Chapter 18: Diary in the Woods

The jungle to the west is the largest ecosystem on the island, with a more complex, uninhabited and dangerous terrain. Armbu had fought against beasts before, but this was the first time he had gone wild on someone's territory like this.

"Watch your step." Yang Qingnan has a lot of experience in trekking through mountains and rivers for a long time, and as an explorer, he must maintain a good attitude in any situation. He knew that if he made a discordant noise, he would most likely attract onlookers from wild animals.

Following in his footsteps, Alain Bu made one footprint after another on the damp mud floor, and he asked, "What should I do if I get lost?" ”

Yang Qingnan said in his heart that I am still afraid of getting lost? He looked down and thought about it, wasn't this road just gone? He immediately calmed down and said, "Don't panic. ”

Yang Qingnan immediately picked up his binoculars to observe the surrounding terrain and found that they were trapped in a hollow zigzag, which had been spinning around before. Now that he knew it, it would be easy to do, and Yang Qingnan quickly pointed out a way out.

But after going out, a serious problem jumped out, they didn't have a clear destination, and of course they didn't know where the passenger disappeared.

"It's over, we're looking for a needle in a haystack." He said, scratching his scalp.

"No, there's a hut up ahead!"

Yang Qingnan looked at his line of sight, and sure enough, the wooden house in his eyes was the same color as the surrounding trees, so it was not easy to distinguish. They leaned against an old banyan tree to form a regular circle, and the wooden strips were tied together with sturdy climbing ropes and hung with dark rags.

There is still a little penny left on the ground, so you can insert it into the ground and fix it with a wooden stick to act as a pillar.

Yang Qingnan looked at it, there were a total of six wooden houses, and each room was connected, which meant that there should be six people living here. They built their houses out of stout banyan trees and aerial roots, and used this place as a base to light fires outside the houses and sleep inside, but who were they?

"These people are here to hunt." Several long-barreled shotguns were thrown out of the house by Arambu, who was still carrying a loose roll of wolf skin on his shoulder.

This makes sense, animal skins can be sold to the town for a profit, and high-quality animal skins can be sold for more than three thousand. These hunters are veterans, but why do they leave without taking their skins with them? Hunting knives, kettles and other necessities are still here, could it be that they haven't left yet?

"Don't be in a daze, come and take a look at this layer of bark."

When Yang Qingnan arrived, he saw Alain Bu poking hard at a piece of blackened bark, with several thumbtacks stuck in it. It was impossible to break it off, but to scrape the bark of the tree, as if something was hidden inside.

Yang Qingnan found the opportunity to pull it out, and someone actually hid a small book in the bark, it is not the kind of small book that is easy to make people think, but just a single book used to write a diary.

The thin notebook records the following:

On a certain day, four of my friends and I landed on an island in the South Seas, and they were hunting, but I wasn't, I was just a small photographer, and I wasn't interested in hunting at all.

They say that there are exotic animals living on this small island, and there may be new species that have never been discovered before, and if they see it and photograph it, it will definitely be an important discovery in the history of biology.

This reason is ridiculously false, I have never seen them bring a camera, on the other hand, they only brought cold guns and animal traps, which proves that those words are absolutely.

On the first day, Wen Jiexing went out in a hurry, and they did not come back when it was almost dark. I was a little worried, but the Gesheng called and said they would be back soon. Sure enough, just after six o'clock, the two returned, and they also brought a deer back, but unfortunately Wen accidentally fell down the steep slope and broke one leg. The venison was delicious, and the deerskin was too inferior to be worth much.

The next day, we woke up early in the morning to find that Jie was missing, and Ge Sheng and Hai Yao went out to look for him, only to bring back bad news. Jay died, being bitten to death by wolves in the forest. I'm saddened that Jay used to be my best friend, and it must have been the patron saint of the mountains who took his life, and this bloody profession would bring bad luck on people's backsadding.

On the third day, Wen's injuries healed, he and Haiyao went out to hunt wolves, they said that they wanted to avenge Brother Jie, I advised them not to go, but they refused to listen. As a result, in the evening, only Hai Yao hurried back, saying that Wen had been bitten by a poisonous snake and could not walk a few steps. The three of us were panicked, believing that this forest was too evil to stay for long.

On the fourth day, we had agreed last night that we had to leave the forest today. But when we woke up in the morning, we were surprised to find that Hai Yao had been hung from a tree with a note attached to his body, with only four shocking words: Whoever walks will die. We suspect that he may have caused the disaster by trying to leave us behind and run away. We were so scared that we didn't dare to go out all day, and we couldn't sleep at night.

On the fifth day, today is a nightmare. When I woke up, I found that he was gone, he was not in the house, he was not outside, but he didn't take his things with me. I should have thought that something had happened to him, and in the end I was the only one left, when would it come and take my life?

On the sixth day, I was glad that my fingers could still move, but I actually thought of suicide, and in the end, wasn't it a death?

On the seventh day, it finally came to me, and I was so happy.

I saw that there was no longer a back, and there were only a few pages in the single book. It's a tragedy, and even if there is no law to bind them, they will not escape their death. Yang Qingnan showed an expression that he didn't know whether it was joy or sadness, he thought that it was a magical animal that killed them.

"If what this man wrote is true, I don't think that possibility exists. The murderer could only be people, maybe people within them, I think the most likely is...... This diary writer! "Actually, Alain Bu is not sure, he just has this intuition.

"This man claims to be a photographer, but he doesn't have a camera. Forget it, didn't he commit suicide in the end with depression? ”

"Can't you see it? This man is not dead. ”

"How so? He must have died, because wasn't the last sentence very clear? After Yang Qingnan finished speaking, he began to question his words again, yes, if he committed suicide, where did the corpse go?

In order to convince him, Alain Bu slowly gave his reasons: "First, the murderer's habit was to kill one person every day, but on the sixth day the man was still there. Second, suppose he committed suicide, how? According to his habits, he should make it clear in his diary. Third, psychoanalysis, this person is afraid of death, and he is the only one who has never left the camp. ”

"Well, you've analyzed this too thoroughly, haven't you?" Yang Qingnan was surprised.

"It's nothing, it's one of the perks of dealing with the police on a regular basis."

"Then let's go too, I'm afraid that murderer is still around."

Alan Bu patted his chest and promised: "Don't panic, I'm here." ”