"Fine."
Lin Fan thought to himself, "If it's fate, you can't avoid it. If it's trouble, you can't escape it."
No one could solve strange matters better than him.
Besides, he had found a Crimson Blood Ganoderma in Luofeng Gorge before. Perhaps he could find something good in Luofeng Mountain this time too.
"Wait a moment, I need to grab some things."
Lin Fan quickly opened his medical kit, stuffed it with various medical supplies, and then said, "Village Chief, go find two chopping knives or something. Let's not go empty-handed. What if there are wild beasts?"
He wasn't afraid of wild beasts, of course, but if they encountered any danger, it would be inconvenient for him to use his divine abilities in front of Wu Lei.
"Alright, I'll go right away."
Wu Lei turned and ran, shouting as he went, "I'll wait for you at the crossroads behind the village!"
Lin Fan's heart was uneasy. He had a bad feeling.
"Sister Yueyue."
Lin Fan slung the medical kit over his shoulder, turned to look at Song Yue, and instructed, "If we're not back by evening, call the police immediately. Make it a big deal, preferably have the army dispatched."
"What?" Song Yue scratched her head. "Isn't that a bit exaggerated? Is it that dangerous?"
Lin Fan chuckled, "Six or seven grown adults are missing, plus me and the village chief. Can it not be dangerous?"
Song Yue nervously grabbed his arm, "How about we don't go then."
"We've already agreed, how can we not go?"
Lin Fan patted the back of her hand and comforted her, "Don't worry, perhaps they just encountered a minor accident and are delayed on their way down the mountain."
After speaking, Lin Fan turned and left.
"Xiao Fan!"
Song Yue stood at the doorway, staring blankly at Lin Fan's retreating back.
She felt that Lin Fan's words had hidden meanings, and his tone was strange, as if he were hiding something from her.
If there had been no one to watch the clinic, she would have wanted to go too.
...
On the mountain path.
Wu Lei carried a bamboo basket on his back, filled with food and water, a pickaxe, a chopping knife, and a high-powered flashlight.
His face was anxious, and he kept shouting loudly, "Secretary Tian~"
But no matter how loudly he shouted, he received no response.
Lin Fan had already activated his Zi Ji Ling Tong (Purple Extreme Spiritual Eye) and was scanning back and forth.
In the early summer, the gray and brown Luofeng Mountain was shrouded in a layer of mist, looking like a fairyland.
However, only Lin Fan could see this mist.
Lin Fan guessed, "There's probably something unscientific hidden inside!"
Wu Lei looked at Lin Fan at this moment and asked in a hoarse voice, "Xiao Fan, you're young and have good eyesight. Have you seen anything?"
Lin Fan pointed in the direction of the quarry and replied, "I think I saw something on that hillside over there, like something someone threw down."
If there was a dangerous place in Luofeng Mountain, he couldn't think of a second one.
"Is that so?"
Wu Lei looked around for a while but saw nothing.
However, he had no ideas now and could only follow Lin Fan's lead. "Then let's head that way."
The two walked quickly, stepping shallowly and deeply into the silent rocks, heading towards the quarry.
At the same time, in the quarry with strange, jagged rocks, a cry broke the silence.
"Professor Fu, it's all my fault."
Tian Mengyao was already crying rivers of tears.
On the ground lay three young men in their early to mid-twenties.
Their faces were dark and blue, looking terrifying.
Beside them, an elder with white hair and reading glasses sighed deeply, "Little Tian, you can't be blamed for this. They were too reckless and blundered in without understanding the situation."
Behind the elder were two young men in their early twenties.
They sat on the ground, leaning against the giant rocks, their faces also dark and blue.
Seven people had come out in total, and now only Professor Fu and Tian Mengyao were unharmed.
For some reason, the mobile phone signals were being interfered with here, and they couldn't make any calls.
Professor Fu was old and frail, and Tian Mengyao had injured her leg. The situation was now a matter of life and death.
"Little Tian."
Professor Fu handed her a meter-long wooden stick and said, "Hurry down the mountain and ask for help."
"I suspect the magnetic field here is interfering with the light particle signals."
"Walk towards the outer edge of the mountain, and you should be able to get a call through."
Tian Mengyao lowered her head and didn't move.
She kept blaming herself. How could she leave alone?
She had found everyone to help. If she left, no matter what happened to anyone, she would never forgive herself in this life.
"Be good, you can't help here anyway."
Professor Fu said weakly, "I'll watch here, you go get help."
"Only then can we have a way to survive."
As Professor Fu said this, he looked back.
Below the cliff, which looked as if it had been sliced by a knife, was a dark cave entrance, like a man-eating mouth, ready to swallow their lives at any moment.
Although Professor Fu was a scientist, he knew that this matter could not be explained scientifically.
In this critical moment, he had prepared for the worst: whoever could live, should live!
He pushed Tian Mengyao, "Little Tian, hurry up and go."
"Professor, wait for me, I'll be back soon."
Tian Mengyao wiped away her tears and limped away.
The wound on her leg hurt like a needle prick with every step.
"Hurry up and get a signal, faster!"
Tian Mengyao held her phone, occasionally looking at the signal bars on the screen, praying that a signal would appear in the next second.
As she walked and looked, an unknown amount of time passed.
Suddenly, a hoarse shout came from ahead, "Secretary Tian~ Where are you~ Answer if you hear me!"
Tian Mengyao, her eyes blurred with tears, looked up and saw two people approaching.
One was the village chief Wu Lei, whom she recognized, and the other was Lin Fan, the one who had left the deepest impression on her.
Wu Lei saw her and immediately ran over, "Secretary Tian, how are you?"
Lin Fan saw her disheveled appearance, and his heart sank. It seemed something had indeed happened!
"I'm fine, hurry and go save them, they, they..."
Seeing the saviors, Tian Mengyao burst into tears.
"Secretary Tian, calm down first. Where are the people?"
Wu Lei saw that she was fine and his hanging heart finally relaxed.
As for the experts, professors, and students, what did they have to do with him?
As long as Tian Mengyao was alright, that was enough!
They had insisted on being reckless and entering the mountain alone, even though he had warned them.
"Lin Fan, you're a doctor. I beg you, hurry and save them!"
Tian Mengyao anxiously grabbed Lin Fan's hand.
"Okay."
Lin Fan looked in the direction Tian Mengyao had come from, confirmed that the incident had happened at the quarry, and said, "You go down the mountain first. I'll be fine alone."
He took a bottle of wound medicine and a roll of gauze from his medical kit and handed them to Tian Mengyao, saying, "Treat the wound yourself. It's not a big problem."
Tian Mengyao took the medicine and gauze, sobbing, "Professor Fu's students seem to have been poisoned. You go and give them first aid, and I'll go out to call for a rescue team."
"Don't!" Lin Fan's face changed drastically. "Don't call any rescue team, and don't call the police!"