Chapter 18: Tracking the Geist (Part I)
Xia Ruobing was anxious, Mr. Min didn't sleep well all night, he was still a little blind when he was woken up, knocked on his dizzy head, and when he heard Xia Ruobing say that the body was gone again, his eyes widened!
As soon as Chen Badai heard this, he quickly jumped up and packed his things, and several people hurriedly packed up their things and stuffed them into their bags, intending to chase after them immediately, Wang Xingguo slowly returned to the cave and said, "What are you anxious about......?"
"Gone again?! The wind and rain are still leaving, and I am really rushing to reincarnate! Chen Badai said, stuffing the last thing into his backpack.
"I can't vote for a while, make breakfast and then leave." Wang Xingguo unhurriedly turned on the gas stove and sat down on the pot, which was filled with rainwater that was received at night.
"You?!" Xia Ruobing can't get out of the fire. Sherpa and Mr. Min stopped what they were doing and watched Wang Xingguo make breakfast gracefully.
"Has the dry food been checked? Don't want the kettle to be full? Is the equipment checked? Wang Xingguo said unhurriedly, "Not long after he left, I said that it was a good weather when it rained, and the traces he left were easy to trace, so there was no hurry." ”
The strange sound in the cave that has been bothered for almost a night has now stopped, in addition to some dark yellow and dark red rust in this hematite cave, there is not much difference from other caves, seeing Wang Xingguo's confident look, I think his proposal is good, it is better to chase after being full, in case you can't come back, you can be a full ghost.
Chen Badai put down his backpack, squatted by the gas stove with peace of mind, poured a bag of milk tea into the boiling hot water, and poured himself a cup first.
Mr. Min also put down what he was doing, he saw that the badge on his collar was crooked, which would damage his image, he took off the badge, wiped it, and pinned it again.
Wang Xingguo and Sherpa went around to look at the environment, and Chen Badai, who smelled the fragrance of milk tea, saw that Mr. Min attached so much importance to this badge and asked, "This thing was given by his wife?" ”
"I'm not married...... Well, no girlfriend either. Mr. Min smiled and took the milk tea handed to him by Chen Badai.
"Wow!" Chen Badai thought that such a person was really unscientific if he was not married and had no girlfriend, but after thinking about it, "Also, Mr. Min is a diamond king who changes girlfriends every day." ”
Mr. Min carefully pinned the badge, and when he saw that Xia Ruobing was also looking at him, he was a little embarrassed and half-joking: "I am a person with status." ”
The sun seemed to make up for yesterday's unfinished homework and rushed up to the sky, a few people ate breakfast, filled the kettle, checked the equipment and came out of the cave, the earth was already sprinkled with sun, the sky was so blue that there was not a trace of variegation, even the common clouds did not know what to do, under the sun's efforts to heat, the soaked grass last night quickly evaporated water, making people suspect that the grass would be scorched by the sun in the evening!
Everyone climbed up to the Ghost Gate Pass again, Mr. Min looked at the Ghost Gate Pass a few big words, and then looked at the deep passage, a little hesitant, there was a feeling of being in a different world.
"I left after the rain stopped, about ...... Well...... I walked for two hours, and I walked on a crawl, not too fast. Wang Xingguo has actually surveyed the "scene" a long time ago, he is still very confident in his trace survey, the rain fell in the passage, because there is a stone wall to obstruct it, it is not as wet as outside, the ground in the middle of the tide left a very clear drag mark, but there are no footprints.
"The beast dragged it?" Sherpa looked at the drag marks and said his judgment, but he wasn't sure.
"It's not...... The beast would pause when dragging something, but the trail did not pause, and after applying force, it was dragged away at a constant speed. Wang Xingguo said.
"It's like a snake crawling over it!" Chen Badai said with emotion that this trace is clearly recognizable, just like a big snake crawling over the moss in the mountains when he was a child, neat and clear.
Chen Badai's words made everyone's brains make up for the process of a dead man turning into a big snake and crawling away from here, this is definitely not a beautiful picture, Xia Ruobing glared at Chen Badai again.
"Could it be that the Yin soldiers carried it away?" Chen Badai put forward another point of view, but as soon as he opened his mouth, even Sherpa and Mr. Min threw strange glances at him, which obviously told him to shut up.
"Have you ever seen someone crawling with a dead man?" Wang Xingguo stood up, picked a little thing on the ground with his fingernails, looked at that little thing carefully, and put it under his nose and sniffed it.
"What is it?" Xia Ruobing asked.
"Something like grease, huh...... It should be the secretion of the animal. Wang Xingguo is not so sure.
When Sherpa heard this, he took out a small ziplock bag from his storage bag, scraped a little sample on the ground with a knife, and carefully packed it, and the sample was to be taken back for testing.
Don't look at the Sherpa who is tall and big, but he is also a rough and fine person, Wang Xingguo flicked off the foreign object in his hand, looked at everyone, and said very seriously: "Three principles: First, obey the command!" Second! Obey the command! Third! Or follow the command! ”
"Understood, sir!" Chen Badai said with a hippie smile, "So...... Now, open the way?! ”
Chen Badai's words made everyone's nervousness in holding their breath suddenly vented, Sherpa was packing the samples back into the bag, and when he heard it, he couldn't help but "plop" when he heard it, and even Xia Ruobing couldn't help but want to laugh.
Wang Xingguo made a gesture to Chen Badai: "Do you open the way in front of the ground?" ”
Chen Badai shook his head into a rattle: "NONONO...... Get out of the way! ”
"Okay, finally think about it in your head, is there anything that has fallen, eh...... I don't know what is waiting for us in front of us, take advantage of today's good weather, fast in and out, what information is needed, think about it first, don't waste time in a hurry, pay attention to vigilance, broaden your vision a little, go farther! Wang Xingguo regained his seriousness and said, seeing that everyone understood, he waved his hand and led the way to the ghost gate.
"We're about to take another big step towards Loulan's secret!" Mr. Min said, waving his hand with a hint of excitement on his face.
Looking at the eyes of everyone, Mr. Min felt a little embarrassed: "I'm just shouting a slogan to boost morale......"
Those who do adventure are somewhat superstitious, and Mr. Min's words make everyone feel a little weird.
"Mr. Min, as if you know what's going to happen...... Chen Badai muttered, "don't be anything bad." ”
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Walked into the ghost gate, standing on the edge of the big funnel, the weather after the rainstorm is really very good, standing here in the ghost gate pass, you can clearly see the conspicuous big flat top of the coffin mountain, and even the lines that you usually can't see are very clear at this time, the whole big funnel is completely presented in front of everyone's eyes at this time, high visibility is a good thing, and you can clearly distinguish the landmark. Wang Xingguo pointed to a bush of dwarf trees in the distance and said, "The location where the tent was found is about there, we will first trace the traces, and the second goal is to find the ruins." ”
Wang Xingguo carefully measured the distance from the gap in the distant mountain range, in the strong convective weather, the wind and sunlight will disperse the fog in the lower places, but this time will not last long, about two or three days, the wind will bring moisture from the gap in the mountain range, under the action of the turbulence in the low places, until the next strong convective weather to disperse them.
With the positioning of the landmark, everything is much simpler than last time, last night's heavy rain made the ground soft and wet, which is bound to leave traces more easily, no matter whether the more than 100 pounds of people are walking or climbing, they have left marks on the ground and in the grass, drag marks in the mud, and the fallen grass have betrayed the route of his action.
But some things still exceeded Wang Xingguo's judgment - I don't know if it was because of the slippery road after the heavy rain, the speed of the corpse's progress greatly exceeded his expectations, originally he judged according to the available information that the corpse's movement distance at this time would not exceed one kilometer, but all the way to follow the traces, at this time the corpse should be seen, but still nothing!