Trembling At A High Altitude

"Haopeng, are you sure that if we keep running like this, we'll win?"

Another couple, soldier Guo Haopeng and his wife, were also in the same house as the other three couples.

They had been running on treadmills, maintaining a stride that hardly changed.

"Yes, if we're hungry, we'll switch to eating. After eating, rest a while then continue running, we must come in first."

"If we save up 1000 points, can we really go home?" Mrs. Guo continued speaking while running.

"Yes, we must believe this. We need to work hard to save up points!" Guo Haopeng replied to Mrs. Guo.

"I'm so worried about Lele. He's only three! We just disappeared like this, I really don't know what terrible things could happen to him." Mrs. Guo's eyes reddened slightly.

"You talk to your parents every day. The day you don't call, they will definitely come to check on things and they'll take Lele away," Guo Haopeng said after a moment of silence.

"But sometimes I only call home every two or three days. And even if they don't receive my call, they might not think something happened to me." Mrs. Guo shook her head.

"They will, they will take Lele away," Guo Haopeng didn't know what else to say.

"There are sockets all over the house, and the hot water bottle, and the medicine I left on the table. Lele is so naughty, without me watching him, he could do anything. If my parents don't notice anything unusual, he will just keep being hungry, it's too horrifying!" Mrs. Guo began to cry as she spoke.

"What's the use of crying? Working hard to save up points and rushing back is the most important thing!" Guo Haopeng yelled at Mrs. Guo.

"It's all your fault! I usually sleep with Lele, but it was you who asked me to sleep with you that day, and then something like this happened! It's all your fault!" Mrs. Guo continued crying.

"Is blaming me useful? Can blaming me bring us back? Why not focus on getting our current tasks done well? Can always regretting past things solve any problems?" Guo Haopeng raised his voice.

"You just know how to yell at me! Can yelling solve the problem?"

"You..."

"What about me?"

"Enough! Stop fighting! Keep running! If you want to see Lele sooner, if you want our family to reunite sooner, there's no other way, just run!"

...

Several hours later.

Li Teng woke up.

After waking up, he noticed something was off.

He quickly realized what it was.

It was his thigh.

The bite wound.

Incredibly...

It had healed!

There was no inflammation, no festering, the muscle and skin had fused back together, only the black stitching thread remaining on it.

"You're awake?" Liu Yin, who had been dozing off by the bedside, also woke up.

"Hmm, get me some scissors," Li Teng said to Liu Yin.

Liu Yin noticed Li Teng inspecting his thigh wound and quickly turned her head away.

It wasn't because she was afraid of seeing something inappropriate, but because she feared seeing the gruesome wound.

Liu Yin found the scissors, walked over, and handed them to Li Teng while standing to the side.

"It's not that horrible, the wound has healed," Li Teng said to Liu Yin and then began cutting the stitching thread, pulling them out strand by strand from the muscle.

"Healed? Impossible," Liu Yin thought Li Teng was joking.

"It's true, this place is very strange, it might have to do with the setting of the movie scene. Sleeping heals injuries, such a severe injury healed after just one sleep," Li Teng continued pulling at the black threads.

Liu Yin turned to see Li Teng pulling black threads from his muscle, her legs ached, and she quickly turned away again.

This man was truly made of iron! He feared no pain.

He was on par with her father.

While removing the threads, Li Teng glanced at the wall.

He then noticed a problem.

That 30-day countdown had changed again.

Still in a stagnant state, yet the 40 minutes just added back.

It became a full 30 days again.

Everything had returned to square one.

What did this mean?

Did it have anything to do with sleeping with him?

What was the previous reduction of 40 minutes related to?

After disconnecting the wires, Li Teng immediately went to the treadmill room and started running on the treadmill.

While paying attention to the number behind "male," Li Teng also kept an eye on the changes in the 30-day countdown.

It was necessary to understand what the changes in the 30-day countdown were related to.

The 60-day countdown was consistently decreasing at a steady pace, but the 30-day countdown was jumping irregularly.

It seemed that the 60-day countdown had nothing to do with the Prison Break, but the 30-day countdown was very likely directly related to the success of the Prison Break.

The difficulty of the 30-day countdown seemed great; not only did it count up, but it also counted back, reversing the numbers.

It was very likely that the end of the 30-day countdown meant the success of the Prison Break.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Liu Yin followed and asked Li Teng.

"The wounds have healed, why would it hurt?" Li Teng was somewhat puzzled by Liu Yin's question.

"Pulling out the stitches drew so much blood, so many wounds." Liu Yin found the mere thought painful.

"Can that even be considered wounds?" Li Teng scoffed.

"You really are no ordinary person," Liu Yin sighed and got on the treadmill to start running as well.

If she didn't run, wouldn't she have to rely on Li Teng for meals? That would be embarrassing for her.

Half an hour passed.

An hour passed.

Liu Yin, panting, sat aside to rest.

Li Teng was still running.

Li Teng could now confirm that the 30-day countdown had nothing to do with his running.

Running could only increase the number behind "male," but it could not reduce the time on the 30-day countdown.

Two hours later, Li Teng stopped.

The two of them had earned a total of 1500 Time Indexes, equivalent to fifteen dollars.

They could afford some nice food now.

"What do you want to eat?" Li Teng asked Liu Yin, tapping the menu on the refrigerator door.

"Anything is fine," Liu Yin said, feeling embarrassed to choose since she had only contributed a small part of the Time Indexes.

Besides, fifteen dollars couldn't buy much.

Li Teng bought a bag of salt, four chicken drumsticks, and a can of beer.

After boiling the chicken drumsticks in salt water, Li Teng gave two to Liu Yin, then ate and drank beer himself.

Wow! Truly blissful like a deity.

"Eat more, you earned it," Liu Yin ate one and put the other back on Li Teng's plate.

"Don't say that, didn't I drink an extra can of beer?" Li Teng gave it back to Liu Yin.

"I can't eat anymore," Liu Yin gave it back to Li Teng.

"Stop pushing it back and forth, I just ate a lot of pancakes, and you didn't," Li Teng gave it back to Liu Yin.

With no other choice, Liu Yin had to eat it.

"Oh no!" While eating the chicken drumstick and drinking beer, Li Teng suddenly remembered something, and quickly got up and rushed to the living room.

"What happened?" Startled, Liu Yin also hurriedly followed.