Yilan's journey to another world

After the third day, the team prepares to return to base.

After packing their bags, everyone waved goodbye to the residents outside the town.

Aunt Susan was a little reluctant and cried in Uncle Cook's arms. Uncle Luke patted her shoulder comfortingly.

The team members rode motorcycles and drove away, and gradually the crowd seeing them off was no longer visible.

Yilan turned back, hugged Wayne's waist tightly, looked at the endless yellow sand in front of him, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After getting up this morning, Yilan walked to the wheat field again to check the condition of the wheat. There was no water being irrigated in the field now, and most of the straw had begun to turn yellow.

After Yi Lan checked it carefully, he still didn't find any obvious changes.

It would be a lie to say I'm not disappointed.

She couldn't help but sigh, straightened up, looked at the gray sky, and stared silently at the wheat fields in front of her for a while, then walked back to the town with heavy steps.

Wayne had already packed his luggage and was waiting for her. When he saw her coming back listlessly, he knew the result was not good.

He stepped forward to hug her and patted her shoulder comfortingly.

Yi Lan pressed his depressed forehead against Wayne's chest.

She feels very powerless now and doesn't know what she can do to improve her situation.

At noon, the team members hid their motorcycles so that they could wait for the mayor to bring someone to ride back.

In the afternoon, everyone put on the wind talisman and galloped all the way, and soon arrived at the bottom of the mountainous area.

Rested at the foot of the mountain for one night and set off again the next day.

When setting off, all the team members affixed breath-holding charms and wind-breathing charms, and walked silently all the way, finally passing through the high mountainous area at sunset.

With the help of the Wind Talisman, all the team members returned to the base within two days.

Wayne took Jerry and several other key members to report the situation, and the other team members were temporarily disbanded.

Yi Lan returned to his apartment.

Before she left, she set up a cleaning formation that could keep the house tidy for a month, using very few star cores.

Now it seems very wise, there is no need to clean up when I get home.

Yi Lan lamented: I am still a bit smart when it comes to laziness.

After coming back, Yi Lan entered the space and started practicing.

She knew that Wayne had a lot of things to do when he came back and could not find time to come see her for the time being.

Therefore, Yi Lan arranged to guide Henry in his practice in the morning these days.

In the afternoon, when I return to the apartment and enter the space, I start practicing my sword. When I feel tired, I meditate, then draw talismans, rotating back and forth.

I spent the whole night meditating without sleeping.

Until the third night when Wayne knocked on the door.

Yi Lan quickly opened his eyes from practicing and walked out of the space.

When he opened the door, he saw Wayne holding one hand on the door frame with a tired look on his face.

Seeing Yilan, Wayne finally regained some energy and walked into the house to pour himself a glass of water.

Yi Lan followed him and looked at him distressedly, "Wayne, have you finished drinking the spiritual spring water? You look so tired."

"There are many more. I have something to drink every day. Come here and let me hug you."

Wayne put down the water glass, opened his hands and said.

Yilan threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.

Wayne put his head on Yilan's shoulder and took a deep breath of Yilan's body fragrance.

Every time I smell Yilan's scent when I'm tired, I feel relaxed and happy.

"I've always wanted to ask you, what kind of perfume are you wearing? It smells very nice."

Yilan replied dazedly in his arms: "I don't wear perfume."

"Really? I thought you were wearing perfume. You smell good."

"Oh, maybe it was brought out from space."

"Yeah." Wayne hugged her and didn't ask any more questions.

When Wayne left, Yilan cooked him a lot of delicious food and filled the table.

Wayne couldn't help but hold his forehead and looked at her helplessly.

But seeing the happy look on her face as she cooked for him, he could only happily try his best to eliminate the delicious food.

Wayne still had a lot of things to do after dinner, so Yi Lan prepared a lot of food and drinks for him and put them in the cat's eye space for him to eat when he was tired and thirsty.

Under Yi Lan's glare, Wayne could only wave his hand and put the things into space.

Yilan reluctantly walked him to the door, and Wayne turned around, hugged her tightly, gave her a long, sweet French kiss, and then walked out of the room reluctantly.

Watching Wayne disappear out the door and looking around the empty apartment, she suddenly felt a little lonely.

Don't let yourself get too immersed in low mood.

After quickly tidying up the room, he entered the space and started practicing. The most important thing now is to improve his strength.

It was a week later that I saw Wayne again.

This time, Wayne looked worse than last time. His beard was unkempt, and his clothes looked like they hadn't been washed or changed for several days.

Yilan helped Wayne put him on the sofa and quickly poured him a glass of spiritual spring water.

Wayne looked much better after drinking water.

"Wayne, what happened? How did you get yourself into this state?" Yilan sat next to him and asked worriedly.

"Yilan, do you remember? When we were in Amanda Town, didn't Uncle Luke say that the base only had one year of food left?"

"Well, yes, when Uncle Luke said there was only one year's supply left, I was surprised? What's wrong?"

"It's worse than that."

"What! It's even worse!"

"Yes, in fact, there is only less than half a year's food left." Wayne said in a hoarse voice.

"Less than half a year's supply? Is this all there is left?" Yilan muttered unconsciously.

"Yes." Wayne lowered his eyebrows and stroked the back of Yilan's hand mechanically with his thumb.

"There is a worse thing. In the past few days, the institute has determined that the base will usher in winter in the near future. The specific date is not clear."

"Winter, how could it be? The weather is still so hot..." Before Yi Lan could finish his words, his words were cut off by the picture in his memory.

In my memory, the climate here is ever-changing. One moment it was spring breeze, and the next moment it might be cold winter.

The duration of each season is not fixed, sometimes it is two or three months, sometimes it is seven or eight months.

Winter is the most difficult season. Every time the cold winter comes, heavy snow can reach a height of 1 meter in one night.

Not to mention that it lasts for several months. If you are lucky, winter will only last for two or three months. If you are unlucky, winter will only last for two or three months.

Every winter some people freeze to death in the base, not because there is no food, but because there is no charcoal to burn.

In winter, the snow is tens of meters thick, making it difficult to mine coal. After the base's stock is used up, people can only live hard.

It's okay for super strong people, but it's difficult for some people with weak constitutions to survive the winter.

I can only pray that winter will pass quickly and summer will come as soon as possible.

Yilan sat next to Wayne's legs, and his hands hanging on the carpet began to pull out the hair unconsciously.

I was already very annoyed because of the lack of food reserves, and with the arrival of winter, this made it even worse.

Is this thief still alive?

"But fortunately, you discovered the star core. The research institute is studying the use of star cores to create heating equipment. Now we have some clues."

"Recently, the base has sent many people to hunt Yasha, hoping to get back as many star cores as possible."

“We just don’t know when winter will come, and whether there will be enough time left for us to store star cores.”

"We don't know how long this winter will last. All we can do now is prepare as many star cores as possible."

Yiyuan was happy when she heard that star cores could be used to create a heating machine, and then after hearing Wayne's next words, her enthusiasm was extinguished like a scoop of ice water.

The whole person fell into the ice cellar again.

"The top priority now is to solve the dietary problem, right?" Yi Lan raised his head and met Wayne's eyes.

"Yes, food is the immediate issue right now."

Wayne wanted to say something, but he pursed his dry thin lips and hesitated to say anything.

When Yilan saw Wayne's look, he knew that he had something to say to him, but he had some concerns and couldn't say it.

"Just tell me. If you tell me something, we will discuss it together. If you don't tell me, I won't know what you want. Don't you?"