Mr. CEO Wants to Renew Our Contract-Chapter 715: Deeply Rooted Love (160)

Antonio actually laughed, "Such things to say..."

After reluctantly eating a chicken leg, Long Tianjiao and he left the treehouse together.

Holding a net woven from straw, the two of them walked down a path, marking their way as they went. After about an hour, they heard the faint sounds of an animal.

Getting closer to look, they discovered a wild bear lying in a pit, looking like it was close to death.

Overjoyed, they took a shortcut and slowly made their way down.

The wild black bear was barely opening its eyes; judging by its size, it must have weighed over 300 pounds.

Antonio waited until it had stopped breathing before saying to Long Tianjiao, "We need to divide it up to carry it back. Otherwise, we can’t bring it back, it’s too heavy."

Long Tianjiao agreed, the two of them simply couldn’t pull it.

Antonio rolled up his sleeves, took out a dagger—normally, the two of them had only a thin blanket and had to sit side by side at night, wrapped in the blanket to sleep. But now with this black bear, they could skin it for warmth.

It took several hours to get the entire black bear back to the treehouse.

Long Tianjiao washed the bear skin clean in the river and then hung it up to dry, while Antonio cleaned all the meat. By the time the two stopped to rest, they were exhausted.

But Antonio, ever resourceful, worried the lighter would run out and they wouldn’t be able to make fire, so he mud-plastered a large basin, put the firewood inside, and kept the fire unextinguished. This way, they could keep warm and maintain a continuous flame.

Wrapped in the blanket at night, the two of them didn’t feel cold.

"I wonder when we will be able to get out of here. What if we can never leave?"

"Even if it’s far, we can make our way out, but I’m afraid we might run into another group of people who want to kill us, that would be the worst. If you’re really pregnant, then we can’t go. If something happens to the child during such a long journey, and then something happens to you, we will really be at a dead end." Antonio sighed, "Now, I can only slowly scout ahead and mark the route, always making sure of the next habitable place. Once we settle there, as long as we follow the river downstream, I believe no matter how far, we can get out of here. It will just take a little longer. Tianjiao, are you scared?"

"With you, I’m not that scared. If it was just me, I would be terrified." Long Tianjiao added some firewood, "We still need to get back as soon as we can. I’m afraid that if too much time passes, we’ll be forgotten. I’m also worried that if too much time goes by, Liang He might marry someone else."

"He loves you so much, how could he?"

"Who says the person you marry has to be the one you love? Isn’t Gu Xichen marrying Jingsheng a clear example? In this world with so many people, how many can marry the one they love? Liang He is his parents’ only son. Even if he doesn’t agree, can his parents stand to watch their son suffer forever? I don’t even need to think about it to know how miserable he would be." Long Tianjiao sniffled, "If it were me, it would be worse than death."

"It shouldn’t happen within three to five years."

"I’m worried that we still won’t be able to leave this place in three to five years." Long Tianjiao turned to look at him, "Neo, I feel like we’re trapped in a quagmire, and leaving is going to be very difficult."

"No matter how difficult, we will eventually get out of here, as long as we’re alive, there’s nothing to fear."

*** 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

After the new year, the rainy weather continued until after the fifteenth day.