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Their commotion was quite loud, and the group of people all turned around and quickly recognized Qile Moge.

Someone greeted Qile Moge turned back to continue the argument.

Shi Wen them arguing and learned that they had found the sheep, but the flock had run up the mountain and couldn't get down at all.

Shi Wen asked, someone pointed out, "It's over there, do you see it? That patch of white in the dense forest."

As he spoke, the man drew a circle on the mountain with the beam of his flashlight.

Shi Wen spotted it immediately; there were indeed flocks of sheep on the mountain.

Qile Moge and the others stared wide-eyed. "Where? We can't see it!"

The man shone his flashlight again. "There it is, see the white fur?"

Qile Moge companions looked left and right until the flock of sheep was startled by the flickering lightning and began to move restlessly, at which point they realized there was indeed a flock of sheep there.

"What a huge flock of sheep!" someone exclaimed. "There must be at least two or three hundred sheep mixed together!"

Shi Wen: "Around two hundred."

"Such a large flock of sheep, they probably don't all come from the same family, right? How did they end up together?"

Shi Wen nodded. "They're not from the same company."

After watching for a while, Shi Wen turned to Qile Moge and said, "I saw your sheep."

Qile Moge exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"

Shi Wen nodded. "Aren't some of the sheep inside ones the ones I went to buy with you back then?"

Qile Moge: "Yes! But after all this time, can you still recognize me?"

Shi Wen, "Yes. Sheep change less than humans. What they look like when they're young is pretty much the same when they grow up. I can tell at a glance."

Those around them found it hard to believe. Sheep naturally look alike; how could anyone recognize an adult sheep after only one meeting?

Some of the older herders opened their mouths to refute.

However, someone in the crowd recognized Shi Wen, knowing that he had a special talent for identifying livestock, and pulled his companion aside.

Having finally found the sheep, Qile Moge breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but say, "Now that we've found them, let's go herd them down."

A voice in the crowd said, "If we could get it down, would we need you to tell us? We would have gone up and brought it down already."

Qile Moge asked, puzzled, "Why can't we bring them down? Why not just bring them down from where they went?"

"That won't work," someone explained to them. "Look at this mountain; it's all cliffs here. The sheep might have been startled and rushed up when they went up, and then they wouldn't be able to come down."

When Qile Moge shone his flashlight on the mountainside, he indeed saw a series of hoof prints along the edge, as well as signs of slipping.

This cliff is almost vertical; it's truly remarkable that the Dolan Sheep, being sheep, can climb such a mountain.

Qile Moge was dumbfounded. "What do we do then?"

"We'll have to climb up another way and see where it's easiest to herd the sheep down."

Qile Moge: "Then let's hurry."

"It's so dark, are we crazy to go up the mountain like this? Let's wait until dawn. For now, let's stay here and keep watch."

No matter how important sheep are, they are not as important as human lives; what everyone is saying makes sense.

Shi Wen called out, "Let's all sit down and rest for a bit, have something to eat and some water, and then we'll think of a way to herd the sheep down."

Qile Moge nodded. "That's the only way."

Qile Moge spoke, "I can't believe we're so close, yet we still can't find the sheep. Are our sheep really inside?"

Shi Wen, "I can only confirm that some of your sheep are inside, but I'm not sure if they're all there."

While they were talking, another group of people came over. Hearing that the sheep were on the mountain, that group hurriedly wanted to go up the mountain to herd the sheep.

People around them said it was too dark to go up the mountain now, and that they should wait until it was light. But the group of people didn't listen and grabbed onto the grass and trees on the cliff, trying to climb up.

Unexpectedly, someone fell down after climbing only a few meters.

Fortunately, the fall wasn't serious.

The group couldn't climb down, so they had to give up the idea of climbing up to herd the sheep down.

After waiting for a while, some people couldn't sit still any longer and planned to take a detour up the mountain from a distance to drive the sheep down.

Shi Wen leaned against Yan Kexing, half asleep.

Yan Kexing gently cupped his head in his palm, letting him rest his head on his shoulder to sleep.

Shi Wen quickly fell asleep.

Perhaps because I was sitting outside and sleeping, Shi Wen couldn't sleep soundly and woke up around 5 a. m.

When he woke up, he was covered with Yan Kexing's clothes.

Yan Kexing hadn't slept. Seeing that he was awake, he shook his hand and handed him a bottle of mineral water.

Shi Wen took a sip of water and felt a little more awake.

He stood up and stretched for a moment.

Many people around me were fast asleep, either sitting or lying down, their snoring rising and falling like thunder.

He turned on his flashlight and looked up at the mountain.

The flock of sheep was still there, perhaps resting standing or lying down because they were tired.

Shi Wen, with his eyesight far exceeding that of ordinary people, judged that none of the sheep he had discovered yesterday were missing. For some reason, the people who took the detour up the mountain to herd the sheep had not yet arrived.

Shi Wen woke up, Qile Moge sidled up to him and whispered, "Should we also go around to the other side and climb the mountain?"

Yan Kexing: "If you want to take the more convenient main road, you might have to detour through Changwo County and go up the mountain."

"No way?" Qile Moge exclaimed incredulously, "Do we really have to go that far?"

Changwo County is right next to our neighbor; it takes several hours to drive there, not to mention that you have to hike up the mountain to get to the foot of it.

People who don't often go up mountains often have a misconception about mountains, thinking that mountains are easy to climb.

In reality, any mountain that is even slightly high is more difficult to climb than the last, especially those wild mountains without paths, which can even be life-threatening.

Qile Moge looked up reluctantly. "They're just halfway up the mountain, less than 300 meters away. Do we really need to go that far?"