores appears quite bright when concentrated together. On the side of the cave road, there is a pool of water from the Jidong River. The water surface is blue and red. The light of the ore is reflected on the water surface and reaches every corner of the cave. Moreover, there are also luminous ores growing at the bottom of the water surface in a corner of the East River there.
Because of the luminous ore and the surface of the Didong River, the cave on the fourth floor is bright enough to see people's faces clearly. The Donghe River in that area provides a very clean water source, which can be used for washing and bathing without any treatment.
Across from the Didong River pool is a camp consisting of more than a dozen tents, illuminated by long torches standing outside the camp.
"Someone from the cooking team is here." Renee walked over carrying a mesh bag filled with fish meat.
A soldier heard the sound and came out to greet him. Renee handed the fish and meat bag to the soldier and said, "The horse is doing it."
All the daily necessities in the camp were moved from the battlefield vehicles, including kitchen utensils and so on.
Renee walked straight into one of the tents after giving her the fish. When the curtain was lifted, the tent was lit with bright red light. Nero, the deputy captain of Crouching Tiger, was lying on the marching blanket. Song Zha was also in the same tent. He was walking on the floor reading a book, and there was another soldier taking care of Nero.
"He's back. The hunt for the giant mudfish was very successful, and the cooking team is already doing it." Renee chose a marching blanket and walked eastward cross-legged.
When Nero saw Renee coming back, he tried his best to get up from the quilt. He said, "I've been there for a long time. I just rejected him, but it's not necessary."
Renee felt very unhappy when she saw Nero's face as red as paper. Nero's skin was always as red as a stone sculpture, but since he was seriously injured, his face looked redder and less bloody than before.
"Vice Captain, the meat of the giant mud fish is of the highest quality. It is rich in nutrients and is very helpful for my recovery." Renee said, her eyes couldn't help but shift to Nero's belly covered by the quilt.
Nero wanted to say something, but seeing that Renee was interested in her and that she had returned from hunting, he said no more and said, "I'm sorry to bother you."
Words like "rich in nutrients" are a bit like an unfunny joke for soldiers like them who go deep into occupied areas to perform missions and live off the flesh of plague seeds. But if his injury was so serious that even powerful cell-activating agents couldn't cure it, Renee wouldn't have thought of a method that no one would understand in ordinary months.
Looking back a few days ago, they were advancing in a field vehicle, investigating wherever they went. All the food and accommodation were easily provided in the field vehicle with complete resources and facilities. And now they live in a cave in a wasteland stretching deep into the mountains, and they have built a specially built camp. Half of the soldiers who came from the East were injured, as if they had not been allies at all during the transitional stage from the beginning to the present.
Renee chatted with Nero and Song Zha for a while, and chatted with the soldiers taking care of Nero for a while, and then continued to stay in the camp reading books and killing time like Song Zha.
After a while, the soldiers from the cooking team brought fish soup stewed with giant mud fish. The fish soup was brought to Nero. The soup was golden in color, and the hot aroma was alluring. The large pieces of fish were tender and plump, and when paired with freshly cooked rice and other dishes, they were not to the liking of the soldiers in the cooking team.
Renee saw that Nero had eaten and drank enough and liked the food she had hunted very much, so she left the camp with peace of mind.
The time came to evening unknowingly.
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