Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared-Chapter 1620: Crossing the Mountain

In five days, Gu Fan received lots of information and began to summarize it. Based on the number of cars and their directions, he could roughly determine an area.

So Gu Fan had the others drive around that area, certain they would find a road that was off-limits.

Indeed, after another day, they found a sealed off road with checkpoints that only allowed specific vehicles to pass through, and these vehicles had license plates that matched those they had seen before.

"This is the place!" Gu Fan didn’t get excited; finding the entrance was just the first step, getting in without alerting the enemy was the second.

To bypass the checkpoint, they absolutely couldn’t drive, they even had to traverse mountains and march on foot.

Following Gu Fan’s suggestion, everyone gathered together, parked their cars in the woods, took all their supplies, food and water, and set off towards the entrance.

They trekked through forests, crossed rivers, climbed over uneven ground, and hadn’t gone far, not even reaching the foot of the mountains.

To avoid losing their way, everyone kept as close to the highway as possible, following it while ensuring they weren’t too close to be discovered, and strived to overcome the obstacles along the way.

After a day and night of arduous trekking, everyone was exhausted, almost unable to walk, preferring a desperate fight with the enemy over this grueling march.

Left with no choice, Gu Fan could only encourage everyone, though he couldn’t find any inspiring words – he could only hope everyone would keep going, as they were almost at the foot of the mountain, where an even more difficult challenge of crossing the mountains awaited.

Hearing this, everyone had the same thought in their minds: they might as well all faint collectively, what kind of morale boost was this? Did he think their morale wasn’t low enough?

Despite this, after some rest, everyone gritted their teeth, stood up, and with a determined stride resumed their journey.

When they discovered the road extended into the mountains, they looked at the towering peaks, knowing how difficult it would be to cross them.

Although the mountains undulated, thankfully their slopes weren’t too steep, with heights of around three hundred to five hundred meters and plenty of trees to use for climbing. It was possible to scale them one by one, though tiring and tough, it wasn’t insurmountable.

However, for the likes of Gu Fan, Leng Feng, and Gu Xiaojin, such difficulties simply didn’t exist. They easily reached the mountain tops, then looked down from above to find a way forward.

If they followed the road, they would easily run into the enemy’s vehicles, so they had no choice but to toil and cross the mountains. They went from one mountain to another, trying to keep the same direction as the mountain roads as much as possible.

Because the mountain roads were meandering, sometimes bending this way, other times that way, and the group wasn’t familiar with these roads. When they saw the road bending east, they expended a great effort to descend and maintain the same direction as the road.

But soon enough, to their surprise, the road curved west, forcing them to climb westwards, feeling like it was all for nothing.

It’s as if you are originally walking in a straight line, but fearing getting lost, you follow another’s path, bending and winding along, only to find in the end that if you had stuck to the straight path, you’d reach the same destination as following the winding one.

So far, although the team was extremely tired, they could see hope, as long as they could find the enemy’s secret weapon base, then it would all be worth it.

According to Gu Fan’s expectations, if they followed this path and crossed more peaks, they definitely could make it.

But often things went beyond his expectations, as the road quickly split in two, leaving Gu Fan dumbfounded. What did these two roads mean, were there two weapon bases?

Keep calm, keep calm, this was a piece of cake for Gu Fan. He decided to watch the vehicles coming and going to determine their direction, and also allowed everyone to rest a bit.

But what Gu Fan couldn’t understand was that both roads had vehicles entering and exiting, as if both led to the weapon base.

"What does this mean?" Lu Yi frowned deeply, as this equated to a complete loss of direction.

Leng Feng was unfazed; he felt that since both roads were trafficked, they might as well just pick one.

Although Leng Feng’s words made sense, Gu Fan still believed it wasn’t that simple. Generally, such mountain roads were hard to build, especially in the mountains, and if there really was only one base, there was no need to construct so many roads, unless...

Although Gu Fan had a bad feeling, they could only take it one step at a time. He flipped a coin to choose one of the roads and they continued to climb the mountain using it as a reference.

"Coin flipping? That seems rather hasty," everyone said, yet no one objected and all firmly followed Gu Fan’s pace, ready to follow through to the end.

Lu Yi had an idea; he thought the enemy built two roads in case one was destroyed, the other would ensure the base’s connection with the outside.

Everyone found Lu Yi’s reasoning sound, signifying the importance of the weapon base, which couldn’t cease its external transports for a moment.

But Gu Fan didn’t think so because if they encountered more forks in the road ahead, that would mean big trouble.

After the group’s strenuous efforts to cross the mountains, they indeed encountered what Gu Fan mentioned: a road splitting into two, both with vehicles going in and out, exactly like before.

"What does this mean? One road becomes two, two roads become four, every road trafficked with vehicles; what are they thinking?" No one understood.

Gu Fan then explained that the mountain roads splitting from one into two, and two into four, based on these mountains, created a huge maze. Anyone unfamiliar with the area would get lost just by following these roads. freēwēbnovel.com

Quickly grasping what Gu Fan meant, everyone pictured an immense network of mountain roads in their minds, then shook their heads, displaying an air of pessimism.

So many mountain roads meandering, how would they find the weapon base? Was their effort for many days destined to be in vain? Leng Feng was unwilling to accept it, really unwilling.

Of course, Gu Fan didn’t want their efforts to go to waste either; he pondered how those vehicles were operating, why different mountain roads had vehicles traveling on them. Was there more than one base here, or were these vehicles deliberately detouring, causing confusion and making it impossible to determine the correct direction forward?

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