Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 256 The People Who Landed
Look over there!

Lu Xi'an pointed down the mountain. On the sea, a gentle breeze was blowing, and a small boat was rocking back and forth. The people on board, one big and one small, were both men, rowing towards Caiyang Mountain.

Judging from the direction the ship was heading, Lu Xi'an was quite certain that it was heading towards Caiyang Mountain.

"I saw it."

Yao Wei said.

Lu Xi'an immediately turned around, returned to the car, glanced at the resonance gene scanner, and saw that there were still only three red dots on it. Still not reassured, he took out his sniper rifle.

"Are you going to kill them?"

"Yao Wei asked. She was already preparing to take the gun from Lu Xi'an and aim it."

Lu Xi'an shook his head and said, "There are only thirty bullets, it's not worth wasting them. Let me take a look first."

He went to the edge of the cliff, set up his sniper rifle, but only used the scope.

Looking down into the sea, the figures of the two people on the boat became clearer.

He examined it carefully before putting down the gun and letting out a long sigh of relief.

"They are slow and sluggish, neither new humans nor old trees, so there shouldn't be a big problem."

He said to Yao Wei, "We don't need to waste bullets on them. Let's just hide on the mountaintop and see what they're up to."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and agreed.

Lu Xi'an held the gun in his hand, not putting it down. He and Yao Wei sat on the ground, looking down at the two of them on the ship at sea.

Perhaps because they had been adrift at sea for a long time, the two were tired and lacked strength, making it difficult for them to row. With each stroke, they had to bend over and use their entire bodies for support to propel the boat forward.

They rowed for quite a while before getting close to the mountainside. They found a spot, and one of them went ashore first. The other threw him a rope so he could tie the boat to a tree on the shore, and then the other person jumped ashore.

Lu Xi'an raised his gun again, glanced through the scope, and saw that the other end of the rope was tied to the hull of the boat. There were four buckets on the boat, which they had taken down one by one, as well as two carrying poles.

"Are they going to fetch water?"

Lu Xi'an saw this scene clearly and asked.

Yao Wei recalled the days when there was a water shortage in the north and said, "Well, if we fetch four buckets of water and use them sparingly, it should last a long time."

Lu Xi'an suddenly thought of something else: "Judging from their movements, they seem to be used to doing this, and they do it with ease."

"Do you think they might be able to figure out the pattern of the tides and always row over when the sea is about to flood this area?"

Yao Wei asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why wait until the sea floods this place before coming here? Wouldn't it be easier to walk here when it's not flooded?"

"Who knows."

Lu Xi'an said, "Let's keep an eye on it. If it works out later, we'll ask them directly how it goes."
"Since they were able to come to Caiyang Mountain during the tide, is it possible that they also know the pattern of the tides? If they do, let's ask them, and maybe we can determine when we can leave."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded.

The two continued their observation from the mountaintop, but the view was somewhat limited. The two people who had disembarked at the mountainside were blocked by trees as soon as they entered the mountain, causing Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei to lose sight of their target.

Lu Xi'an picked up the sniper rifle again, looked at the scope, and sighed, "It's a pity that the scope of this gun doesn't have thermal imaging capabilities."

Yao Wei still didn't understand what thermal imaging was, and she didn't ask. She simply said, "We can see the road leading to the pool. If they want to go there, we can spot them."

Lu Xi'an said, "I hope they really are heading that way."

He immediately came up with an idea, lifted the dog off the car, and said, "The dog can observe and discover things within a certain range, unaffected by its field of vision."

"Let's take the dog and look around the mountaintop. If we see anything, we'll have the dog let us know."

That was indeed an idea, and Yao Wei thought it was fine, so she said, "Give me the dog, I'll carry it."

Lu Xi'an handed the dog to Yao Wei. This woman seemed to have a particular fondness for handling dogs.

Although Lu Xi'an said they would look in all directions from the top of the mountain, in the end, they mainly looked at the east side.

Firstly, the pool of water is located to the east, and secondly, not all areas of the mountains are covered with green trees. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei have excellent dynamic vision, and they can quickly detect any movement in the mountains.

Therefore, they didn't need to use dogs. With just the two of them and their four eyes, they could spot the two people immediately if they appeared in the mountains and were not hidden by the trees.

They did see it; the two men were carrying carrying poles on their shoulders, with empty buckets at both ends, heading upwards from the east.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei were basically certain that their target was that pool of water.

However, Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei were not in a hurry and stayed on the mountaintop to prevent them from misjudging the situation and the two of them changing direction halfway.

After all, the mountaintop offers the best view and is the most convenient place to observe what's happening in the mountains.

The two people in the mountains were indeed just ordinary people. They weren't climbing very fast, and after walking for a while, they couldn't go on anymore, so they simply stopped. They were wearing coats, and they sat down at the edge of a grove of trees. They put their buckets beside them, leaned against a tree, covered themselves with their coats, and then closed their eyes, seemingly intending to take a nap before dawn.

Seeing this, Lu Xi'an said to Yao Wei, "It's good that they're asleep. Since they're not moving, we can go down and look for them."

Yao Wei nodded: "Mm."

Just to be on the safe side, she immediately packed short needles, pebbles and other hidden weapons on her person, and also brought a pistol, and began her operation with Lu Xi'an.

Lu Xi'an did the same, but instead of a gun, he brought a rope. He knew his own marksmanship was inadequate, so carrying a gun was pointless; he'd be better off using concealed weapons.

As for the rope, we'll need it later.

Yao Wei continued carrying the dog, and the two of them ran down the slope at a great speed, but it still took them quite a while to reach the two people.

The two men were completely unaware that Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei were already asleep. Perhaps they were too tired from rowing at sea, because they were both fast asleep; even the younger one was snoring loudly.

Listening to this, Lu Xi'an couldn't help but ask Yao Wei in a low voice again, "I don't sleep like this at night, do I?"

Yao Wei replied softly, "No, you don't snore. I told you that before."

"Ah."

Lu Xi'an was relieved.

Then Yao Wei actually asked him, "What about me? Do I look like this?"

"Didn't you say you said that before?"

Lu Xi'an chuckled, but seeing Yao Wei's apparent concern about the issue, he stopped joking and replied, "Don't worry, you don't snore. How could such a beautiful girl snore?"

"..."

Yao Wei paused for a moment before saying, "Mm."

Lu Xi'an said, "Alright, enough talk, let's take them under control first."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded again.

So the two of them attacked together. Before the two people sleeping against the tree on the ground could even wake up, they were subdued by Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei made things easy for them. They simply grabbed the two men's hands, bent them backward, went around the tree from both sides, tied their wrists with rope, and trapped them both behind their backs to the tree.

The rope was long enough, and the two trees weren't far apart. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei each held one end of the rope, enough to tie the two of them up.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

The two men were jolted awake when Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei twisted their wrists behind their backs. As Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei tied their wrists, they screamed in terror, seemingly too frightened to speak, only able to scream "Ah ah ah" in a shrill voice, like animals desperately awaiting slaughter.

They struggled and struggled, but no matter what they did, they couldn't break free from Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei's grasp, even kicking away the buckets around them.

Lu Xi'an was kind enough to retrieve the bucket before it rolled down the mountain and put it away properly. He and Yao Wei then stood in front of the two people.

The two men were even more terrified when they saw them, and their faces turned pale instantly.

The older one seemed to finally remember how to speak, and asked, "You... how did you all come on your own?! Shouldn't you be your subordinates?"

His voice trembled and shrill, clearly showing that his fear had not yet subsided.

Lu Xi'an didn't refute his words, but instead followed up by asking, "You know us?"

Yao Wei stood silently to the side while Lu Xi'an spoke. She always kept quiet in these situations, preferring to leave the conversation to Lu Xi'an, which she found convenient and worry-free.

This is, after all, something she's not good at.

The man shook his head repeatedly, but then, as if realizing something was wrong, he nodded repeatedly.

Lu Xi'an said, "What do you mean by shaking your head and nodding like that?"

The man spoke cautiously, afraid of offending Lu Xi'an, saying, "You..."

He changed "you" to "you (formal)," but when he uttered the word "you (formal)," he hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know how to say it, or as if he was afraid of saying something wrong and offending Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei in front of him, so he was trying to organize his thoughts.

After a brief pause, he said, "Shouldn't this kind of place be handled by your men? According to past practice, there's no need for you to come personally, especially since the tide has only just come in..."

"so what?"

Seeing that he suddenly stopped speaking, Lu Xi'an casually asked another question.

These three simple words made the man's face turn even paler. The younger one next to him turned to look at the man, and seeing that the man's face had turned even paler, his own face also turned pale.

The man hurriedly replied, "No, no, I was just thinking that usually when the tide comes in, only people like us come up the mountain. Your men don't come until the tide recedes."

"We came here by sea and were a little surprised because we've never seen you before. No offense intended! No offense intended!"

(End of this chapter)