Chapter 1929 — Nothing Else Meant
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"Nothing?" Wei Zhao frowned, carefully replaying what Wang Xinyan had just said, and then it dawned on him. "You mean the part about stopping the carriage and **?"
"No, I didn't say that—why is your mind so impure?" Wang Xinyan's face went red in an instant. She had said it, then said it was nothing—wasn't that plainly making Wei Zhao all the more curious? Better to have left it alone; the moment she reminded him, Wei Zhao remembered.
"Ah?" Wei Zhao shrugged helplessly. "You were the one who said it first..."
"All right, all right, I'm rested. Let's get moving again." Wang Xinyan changed the subject, and with that she stood up and walked on ahead.
Wei Zhao smiled faintly. Wang Xinyan was rather interesting. From the look of her, she was not some creature above worldly things; it was only before people she did not know well that she came across as somewhat aloof. Once she grew familiar with someone, her nature turned cheerful—a little like the eldest young lady in that respect, though not entirely the same.
The eldest young lady was cold on the outside and warm within, but she would never be as quiet as Wang Xinyan.
They walked on for a while longer until it was nearly noon. Wei Zhao took some compressed biscuits from his backpack and asked, "Hungry? How about we eat something first?"
"I'm not really hungry yet. How about we hold out a bit longer before eating?" Wang Xinyan was afraid there would not be enough food. She had looked at other people's GPS units earlier, and not one of them had coordinates as far-flung as the one in her hand. It was practically at the end of the mountain range, and they would have to cross over to the other side of the mountain to find the flag.
Wang Xinyan did not know why she had been so unlucky as to draw such a GPS, so she was not about to waste food. Perhaps she and Wei Zhao would be the last team to complete the mission.
In fact, Chen Yuxuan had deliberately given her this GPS. In his view, it was safer to give the most distant coordinate to Wei Zhao; with Wei Zhao's skills, retrieving that red flag would be simplicity itself.
"It's all right. The supplies the two of us drew are one pack too, with enough food for three people." Wei Zhao smiled faintly and tossed a bag of biscuits to Wang Xinyan.
"Then... I suppose I'll eat a little..." The sight of food made Wang Xinyan hungry. If Wei Zhao had not brought it out, she might have held out a while longer.
The two of them found another clean spot and sat down, ate some compressed biscuits and drank a little water, then set off again.
After the meal, Wang Xinyan's strength had recovered considerably, but the distance to their goal was simply too great. They walked for nearly four more hours, and only then had they covered half the route!
Seeing that Wang Xinyan's stamina was beginning to falter, Wei Zhao sighed. "There are still at least twenty kilometers as the crow flies to the destination. We have to get there before dark, or I'm afraid we won't be able to make it back tomorrow to finish the field training mission."