Cosset You Forever

Chapter 471 There Were Also Some Burning Marks

Joey was amused when he looked at Lola, and asked her, "Mrs. Si, how much did you miss me?"

When he heard this, Harry became even more angrier. Lola eventually calmed down and said, "I've missed the food, but not you."

After hearing this, Harry's expression gradually changed and he looked much better.

After this, they carried down all the supplies they needed from the cars behind.

Joey explained to Harry the reason for his two, actually three days, delay.

They had launched a helicopter and were headed towards them the moment they had received Harry's first distress signal.

But halfway on their way they had encountered a large area of glacier and their signal was suddenly jammed.

They couldn't advance any forward and had to retreat. After that, they drove forward along the road. On their way here, they saw Jordan's car.

No one was in it, but they noticed that the car had been pierced by some bullets.

And there was a pile of bones on the other side of the car.

When Harry remembered the wild wolves, he thought that the dead men's bodies had been eaten by them.

"Did you see anyone on the road here?" Jordan asked this with confusion twirling in his eyes.

Joey shook his head, and said, "It was quiet all the way up here. Even when we camped in the glacier at night, we didn't see anyone except us."

This was odd. Were there other roads here?

Knowing what will probably happen, Harry thought that it wouldn't be wise to relax on his vigilance yet, because the real boss was yet to come. He believed that he was right, and was also sure of who the boss was!

"There is no signal here; I will leave ten people to protect you." This time, Joey had asked the international police team for help, and each team member was good in all aspects.

They had also transported sufficient supplies here. At last, Joey said to Harry, "I won't go back this time, I will stay with you." He was still loathing the life in Mando Bay.

He would rather go through the pains and hardships of wilderness than to return to that accursed place, where he could, actually, live an extravagant life.

Harry looked at him and just patted him on the shoulder, not uttering a single word.

The next day, all the people were divided into two groups. Some of them got inside the two cars and drove back.

The rest of them got in five cars and continued to move forward, even though they knew that it would be very difficult for them to advance on the road ahead. No one had the intention of giving up.

They persevered not for the inconceivable treasure, but because of faith, and for a new ordeal to overcome.

Lola sat in the car, eating a fresh pear. She was listening to Harry, Jordan and Joey discussing their plan.

In fact, she had a lot of doubts about Joey. But, she thought that she shouldn't ask any more questions because Harry was there and she didn't want him to be jealous on Joey anymore.

After the cars drove on the glacier for a day and a night, they finally saw the land they were seeking.

What Harry had guessed was correct, and it seemed they had reached the endless land after they passed the glacier. It was an endless, barren place.

Only when they looked through the telescope could they see the hills waiting far away from them. After they saw this, they took out some empty barrels and filled them with a lot of ice water. After that, they continued to move forward towards their cause.

It was very inconvenient to urinate or worse just like that, on the land. So Harry asked people to set up two temporary toilets on two spots far apart from each other.

After driving for a day on the land, they found that there was a kind of plant slowly getting in their way.

They all got out of the cars and saw that there was a large area of red plants in front of them. The plants had big thorns on them, and they weren't sure whether the car tyres would be punctured if they drove through them, or not.

"Did we go the wrong way?" asked Lola. She looked at the barren land and was surprised to see the red plants.

Harry shook his head, and believed that they would reached their destination if they kept on moving forward in this direction.

He asked two people to drive the cars forward and check what was happening on the right and left sides.

After about half an hour, the two men came back.

"Mr. Si, there is a road about ten kilometers away from here," said one of them.

There was another road? Harry, Joey and Jordan looked at each other.

"Is it natural, or man-made?" asked Jordan.

If it was man-made, that would be bad news for them.

"It should be man-made because I saw the cutting marks. There were also some burnt marks."

When they heard him, they all fell lost in thought.

It seemed that their enemy had already headed towards the destination overnight on another road. And the other road was shorter than theirs.

They had to increase their speed if they wanted to catch up with them.

After they drove another several hundred kilometers along the man-made road overnight, they finally passed the red plants.

They then filled their cars with gas, and after taking a break for a while, they continued to move forward.

But not that far away on the road, they saw many animal carcasses lying on the ground.

When the cars stopped, Lola was shocked to see the dead Antarctic wolves dead on the ground.

There were about more than ten wolves in grey and white pelts. There were some wounds on their bodies, indicating that they were shot dead. After Lola carefully looked at the wolves, she felt a little more relieved, because the wolves that she saw before weren't there.

Beside the dead Antarctic wolves, there were also some pieces of shredded clothing and the bloodstains on the ground.

The bloodstains were all dried up, but they couldn't tell whether the blood had come from a human or from a wolf.

However, judging by the age of the bloodstains on the ground, they speculated that the people that were ahead of them had been here several hours ago.

A little dead wolf was shot in the head, and someone had mercilessly pulled out its little wolf teeth from its mouth.

This scene made everyone feel uncomfortable and grieved.

Who on earth were their opponents? Why were they so merciless? Why did they had to kill a little wolf?

It is said that the wild wolf is now an endangered species, but they didn't protect them, on the contrary, they actually killed them... This group of people deserved to die and no one on Earth would feel sorry for them.

After she got back in the car, Lola was in a bad mood. She was praying that the wolves that had stayed with her in the cave would still be alive.

Harry already knew of what she was probably thinking, but he didn't utter a single word and just held her tight in his arms.

On the eighth day they had already passed through the glacier, but they were still moving forward on the land. Harry held the telescope in his hand and checked all surroundings. He found that there was still nothing there.

He then returned to the car and took out the map and the location instrument. After carefully looking at the map, he learned that they now had to go southeast.

But the location instrument didn't show any information, so they had to keep on going straight ahead.

They then drove for several hours again. It was now afternoon, and they were still on the endless strip of land.

How large was the land? They had driven for two days, but they hadn't reached the end of the land yet.

Lola held the telescope in her arms and casually looked around through it. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

When she looked to the southeast, she saw something that seemed to look like a building.

She excitedly passed the telescope to Harry, and said, "Look! What's that in front of us?" It was likely that they had finally reached their destination! Yeah! Yeah!

Harry took the telescope and looked to the southeast, as Lola instructed him. "It is likely to be a building," he said. He didn't see too clearly what kind of building it really was.

But he was now sure that they had reached their destination.

They camped again. There was only the endless piece of land around them, and they didn't see any other creatures beside them.

Inside the tent

"What will be waiting ahead for us? How can we take the treasure away if there are a lot of gold jewelry?" asked Lola. She was nestled in Harry's arms and was touching the old pocket watch, imagining the final scene at the end of the barren land.