Powerlessness of incommunicability

  As soon as he heard this, his eyes immediately ignited with anger, "Xu Jiu, you're burning the bridge after crossing the river?"

  I couldn't help but laugh, "What river did I cross? What bridge did I break? Lusuo, you never believed me, otherwise that thing wouldn't have been pressed on me for so many days! You've been monitoring my every move, always thinking I'm the mastermind behind this whole scene."

  "I didn't!" Lu Xun argued, "Apart from initially suspecting you, once I confirmed that you really had a companion who was also lost, the suspicion disappeared. Given our relationship on that day, if I suggested putting a tracker on you as a precaution against accidents, would you have agreed? Even now, if I made such a proposal, you'd probably jump in fright, wouldn't you?"

  I raised an eyebrow, acknowledging that he was right, but "I won't believe you again!" Behind the resolute tone, a voice in my heart said: You never believed him anyway. "Rather than continuing to walk together with mutual suspicion, let's just part ways here. I have no obligation to risk my life for people I've only known for two days, not even friends."

  He stormed up to me, his eyes blazing with anger. I didn't back down, and we stared each other down for a long time before the flames of anger in his eyes slowly died down. Then he said, "A shared honor, a shared loss - you should understand this principle. From the moment we stepped into Stone Gate Pass together, we've been like two grasshoppers on the same string. Do you think that if they took away Old Iron, Liang Ge, and San Fungzi, they would let us off? Or do you think that by splitting up and acting alone, you can be a female superhero and single-handedly rescue your companions?"

  At this point, he suddenly stopped talking and looked at me with a gaze that gradually turned into astonishment. "No, you're so clever, it's impossible for you not to think that the crazy people getting into trouble might have something to do with your lost contact... So..." He hesitated and inferred: "You want to use me as bait, hiding behind and waiting for an opportunity?"

  I really don't know whether to praise his IQ or scold him as a pighead, and I muttered in a low voice: "Luchu, ask you a simple question, do you think that while using the tracker to search for the opponent's position, have we ever escaped from their surveillance?"

  He was stunned for a moment, and after a few seconds, he understood what I meant. He instinctively looked around and then said uncertainly, "We're inside a mountain cave, it's impossible." I let out a cold laugh, "Old Iron also had an accident in the mountain cave, can you be sure that there aren't any 'special' cracks on these surrounding walls?" He finally shut up.

  He sighed, picked up his own bag from the ground, glanced at Lao Tie's hunting rifle, and didn't think that he had also taken it earlier. He hesitated for a moment before picking it up, finding it quite heavy, and heard a weak voice in front say: "That gun is useless."

  I asked him: "Why?"

  "I tried just now before I came up, even the cylinder couldn't be started, it simply can't be pulled."

  Upon hearing this, I pointed the gun to the side and attempted to pull the trigger, only to find it was jammed. I then tried to pull back the rear grip, but indeed couldn't move it.

  Lu Xun said: "Lao Tie brought this gun in, probably to boost his courage. He should know that the gun can't be used."

  I thought for a moment, walked over and handed him the shotgun. "Take it." After he took it, he asked in confusion, "Are you really going to go alone?" I changed my mind immediately, his IQ was only slightly above average when it came to tracking, otherwise he was an idiot, and it was almost impossible to communicate with him.

  After I walked tens of meters ahead, he immediately caught up with me. When we were parallel to the entrance of the cave, he gritted his teeth and said firmly: "I won't let you go alone, in case...in case we need to save one more person later."

  I stopped in my tracks, turned sideways to look at him, "You've already made all my plans public, what's the success rate of continuing to use you as bait? If someone was really eavesdropping just now, they must have heard everything. Does this setup still make sense?"

  "So?"

  I couldn't control my volume and shouted at him: "So from now on, I'll be stuck to you like glue! Are you satisfied?"

  Massaged his numb ears, "Satisfied."