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“I deliberately didn’t remind you,” Zero said. “Once we enter the Congo Basin, it’s a tropical rainforest, and cars can’t drive in there, so having that much fuel would be pointless.”
“I see…” Lu Mingfei scratched his head, surprised that Zero had planned everything.
Zero kept her eyes fixed ahead and said, "I'll drive, you take care of the cooking."
"Oh." Lu Mingfei nodded in agreement. "Did you eat well tonight? How about I open a can for you? There's also Coke, I brought a case, there are 24 bottles!"
"I'm not hungry yet, I'll eat later," Zero replied.
"So, are we still traveling at night?"
Zero said, "We can drive more than 600 kilometers tonight without having to rush."
"Oh right!" Lu Mingfei realized belatedly, like a little fool, that now that they had a car, they didn't have to walk as slowly as before.
In the past, it would take them more than ten hours to walk more than 100 kilometers, but now they can run more than 600 kilometers in ten hours!
The reason it was so slow was because the road conditions were bad and we had to deliberately control our speed.
By dawn, the two had already driven over 600 kilometers until the car ran out of gas and had to stop.
This old pickup truck is still a manual transmission. The advantage of a manual transmission is its durability. In order to allow the engine of this truck to travel the farthest distance at the most fuel-efficient speed, Zero has been controlling the speed to be constant and reducing gear shifts.
As dawn broke, the two drove to a riverbank and stopped.
After getting out of the car, Lu Mingfei looked ahead along the river and could already see the tropical rainforest right in front of him.
"There are less than 300 kilometers to go to the finish line, and six days left." Lu Mingfei did a quick mental calculation. From now on, he only needs to walk about 40 kilometers a day, which is not as strenuous as the previous 125 kilometers a day.
Lu Mingfei was very clever; he brought Blackie's omnidirectional flatbed cart along as well, so they could take the canned food with them and make their journey easier.
*……*……*
In the rainforest, a sudden downpour began.
It rains almost every day in the rainforest, so Gu Ran and Li Enshu would stop and find a place to take shelter when it rained.
With the hang glider as a rain shelter, they weren't afraid of getting wet when it rained. In short, Gu Ran really made the right choice in bringing the hang glider.
After the rain stopped, Lee Eun-sook spotted a deer eating wild apples and immediately took out the SKS rifle she was carrying and aimed it.
“Oppa, how about we have venison today?” Lee Eun-sook said with a smile. “I remember when school started, we hunted moose together in the mountains near the school.”
"Then let's fight, but after the rain, it might be difficult to collect dry wood for a barbecue in the forest."
If Gu Ran forgot to bring anything for this camping trip, it would probably be charcoal. He thought there would be branches and wood everywhere in the wild, so it wouldn't matter whether he brought charcoal or not, but he overlooked the possibility of rain.
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"boom!"
A shot was fired, the rifle bullet entered the deer's eye and exited through the back of its head, and the African deer fell down.
"I'll go prepare the ingredients!" Lee Eun-sook said excitedly as she collected her spoils after hunting the deer.
She had just shot a deer dead from 150 meters away with her iron sights and was very proud of herself; she even had a gust of wind behind her as she ran.
Lee Eun-sook grew up in a highly educated family; both her parents were doctors. She was a pampered young lady from a young age, but she was also quite capable with her hands. She could kill chickens and sheep and prepare food, which was rare among women in South Korea.
"Be careful of crocodiles by the river!" Gu Ran warned.
"Okay!" Lee Eun-sook replied without turning her head.
While Li Enshu was preparing the ingredients, Gu Ran managed to collect some firewood, but the firewood was all wet from the rain, making it a bit difficult to start a fire.
Having no other choice, Gu Ran could only use a Fire Release technique, meticulously controlling his chakra to perfectly manage the power of a small Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, drying out the firewood.
This exceptional chakra control technique is thanks to his years of persistent mental training and practice of medical ninjutsu.
……
In the evening, the two ate roasted venison. Gu Ran had prepared barbecue seasonings such as cumin, chili powder, and Sichuan peppercorn powder, so they enjoyed the meal very much.
Damp firewood can have other uses; semi-dry branches are best used to make smoked jerky.
So the venison was cut into small pieces, hung up, and roasted under a half-burnt fire. It roasted all night, which barely dried most of it. The rest could be dried at the next campsite.
After spending a few more leisurely days together, the two suddenly encountered an accident.
This was the sixth day, and they were getting closer and closer to their destination.
Gu Ran's idea was to fly slowly along the river so that he wouldn't have to worry about water and food.
Just as they were flying about thirty meters above the river, a rocket with a trail of flame suddenly came hurtling towards them!
"Oppa!"
Lee Eun-sook screamed and instinctively tried to let go. Below was a river; if she let go and fell into the river, she would have a chance of survival. But if she was hit directly by a missile, she would likely die!
Therefore, Lee Eun-sook made the right response.
But Gu Ran grabbed her slender waist and prevented her from falling.
The next instant, the rocket hit the hang glider, a thick plume of smoke filled the sky, and the hang glider began to fall to the ground.
A man with a man-portable missile launcher slung over his shoulder stood not far away. Someone came up to him from behind and said, "What are you doing? What did you fire? Didn't we get orders to keep a low profile and lie low for a while? The students from Kassel College are doing cross-country tests!"
“I saw someone using a hang glider over the woods, seemingly conducting reconnaissance. They shouldn’t be students from Kassel College; why would they be using hang gliders for cross-country running?” the person carrying the launcher replied.
The other person nodded slightly, agreeing with his companion's point.
Did you hit the opponent?
"Hit."
"To live or to die?"
"Judging from the direction the hang glider crashed, it fell into the forest. It must be dead. Even a hybrid can't withstand a single-soldier missile with its bare body!"
"That's right."
The two of them didn't care about Gu Ran's life or death, treating it as just a minor incident in the sky.
*……*……*
Deep in the woods, Gu Ran put away the hang glider.
"Holy crap, Oppa, we're still alive!" Lee Eun-sook grabbed Gu Ran's neck and bounced around excitedly behind him. "I was so scared! I thought we were going to be blown up!"
Anyone would be terrified if faced with an incoming missile.
"But why aren't we dead?" Lee Eun-sook stared wide-eyed at Gu Ran, knowing he must have done something.
Gu Ran simply smiled and offered no explanation.
In fact, just as the missile was about to hit them, Gu Ran immediately activated Susanoo, blocking all the damage from the missile.
Then they used smoke grenades to create smoke, pretending to fall.
"Alright." Gu Ran pushed her away. "Let's find a place to put our luggage first, then grab our gear. I want to see who dares to bomb us!"
“Hmm!” Lee Eun-sook immediately pulled out an M4A1 rifle and a handgun from her backpack.
She was furious. How dare someone bomb the two of them when they had no grudge against each other? Wasn't that courting death?
"By the way, Oppa, do you think it's some kind of local armed separatist force?" Lee Eun-sook asked speculatively.
"No."
Gu Ran shook his head because he had just spotted the other person; it was a black man and a white man.
Why do you think it isn't?
"Because the rocket just now wasn't an RPG, but a Stinger man-portable air defense missile, which is an American product. Although the black guys know that the Stinger is useful, they would think that the RPG is more cost-effective, so they wouldn't be willing to use the Stinger to shoot down a hang glider."
Gu Ran then put all his heavy equipment on the tree, carrying only a pistol and some ammunition.
"Follow behind me," Gu Ran instructed Li Enshu, then led the way.
"Oppa, be careful, the woods are a bit dense," Lee Eun-sook gently reminded him from behind.
"it is good."
There's really no need to worry, because Gu Ran has already activated his White Eye to investigate, and no person or trap can escape his eyes.
Soon they arrived at the riverbank and looked at the opposite bank from the grass.
"Come on, pay attention to those points."
Gu Ran patted Li Enshu on the shoulder from the grass and pointed out some sentry posts on the opposite bank to Li Enshu.
Lee Eun-sook nodded and wrote it all down.
"How are we going to cross the river?" Lee Eun-sook asked softly.
The river is over thirty meters wide; swimming across it would be too slow and make you an easy target.
"It's not that difficult." Gu Ran slowly retreated, found a big tree for cover, then took out a kunai wrapped with the Flying Thunder God Technique and shot it to the other side.
"Whoosh!"
The kunai, imbued with the spell, struck precisely into a large tree on the opposite bank, in a blind spot of the sentry post.
He returned to the reconnaissance point, patted Lee Eun-sook on the shoulder, and took her slender wrist: "Let's go, let's cross the river."
"what?"
In the instant that Li Enshu blinked in confusion, Gu Ran had already teleported her to the other side of the river.
Lee Eun-sook felt that the scenery in front of her suddenly changed after the blink of an eye; it was no longer in the same place.
She glanced back; the river was now behind her. She had been facing the river, but now she was facing a desperate situation.
"Correct coordinates".
Gu Ran used the infrared laser dot on his gun to mark a reference point, and Li Enshu immediately found the sentry post location she had memorized based on the reference point.
Gu Ran said, "There are more black people on the other side, they might be local natives. I'll go and capture a prisoner first, and take care of those sentinels while I'm at it."
“Okay, then I’ll stay here and keep watch.” Li Enshu didn’t try to be brave and say she would go with Gu Ran; she knew her place in the team.
"Oh, by the way, there are a lot of black guys over there. Here's a talisman for you." Gu Ran took a card out of his pocket and handed it to Li Enshu, then slipped silently into the bushes.
Lee Eun-sook looked at the card in her hand with a puzzled expression. It looked like a card from the board game Three Kingdoms Kill, a defensive equipment card.
"What does Oppa mean by giving me this card? Why is it a talisman?" Lee Eun-sook looked at the card with a blank expression. The card had the three big characters "King's Shield" written on it.