Chapter 15: The Labyrinth
Chen Taidong doesn't seem to be a person who likes to sell guanzi, most of the time he talks to ask himself, after asking Fu Mingwei and others about telling him about the tattooed weasel, and reminding him who the friend that the police may be coming to, Chen Taidong immediately said three words: "Zheng Cangqiong!" β
After listening to this, Fu Mingwei asked very calmly: "Why?" β
Chen Taidong smiled: "Officer Fu, don't you think why you asked too much today?" β
At this moment, Wu Zhinan smiled on the side: "Okay, he can stop asking, then let me ask - why?" β
Chen Taidong looked at Wu Zhinan and said: "The reason is very simple, he knows that I will cooperate with you, so remind me, what to do, what not to do, what to say, what not to say, I think, next, the focus of the police will no longer be on Heyumen, but on the body of the tattooed weasel, so after arriving at the destination, let's start." β
Mr. Chen smiled confidently, as if he had now helped the police catch the weasel. This made Wu Zhinan feel very puzzled, but it made Fu Mingwei feel terrible, he didn't know what kind of medicine this old man was selling in his gourd, but he knew that Chen Taidong's purpose was by no means simple.
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In that mysterious valley in Xiangxi, the torturers and others had already packed their things and set off since early in the morning, although a series of accidents that happened last night caused them to not rest very well, but because time waited for no one, He Yuejia's life was completely in the hands of everyone, and they had to grit their teeth and speed up.
According to Yuan Zhenba, although He Yuejia has a little fever now, her condition will definitely recur, because to remove that toxin, there must be a special medicine, and this special medicine is only available in the medicine cave in the Jiacuo Palace, even if there is a way to bring He Yuejia back to a civilized and civilized big city and find a top hospital, it may not be able to save her back.
Therefore, everyone has no choice but to move forward, not to mention, the threat of the weasel has not been lifted.
Fan Meng walked in the middle with He Yuejia on his back, He Chenxue followed behind, holding He Yuejia who was barely awake with his hands, in front of him were Xingshu, Yan Gang, Bai Zhongzheng, and after the break were Samuchuan, Tan Tong, and Yuan Zhenba.
A group of 9 people shuttled through the half-human-high shrubs in the valley, Yan Gang and Bai Zhongzheng's mountain knives continued to chop the surrounding hardwood, and the torture technique also judged from these semi-primitive environments that no one had been here for many years, at least since the group of people who came in the eighties of the last century, no one should have set foot in this area again.
The torture was full of questions, wondering what those people were here for, and where were their whereabouts? Unexpectedly, after walking for a few hours, on the eve of entering the next stone forest area, they found half of the answer - in an open field outside the stone forest, they found 4 skeletons.
At the same time as the bones were found, Yan Gang raised his hand and motioned for the people behind him to stop and rest, and he and Bai Zhongzheng slowly stepped forward to check.
After Yan Gang checked for a while, he shook his head and said: "The bones are not damaged, it should not be a fall or a fracture or something like that, if it is injured by a sharp weapon, it is possible that he will die of excessive bleeding and shock." β
"Before, we judged that there were seven people living in that camp, so to speak, these four skeletons should be among the seven people, according to the current situation, 4 died here, and 3 went inside, it seems that these 4 people can't be saved, so we have no choice but to let them go and move forward on their own." β
Bai Zhongzheng rummaged through the backpacks of the four people, found some canned food and other things from them, and some almost useless daily necessities, and found nothing else.
"The three men left with tools and other useful things, leaving behind enough water and food for these people to survive." Bai Zhongzheng touched the clothes on the surface of the skeleton and said, "Looking at the clothes, they look like workers' clothes in the late eighties and early nineties, although they are almost rotten, they can still be distinguished, plus their figures and bone sizes, they should all be Chinese, not foreigners." β
Xingshu stared at the bones, and glanced back at Fan Meng and the others, at this time He Chenxue was feeding He Yuejia water, and Fan Meng seemed to be afraid of something, and was reluctant to step forward, just stood far away, frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" It's time to move on, right? β
"Wait a minute, we've been walking for hours, and we're going to have to give the others a break." After the torture technique was finished, he felt that his tone was a little wrong, and immediately turned into a question, "Team leader, what do you think?" β
Fan Meng nodded: "Rest for ten minutes, and set off immediately after ten minutes!" β
Xingshu nodded, and the others didn't pay attention to him, including Yuan Zhenba at this time, they were unwilling to accept his command anymore.
"In this way, if there are 3 foreigners, they should all be alive." As he was talking about this, he noticed that the color of the bones in some parts of those bones was a little strange, he waved his hand to call Yuan Zhenba and Samuchuan, and pointed to the wrist of the leftmost skeleton, "Look at it, has this person been poisoned?" β
Yuan Zhenba took a closer look and said, "It looks like he's been poisoned." β
As soon as Yuan Zhenba finished speaking, Samuchuan stepped forward and cut off the wrist bone directly, and then looked at the broken mouth and said: "Not only is it poisoned, but it is also deeply poisoned, you see, there are clear marks on the wrist bones, but they don't look like tooth marks, and the bones are all black, and the poisoning is not shallow." β
Yuan Zhenba also broke off the other parts of the bones, and seeing that the original location of the bone marrow was also all pitch black, he gasped and said, "If I'm not wrong, they should all be poisoned by ghost insects." β
As soon as Yuan Zhenba finished speaking, he heard Fan Meng, who didn't know when he was standing behind them, roaring, "Let's go!" Let's go! Let's go! β
After Fan Meng heard Yuan Zhenba's speculation, he also knew that He Yuejia didn't have much time, and those words just now were undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire to him, so he began to urge everyone to hurry up and continue to set off.
Xingshu frowned, got up and said, "Let's go!" β
After the torture technique spoke, the others who were originally resting quickly got up, this action made Fan Meng even more angry, but he didn't care about these things at all now, he just wanted to save He Yuejia as soon as possible.
When Fan Meng squatted down to carry He Yuejia, He Chenxue was supporting her sister beside her, but she didn't expect that because she accidentally didn't support her, He Yuejia almost fell, but fortunately, she stepped forward with an arrow step in the torture technique and supported He Yuejia who almost fell, but what He Chenxue didn't expect was that Fan Meng turned his head and roared at her: "Your eyes are not good, don't come here to get in the way, stay aside!" β
After this roar, Fan Meng's eyes did not show the slightest remorse, and he was the first to walk forward after carrying He Yuejia. The torture technique did not comfort He Chenxue on the side, he knew that now his comfort was not only worthless in He Chenxue's eyes, but also counterproductive, so he could only pretend that he didn't see anything, heard nothing, and move on.
But other people are not as "sensible" as torture, almost everyone deliberately turned their heads to look at her when they walked past He Chenxue, and everyone's eyes showed two words - deserved.
He Chenxue, who was left at the end, stood there expressionlessly, as if he had become a lifeless stone statue.
Everyone set off, the torture technique walked for a while, stopped there, still a little unbearable, turned around and said: "Miss He, let's go, let's go, time waits for no one." β
He Chenxue barely squeezed out a smile, nodded and stepped forward, silently following behind the torture technique, and now her mind flashed all the pictures that Fan Meng had done to her in every way, but these pictures were finally torn apart by Fan Meng's scolding a few minutes ago.
"If you choose yourself, you will bear it." Torture suddenly whispered in front of him, "I don't mean to be sarcastic about you when I say this, I just want to tell you that some things, like our adventures now, can't be stopped once they begin." β
After a long time, He Chenxue whispered behind him: "Torture, it's good that we didn't really start, if that's the case, I will hurt you more and embarrass myself even more." β
The torture technique said lightly: "Yes......"
When He Chenxue heard this "yes", her heart suddenly twitched, she knew that she and the torture technique might never be able to go back, no, it should be said, it could not be continued, because there was no real beginning between the two of them in the first place.
"Stop-" Yan Gang at the front suddenly shouted, and immediately rushed to the front to take a look, and when he walked to the front of the team, what caught his eye was another skeleton.
Samuchuan stepped forward and said, "It's another one, it seems that when they came here, there were only two of them left." β
The anxious Fan Meng said impatiently at this time: "Do you still have time to analyze this!?" Let's go! β
After Fan Meng finished speaking, he quickened his pace and walked towards the stone forest, He Chenxue was stunned, clenched her fists, or chased after her cheekily, followed behind Fan Meng, supporting He Yuejia's body with her hands, but no one else stepped forward.
Xingshu squatted down and looked at the bones, and said at the same time: "Zhong Zheng, Yuan Zhenba, you go and follow them, let Fan Meng not go too fast, the situation ahead is unknown, and it will be dangerous." β
Bai Zhongzheng said "um" and quickly stepped forward to chase in.
"This one doesn't look poisoned." Samuchuan looked at the body from top to bottom, "I didn't have any obvious injuries, I don't know how he died, it's strange." β
Yan Gang used the mountain knife to flick the bones: "Look at the back, maybe you will find something." β
Who knows, as soon as Yan Gang touched the bone, the whole bone was scattered, and after it was scattered, the first thing everyone saw was a short arrow nailed to the rock behind the bone!
Seeing this scene, Xingshu immediately got up, looked at the surrounding environment, looked at the stone forest that had not found anything wrong before, and then used a knife to cut the vegetation on the so-called rock surface behind the skeleton, Yan Gang and Samuchuan also realized something, and also began to cut off the vegetation on the stone pillar and the rock surface, although Tan Tong didn't understand why, he also followed suit.
After a while, after everyone cut down the vegetation, they saw that the rocks and stone pillars inside the vegetation were carved with strange patterns and some unknown words. Hurry up! Call them back too! It's a labyrinth! β
After the torture was shouted, it took a long time to hear Bai Zhongzheng's response: "I can't go back, after chasing in for ten meters, I found out, I turned around and came back, and I couldn't find the original way." β
The torture technique asked again: "What about Yuan Zhenba?" β
Bai Zhongzheng replied: "He was one step ahead of me, and he disappeared after entering, I didn't find him, he didn't seem to have a walkie-talkie." β
"It's miserable!" He took a few steps forward, and saw that the stone pillars and rocks in front of him and on the left and right sides looked similar, and when he turned back, he found that they were similar, as if he had set up a mirror here, and what he saw in front of him was only a mirror image of the surrounding scenery.
"Don't move! Don't fall apart! Bai Zhongzheng's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "I tried to find Fan Meng and Yuan Zhenba, remember, you must use the walkie-talkie to find someone, don't shout, this kind of maze is designed in the way of echo wall, sound stone and the like, even if you think that the person you are looking for is next door, when you walk over, you will find that the sound has changed its position again, and in the end you will only be completely trapped to death!" β
Xingshu glanced back, and the others behind him were extremely nervous, and then asked Bai Zhongzheng: "Xiaobai, you are an expert in this area, is there any way to crack it?" β
In the depths of the labyrinth, Bai Zhongzheng tied the rope to one of the stone pillars, and then began to search slowly, his plan was that if he found something wrong, he could also follow the rope back to his previous position, so as not to get more and more confused, and at the same time use a mountaineering pickaxe to cut large marks around.
Bai Zhongzheng replied: "Generally speaking, the more simple the labyrinth is made, the more there is no way to crack it, and there is only one way out, but as long as you look for that kind of maze slowly, you can find it sooner or later, but this kind of manufacturing place has set up a labyrinth of countless traps, although you can find a way to crack it, but it takes advantage of the blind spots of many people, I used to encounter a similar place in Lop Nur, where it is Yadan terrain, surrounded by wind erosion ridges, many places look exactly the same, you can see the distance, you can see the sky, but you just can't get out." , But it's natural, natural can still find a certain pattern, it's not that I scare you, it's better to take it step by step, walk steadily, see the left and right and under the feet clearly, I have found two traps before, I won't talk about it first......"
After saying that, Bai Zhongzheng's communication was cut off, and the torture technique turned to look at the others, and the others glanced at each other and nodded at the torture technique.
Yan Gang looked around and said: "From now on, the distance between you should not exceed two meters, it is best to maintain it within one meter, no matter what happens, tell the people around you first, remember not to do it yourself, chase it, or have other actions." β
Everyone nodded, and Samuchuan walked to the front and said, "I'll lead the way." β
Xingshu said: "Yan Gang, Samuchuan is at the front, and Tan Tong and I are at the back." β
The four of them lined up in a row and began to step forward cautiously, slowly shuttling between the stone pillars and the rocks, and at the same time holding the walkie-talkie and calling Fan Meng and He Chenxue, but after calling for a long time, there was no response.
To the south of the labyrinth, Fan Meng put down He Yuejia and sat on one side panting, and then shouted loudly to He Chenxue, who had been left behind beforeβafter the two of them found out that they were lost, and also found that there might be a labyrinth here, plus He Yuejia's body temperature rose, he quickened his pace, and He Chenxue was also left behind because of the fall. Who knew that when He Chenxue got up and turned again, although he could hear the sound of Fan Meng running, he didn't see where the person was.
He Yuejia, who was leaning under the stone pillar, was a little confused, but she also knew what was happening, she grabbed Fan Meng's hand and said with difficulty: "Go...... Find the morning snow, quickly. β
Fan Meng's attention at this time was not at all on He Yuejia's words, but looked at the surrounding environment, and then after determining that this was a maze, he immediately took out the walkie-talkie, and when he got it in his hand, he found that the walkie-talkie was out of power, and the battery was placed on He Chenxue's body, but He Chenxue did not have a walkie-talkie there.
"!" Fan Meng was about to smash the walkie-talkie, but he held back, after all, the thing was just out of power, not broken. He turned his head to look at He Yuejia again, and found that her face was flushed, but the back of her injured hand was black, and then he reached out and found that his body temperature was extremely high, so he immediately took out water, put it on a towel, and briefly cooled He Yuejia first.
He Yuejia tried to open her eyes, looked at Fan Mengdao, and said, "Go...... Go find the morning snow. β
Fan Meng shook his head: "This is a labyrinth, once I walk away, it is very likely that I will not be able to come back, I can't go to her." β
He Yuejia was anxious: "If you don't look for her, how can she find the way?" That's my sister! β
Fan Meng took a deep breath and said: "Yuejia, you have to believe me, I will definitely be able to take you out, after we go out, I will find a way to come back to save He Chenxue, what I need now is calm, I need to be calm......"
Although He Yuejia was confused, she also knew that the reason why Fan Meng became irritable and not calm was entirely because of her injury, that is, out of love and concern for herself, so she could no longer force Fan Meng to do anything, she could only pray in her heart that He Chenxue was safe.
And under another rock less than twenty meters away from the two, He Chenxue sat there, constantly turning her head to look around, her eyes could only see closer places, too far away was all blurry, she was supporting He Yuejia before, following Fan Meng is walking, once there is no one around, she is completely unable to move an inch, after all, this is not a city, there are people everywhere.
Labyrinth, here is a labyrinth. He Chenxue also determined this, she began to grope in her backpack with hope, hoping to find the walkie-talkie, because she wasn't sure if she was carrying that thing, and when she turned out the batteries, she remembered that her walkie-talkie had already been returned to the torture technique.
A showdown with torture on the cliff, and at the end she seemed to return the walkie-talkie to torture in order to strengthen her determination, all of this, now it seems, seems to be a punishment for her.
Coupled with Fan Meng's attitude now, He Chenxue wanted to cry very much, and at the moment when her tears slipped from her eyes, she vaguely saw that somewhere on her right side, there seemed to be a person or something standing, because the thing moved, slowly moving from left to right, and then moved back again.
He Chenxue subconsciously grabbed a stone and asked, "Who?" Who's where? β
The thing didn't answer, just stopped moving, and then stood there, although He Chenxue couldn't see clearly, he also felt that the thing seemed to be staring at him, just staring at it so directly, he saw that his back was cold.
At this moment, He Chenxue, who was extremely frightened, began to shout loudly, but the moment she subconsciously shouted out, what she shouted was the word "torture", perhaps, people can only understand who they believe most in their hearts when they are cornered and at a critical moment.
Sadly, after He Chenxue shouted the name of the torture technique, he changed the word "torture technique" to "Fan Meng" in the next shout.