Chapter 35: The Reasoning of the Leather Bag
Hearing the monkey and the other two say that the equipment was missing, everyone immediately stopped caring about the coffin and rushed to rest. When we ran to the resting place out of breath, we found that most of our equipment had been taken.
"How?" The glasses jumped like thunder, you must know that equipment in the field means life, without food and weapons, I am afraid that you will not be able to survive for an hour in this barren mountain and wilderness.
"I don't know, as soon as we came back, we found that the backpack was a little less, and then it was really a lot less, so we hurried back to report."
"Why don't you send someone to guard it!" No one answered, because the most important thing to do was the commander, and the commander was the glasses who was now losing his temper.
After the glasses yelled, some men were sent around looking for the lost gear, another group was sent to continue to work on the damn coffin, and I and Bao'er and four or five men were assigned to guard the camp (if we had to call it that).
After the glasses were assigned to the task, they followed the large army to find the lost equipment. They took a brief inventory of their equipment, and (because there were few backpacks left) fortunately the explosives were still there, and the people in charge of blowing up the trees took them all in one go.
I, Skinbag and the rest of the people stayed where we were, because there was nothing left to guard, and I and Skinbag had lost all our bags, which were our rations for the next few days.
After all the expatriates were gone, the few remaining ones began to empty the contents of their backpacks one by one, recount and distribute them. Since these are not our things, Leather Bag and I have to watch from afar, thinking that we will have to survive on the handouts of others in the next few days.
I guessed that it must have something to do with the fleeing father and son, and we set his house on fire, and the old boy had a grudge, so he and his stupid son followed us quietly, and secretly stole the bag while we were not paying attention, cutting off our food and grass. Drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle and winning more with less can be described as how poisonous the conscience is.
I told him what I thought, and he agreed, saying that it would be simple, because the woodcutter's wish was nothing more than that of us to die, and they must have quietly followed us after taking our package away, and it was still possible for us to regain our equipment as long as we were more or less vigilant.
Hearing what Leather Bag said, I suddenly became excited, that's good, when the time comes, I won't pick the old boy's skin and smoke the stupid son's tendons.
But I'm afraid that they won't come back, if they don't show their heads, won't we completely explain to this ghost place? So I started to figure out the time and distance of my departure again. It has been two days and one night since we set off, and considering the condition of the wounded and physical fatigue, it will take about three days to go back at this time, as long as the body is not short of water, this survival chance is still very high.
After listening to my reasoning, Bao Bao'er gave me a blank look, "I said Lin Feng, how have you been mixed up in society in the past few years, is it so simple?" What you're talking about is just an ideal situation, in the absence of beast attacks and enemy ambushes, removing uncertainties, if those two bastards really want you to die, on the third day, you will be ambushed when you are about to step out of the forest, and these dozens of people will not be explained? Besides, who knows if there are any other terrible humanoid monsters besides the two of them, we can't defeat them with all our blood, and now an ambush will be over. ”
I was blinded by the sonorous snatching of leather bags, and the original joy immediately cooled down, "Then what the hell should I do, I will die in the front and die in the back, so I will fucking explain it here, and explain it in the hands of those two bastards?" ”
Bao Er pondered for a while and said, "If it's really just those two woodcutters, we're really not afraid, I'm afraid that it's not them, but someone else." ”
Someone else? I was completely blinded by the words of the bag, "You make it clear." ”
The leather bag then took out a cigarette from his pocket, "You see, when we set off, each person's backpack had to be eighty or ninety pounds, and the average weight of each person after last night's downsizing was also about sixty pounds. We found that the coffin was no more than two hours after we rushed back, and we lost more than half of the supplies at once, what does it mean? ”
"What does it mean?" I scratched my head.
"This is not a project that one or two people can complete in a while and a half, although the stupid son and the old man who chops wood are ruthless, but in terms of strength, they can't fight a young man in his twenties and thirties. The two of them dragged such a heavy weight to run, it was nothing more than looking for death! ”
"What do you mean......" I suddenly realized a terrible problem.
Bao Bao'er looked at my expression and nodded, "There is also a group of people, the number of people is at least one group, and the physical condition is also in twenty or thirty years old." ”
I heard this inference from others, and I felt that my scalp was exploding, although it was a living person, but his mother was a living person who was in the dark and he was in the dark, and I didn't know when to shoot you cold!
"Could it be that the two who chopped the wood buried the equipment?" Again, I asked the silly question.
The bag didn't even raise his head, "Time, tools, number of people." ”
Yes, it is not impossible for two people to dig a deep pit that can bury hundreds of catties of equipment in just two hours, but it is necessary to carry and bury, and the most important thing is that if they follow all the way, they don't know when we will rest, when we will all leave, and it is impossible to dig the pit in advance. So who is it? Not only can we know when we are resting, but it also happens to take advantage of the time when all of us are away.
I fell into a long silence with Leather Bao'er, the two waves of people looking for equipment and fighting the coffin did not come back, and the four or five guys left behind were huddled under a tree and napping, and we could hear the explosion sound of "boom~boom~" not far away, which meant that they were still blowing up the tree.
A carp sat up, "I thought of it, the first person to find the coffin!" It's him! Due to the sudden news, the commander did not have time to give the order, and everyone went to visit the coffin with interest, which was the first step in the operation of the thieves. As soon as we were all gone, the thieves began their theft, two hours long enough to take what they needed and retreat. ”
When it gets dark, the glasses and the search are mostly in vain, just as we thought, their purpose is only to steal, and it is not harmful to us. We put our speculation on the glasses, and he nodded in agreement.
"Who was the first to find the coffin?" Glasses look at everyone.
No one answered, which is the same as we imagined, because the first person was not our own person at all. In just two days of getting along and the sensational information he brings, people don't have time to doubt his identity.
The glasses were just about to call someone to call back the people who were in charge of blowing up the tree to ask, but Huang Mao ran over from the big tree in a panic, "The tree, the tree has exploded." It's just, it's just ......"
"It's just your uncle, it's just!" At the critical moment, Huang Mao stammered, and the glasses didn't have time to ink with him, so he rushed over there with all of us, of course, this time all the staff brought a few pieces of equipment.
When we came to the bottom of the tree, we saw that the trunk had been torn alive by explosives. The surrounding wood was blackened and charred, revealing half of the sarcophagus lid in the innermost part of the trunk.
In the end, they adopted a more secure manual method, first, the explosives were not very sufficient, and second, if the coffin was blown up, the trip would be in vain.
Through the coffin lid that the sappers had manually knocked off, we vaguely saw a person lying in the sarcophagus, and shook the flashlight with his glasses, and made a strange sigh.
Because he clearly saw that there was a blonde foreigner lying inside.