The terrain of the Hengduan Mountains gradually increases from southeast to northwest, and soon they moved from the subtropical zone to the normal temperature zone.
The increase in altitude and latitude quickly caused the temperature to drop below 10°C.
The cold air forced Chen Xingtian to slow down his flying speed, and all the screens and doors on both sides were closed.
A portable air conditioner the size of a radio slowly releases heat to protect against the cold outside.
At this moment, it was completely white outside the tent, and a thick fog almost enveloped the entire mountain, with visibility no more than 50 meters.
This place is close to a town in northwest Yunnan Province, and there are probably some villages nearby. Flying above the thick fog is obviously not a wise choice.
He simply drove in the thick fog. The limit of perception of 300 meters vertically allowed Chen Xingtian to feed back the surrounding conditions to his mind.
Ding Ruomeng was bored and simply played backgammon with Kong Kong. The two were inextricably fighting on the chessboard, going back and forth.
In the end, Xiao Meng was the better, winning nine out of ten games and drawing in one.
Kongkong was directly beaten to autistic state. It didn't understand why seemingly ordinary situations would suddenly become dangerous. It was as if Ding Ruomeng was standing in a higher dimension than it. Everything on the surface seemed to be dangerous. Routines are all serving the final routine.
Chen Xingtian was also secretly observing their game, and Kong Kong's IQ was still lower than ordinary people after all.
At four months old, it is already a young adult dog, but this also means that its intelligence is almost finalized. In the days to come, even if it is smarter than other dogs, that will be it in the end.
Chen Xingtian frowned. It seemed that empty training had to be arranged. If there was still no high-intensity stimulation, it might only stay at this level for the rest of its life.
…
In a terraced field in the mountains.
A seven or eight-year-old boy is plowing in the fields with his grandfather. This primitive farming method is still quite common in remote mountainous areas.
The boy watched with boredom as his grandfather drove the oxen and used the rusty sledge to walk from one side of the field to the other, and then back again.
The white fog flows in the mountain col, like a river in the sky, and the strong mountain wind blows away a piece of the thick fog in this mountainous area.
The boy looked longingly at the blue sky revealed through the gap, which was the only embellishment in this white world. Why didn't he want to fly to the sky and overlook this beautiful nature.
Suddenly, the boy saw a huge object flying out of the gap, a fish-head-like UFO. He hurriedly shouted to the old man not far away.
"Grandpa, look at the sky, there is a UFO there!"
The old man put down the sledge in response and looked in the direction of the boy's finger, but unfortunately he saw nothing.
"Guawazi is lying to your father again. Let's see how I deal with you when I get back."
"I didn't. Something really flew by just now, but it just flew into the fog again."
…
In the tent.
Chen Xingtian sweated a lot, almost being discovered.
But then I thought about whether I was too neurotic. There were cases of UFO sightings all over the world. As long as they didn't land in towns openly, being sighted might not be a big deal.
Ding Ruomeng asked worriedly at the side: "Has someone discovered us?" She clearly felt the tent suddenly accelerate.
"It's okay. I've been a little nervous lately, and everything I do is a bit inconsistent." He rubbed his head.
"That's not okay. If you continue like this, you will have a nervous breakdown. You should learn to relax properly."
Ding Ruomeng knew that if he was exposed to high-intensity training for a long time or was in a state of alertness for a long time, overuse of the nerves would cause permanent damage and make him less sensitive than before.
Chen Xingtian shrugged: "Do you think I'm afraid of people with neurasthenia?"
Ding Ruomeng: "...Okay, anything can be cured by telekinesis, but I still suggest you live a happy life and don't tense up all the time."
"Okay, okay, listen to you."
At this time, the tent had flown out of the dense fog area and gradually moved away from the town. The tent once again climbed to the height of the mountain top.
Telling the flying tent will also produce the buzzing sound of a commercial airliner. Especially at this altitude, it can easily disturb the birds in the forest.
Troublesome things arise. There are always birds that appear on the only way to the tent. If you don't use telekinesis to bounce them away, they will inevitably hit the battery panel and die.
Chen Xingtian had to spend extra energy to push these little things away one by one.
He shared the effort of pushing away the birds and monitoring the front. He left one of the remaining two and made himself a cup of coffee with the other.
"Brother, you need to make coffee and tell me, so that it won't affect your concentration."
"There is much more knowledge about controlling water than controlling objects. Naturally, I need to understand some changes in liquids first, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with problems in the Indian Ocean."
Chen Xingtian took out the coffee liquid from the cup. A steaming yellow-brown water ball floated quietly in the air, but it was not calm inside.
"Unlike the dishwashing I showed you last time, the dissolution of coffee often involves more knowledge.
You should know that dissolution in a narrow sense refers to the process in which a liquid reacts physically or chemically with a solid/liquid/or gas, turning it into a homogeneous phase of the molecular state.
Today's caffeine is mixed in water molecules. It is larger than water molecules, but not as many as water molecules, so it often moves with water molecules. "
Kongkong also listened attentively. With its current IQ, it was enough to learn some knowledge from junior high school or even high school. Generally, Chen Xingtian did this, which probably meant that he wanted to learn from it.
"Unlike distillation or recrystallization, I will now use an alternative method to forcibly separate the caffeine factors from the aqueous solution."
Immediately afterwards, the uniform brown color inside the coffee water ball suddenly became uneven, as if a semipermeable membrane had penetrated and the coffee was forcibly trapped.
It’s just that this process is faster and more thorough, and the coffee that comes out is directly dry, as if it has never been brewed.
“If something happens to us in the Indian Ocean and all our tents and equipment are destroyed, we will have to rely on sea water and fish to survive.
If I don’t practice separating coffee now, I won’t be able to separate NaCl when I encounter smaller particles in the future. "
"Well, you always like to plan ahead, but this is also a good habit." Ding Ruomeng sighed. She couldn't persuade Chen Xingtian at all: "Then where should we stay tonight? In the mountains?"
Chen Xingtian brought up the world map. He really hadn't thought about this. Originally, his idea was that since everything was ready, he might as well stay away from the town.
However, considering that it was difficult to buy what he wanted abroad, he decided not to go abroad for the time being and first visited the border of Yunnan Province.
"Xiaomeng, what do you think of the Lancang River? That's where the Lahu people live. After tonight, my load can be increased by 15 kilograms, and I can buy some more things there."
Ding Ruomeng took over the monitor and saw that Lahu Autonomous County was already located on the border of China, beyond which was Myanmar. It was indeed the last place to collect supplies.
But the only bad thing is that such a small county actually has its own airport, which means that the radar scanning intensity will be much greater.
However, this problem can be easily solved, as long as it is far enough away from the airport.
"They are still celebrating the New Year over there. Are you sure you can still buy supplies?"
"If you can't buy it, you can always go for a meal. Isn't one less meal of material consumption equivalent to an extra security guarantee?"
Chen Xingtian sorted out the order. If they crossed the border today, they would probably only reach the Burmese headquarters. They didn't understand Burmese and didn't know the local political situation, so they might as well stay in the country.
"Woof?" (Cheating?)
As soon as he heard about eating, Kongkong became excited. The food stored in the tent was all compressed or sealed, and there was no heating equipment. Naturally, he could eat every meal.
Chen Xingtian looked at it with disdain: "It's worthless. It's not like you can only eat packaged food. You can't catch the rabbits at the bottom of the mountain? You can't just light a fire and roast them without heating equipment."
Chen Xingtian was heartbroken: "I brought you out to eat delicacies and game, but you want to go home and eat white rice?"
Kongkong: "???"
"Okay, you two, it's almost noon now, why not go down and catch a hare to roast."
Ding Ruomeng was even said to be greedy.
Chen Xingtian nodded, controlled the tent and flew two kilometers, and finally found a relatively flat meadow, a meadow on the mountainside.
The tent landed on the meadow, and Chen Xingtian and three others walked out of the tent, and the gentle sunlight shone on them.
Chen Xingtian opened his arms and stretched. The long-term manipulation made him physically and mentally exhausted, but the enhanced feeling brought by such high-intensity use of telekinesis made him feel refreshed.
Ding Ruomeng ran to the end of the meadow, looked at the endless green forest under the mountain, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so beautiful."
This is an alpine meadow, a very peculiar landscape. Although it is surrounded by forests, there is a piece of grassland on a relatively flat place halfway up the mountain, which gives people a refreshing feeling.
If it wasn't too far from the city, this might be a good camping base.
As soon as Kongkong stood on such a meadow, the genes engraved deep in his soul made him start to have fun, spinning around Chen Xingtian and Ding Ruomeng, just like a happy silly dog.
Chen Xingtian leaned forward and let gravity constrain him to fall. When he was at a 45° angle with the ground, powerful telepathy dragged his body and shot towards the sky.
"Wuhu~"
This feeling was a hundred times more exciting than riding a roller coaster. The strong inertia made his internal organs almost press against his back. With his fine adjustment, he accelerated along with his internal organs, which relieved the discomfort.
This is a nature reserve with no human habitation within a 50-kilometer radius. This is a dangerous route that even commercial airliners would not choose.
Chen Xingtian also coated his gliding suit with anti-radar material, installed an electric heating circuit inside, and carried a small battery on his back, shooting straight into the sky.
The mountains were getting smaller and smaller, but the clouds were getting closer and closer. At a certain moment, there was only a small green dot left in the original alpine meadow, and he finally reached the clouds.
The sun's rays shone on the vast white clouds, and the refracted light once blinded his eyes.
It's like heaven here, holy.
Chen Xingtian was intoxicated by such beautiful scenery and seemed to have forgotten everything.
This is a world of cumulus clouds. Countless fluffy clouds of strange shapes are floating at such a height, like cotton candy.
Chen Xingtian tried to fiddle with these marshmallows, but the result was disappointing. It was like his palms passing through the air. He could clearly feel them, but he just couldn't grasp them.
Perhaps it is a problem with the speed of molecular motion. The van der Waals force between gas molecules is very weak, making it more difficult to bind each other. Instead, the strong repulsive force pushes them to fly around randomly.
No longer caring about these, Chen Xingtian looked up at the cirrus clouds higher up. They were like gauze covering the sky, decorating the higher sky.
Their location is too high, far above the cumulus clouds, at least 6 kilometers away from the ground, and some are even as high as 10 kilometers.
Chen Xingtian wanted to fly to the top of the cirrus clouds, but reason told him that he couldn't. Even at this altitude, the temperature was already below zero. If he climbed higher, he might freeze to death.
Perhaps only in the Sahara Desert could he reach such a height.
Looking back under the white clouds, there were two people waiting for him, but he couldn't wait too long.
…
One minute later.
A black spot swooped towards the ground at an extremely fast speed, like a meteor streaking across the sky.
Ding Ruomeng thought silently: Brother, take it easy, don't hit the ground.
Then she saw the "shooting star" coming straight towards her.
"oops!"
Seeing that the meteor was about to hit her, she couldn't help but let out a scream and closed her eyes.
A strong wind roared past.
When she opened her eyes again, a man wearing a gliding suit was floating in the air, and what appeared in her eyes was his huge head.
"I'm going to die~"
"Boom!" Ding Ruomeng punched him on the head.
"Ouch! Have you ever hit your brother like this?"
"Hmph, who asked you to scare me?"
Ding Ruomeng clenched her fist and waved it in the air. This brother was dead.
"Chi~"
Chen Xingtian and Ding Ruomeng both looked at the source of the sound with evil intentions.
"Kongkong, have you been itchy lately?"
"Woof?" (Is there any?)
"Then I'll give you a task to catch a hare, otherwise you won't be able to eat today."
Kongkong's ears suddenly pulled down, and he was targeted by these two people.
"Ouch~" (Okay~)
"Don't be unhappy. If you want to break the shackles, you must look for all the impossibilities in this world, break them, and surpass them, so that you can be sublimated."
"Wangwang!" (Promise to do it!)
Chen Xingtian ignored it. He had already discovered three hares within a 300-meter sensing range. Whether he could catch them or not depended on whether they had the strength to do so.
…
Kongkong lingered for nearly 5 minutes and finally locked onto a bouncing figure in the grass. He lowered his body and slowly approached the prey.
This was a gray hare, grazing on the ground without noticing the dangerous approach.
Although Kongkong is a border collie, he still has the hunting gene in his heart. In addition, he has watched too much "Animal World" and he is also learning from the ambush methods of different animals.
Either constricting its breathing, lowering its center of gravity, or not looking at the prey, it was getting closer to the prey little by little, and Chen Xingtian, who was watching the battle not far away, could also notice its amazing learning ability.
It slowly approaches its prey.
10 m.
5 meters.
3 meters.
1 meter!
At such a close distance, it could even hear the rustling of hares munching on the grass.
Seeing the prey within easy reach in front of him, every muscle in Kong Kong's body tensed to the extreme.
The arrow was already on the string. Kongkong adjusted his breathing for the last time, and his body and mind entered a state of extreme calm.
Attack!
The powerful back foot was like an arrow leaving the string, instantly stepping on the grass, and the strong grip even lifted a piece of the turf away.
Kong Kong moved, faster than some hounds, and rushed towards the hare.
Sooner or later, at the moment when the hare jumped out of nowhere, the hare also took off.
Its strong hind legs kicked in the direction where Kong Kong had pounced. The terrifying strength of its waist and abdomen prompted it to complete a very difficult twist, barely evading Kong Kong's pounce.
The hare immediately fled towards the edge of the meadow. He gritted his teeth and followed immediately. He didn't want his prey to run away like this.
Facts have proved that the border collie's attribute is explosive power rather than endurance. In the process of chasing, the hare gradually widened the gap with it.
There was no hope at first, but Kongkong relied on his powerful turning ability to force the hare to run towards the cliff.
This is trying to force it to death, Chen Xingtian secretly thought, it’s so cruel!
Kong Kong kept chasing after him, and the hare kept running forward, but no matter how he ran, he couldn't escape from Kong Kong's encirclement.
Every time it wanted to escape from the cliff, Kongkong would turn to the limit with one move, blocking its way to escape.
As he got closer and closer to the cliff, Kong Kong seemed to see victory right in front of him, and the hare couldn't run away.
However, the desire to survive can make animals instinctively do the craziest things.
The hare was getting anxious, and it didn't want to die. At this moment, it chose to risk its own life.
Jump off a cliff!
The moment the hare crossed the cliff, Kongkong didn't hesitate. It recalled the loneliness of being excluded by its friends, the low self-esteem of being incompetent and unable to help, and the disappointed look on Chen Xingtian's face.
It is unwilling to give up like this.
If he wasn't cruel enough to himself, how could he still have the nerve to follow him?
It chooses to jump off a cliff!
Chen Xingtian saw this scene in his perception, with complicated eyes. He didn't know whether to call it brave or reckless, but the telekinesis in his hand was always ready to lift Kongkong instantly when it landed.
The moment Kong Kong also jumped out, it caught the hare, and it bit the hare's throat with its mouth.
There was a look of fear in the hare's eyes. It didn't expect that the enemy would be so cruel.
It's dead!
But Kongkong didn't sit still and waited. It tried to pull the hare under it as much as possible. This would be a good cushion when it hit the ground.
Naturally, the hare couldn't resist. It was almost suffocated and could only watch as it got closer and closer to the ground.
…
"boom!"
Brains splattered and bones broken!
After all, Chen Xingtian did not use his telekinesis, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Ten minutes later, Kong Kong dragged the lifeless hare carcass back to the meadow. He was limping and seemed to have suffered some minor injuries.
Chen Xingtian looked at it with a half-smile but not a smile: "Are you sure that I will save you?"
"Wow~" (I didn't think much about it at the time)
Ding Ruomeng immediately stepped forward to check its injuries, with distress in his eyes: "It didn't hurt its internal organs."
Kongkong grinned: "Woof!" (No, it's just that my legs are a little weak.)
Ding Ruomeng looked at Chen Xingtian angrily: "Are you just making sarcastic remarks like this? You are its owner after all."
She also loves Kong Kong very much. After all, Kong Kong was taking care of her when Chen Xingtian was away.
Chen Xingtian was embarrassed to be scolded, and there was indeed something wrong with his attitude.
Kongkong broke away and Ding Ruomeng came over. He looked up at Chen Xingtian, as if to say: Am I qualified?
Chen Xingtian also grinned: "You're qualified, but you still have one more opportunity, so don't be timid when the time comes."
"Woof!" (Of course.)
Ding Ruomeng looked at the man and the dog helplessly. The dog would be the same as the owner.
Kongkong is also destined to be anything but ordinary.
(2-in-1)
