The first night in the jungle was uneventful, but the crowd was not resting peacefully. The insect repellent sprayed before going to bed did not work as desired, and the mosquitoes in the mountains did not eat this set, and planted strawberries on us through the sleeping bags.

In a sense, we are not really in the mountains, and we can still find scattered plastic bags, mineral water bottles and other civilization products in the forest, and the power of mosquitoes is already like this, I am afraid that we will usher in a more fierce attack by the Zerg after we go deeper.

At six o'clock in the morning, we packed up our tents and prepared to continue the long march. Lin Er looked at the clouds in the sky and said that with her years of experience in living in the local area, it would rain in the mountains today, but we didn't see a drop of rain until the sun set, and our trust in this young guide was half cut off again.

Wang Pearl originally believed that in such a remote area, the locals were much more reliable than scientific instruments. She is a capitalist who started with modern technology and household appliances, and I have no power to complain about this kind of thinking. But because our little guide was so reliable, she finally compromised with the sat nav.

In the evening, we set up camp by a small stream. At this time, we have officially entered the Shalong Mountains, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no wild beasts at night near the waters, so Hu Kun has installed laser alarms around, and when large creatures approach, the shrill alarm sound is enough to scare away the beasts and wake us up by the way.

The reliable satellite signal gritted its teeth and pierced through the layers of heavy tree covers, telling us that we were about a day away from our intended destination, and that we would almost be there tomorrow when the first team was lost. But in fact, I think that with our current state, we may have to rely on others to fish the jungle, let alone save others.

"I always thought that the whole of China had long been overcrowded, but I didn't expect there to be such a primitive place. Liu Wei spoke first to break the dullness. He was born and grew up in the city, and he really didn't have the opportunity to see the mystery and magnificence of this primeval forest.

"Boy, there's a lot you don't know. Militia Zhang Hu sneered, "This is still a few years ago Tengchong has begun to develop in the vicinity, if you put aside a few decades ago this is a barbarian land, and the seedlings are still fighting with each other." Speaking of this jungle alone, it was all kinds of wonders at that time..."

I interjected to interrupt to stop the rough guy from continuing to be alarmist. Although the various stories in this deep mountain and old forest have a certain reference value for us, everyone has been tormented by the forest for two days, and if we continue this topic now, it is inevitable that people will not be panicked during the next march, and the team will not be able to bring it with us.

Zhang Hu was so annoyed by me that he dragged another militiaman, Ge Wen, to smoke a cigarette. Hu Kun glanced at the time and said, "It's not early, you guys rest, I'll stand on the first shift." ”

Everyone was tired of the day, and when the trees fell down, they were ready to rest. Lin Er said something in Ke Hui's ear, and then Ke Hui said to me: "Let's go out for a while and come back soon." ”

Deep in the mountains and old forests, the night is dark and the wind is high, and it is convenient for them girls to be together. "Quasi-play. I lit a cigarette and prepared to wait for her two to come back before resting. As a result, the cigarette butts burned their fingers, and they didn't come back yet.

I threw the cigarette butt into the campfire and was about to light another one when I saw two girls walking back. "Solved?" I asked casually, but Hui didn't answer, and threw a black thing at me.

"We picked it up while washing our hands by the stream. She sat next to me. "Shoes?" I recognized by the light of the campfire as an Italian-made SCARPA hiking boot. Originally, I didn't know much about hiking in the wild, but the reason why I was able to identify the shoe plate so quickly was because it was the standard for the Wang Pearl team, and I was wearing a pair of the same on my feet.

"Even if it is soaked in water and still maintains such a state, I am afraid that it will only fall in the past two days. "Otherwise, even the best shoes won't be able to withstand the blisters for too long." In addition, there is basically no one around here, and this is most likely the first team member's thing. ”

"What do you say now?" Ke Hui asked, "Wake everyone up and look around here first?" "Forget it," I shook my head, "These shoes may have been washed down from the upstream by the stream, who knows how far it is, I'm tired of a day, let's have a good rest, I'll go to the edge of the stream, forget the distance of the road." ”5200

"I'm with you. Kehui stood up. I didn't refuse, and the two of them went together to have a higher margin for error. Moreover, in terms of the physique of the trialist, it is not a big problem to work a night shift.

We snuck out of the camp without attracting Hu Kun's attention. While it is taboo to break away from collective action, we don't expect any help from the ordinary people in the camps. If they run into trouble that neither of us trialists can solve, they will come for nothing.

And in essence, our team with Wang Pearl has not yet reached the realm of heart-to-heart. I'm not sure what trouble the first team is getting into now, I'd rather have the intel myself first and let the initiative be in the hands of the three of us.

With a wolf's eye flashlight, we walked upstream along the stream, one foot deep and one foot shallow. About half an hour later, we came to a small waterfall with a drop of about five meters. The stream joins into a small lake in this area, and since the current is not turbulent here, the edge of the lake is piled up with all kinds of debris produced by nature, and the smell of rot actually clears my somewhat confused head.

"Su Ling, you see that's—" Ke Hui narrowed his eyes and flashed his flashlight on the other side of the lake. I looked along the path of light, and I saw a large fish-like object lying on the shore of the lake.

"Is it a stranded fish?" we were about fifty meters away from the object, and it was hard to tell what it was in the dark. "How can there be such a big fish...", but Hui did not agree with what I said, "It should be a human corpse, let's go and have a look." ”

We came to a narrow stream and crossed over and touched the object along the shore. "Turtle turtle, it's really a corpse. "A male corpse was lying on the shore of the lake, dressed in the same clothes as we did, except that the shoe on his right foot was missing, and it was almost certain that he was a member of the first team.

"Is it Wang Pearl's person?" Ke Hui was about to turn the body over to take a look, and I pressed her eager hand. "Don't be diligent," I said, "even if this big brother shows his face, you don't know it, or don't destroy the scene." ”

"How do you think he died?man-made disaster or beast disaster?" Ke Hui asked as he withdrew his hand. There was a wound on the man's back that hit the heart, and the blood gushing out of it had become sticky. "There is a high probability that someone killed him. I replied, "I haven't heard of any beast attacking with stabbing strikes, most of them biting. This old brother should have been stabbed in the heart from behind. ”

"Su Ling, there are footprints here. Ke Hui pointed to the corpse and said. A few faint bloody footprints were left on the moss of the stones on the shore of the lake, pointing all the way to the jungle on the shore.

I motioned for Ke Hui to follow me, and at the same time pulled out the military dagger at my waist, which was the only weapon Wang Pearl had given me. Shortly after we got into the woods, we came across another corpse.

This corpse was dressed in the same outfit as before, but in a different way. The male corpse sat with its back against a tree of two people hugging the thickness of the tree, and the Heavenly Spirit Cover was completely crooked, 15 degrees to the right from the eyebrow bone, and its face was a little more hideous in the shadow of the canopy.

"This is probably the murder weapon. Ke Hui kicked a branch about a meter long next to the corpse. The branch was wrapped in the still sticky dark red human blood at one end, and a swarm of ants were climbing up and down it.

I lowered my body to look at the soles of the corpse's shoes, the ravine hidden in the blood-soaked dirt. "This brother killed the old man by the lake," I began, "but who killed him?"

"The first team, what the hell happened..."Ke Hui frowned. I was about to propose to go back to the camp to find the main army when I suddenly heard a click behind me and someone or something stepped on a branch behind my back.

The crawling and rolling in the trials made me almost instinctively grasp the dagger back, and stab when I turned around. A tall figure deftly ducked to the left, grabbing my wrist with the knife.