Chapter 20 Su Haicheng's Ex-Girlfriend

  He has already started a fire and there are plenty of dry grass and branches nearby in the woods. "Do you still understand these?"

  "My grandfather used to hike in the mountains. When I was a kid, he took me there several times just for fun. And I've heard them say that places like this should have caves with air vents somewhere in these mountains. This water must be underground water rising up, not completely stagnant water. That's the only way to explain why the lake water here is so beautiful."

  "Is that all?" He looked up at me, "Alright, just build a fire here and I'll go see what we can eat. Don't leave this place, I'll be around here somewhere where I can keep an eye on you."

  "Oh, okay." My uncooperative stomach growled again.

  I still know how to make a fire. However, I was burning the fire while looking around at the mountains surrounding us. Trying to find a cave to prove what I just said. But it's too dark, I didn't find the cave, but saw a signal tower standing on top of one of the mountains.

  Wow! There's actually a cell tower! No wonder Kakashi's phone can get online here. I quickly took out my phone, and without the shielding of the forest, the signal was full bars too. This place isn't as desolate as we thought.

  I quickly called Kakashi.

  "Hey, Kakashi."

  "Sishen jie, did you feed it to the big snake or that dead man?"

  "Speak clearly, okay? Listen up. We're at the lake on the satellite map right now. You guys come over tomorrow. Now we suspect that someone has stolen those corpses from back then, and they came here."

  "Are you sure those corpses were stolen? I heard from the boss that he saw them walking away by themselves."

  My heart also sank a bit, from the beginning I was certain that someone had stolen the corpse and didn't think about the corpse moving on its own. At first, when I saw corpses walking, they were all under ruins. But these are deeply buried corpses. Can they crawl out by themselves? That difficulty is definitely much harder than standing up from under the ruins.

  They really crawled out of that hole one by one, and walked all the way here, covered in dust... My hand fell weakly. All I could think about was the image of corpse after corpse walking past me. I know I'm scaring myself, but I couldn't help it.

  I looked around, suddenly feeling a lot colder, as if there were corpses moving beside me. The phone had already been put down, and Kaka's voice came from the receiver: "Shi Yi Jie? Shi Yi Jie?" It hung up, leaving only the dial tone.

  Just as I was panting heavily, imagining that all the people around me were walking corpses, my shoulder was suddenly tapped. My first reaction was to shout and run away.

  But a big hand grasped my wrist and pulled me into his arms. "What's wrong? What's wrong?" Su Haicheng's anxious voice came, and I finally calmed down, looking up at him. It turned out that the person who had patted me was him, the one who had pulled me was also him, and the one holding me now was still him. Those corpses were all just my own imagination.

  This is really scaring oneself to death.

  "What's wrong with you?" My head was still pressed against his chest, and I don't know if it was an illusion or what, but I seemed to feel his heart beat again.

  Must be an illusion, he's a dead man, where did the heartbeat come from. I pushed him away: "Nothing, just scaring yourself with your own imagination."

  He stared blankly for a moment, then let out a cold snort and released me: "You're the first person I've ever seen who scares themselves." He squatted down, his movements practiced as he began to dig a hole with his dagger to bury the sweet potatoes.

  "Where did you get the sweet potato?"

  "There's a patch over there, don't know if it's cultivated or wild, anyway it shouldn't be poisonous. And there are also mouse bite marks."

  "Rat bite? Then we'll eat again, aren't we eating rat saliva? Will we get sick?"

  He didn't say a word, perhaps he was speechless with me. Half an hour later, I and he sat by the bonfire, watching the warm fire and eating roasted sweet potatoes. Of course, I ate the intact ones without any wounds. He ate the kind that had been bitten by animals. Of course, he threw away those unclean broken surfaces.

  He held up a hot and fragrant roasted sweet potato. I smiled at him: "You're really good at roasting sweet potatoes."

  "When soldiers come, they all say this."

  "So you guys really eat raw earthworms and stuff to survive?"

  "When you're almost starving to death and have no other choice, you'll eat it too."

  He had already taken off his hat. His face, illuminated by the firelight, looked handsome, especially those eyes, which seemed even more piercing. My face felt hot. I quickly covered my face with my hands, what was wrong with me? Did I blush when I saw a handsome guy? Was I so silly? I liked my boss!

  "Tell me about your ex-girlfriend," I said. "If you're not comfortable seeing her, you can write a letter or something and I'll help deliver it."

  He stared at me for a moment before saying, "I've never had a girlfriend before."

  "Aren't we partners? There's no need to hide such things from me, I can be a messenger pigeon too."

  "It's really nothing." Looking at him like that, it seemed like there was something else he wanted to say but in the end didn't. This is just his personality - introverted!

  I let out a sigh, not wanting to expose him, but still said: "When I went to your grandfather's place, his little soldier had already gone to investigate you. He said that you had been absent for several nights and were even preparing to file a love report. As a soldier, do you need to file a report when falling in love?"

  His hand, which was peeling the sweet potato skin, froze. After a while, he said, "Really, there's nothing. I didn't return all night because I had asked for leave to go drinking with Old Tian and several other old comrades-in-arms. And I'm an officer, not a soldier, so it's no big deal if I don't return to the barracks after asking for leave. They must have misunderstood."

  "What about your love report?" I asked. My tone wasn't very good, and I felt like he was lying. Someone who has prepared a love report wouldn't be without a girlfriend, would they?

  "I'm already 29, and I've been in the army all this time, and I don't even know any women. These days, there aren't many people who want to be a military wife. The auntie from our cafeteria said she wanted to introduce me to her niece, an elementary school teacher. So I thought I'd go take a look, and if it's okay, I'll file the report and get married after a while. Originally, we were supposed to meet that weekend when I was on leave, but ironically, I died here instead."

  "Oh, sorry." I said.

  He seemed to have heard half of it and said in a low voice: "Fortunately, I didn't go on the blind date. Otherwise, I would have missed it."

  "It's not going on a blind date that's the mistake. Never mind, let's change the subject." My mood is pretty good, I originally thought I would be hungry until tomorrow when Kaka Xi comes over to eat something, but now the roasted sweet potatoes are especially fragrant.

  Su Haicheng stood up and walked towards the lake. Looking at his back, I felt that I shouldn't go over there after all. He seemed to be feeling quite melancholic too. Dead and gone, without even having a girlfriend. A lifetime of never having received care and warmth from someone of the opposite sex before dying.

  However, haha, it's also good. He didn't have a girlfriend before, so I don't have to worry about some woman getting pregnant and dragging me in front of Su Haicheng's mom and grandpa for a confrontation one day.

  Looking up at the sky, the sky here is really beautiful, much more beautiful than the square sky in the city. And there's a beautiful lake too. The lake water is also very pretty, and the man standing by the lake is handsome too. The lighting on his side isn't great, but looking over, his back silhouette looks really good.

  I took out my phone, switched to night mode, and snapped a photo of his back. No need for editing, it's already a perfect wallpaper. His figure is really good, with broad shoulders and narrow waist, I've seen his abs and Adonis belt before. What a man, if only he wasn't dead.

  Twenty-nine, twenty-nine is still young, not bad at all, not too old. I've heard that some soldiers get married in their thirties and forties. I put down my phone and let out a sigh, no matter how good-looking or handsome he is, he's just not mine.

  "Hey! Chen Siyi!" he shouted from over there, "You said this is the underground river water surging up to form a lake?"

  "That's right! According to Feng Shui, it should be like this."

  He rushed back to my side and took out a pair of binoculars from his backpack.