Chapter Fifty Downstream

  The boss didn't hesitate, quickly took out the money and handed it to Ah Tian. In fact, who would have thought that so much money was needed in such a deep mountain? At that time, I felt this way, but later I realized that even the boss was so awkward about these things.

  A Tian took the money and dragged that scolding man into the bush over there, I had eaten something and got up after a moment of drowsiness. Gently leaning against Su Haicheng beside me, listening to them talk.

  Atian hasn't returned yet, and Su Haicheng asked in a low voice: "Tomorrow we will leave someone here to hide the rubber boat. Originally, we all planned to dive into the water, but now it seems impossible. Someone must stay behind, and if necessary, even help guide those troops away. Also, we need to ensure that those two local people don't leak any information. The task is very heavy."

  He looked at us. The boss hastily said: "I'll stay behind. Since Sakura didn't die, I'll stay behind. If I get caught, I'll say you guys forced me to come here, and you all went into the woods and disappeared."

  "Alright, you stay. Kakashi, and you?"

  Kakaxi yawned: "I'll definitely go down with you. We've come all the way here, if we don't go down now it's not worth coming."

  After all, I was young and reckless, and I wasn't much older than Kakashi either. So I quickly said, "I'll go down too." As expected, Su Haicheng's reaction was just as I had imagined. He said, "Don't go down there. If they catch you, even with my grandfather's influence, they won't dare do anything to you. Plus, Grandfather thinks you're carrying my child, so he definitely won't let them harm you. You staying on the surface is their biggest obstacle. Since Grandfather called you, it means he knows you're here, and this is him helping us."

  "Right," Kakashi also said, "Fourth Sister, it's not suitable for you to go down there as a woman. The water might be so cold that you'll cramp up the moment you get in."

  I stared at him for a moment, but he had already hugged his backpack and closed his eyes: "Sleep to recharge for tomorrow's dive."

  Su Haicheng looked at Hei Lian again. Since the boss wasn't going in, that meant there was an extra set of equipment. Hei Lian said in a low voice, "I'll go down with you guys."

  Su Haicheng interrupted him: "You don't have to answer me in a hurry, let's talk about it tomorrow morning. As for those two locals, would you mind going to talk to them?"

  Hei Lian nodded and walked over to the two men, sat down beside them, and began chatting with them in their local dialect. I couldn't understand what they were saying either, and before I knew it, I had dozed off.

  I slept too soundly and didn't feel anything at all.

  The next day, I was woken up by the warmth of the sun. I opened my eyes and quickly closed them again. The sunlight was too intense.

  No, the Sunagakure's strong isn't a good thing, what time did I sleep until? I almost jumped up from that ground. My body was still wrapped in a blanket, and around me, there was only Kakashi who was using binoculars to observe the lake surface.

  Kakashi's clothes were dirty and tattered. But in this environment, we can't be picky about such things. Only Kakashi was left, while on the lake surface, the rubber boat slowly paddled back.

  "What about them?" I called out. My voice still had that husky feeling of having just woken up. I almost hugged the quilt, and crawled over to stand beside Kakashi, snatching his binoculars to look at the lake surface. On the rubber boat on the lake surface, there was only Boss alone, now in the entire visible area, there were only me, Kakashi, and Boss who was rowing over.

  They all jumped into the water!

  Kakaxi looked at me up and down: "Sister 41, you look really ugly when you're sleeping. And you drool."

  I didn't have time to bother with him and I hastily asked: "Have they really left?"

  "They left early, if it weren't for the boss being bad at rowing a boat, we would have hidden the boat too. Fourth Sister, I now support you washing your face with mineral water, you look really not great like this."

  Last night, I didn't sleep at all, it was like I fainted. There was no feeling at all. When did they get up and when did they leave, really not a single sound was heard.

  After I finished washing up, the boss also rowed the boat back. Kakaxi told me that those two local men were released and got their money, and Hei Lian also said they wouldn't talk about this incident.

  Ah Tian also sent that man away, and they began to inflate the rubber boat. The small pump was almost out of power. In other words, we had to find a way to hide the inflated rubber boat and not let it deflate again. Hei Mian followed us into the water.

  And among the things Kaka Xi said, what he said most clearly was how Su Shi's dead man left him on the shore and shouted at him. He shouted so much that he didn't dare to move, watching them get on the boat and go into the water.

  He also cried out: "My goodness, the most beautiful lower part of the water, can I open the skylight. I didn't come here to look at the scenery? Fourth sister, it's all because of that dead man in your family! Do you know how he scolded me? He treated me like his soldier and scolded me. Let me run around the lake for ten laps before coming back to talk to him. Run ten laps? It's really like being his soldier, running ten laps without getting tired."

  The boss dragged the rubber boat up and collapsed on the ground, roaring: "You two come over here, dig a hole and bury the boat."

  "Look at the rubber boat by his feet. He let out a sigh: 'Why did you guys buy this kind of rubber boat? Wouldn't it be better to buy a few inflatable beds for use in swimming pools?'"

  But now is not the time to drag things out, twenty-four hours from now there won't be much time left. Fortunately we have shovels and here by the lake it's sandy ground, which makes digging for sand a lot easier.

  At first, digging sand was a piece of cake. The shovel went down slowly, just one scoop at a time. But by the time we finished digging that big hole, we were so exhausted that our hands ached and we couldn't even lift the shovel anymore. I said to Kakashi, "Kakashi, I'm out of energy, I feel like I can barely hold a ramen fork today."

  "I'm tired too. Boss, relay, switch!"

  Let's just forget about the past, okay? The boss is still lying on the ground and can't get up. For someone who knows how to row a boat, rowing isn't a big deal. But for those who don't know how to row, it's a very laborious task. It's possible that the boat isn't moving forward, but just going around in circles.

  The boss belongs to the second kind of person. He can make that boat keep circling and slowly come towards us, which is already quite good.

  At the time of the final burial, Kakashi threw all of Suigetsu and Aoba's luggage into the hole to be buried together. I was still shouting: "Why are you burying these?"

  "I don't have the strength to help them carry it, there are many contraband goods inside, if we get caught and can't bury them, we're done for."

  Hearing him say so, bury it then, no other choice left.

  After we buried that rubber boat and a small mound was formed on the sandy ground, Kakashi and I also lay on the mound motionless.

  The sun is warm and comfortable on the sandy ground, I closed my eyes and felt like taking a nap.

  In a daze, I felt like I was about to fall asleep when shouts and gunfire came from the mountain. The boss jumped up, grabbed the luggage on the ground, and yelled: "Let's go! We'll hide in the village immediately, let's pretend we're poachers, give that family some money, and ask them to say we're here for a hike!"

  I also jumped up: "Boss, what about them? Their oxygen can only last for four hours, right? They've been underwater for so long now, they might be coming back soon. Shouldn't we wait for them?"

  "What's the hold up? Are you waiting to be caught by the troops? Hurry up and go!"

  Kakaxi hurriedly carried things and ran towards the southeast village. Gunshots came from the other side of the mountain!

  I almost jumped up and shouted: "Gunfire! Gunfire! Gunfire!"

  "Others who are soldiers definitely have guns. Hurry up!" The boss yelled.

  I was dragged forward by him holding my hand. "What are they shooting at? Even if they're soldiers, it's not like they can just fire their guns randomly."

  "Now if we can just keep ourselves safe, that's already helping them out. If the three of us are really interrogated, we won't be able to keep it under wraps and will end up spilling the beans."

  We ran all the way to the village over there and as we reached the edge of the village, we heard Lang Lang reading aloud.