Chapter 44: The Strange Car Number

I got out of the car and asked Zheng Taiyuan in a low voice, "What is it on your car?" ”

Zheng Taiyuan said very calmly: "Arsenic." ”

I said, "Why did you come to Lop Nur and pull so much arsenic?" ”

Zheng Taiyuan said: "I do hydrological experiments. ”

Bubu said: "To find manganese ore, you have to experiment with arsenic. ”

Zheng Taiyuan's pickup truck did have "dangerous goods" written on it. I relieved my doubts and said to him, "Lao Zheng, you can come with us." ”

He looked at Li Zhao who was tied up vigilantly, and then looked at us: "What's the matter with him?" ”

I said, "We suspect he killed someone." ”

Zheng Taiyuan said: "He is with you? ”

I said, "No, I met halfway." ”

Zheng Taiyuan said: "Do you suspect that he killed someone? ”

I said, "That's a long story. Don't worry, we're not bad people, we're all professionals. ”

Then, I pointed to Bubu, Zhang Hui, Wei Zao, Xu Erge and Meng Xiaoshuai: "She is an agency cadre, he is a prison policeman, he is a veteran, he is a radio announcer, and she is a model. I'm a writer. The Soviet Red Army who traveled with you to Lop Nur is Bubu's husband. ”

Zheng Taiyuan didn't ask any more questions, he went around to the back of the car and looked into the carriage with some nostalgia.

I said, "Throw them all away, there's no way we're going to let you take them." ”

He said, "Then ...... Throw it away. ”

Zheng Taiyuan walked to the front of the car with us, and Bubu said: "Zheng Taiyuan, you can take my car!" ”

Wei Zao said, "Let him take my car." ”

His consideration was right, we met this Zheng Taiyuan Pingshui, after all, there were only her and Meng Xiaoshuai in Bubu's car, both of whom were women.

Bubu insisted: "I want to talk to him." ”

Bubu's husband has been missing for two months, and Zheng Taiyuan is the last person to see her husband, and she has too much to ask Zheng Taiyuan.

Wei Zao looked at me.

I said, "Just let him ride in Bubu's car." ”

So, Zheng Taiyuan got into Bubu's car.

Bai Xinxin walked up to me and whispered, "Are you sure you want to take him back?" ”

I said, "He mentioned Bubu's husband, it must be the scientific expedition team, and it won't be wrong." ”

Bai Xinxin said: "If we keep having people joining, we will soon be out of cooking." ”

I said, "So you're going to leave him here?" ”

Bai Xinxin glanced at me and didn't say anything more.

By this time it was already getting a little dark.

Four vehicles returned along the road they had come.

We didn't find the three bodies, but there was one more member of the expedition.

When we returned, it seemed to take us much shorter.

When they arrived at the camp, perhaps because of the arrival of strangers, Four Eyes cried again. The Outer Ones chased it away.

Bubu told everyone about the situation, and then brought Zheng Taiyuan bread and a box of canned sardines.

Pulp winked at me at the tent door, and as I walked over, she whispered, "Is this man reliable?" ”

I said, "Everyone we met in this place was unreliable. ”

She said, "Then why did you bring him back?" ”

I said, "Because he's suspicious." ”

She said, "It's so profound, I don't understand." ”

I said, "Slowly you'll understand." ”

I really don't trust this Li Zhao, I don't trust this Zheng Taiyuan 100%, I don't even trust the rice beans, spoons and big things lying on the Gobi. I don't trust their corpses.

Isn't it strange that this is no man's land, and we meet people one after another?

Lop Nur covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, but I met two cars near the camp, is it so coincidental? Using Lop Nur as a shooting target, the 123456789 rings were empty, and I and these accident scenes were concentrated on the bull's-eye.

Zhang Hui ran over and asked me, "Boss Zhou, what should I do with that Li Zhao?" ”

I said, "I'll talk to him alone." ”

Zhang Hui said: "Okay, he's in the car, you call me if there's something." ”

I climbed into my Land Rover Defender.

Li Zhao was still tied up.

I closed the car door and looked at him, and he looked at me.

I said, "It's just the two of us, you name it." ”

He said, "Can you show me your phone?" ”

I said, "What do you mean?" ”

He said, "I'm worried about you recording. ”

I took out my phone and showed it to him, then turned it off: "Say, why did you kill them?" ”

He said, "How many bodies do you see?" ”

I said, "You should know better than I know how many people you killed." ”

He said, "Tell me, how many bodies did you see?" ”

I said, "Three, spoons, rice beans, and big things." ”

He said, "Great, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to wash myself by jumping into the Yellow River......

I said, "What do you mean?" ”

He said: "Actually, there are 5 of us in total, so it means that there is still one person alive, maybe he has escaped!" He will prove that I did not kill people. ”

I quickly judged that he was telling the truth.

There were 5 of them, but one of them never appeared on camera. No matter who killed the rice beans, spoons and big things, they died in the hinterland of Lop Nur, and this Li Zhao has also been wandering around the hinterland of Lop Nur, and I picked up the video recorder on the Gobi Desert that entered Lop Nur, which means that the last person is not dead, he is about to walk out of Lop Nur, and he saw our convoy entering Lop Nur. Later, he may have been killed, otherwise how could he have dropped the VCR?

I asked, "Why didn't you mention this person last time?" ”

Li Zhao said: "He is my own brother. I felt the danger and ran away on my own, I didn't have a chance to take him, I was too selfish. I thought, Spoon and my wife want to kill me, won't they do anything to him? ”

I said, "What's your brother's name?" ”

He said, "Li Dong." ”

He may be hinting to me that he is not called Li Hua but Li Zhao. I don't believe it.

I said, "Did your brother kill those three people?" ”

Li Zhao said: "He is very cowardly, it is impossible to kill!" ”

I said, "Tell me, then, how did those three people die?" ”

Li Zhao said: "You see that they are all poisoned? ”

I said, "Yes." ”

Li Zhao thought for a while, and suddenly said, "You should let go of me and tie up that person just now." ”

I said, "Why?" ”

Li Zhao said: "Who has poison? ”

My heart trembled slightly.

Yes, that Zheng Taiyuan's car was loaded with more than a dozen kilograms of arsenic!

Li Zhao said again: "When I saw him for the first time, I thought that the clothes he was wearing were very familiar, and finally remembered that it should be the clothes on the spoon!" …… I can't remember the shoes, I remember, the spoon seemed to be wearing a pair of white shoes. I forgot what shoes the big thing was wearing. ”

My head is big.

Brown leather jacket, jeans...... Spoons are indeed wearing the same clothes! And Zheng Taiyuan is really out of place when he wears it, it looks too big, and his trousers are pulled up.

If this man was really wearing clothes from the dead bodies, it means that he was not trapped in the pickup van at all, and after I left the three bodies, he stripped off the clothes of the dead bodies and put them on his body, and then moved to another place, and somehow locked himself in the pickup van......

If so, he was as familiar with the ecstasy as the grave keeper was with the cemetery he watched.

Could it be that Li Zhao is really innocent?

I said, "Then why did you frame me for stealing your money?" ”

He said, "I'm sorry, Boss Zhou, I have to protect myself." ”

I untied the rope for Li Zhao: "No matter who you are, I don't like you very much." With that, I got out of the car.

I called Zhang Hui and said to him, "We have no evidence to determine that Li Zhao killed someone, so I let him go." ”

Zhang Hui looked at me, his eyes full of suspicion.

I said, "I made peace with him." I know you're going to doubt me, and all I can say is that I promise that I won't gamble with everyone's safety, and I will never deliberately frame him. ”

Zhang Hui said: "Why did you change your mind? ”

I said, "The people I saw were poisoned, and this Zheng Taiyuan's car had arsenic on it." From today onwards, you have to beware of these two people, and for everyone's sake, worry more about it. ”

Zhang Hui nodded: "Don't worry." ”

Then I stood in the middle of the camp and shouted, "Come here, everyone, come to my tent and talk about something!" ”

Everyone came out of the tent one after another.

I said to Li Zhao and Zheng Taiyuan: "Li Zhao and Zheng Taiyuan, you two take a break, and our team will discuss the supply problem." ”

Zheng Taiyuan said, "Oh. ”

Li Zhao went back to my car.

When everyone had gathered in my tent, I closed the curtain and said, "Sit down." ”

Everyone didn't sit down, they all looked at me.

I thought about it for a moment and said, "I recruited you guys, and now we're lost, I'm sorry." There are some things that I have been hiding from you, I am afraid that you will panic, and now I want to pour beans into a bamboo tube and tell everything, I hope you will believe me and calm down. ”

Everyone sensed the gravity of the situation, no one spoke, they were all looking at me.

"When we entered the Gobi Desert, I picked up the VCR, and a few kilometers away, I saw another decomposing corpse," I said. I thought he had something to do with the VCR, but now it seems that this is not the case. There are a total of four people in the video, and after meeting this Li Zhao, I feel that he is very much like a person in the video, but the video can't be opened, I can't be sure. In the video, there are three people left at the end, and from their conversation, it seems that they have killed the other. Li Zhao said that it was his wife who sympathized with her husband and wanted to kill him in Lop Nur, but he fled. ”

Bai Xinxin threw out a sentence, obviously sarcastically mocking me: ", it's getting more and more like a novel." ”

I ignored him and continued: "Later, we met a strange child, and everyone saw him, he stayed with us for two days and two nights, and then disappeared mysteriously. This afternoon, when you were taking a nap, I saw children again, not one, but a group, and I immediately got in the car and chased them, and they ran so fast that I couldn't catch up, and then they disappeared, but I saw a car......"

Speaking of which, I looked at Bubu: "I didn't want to tell you how I found that car, and I still didn't want to scare you. ”

Then, I continued: "I saw three bodies, the three people in the video. Of course, I suspected that Li Zhao killed three of my companions, but unexpectedly, he bit me back, saying that I took his money. I took you to find the car, and miraculously saw Zheng Taiyuan's enclosed pickup truck......"

Bubu said, "Why did you release Li Zhao after you came back?" ”

I said, "I talked to him just now, and he said that there were actually five of them, and one of them was probably still alive. According to him, the man was his younger brother and I didn't trust him very much. He reminded me that the one most likely to kill his three companions was actually this Zheng Taiyuan, and I think it is a bit reliable, because those three people were poisoned, and this Zheng Taiyuan's car was loaded with arsenic......"

Bai Xinxin said: "I just said, you shouldn't bring him back!" ”

Bubu immediately became nervous: "Isn't my husband also killed by him?" ”

I said, "I don't know. Now, we can't be sure who is the good guy and who is the wicked guy, or we should just expel these two people, whether they live or die, and you can take a stand. ”

Bai Xinxin was the first to raise her hand: "I agree!" ”

No one raised their hand again.

I looked at everyone and said, "What does it mean not to raise your hand?" Disagree? ”

No one spoke.

Bubu asked me, "What is your attitude?" ”

I said, "Whoever they are, they're all trapped in this ecstasy now, and I can't bear it." ”

Bubu said, "Then listen to you." ”

Bai Xinxin glared at Bubu and said, "Are you responsible for what happened?" ”

Bubu said, "What do you mean I'm responsible! Everyone is responsible! ”

I said, "From today onwards, let Zheng Taiyuan and Li Zhao sleep in a tent." We don't have so many tents, just two, four people in each tent and three people in the RV. In addition, every car owner should not leave the car keys in the car, and when you get out of the car, you must pull them out and put them in your pocket. ”

After a pause, I added, "Next I want to say that we didn't get lost this time by accident. When all our communication devices suddenly failed, we found the elf and the strange child, how could it be so coincidental? I suspect that he, or rather, they, are part of the ecstasy...... To be honest, I'm not scared much, I don't think it's an encounter, it's an adventure. ”

Bai Xinxin was suddenly a little excited: "Writer Zhou, do you think we will have an affair?" ”

I ignored him and continued, "Moreover, we people are destined to come to Lop Nur, to come to the land of ecstasy, to go through these things. ”

Bubu looked at me: "What do you say?" ”

I said, "It's fate that brought us here, if you don't believe me, let's take a look at our car number." ”

Bubu said, "What do you mean?" ”

I said, "The latitude and longitude of the center of Lop Nur Lake is the tail number of each of our cars. ”