Trembling At A High Altitude

Chapter 715

"Did anything strange happen in room 207 last night?" The man surnamed Zhang in room 205 asked the man surnamed Wang curiously.

"Yes..." The man surnamed Wang looked at Boss Ding and stopped talking.

"Tell them, it'll be okay." Boss Ding said.

After hearing what Boss Ding said, the man named Wang no longer had any scruples and told the strange things he saw last night one by one.

"I didn't believe in ghosts before, but I have to believe this time." The man surnamed Wang concluded with a few words.

"I have always felt that there are ghosts in the world, but it seems that the three missing female college students are only interested in 207 and will not come to our room. It is such a pity." The man surnamed Zhang from 205 said in an envious tone.

"Hmph! Come to your room? You'll definitely be scared to death." The man surnamed Wang rolled his eyes.

"Hahahaha, those are three young and beautiful female college girls. If they come to my room, I will definitely invite them to my bed and have fun." The man surnamed Zhang said shamelessly.

"Please respect the deceased." The man surnamed Zheng from 209, who didn't speak much, was a little dissatisfied with the man surnamed Zhang.

"I..." The man surnamed Zhang wanted to defend himself, but he probably realized that what he just said was inappropriate, so he choked twice and then said nothing more.

After breakfast, everyone began to discuss going up the mountain together.

"The three female college students took the dog with them when they went up the mountain. We'd better ask the shop owner to take the dog with them. Maybe we will find something." Boss Ding suggested a few words.

"I'll go talk to him." The man surnamed Zhang volunteered and walked out of the restaurant and ran to find the owner's son.

Soon the man surnamed Zhang came back.

"He said he wanted a deposit of two thousand yuan, and then renting the dog would cost two hundred yuan a day." The man surnamed Zhang came back and reported.

"Isn't this a rip-off? Is the dog worth that much?" Boss Ding was a little angry.

"I asked him the same thing. He said that this dog is like his family, which cannot be measured by money." The man surnamed Zhang spread his hands.

"Isn't that nonsense? Like his family? Look at the shabby kennel, the dog eats all the leftovers, and the dog hair, the dog hasn't been bathed for two months, right? This is how he treats his family Way?" Boss Ding frowned, looking unhappy.

"Madam boss, your son's dog..." The man surnamed Zhang ran to the kitchen and called out the old lady who was washing dishes, and talked with her about renting a dog.

The old woman said that her son bought the dog from outside, and her son had been taking care of it. The couple could not make the decision, so they asked the man surnamed Zhang to talk to their son.

"We won't rent the dog anymore. We will go up the mountain ourselves." Boss Ding gave up the plan of renting the dog in anger.

"Xiao Zhang, call the shopkeeper's son over here, and I'll give him money to rent the dog." Li Teng said to the man surnamed Zhang.

Li Teng came here to investigate this matter, and he also felt that this dog might be the key to the matter.

Spending an extra two hundred yuan will be worth it if you can find any valuable clues.

"Boss Li is still domineering!" The man surnamed Zhang raised his thumb to Li Teng.

Boss Ding originally wanted to thank Li Teng for coming, but after hearing what the man named Zhang said, his face turned a little ugly... Mr. Zhang didn't have to be so shabby in front of you, right?

Soon the man surnamed Zhang called the shop owner’s son over and brought over the dog.

"If you take your dog up the mountain, you need to bring some dog food, otherwise it will starve, and I will deduct the money from the deposit." The shop owner's son said a few words when handing over the dog leash.

"What kind of dog food do you have here?" Li Teng asked the shop owner's son.

After the shop owner's son called out to the old couple in the kitchen, the old couple brought out a large bag of ham sausages of an unknown brand. There were about fifty ham sausages, which were very thin.

After looking at it, the shop owner's son quoted a price and said it would be cheaper for Li Teng, a total of two hundred yuan.

"Young man, your ham sausage is expired. The money you charge is a bit unreasonable!" Boss Ding took out a ham sausage and found that it was expired. He was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the shop owner's son.

"It's for dogs, not for people to eat. What should I worry about if it expires?" The shop owner's son said with a nonchalant look on his face.

"Can expired ones be sold at such a high price?" Boss Ding continued to question.

"There are no villages or shops here, and the logistics are not convenient. Isn't it normal for things to be expensive? Have you never been to Xuexiang? Do you know that the ham sausage there is fifteen yuan a piece?" The shop owner's son retorted to Ding confidently. boss.

"The ham sausage in the noodles we had in the morning is not from this batch, right?" The man surnamed Wang suddenly thought of something and quickly asked the shop owner's son.

"How is that possible? The expired food is only for dogs, not for humans." The shop owner's son quickly shook his head in denial.

"Didn't you just say that dogs are your family? Do you feed expired ham to your family?" Boss Ding continued to question the shop owner's son.

"The conditions in the mountainous area are difficult, and these are the only things to eat. If you are kind-hearted, go to the town and buy a few kilograms of beef for it to eat! I promise I won't object." The shop owner's son answered Boss Ding.

"I didn't realize that at such a young age, he has a very powerful mouth!" Boss Ding sighed.

"I'm a reasonable person, and I'm not messing around." The shop owner's son continued to be confident.

The man surnamed Wang slipped into the kitchen. After a while, he came out with a mobile phone and a bag of garbage, and then threw the garbage bag in front of the shop owner's son.

"I asked your dad just now. He said that this bag contains the ham sausage casing used to make our noodles. You said it's not the same batch? What's the matter with this date?" The man surnamed Wang pulled out a ham sausage casing and pointed to it. He looked at the date on it and angrily questioned the shop owner's son.

"Give us expired ham?" Boss Ding was also angry.

"I took a video when I was talking to your dad in the kitchen just now. You can't keep it!" The man surnamed Wang pointed at his mobile phone and continued to talk to the shop owner's son.

"I'm going to ask." The shop owner's son quickly walked into the kitchen and closed the kitchen door.

"Forget it, don't pursue it. There's nothing good we can do by offending them in this wilderness. Just in case we come back for dinner, add some spices to our dishes..." The man surnamed Zhang gave some advice to the man surnamed Wang and Boss Ding. .

"Yes, peace is the most important thing when we are away from home. We have already eaten everything. What's the use of pursuing it now?" The man surnamed Zhou also persuaded the man surnamed Wang and Boss Ding.

"A strong dragon will not overwhelm a local snake." The man surnamed Zhang added.

Boss Ding thought for a while and said nothing more. He felt that what the men named Zhang and Zhou said were indeed reasonable. There are unruly people in poor places and bad waters, and there really is nothing to say to such people.

But after returning home, Boss Ding decided to write an article specifically for this store to give them good exposure.

Chapter 716

"Boss Li, your whole family has eaten that expired ham, right? Your daughter is still young. If something goes wrong with the food, she will be in big trouble." The man surnamed Wang felt unhappy and said a few words to Li Teng .

"This behavior is indeed bad enough. I will talk to him properly after this matter is finished." Li Teng nodded.

"There's no point in saying anything now. It's useless to say it. Then we media outlets will expose him together." Boss Ding heard what Li Teng said and came over.

"The ham sausages for you are not from this batch, but from another batch. When you went in to ask just now, my dad was old and confused and made a mistake." At this time, the shop owner's son opened the kitchen door and walked out, obviously looking at it again. Forced quibbles.

"Okay, but next time we eat, we will check the ingredients beforehand." Boss Ding replied to the shop owner's son.

"Whatever." The shop owner's son said with a nonchalant expression.

After Li Teng transferred the money to the shop owner's son, everyone gathered together and prepared to set off.

"Boss, do you want to buy some dry food and take it with you? What if you can't come back in time at noon?" Men surnamed Zhang and men surnamed Zhou asked everyone.

They have now defected to Li Teng, and of course Li Teng is responsible for the food and lodging expenses.

If you want to go out to work, of course you must first prepare enough food.

After hearing what they said, Li Teng and Boss Ding thought it made sense, so they went to the registration office, where there were some biscuits, bread, snacks, instant noodles and the like for sale.

Li Teng asked men surnamed Zhang and men surnamed Zhou to choose. The two of them selected a large bag and settled with the shop owner's son. It turned out to be more than 500 yuan.

Boss Ding didn't take much, only two hundred yuan after settlement.

"Why is it so expensive?" The man surnamed Zhang asked the shop owner's son.

"No way, the shipping fee is too expensive. If you don't want to buy it here, you can go to the town to buy it." The shop owner's son looked like he didn't want to buy it.

"Isn't this how you harvest wool? Are you going to catch us and kill us?" Boss Ding couldn't bear it anymore.

Under normal circumstances, his bag of things cost at most thirty or forty yuan, which turned out to be two hundred yuan. Li Teng's bag cost at most one hundred yuan, but he ended up charging five hundred yuan.

"Have you really never been to Xuexiang? My price is quite conscientious." The shop owner's son didn't take it seriously.

"Where is Xuexiang? The mountains are blocked by heavy snow. Logistics are really expensive. Your place is not far from that town. How much gas does a car cost for a trip? Can it be compared?" The man surnamed Wang asked the shop owner's son. .

"Then you go to the town and buy it." The shop owner's son lowered his head and started playing with his mobile phone.

There was no other way. Li Teng and Boss Ding could only take out their mobile phones to scan the QR code to pay, and then left with their dogs.

"It's so unlucky! We met such a shady store!" Boss Ding held his stomach when he went out, looking unhappy.

"That's normal! This store knows the purpose of our visit. If not, who are we going to kill? Moreover, in such a remote place, five times the price is not too outrageous!" The man surnamed Zhang gave Boss Ding a few words of advice.

"Boss, are you okay? You look so bad." The man surnamed Wang saw that Boss Ding was still holding his stomach. He guessed that it was still the same kick he gave last night. He couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Don't let Boss Ding cause any problems. Now, we still have to climb a mountain. Can Boss Ding be able to hold on?

"It's okay, I'm just angry." Boss Ding shook his head. We've reached this point, we can't give up, right? Today's investigation must be completed anyway.

If he didn't go up the mountain this time, he wouldn't be able to get first-hand information, and this trip would be in vain.

Boss Ding was injured and couldn't walk very fast. Li Teng was dragging his family with him and he couldn't walk very fast either. The team's speed naturally slowed down.

After leaving the hotel and walking for a while, everyone looked around. Many trees in the mountain forest had been cut down, and there were some scattered buildings in the clearing. It seemed that the mountain land was contracted by the locals but abandoned. .

Many barren mountains have been contracted, including Donutou Mountain. However, due to insufficient funds for subsequent development or other reasons, many of the contracted mountains were eventually abandoned after walls and some simple houses were built. This has resulted in the current situation.

Although these contracted forests were abandoned, roads into the mountains were built as a result.

However, the mountain roads are also deserted, and they are full of gravel that has rolled down from nowhere.

Boss Ding has a map provided by the police, which is the route that the three female college students took when they entered the mountain.

Boss Ding decided to follow the route they took into the mountains to see if there were any clues that the police had missed along the way.

He is now very regretful. Although he brought a professional camera with him, he was unable to take a photo of the three figures outside the window last night.

If it is photographed, it will be a good material. Even if there is nothing gained from this trip to the mountains, I can still use that picture to write an article.

When I get back to the hotel tonight, I have to set up my camera and face it at the window, ready to take pictures at any time.

The dog Li Teng was holding seemed very excited. From time to time he wanted to rush forward, but Li Teng forcefully held him back.

In addition to Erha, Nana is also very excited. In different plot worlds, she has different life experiences.

In this plot world, she will naturally not remember her previous encounters with zombies. She has been living in the city before and has never been to the mountains.

This was the first time that she was so close to nature. She jumped up and down along the way, singing children's songs loudly from time to time. Occasionally when she encountered an open space, she would stop to dance a dance she didn't know where she learned.

Zhang Mengdi was also very happy. She kept taking photos of Nana with her mobile phone, saying that these would be precious memories for her when she grows up.

Li Teng looked at them and sometimes had an illusion.

It felt as if he had really lived with them for a long time.

It's not an illusion. In other plot worlds, he and they often experience various life and death situations. Perhaps their relationship has long been close to or even surpassed family affection, right?

Being an actor, especially being an actor in a studio, is a really strange thing.

Nana bounces around, quickly draining her energy, but she won't be a burden to the team.

Li Teng had enough strength and stamina to carry her throughout the entire journey.

On the contrary, Boss Ding became increasingly unable to hold on, and his speed became slower and slower. He would often sit down and rest for a while, but when others tried to persuade him to turn back, he shook his head firmly.

At noon, when everyone was about to find a place to rest and eat some food, Erha suddenly started barking at a path that was not marked on the map.

At Boss Ding's suggestion, Li Teng held Erha's hand and followed Erha into the path, with the others following behind.

Erha crossed the path and entered a mountain forest, and then barked at the top of a tree under a tree.

Everyone looked towards the tree crown together, with nervous expressions on their faces.