Under the tree, a silver-gray tundra wolf.

Ye Wang "snapped" the door shut, blocking out Jincheng Wang and his ghostly cries.

Then he walked out onto the terrace and stood in the night air to cool down his excitement, otherwise Ye Wang was afraid he wouldn't be able to resist going straight to Wu Lin right now.

Take a deep breath of cold air and stretch through your body.

Ye Wang, that's the reply: Yes, when do you want to go?

Wu Lin's reply in seconds, obviously holding the phone after sending, also excited: the day after tomorrow? My brother-in-law said that we can decide, but I'm afraid that if we delay any longer, school will start.

Ye Wang raises an eyebrow, taps: You're not doing anything tomorrow?

Wu Lin: No.

Ye Wang nodded in satisfaction, and made a final decision: tomorrow then.

Wu Lin: ......

Ye Wang ：[Up the mountain not active, head problem.jpg]

Wu Lin : Do you have software that generates emoticons with one click!

On the day we went to Changbai Mountain, the meeting point was at the intersection of the street where Li Zhao café is located. Because of the long drive, the meeting time was set at 6:30am in order to enter the mountain before dark.

Wu Lin arrived at 6:20, before the winter sun came up.

Ye Wang had arrived first, leaning against the streetlight, the dim light hitting his face, tracing the crest of his brow, the bridge of his nose, and the line of his jaw, creating one of the most dominant and handsome silhouettes in the darkness of the night.

He wore a blue-gray jacket today, simple in style and muted in color, and carried a duffel bag in order to carry his stuff up the mountain.

Wu Lin saw Ye Wang carrying a shoulder bag for the first time, and with this kind of equipment that comes with the attribute of "good behavior in school", he finally felt that the other person was his classmate, otherwise he used to look at Ye Wang and always felt like a social loafing youth who had snuck into their school. Otherwise, when he used to look at Ye Wang, he always felt like a social youth had sneaked into their school.

"You're too early." Wu Lin came under the streetlight.

"Is it early," Ye Wang pulled his cell phone out of his pocket to check the time, "It's twenty past six."

Wu Lin looked at him seriously and said, "Classmate, do you know that you look particularly anxious right now?"

Ye Wang was certainly in a hurry, and if he could have, he would have been ready to go as soon as he received that message from Wu Lin.

"You don't want to see your brother-in-law soon?"

"I want to," Wu Lin exhales a long white breath, "but I'm afraid that seeing it will really open the door to a new world."

He was genuinely afraid to confirm from Qiran Tao that every Awakened had to be bestialized sooner or later.

Wu Lin feels that he is not ready for the world to be turned upside down.

Ye Wang took one look at his thoughtfulness and wanted to take the SUV for another twenty laps, "When are you going to think of something useful?"

Wu Lin lifted his chin, "How is it not working?"

Ye Wang lowers his head and comes closer to him, "Is this thing something you can't open if you don't want to? The doorway is open now, and if you don't get in, you're going to stay stuck on the door, and I'm not going to be there for you."

"......" Wu Lin can't see himself at all in Ye Wang's eyes, only the light of anticipation for the future.

This son of a bitch who sees the beast and forgets his friends!

Ye Wang frowns, "Is it not cursing me in your mind?"

Wu Lin's innocent eyes blinked, "No."

Ye Wang stared at him skeptically for a moment, but there was nothing broken, nodded and reached out to touch his head, "Put your heart in your stomach, you just really turned into a wolf, I'll still take you for a ride."

"Come on," Wu Lin rolled his eyes, going along with the bullshit and purposely picking a fight, "How are you going to hold the steering wheel when you've turned into a tiger's paw?"

Ye Wang : "Now there's autopilot."

Wu Lin : "...... you really actually considered it?!"

Crazy.

Ye Wang went crazy first, and then he was driven crazy by Ye Wang - Wu Lin seems to have seen his own miserable future.

"Drip-"

A short car honk suddenly sounded beside him.

The two men turned their heads in unison.

A black pickup truck with a double cab pulls up to the curb and Li Zhao gets out.

"Brother Li Zhao." Wu Lin greeted while looking into the car, not seeing a second person, "Where's my brother-in-law?"

"He's already on the mountain, I'll come back and get you." Li Zhao said as he went around to the back of the car and checked again the large and small cardboard boxes that were stacked in the roofless cargo box to make sure they were bundled up so they wouldn't move or fall off with the inertia of the traveling car.

"Is this to be taken to the mountains?" Wu Lin asked.

"One last bit of stuff," Li Zhao pats the box and laughs a little, "this is really moving home to the mountains."

Wu Lin remembers the coffee shop he sold.

"Brother Li Zhao, are you going to live in the mountains with my brother-in-law all the time?" Qiran Tao loves the mountains, Wu Lin knows that, but he also knows that Li Zhao and his brother-in-law are different, just a down-to-earth person who lives a practical life, without the distinctive spiritual pursuit of an artist.

"Uh-huh." Li Zhao answered simply, as simply as he'd agreed to a weekend.

Wu Lin suddenly thought of a possibility, "Could you also ......"

"No." Li Zhao knew what he was going to say and regretfully denied it, "I'm still simply wildly awakened."

Since Li Zhao can't be as animalistic as his brother-in-law, "So my brother-in-law asked you to keep him company?"

"I had to accompany him." Li Zhao opened the back door and said to the two students, "Get in."

Ye Wang and Wu Lin were welcomed into the back row.

Li Zhao closed the door and smiled at Wu Lin, who was still a bit confused, through the lowered car window, "Are you comfortable letting your brother-in-law stay alone in the mountains?"

Wu Lin subconsciously shook his head.

Li Zhao's eye brows, that rare gentle stretch in a smile, were steady and reliable: "I'm not comfortable with that either."

The pickup truck started up and merged into the street, the end of the day just glowing a shade of white.

Wu Lin knew that Qiran Tao and Li Zhao had a strong relationship, but he didn't expect it to be as strong as this. Although the future is unpredictable, and perhaps Brother-in-law will regret staying in the mountains for a while, at least in the present, Li Zhao has made a promise that will turn his life upside down. If Qiran Tao had stayed in the mountains, it is possible that Li Zhao would have been hooked up for the rest of his life.

Wu Lin had only seen such a friendship in books.

Lian Po Xiang Ru, axe and neck; Angle mourning Bo Tao, life-sacrificing friendship; Liu Bei Guan Yu Zhang Fei, life and death friendship ......

"What's on your mind?" Ye Wang realized that Wu Lin had been in a trance since he got in the car.

Wu Lin returned to his senses, glanced at the front, Li Zhao is concentrating on driving, and only then looked back at Ye Wang, in the noise of the pickup truck bumps, whispered emotionally: "I just suddenly feel that, in my life to have a friend like Li Zhao brother, it's enough enough."

What the hell is this?

Ye Wang looked at Li Zhao's face, which had regained its seriousness, in the inside view mirror, and took a rare logical inventory of the conversation before he got into the car, and came to a bit of an epiphany.

Ch.

"I'll keep you company." And that's worth a little emotion?

Wu Lin didn't get the point: "What?"

Ye Wang took him by the shoulders and said with real affection, "If you live in the mountains, I'll stay with you."

Wu Lin turned his head with difficulty in the strong arms of the northeast tiger and looked at him, "I don't really have a need for that, thank you."

Ye Wang doesn't give up and follows the advice, "You can have it."

Wu Lin, word for word: "I really didn't."

Ye Wang's brow locked in silence.

Wu Lin swore he saw disappointment in the other man's eyes.

...... Who in the world would want to live on a mountain between the two of them?

The pickup pulled out of town and onto the highway.

The scenery on both sides became monotonous, just tree after tree, still all bare without a single leaf.

Nocturnal instincts finally overshadowed excitement slightly, and a wolf and a tiger yawned shoulder to shoulder.

Li Zhao looked back from the inside view mirror and said, "It's about a seven-hour drive, so you two should get some sleep first."

Wu Lin : "It's okay, we're not sleepy."

Ye Wang: "Spiritually."

Fifteen minutes later, the speeding pickup truck came to a stretch of road with lots of traffic and had to slow down.

The two men in the back fell over as they braked, and it didn't affect their long breaths, or their sweet dreams.

Wu Lin and Ye Wang slept all the way to the service area of the highway, took a short break with Li Zhao, ate something, and then continued on their way.

The pickup finally left the highway at 2:00 p.m. and drove into the mountains.

After sleeping for most of the day, Wu Lin and Ye Wang were completely refreshed.

The view out the car window had quietly changed, and the feeling of winter intensified as the road wound up the mountain.

The snow in Shenyang has melted, but in the colder Jilin, it's still a snow-covered world in such mountains.

Before that, Wu Lin's impression of Changbai Mountain was of Tianchi. Climbing to the top of the mountain, you can see the blue waves of the Tianchi, imagine the spectacular eruption of the crater, and marvel at the ingenious work of nature.

It was yesterday that I really got to know Changbai Mountain, after realizing that my brother-in-law would be staying there.

Changbai Mountain is actually a mountainous region that stretches over two thousand kilometers, and in addition to the peaks, there is also a wider range of mountainous forests, which are home to extremely valuable primary forest ecosystems. The endless sea of forests and the diversity of flora and fauna are the greatest gifts of Changbai Mountain.

" Brother Li Zhao, how far is this place from Tianchi?" Wu Lin was suddenly curious.

Li Zhao asks, "Do you want to go to Tianchi?"

"That's not true." What Wu Lin was actually thinking was that if this place was close to the scenic spot, then it would actually be quite lively.

Li Zhao : "The road to Tianchi is in the other direction, we're not heading for the top of the mountain now, we're heading for the mountains."

Wu Lin: "......"

One word, a very different road ahead.

The top of the mountain is scenic, and the mountains, well, that's just deep woods.

Wu Lin silently looked out the window, the trees along the panhandle road had changed from bare broadleaf trees to red pines.

He remembers the information that Changbai Mountain is a broad-leaved forest at the foot of the mountain, and at an altitude of 1,000 meters, it is a mixed-leaved forest of red pines and larch.

Half an hour later.

It's nice to be completely turned into a coniferous forest, with the red pines replaced by spruce and fir, and the needle-like branches covered with thick snow, still trying to show a bit of pale green.

Coniferous forests are found at altitudes of 1,000 to 1,800 meters, and by the time you get above 2,000 meters, only lichens and mosses remain.

Wu Lin made a wish to the sunlight that shone on the mountains and forests, not to let him lose sight of the trees for a while.

The mountains are harsh enough at over a thousand meters above sea level, if you go further up ......

Brother-in-law, are you trying to cultivate immortality?

You're not allowed to become a sperm after the founding of the country!

Luckily, the pickup truck drove into a village while the trees were still visible, then passed through the village and continued deeper into the forest without turning up around the disk road.

But the surrounding area was also becoming more and more desolate, and no one was there anymore.

Gradually, there wasn't even a road anymore, and the pickup truck plowed through the forest, the sunlight getting fainter and fainter, all blocked out by the forest.

I don't know how long I drove, but an open field finally appeared ahead.

A few cabins were built there in bits and pieces, and a quick glance showed that they were the product of the last century, and it would be good to say that they were dilapidated and deserted; two of them even lost their roofs.

One of them, however, had obviously been repaired and probably extended and reinforced. The snow in front of the house was swept clean, and a modest yard was enclosed by a fence in a well-organized manner.

"This place was built together by the nearby villagers in order to get into the forest for hunting in order to have a place to stay and live temporarily," Li Zhao parked his car, "then it was deserted when hunting was not allowed."

Wu Lin: "There are villages nearby?" Except for the village at the beginning, he hadn't seen a single person behind him.

"There used to be," Li Zhao explained, "The nearest village now is the one we passed an hour ago."

Times are moving so fast, Wu Lin remembers reading that many villages have been deserted as the young population moves to the big cities.

Three people get out of the car.

Ye Wang searches, looking left and right.

Wu Lin knew what he was looking for and asked Li Zhao directly, "Where is brother-in-law? In the house?"

Li Zhao didn't say anything and looked up not far away.

Wu Lin and Ye Wang followed him.

There was a huge cedar there with a low-pressing canopy that almost came down to the ground.

Under the tree, a silver-gray tundra wolf.

Quiet, elegant, and handsome.

The 3:30 p.m. sun poured down through the pine branches, dappling and falling on its fur, glistening.