Chapter 101

After returning this time, she went to attend the blind date her parents had arranged for her.

Everything should have gone smoothly, according to the plan Wang Yue had made for herself.

Until this unexpected incident happened before her eyes.

She never expected her tires to be punctured by an ambush.

Even more unexpected—

She had actually ended up on such an RV.

And the person beside her was a strange one.

A cold-blooded, terrifying creature with no emotions!

A person like him...

Must live pretty easily. After all, in his eyes, there is only himself.

Just look at that extreme manner of his earlier, flooring it and charging straight through.

Just look at the way he behaves—a person like him should, indeed, have no emotions.

He will never understand such things as feelings.

Fine, then.

Wang Yue smiled, sighed, and said, "Drive. Take me with you into this human forbidden zone."

The engine roared, and the RV rolled past the service station.

Ahead lay a stretch of grey, lifeless desolation.

Wang Yue rested her head against the window, her gaze blankly fixed on that lifeless expanse.

74. (5/7) It's fine, it's fine—as long as he doesn't get out of the car, nothing will go wrong (begging for monthly tickets and subscriptions)

【Hoh Xil, one of the four great no-man's-lands of the Eastern Nation】

【Just look up a movie about how terrifying Hoh Xil is, and you'll know.】

【I'll never forget the psychological shadow that movie left on me.】

【I never imagined that human life could be so fragile.】

【Under the heavens, on the boundless earth—two cracks of gunfire, and the protagonist was dead, not even a close-up given.】

【That is Hoh Xil—a no-man's-land, a place forbidden to human feet.】

In Brother Shiguang's livestream room.

The viewers were discussing everything about Hoh Xil.

And with the lessons of the previous two incidents.

Now, in Brother Shiguang's livestream room.

Not only were staff from the Earthquake Administration squatting there, but experts from the National Astronomical Observatory were squatting there as well.

And the result of word-of-mouth spreading was—

Because they knew that this time, the streamer was planning to enter Tibet.

Traveling into Tibet is, in itself, a perfectly normal thing.

But Professor Liu De, who led the Western University's Tibetan-area scientific expedition team, had just received a message from a friend at the Geological Bureau, asking him to keep an eye on a streamer called Brother Shiguang.

At the time, Professor Liu De laughed and said, "Old Li, how old are you, and you still watch livestreams?"

The voice on the other end of the line was also very serious. "Old Liu, listen to me—this streamer is no ordinary one. You over in the west may not be entirely clear on some things, but here in the east, in the academic circles of the universities in Jingcheng and Modu, every single day they are studying that streamer's previous broadcasts!"

Saying so, he briefly told Liu De about the previous incidents.

Liu De was only half-convinced.

Since it wasn't his own field, he couldn't grasp the Yan Zhongxing of the matter.

But since his friend had put it that way, he couldn't just brush it off.

So, he agreed to it.

And afterward, he handed this task off to a female graduate student he was supervising.

That female graduate student didn't really take it seriously either—she just treated it as a task assigned by her supervisor, and would tune into Brother Shiguang's livestream room at set times every day; beyond that, she went on with her own work.

And today, she discovered that the streamer called Brother Shiguang was preparing to enter Hoh Xil.

She informed Supervisor Liu De of this matter the very first moment.

The supervisor pondered for a moment, and asked how many people.

The female graduate student said the streamer, plus another random woman passerby.

Just the two of them.

It happened that Professor Liu De's expedition team was also preparing to enter Tibet this season.

It was late autumn.

Before winter set in, the changes in the permafrost layer needed to be monitored and studied.

Once everything was ready, the expedition team set off.

"Maybe we'll run into that streamer. If we really do, we can have a chat together." Professor Liu De laughed, then said to the female graduate student, "Xiao Hu, your task from here on is still to keep that livestream room open. Report anything that comes up."

Hu Ya nodded in assent.

National Highway 109.

It runs east to west across the entire Eastern Nation.

Over 3,300 kilometers in total length.

The elevation difference, from its highest point to its lowest, reaches 5,000 meters.

Passing through Jingcheng, cutting through the scenery of several provinces, entering the Jin-Meng gorges, skirting the foot of the Yin Mountains, then crossing deserts and grottoes, reaching the Jiangnan beyond the frontier, and after joining the eastern foothills of Mount Kunlun, comes the famous "Qingzang Line."

And this route, once it enters Tibet.

Past Ge'er City, the Tongtian River, Tanggula, and then on... in the end, it leads to the holy city of Lhasa.

And along the way, once you pass the mouth of Mount Kunlun, you step into what is known as the world's third pole:

Hoh Xil.

Hoh Xil is a paradise for animals.

But it is a forbidden zone for humans.

In this place, humans simply cannot survive.

Altitude sickness and oxygen deprivation are only secondary concerns.

The main issues are the climate and the various dangers that can strike at any moment.

Extremely fickle weather.

A geological environment brimming with peril.

And, terrifying carnivores.

Ning Chen's RV.

Speeding forward along the highway.

He had no intention of stopping on this road.

Originally, he was just traveling along one side of Hoh Xil.

Barring any mishaps, five hundred kilometers could be covered in six hours.

His destination.

Was Namtso.

Not this place.

The Miss beside him called Wang Yue was very quiet at this moment.

It was hard to tell whether she was nervous or simply calm.

Nor could one tell whether that sense of tension came from this uninhabited wilderness, or from the man sitting beside her.

That said.

A girl out on the road should know how to protect herself.

Take, for example, this woman called Wang Yue.

When she met an RV willing to help along the way, she just hopped on.

That really does take some nerve.

And now, she has actually chosen to follow Did Ning Chen into Hoh Xil.

That takes even more nerve.

But Wang Yue wasn't entirely without sense.