I don't have time to think about how Lao Wang's call came in, since it has already come in, I can only answer it first.

I pressed the answer button, and the call went through immediately.

"Lao Wang?" I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't want to alarm anyone else, so I screamed at the top of my throat and looked outside the tent with my head out. Kampot sat less than ten meters away from the tent, smoking his own cigarette.

The phone was obviously connected, but I didn't hear Lao Wang's response.

"Lao Wang?" At this time, my heart panicked, Lao Wang's overall mood during this time was a little abnormal, I always thought that it was because the two of us did not reconcile after the last face. Being in this kind of place, in the middle of the night, Lao Wang suddenly made an impossible phone call, all of which seemed a little abnormal.

"I want to have a few words with you."

"Say what?" I could hear that in addition to Lao Wang's voice on the other side of the phone, there was also a whirring wind: "Lao Wang, where are you?" If you have anything to say, you can come back first. ”

"I can't go back...... Don't look for me again......"

"Lao Wang! Where the hell are you! "As soon as I heard this, I was anxious, and it was exactly the same as my hunch, which was quite bad. With the phone in hand, I went straight out of the tent and looked around.

"Don't look for me." Lao Wang sighed, as if he had forgotten all about turning his face before, and his tone was not the same as before. In my impression, Lao Wang will always be a big grinning and heartless person, but now, his tone is full of a deep helplessness, as well as unspeakable melancholy: "In this life, people always have to do some meaningless things, and no one can escape it." But I believe this should be the last time......"

"Lao Wang, if you have anything to say, you come back, let's talk slowly, Momo and the kitten are very worried about you." While talking to Lao Wang, I ran to Kampot and asked Kampot with a gesture if he had seen the old dynasty go anywhere just now.

Kampot turned around and was a little surprised to see me holding the phone and gesturing to him while talking.

Before Kampot could answer me, I heard Lao Wang take a breath on the other side of the phone, and then his voice disappeared, and the feeling was like a person taking a breath and just wanted to speak, but his throat was cut by someone.

"Kampot, the old dynasty is gone!?" I hung up the phone and asked Kampot urgently.

"Towards that side." Kampot pointed, "I thought he was going to make it convenient." ”

"You stay here, guard the camp!" I pulled my leg and ran in the direction that Kampot was pointing.

There were no footprints on the ground, and no traces were left, I only know the direction in which Lao Wang left, but the exact location is unknown. I could only run in this direction, looking around as I ran.

The night on the plateau is quieter and clearer than the night in the city, and the clear moonlight allows the eye to maintain a certain visual distance. I couldn't see Lao Wang's figure, and I ran out at least four or five hundred meters away in one go.

There was a rift in front of me that stretched from west to east, not very deep, and I ran to it to see that if I was a man with weak legs, I might be able to climb down the rift. I opened my throat and shouted Lao Wang, and the premonition in my heart became more and more bad.

If the old king had run here, he would have been stopped by the rift, and he would have gone either east or west. In the hurry, I didn't have the time to choose, and I ran west along the rift.

This time, I ran two or three hundred meters away. Although the light at night was not comparable to the light during the day, when I got here, I saw the edge of the rift valley and a lonely mobile phone.

That's Lao Wang's mobile phone, it must be, he is very picky, the mobile phone has not been changed for a long time, this is impossible to admit wrong. I ran straight to my phone, and immediately felt like I had been stabbed in the eye.

Next to the phone, there was a string of bloodstains. Drops of blood, coated in grit, had not yet been dried in the howling night wind. My heart sank to the bottom, and I swooped down to look down at the rift.

In the dark rift, I couldn't see anything, but I was sure that Lao Wang had made contact with me just now, but he had only been halfway through his words before he disappeared.

I felt that I suddenly lost my strength all over my body, and I recalled the scene when Lao Wang took a breath on the phone just now and stopped abruptly, and that kind of ominous premonition immediately reached its peak.

If I'm not mistaken, Lao Wang, he should be dead.

It seems that my judgment, my feelings, are still wrong. I feel that the situation has developed to this point, and the death of a member of my team has been resolved. But I never imagined that even at the most unlikely time, the shadow of death would envelop everyone at once.

I picked up Wang's phone and looked into the rift again. I gave up looking, if Lao Wang died, then his body would definitely not be found.

I went back to the camp and Kampot was guarding the tent of Zhang Momo and his wife. Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten had already woken up, and when I came back, Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten obviously noticed something and ran over to ask.

"Where's Lao Wang?"

I didn't answer, but glanced at Kampot, who was very interested, turned and walked to the side. After he left, I didn't know how to explain to Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten for a while.

"Lao Wang, isn't he?"

"From now on, don't leave the camp again." I nodded silently, my heart was extremely heavy, Lao Wang suddenly had an accident, which was beyond my expectations, and the death of the three of them, once it began, was chained: "Don't go anywhere." ”

This kind of thing has happened a few times, although after each incident, Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten have lost some of the most critical memories, but after all, they are living people, and it is impossible for them to be completely ignorant. After I said that, they had come to realize the gravity of the situation.

After explaining to them, I went to talk to Kampot again. I'm ready, we've arrived at Ringang now, and I'll do it, Kampot only needs to take care of the safety of Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten. I believe that if it were only to protect these two women, Kampot's reaction and skills would be much stronger than mine.

"Don't worry, I'll give you more money."

"It's not a question of adding money or not adding money." Kampot shook his head: "What's the matter with the employer, the two of them can negotiate the price again, I can help, I live on this." But I don't want to take my life. ”

"You protect the two of them so that there will be no more human lives."

Kampot thought for a moment, then nodded silently.

The next day, I set out alone and took a look around the camp within a radius of about two kilometers.

Ren Ang is desolate, and all life seems to be extinguished. Between walking and seeking, the feelings in my heart fluctuated. I've been recalling the last few words of Lao Wang, in fact, those few words are not like Lao Wang's tone. The rough old king couldn't say that kind of thing.

In this life, people always have to do some meaningless things, and no one can escape them. But I believe this should be the last time......

The last time, taken literally, is the end, and there will be no next time.

My feelings are getting more and more complicated, the four of us have organized more than one action, and Lao Wang has also died more than once. However, the feeling it brought to me this time is indescribable. Maybe it's because I also had that sad sense of farewell before I came here, so all kinds of emotions intertwined and made me have a bad thought.

One last time, will we ever be able to go back?

It took me at least ten hours to search in detail over a two-kilometer radius. I didn't have much hope, there are so many people who have not found the holy well, it is impossible for me to come here and go around and find it. In fact, as I thought, these more than ten hours of time were completely wasted, and nothing was gained.

Around seven o'clock in the evening, I started walking back. This range, which was probably within the signal reception range of the walkie-talkie, waited for me to walk a few hundred meters, and then called Kampot, but I did not get a response from Kampot.

My heart was faintly panicked, although I didn't know much about Kampot, but I knew that he was a more meticulous person, and if he received my call, it was impossible for him not to reply.

What's he doing? What's going on at the camp? I involuntarily quickened my pace and sped towards the camp. At the same time, I kept comforting myself in my heart, and I said to myself that Kampot might have gone for convenience, or maybe I had left the walkie-talkie in the tent.

As I ran, I was still eager to call Kampot. When I had run a few hundred meters and was probably less than a kilometer from the camp, Kampot finally gave feedback.

"Kampot!" I let out a long sigh, "What are you doing!?" Let me tell you, you have to carry the walkie-talkie with you at all times! ”

"The walkie-talkie, it's always been on me."

"Then why didn't you respond to me?"

"Didn't care...... I'm thinking about one thing......" Kampot's voice kept coming from the sound of the thorn and the electric current: "I was wondering if I should take the two of them to a place to ......"

"What do you want to do?" I was suddenly shocked in my heart, and I felt that Kampot's words were inexplicable. Thinking about it deeply, I don't know much about Kampot, so it's a bit inappropriate to risk Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten to him for protection. However, Kampot is the guide in charge of the contact with the original four seas, and the original four seas are relatively stable, and if they are not eighty percent sure, the original four seas will not make a move: "Where are you going to take them!?" ”

"Paradise ......"