Leisurely Traveler with Check-in System

The open car door, the panicked tourists, the cacophony of shouting... The Unimog’s spotlight illuminated the scene before them, while outside lay endless darkness, unreachable by light.

This was the true wilderness.

Such a scene was unimaginable for those who had never left the city.

When the black bear opened the car door, the other side’s door was opened less than a second later, and two people ran out from there.

The man got out first, then pulled his wife out from the back.

The wife was wearing a fluffy pajama, only a single shirt inside, and hadn’t put on shoes. Both of them practically rolled and crawled out.

The only bit of luck in this disaster was that the car door opened by the bear belonged to the couple without children.

Once out, the couple watched as the black bear buried its entire head into the car.

From the opposite view, it was clear to see the bear standing on its hind legs, its forelegs bracing like a human inside the car, frantically pawing at something, occasionally letting out a roar.

The couple stayed far away, with cries of calling the police heard from time to time.

Meanwhile, the situation in the other two cars wasn’t much better.

Ordinary SUVs modified into sleepers usually face a very real problem: due to limited space in the car, the rear seats need to be folded down, requiring the front seats to be pushed to the utmost forward position while all the clutter from the trunk is piled on the seats.

This setup of items and seats cannot easily return to a drivable state in a short time.

This was quite troublesome.

At this moment, both SUVs that hadn’t been opened faced the same issue.

From inside one of the cars, a wife huddled tightly in the corner, holding a roughly three- or four-year-old girl who was crying frantically.

The husband couldn’t even straighten up in the car, forced to clutch a pressure cooker across his chest, eyes fixed on the window outside, body trembling incessantly, yet there was nothing else he could do.

The front driver’s seat was filled with things, the second row was pressed down by a mattress; without lifting the seat from outside, the position couldn’t be restored.

The situation in the other car was roughly the same.

More crucially, the distance between the three cars was not far; they were only about two or three meters apart in a triangle, with a communal big tent in the middle.

The three small families were very good friends, two with kids, one without.

This time, taking advantage of the two little ones being three or four years old, about to start kindergarten, they thought, "If we don’t go wild now, we’ll get old," and modified the cars into sleepers for a trip.

All their previous camping spots had been arranged like this, making the whole journey very fun and leisurely, yet they hadn’t expected such an accident today—an extremely horrifying experience.

Even more desperate was the couple without children.

Though they rolled out from the other side’s door as soon as the bear opened their car, watching the grizzly frenziedly paw inside their car made them anxious about both their belongings and their security without the car’s protection.

Humans were so fragile in the wilderness.

The two were so disheveled they hadn’t even worn shoes. While the wife wore a fleece pajama, standing barefoot in sub-zero air on the hard barren ground, her city-nurtured, tender white feet were already bruised.

Yet she could no longer care about the pain in her feet, focusing on the bear.

Fortunately, her husband stood protectively in front of her, leading her to retreat further.

But where could they hide in this wilderness?

They could only run to the back of one of the cars. At this moment, a companion decisively opened the door and let the couple inside.

Regardless, being inside the car was safer than being exposed to the elements.

"Have you called the police? Have you?"

"Why didn’t you close the car door?!"

"Too panicked! I just got out of the car, and when the bear came, I forgot..."

"Have you called the police?!"

"Mommy, I’m scared!"

"Honey, what do we do, honey..."

Loud voices echoed noisily within the cramped car space.

But the bear’s cunning exceeded their expectations.

It rummaged through the car for a while, dragging out several foam mattresses, clothes, various sundries, and a few packs of bagged snacks.

It tore open the snack packages with its teeth, licking the food inside, then suddenly turned its gaze toward the nearest car.

In that car, not only was a family of three inside, but also the young couple that had just squeezed in. The space wasn’t spacious; originally cramped for the three, now with five inside, the child was wedged in the furthest corner, watching as the bear approached step by step, while the two wives couldn’t help but cry.

"Honey, what do we do? It’s coming!"

"Should we run?"

"Don’t go out, inside the car there’s still a glimmer of hope!"

"Is the door locked?"

"Locked! Locked!"

"It can’t open a locked door, can it?"

The men guarded the women, one with a pressure cooker, the other with a hiking pole found in the car, held across their bodies.