After Mu Qiang stopped, as if he was observing something, he looked at it for two or three minutes, he turned around and beckoned to me: "Mr. Lian, there's no problem, come and take a look." ”

I walked over, and before I could get to Mu Qiang, I saw a very small crater in front of him, only about two or three meters wide and about one meter deep. This kind of crater was washed and soaked when there was water in the past, and the pit itself was normal, but I saw that there was a fluffy mass in the pit.

As soon as I saw it, it was as if my eyes were physically damaged, and my heart sank.

I could tell that this fluffy thing was half a dog.

Half of the dog has been dead for a long time, but it hasn't completely decayed, and I don't know if it's because of the two bronze pieces that I wore all year round. The majority of the dog's body tends to be dehydrated, and only the head begins to rot, giving off a foul smell.

I also saw a few pieces of sweet potatoes that had rotted and grown, and which grew in the dirt, and half of the dogs would gouge these things to eat.

At this moment, I felt a little flustered, half of the dog is a dog, but from the experience I had with it last time, it is a dog with a story.

In my mind, the half-cut dog has those two bronze fragments to defend itself, and there is almost nothing that can cause substantial damage to it, that is, because I know this, the last time I left, I did not take the two bronze fragments from the half-cut dog's neck.

My original intention was to keep it alive.

But now, it's still dead.

Half of the dog's head and neck had rotted to a certain extent, and I gently picked it off with a folding shovel that I had with me.

Half of the bronze pieces on the dog's neck were missing, and two pieces were tied around its neck with a rope, and now the rope was broken, and the pieces were gone.

Seeing this, it is basically certain that half of the dog was killed and then the bronze fragments were taken away.

This matter may not be understood by many people, but only I know how difficult it is to kill a dog if it is half guarded. Unless someone has been deliberately shooting with a gun at a long distance for a long time, he can kill half of the dog. In addition, in hand-to-hand combat, before the person arrived, he had already been dealt with by half of the bronze fragments on the dog's neck.

"Mr. Lian, do you recognize this dog?" Mu Qiang looked at my eyes and expression, and guessed that I had seen half of a dog.

"Our situation may be more troublesome than imagined." I sighed, half of the dog died, it must not be saved, but at least I tried my best to find out the cause of death: "Can you see how this dog died?" ”

"That's going to have to take a closer look."

I stayed on the pit to watch the wind, and Mu Qiang investigated and went down to the pit. Half of the dog's decay is not serious, except for the head and neck, the rest of the place is basically in a semi-dehydrated state.

Mu Qiang looked very seriously, and after about ten minutes, he put on gloves and brought half of the dog's corpse out of the pit.

"There are no fatal injuries on the body, the dog's two hind legs have long been broken, it is an old injury, not a fatal cause." Mu Qiang pointed at the neck and shoulders of the half-cut dog and said, "I suspect that the fatal wound is here." ”

"Knife wounds?" I looked at the place where half of the dog's neck and the two front legs joined, and there was a wound that had shrunk and was so badly deformed that I couldn't tell it at once.

"It's not like a knife wound, if you want me to see it, it's a tear and bite wound." Mu Qiang gestured and said, "A knife wound will not produce such a tearing wound. ”

I gasped, if according to Mu Qiang's analysis, then half of the dog was bitten to death.

I can't quite accept this speculation, the ecological environment here in Ta'er Lake is destined to have no complete food chain, not even the simplest food chain, half of the dog is purely an alien, living here alone.

What is it that can bite half a dog?

I don't accept this speculation, but half of the dog's wound is in front of me, and I can't give a more reasonable explanation.

Mu Qiang apparently found a piece of rope left on half of the dog's neck, this very thin rope was used to hang the bronze fragments, and the rope had been broken.

Sometimes, experienced people can find clues in some details that have been overlooked. Mu Qiang was very careful, he poured water from the water bottle, washed the truncated string clean, and looked at it seriously.

This is a kind of twine, although it is twine, but it is very strong. Such a thin rope is actually woven with hundreds of silk and hemp fibers. This rope has been soaked in oil and other things for a long time, and it is waterproof, and it will not break even if it is soaked in water all the time.

The rope is so strong that even if one person pulls hard, it will keep pulling.

"This rope may have been bitten off." Mu Qiang pointed to the broken rope and said to me: "If it is cut with a sharp weapon, the broken will not be like this." ”

"Then what do you mean, this dog must have been bitten to death by something."

"I'm just speculating, but that's how it should be."

I was speechless for a long time, half of the dog died, and I felt an inexplicable sadness in my heart, and it was mixed with a deep sense of crisis.

It was at this time that I thought of the scene when I was in distress with the Mediterranean Sea and Mu Qiang. It can be said that with Mu Qiang's skills, if he hadn't been suddenly affected by the sound of bronze vibration at that time, even if a leopard suddenly came out, Mu Qiang would not have been able to fight back.

No wonder!

I've always felt that the bronze vibration sound I heard on the other side of the hill seems to be a bit chaotic, far less than the half-cut dog to control the bronze fragments, and now it seems that the bronze fragments are still those two pieces, but they have temporarily changed owners.

Half of the dog was killed, the bronze fragment was taken, and what attacked us on the other side of the hill was the culprit who killed half of the dog.

I secretly clenched my fists, not because I was a noble person, and I had to avenge a dog. It's just that the attackers on the other side of the hill must find a way to find out, and it will seriously affect our safety.

I put half of the dog's body back into the pit, and maybe that's what happened to it, and it died in this nameless pit, so this is where it was buried.

I filled the pit with a shovel and moved three stones on top of it. I'm not in a good mood because every time I move, it seems that unforeseen things happen.

"Let's go back first, back to the camp." I beckoned Mu Qiang to go back, knowing that half of the dog was dead, so I had to strengthen my vigilance.

"Mr. Lian." Mu Qiang looked around and said, "A lot of things, I know that those of us who are buddies shouldn't ask, but the current situation doesn't seem to be clear, can you tell me about it?" I don't have any origin for this place. ”

I was still immersed in the shadow of the death of half of the dog, and I didn't react, Mu Qiang saw that I didn't speak, and quickly explained: "Mr. Lian, I'm not talkative, I'm just asking about the surrounding situation." ”

I came back to my senses and nodded, Mu Qiang probably wanted to ask about the surrounding situation of Ta'er Lake, to deduce whether there would be an oasis or a gathering place for aborigines in this vicinity. Where there is an oasis, there can be life.

"There is an ancient city near here, a long time ago, and now it no longer exists, and there are not even ruins left."

I've been here before, and I've been collecting all the information I can get. I have long figured out the historical origin of Ta'er Lake.

A long time ago, there was an ancient city called Morsagan near Ta'er Lake, which was closely related to Khorezm, a large country in Central Asia at that time. The meaning of Morsagan is the abundance of water and plants. At that time, Ta'er Lake may have maintained a certain amount of water all year round, so the city near the lake was a city with abundant water and grass.

After the rise of the Mongols, because of the caravan incident, they launched an attack on Khorezm. At that time, the Mongol advance of 3,000 men was the first to resist the city of Morsagan and persuaded the people in the city to surrender. Morsacan gave a firm refusal, but they did not expect that behind these three thousand men would be followed by one of the most terrible army of 200,000 men of that era.

Morsacan resisted halfway and never waited for reinforcements from Khorezm, so he surrendered halfway, but surrendered without avoiding the fate of the slaughter. Except for the craftsmen in the city, everyone else was slaughtered.

After the city was destroyed, the entire city was razed to the ground, and large pieces of the ruins of buildings were carried away to be used as throwing bodies for stone throwers. The men who were in charge of cleaning up the battlefield behind the army, sprinkled grass seeds on the site of Morsagan, and after a few years, the place had been turned into a pasture.

After a few years, the ecosystem of Taer Lake was destroyed, the pastures disappeared, and the city of Morsagan completely disappeared from this world.

"The problems we have to face should be more difficult." I pointed around, and as I walked, I said, "I haven't surveyed the surrounding area, but the environment here is relatively harsh, and there shouldn't be anything that can survive for long." ”

Mu Qiang smacked his lips, probably feeling that this situation was a bit abnormal. The area of no man's land in such a place is very large, and it is impossible for anything to run around in such a large area.

We both came up with our own ideas, but they were overturned, and in the end, even I couldn't tell what the half-dog who had attacked us from behind the hill was, and where it came from.