When you're in the Wolf Pack, your ability to obey orders becomes stronger.

Chapter 69 This woman has a problem!
"Cousin, didn't you say there was no one here?"

Looking at the seven or eight SUVs blocking both lanes ahead, Xu Ge asked Thor.

The milestone on the roadside reads "National Highway 216". Ahead, there appears to be a convoy of vehicles. A group of men and women are standing by the roadside, some taking pictures and others chatting.

When they saw a car coming from behind, all the people looked over, and some of them were talking to each other.

"Cousin, you're the socially awkward type, so try to talk less when you meet people," Thor reminded him.

"Ok, I know!"

Xu Ge observed the convoy ahead for a while and noticed that several vehicles had slogans printed on their rear windshields, such as "If there is a war, we will be called back" and "Retiring from the military will not mean fading away."

"Cousin, are all these people retired soldiers?"

"Who cares? Ignore them," Thor said casually. "Next time you see people with these kinds of slogans on their cars, stay away from them if you can."

Xu Ge was puzzled: "Why, cousin?"

In his view, since they had both served in the military, they were at least half comrades-in-arms, so shouldn't they help each other out when they were away from home?
Looking at Xu Ge's still somewhat immature face, Thor thought for a moment and then explained, "Cousin, do you think any good person would go around bragging about their former military service after being discharged?"

Xu Ge was stumped by this question. He had originally wanted to say that these people wanted to commemorate their military career, but then he realized that something was not right.

"There are only two types of people like this: one is those who want to use their military status to achieve certain goals, and the other is those who have nothing else to offer besides their former military status."

Thor said with disdain, "Look at these people. The lead car broke down and not a single one of them went to help. They were all just standing there doing nothing."

"Cousin, should we just wait here? Or should we urge them?" Xu Ge asked.

Thor shook his head: "Let's wait a bit. If it really doesn't work, we'll just go around it from the side."

Xu Ge asked, somewhat puzzled, "Didn't you say that Lao Lian and the others were out of contact? Why don't you seem very worried?"

"The vital signs of all three of them are still present. Besides, I'm not worried about my reputation at all..."

Just then, a few people walked over from the front.

Boom boom boom!
A burly man with broad shoulders and a thick waist came to the car door and knocked on the car window.

Thor remained seated.

Boom boom boom!
The other party knocked a few more times, and Thor frowned, lowering the glass to look at them.

The burly man didn't speak immediately. Instead, he leaned into the car and, after confirming that there were only two people inside, asked, "Are you also crossing the Qiangtang region?"

Thor didn't speak, his expression showing some impatience.

The burly man was annoyed by Thor's reaction: "Hey buddy, we're all veterans. The car in front of us is stuck in the mud. Your cars are powerful, can you help us pull it out?"

"No." Thor refused outright.

The burly man narrowed his eyes: "Buddy, it's fate that we met in this no-man's-land, there's no need to be so heartless, is there? You won't get through here if we keep blocking your way, will you?"

"It's just a small SUV. Aren't you all veterans? You can just go over and push it out together, right?" Thor said casually.

"So you're not planning to help? Fine, then you're not leaving either. Just wait here!"

After the burly man finished speaking with a sneer, he waved his hand in front of him and said, "Brothers, block the road!"

Buzz!
Several cars started up and each sideways, immediately sealing off the gap that was originally about one meter wide on the side of the road.

Xu Ge frowned as he witnessed all of this, and began to understand a bit more of what Thor had just said.

The burly man seemed to be asking for help, but his words were clearly a threat to Thor, taking advantage of the no-man's-land environment.

"handsome guy!"

A long-haired woman wearing tight-fitting sweatpants walked over, leaned against the car window, and said in a coquettish voice, "Brother, you're so handsome! Brother, your hairstyle is so cool! Please help us, okay..."

"Get out of here and stop being so provocative!"

Thor lost his patience, stepped on the gas, and swerved the steering wheel to the right off the road, the wheels screeching as they hit the gravel beside the road.

Just as the car was about to bypass the convoy and return to the road, Xu Ge saw the burly man suddenly say something to the driver of another car. The next moment, the Jeep suddenly darted out of the road and blocked the Prado's path.

"Cousin, watch out ahead..."

Buzz! Boom! !!
Before Xu Ge could finish speaking, Thor floored the accelerator, and the car crashed directly into it.

With a loud crash, the Prado sped onto the road, and the Jeep was overturned on the spot without any warning.

Thor didn't even bother to look, straightened the steering wheel, and drove off.

. . .

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still high in the sky.

Xu Ge felt that the altitude was getting higher and higher, and he was having some difficulty breathing.

Fortunately, his physical fitness improved considerably during his time in the army, so he didn't feel too much discomfort.

The scenery on both sides of the road became more and more magnificent, and the colors in front of us gradually became richer.

The endless snow-capped mountains in the distance, the clouds overhead that seemed within reach, the flat grasslands, and the various animals drinking water beside one after another blue lake gave Xu Ge the illusion of having arrived in a fairyland.

But Thor spoke less and less, and observed the sides of the road more and more frequently.

After crossing a mountain pass, Thor drove the car off the highway and onto a relatively flat grassland on the right, where he switched places with Xu Ge.

"Keep driving at 40 km/h until you stop next to that lake," Thor said, pointing to the blue lake in the distant valley.

The car began to move at a steady speed toward its destination, with Thor in the passenger seat intently watching the outside.

Xu Ge had no idea what Thor was looking at. The surrounding terrain was open, and one could see for several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers at a glance. In any case, he didn't find anything.

"Drive towards the two o'clock direction!"

Twenty minutes later, as the car approached the lake, Thor suddenly said something, and seeing that Xu Ge hadn't reacted yet, he pointed to the right front.

"Drive the car behind that mound of dirt. Okay, stop!"

Thor got out of the passenger seat. "Get out of the car, put your bag on your back in the back."

Xu Ge picked up his backpack from the back row and followed Thor towards the lake.

"Can you smell anything?" Thor asked as he walked.

Xu Ge sniffed carefully, but he couldn't smell anything except the cold air, perhaps because the high altitude had caused his nasal passages to malfunction.

"What's that smell, cousin?"

"The smell of rotting corpses and diesel fuel!"

Thor reached into the side of his backpack and pulled out a pair of binoculars. "Old Face's last location was around here."

"Then let's start our search from here..."

"hidden!"

Suddenly, Thor slammed Xu Ge to the ground. "There's someone by the lake!"

Xu Ge was both surprised and astonished. First, he was surprised that they had actually encountered someone, and second, he was amazed by Thor's observational skills.

He had been looking towards the lake the whole time, but he hadn't seen anything.

Thor gestured for Xu Ge to put his backpack down, then led him to crawl behind a nearby rock and handed him the binoculars: "Slowly stick your head out and look down, at eleven o'clock."

Xu Ge did as instructed and, sure enough, saw an off-road vehicle parked on the lakeside a few dozen meters away through the binoculars, with the people in the vehicle taking pictures with cameras.

"What did you see?"

"Cousin, I saw a Land Cruiser with three men and one woman taking pictures."

"anything else?"

"That woman looks like she has a leg injury; she's using crutches!"

Thor also peered down: "Which leg is injured?"

Xu Ge: "Right leg."

"Which way is the cane used?"

"It's on the right too!"

Thor: "She's faking it. There's something wrong with this woman!"

(End of this chapter)