Chapter 299: Wetlands in the ditch
Xingshu looked at Hou Wan and asked: "You ask Oleg, is there only this way, if there is another way, we will change directions, it is very uncomfortable here." ”
Indeed, not only the torture arts, but the rest of the people felt that this place was terrifying, although the sunlight spilled through the gaps in the leaves, they did not feel the warmth at all, even if the trees blocked the strong wind outside, they could not completely block the eerie cold air that shuttled through the trees.
Hou Wan took out his satellite phone and dialed Oleg.
Oleg quickly picked it up, and when he heard that they had entered the area of the wild frog ditch, he said: "You have been walking towards the north, don't go over the mountain, go inside the ravine, because it is too dangerous to go over the mountain, and the ravine is the safest road, where there are many abandoned mines, and you can shuttle through the mines." ”
Hou Wan was puzzled: "Mine cave? ”
Oleg said: "Yes, the Japanese army in World War II used to dig tunnels there in the name of mining, and after their defeat, they said that it was to annex the Soviet Union from this position, and you know, the Japanese way of thinking has always been very strange. ”
Hou Wan asked: "We went north and then into the ditch, but the mine was so wide that it was easy for us to get lost. ”
Oleg said: "No, it's easy to find, and there are road signs there, there were people who walked that road in order to smuggle, and then after the Russian army established a military base here, this road across the border was broken, but this time is different, I have already got the base commander, and I will meet you at the outpost here at the entrance of the cave." ”
There was something in Oleg's words, because he said it too easily, and the more relaxed he was, the more uneasy it made Hou Wan feel uneasy.
517 Lao He is definitely not stupid, Heluo betrayed them, will Lao He not notice it? Originally, this game was laid by 517, and what Heluo wanted was to break through this game and reap the benefits.
But in the game, it was Hou Wan and Wei Chi Ran.
Hou Wan put away the phone and said, "Let's go." ”
Wei Chiran suddenly said: "Those four students left when the camp was not fully arranged. ”
Torture asked, "What do you mean?" ”
Wei Chiran looked at the tent: "They are three men and one woman, the larger tent should live in the three men, and the small tent is the woman, this arrangement can be speculated, there is no woman's boyfriend among the three men, so you must give the women a certain amount of privacy, you look inside the tent." ”
Wei Chiran used the wooden stick in his hand to open the tattered big tent: "The things inside are in tatters, it is obvious that the animals have done it, there are three large hiking bags here, and some other things, basically none of them are missing, that is to say, the things they brought are all placed here." ”
Then, Wei Chi turned to the small tent, the small tent had almost collapsed, but another hiking bag could still be clearly seen: "That woman's bag is also here." ”
Torture smiled slightly: "Go on." ”
Wei Chi turned around and walked to the pit that had been dug up: "This pit is used for making a fire for cooking, the reason why it is so big and relatively deep is to avoid causing a mountain fire, but the pit is not completely dug, and the things around it are still there, which shows that something happened when this camp was not set up, causing them to leave." ”
Yun Jian frowned: "What happened has nothing to do with us. ”
Wei Chiran looked at Yun Jian and said, "What if there is something here?" If we don't find out in advance, we are also in danger. ”
After all, a year had passed, and even if the original clues had been covered up over time, Wei Chiran couldn't deduce from what he saw in front of him why those four people left the camp suddenly.
However, it is impossible to deduce, but to guess.
Xingshu said: "What Wei Chiran said makes sense, we still have to be vigilant. ”
"I guess maybe someone was looking for water or something, or surveying the surrounding terrain, and there was an accident, and the other people in the camp heard the call for help, so they hurried away." ”
Torture said: "There is also the phone call that Dagen said, I care about that phone very much, Dagen said that he heard a woman's cry on the phone, so it can be judged that the woman should be alive on the third night." ”
Wei nodded slowly: "But what about that heavy breathing sound?" ”
Torture thought for a moment and ordered, "Search the tent to see if there is anything like a cell phone." ”
Although Yun Jian was very disdainful and felt that it was redundant to do so, he still rummaged through Sima Qing according to the order of the torture technique.
Wei Chiran was also rummaging carefully, looking at the incomplete objects that had been turned out all over the place.
And the torture technique and Hou Wan were surveying the surroundings, and the torture technique observed the surroundings while saying, "Wei Chiran is your youngest operator, right?" ”
Hou Wandao: "Almost." ”
Xingshu smiled: "The observation is very keen, and there should be a lot of cases, but it is only an investigator, not a witness." ”
Hou Wan wanted to tell the torture technique that he was wrong, and what Wei Chiran experienced was unimaginable to others.
In fact, in Hou Wan's heart, Wei Chiran, a person who has not received training as a lone soldier, can come all the way with his own willpower, which is not easy, and ordinary people are either killed in the mission or have a mental breakdown.
Of course, there is also his credit here, and there is also Heluo's order, after all, the lone army will not let Wei Chi have an accident no matter what.
Wei Chiran is indeed important to the pure-bloods, but why does Lone Army value him so much? Hou Wan didn't know.
At this moment, the torturer crouched down and found a mobile phone next to the root of a large tree.
Hou Wan looked at the phone closely, and the phone was intact and not damaged.
Xingshu said: "The phone fell here, it seems that it is going in this direction." ”
Hou Wan looked ahead: "It's the north, the direction we're going." ”
Torture threw away his phone: "It's not our job to find out how they disappeared, if the danger is in our way, it's simple." ”
Hou Wan looked at the torture technique, and the torture technique made a slashing motion, accompanied by the raised corners of his mouth.
Hou Wan saw a lot of lonely shadows in the eyes of torture, in order to achieve the goal, anything can be done, and any obstacles that stand in front of him will be removed.
Wei Chiran, Yun Jian, and Sima Qing also didn't find any useful clues, and the torture urged them to leave, while Wei Chiran still looked at the abandoned camp of the four students, until Hou Wan stepped forward to call him, and then he turned to leave.
There was still a long distance from the woods to the ravine, but fortunately, the road was not difficult, it was all flat and not slippery, so after less than two hours, I finally reached the entrance of the wild frog gully.
When they came to the entrance, the five found that the so-called ditch had been dug by hand, and the grass next to it was still scattered with equipment used for previous digging, and even a generator was placed here, and there were several wooden houses that had almost collapsed not far away.
Seeing this, the torture technique said: "Sima Qing, Yun Jian." ”
Sima Qing and Yun Jian immediately dispersed and began to search the surroundings.
Wei Chiran also discovered a rule, no matter what the circumstances, the three people of Xingshu, Sima Qing and Yun Jian will always leave one to stay by Wei Chiran and Hou Wan's side.
It shows that the torture technique will never trust the two of them, and what he did also told the two that once something happens that he doesn't want to see, he will kill Wei Chiran and Hou Wan mercilessly.
Wei Chiran speculated, on the one hand, because of the personality and self-confident strength of the torture technique, and on the other hand, because of the mysterious organization behind him.
Half an hour later, Yun Jian and Sima Qing returned to the torture technique.
Yun Jian said: "No one. ”
Sima Qing also shook his head and said, "There is no corpse." ”
Yun Jian was to scout whether there were any living people around, while Sima Qing's task was to look at the corpses, but the two found nothing.
"There are no corpses, which means that before the Soviet army attacked, all the Japanese troops withdrew?" ”
Hou Wan asked: "Torture, as a native of the Northeast, haven't you heard of the place Wild Frog Ditch before?" ”
"Ordinary people in the Northeast don't know about this place, although I've heard people mention it, but it's just because it's an abandoned smuggling channel, and I've never heard about the Japanese army in World War II." ”
Hou Wan subconsciously glanced at Wei Chiran, who was analyzing the reasons why 517 and EAO let them go this way.
The five people slowly walked into the wild frog ditch and found that it was foggy and the visibility was acceptable, but the ditch was full of ponds, some large and some small.
Seeing this, Yun Jian said, "Oops, this place is actually a swamp. ”
"This is not a swamp, this is a wetland. ”
Wei Chiran said: "It stands to reason that wetlands shouldn't contain swamps? ”
Xingshu shook his head: "There is a certain difference between the two, the swamp soil is hypoxic, the organic matter decomposes slowly, the material decomposition process is slower, and the nutrients are less, the underground part of the swamp plants is not developed, and the root system is often exposed to the ground to adapt to the anoxic environment. Wetlands, on the other hand, are transitional zones between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and many plants characteristic of wetlands grow in a specific environment where the soil is immersed in water. ”
Sima Qing said in a hoarse voice on the side: "In the final analysis, the biggest difference between the two is that the species that grow are different, the swamp is mainly lower animals and plants, and the wetland is a higher animal and plant species, and the impact on the ecosystem is also different, and the wetland is relatively positive." ”
"If it's a swamp here, there's a miasma or something, and if you're not careful, you'll be poisoned." Eh, you're both from Southeast Asia, so you should be familiar with swamps, right? ”
Wei Chiran was not only familiar with the swamp, he had almost died in the swamp, so at a glance, he could see that this place was fundamentally different from the swamp.
Sima Qing led the way, and the five of them walked towards the interior of the wetland, and as soon as they entered the wetland, they found the planks sunk in the waterhole next to them, and they could see the pile heads outcropping from time to time.
The torture technique squatted down, pushed aside the grass and looked at the column head: "It's an iron column head, and the wooden plank sunk in the water should be the bridge plank, and the Japanese army built a bridge here." ”
Wei Chi looked ahead, took out his binoculars and looked at it, and vaguely saw that there were stone mountains in the depths of the wetland, and the shape of these stone mountains was like rockeries placed in the courtyard of the house, and there was an undamaged pontoon bridge in front of it.
Hou Wan also found a two-wheeled cart sunk in the water, and it was all around.
The torturer looked at Wei Chiran and asked, "Smart man, what do you think the Japanese are doing here?" ”
The lieutenant said chisely: "Didn't Oleg say it? The Japanese army was mining here, but it was definitely not a coal mine or something, it should be a rare metal or something, otherwise, they would not have erected a metal stigma in the water, and it was definitely not a tunnel to be used to annex and raid the Soviet Union, this kind of place is not suitable for large troops to pass through. ”