Chapter 42: Brawl
In the open desert, there was only the lonely tent in the camp, and as far as the eye could see, I found those figures as soon as they appeared. I immediately stopped all the slightest movements, opened my eyes, and looked at each other.
In the Danmeng Basin, we are not the only team!
The men got closer and closer, and I could see very clearly that there were six of them. They cooperated with each other tacitly, keeping their distance from each other, and searching their surroundings with their eyes as they walked.
These were six very strong men, with even footsteps, and they were composed and powerful, and when they came to the tent, they were actually in full view of the situation around them. I don't know any of them, but with a few details, I can guess some of the hidden information.
I saw six people, but I reckon, it's a large team, certainly more than six people. They didn't carry much equipment with them, nor did they bring much provisions, which means that in a place not too far away, there must be a camp, and possibly other accomplices.
In fact, as soon as these people appeared, they must have seen the tent, but they were not impatient at all, they were steady, and after making sure that there was nothing abnormal around, they slowly gathered around the tent from several directions.
When they arrived at the tent, they naturally saw the corpses of Lao Wang, Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten. A person bent down and checked it, Lao Wang, they were really dead, but this person still checked very seriously.
When the man had finished examining him, without saying a word, the six men divided into three groups, carried the corpses, and walked back the way they had come.
Although I didn't know these people, I could tell from their every move that they were all experienced veterans, so I didn't dare to follow them too closely, and when they were far away, I slowly climbed out of the bunker.
The place was very close to the surface fault zone, and six people were carrying the body, apparently walking towards the fault zone. The road was winding, so it was dark, and they had to use lighting, which was undoubtedly easy to follow, and I followed it from a long distance, and I wouldn't lose it.
As soon as you enter the fault zone, the speed will definitely be slow. But I found that these people are familiar with the topography of the fault zone, and if it is the first time to come here, they will be blocked by complicated roads and large and small ravines and rifts.
I don't care where the other party is going, but I'm determined to follow them to the end. Before I knew it, I was following them and had come to a deep part of the fault zone. The terrain is getting more and more dangerous, and you have to concentrate on walking.
I had been following for at least five or six hours, and I was a little distracted, when I suddenly saw a bright light from a flashlight not far ahead.
As I thought, these six people really have accomplices. But I don't understand what they are going to do when they bring three bodies here.
The six men carrying the corpse soon ran into each other, which was already very deep in the fault zone, and outsiders probably couldn't get there.
The terrain changed as a whole, and a deep and wide rift ran through the east and west, and in front of the gang was a black rift abyss.
There were six people who moved the bodies, and there were three more left here, for a total of nine people. They placed the body a few meters away from the abyss and sat down to rest. No one exchanged words, not even a word, and each of them silently drank water and smoked.
I hid in a suitable place, continued to peep, waited for about ten minutes, and slowly walked over from somewhere.
As soon as this man walked over, all nine people stood up, and there was no doubt that this man must be the leader of the team.
There was a flashlight in the crowd, but after this person came, someone turned on two flashlights. All the light focused on the three corpses at the edge of the abyss. The man walked slowly over to the corpse with his hands behind his back.
At this time, my eyes suddenly widened. I could see it clearly in the light.
Old man Liu! The one who slowly walked to the corpse with his hands behind his back was the old man Liu who I hadn't found for two years! For this person who has appeared in my nightmares countless times, I will never admit that I am wrong. The last time I came to the rift zone, Zhang Momo's body fell under the rift, and Old Man Liu showed his face, but at that time, my foot was injured and I couldn't catch up with him at all. I didn't expect that this time we regrouped and re-entered Danmeng, and Old Man Liu actually appeared again.
Facing a person who has been looking for two years but can't find it, I can imagine my feelings. But I have to endure it, there are so many of them, I'm jumping out now, and there is absolutely no good result.
More importantly, I need to find out what they brought the three bodies here for.
Old man Liu looked at the corpse silently, and raised his hand slightly, and the person next to him immediately handed over a knife. The knife was very small, but extremely sharp, Old Man Liu held the knife, and with a wave of his hand, Lao Wang's left ear was cut off.
Immediately afterwards, the left ears of Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten were also cut off by Old Man Liu.
After the corpse's left ear was cut off, someone tied it to the corpse with a rope. It was only then that I discovered that at the edge of the abyss, there were several small human lifters, and three corpses were hanging down the rope to the bottom of the abyss.
The rope on the lifter is very long, I don't know how to measure it, but judging by the degree of the winch, the body was lowered for about seventy or eighty meters before stopping, that is, this abyss was at least seventy or eighty meters deep.
The three corpses were all put down, and during the whole process, Old Man Liu kept silent and watched silently. Then, the nine people left the abyss in turn, moved to a place about thirty meters away from the abyss, and smoked and drank water there, leaving Old Man Liu alone.
I think Old Man Liu doesn't want anyone to know what he's going to do next, not even the people he brought.
Old man Liu slid down the rope on a lifter towards the bottom of the abyss, and as soon as he sank into the abyss, I couldn't see any scene at all, staring dryly but there was no way.
Old man Liu put down the three corpses and followed him down, what was he going to do? I don't believe that someone like Old Man Liu would do anything in vain.
I would love to creep up to the edge of the abyss to take a look, but those nine men were thirty meters away, and if I wasn't careful, I might be exposed. The team of four people is now left with me alone, and I must maintain a certain level of sanity, and I can't be reckless as soon as my mind is hot.
I continued to hide where I was, anxiously waiting to see if there would be any chance. Old man Liu should have gone down to the bottom of the abyss, but no sound came, and God knew what he was doing below.
Time passed minute by minute, and after almost an hour, Old Man Liu still had no news, and I was really a little impatient to wait, so I tried to see if I could quietly climb to the edge of the abyss.
Boom!!!
A gunshot suddenly shattered the silence, and at the same time as the gunshot, it was clear that one of the nine people had been shot. I was just about to climb towards the abyss when the gunfire stopped me involuntarily.
The first gunshot was followed by a second, a third gunshot. This is tantamount to a sneak attack, and the nine people who hit him were caught off guard. But these nine men were all carefully selected, and after a brief panic, they immediately lay down on the spot, or hid behind the rocks. They are very familiar with the terrain here, and as soon as the sneak attacker shoots, it is actually equivalent to exposing themselves, and there must be the kind of person among these nine people who pin their heads to the waistband of their pants and mess with the rivers and lakes, and they actually approach the sneak attackers in the dark in this extremely dangerous terrain.
I admire the courage of these people, and at the same time I have to admit that they are not reckless, on the contrary, they are very rational, if they keep hiding in place, then they will become a living target of the enemy, as long as they dare to move, they will be attacked immediately, only in this way can they risk death and stick up, in order to reduce the advantage of the opponent's gun. Those people in Huayang who are mixed with the ancients, I know, no matter how fierce the fight is, they will never dare to use a gun, as soon as a gun is involved, it will be a big matter, and only in places where birds like Dan Meng don't, will they use guns.
Old man Liu's people suffered a lot, and during the approach, two more people were knocked down under the rift, but the rest finally rushed over. The shooting turned into hand-to-hand combat, the terrain was precipitous, and from time to time someone rolled into a crack next to him.
I don't know who attacked Old Man Liu's people, but for me, this is undoubtedly an opportunity. I immediately lay on my stomach and crawled towards the edge of the abyss. No one noticed me, and I climbed to my destination without a hitch.
I stretched out my head and looked down into the abyss, and it was pitch black, and there was no light at all. I was embarrassed because I wanted to go down to the bottom of the abyss, but as soon as I used the light source, I could be discovered.
Before I hesitated, the fight dozens of meters away was coming to an end, two groups of people with desperate momentum, fighting to the death, in this kind of precipitous place, no one can control the situation, so many people, in the end almost fell into the crack.
The chaotic warband regained its calm in a moment, and only a few flashlights were left on the ground. As soon as I calmed down, I didn't dare to move, thinking about what to do.
The silence that followed the scuffle lasted for several minutes, and I reckon the two gangs must have ended up fighting together. I picked up an unturned flashlight from the edge of the abyss, slowly climbed to a winch, and pulled the rope, the winch was very strong, and the rope was also very strong, as long as I followed the rope, I could slide to the bottom of the abyss.
I didn't dare turn on the flashlight right away, the light source was too glaring in a place like this, at least I had to slide down a little bit below the abyss. I made all the preparations, grabbed the rope on the winch with both hands at the same time, and was about to climb down.
Suddenly, something hit the back of my head, and even though I didn't look back, I could feel that it was a gun that was hitting the back of my head.
"If you don't want to have multiple holes in your head, don't move."