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Mo Yixia stood up calmly and took out the brand new snow shovel from her pocket, "And it's just shoveling snow, it's not a strenuous task."
I didn't expect this thing to be useful in this place...
Han Zhou smiled bitterly in his heart and said no more. The two of them went to the cave entrance together and tried to dig out the snow blocking the entrance.
This cave is small, and the snow blocking the entrance is probably not that thick. If two people work together, they should be able to dig through it quickly.
"Come to think of it, I've been wanting to ask this for a long time..."
As he was digging, Han Zhou suddenly seemed to remember something and turned to look at Mo Yixia beside him, "Yixia, how did you get to this place?"
This question has troubled him for a long time, and now he finally has the opportunity to ask.
Mo Yixia paused and remained silent without answering.
"What's wrong?" Han Zhou noticed her strangeness and raised his eyebrows. "Isn't it inconvenient to talk about this?"
"No."
Mo Yixia shook her head and looked down at the small snow shovel in her hand. After two seconds, she spoke lightly, “When I went to the bathroom, I saw Chen Xiang and the man named Liao Xinyu.”
"Hmm?" Han Zhou immediately thought of something and frowned, "Is this matter related to these two?"
Mo Yixia did not answer, and said to herself: "They seem to be talking about something they don't want others to hear."
"what's up?"
"I'm not sure. I only heard a small part of it. It seems to be related to your friend named Xiao Yuyan."
"Sister Yuyan?" Han Zhou was stunned, his expression even more confused, wondering, "Could it be that they were afraid that their secret would be exposed, so they dumped you here?"
Mo Yixia was silent for a while: "Their eyes were indeed not right, so I started to back away and wanted to go back to find you."
Han Zhou listened attentively. Since there was something wrong with their eyes, it meant that the two people might indeed have some bad intentions towards Mo Yixia. His expression gradually became solemn.
"While backing away, I accidentally fell."
When she said this, Mo Yixia suddenly turned her head away and didn't look at Han Zhou's expression.
"and then?"
Han Zhou asked urgently, and the scene of Mo Yixia falling down and being caught by the malicious Chen Xiang and others and thrown into the snow immediately emerged in his mind, and his brows furrowed even more.
"And then... and then I just happened to fall into the cart behind me, and the cart slid all the way down and all the way here."
Han Zhou's expression was stunned.
This was not quite what he had imagined.
He was at a loss for a moment, feeling something was wrong: "No, does the cart have that much power? Even if it keeps sliding down the slope with gravity as the power, it shouldn't be possible to completely ignore the resistance of the snow, right?"
What he meant was that normally a cart wouldn't slide that far, let alone slide to this place, so he suspected that someone had pushed the cart.
Mo Yixia was silent for a long time: “That cart has electric thrust, and I touched the switch.”
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Han Zhou seemed to hear a hint of anger in her voice.
He was stunned for a moment, then carefully confirmed: "So what you mean is... this incident was entirely caused by your carelessness, and has nothing to do with other people?"
"Ah."
The cave was quiet for a while. Han Zhou looked tense and lowered his head to concentrate on clearing the snow at the entrance of the cave.
"Laugh if you want."
Mo Yixia finally turned her head and saw his shoulders shaking.
"I'm not laughing. There's nothing funny about this."
Han Zhou wiped his face vigorously, took deep breaths repeatedly, and tried hard to make a serious expression. Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.
Mo Yixia looked at him expressionlessly.
“Yixia, believe me, I’m really not laughing at you, I just...hahahahahahaha!”
Han Zhou almost laughed to tears. It was the first time he saw Mo Yixia so embarrassed. She had accidentally gotten herself into this state.
The key point is that this usually thick-skinned guy seemed to feel a little embarrassed about this, otherwise he would not have answered so hesitantly and deliberately avoided his gaze.
He thought this was the funniest thing.
The laughter continued in the cave for a long time.
However, Han Zhou did not dare to continue laughing, because he noticed that Mo Yixia had stopped shoveling snow since some point, and was instead holding a small snow shovel and gesturing at his neck intentionally or unintentionally.
Laugh if you want to, you may not have the chance later——
Han Zhou read this meaning from her eyes.
call……
He took a long breath, finally suppressed his smile, and suddenly frowned: "Wait... Chen Xiang and Liao Xinyu should have seen you when you slid down, right?"
"Ah."
Mo Yixia put down the snow shovel and lowered her head to continue shoveling snow.
"So they know which direction you disappeared from?"
"of course."
"Didn't they think of helping you?"
"It seemed like he chased me for a distance, but after that it was unclear."
Mo Yixia hesitated for a moment, turned her head again, and added, "I was halfway through sliding and trying to save myself, but I accidentally hit the handrail of the cart, and then I fainted."
Han Zhou's mouth twitched and he quickly wiped his face again.
She accidentally fell into the cart, accidentally touched the switch, and accidentally knocked herself out... I don't know whether to say that this guy was unlucky today or that she was clumsy.
Seeing Mo Yixia looking at him expressionlessly again, Han Zhou did not dare to laugh this time. He said coldly, "That means those two people at least knew which direction you disappeared from, but they did not tell us, and even pretended not to know..."
There is no doubt that this is a very bad behavior. Although Chen Xiang and Liao Xinyu were not the culprits who caused Mo Yixia to fall off the cliff, deliberately not reporting such a thing is no different from indirectly harming others.
We are all adults now, and we know the consequences of delaying rescue, but they still did it...
Thinking of how he almost lost Mo Yixia, Han Zhou felt that he needed to settle accounts with them after returning.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 197: Counterattack with an Army
"How is it, have you found anyone over there?"
On the way back to the base camp with Liang Qian, Chen Xiang happened to see Lin Ming and Lin Xiaoyou returning from another direction, so he pretended to ask them anxiously.
Seeing the two of them shaking their heads with heavy faces, he sighed and said regretfully: "Ah, me too. I hope I can gain something from others."
Although he said so, he knew very well in his heart that it would be strange if other people could find her. He saw with his own eyes the girl sliding down the mountain in a cart. No one had searched in that direction, let alone anyone finding her.
To be honest, when Chen Xiang left the bathroom and saw the girl named Mo Yixia, he was quite nervous.
You have to know that in the bathroom, he not only discussed with Liao Xinyu how to "plot" Xiao Yuyan, but also mentioned several times that he was unfaithful in his relationships. Although the wording was rather obscure and others might not associate it in this way, he was still confused, fearing that his true identity would be exposed.
He knew very well that as a scumbag who deliberately maintained an image of being loyal, once he was exposed, it would not be as simple as losing a girlfriend. He and Liang Qian were a well-known model couple in the class. Breaking up would definitely cause quite a sensation, and the name of a scumbag would spread throughout the major.
This is still considered good. If his post was posted on a confession wall or something like that, he would never be able to hook up with girls in school again. The innocent schoolmates he added would block him without hesitation.
Of course Liao Xinyu had the same worries in his heart, even more than Chen Xiang. When he thought that Xiaoyu might look at him with an extremely disappointed and disgusted look in the future, he felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife, and he was at a loss for a moment.
So the two of them quickly came up with a plan and decided to test whether the girl had heard their conversation. If she hadn't heard it, everyone would be happy. If she had heard it, they would find a way to beg her not to tell anyone.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, an accident happened.
The girl named Mo Yixia suddenly fell into the cart behind them, and then slid down the hillside in front of the two shocked eyes until she disappeared without a trace.
The expressions of the two people at that time were quite interesting.
They thought about saving the person and even tried to chase him for a distance, but they soon found that they could not catch up. Then they changed their minds - there was actually no need for them to chase him, and they didn't even need to tell anyone about it.
Isn't this a lot easier than asking the other person not to spread their conversation?
Besides, this matter had nothing to do with them. Even if someone asked about it later, they could easily deny the fact that they saw each other.
Of course, making such a decision that goes against one's conscience requires a long period of mental struggle, but both of them know that their secret must not be exposed. After hesitating for a long time, they finally chose to pretend that they didn't know anything.
And the development of things was just as Chen Xiang had expected. Since someone was missing, everyone naturally had no intention of climbing the mountain anymore. Even if they found the person later, they would give up this trip to the snowy mountain. The girl would most likely be sent to the hospital, and these unrelated people would naturally leave directly. There would be no intersection in between, and there would be no risk of being exposed at all.
He returned to the base camp with a relaxed mood, just in time to see Liao Xinyu walking towards him with a gloomy face.
He had naturally noticed that Liao Xinyu had been rejected when he wanted to go with Xiao Yuyan before, and he also knew that she was in a bad mood. Seeing his girlfriend leave to rest, he comforted her, "Don't be so gloomy, there are still many opportunities, you are too impatient."
Liao Xinyu didn't say anything for a while, and then he asked worriedly, "Um...are we really not going to tell everyone about the girl sliding down the hill?"
Chen Xiang frowned. He didn't expect that this guy was actually concerned about this matter. He immediately lowered his voice and said, "What do you think? What's the difference between us saying it now and not saying it? Do you think it's useful to regret it now? If something really happens to that girl, we can't get rid of the responsibility!"
Liao Xinyu felt even more guilty, and said with a struggling expression: "You... do you also think something might happen to her?"
This guy is hopeless...
Chen Xiang took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Xinyu, listen, whether she is in trouble or not, this matter has nothing to do with us. We didn't see anything, and it's too late to remedy it now. It's too late, do you understand?"
"But……"
"Do you think Xiaoyu would like someone with questionable moral character?" Chen Xiang became impatient and directly used his trump card.
Liao Xinyu immediately stopped talking and lowered his head in silence. After a while, he said self-deprecatingly, "So you also think that we have moral problems."
"if not?"
Chen Xiang shrugged. Only people like him who face their inner selves without hesitation can become emotional experts, while people like Liao Xinyu who are timid and submissive can only be bootlickers.
Just then, he suddenly heard a noisy noise coming from the front.
In order to show his eagerness to find someone, he deliberately came back a little later. Only then did he notice that the street light in front of him was already full of people, and the others had already returned.
Xiao Yuyan was standing in front of several guides, saying something anxiously.
Chen Xiang frowned and called Liao Xinyu to walk over together.
"Yes, Han Zhou said he was sure that Mo Yixia was on the road we took to the mountain. He couldn't wait and went to look for her alone. He said he would use a flashlight as a signal so we could find him as soon as we got there."
Xiao Yuyan endured the cold and waited under the street light. As soon as she saw everyone coming back, she immediately told them what Han Zhou had instructed.
"Nonsense!"