At night, the moonlight is shrouded and the bonfire is slowly burning.
Strictly speaking, camping in such a remote wilderness is a very dangerous thing.
The prairie at night has a more varied environment and more diverse biological activities than during the day. In places without trees to block the view, a gust of wind may blow the tent into the sky. Not to mention the remaining snakes, rats, mosquitoes and insects, all of which must be guarded against. Most of the other predators in the middle of the food chain are also accustomed to hunting at night.
For example, almost all cats are nocturnal and hunt during the day, typical night owls. Just like Xiaohua likes to nap in the car most of the day, but when night falls, she will go into the grass to look for food.
In addition, small solitary animals have the habit of foraging at night. After all, they are too big to be seen by predators during the day. On the contrary, under the cover of darkness, the living conditions are better at night.
Especially for herbivorous mammals such as wild deer and antelopes, night is their time to rest. Even if they remain vigilant, they are still much easier to approach than in the wild during the day.
In such an environment, it is not friendly to outsiders like Gu Lang. After all, humans cannot sleep with their ears perked up like animals. This is why when camping in the wild, someone must be on guard at night to keep the campfire burning. Because the adjective "sleeping like a dead pig" never refers to a pig. If danger really comes, pigs will run much faster than humans.
Unfortunately, Gu Laosan went out alone and had no conditions to keep watch. And according to Wang Ping's observation, he didn't seem to know these experiences. If he hadn't slept in the same car with Xiaohua last night, and the smell of the beast made the surrounding animals avoid him, it's hard to say what would have happened.
In this regard, it is hard to say whether Gu Lang is lucky or unlucky to meet Wang Ping and Xiao Hua.
Gu Lang seemed to be in a particularly bad mood at the moment, or perhaps he had not yet recovered. After hastily lighting the bonfire, he did not even prepare dinner and went to take a nap in his sleeping bag in the tent.
Wang Ping had originally thought about trying to get a hold of him to talk, so as to find out his identity and occupation. After all, people have the habit of talking after experiencing ups and downs, and talking about memories of the good and the bad. For example, he used to like to talk to Anna about his embarrassing childhood.
Especially since Gu Laosan himself is a talkative person, he can talk endlessly even if no one pays attention to him.
But seeing that Gu Lang was not in a good state at this time, Wang Ping felt that he was wrong. Maybe the gap was too big, and he even lost the desire to confide
However, someone went to bed early, which gave Wang Ping another chance.
Wang Ping had searched the drawer under the dashboard and the backpack on the back seat countless times, but strangely, he had never seen Gu Lang's ID card or related things.
You know, it's different in foreign countries than in China. Sometimes, the law enforcement officers are very rough in dealing with unidentified people. Therefore, many people who travel or settle abroad will always carry their ID cards with them. If you are arrested just because you didn't bring your ID card, how can you complain
Especially for someone like Gu Lang who drove himself, the minimum requirement is to keep the driver's license in the car at all times. But Wang Ping observed that there was nothing in the drawer under the dashboard except a mobile phone with no signal at all.
Now, the only part of this SUV that Wang Ping hadn't looked at was the trunk.
In two days, Gu Lang opened the trunk only twice. Once was to get tools when repairing the car, and another time was to get the spare first aid kit when he ran out of bandages to bandage Xiaohua.
Both times, they were in Wang Ping's blind spot. I don't know if it was a coincidence or if Gu Lang did it on purpose.
Gu Lang's slightly heavy breathing could be heard from the tent, and it seemed that he was not sleeping well. Wang Ping ran closer to the tent and found Gu Lang curled up in his sleeping bag, frowning, as if he had a nightmare.
Seeing that Xiaohua would not come back for a while and there were no suspected animals approaching, Wang Ping thought for a moment, turned around and ran towards the SUV, jumping into the car from the front windshield.
It was not too late at this time, and under the bonfire and the moonlight, the situation in the car was clearly visible. Of course, it didn't matter if there was no light at all, Wang Ping simply loved his eyes that were like night vision goggles.
The trunk was closed, but that wasn't a problem.
Generally, the trunk structure of off-road vehicles is open and connected to the space inside the car. Some sophisticated ones may install a partition above the rear seats to separate them. But most of them don't even have a partition, and the space behind the rear seats is considered the trunk.
The reason why Wang Ping didn't go in and look for it before was that he didn't want to be too obvious.
With the help of moonlight, Wang Ping climbed over the back seat and flipped in through the gap.
The trunk had obviously been tidied. There were two silver metal boxes placed side by side where Wang Ping landed. Wang Ping landed right on top of the boxes.
The box was different from an ordinary suitcase, much smaller than a suitcase. It was not locked, but fastened with a buckle. On the right side of the box, there was a leather handbag and a backpack. Further inside, under the seat, all the tools Gu Lang had used were thrown inside.
I stretched out my paw and pressed lightly on the backpack. I could feel that there were probably clothes or something inside, and it was relatively soft to the touch.
Wang Ping knew how sharp his claws were, so he usually didn't dare to rub his face, for fear of blinding himself or disfiguring himself. At this time, he didn't dare to use too much force, for fear of damaging the bag.
Gently using a fingernail to hook open the buckle on the handbag, Wang Ping opened the handbag and took a look.
Sure enough, all the documents that Wang Ping had not seen before were here. Gu Laosan was careful and put all the important things in the trunk. Maybe he took the handbag out of the backpack when he was looking for the spare first aid kit and forgot to put it back.
The ID card, passport, and driver's license are all here. In addition to some change and a bunch of bank cards, Wang Ping also saw an invoice similar to a car rental deposit and a temporary driver's license. After all, Chinese driver's licenses are not universal in every country. Car rental companies like this will help foreign users with temporary road licenses while providing car rental services. However, given the current state of the off-road vehicle, there is no way to get the deposit back. Gu Laosan might even have to pay for it.
Judging from the documents, everything is normal and there is nothing strange.
Wang Ping finally found out that the real name of this human brother he had accepted was Gu Lang, who was five years younger than him, only 23 this year, and from Hangzhou. And judging from the number and color of the bank cards in his bag, he was a wealthy guy. I just don't know if he was an entrepreneur who came out to have fun, or a rich second-generation who was bored.
But what Wang Ping was most curious about were the two metal boxes under his feet. Just by looking at their appearance, he knew they must be something special.
The trunk space was very narrow. Wang Ping tried and found that one side of the box was just level with the trunk lid. Unless the trunk was opened, the box could not be opened.
Is it a weapon
Wang Ping guessed that the most likely thing to be placed in this box was probably various weapons. Wang Ping himself knew that there were no less than twenty types of firearms that were packed in this type of box.
"No! This box must be opened!"
I have already taken ninety-nine steps, and I cannot let this last step get stuck.
Wang Ping climbed back to the back seat with his backpack on, then ran out along the front windshield and came to the back of the car.
After staring at the trunk of the car for a long time, Wang Ping resisted the urge to slap himself to avoid disfiguring himself.
"Damn it, I only thought about using the key to open the trunk, but forgot there is a switch on the car that can also open the trunk. I am really stupid like an animal!"
With his short legs that were less than 20 centimeters long, Wang Ping ran back to the car, found the sign for the trunk button on the right side of the steering wheel, and gently opened it with his paw.
"Bang..."
The buckle of the trunk made a slight sound, proving that the lock was unlocked. Wang Ping crawled in again along the seat, and with his two paws pressed against the inside of the trunk, he pushed outwards. The trunk lid made a slight sound and slowly rose up, letting in moonlight.
Because there was a backpack on the box on the right, Wang Ping first focused his attention on the metal box on the left.
Opening the metal buckle, Wang Ping took a deep breath and raised his paw to open the box.
"What the hell is this?"
Under the moonlight, a strange device appeared in the metal box. It looked a bit like a deformed router without an antenna. An external cable was inserted into the metal hole on the top and connected to the back of the baffle inside the car along the side of the box. There was also a row of indicator lights flashing next to it. The box was separated by foam boards, and there was a row of square batteries next to it.
Wang Ping never expected that just by probing Gu Lang's background, he would touch upon his blind spots in knowledge so quickly