Leaving the swamp
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Lu Liran returned to the camp and saw Ke Ji sitting on a stone with his head on his hands, his eyes slightly closed, and his eyes were blue.
He walked over with a gentle step, but the sound of his shoes stepping on fallen leaves still woke Ke Ji up.
Ke Ji suddenly opened his eyes, his steel blue eyes were clear and not dull at all, they were extremely sharp.
When he noticed it was Lu Liran, his eyes immediately softened and he smiled a little.
There was a bit of laziness and a tired smile in his voice, and he asked: “Looking at you, have you gained something?”
Lu Liran responded, and when he saw Ke Ji woke up, he immediately strode over: “Two small fish, it’s okay to make breakfast.”
“You last night…” Lu Liran looked at Ke Ji, remembering his good sleep last night, and quickly reacted. He pursed his lips and said, “Don’t do this next time. If the Chief of Staff knew that you were using your mental power on this, he would definitely scream.”
Ke Ji smiled, he took the two fish from Lu Liran’s hand, naturally and skillfully cut open the belly of the fish, took out the fish gall, and then said: “No. If the Chief of Staff knew, he’d be keen to dig up the details.”
Lu Liran choked. For a moment, it was difficult to connect the image of the calm Chief of Staff in his impression with the image in Ke Ji’s mouth.
But soon, under Ke Ji’s thoughtful gaze, he remembered that unexpected video communication.
Lu Liran: “……”
Indeed, it is possible for Bronte to be more of a keen gossiper.
[Hahahahahahahahaha, I’m laughing so hard. A tall and distant boss like the dignified chief of staff suddenly became so gossipy and down-to-earth!!]
[After all, human beings are nosy by nature (dog head)]
[Suddenly I feel that maybe after staying in this live broadcast room for a long time, I can still hear the unknown side of various high-level people in the industry, hahahahaha]
[Hahahahaha Chief of Staff: I don’t want to lose face?!]
[Wait a minute, am I the only one who wants to know, what unknown things does the commander do with his mental power?!]
[Ah yes, especially when I heard Brother Lu say it, I felt like——]
[Profound meaning]
[Children know too much that they shouldn’t know]
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If Lu Liran knew that the thoughts of the audience in the live broadcast room were so impure, he would definitely refute loudly.
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Lu Liran was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He looked at Ke Ji and frowned slightly.
Ke Ji noticed Lu Liran’s gaze and smiled at Lu Liran: “But later I discovered that it could do something else, something that wasn’t so loud and bloody. Only at this time did I feel that such mental power was not a burden, it was pretty good.”
“No matter what form and result it takes, it is used where it should be.” Lu Liran emphasized.
Ke Ji smiled and nodded: “I know.”
Lu Liran frowned, feeling that Ke Ji’s words seemed perfunctory.
Ke Ji stretched out his index and middle fingers, pressed them together and gently touched Lu Liran’s forehead, and rubbed it twice: “I’m just saying it casually. Now I am quite satisfied that it is in a peaceful state.”
When Lu Liran heard this, what resounded was Ke Ji’s earlier unstable state. He couldn’t help but open his mouth, but remembering that there was still a live broadcast camera facing him, it was not convenient for him to ask.
He secretly thought in his heart that after this live broadcast is over, he must remember to ask Ke Ji and don’t forget it again.
Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran in amusement as he lowered his head and pursed his lips, looking bitter and resentful: “Stop frowning. Those who didn’t know thought you were in trouble again. You just went to the waterside, did it go well?”
Lu Liran sat next to Ke Ji. After hearing this, he briefly explained the situation he had encountered before.
When he talked about discovering the nest of fry, he paused, wondering if the mutated giant mouth catfish he encountered this time was the same fish as the one he met Ke Ji in the water before
The swamp water system extends in all directions, and no one knows whether these fish will roam around.
But thinking about it, he didn’t touch its fry, so one person and one fish should be fine.
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After breakfast, Lu Liran and Ke Ji hit the road again.
Before setting off, Lu Liran climbed up to the crown of a big tree and looked into the distance. As Lu Liran said before, they were only one-third of the way to their destination.
After crossing a forest and then a meadow, Lu Liran saw a barbed wire fence appearing in his field of vision!
“Look!” He whispered happily, “There is a barbed wire fence in front of us! It is a sign of human civilization! We are finally out!”
He and Ke Ji looked at each other, and the two of them rushed towards the other end of the barbed wire fence.
The barbed wire fence was about three meters high. Lu Liran threw his backpack directly to the other end of the barbed wire fence, jumped on it easily, pulled on the mesh of the barbed wire fence and climbed over it. He did it all in one go, looking like a veteran of climbing over the wall.
Lu Liran picked up his backpack and put it back on. A few steps away in front of him was the concrete road.
He glanced back at the swamp area on the other side of the barbed wire fence. Those nightmare-like pastures and swampy murky water seemed to be two worlds separated by this barbed wire fence.
Lu Liran withdrew his gaze, turned to the drone camera, took a long breath, and couldn’t help but smile lightly——It’s time to call it a day and get off work!
“We walked onto the road and left the Ghost Swamp.” He told the camera.
“We survived for at least a week in the central hinterland of the Ghost Swamp, where almost no one has ever gone deep, and discovered unusual creatures in the mysterious nature. They may only exist in storybooks and legends, but this time, our unexpected trip confirmed that they do exist.”
Lu Liran was walking along the road while making the final summary of this live broadcast:
“Even based on this unexpected trip, we can roughly infer that their mutations are related to a plant that only blooms once every few decades. The flowering period of this plant is extremely long, which means that the surrounding organisms are destined to change slowly and have limited growth.”
Lu Liran said with a slight sigh—— When a creature with incredible energy appears in nature, nature will control its energy in another way to achieve a balance.
The emergence of life is an uncontrollable miracle, but balance is controllable.
Lu Liran said: “Everything I have experienced here has invisibly warned me not to give up hope. Maybe the intersection of life is at the next turning point.”
“This live broadcast ends here.” He looked at the camera and said slightly, “I am Lu Liran, a wilderness survival expert. See you next time.”
After he finished speaking, he closed the live broadcast room neatly and put away the drone.
Directly in front of the highway seemed to be a small airport, and Lu Liran estimated that he might be able to board a downwind airship there that could fly anywhere.
He walked quickly, not looking at all as if he had just been devastated by the swamp.
The two of them arrived near this small airport before the sun went down. The surrounding area looks deserted. There is a small private convenience store. The decorations and lights outside the store are out of order. It looks like no one is running it.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji looked at each other and walked in. There was only one sleepy sales clerk in the store, facing a dusty light screen with some damaged silk screen, as if he was watching some short video.
“Hello, is there anyone else at the airport here?” Lu Liran walked to the counter, took two bottles of water and a few packets of instant meal replacement nutrition liquid, and asked while paying.
The sales clerk yawned and lazily checked out Lu Liran, not even bothering to lift his eyelids, and said: “Go through the back door and go straight through the airport. Take a look for yourself. If there is an old man, ask him. If not, he is probably going to gamble on boats and won’t be back until midnight.”
Lu Liran nodded when he heard this: “Thank you.”
“A total of thirty-eight star coins.” The sales clerk collected the money and raised his eyes to see Lu Liran’s side face as he turned to walk by. He looked familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he had seen it before.
“I actually got a business today, hey, rare customer.” The sales clerk muttered in a low voice, put the money away, and continued to watch videos.
When he suddenly saw a video with the words “The Most Highly Qualified Human Being” in the title, the sales clerk’s eyes suddenly opened wide and he was no longer sleepy in an instant!
He stood up from his chair: “Holy shit, is it that anchor!?”
Lu Liran and Ke Ji walked through the back door of the convenience store and went straight to the small airport runway behind the store.
There was an airship parked on the runway. Looking out, not a single person was seen.
Lu Liran caught a glimpse of the airship and suddenly realized something he had missed in a daze before going to bed last night.
He paused, slowly frowned, and looked at Ke Ji:
“There is something, I wonder if you have noticed it.” Lu Liran pondered for a moment and said, “After the airship that picked up Jiang Kun and the others arrived, did you notice the movement of the airship leaving?”
The support airship was not small. Lu Liran glanced at it from a distance and noticed that its model could carry at least fifty people. Such a large airship should make a lot of noise when landing and taking off in the swamp.
But let alone hearing any sounds, he didn’t even see the shadow of it taking off.
Ke Ji also paused when he heard this. After recalling it for a few seconds, he frowned slightly: “No…”
Before he finished speaking, he heard a strange movement from the other end of the swamp behind him
The two subconsciously looked over and saw that the support ship they were talking about flew out of the dense canopy of the swamp, breaking several big tree along the way, flying tremblingly into the air, and the four engines behind it were filled with black smoke
Lu Liran and Ke Ji’s pupils shrank slightly, and they saw that after the airship finally flew into the air, it fell at an extremely fast speed, and its direction was towards this small airport!
Lu Liran cursed, and he and Ke Ji quickly ran in the opposite direction!
The airship passed over the heads of the two of them and hit the ground hard about ten meters away. The metal wiped out countless sparks on the ground and slid for several tens of meters before coming to a stop.
The hatch was violently kicked open from the inside, and Lu Liran saw Jiang Kun dragging someone with one hand from afar, laboriously walking out.
Jiang Kun spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with broken teeth. When he raised his eyes, he saw two figures standing directly in front of him. They looked terribly familiar.
Lu Liran: “…”
Jiang Kun: “…”
Sunnyshies: Man, I was about to put RIP for Jiang Kun…haha…poor Kun-zai…
Ho damn! Our anchor’s about to get mad!
Ah, they meet again. Remember all that talk about nature balencing things out?
Thank you for the update.
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Lmao should I say that our Jiang Kun is lucky (that he got to meet our Commander and Lu-ge in these circumstances) or that he’s unlucky (that he even got into these circumstances)? 😂🤣😂
Thank you for the chapter 😍