DF Chapter 107

Chapter 107: Hopefully it will work a little tonight.

“Going to Aliya Island?”

This was the suggestion Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an made when they came down from their rooms for hotpot.

The steaming hotpot permeated the table with fragrance. The hotpot broth was extremely authentic. Large slices of thinly sliced beef were placed inside, and after a slight boil, they were cooked through and curled up. The beautiful texture exuded a tempting spicy aroma.

The heating inside the house was very sufficient. A grill was set up in the fireplace, mostly with freshly grilled seafood, and there was a chef mixing the dipping sauce next to it.

A very old Norwegian film was playing on the screen in the hall, telling the story of a woman walking alone to her death in the Arctic Circle for ten days. Of course, the protagonist of the story ultimately turned away from death and gave up the idea of ​​suicide. It was a healing movie suitable for playing in this place. From the soundtrack to the plot, it was extremely good. This movie came from Dong Zhen’s recommendation. She has recently become very interested in Nordic movies.

It was rare for a group of people to get along harmoniously. With Ellie and Hilda, two people who were good at enlivening the atmosphere, there was basically no lull. Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an proposed the plan they had discussed upstairs amidst such a lively atmosphere.

Sheng Jia did not doubt whether Hilda could fulfill the agreement between the two. Since Hilda dared to make this big gamble, she must have enough confidence. And all she had to plan was how to get Hilda and Meng Yeran to cooperate, and that was on the premise that Hilda herself had this intention.

At this stage, she needed to provide them with a temporary step to shake hands and make peace, so as to lay the foundation for promoting the cooperation between the two.

Going out to sea for adventure was undoubtedly a good thing. It was thrilling and could quickly ease the relationship in an isolated and helpless situation. Anyway, Aliya Island, as the northernmost island of their archipelago, basically had no infrastructure, but it was not too far from the safe island. Helicopters could fly there for rescue within fifteen minutes, and there would be no safety problems. It was very suitable as an island for wilderness survival.

Of course, this also had Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an’s selfish motives. It was difficult for this group of people who had traveled all over the world to be moved by any attractions, but slightly thrilling and challenging things could stimulate their interest, especially Meng Yeran.

Sheng Jia knew Meng Yeran, this crazy person who had been suppressed for many years, too well. This kind of proposal could almost be said to hit her right in the heart.

The only one who might not want to go because of safety issues was probably Hilda, but she now had a request from Meng Yeran and could not give up the opportunity created by Sheng Jia.

After all, for the sake of her inner anger, she rarely uncalmly joined Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an to trick Meng Yeran. She felt happy, but her relationship with Meng Yeran undoubtedly deteriorated even more.

“The temperature on Aliya Island has risen a lot in the past ten years. Now it’s summer again. The temperature on the island is ten degrees Celsius during the day, and it may be lower at night, but it is located in the center of ocean currents, and it has also reached above minus ten degrees. Its main vegetation is larch and spruce, but because half of the island is in the Arctic Circle, the other half is tundra.” Sheng Jia put the information she had found on the living room screen and pointed to one end of the island and the other, “Two years ago, Aliya Island welcomed its first batch of guests, namely the local European Challenger Radio. With the theme of survival and courage, they carried out a week of wilderness survival on the island. At that time, the show had a very high rating, and everyone should have heard of it.”

Sheng Jia pulled up the information of the above-mentioned challengers, “They opened up the route from the south to the north of the island and took some pictures of it. To be honest, it’s very beautiful. This is a scenery that cannot be seen on other islands. There are no large beasts on the island, and even small animals are not many, so there is no possibility of being attacked. If we go to the island, the main things we need to overcome are the long distance and the temperature difference between day and night. Of course, because it is the polar day, the temperature at night will be higher than we think.”

“Later, the Song family sent people to mark this road and turn it into a hiking route. In the past few years, one or two more batches of challengers have come. I think we can be the third batch.”

All kinds of aerial photos of Aliya Island were being played on the screen, as beautiful as a fairy tale world, and everywhere showed the words “worth the trip”.

Of course, Sheng Jia’s preparations were more than that. She opened a personal profile, “Shen Qi, a Malaysian overseas Chinese, has been active in South America and Northern Europe in recent years. She is the first batch of challengers on Aliya Island. We can ask her to be our guide for three days.”

The woman on the screen had long hair that reached her waist, neatly tucked behind her ears, and her eyebrows and eyes were especially gentle and delicate. Her appearance did not seem to match her adventurous experience.

But her rich resume was enough to open everyone’s eyes.

Meng Yeran snapped her fingers, “What a cool sister.”

“Really cool,” Ellie also nodded.

She was the first to respond to Sheng Jia’s suggestion. After all, if she hadn’t come to the Aniers Islands with Sheng Jia and the others, she should have already embarked on a journey to adventure in northern Finland alone.

Dong Zhen, on the other hand, became the person who didn’t want to go the most. She had been staying at home for too long and had no desire to explore the outside world, but since Fu Minglang’s request to her was to follow Sheng Jia’s actions closely, she didn’t mind following the large group to walk on the ice field, after all, she didn’t need to be the protagonist this time.

This reminded her of the time five years ago when they went to Ansdert Island. There were so many young people like this, and even this time only Julia was absent.

It was just that Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an’s identities had not been made public at that time. Now, five years had passed, and both of them had changed a lot.

Dong Zhen subconsciously looked towards the two of them. She had dealt with Sheng Jia a lot in the past five years, so she was even more surprised by Song Ji’an’s changes.

At least at this moment, she could no longer see the vitality that she once had in Song Ji’an’s eyes.

That’s right, it was vitality.

She didn’t have many friends, but the only one who had the vitality of a living person was probably Song Ji’an five years ago. In her eyes, Song Ji’an was a very strange existence. She seemed to be always full of vigor and vitality, and she was like a beam of light wherever she went, making people have to focus their attention on her, and she was rarely covered by haze.

This was what she called the vitality of a living person, and she had never seen this kind of energy in anyone other than Song Ji’an.

But now even Song Ji’an didn’t have it anymore.

The feeling she gave people at this moment was only calmness. She seemed to be wearing a mask on her face that was difficult for people to see through her heart, and all her emotions were difficult to distinguish whether they were from the heart or disguised.

Several people discussed it briefly and finally decided to set off tomorrow morning. Sheng Jia had already contacted Shen Qi and she would arrive at the Anias Islands tonight.

Ellie even volunteered to receive the mysterious and legendary Miss Shen Qi.

Everyone didn’t compete with her and went back to their rooms early to rest and prepare in order to cope with tomorrow’s hike.

Sheng Jia’s door was knocked on before she went to sleep. Standing outside the door was Meng Yeran, whose face was still a little swollen after applying the medicine. She stood at the door with her arms crossed and looked up and down at Sheng Jia, “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”

Sheng Jia stood in front of the door and raised her eyebrows, “Just say it at the door.”

“Are you hiding something in your room?”

Meng Yeran stretched her head to peek into her room. Sheng Jia raised her hand to block her head and pushed her back, “I’m not used to letting others into my room.”

“Then I can only ask in the corridor?” Meng Yeran was a little dissatisfied, but then she remembered what she wanted to ask, and her face became serious, “What are you and Song Ji’an planning?”

“What?” Sheng Jia pretended not to understand.

“Stop pretending,” Meng Yeran snorted, “We came to talk business, and suddenly you want to go out to sea. Do you think we are all fools?”

“You also know that business is not easy to talk about,” Sheng Jia replied, “Anyway, there is still a long time to go. Isn’t it the same to play around and then talk?”

Meng Yeran became suspicious, “This is not your style. It sounds like there is a conspiracy.”

“If there really is, would you still go?” Sheng Jia asked.

“Provocation?” Meng Yeran laughed, “This trick is not very useful to me, but everyone knows there is a problem, but only I came to you. This conspiracy won’t only target me, right?”

“What do you think?” Sheng Jia said, “Actually, there are not so many conspiracies. Now the initiative is in our hands. Let’s go out and play for a few days and delay the time before talking about business. It’s not us who are anxious.”

“Guess if I believe your words?” Meng Yeran glanced at her and simply turned around and left.

She didn’t believe Sheng Jia’s words, and she knew that Sheng Jia would never tell her the truth, so she chose to leave directly.

No matter what they wanted to do, it was nothing more than for the natural gas in the archipelago. Meng Yeran had long suspected whether Sheng Jia and Hilda had reached some agreement during the time they hadn’t come. Now this test further confirmed this idea.

If she was an important part of their agreement, then as Sheng Jia said, the initiative was in her hands, and there was no need to be anxious. She could just wait slowly for Hilda and Sheng Jia to reveal their true purpose.

After Meng Yeran went downstairs, Sheng Jia leaned against the door and looked at the sky outside the corridor window.

Snow-white clouds hung overhead, and it could be seen that the next few days would definitely be sunny.

The door beside her slowly opened after two minutes. Song Ji’an came out of the room. She was wearing simple short-sleeved pajamas and pajama pants, and a pair of fluffy slippers on her feet. She had probably just washed her face, and there were still drops of water on the hair on her forehead.

Sheng Jia looked at her and waited for her to speak first.

Song Ji’an said, “Chatting so loudly with Meng Yeran at the door, are you afraid I won’t hear it?”

“I just don’t want people to enter my room,” Sheng Jia lowered her eyes and took out a box of melatonin from her pocket and handed it to Song Ji’an, “It’s not a long-term solution to always rely on alcohol to fall asleep. Try melatonin. We may not be able to sleep for the next three days, so get a good rest today.”

“I’ve tried this,” Song Ji’an didn’t refuse and took it, opened it, and ate one, “Hopefully it will work a little tonight.”

After saying that, she squinted her eyes and looked at the end of the corridor, “Did you deliberately say that to Meng Yeran?”

“Yeah, to make it a little more difficult for Hilda,” Sheng Jia smiled, “Meng Yeran is alert, so it won’t be so easy for Hilda to please her.”

“A bit mean,” Song Ji’an commented, “It’s not easy to please Meng Yeran, so it won’t be that simple for you to get them to cooperate later. It’s like asking for trouble.”

“It’s not necessarily asking for trouble. They might even thank me later.” Sheng Jia replied meaningfully.

Song Ji’an glanced at her and didn’t continue to ask. She weighed the medicine bottle in her palm and only said with a smile, “Okay, thank you for the medicine, good night.”

The sound of the door closing echoed in the corridor. Sheng Jia stared at her door for a while before whispering, “Good night.”