DF Chapter 112

Chapter 112: They Are Already Accomplices in All Madness.

The road from the tundra to the other side of the island wasn’t difficult. After Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an returned to the camp, Ellie and the others also came back one after another.

Ellie, holding her camera, was clearly in high spirits. She had captured many intoxicating scenes in this area, and the fatigue of yesterday had been completely erased, replaced only by excitement.

On the other hand, Meng Yeran and Hilda seemed to have a strange atmosphere. To be precise, they began to refuse eye contact with each other. Originally, they might have bickered, but later on the journey, even bickering was gone.

With two fewer main chatters, plus Ellie’s subsequent lack of physical strength, their remaining day and a half was unusually quiet, as if they had truly integrated into this wilderness and become a part of it.

Perhaps there was also something different. Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia no longer had time to care about the situation of others. Their gazes seemed to have added countless lures. Eye contact meant the sprouting of desire. They would kiss in the tent, kiss under the snowy mountains, and kiss by the wet beach. After breaking through the inner defenses, hot kisses became the only thing they could pursue.

This was what Sheng Jia wanted, and now it might also be what Song Ji’an wanted.

In a rational life, having the opportunity to abandon reason is precious.

On the evening of the third day, they finally reached their destination, which was also the end of the island. The entire island was within sixty-nine degrees north latitude, absolutely within the Arctic Circle. But only here did they truly feel like they had entered the Arctic Circle. They were surrounded by snowflakes, and all they could see was a vast expanse of white, as if they had truly come to the end of the world.

Beyond the island were several glaciers, floating on the deep black sea, like a group of travelers without a destination, moving forward with the ocean currents.

After hurrying for three days, the seven were exhausted. The windbreakers they wore had long been replaced with down jackets. The moment they arrived, they couldn’t help but lie down on the ground. Several deep pits were immediately smashed out of the snow surface besides the footprints.

“I’ll never do this again,” Hilda gasped loudly, “Coming here once will cost me half my life.”

“Hilda, do you regret coming here then?” Ellie asked with a big laugh.

“I still don’t regret it,” Hilda couldn’t help but laugh too.

In fact, this was the simplest hiking route, without any risks or dangers. The only thing that needed to be tested was physical strength.

After extreme fatigue, nature rewarded them with extreme scenery.

Meng Yeran took a few deep breaths, took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, and took one out with her mouth, wanting to light it but couldn’t.

Shen Qi took the cigarette from her fingertips. She was the only one who wasn’t so tired that she lay down. At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged at the top of their heads. The wind blowing from the Arctic Ocean raised her hair. She looked ahead, playing with the women’s cigarette with her slender fingers, and said slowly: “Although the ownership of the island is yours, I still want to remind you that smoking here can easily cause environmental pollution, so it is not recommended.”

Meng Yeran was stunned, “Can’t I take the trash away?”

“There will be air pollution,” Shen Qi replied seriously.

Meng Yeran wasn’t necessarily obsessed with smoking. She didn’t struggle after hearing this, but Shen Qi handed a plastic goblet to her.

“But you can drink some wine,” she took out two bottles of beer from her bag, cheap beer that was well-known for being spicy and strong.

“You brought this?” Ellie was surprised, “You carried it all the way?”

Along the way, in order to reduce the burden, they were lightly equipped. Even the extra clothes on their bodies were thrown on the tundra halfway, waiting for a helicopter to come and clean them up in the future. This was also Meng Yeran’s habitual thinking, either take the cigarettes away after smoking, or wait for the helicopter to come and clean them up.

“Yes,” Shen Qi nodded, she took out the remaining six plastic goblets from her bag again, “It’s not heavy, it’s not easy to walk all the way, there must be a way to celebrate.”

She was a leader who could consider the needs of her clients.

Dong Zhen gave her a thumbs up, “Awesome, I can’t even be bothered to carry a beer can now, let alone two bottles of beer.”

“So do you want to try it?”

Of course, no one would refuse to have a hot drink in such a cold wilderness.

The cups quickly reached everyone’s palms. The beer had become a pile of shaved ice in the cold, and when poured into the cup and introduced into the throat, the melt-in-your-mouth taste reduced its spiciness a lot.

Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia weren’t sitting far apart, almost shoulder to shoulder. Sheng Jia raised her glass to her and asked in a low voice, “Cheers?”

Song Ji’an touched her glass, and a cold, hard sound rang between the plastic cups. She said softly, “Thank you.”

“Thank you for what?” Sheng Jia asked.

“Without you, I probably wouldn’t be able to see this scenery.” Song Ji’an smiled, she squinted her eyes and looked at the distant glacier, “I haven’t had this feeling of adventure for a long time.”

It seemed that her time had stopped long after the end of the college entrance examination, and that courage and recklessness hadn’t appeared on her body for too long.

“Even without me, you can come here,” Sheng Jia didn’t agree with her words, “You already have infinite possibilities.”

“No,” Song Ji’an lowered her eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly.

But she didn’t continue the unfinished words.

If Sheng Jia hadn’t appeared, perhaps she would still be busy in the funeral home, worrying about money, and indulging in decadence, thinking that she might as well just live like this.

Perhaps one day she would figure it out, but definitely not now, enjoying all this leisurely at the end of the world.

A touch of warmth was added to her fingertips, Sheng Jia put her fingertips on it.

Through the thin gloves, a dim temperature was transmitted under the ice and snow, without being spied on by anyone.

Even if they were indulging in these days, they would avoid the crowd when they were intimate. This restrained touch was ambiguous, causing Song Ji’an’s fingertips to tremble slightly.

At a certain moment, she really wanted to kiss Sheng Jia’s lips again on the island.

This was probably because they had developed a habit in just two days, which was the result of indulging desire.

Sheng Jia probably saw her gaze. She took off her mask, turned her head, pretending to whisper to Song Ji’an, but actually scraped her ear with her lips. She said softly, “In an hour, a cruise ship will come to pick us up back to the main island. It will drive very, very slowly, and it will take a whole day to reach the center of the Aleutian Islands.”

Song Ji’an pursed her lips, looked at Sheng Jia, and suddenly smiled, her smile was rarely casual.

“Okay, I will cherish the whole day on the boat.”

–

The boat that came to pick them up this time was a private cruise ship, small and medium-sized, and there were only a few of them on the boat.

A small private harbor had long been built in the north of Aliyah Island, only enough for small-throughput ships to enter.

Only after boarding the ship did the exhausted people feel that they had survived and finally lived a life with hot water.

Water resources were precious resources and extremely heavy to carry, so they were extremely careful in the use of water resources these days. Even the instant noodles they ate on the first day were light in flavor, for fear that excessive salt intake would lead to extreme water shortage.

Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an’s room was in the middle of the cruise ship. Although it was only a small and medium-sized cruise ship, it actually had more than forty rooms to choose from.

The seven of them were scattered on different floors, except for the two of them, basically not close to each other.

This time, a senior chef from Anils Main Island came with the ship, and a rich lunch had been prepared for them in the restaurant.

After lunch, most people chose to go back to their rooms to catch up on sleep and recover their strength.

The captain was a very experienced old captain, she would drive the ship very, very slowly, slow enough for everyone on board to complete what they wanted to do.

Sheng Jia was sitting on the reclining chair on the balcony, with a laptop on her lap, processing work.

During the time she went to Aliyah Island, she threw the simple content to Wei Pan, and the remaining content that required her to make decisions could only be done after she came back.

In the transoceanic video, Wei Pan’s face was obviously a little haggard. During this period, Song Ningqiu was still doing project inspections in Africa and hadn’t returned. The blocks in the group that Sheng Jia was responsible for had been transferred to her hands all day. In the past three days, she only felt that she was so busy that her head was about to smoke. At this moment, when she saw Sheng Jia’s face, she touched her slightly frizzy hair and raised a professional smile, “Little Sheng, you’re finally back.”

“Yes,” Sheng Jia’s hair was smoothly draped over her shoulders, she wore a pair of silver-rimmed glasses on her face. She had overused her eyes in the past two years, and the doctor prescribed her a pair of corrective lenses. She usually didn’t like to wear them, but today was a little different. Wei Pan, as her assistant, could see it, but didn’t ask much, just waiting for the other party to continue saying: “You can prepare the tripartite contract between us and the Opter Meng family.”

“Huh? You settled it this time?” Wei Pan was slightly surprised.

The decisions made by Sheng Jia would never be made by her alone. There were many think tanks under her command. Before she went to Norway, she had held many meetings. Sheng Jia set the general direction, and the think tank discussed the feasibility. The mining ratio they finally came up with was also set at that time, but at that time, Sheng Jia proposed the idea of promoting cooperation between the three companies. After the think tank discussed it, they felt that this method was feasible, but the difficulty was a bit high.

Turning competitors into cooperative partners is not an easy task in itself.

“No, but it should be soon,” Sheng Jia’s eyes darkened slightly, and she thought of the strange atmosphere between Hilda and Meng Yeran on the island, “You just need to prepare the contract, at most next month, it should be signed.”

Wei Pan was very pleasantly surprised when she heard this and said: “Okay, I will issue a notice tomorrow. This is really a great thing.”

Sheng Jia replied in a low voice: “Thank you for your hard work, I should give you a long vacation when I go back.”

“Okay, then thank you Little Sheng in advance,” Wei Pan replied, saying that she seemed to remember something, and then said: “By the way, Song Dong will be back in five days, if you go back to China at that time, should you arrange free time in advance?”

Sheng Jia’s life after returning to China can be foreseen, it will definitely be very busy.

Sheng Jia lowered her eyes, tapping her fingers on the arm of the chair, thought for a moment before slowly saying: “I plan to return to China the day after tomorrow, you can directly free up the time five days later, I will pick her up at the airport.”

Wei Pan paused, seemingly a little surprised by her choice, but then said with great professionalism: “Okay, then I will free up the entire day for you that day. Song Dong’s plane will probably land at Capital International Airport at 4 pm, just in time for you to go there the day before to participate in the project bidding.”

Sheng Jia hadn’t seen Song Ningqiu for almost two months.

She didn’t lie to Song Ji’an, her relationship with Song Ningqiu could even be described as respectful.

Song Ningqiu was always cautious towards Sheng Jia, not daring to be light or heavy. Sheng Jia was mostly respectful to her. She was already an adult when she reunited with Song Ningqiu. She couldn’t act like she had really grown up by Song Ningqiu’s side and act coquettishly or be close to her.

The two weren’t without effort, but in the end, Song Ningqiu’s plan to establish a connection with Sheng Jia like Song Ji’an’s ended without success, because Song Ningqiu had already discovered that Sheng Jia wasn’t Song Ji’an. Her and Song Ji’an’s personalities were diametrically opposed. Blindly getting close would only put great pressure on Sheng Jia, so she chose a distance that would make Sheng Jia more relaxed and comfortable.

According to Sheng Jia’s personality, she might not object to this, but Song Ningqiu couldn’t bear to let Sheng Jia make changes for this strange family anymore, so she could only let her, this mother, make the changes. She would infinitely tolerate Sheng Jia’s habits and never force her.

Sheng Jia originally wanted to try to get along with Song Ningqiu as a close mother and daughter, just like she had imagined, but in the end, she gave up.

She couldn’t do it.

Even what she couldn’t do in front of Sheng Huaiying, she couldn’t do even more in front of Song Ningqiu.

This was also one of the foundations for her proposal to cooperate with Song Ji’an.

Before this, Sheng Jia rarely took the initiative to get close to Song Ningqiu, and she didn’t know how to get close to Song Ningqiu.

But this time, she suddenly wanted to try again.

Just as Wei Pan’s voice fell, the balcony door of the next room was opened.

The balconies were connected, and Song Ji’an walked over from the other end. She noticed that Sheng Jia was wearing headphones and the screen was also lit, so she didn’t get close.

Sheng Jia looked up at her and saw Song Ji’an silently pointing to her ears, and then pointing to the outside of the ship.

The balcony wasn’t completely enclosed, even with heating, some cold wind would occasionally roll in, making people’s heads clear, and dissipating some of the warmth in the room.

Sheng Jia saw what she was saying and suddenly smiled.

–Aren’t you cold sitting outside?

She replied silently: A little.

Song Ji’an then raised her hand and pointed to the room again.

–Then why don’t you go in?

Sheng Jia: It’s clearer sitting here.

The camera shifted, and Wei Pan in the screen could only see Sheng Jia’s chin and the smile that suddenly appeared on the corner of her lips.

She didn’t know who was on the other side, she could only see a pair of legs wearing dark black satin sleeping pants and a pair of furry slippers that appeared faintly in the screen, but she still sensibly offered to hang up the phone to Sheng Jia.

Since she started following Sheng Jia five years ago, she had never seen Sheng Jia smile like this. She was a little curious about who was on the other side, but guarding her gossip heart was her professional ethics.

Sheng Jia heard the sound of the phone being hung up, but didn’t take off her headphones. She only beckoned to Song Ji’an, and when Song Ji’an got a little closer, she pulled her onto the chair where two people could squeeze together, and half of the purple blanket draped over her shoulders was also given to Song Ji’an.

“What are you doing?” Song Ji’an sat on the rocking chair with one knee bent in the opposite direction, unable to see the computer screen, and quickly whispered in her ear, with a little more nervousness in her eyes.

She didn’t intend to appear in Sheng Jia’s work call.

Sheng Jia hugged her, put her chin on her shoulder, and whispered: “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t waste every moment on the boat?”

Song Ji’an’s earlobes immediately turned red. She supported Sheng Jia’s shoulder with one hand and quickly said: “That’s not the kind of situation now.”

Sheng Jia’s hum of laughter came from her ear: “The phone has been hung up long ago.”

Song Ji’an was slightly stunned, and before she could react, she was kissed by Sheng Jia holding her face.

Their breaths intertwined, and she gradually fell into a soft entanglement.

Her kisses with Sheng Jia rarely had such delicate and gentle situations, but now listening to the sound of the waves, she suddenly felt that such entanglement seemed good.

Her fingertips caressed Sheng Jia’s earlobes, gradually moving down to her shoulders.

The cold hand made Sheng Jia shiver. She stopped the kiss but didn’t let go of Song Ji’an’s face.

Across such an intimate distance, Sheng Jia suddenly asked: “Song Ji’an, do you want to try something else?”

Song Ji’an crashed into her eyes. At this moment, she only felt that her eyes were deep and full of seduction, as if she wanted to completely hook people into the sea and drown them like a siren.

But she couldn’t escape, and it was like voluntarily drowning. After all, from the moment she chose to abandon everything with Sheng Jia on Aliyah Island to spend these five days, they were already accomplices in all madness.