Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 375 - 274 Yi Yan Yi Xing_1

"You go back and rest first, and then think about it some more," said Captain Wen.

"Okay, I’ll come back tomorrow."

Feng Yi left the application form with Captain Wen, planning to come back the next day for it.

Before Feng Yi left, Captain Wen stopped him again, "There’s still some time before the sun sets, if you don’t want to rest in the dormitory, you can go out for a walk. Just outside, take that road and walk around it."

As he spoke, Captain Wen pointed in a certain direction.

"Alright."

Feng Yi left Captain Wen’s residence, walked out of the monitoring station, and looked around.

The direction Captain Wen had indicated indeed had a path.

Feng Yi followed this narrow path forward, and on his mobile map, the path led to a nearby larger scenic area.

Continuing forward, where the path connected to the scenic area, there was a wall. This place was perennially plastered with missing person notices.

Every year, people would get lost in the mountains, some went for adventure, others just out of curiosity to have a look and ended up getting into trouble.

Once inside the mountain, maybe they would get lost and be unable to find their way out, or they might encounter other accidents, anyway, they would lose contact after entering.

Feng Yi looked at the missing person notices on the wall.

Some of those who went missing in the mountains were inexperienced outdoorsmen who rushed headlong into the wilderness and eventually got trapped in deep mountains.

There were also many experienced hikers, who went in and never came out.

This sprawling mountain range was like this, attempting to swallow every intruder.

Like Captain Wen’s patrol team, every time they had to enter deep into the mountains, they would prepare thoroughly in advance, devise various plans, equip themselves well before starting their mission.

Seeing this wall, Feng Yi understood what Captain Wen meant by asking him to walk around the area.

He wanted him to face these realities, to think calmly.

Feng Yi turned around, not going to the scenic area to wander but instead, followed the path back to the monitoring station. He thought for a moment, did not go back, and continued to move forward.

He followed the path, turned a corner, and walked a bit further. Not far away, he saw a cemetery.

There were gravestones here from decades ago to the past two years.

Buried here were researchers who had died for the forest, or volunteers.

Some time had passed since Qingming Festival, and weeds had begun to grow again.

Feng Yi cleaned each one by one.

Although people would tend to the cemetery periodically, the vegetation grew rapidly this season, and the wild grass had already blurred the contours under the gravestones.

After cleaning the entire cemetery, Feng Yi sat on a mound next to the graves, his gaze sweeping across the cemetery, looking towards the distant mountains stretching further away.

Feng Yi knew that Captain Wen wanted him to come here to be aware of the dangers in the forest. It wasn’t just wild animals; there were also trap-like terrains within the mountains that could easily result in getting lost or accidentally falling to one’s death if one wasn’t careful.

And the unpredictable weather in the mountains.

All of these posed dangers that were hard to guard against.

But Feng Yi wasn’t overestimating his abilities, nor did he want to make any sacrifice or go for a research mission.

Ultimately, it was a private matter he preferred not to disclose.

Captain Wen didn’t know Feng Yi’s true capabilities and didn’t agree immediately but gave Feng Yi more time to consider, for Feng Yi’s own good.

Feng Yi thought about going into the mountains.

Not far away, there were other people, some with filming equipment, shooting the surroundings for quite a while.

Feng Yi had been aware of their presence for some time but didn’t care.

He wasn’t doing anything illicit, and besides, he had changed all his clothes after arriving at the monitoring station today. What he was wearing now closely resembled the attire of other station staff, and if they didn’t look at his face, they wouldn’t recognize him.

Not far away, the person with the camera was part of a documentary crew, here to film the scenery.

They weren’t staying at the monitoring station but in a hotel at the foot of the mountain.

They had been filming all day on the mountain, intending to go back, but then remembered there was a cemetery here and hurried to check it out before the sun went down.

They didn’t expect to encounter someone tending to the graves.

At first, they thought it was one of the station’s staff since the person was wearing the station’s uniform, and the cemetery was indeed maintained by the station’s people.

In the beginning, they didn’t go over to disturb and just filmed from a distance.

By the time the other side had finished tending to the cemetery, it was getting dark. Colleagues urged them to descend the mountain, so they had to hold back for now since it really wasn’t a suitable time for an interview. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

They thought that in the next day or the day after, they would come back to shoot some more footage and hopefully interview the person who took care of the cemetery.

That could be good material.

The people at the monitoring station wouldn’t leave in the short term, so there was no rush.

Having made their decision, they took one more look at the person still sitting on the mound, staring at the distant mountains.

"Looking at the silhouette, that’s someone with a story."

"He looks quite young."

"That’s perfect, it shows his experience is out of the ordinary. He might have a deeply touching story with the mountains."

"The day after tomorrow then, tomorrow’s schedule is too tight, and the day after is the only time we have. We’ll come back here then. There aren’t many young people in the monitoring station, so it should be easy to identify him. We’ll just ask and find out."

"Yeah, let’s prepare an interview form when we get back."

Over there, Feng Yi returned to the monitoring station’s dormitory.

Coincidentally, someone from the station passed by, saw him covered in dust and grass clippings, and joked with a laugh:

"Where did you roll around to come back like this?"

"No, I just walked around the cemetery over there and weeded a bit," answered Feng Yi.

The station staff’s playful expression faded, their eyes filled with sincerity. They patted Feng Yi on the shoulder, said nothing more, just uttered, "Go on and wash up, have a good rest."