A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

As Li Bowen said, the soldiers who went up the mountain brought the person down as soon as they found him.

But only the two military wives who had strayed from the main force were found. When they were found, they were sheltering from the rain under a big tree. When they saw people coming to look for them, they realized that wild boars had been found on the mountain, so they hurriedly followed the soldiers down the mountain.

After reaching the foot of the mountain, one soldier escorted them back to their unit, while the rest continued up the mountain to rejoin their comrades.

Their mission was not only to find the person, but also to get rid of the herd of wild boars.

An Ning used her memory to change the frequency of one of the walkie-talkies to the frequencies of the other two. However, this device could be easily misrepresented if it was even slightly altered, so she did not keep it fixed and instead brought the equipment down the mountain with her.

If there is a signal on the walkie-talkie on the mountain, she can connect to the signal by making slight adjustments.

"Commander Li, I'm all set. Let's go over to the other side of the mountain."

Anning didn't have an umbrella. It hadn't rained since she arrived on the island, and she had forgotten to buy one. She could only use her clothes to protect the walkie-talkie.

Seeing this, Li Bowen quickly had someone bring over an umbrella.

How can you ask someone to do something and then let them get soaked in the rain?

The group drove directly down the mountain.

Just as we reached the foot of the mountain, a deafening sound came from up there—someone had fired a gun.

“They encountered a wild boar,” Li Bowen confirmed.

Military regulations stipulate that firearms cannot be fired indiscriminately unless a target is encountered.

"I hope those children are alright! Comrade Anning, please try to contact the children on the mountain using the walkie-talkie."

"it is good."

Anning was initially worried that it would be difficult to operate in the rain, but now that she was in the car, it was much simpler.

She turned on the walkie-talkie and tried adjusting the frequency. Soon, she heard a "buzzing" sound.

An Ning's face lit up with joy: "They've got their phones on! We haven't measured the maximum distance between these two walkie-talkies, but within 500 meters, even with buildings obscuring the view, they can communicate clearly. I reckon they're not far from us."

She continued adjusting the settings until the noise completely disappeared. Only then did she press the talk button and say into the walkie-talkie, "Sun Weiguo, can you hear me?"

A rustling sound came from the other end of the walkie-talkie, mixed with the sound of raindrops falling on leaves: "Who...who are you?"

"I'm here to see you. Are the other two children with you?"

An Ning didn't tell him her identity. After all, she had helped Xiao Ni criticize him before, and it would be troublesome if the child became rebellious and unwilling to communicate with her.

That is, the sound of the walkie-talkie will be distorted, otherwise the other side would be able to hear everything.

Sun Weiguo burst into tears, sniffling, and said, "Please come up the mountain and save me! My legs hurt so much, I can't walk anymore!"

"Don't cry yet. Tell Auntie if the other two children are with you."

However, the only response to Anning was continuous weeping.

She couldn't help but hold her forehead.

That's the downside of communicating with children, especially spoiled kids. They're more prone to emotional outbursts, making communication impossible.

Li Bowen, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but frown: "Whose child is this? How old is he? If there are other children around, can't you let them speak? If they keep crying like this, even if we manage to contact them, it will be very difficult to find their location."

An Ning coughed lightly: "He is the child of that Comrade Tang Qiuqiao from before. He is not very old, probably seven or eight years old."

When An Ning mentioned the name Tang Qiuqiao, Li Bowen immediately remembered her and couldn't help but show a look of disgust on his face.

What he hates most is people who harm others without benefiting themselves, who abandon their own team's performance, and would rather destroy their team's costumes than frame others, and for such a ridiculous reason.

If it weren't for Tang Qiuqiao's husband having some connections in the military and immediately finding a way to apply for a transfer, he would never have given her a chance to advance if they had stayed on the island.

An Ning patiently tried to communicate with the other party for a while, but it still didn't work, so she had to give up.

She hesitated for a moment, then said, "How about this, I'll disassemble the remaining walkie-talkie and turn it into a simple radio direction finding device. We should be able to find him by following the device."

The walkie-talkie she made had a very simple structure, and the modified radio direction finding device only had the most basic function, which was pointing.

As for distance and signal strength, those are things that cannot be measured at all.

Moreover, the orientation is the most basic kind; the original antenna of the walkie-talkie is nowhere near as good as a professional Yagi antenna.

If this were on the battlefield, An Ning would certainly not have made such a suggestion, but now Sun Weiguo is very close to them, and as long as they follow this radio direction finding device, they can still find him.

“Okay!” Li Bowen nodded in agreement. “The army had some retired walkie-talkies before, I’ll have the logistics department send you a pair.”

The military does have such professional radio lateral movement equipment, but going back to get it would take time, and who knows what might happen during that time.

"No need to patch it up, it was originally made from recycled materials for kids to play with."

Anning simply disassembled the walkie-talkie and quickly turned it into a rudimentary device.

The only useful thing is the antenna; as long as the antenna is pointed in the direction of the signal source, the indicator light will turn on.

The stronger the signal, the brighter the indicator light.

An Ning tried it out and, after confirming that there was no problem, said, "That should work. We can find him by following the direction the antenna is pointing."

Li Bowen took the equipment: "There are wild boars on the mountain, and the road is slippery and difficult to walk on when it rains. We'll go up, you can wait for us here."

“This equipment is too rudimentary; it might break down after a slight tremor. I’ll stay with you guys. There are so many of us here; we won’t be afraid even if we encounter wild boars,” An Ning said.

Li Bowen thought about it for a moment and agreed. He instructed everyone to surround An Ning in the middle so that they could deal with any wild boar that suddenly rushed out.

Gunshots rang out again from the mountain; it was unclear how many wild boars had been killed. The group quickened their pace.

They would try to communicate with Sun Weiguo every now and then, and fortunately, on their third attempt, they heard the voice of another child.

At least for now, the two children are together.

Following the direction the antenna was pointing, the group walked for about twenty minutes. The altitude did not continue to rise, but their position became increasingly remote.

Everyone was moving forward quickly, but An Ning moved quite nimbly and didn't fall behind at all.

This raised Li Bowen's impression of her to a new level.

"No wonder they couldn't find anyone. These kids must have been frightened by the wild boar and ran in the wrong direction in their panic as they came down the mountain," a soldier remarked.

"It's a miracle we weren't hurt by the wild boar."

After walking for about five more minutes, no matter which direction the antenna pointed, the indicator light stopped changing.

An Ning took out the only remaining walkie-talkie, wanting to contact Sun Weiguo again.

However, the walkie-talkie's indicator light turned on for less than two seconds before immediately going out. After so many days without changing the battery, the walkie-talkie's battery was completely depleted.

"It should be around here. Let's search the surrounding area!"

With no other option, everyone could only shout and search, and finally found the three children, who were covered in mud, in a ditch.

All three children's clothes were damaged to varying degrees, but apart from Sun Weiguo's sprained ankle, the other two children were not seriously injured, just frightened.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After descending the mountain, the three children's families embraced them and wept with joy. The soldiers on the mountain also received the news and brought down the mountain with the wild boar they had hunted.

You won't believe it until you go; what you find is astonishing. There are twelve wild boars hiding on this mountain: eight sows and four boars. Every sow is pregnant, but they have all been ruthlessly hunted down.

If left unattended, they will expand into a massive herd of wild boars by next spring.

Moreover, because wild boar herds contain a large number of young, their aggression towards creatures that stray into their territory will be unprecedentedly high, and they may even expand their territory into areas where humans are active, which would be troublesome.

Seeing that the children had all been taken away by their parents, Anning was about to leave as well, but Tang Qiuqiao called her aside.

"Don't think that just because you saved my son I'll forgive you. I admit I was wrong before, but you weren't without fault either," Tang Qiuqiao said awkwardly.

Anning just watched her quietly. Although they hadn't known each other for very long, she still understood the other person's personality.

Tang Qiuqiao is a very proud person. If she can disregard her own pride and call her aside at this time, it must be because she wants to talk about more than just this. She can just wait.

Tang Qiuqiao was indeed uncomfortable with An Ning's indifference, but she still said what she wanted to say: "I don't know what kind of conflict you have with that Qiao Shanshan, but there's something you might not know. I met her through Wang Xiuying. You might be able to find the answer to the question you wanted to know from Wang Xiuying."