Three bus rides, totaling nearly four hours on the road.
Chen Shi'an and the three girls had set out a little after seven that morning. At last, before noon, they got off the bus and arrived at the Town near the Profound Peak Mountain Range.
"Oww~~ Taoist... I can't take it anymore... my butt's gone numb..."
Wen Zhixia had never spent so long on buses before. She looked like a wilted cabbage, draping herself over Chen Shi'an as soon as she got off, her hands on his shoulders and her little head pressed against his back, looking as though she needed help even to walk.
"×!"
Lin Meng Qiu shot her a speechless glare.
She was exhausted too. Although the trip into the Mountains last time had also been long, she had at least been riding in her dad's Mercedes. A bus couldn't compare to that level of comfort.
Especially on that last stretch of battered mountain highway, where the bus had rattled and swayed the whole way, nearly making her carsick enough to throw up...
"All right, we're in Town now. No more buses."
Chen Shi'an found it both exasperating and funny. He took a deep breath, breathing in the familiar scent from his memories, then looked into the distance. That towering, unbroken mountain range was already right before his eyes.
Of course, it only looked close. There were still more than ten kilometers between Town and the foot of the mountain, and no buses ran along that stretch. They would have to figure out another way back.
Had he been alone, Chen Shi'an would simply have walked, but the three girls clearly couldn't manage that.
Li Wanyin was tired too, but compared with Zhizhi and Meng Qiu, she seemed more accustomed to it. After all, every trip home