Chapter 27: The Misty Forest
Nan Hanfei frowned slightly, and the guide Master Wang saw it in his eyes, and added: "A long time ago, someone came to the Misty Valley and went back alive, saying that the terrain in the Misty Valley is easier to walk, much better than outside the valley, there are many mountain shoots in the Misty Valley, and the scenery is good, but later, I don't know what time it is, there will be some miasma in the Misty Valley from time to time, which is the kind of yellow weird fog you said, so few people came after that." ”
After Gu Yanan heard the words of the guide Master Wang, he asked curiously, "How long ago did someone come in?" He was the one who said there was no fog in the valley. ”
"Or I listened to my grandfather when I was a child, my grandfather said that when he was a child, he went to Qingcheng Mountain with his friends in the village to dig bamboo shoots and catch wild things, and walked to the area of the Misty Valley, there was a lot of fog in the Misty Valley during the day, but the air here was very good after every rain, they came into the mountain to dig bamboo shoots and catch wild things in the Misty Valley, and the harvest was very rich, but after a few years of growing up, the wild things here became scarce, and there were rumors that this place was haunted. The people in the town said that Misty Dale was an ominous place, and later, people in the neighborhood would try to avoid it when they entered the mountains. That would have been nearly 80 years ago. ”
Listening to what the guide Master Wang said was becoming more and more evil, Wang Xiaoxiao, who was also from Qingcheng County, couldn't help but sigh: "We still have such rumors in Qingcheng County, I don't know, more than 80 years ago, it should have been before liberation, right?" ”
The guide, Master Wang, glanced at the young Wang Xiaoxiao and said, "Little girl, you are still young, and my grandfather talked about it for so long. ”
"Grandpa?! I really haven't seen my grandfather look like him, and he was no longer there before I was born. ”
A young Qingcheng County villager in front of him, still a young girl, and talking about the early years of Qingcheng County, the guide Master Wang couldn't help but open the conversation as an elder, "The era in which my grandfather's generation lived was the most turbulent decades in China, the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the warlords, and then the War of Resistance against Japan, the Civil War, until the founding of New China, those decades, too turbulent, not as good as our current life......"
The guide, Master Wang, sighed on the side, and Wang Xiaoxiao occasionally echoed a few words.
After the sampling around the entrance of the Misty Valley ended, Gu Yanan asked the guide, Master Wang, "Master Wang, continue to lead the way." ”
The guide, Master Wang, agreed to lead the way in the Misty Valley of Qingcheng Mountain, firstly, because he heard from the CDC that the reason for entering the valley was to find the cause, and on the other hand, because the CDC would provide the best protective equipment, Master Wang was a little bottom in his heart, so he agreed very happily, "Okay, take you forward, just go down the mountain before dark." ”
The group walked along the river in the Misty Valley for some distance, and Gu Yanan chose another sampling point and began to continue sampling.
The types sampled are still soil, water, leaves, twigs, and air.
Seeing that the disease control personnel were busy sampling there, the guide Master Wang turned his head to chat with Nan Hanfei, "Officer Nan, did you find any clues?" ”
Nan Hanfei took a turn around the river and the surrounding slopes, and replied casually: "The rain was too strong just now, and the clues were basically washed away. ”
As soon as Nan Hanfei's words fell, he heard Wang Xiaoxiao, who was sampling river water on the river bank not far in front, scream in horror.
"Ah......h
The scream was terrible, piercing the entire valley, as if it had been terribly frightened in some way.
Everyone put down what they were doing and ran around Wang Xiaoxiao.
Wang Xiaoxiao pointed to a shallow beach in the valley and said in a trembling voice, "Corpse...... Corpse...... It looked like a corpse. ”。
Nan Hanfei was the most courageous, and walked to the corpse first, and Gu Yanan followed closely behind Nan Hanfei.
The shallows were indeed a human corpse, face up on its back, its feet half-submerged in the valley water, its upper body and thighs stranded on the shallows.
The corpse's face was badly eroded, and its bare hands were blistered.
The deceased's death was the same as the corpse found outside the Misty Valley, and he was wearing clothes with the words "Coastal Tourism Development Company" on them.
Nan Hanfei was already very sure in his heart that the two bodies found - the previous body and the current body in front of him, the deceased were both missing people reported by the Binhai Tourism Development Company a few days ago.
Two of the five missing persons have already appeared, and the remaining three may also be nearby.
Nan Hanfei called the police force and sent officers to investigate the scene and clean up the body.
Gu Yanan opened the sampling box and squatted down, ready to collect some samples for the newly discovered corpse.
Nan Hanfei suddenly grabbed Gu Yanan, Gu Yanan's eyes were questioning, but they quickly reflected Nan Hanfei's intentions.
Nan Hanfei was worried that Gu Yanan had destroyed the scene and the body.
"I just wanted to take a little sample that wouldn't cause a lot of damage to the body," Gu explained. ”
Nan Hanfei let go of his hand, and Gu Yanan collected the erosion and blister extraction fluid from the surface of the entity.
Nan Hanfei said: "The forensic doctor of the police force is not there, what can you tell from the corpse?" ”
Gu Yanan was born as a medical student and also has a certain understanding of autopsy.
Gu Yanan analyzed, "Judging from the situation around the corpse, the corpse was washed here by the river from the upstream and stranded on the shoal here.
The erosions and blisters on the surface of the corpses were not caused by unusual natural irritants, such as natural miasma, so I highly suspect that they were attacked by some artificial agent. ”
"Mustard gas?!"
"Well, it's quite possible."
How could mustard gas exist in this misty valley deep in Qingcheng Mountain?
If this artificially erosive agent does exist in Misty Valley, where exactly is its location?
Why did the five missing people come into contact with this deadly agent?
One mystery after another was still haunted in his heart, and Gu Yanan's brows couldn't help frowning.
Lu Li calmed Wang Xiaoxiao's emotions, turned around and asked Gu Yanan, "Director Gu, what should I do next?" ”
"Keep looking, looking for the source of the poison."
Master Wang, a guide who is usually well-informed, also became apprehensive in his heart after seeing two terrifying corpses one after another, and his voice was full of questions, and asked Gu Yanan, "I said Director Gu, two people have died, should we continue to look for them?" Will that poison hurt us too? ”。
Gu Yanan pointed to the biochemical protective suit that Master Wang was wearing, and said, "The biochemical protective clothing we are wearing now is the most advanced, which can resist the invasion of all kinds of poisonous gases, rest assured, as long as we are careful, it will be fine." ”
The guide, Master Wang, seemed to be fed a reassuring pill, "Okay, let's continue walking, but the speed should be a little faster, it's almost noon now, this time and again, it will be very late when we go down the mountain." ”
The group continued to follow the guide, Master Wang, to the depths of the Misty Valley.