Chapter 162: The agitated monkeys
While "Ten Days in Purgatory" was underway, something neither particularly big nor small was also happening far away in Huaguo.
Within River Province, the picturesque White Cloud Mountain seemed even greener than before.
Apart from the rangers tending the woods and the staff patrolling the various mountain parks, the people best qualified to comment on this were the many hiking enthusiasts.
Lü Bing, for instance, was currently leading a group along a shortcut through White Cloud Mountain.
"Captain, the vegetation didn't seem this thick last time we came to the northern side, did it?"
Young Hu Deren, who was carrying a tent bag, looked at the surrounding vegetation, then up at the canopy that almost completely blocked out the sun, and asked in puzzlement.
"Isn't that a good thing? It keeps the sun off us. It's like a furnace out here. Only the mountains are a little cooler."
"It was still cold when we came last time. Maybe the plants hadn't fully grown out yet."
Mo Shaoge offered his guess, took a bottle of mineral water from his bag, and gulped down several mouthfuls.
"Cui Ying, want some water?"
Cui Ying looked at the bottle he had drunk from and chuckled, indicating that she had her own.
Mo Qingxue skipped over to Cui Ying, offered her some cookies from an open packet, and spoke loudly without the slightest concern for her brother's feelings.
"Don't mind that idiot. He's so desperate for a woman, I bet he'd even hit on a female monkey if we ran into one!"
Her words drew a burst of laughter from the group.
Their parents had wasted such elegant names on the siblings, whose personalities were each more irrepressible than the other's.
"But this summer really has been a bit too