Chapter 1798 — Arriving at Snow Valley: The Road Ahead Grows Harder, but Gu Mengyao Has Learned to Be Clever—She Opens the Sunroof and Has Tang Zhi Scan the Road with Binoculars, Ready to Turn Around at the First Sign of Trouble
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Last time, it was only because Xiao Shu had used a trick that they escaped by the skin of their teeth. If they ran into another gang of robbers blocking the road, Gu Mengyao did not know whether their luck would hold. If those two robbers had not been so desperately greedy, they would not have ended up in such a state.
Xiao Shu, however, had also been clever: she had seen how insatiably greedy the two men were, and that was how she had led them into the trap. Had they not let their greed grow again and again, they could not have come to such an end.
"The road ahead is a little rough, overgrown with weeds, but there shouldn't be any danger..." Tang Zhi reported on the road conditions the whole way, which set Gu Mengyao's mind much more at ease.
Still, it was hardly surprising. This place already belonged to that uninhabited stretch deep in the mountains and old forests. Under ordinary circumstances, apart from the occasional expedition team, no one ever came here.
"How much farther to Snow Valley? Why doesn't it feel the least bit cold?" Gu Mengyao found it strange. The temperature here was not high, but with trees and weeds everywhere, it did not look like a bitterly cold place at all.
"A dozen kilometers or so, I think, but the road is bad, so we may have to go a longer way around..." Tang Zhi said, comparing the map with the coordinates on the GPS. Now that they had reached a place with no highways, they could only make sure their general direction was right; the specific route they would have to find themselves.
Mo Kongwu had drawn them a route map for the earlier part of the journey, but beyond this point, where there were no roads, they could only rely on their own judgment and adapt as they went.
"Hold on a little longer. We should get there today..." Gu Mengyao had been driving for days on end and was quite exhausted, but of the three women, only she and Xiao Shu could drive. Tang Zhi did not drive, and Xiao Shu could not leave Wei Zhao's side, so Gu Mengyao had no choice but to drive alone.
At last, after a whole morning and a whole afternoon, toward evening the car finally passed through that stretch of jungle, which was extremely difficult to traverse. Beyond the jungle, however, lay a wasteland of barren yellow earth. Here there was no grass or tree, nor any bird or beast to be seen; it looked for all the world like a land of death from a film.
This eerie landscape, especially under the slanting light of the setting sun, seemed all the more gloomy and desolate, and a chill rose in everyone's heart for no reason at all.
"What... is this place?" Tang Zhi looked at the map in her hands. If not for the fact that their direction was perfectly correct, she would have thought she had led them the wrong way.
"I don't know, but the route map Mr. Mo gave us should be right. He would not deceive us." Gu Mengyao sped up. Though the land here was barren, the road was clearly much better than before, and the car could run fast.
Before anyone realized it, Tang Zhi sneezed, frowned, and said, "It's so cold..."
At Tang Zhi's words, Gu Mengyao felt a chill too. Earlier in the jungle they had been unbearably hot, especially with Wei Zhao and Xiao Shu, two natural furnaces, making it even hotter. But after they reached this barren land, everyone felt the temperature drop sharply.
Even after Gu Mengyao closed the sunroof and turned off the air conditioning, a deep chill still seeped through the body of the car into their bones.
"How cool..." Shen Yushu visibly breathed a sigh of relief. All the way here she had been so hot she was dizzy, and now, at last, she felt much more comfortable.
"Could it be that we're already approaching Snow Valley?" The sharp difference in temperature made Tang Zhi suspect that they were not far from Snow Valley.