December 21, 2022.
If you don't consider the topics related to Mo Sheng's death, overall, this is still an extremely enjoyable trip.
Probably because fishing for half a year makes people physically and mentally exhausted, no one refused to participate in this trip.
In addition to Meng Fei and Ai Ting, Chen Han, Tang Wenwen, Suzaku Mo Sheng, An Sheng Fan Bu, Xiao Han, and even Meng Fei's most annoying Zhang Li all appeared at the door of Mu'entang on time at the scheduled boarding point.
Li Huo was the only accident. Because his identity belongs to the Wutong City Superpower Bureau and not the problem center. If you want to participate in team building, you should also participate in the team building of Wutong City Superpower Bureau. So he was excluded by Mo Sheng by default.
After sitting in the office for more than half a year, Meng Fei was still shocked to suddenly appear in broad daylight in an environment with no ceiling, fluorescent lights above his head, and no computer in front of his eyes.
In the winter near the end of the year, the temperature has dropped to about three or four degrees. But the sunshine was surprisingly good. There was only a thin veil of clouds in the sky, and the strong sun dazzled a silver bus.
This is a tour charter. In addition to the tour guide and driver, there are ten people at the center of their problem.
They happened to be five boys and five girls. The seats on this bus are also arranged in pairs. It's a pity that the relationship between these eight people is extremely unbalanced, so that the choice of seats is slightly awkward.
Meng Fei naturally wanted his wife to sit together. He chose the left side, all the way to the west, a direction that would not be exposed to the sun in the morning. He left the window seat to Ai Ting and took the aisle seat himself.
Zhuque immediately took a seat by the window in front of Ai Ting, ensuring that if Meng Fei looked out the window, her long dark red hair would always be in his sight.
At the same time, she forced Mo Sheng to come over and sit next to her, blocking An Sheng outside.
An Sheng wanted to sit in the row in front of Suzaku. However, that seat is already the territory of Tang Wenwen and Chen Han, who like to sit directly behind the driver in the first row and look at the scenery ahead.
If he sits on the right side, he will either be exposed to the sun or have to close the curtains to sleep. So AXA can only go backwards.
The window seat in the row behind Meng Fei was empty, and Xiao Han sat in the aisle seat, brushing his scarf silently. This girl's gentle and virtuous personality is very lovable and she has a good relationship with everyone.
An Sheng wanted to sit with her and chat all the way to relieve his boredom, but if that was the case, he would have to squeeze in and pass her seat to sit in the empty seat by the window.
Just when he was hesitating, Fan Bu, a strong man with a Chinese character in the row behind Xiao Han, stood up and pulled him down, pressing him onto the seat next to him:
"Mr. An, are you free? Let's play a game of the dead? I have diamonds now. I'll be on the king after a few more games."
This guy was bitten by a snake in one move. He has been afraid of straw ropes for ten years, and he never dares to touch the immersive script killing using the sleeping cabin again. This prevented him from releasing his excess energy, and he became obsessed with pesticides of the dead again.
Of course his target is not the dead but the king. But everything went smoothly until he reached the diamond, but every time he was about to reach the king, he started to overturn and could only vomit blood.
There is only one truly unsociable person. Even though it was winter, he was still wearing only a black suit and sitting in the last row of the bus with a dark face and a crew cut.
He had no interest in the scenery outside the window or the handsome men in the car. He just glanced at everything inside and outside the car awkwardly.
Is there a time bomb under the chassis of the car? Could someone have damaged the car's brakes? Or was there a hole drilled into the fuel tank?
Of course, he checked these thoroughly before getting in the car. He confirmed that there was absolutely no problem with the safety of the car itself.
It was only after the vehicle started moving that he began to examine everyone's behavior again. Could there be a suicide attacker inside or outside the car? Or were they armed robbers?
So he has to sit at the end. Only from this position can one see every move of everyone in the car, as well as possible suicide bombs outside the car.
If anyone tries to harm the eldest lady of the master's family, he will decisively burn the life expansion time to take a preemptive strike.
Meng Fei doesn't have as many unfounded worries as Zhang Li. He just sat peacefully next to Ai Ting, admiring the goddess' profile and looking at the rapidly regressing scenery outside the window.
Wutong City and Jiangnan Prefecture are connected together, and both belong to the scope of Jiangnan in a broad sense. However, Wutong City is surrounded by a vast delta plain, while Jiangnan Prefecture has rolling mountains and complex karst terrain everywhere.
At this time, outside the window was a suspension bridge that resembled a huge, tilted harp. Under the bridge was the river filled with ships under construction. There are huge cranes on the shore, like many arms stretched out by Transformers.
In front are two gray thermal power plant chimneys with graceful curves, which continue to occupy half of the sky, emitting billowing white smoke and connecting with the white clouds in the sky.
Many huge steel frames lead countless high-voltage lines from there, like some kind of biological neural network extending into the distance.
Leaving the river and continuing forward, there are patches of green, yellow and red open space left after the city faded away.
Some are planted with saplings that are still green, while others are naturally grown with weeds that are already a little yellow. Others are the red and yellow land that has been cleared.
Until an iconic gray-white stone mountain appeared in front of it, with a bare and smooth head, like a sitting Buddha, the tour guide reminded with a smile: "Dear tourists, we are about to enter Jiangnan Prefecture."
Sure enough, not long after, a green and white sign appeared on the side of the highway, with three large Chinese characters written on it:
"Jiangnan Boundary".
Only then did Meng Fei remember that after traveling to this other world, although he had been to Suanyi and swam in the East China Sea, he had never left Wutong City to visit any other place within the Qingmang Continent.
Entering Jiangnan Prefecture, the ground is like music from gentle to exciting, with countless hills of various sizes covered with vegetation.
The highway shuttles through the dark green mountains like a jade belt. Now it's winding up the mountain, and now it's going down the slope. The roadside is covered with fallen leaves, and clumps of withered yellow weeds are like the pale beard on the old man's chin.
On the slope made of large stones on the roadside, there is a hillside made of brown-red soil that stretches upward. The hillside is covered with patches of bamboo or many unknown trees.
There are fields that look like many footprints connected together in the narrow gaps in the valley. But this season, there is no rice in the fields. Only neat stubble was left, like a shaved beard.
The rolling green mountains, the endless road, and the empty and deep tunnels that appear from time to time form a soothing lullaby.
For Meng Fei, unlike the urban scenery of Wutong City, the mountain scenery of Jiangnan Prefecture is beautiful, but it is also easy to get sleepy. Especially when he has the shoulders of a real goddess to lean on.
He didn't last long before falling asleep. In fact, not only him, but also the other people in the car who were busy brushing scarves and beating the dead fell asleep quietly, and there was no sound at all.
Until he was confused and heard Ai Ting say in surprise: "Wow!"
