Deep Pit Oasis
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Ke Ji looked at him, “You’ve been to Death Valley? Did you go alone?”
Lu Liran looked over, then nodded slightly. Seeing the man’s brows tend to frown, he stopped immediately and said: “Forced by life.” Don’t judge him for his adventurous spirit, the cub is watching in the live broadcast room.
Unexpectedly, the other party frowned even tighter.
Lu Liran couldn’t understand what the other party was struggling with, and he couldn’t help laughing when he heard that Xian Dan was still persistently asking about the gold rumors in Death Valley: “There is no gold in the deep ravine of Death Valley, but there are tons of bones. You want it?”
Xian Dan choked and closed his mouth.
Lu Liran sneered, and then asked the two men to shave off the flesh and bones of the camel horse.
“Is this meat still edible?!” Shu Hua stared wide-eyed.
“It’s not poisonous, why can’t you eat it?” Lu Liran raised his eyebrows, “This is different from stinging sound bird. This one can be eaten.”
“…so smelly.” Shu Hua whispered.
He hadn’t thought about whether it was poisonous or not.
Lu Liran: “……”
Although it smells bad, Xian Dan and Shu Hua thought about the little rations they had left, and after comparing the bugs that Mr. Lu had eaten and the camel meat in front of them, they still felt that the meat was better than bugs.
Definitely, right?
“I finally know why Mr. Lu asked us to cut off the fur first.” While cutting the flesh, Shu Hua said, although he could still smell the nauseating sour smell, he didn’t know if it had dissipated or he had gotten used to it, it seems that it is not so difficult to accept. He then whispered to Xian Dan, “Fortunately, the fur was cut and kept far away. Otherwise, if it was splashed with acid water, I would rather freeze to death than hug that thing to keep warm.”
Xian Dan gave him a funny look: “Don’t be stubborn all the time, I think you will regret it every day after you finish talking.”
Shu Hua choked.
“Then you would rather starve to death than eat this meat?” Xian Dan asked him.
Shu Hua shook his head: “Of course, I’ll eat, otherwise, what would I cut it for?”
“Doesn’t it stink?”
“Meat can be so stinky, it will be fragrant after roasting, just like the mutton leg that Mr. Lu roasted that night.” Shu Hua said, drooling.
Xian Dan gave him a disgusted look, but his stomach growled honestly.
Lu Liran said to Ke Ji: “You stay here with them, I’ll go and look around, I don’t know where those people from the merchant fleet went.”
“I’m with you.” Ke Ji said.
“It’s safer here, I don’t know what I’ll encounter if I go inside.” Lu Liran said with a frown.
“Just in case, I can help.” Ke Ji insisted.
“……” Lu Liran wanted to say that it would be safer for him to go by himself, but meeting Ke Ji’s gaze, he hesitated for two seconds, then nodded slightly, “Well, I don’t feel at ease if I leave you to the three over there. Just follow me to be safe.”
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Ke Ji smiled, the tails of his eyes turned up, his steel-blue pupils became extremely gentle, and his already beautiful facial features became much brighter because of this smile. Behind him is the blue lake, bright sunshine, green grass and tall trees. Lu Liran looked dazed, as if he was in a park outside of the city, not some kind of desert oasis that would eat people.
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“……that’s, nothing.” Qin Qi touched the tip of his nose, and looked sympathetically at his Captain and Brother Shu, who were still struggling with the bones of the camel horse.
Apparently, Mr. Lu didn’t care whether they were directly hit or not.
[Laughing to death, Brother Lu’s shrimp and pig heart! —— Ahaha gifted the anchor 500x rice grains]
[An honest person pokes people’s hearts without knowing it (dog head)]
“Then Mr. Lu, shall we camp here tonight?” Qin Qi hurriedly asked again before Lu Liran tried to leave.
Lu Liran nodded and said: “Unless I find a more suitable place, it will be near here. Find a place with slightly higher terrain and farther away from the lake.”
Qin Qi nodded.
Xian Dan and Shu Hua looked at each other, they turned around at the same time, not daring to continue to turn their backs to the lake.
Seeing this, Lu Liran raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and didn’t say much.
After he judged the direction, he and Ke Ji turned around and walked into the bushes.
“It’s been four days since we entered the desert. It’s a bit far from the place I planned to evacuate, and I’m not sure if I can get back in time.” After walking into the forest, Lu Liran said to the live broadcast room.
“If we give up on looking for those people in the merchant fleet, we may still have time to leave here tomorrow morning.” Lu Liran walked forward as he spoke, waving the bushes and branches in front of him, “But if you give up looking for them, I’m afraid those people will never survive.”
It’s not that he underestimated the people in the merchant fleet, but this place is really dangerous. Even the strictly trained interstellar soldiers, in the end, only he and Jin Fei persisted to the end, not to mention that this team was just a merchant fleet.
Lu Liran didn’t have much hope, but he couldn’t just give up on those people.
Back then when he was in danger, he tried his best to bring someone out, but now that he still has the strength, how could he not try his best to bring the living out of this ghostly place?
Lu Liran looked at the drone, showing a helpless smile: “Maybe I have to go home late this time.”
He was talking to Jin Fei and his Zai-Zai.
Ke Ji’s heart swelled slightly, and he stretched out his hand to grab Lu Liran, but he only touched Lu Liran’s sleeve, and his grasp was in vain.
In the hotel, Jin Fei hugged the child, Lu Ziqian, and sat in front of the light brain, quietly looked at the man on the screen, who is a bit embarrassed, but still firm and resolute, and he said softly: “No matter how late, Jin Fei will wait for the young master at home, so will the little young master.”
Zia-Zai nodded against the housekeeper’s warm chest.
He twisted his little butt and asked Jin Fei uneasily: “Is Papa going to save someone? Will it be dangerous?”
“It will be a little dangerous, but the young master is even more powerful.” Jin Fei whispered.
Hearing this, Lu Ziqian lightly clenched his small fists: “I saw that uncle was there, we met before, uncle will protect Papa, right?”
Jin Fei froze for a moment, then looked at the Omega, who was following his young master, and thought of the man’s precious violent behavior, and couldn’t help twitching the corners of his mouth, hesitating for a few seconds: “Perhaps……?”
By the way, are Omegas nowadays so strong? As a Beta housekeeper, he could only say that he really didn’t understand ah, he didn’t understand ah.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji walked forward for a while, and did not stop until they were completely blocked by dense bushes on the left and right sides. He frowned slightly, and couldn’t help being a little puzzled——
From time to time, birds singing could be heard in the woods, but there wasn’t a single bird to be seen.
“Strange.” Lu Liran frowned slightly, “The sound seems to be nearby, why didn’t I see even a bird’s nest or even a piece of bird droppings?”
Ke Ji’s gaze narrowed slightly, and he walked up to Lu Liran, and with a few strokes of the machete, he split open the wall-like barrier that was tightly covered by bushes in front of him.
He let out a sigh of relief, then he turned to call out to Lu Liran: “Come and see here.”
Lu Liran walked over quickly: “Tsk, how many times have I told you, don’t come in front of me…”
He paused, and suddenly opened his eyes.
The drone rose into the air, then flew out of the dense forest and shot an unparalleled bird’s eye view——
Lu Liran and Ke Ji were seen standing on the edge of an intertwined bush, and a few steps in front of them was a huge deep pit vertically going down.
The deep pit is about 100 meters deep, the size of six or seven lakes outside, and it is covered with lush and towering trees. Birds are singing, and they could see clusters of birds shuttling between the top of the trees.
Lu Liran stared blankly, he took a deep breath, and murmured: “This is the real oasis in the desert…”
Compared with the deep pit oasis, the forest they are in is simply child’s play.
Ke Ji took the lead to look back, and looked around. He suddenly noticed something, and walked quickly to Lu Liran’s left hand side a few meters away.
Seeing this, Lu Liran went over and saw the problem with this bush at a glance.
He also took two quick steps, and brushed away the bushes in front of him, and saw that these bushes seemed to have been crushed, and with a light push, they fell down, and all the roots were broken.
Lu Liran squatted down, and the drone flew close to give a panoramic view. The short grass on the ground was obviously crushed and stretched all the way to the edge. He brushed away the grass on the ground, and he could still see several messy footprints.
“These should be from the merchant fleet!” Lu Liran’s eyes lit up, pointing to the ground and said, “Look at the ground, the footprints are messy and the footprints are different. At least three or four people have walked here.”
“These people seem somewhat panicked.” Ke Ji murmured, “There is a deep pit ahead. Even if they didn’t find it, they would not be able to move very fast in such a forest, but these traces show that they did not slow down at all, and they were even rushing towards the direction of the deep pit very quickly.”
Lu Liran understood what Ke Ji meant when he heard his words, his eyes darkened, and he said in a low voice: “Something is chasing them.”
Ke Ji nodded.
He looked around, the surroundings were quiet and peaceful, and he couldn’t see that there had been a big chase here a few hours ago.
What on earth is chasing those people? So many people did not even have the slightest resistance?
Lu Liran and Ke Ji stood there in silence. They looked down at the dense oasis of deep pits, with a distance of about 100 meters. Well, if those people fall from here, this is a completely different concept from rolling down like in the previous sandy slope.
“If those people fall, the possibility of surviving…” Lu Liran lowered his voice and looked at Ke Ji.
Ke Ji pressed Lu Liran’s shoulder, and said in a deep voice: “Tell Xian Dan and the others first, let them know. As for the rest, let them make the decision.”
Lu Liran nodded slightly.
When the two were about to leave, Lu Liran found a rope hidden in the tangled bushes.
He wanted to take the rope back with the intention of recycling, but as soon as he took the rope, the tightness made Lu Liran realize that something was wrong.
There was no need for him to call Ke Ji, the man who had been focusing on Lu Liran immediately stepped forward, and the two walked back to the edge of the cliff along the tight rope.
The tightness of the rope was obviously due to a heavy object hanging on one end. After searching carefully for a while, the two found that one end of the rope was stuck between several large trees, and it was unknown how it winded up there, it actually tightened around the main trunk of several large trees, no wonder it did not fall with the weight.
The two pulled it up together, but the rope only moved a few centimeters, and then it seemed to be completely stuck.
Seeing this, Lu Liran and Ke Ji looked at each other, and looked down, and saw that the other end of the rope was submerged in the branches of the trees on the cliff, and they couldn’t see the situation below.
“Is this the same rope they were tied together with?” Lu Liran asked hesitantly, but even if it was the same rope, it’s unlikely that the group of people would continue to be tied together, and it would be inconvenient to move.
Ke Ji pulled the tight rope a few more times, his strength was astonishing, and he could clearly feel that the sides of the rope seemed to be stuck by rocks, tightly stuck, and there was no sign of loosening at all.
Ke Ji looked back at the trunks tightened by the ropes. Those large trees were at least a hundred years old, and the trunks were thick and vigorous. Even with ten more strands of this kind of rope, it would be impossible to uproot these large trees.
Seeing this, he said to Lu Liran: “I’ll go down and have a look. I guess there may be survivors down there.”
Lu Liran frowned when he heard this, he held Ke Ji and frowned, and said: “Why are you going down, back off.”
“It’s hard to tell what’s going on down here, and no one can go down rashly.” Lu Liran continued.
He glared at Ke Ji, and then with a thought, he controlled the drone to slowly sink and fly towards the layered leaf barrier that made it impossible to see the state underneath.
The drone camera ball is small and dexterous, and can easily pass through dense branches.
Everyone in the live broadcast room seemed to be sitting in the first-person perspective, as if they were walking through the densely packed tree branches, and no one knew what scenes would be behind these tree branches.
[So nervous, so exciting, so curious]
[Suddenly dreaming back to the shipwreck instance]
[? Don’t say that upstairs, once you say that my shadow will come again]
[To be honest, this angle of view is really similar. Now I am afraid that I will see a white bone falling from the back when passing through the branch of the tree for a second……]
[ Qiu-qiu be human, don’t forget it]
Lu Liran was also staring at the live broadcast room. The function of the drone camera ball at this time was like a bug with a movable viewing angle. It was very versatile and a golden finger.
It can also detect signs of life.
Previously, he was able to find Rocke Feller in the ice crevasse of the Arlok Glacier, relying on such a bug-like golden finger setting.
He did not expect that the stingy system did not cancel the usage of this feature.
System: “……”
Lu Liran adjusted the mode of the drone to heat display, and saw that in the image from the drone camera ball, there were six or seven human figures huddled together, and the heat displays here obviously represent survival.
“Found them!”
Sunnyshies: Haha, many times, Ke Ji can’t help but want to take the lead.
As much as I appreciate the merchant fleet, I love seeing these 2 spending some alone time tgether.
Well, not the alone time I first expected but I’m satisfied nonetheless xD
Thank you for the updates !! <3
No skipping a meal of stinky camel meat! Predisolved for quick digestion
I don’t like organ meat but that’s been solved, Pfft!
I think Ke Ji wants to hold hands and… okay. Just imagining… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
As much as one can appreciate it when KJ tries to take over and all, I can’t stand it. Just bc he’s an Alpha doesn’t mean he has the right to step in, even if he just wants to protect LLR. LLR doesn’t know his real identity, he thinks he’s an Omega (and since he’s acting as an Alpha, it’s the same behavior I just criticised xD), he doesn’t know that KJ is also an experienced soldier like him. So KJ acting this way may just look pretentious and reckless. It’s about time for the identity reveals and I hope KJ recognizes that LLR is able to survive on his own, since that’s what he’s been doing the last 5 yrs. Rant out xDD
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Thanks! Hahaha.
help I think I’m getting farther away from the timelines xD like I thought LL has been missing for 3-4 years, Zai-Zai is 3-4 years old and the war was 7 years long, I’m confused 😅