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The cheers from inside the warehouse seemed to be cut off by an invisible pair of scissors.

The air froze instantly.

The roar of the engine, which had just been exhilarating, now sounded like two wild beasts trapped in an iron cage, letting out unwilling growls.

The smile on Li Erniu's face froze.

Master Jiang Tiezhu's newly lit cigarette slipped from his fingers and fell onto the oil-stained ground, sparking a tiny flame before quickly going out.

A net stretching to the heavens and the earth.

These four words, like four great mountains, weighed heavily on the hearts of everyone present.

Scarface Liu's face was extremely ugly.

"Boss, this road... is blocked."

Lu Qingshan's face remained expressionless.

He walked to the corner of the wall and silently lifted the huge oilcloth covered with a thick layer of dust.

A huge, hand-drawn map, incredibly detailed, was displayed before everyone.

The mountains, rivers, and ravines surrounding Hongshi County were densely marked with pens of various colors, even more accurately than military maps.

"National highways are for those who have access to roads."

Lu Qingshan's voice was calm.

He picked up a red pen from the table and drew a heavy circle on the winding mountain path that he had repeatedly drawn with different colors, a path that had been almost forgotten.

"We will walk our own path."

Scarface Liu was the first to approach.

He stared at the dense contour lines and strange markings on the map, his mind a complete mess.

"Boss, this...this is all in the mountains."

He pointed to an area on the map marked "Rock Slope," his throat becoming somewhat dry.

"Let alone trucks, even people have to climb on their own to walk."

"How are we going to get through this?"

Not only him, but even Jiang Tiezhu, who had the most say in machinery and road conditions, frowned.

He crouched down and ran his rough fingers across the map.

"Boss, the line you drew is too wild."

"This is not a road at all."

Lu Qingshan did not answer immediately.

He picked up the red pen, placed the tip on the map, and began to move it slowly.

A winding red line, like a living snake, begins to meander across the map.

"Look."

"Leave the western outskirts of the county town and enter this hunter's trail that has been abandoned for at least twenty years."

"Although the road here is narrow, the roadbed is made of stone, which is solid enough."

"After traveling 15 kilometers, we will encounter a riverbed that dries up seasonally."

The red pen tip stopped on the river marked with a blue dotted line.

Jiang Tiezhu immediately shook his head, voicing the question on everyone's mind.

"No, boss!"

"The riverbed is full of pebbles and sand. Trucks are so heavy, they'll get stuck as soon as they go in! Then we'll be stuck in the middle of nowhere, with no one to turn to for help!"

Lu Qingshan looked at him, his eyes filled with a calm that seemed to know everything.

"Master Jiang, you're right."

"A typical riverbed looks like this."

He tapped the riverbed on the map lightly with the pen.

"But this one is different."

"The bottom of this riverbed is hard clay. Moreover, the last rain before winter washed the surface of the riverbed very smooth."

"If we just walk along the center line of the water flow, it's like walking on a natural highway."

The warehouse was completely silent.

Everyone was stunned by Lu Qingshan's words.

What kind of soil is at the bottom of the riverbed?

The last rain before winter?

This...is this something a person can remember?

Lu Qingshan's pen never stopped.

The red line crosses the riverbed and connects to a dotted line that is almost completely submerged by vegetation.

"After crossing the riverbed, we will connect to a section of forest road that was built before liberation and later abandoned."

"Although this place is severely damaged, it is just the right place to bypass the most difficult part, Wolf Ridge."

"Finally, after exiting the backup firebreak in the No. 3 area of ​​the forest farm, you can directly access the secondary highway leading to the provincial capital."

"Smack."

The cap on the red pen was put on.

A complete, secret "sky road" stretching over 80 kilometers has been fully outlined.

It was like a precise scalpel, perfectly avoiding all the checkpoints under Hubert.

Bold.

Exquisite.

Crazy!

Scarface Liu stared at the red line on the map, feeling a chill run down his spine and his heart pound with fear.

He stammered out a question that sent chills down everyone's spine.

"Boss... how... how do you know so much?"

"There are some places that, let alone not being marked on a map, I dare say, hardly anyone in the entire Hongshi County knows about them!"

All eyes were once again focused on Lu Qingshan.

This time, his eyes no longer held doubt, but rather a mixture of awe and fear in their gaze.

This goes beyond the realm of experience.

It's almost like... a mountain god is showing the way.

Lu Qingshan reached out and gently patted the map that embodied his painstaking efforts from both his past and present lives.

Facing the gaze of the crowd, he gave a half-true, half-false answer.

"I've been running around in the mountains with my grandfather since I was a child."

"I remember what every ditch, every ridge, and every stone around Hongshi County looks like."

This reason is irrefutable.

In the surrounding villages, everyone knows the name of Old Master Lu, the mountain runner.

Jiang Tiezhu and Scarface Liu exchanged a glance.

They both saw the same shock and fervor in each other's eyes.

Suspect?

It no longer exists.

Instead, there was a near-blind worship.

With such a "mountain god" leading the way, what road can't they overcome?

Seeing everyone's reaction, Lu Qingshan slammed the red pen down on the table and gave the order.

"Master Jiang!"

"Yes, boss!"

"You and your brothers, work through the night to reinforce the chassis of both vehicles and prepare double the amount of snow chains!"

"Okay!"

"Scarface Liu!"

"exist!"

"You take men and prepare enough fuel, food, and emergency tools! Crowbars, steel cables, shovels—bring everything you can!"

"clear!"

Lu Qingshan's gaze swept across the entire room, and his voice suddenly rose.

"We'll set off tonight!"

"Give him to Yu Bo and have him perform a 'feigned attack while secretly advancing' act!"

……

Night was falling.

Lu Qingshan returned home and prepared his luggage.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw that the light in the main room was still on.

Lin Xiulan did not sleep.

She sat quietly under the kerosene lamp, her head bowed, sewing something stitch by stitch by the dim light.

She looked up when she heard the door open.

"You're back?"

Her voice was soft and gentle, like the moonlight outside the window.

"Um."

Lu Qingshan walked up to her and then saw what was in her hand.

It was a breast protector made of several layers of thick cotton fabric sewn together.

The stitches are fine and dense, as sturdy as a sewn shoe sole.

"What are you doing...?"

Lin Xiulan finished the last stitch, bit off the end of the thread, and handed him the heavy breastplate.

"I heard from Erniu that you're going to travel at night, along a mountain path."

"I... I don't know anything else, I just wanted to make this seam thicker."

Her voice trembled slightly.

"The mountain road is difficult to drive on. In case... in case the car becomes unstable and people hit the steering wheel, this will help to protect your heart."

Under the light, several tiny beads of blood appeared on her fingertips where she had been pricked by a needle.