23.Chapter 23: Another Dead Man
Following the direction of Wen Jing's finger, Hong Kaiyuan and I both looked over. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was at the tip of the teardrop-shaped cavern, and the stone was even larger, almost half a man tall, and it was impossible to see behind the stone.
But what Wen Jing pointed to was something that was obviously different from the stone, because of the distance, he could only see the general shape of the thing, which was a slender thing.
So, I kept shining a flashlight.
Suddenly, I felt that the thing had a faint reflection under the light of the flashlight!
I couldn't help but feel nervous, and quickly grabbed Hong Kaiyuan, who was about to walk over, and pulled Wen Jing behind me, and then said: "Don't act rashly, that thing doesn't seem to be a stone!
When the two heard this, they immediately stopped.
I continued to shine my flashlight on that thing, and for a long time, there was no abnormality, and then I said, "I'll go over and take a look, you two stay still!" and slowly leaned over there.
As I slowly approached step by step, I finally saw that it was actually a tool knife, and the style was still a multi-functional tool knife made in Switzerland, an absolutely modern product!!
I was shocked at first, but then it immediately occurred to me that this could be something that those two people had left behind. But before I could react, I saw an even more surprising scene in the corner of my eyes: a little lower than the stone where the tool knife was placed, there was a person lying on his stomach!!
My scalp tightened, and in an instant, goosebumps arose all over my body, my hair stood on end, and I only felt a chill down my back, if it weren't for Wen Jing and Hong Kaiyuan behind me, I guess I would have rushed out by this time.
It happened so suddenly, I wasn't prepared at all, and I stayed there for a while.
I guess the two people in the back noticed that something was wrong with me, and they both rushed up at the same time!
It wasn't until Wen Jing screamed that I pulled back the seven souls that I had almost left my body!
It took me a long time to calm myself down, and I realized that the two of them were also with big mouths, and their faces were full of incredible expressions!
The 'man' lying on his stomach remained motionless and unresponsive!
I looked at it carefully again, and couldn't help but curse to myself: I was scared half to death by a dead man!
", why are all the dead people you met all the way!" Hong Kaiyuan muttered and scolded, "It's really unlucky!"
Fortunately, the corpse was face down, and I couldn't see the horrible face of the dead man, and I was a little calm. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that it was a completely dehydrated corpse, as it could be seen from its neck, and it must have been air-dried for a long time. The clothes on the corpse were well preserved and did not decay, and although the style was not visible, it could be seen that the deceased was wearing a set of mountaineering clothes similar to those often worn by mountaineers.
I didn't intend to touch it, but crouched down to examine the tooling knife.
As I judged before, this is indeed a multi-tool knife made in Switzerland, and the knife used to cut things is already in a state of use, and it is not far from the right hand of the deceased!
It seems that the deceased died after using the knife, and it was definitely not an instantaneous death, it should be because the deceased was on the verge of death, because of the deceased's gradual loss of strength, otherwise the knife would not have come off.
Judging from the current situation, this knife should be the belongings of this deceased man. I shone my flashlight on the deceased and his surroundings, then straightened up and said to the two people beside me, "What do you think?"
I hadn't heard the two of them talk, so I looked back at them.
I saw that Hong Kaiyuan seemed to be pondering, frowning and shining a flashlight on the corpse. Wen Jing didn't seem to dare to look at the corpse more, and kept looking at other places.
Hong Kaiyuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly said: "This corpse should be one of the two people we just entered the cave and found the footprints! And it's the thin one!"
"Why are you so sure?" I gave him a blank look.
"Height, body shape. "Hong Kaiyuan doesn't bird me at all.
He squatted down as he spoke, but instead of picking up the knife, he blew on it, and suddenly a large cloud of dust rose on the surface of the stone, and I immediately scolded: "Dead fatty, which song are you singing?"
"I just want to see more clearly!" Hong Kaiyuan waved his hand beside his face, "It's really choking!"
Suddenly, he was very surprised, and looked up at me and exclaimed, "Lao Qi, look, there are words on this stone!!"
When I heard this, I was almost startled, and scolded, "Are you evil, so shocked?" and kicked him hard, and then squatted down as well.
But I saw that Hong Kaiyuan was vigorously sweeping the dust on the stone with his hands, and soon, we saw the scene in front of us clearly.
The stone was indeed engraved with words, three lines, a total of nine words:
It's windy
mouse
Be careful with Chiba Ichi
We are confused by these headless words, and we don't understand why at all.
"Lao Qi, do you say that this 'windy' is a hidden word or a person's name?, and what does 'mouse' mean?" Hong Kaiyuan scratched his scalp and was still staring at the words on the stone, "And what does this 'Chiba Yi' refer to?"
I didn't say anything, just stared at the words.
Those words were clearly carved by people with tools, judging from the nicks of the words, there was a feeling of floating, I looked at the knife again, and the corpse, and slowly frowned!
"It seems that these words were left by this person!" Hong Kaiyuan said and jumped off the stone to the side of the corpse.
"Is this Chiba Yi a person's name?" Wen Jing on the side also walked over.
"That's not 'one', you see. I pointed to the word and said slowly, "This horizontal is obviously on the top, this should be the first stroke of a certain word, this person has not finished writing the meaning he wants to express! Therefore, it is difficult to judge the content after 'careful' before it is clearly expressed, this person's intention is obvious, that is, he wants to remind some people to be wary of or pay attention to what people or things, although most of the people we need to watch out for are people, but there are also many other non-human things with a certain danger surname. ”
"Therefore, these words may have several meanings, the names of people, places, hidden words or others, it is difficult to say!" After speaking, I sighed again.
At this time, Hong Kaiyuan, who jumped down, had already turned over the corpse, and said, "This person doesn't seem to have any belongings?"
I ignored him because something else caught my attention.
On the stone where the corpse lay was a large area of dark color, extending in a divergent pattern towards the base of the stone, completely different from the color of the surrounding stones.
So, I said to Hong Kaiyuan: "Fatty, you check what the dark black area on the stone is!"
Hong Kaiyuan was searching the pocket of the corpse, and as soon as he heard me, he immediately stopped the movement in his hand and approached the stone with a flashlight. He first found a small stone and pondered it for a while, then twisted the powder with his hand and sniffed it on the side of his nose, then looked up and said, "This is a blood stain, it should be this person!" and then pointed to the corpse on the side.
I let out an 'oh' and continued, "You check the corpse again and see if you can find something that can prove the identity of this person!"
"This man is so poor, I've searched his whole body just now, there's nothing to do!" Hong Kaiyuan muttered, "It's not like a beggar came here because he didn't have a place to live, right?!"
"Have you ever seen a beggar dressed up like this? Besides, even a beggar wouldn't be able to run into a place like this!" I was a little annoyed, and scolded, "Don't talk so much nonsense, look carefully!"
"You're not going to come down and find it yourself?" Hong Kaiyuan looked dissatisfied, and refused to suffer at all in his mouth, but his movements did not stop.
Hong Kaiyuan touched almost the entire corpse, and finally, he spread his hands towards me and shook his head helplessly.
I was a little impatient, and I took Wen Jing's hand and jumped down together, and I could see that she was no longer as nervous and scared as before.
The reason why I asked Hong Kaiyuan to search the body of that corpse is because I really feel a little sick to this thing, Hong Kaiyuan is different, he is studying medicine, and this matter is nothing to him.
Seeing that he didn't gain anything, I had to take the expedition myself.
At this moment, the corpse was already lying on the ground face up, and the shriveled face was presented, and the appearance of the deceased was no longer visible, with only two black holes left in the eye sockets, and the nose had already collapsed, and the mouth was even more terrifying, showing two rows of Sensen's teeth, if it weren't for the three of us together, I would have turned around and ran.
Forcibly enduring the nausea, I first looked carefully, because the corpse had already dried, I couldn't tell its age before its death, so I turned back to Hong Kaiyuan and said: "Fatty, you are studying medicine, can you tell the age of this person?"
"I've seen it just now, this person should be forty-two or thirteen years old, and I have specially examined his mouth and teeth for this reason!" Hong Kaiyuan replied.
After a pause, he added: "This person is about 1.73 meters tall, on the thin side, and the time of death was about five or six years ago!"
After listening, I found that Wen Jing standing next to me still looked a little scared, and in order to distract her, I deliberately joked: "It seems that the time you spent in the criminal investigation team was not a mess!"
"Who the is like you, you're a fool all day long!" Hong Kaiyuan teased.
But soon, he changed the subject again: "Who the hell is this person, and how did he die here?"
This is his habit and what I admire about him, as long as he is focused on something, no matter how others interfere, he can always return to normal in the shortest possible time.
"Obviously, he's running away from something or someone!" I replied after a moment's thought.