City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1551 - 1550: Exhausted and Hungry

Having skipped lunch and walked such a long way, Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin were exhausted and hungry. If they were thirsty, they could drink water from the vines.

However, drinking water only quenched their thirst, making them even hungrier.

"Ye Qiu, I want to relieve myself," Zhou Wenting said.

"Then go pee!" Ye Qiu replied.

"I’m scared." The surroundings were pitch-black, and they had already encountered snakes more than once without knowing if they were venomous.

"Then just pee over here," Ye Qiu said as he accompanied her to the side.

While using a machete to cut away the surrounding wild grass and branches, Zhou Wenting squatted to relieve herself, preventing anything from scratching her behind.

Furthermore, the way he slashed the ground with the machete should have scared off any venomous snakes.

"I won’t look at you."

"I’m done," Zhou Wenting said.

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting returned to Wen Xin, who was sitting there, also tired and hungry.

But with Ye Qiu around, she wasn’t afraid.

"Wen Xin, what if we’re really going to starve here?"

"I’m not scared," Wen Xin replied.

Since Ye Qiu wasn’t afraid, why should she be?

And even if she ended up dying here with Ye Qiu, she felt it would be worth it.

Since she was committed to Ye Qiu, even though they hadn’t done anything like a married couple.

"Miss Zhou, what about you?"

"I’m not scared either, just really hungry," Zhou Wenting said.

"If I had known, I would’ve caught that black snake earlier and grilled it for you."

Eating snake?

The two women certainly wouldn’t dare.

Especially in the mountains, these snakes are strange; eating one might attract a swarm of them. Plus, wild snakes often have many parasites, and high temperatures might not kill them all.

"I dare not eat it; I’m scared of parasites," Zhou Wenting said.

"You’re about to starve to death, and you’re still worried about that."

Ye Qiu laughed.

Seeing the two women’s expressions was quite amusing.

But at this moment, Wen Xin furrowed her brow, feeling a bit embarrassed, and looked at Ye Qiu, "Ye Qiu, I also need to pee."

"Just use the same spot Wenting did."

"Ye Qiu, I’m finished," Wen Xin said.

Wen Xin used tissues to clean up, then she and Ye Qiu returned to Zhou Wenting.

Having turned twice and ended up back at the same spot, the three realized that they were truly lost, caught in a loop, and if they kept wandering, they’d just end up back where they started.

In such places, without tools to detect direction, and unable to see the sun overhead, wandering around was pointless.

Yet Ye Qiu wasn’t worried; if he died here, he thought it would be laughable.

"Follow me, I’ll walk around once more and use something to mark the path."

Ye Qiu wore just a shirt and pants; he couldn’t cut them up to use as markers, so he tied tree branches to make marks.

Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin helped with making the marks.

Ye Qiu led the two women for nearly three hours, only to find they ended up back in the original spot, leaving Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin panting.

By now, it was around six in the evening.

Given the circumstances, it seemed impossible to descend the mountain; they couldn’t find a way down.

Were they going to spend the night here?

Exhausted and hungry?

"Ye Qiu, what should we do?" Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin asked.

"Sit down and rest for a while."

Ye Qiu was fine, but these two were just ordinary girls, surely very tired, having skipped both lunch and dinner, and now lacking strength.

Meanwhile, down in the village, Director Wei and Han Defu, Pang Xinhua saw that Ye Qiu hadn’t returned by two in the afternoon and knew that the trio had gone missing.

They couldn’t search themselves—lack of physical strength and fear of getting lost in the mountains held them back.

They had to seek help from professional rescuers, even military personnel.

Additionally, medical experts and researchers went up the mountain searching for the source of an infectious virus that needed to be identified quickly for safety and effective drug research.

Ye Qiu and his companions had gone looking for the virus source and went missing, earning them admiration.

In a group of around fifty, they split into smaller teams, keeping constant contact via walkie-talkies as they searched from the mountain grasslands.

As an elderly woman speculated, Ye Qiu’s group had likely gone up the mountain and lost their way, unable to retrace their steps.

While the soldiers and researchers continued searching, Ye Qiu looked at the two girls beside him, holding their hands, asking, "Are you really hungry?"

"Of course," Zhou Wenting replied.

"I’ll get you some wild game to eat." Up on the mountain, with so many plants and animals, it was impossible to starve, not even in a year and a half, according to Ye Qiu.

"What kind of wild game? Hopefully not those venomous snakes again?"

If pressured, even grilled snakes might have to be eaten.

"No," Ye Qiu said.

He stood there, starting to mimic bird calls and wild chicken sounds.

The two girls initially thought they misheard, but surprisingly, the sounds were indeed coming from Ye Qiu, perfectly imitating the birds.