How should I describe Suo Tian as a person?
He’s extremely extreme—and by that, I don’t mean in the way he does things, but in the way he is as a person.
From what I’ve observed up to now, based on my understanding of him, he basically has only two states: fully energized or completely unconscious.
There is absolutely no in-between, no half-dead, sluggish state.
Just like right now—one second he was lying there with his eyes closed, deep in unconscious sleep, and the moment he opened his eyes, he immediately sat up from the ground.
He stared at me for quite a while without saying a single word.
I had been dozing off, but his sudden movement jolted me back to my senses.
When I realized Suo Tian had woken up, I felt a surge of joy and looked up at him—only to freeze completely when I met his gaze…
Suo Tian was still staring at me, completely motionless, observing me very closely.
This was rare—normally, he would just sweep his eyes over me from head to toe in a quick glance.
His brows knitted slightly, and after a long moment, he finally asked, “Who are you?”
The moment I heard that, it was like a bolt of lightning exploded right above my head.
I stared at the frowning Suo Tian in front of me, utterly dumbfounded, my mind going completely blank.
What the hell? What’s going on?
Seeing that I wasn’t responding, Suo Tian asked again, “I’m talking to you. Who are you?”
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of the bump on his forehead—almost gone now—and my mouth twitched violently.
Did he seriously lose his memory?
The muscles in my face spasmed for a long moment before I managed to control them.
I looked at Suo Tian again and tentatively asked, “You… don’t know who I am?”
“Mm.” Suo Tian nodded and continued staring straight at me.
I took two deep breaths, then shakily lifted my hand and pointed around us.
“Then… do you remember who you are? Do you remember how you got here?”
My mind was a complete chaotic mess at this point.
What on earth was going on?
This ridiculously cliché situation—what was it supposed to mean?
Suo Tian actually lost his memory! He actually lost his memory!?
Hearing my question, Suo Tian turned his head and looked around, then turned back and answered, “I don’t remember.”
“Ahhh damn it!!!!”
I immediately grabbed my head with both hands in despair.
After groaning skyward for a couple of seconds, I snapped back and looked at Suo Tian again, still unwilling to accept it.
“Try again! Think—can you remember anything? Do you at least remember your own name?”
Maybe my expression looked a little too ferocious, because Suo Tian just stared at me blankly, his face as expressionless as ever.
I leaned forward, practically pressing my entire face up against his, forcing him to think.
Suo Tian met my eyes for a few seconds, and then—right before my eyes—the corners of his mouth began to curl upward, the smile reaching his eyes, and the next second he burst out laughing.
His sudden expression stunned me.
I blinked at him, confused, before asking, “What are you laughing at?”
Suo Tian leaned back a little, swept his eyes over me, and said with a grin, “You’re really dumb.”
I froze again for a moment before it hit me—
Damn! He tricked me!
My expression immediately twisted into rage.
“I took care of you all night, and the first thing you do in the morning is mess with me!? You even pretended to have amnesia! Amnesia! Seriously? Where’d you learn that? Watching too many Korean dramas?”
Suo Tian chuckled and turned away to dodge my furious glare.
Then, as if unintentionally, his eyes swept across the surroundings.
Noticing the three walker corpses not far away on the ground, his smile faded slightly, and he gave the river a thoughtful look.
Seeing his expression calm down, my irritation also subsided.
After all, Suo Tian is naturally pale—his complexion never matches the lethal capability he possesses.
And now, after losing so much blood, his face was even paler, almost ghost-white.
After a pause, I hesitantly asked Suo Tian—who was still looking around—“The wound on your neck… was that from Rongrong biting you?”
Hearing this, Suo Tian withdrew his gaze, glanced at me, and replied with a soft “Mm,” before standing up from the ground.
The wound on his shoulder restricted the movement of his entire arm, giving him a rare sense of stiffness and awkwardness.
Suo Tian stood and walked to the riverside, looking in the direction of the cliff we had come from.
Then he turned back to me and said, “We can’t go back from here.”
I went to the river again, brought some water over, and set it on the fire to boil.
Hearing what he said, I asked, “Then what do we do? Should we try crossing the mountain from this side and go back that way?”
“That would waste too much time,” Suo Tian answered, turning and walking toward the mountain foot behind the rocky shore.
“Then… should we wait here for them to come find us?” I sat on the ground, waiting for the water to boil.
“They won’t come looking.”
“How is that possible?” I chuckled lightly. “They definitely will. Don’t worry.”
Suo Tian scanned the surroundings, then pointed at the mountain foot beside us.
“If we go from here, cross diagonally, it will take about a week to reach the nearest town.”
“No, no—why are you talking about this?” I stood up anxiously.
“They’ll come looking for us. We just have to wait, or we can go find them ourselves, right?”
Suo Tian glanced at me. “They won’t come looking. If they don’t, Shen Feng and the rest can’t reach this place.”
“Then we’ll just head back ourselves.”
“No one will be waiting for us.”
“Why? How is that possible? We just need to speed up the pace—before tomorrow we can—”
I was rambling in panic when Suo Tian interrupted me: “It’s the rule.”
“Rule?” I stared at him blankly. “What rule?”
“The main unit’s rule. Once the team scatters, no one will come looking for you. If you want to survive, you have to find the team yourself. They will wait at the target location for seventy-two hours. After that, they leave.”
“So… you mean the two of us have to walk out of these deep mountains on our own?”
Honestly, I thought the rule he described was completely absurd.
A team scatters, and everyone has to find their way back alone?
If Suo Tian had followed me down but got separated in the water, then would that mean he’d just drown in the river and no one would care?
My mind suddenly flashed back to what he’d said back in the village—that the black-clad men would wait for us at the shelter ahead.
Back then, I really thought it was simply because they wanted to wait for us.
I never imagined that if we didn’t reach them within seventy-two hours, they would just leave on their own.
After drinking some water and eating the last few biscuits in my backpack, Suo Tian and I stepped into the dense forest.
According to Suo Tian’s earlier estimate, it would take the black-clad men and Shen Feng’s group four to five days to make it out.
Since we had deviated from the original path, even at the slowest pace, it would take us at least a week.
The forest was extremely hot and humid.
I was worried about the wound on Suo Tian’s shoulder, but he himself didn’t care at all.
Aside from his arm still being stiff and hard to move, you wouldn’t be able to tell he was injured at all.
Even so, I could still see that his face remained pale—pale like paper.
By afternoon, we had eaten all the biscuits, and the pot of water we’d brought was almost finished as well.
The moment our food ran out, panic rushed up in me uncontrollably.
By evening, we found a slab of rock jutting outward—not too big, not too small—just enough to serve as a roof-like shelter for the two of us.
On both sides of the rock were drops of about three meters, and on the remaining side, Suo Tian piled some shrubs there to block the only passage, in case any walkers came through while we were sleeping.
The tension in my heart, along with my worry about Suo Tian’s injury, kept me awake long after the sky had turned completely dark.
Suo Tian was leaning against the rock.
It was too dark to tell if his eyes were open.
After thinking for a moment, I lowered my voice and whispered, “You sleep for a bit. I’ll keep watch.”
There was silence for a long while.
I listened carefully—his breathing was slow and even.
I couldn’t help but press my lips together in a small smile.
Turns out the kid had already been asleep this whole time.
But the smile on my lips faded quickly.
I shifted closer to Suo Tian’s side, leaning against him while I stared into the suffocating darkness.
Even though he acted like the injury hadn’t affected him, now it was clear that it actually had.
For all this time I’d known him, I had almost never seen him sleep so deeply.
Usually, even the slightest rustle would have him instantly awake.
Another nearly sleepless night passed.
At dawn, when Suo Tian finally woke up, I finally managed to grab a short moment to doze off.
But soon, we had to get up and continue moving.
We had no choice.
We had to reach the spot where the black-clad men would be waiting—within seventy-two hours of their arrival.
Not to mention anything else, but Suo Tian’s wound needed proper medical treatment.
And even once we reached the town, if his arm wasn’t healed, then even if we found a vehicle, neither of us would be able to drive.
By the third day of traveling through the forest with Suo Tian, I was almost completely out of it—dizzy, unfocused.
Severe hunger and extreme physical exhaustion made every step weak and unstable.
I could collapse at any moment.
Finally, around noon, a small stream appeared before us.
It was shallow and narrow, with stones lining the bottom.
While filling the kettle and boiling the water, I even noticed there were shrimp in it.
And shrimp meant clean water.
Shrimp were extremely picky—if a water source had shrimp, then the water quality definitely couldn’t be bad.
I washed my face in the stream, and while waiting for the water to boil, I thought about catching two shrimp to boil and eat.
But just then—when I assumed Suo Tian had walked off to relieve himself—he came back carrying something long and thin in his hand.
When I looked clearly, my scalp went numb.
“A s–snake… snake…”
— The end of the Chapter–
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