The warrior was also curious, and took it and tried various methods. Finally, I grabbed the straight branch with both hands, pressed it and pressed it, and it was hard to insert it into the soil.

I called Lao Zhao over to show him, and saw that this branch was stuck straight into the ground, without any tilt.

To prove the other way, I pulled the branches out of the ground and let the warrior experiment.

This time, the warrior put the branch behind his back, put his hands behind his back, pressed the palm of his right hand against the end of the branch, leaned back, and with the help of his own body, easily inserted the branch into the soil.

When the warriors got out of the way, everyone saw that the branches were stuck in the soil at a slight angle, just like the angle of trekking poles.

I said to Lao Zhao: "If you just want to stand your trekking poles here, both of these methods are laborious and stupid methods. And even better, you can use a tool to smash it directly into the root of a tree, which is no different from nailing. But we didn't find any such signs on the trekking poles, and why did she do it in such a laborious way? ”

Lao Zhao immediately understood, and he blurted out: "She must not want people to see this trekking pole!" And I think the person she deliberately avoided at that time should have been in front of her. ”

I nodded and said, "That's right! I'm exactly what you think! Therefore, I judge that Liu Wenxia did this most likely to provide a clue to later people, that is, she was led into this primeval forest called Black Heart under her reluctance. Otherwise, I can't think of any other explanation. ”

I then asked the fighter how it felt to reflexively stick a branch.

The warrior said that this method was much less strenuous than the main body, but there was a little awkwardness, the branches were a little short, and he needed to crouch a little bit to use the force.

I immediately asked him to demonstrate how much he needed to crouch to get the force out. The warrior remembered for a moment, his legs bent slightly, and then he was sure that this would be the case.

I asked Lao Zhao to see how tall the hunched warrior was at this time, and Lao Zhao roughly measured it with his eyes and told me that it was about 1.63 meters.

I smiled and said, "So I guess Liu Wenxia's height is between 1.62 meters and 1.65 meters." ”

Then I asked the fighter to stand up straight, pulled him to my side, and asked him, "Little comrade, how much do you weigh?" ”

The soldier smiled and said, "I've lost weight, and with the troops exercising every day, I'm only 55 kilograms." ”

I also laughed and said to Lao Zhao: "Look, this little soldier is only 55 kilograms, can Liu Wenxia, who is below 1.65 meters, be heavier than him?" A conservative estimate of Liu Wenxia is within 50 kilograms, so I said that she is thin, which should be correct, right? ”

Zhao Jinfu was already very impressed with me at this time, but he didn't forget other questions, he said: "What about left-handers? ”

I smiled and said, "It's simpler, and that's the answer." You compare the trekking poles standing here with the branches and see what the difference is. ”

Zhao Jinfu looked at me and walked forward curiously to take a look. I was meant to compare the two, so the branches stood very close to the ground and trekking poles.

Although it was subtle and small, Zhao Jinfu soon discovered it.

The poles and branches are similar to the ground at an angle and about the same length, except that the tip of the pole is tilted to the left towards the horizontal view, while the tip of the branch is tilted to the right towards the horizontal.

Seeing Lao Zhao looking at me in amazement, I asked the soldier just now, "Little comrade, do you hold a gun in your left hand or in your right hand?" ”

Without hesitation, the warrior said, "Naturally, I hold a gun with my right hand, and I won't use a gun with my left hand." ”

After getting the answer, I smiled and shrugged at Zhao Jinfu.

At this point, I explained all my inferences. After some thought, Lao Zhao couldn't raise any objections.

However, inferences are still only inferences and cannot be taken as facts. We also use these judgments to estimate what is likely to happen and to prepare in advance. But what the real situation is, we still need to go deep into the primeval forest of the "black heart" to find the answer.

Zhao Jinfu sent one of the soldiers to make an obvious indicator here, and wrote all the judgments we had just made succinctly on a piece of paper and glued it to the indicator with tape. If the other two teams see it, they will be the first to know what information we have. After a short rest, everyone set off again and stepped into the black unknown land.

As soon as I walked into the forest, I immediately felt a sense of eerieness. It was as if an invisible pressure had suddenly come over me, and I couldn't help but have a cold shiver. Not only did I feel it, but everyone seemed to feel it, and everyone's nerves tightened.

After walking a few hundred meters into the forest, I noticed that something was not quite right. It's so dark that it's like walking in the middle of the night, and visibility is greatly reduced. I was uneasy and called a halt to the line.

In fact, Lao Zhao also felt strange, and after everyone stopped, they looked around at this strange forest together. Lao Zhao and I walked to a tree, and I touched the body of the tree and asked Lao Zhao, "What kind of tree is this?" ”

Zhao Jinfu glared at me and said strangely, "Don't you even know the cedar tree?" ”

I looked at the cedar tree and said, "It's a cedar tree." But have you ever seen such a tall cedar tree? And you see the color of these cedar trees is black, is this a new variety? ”

Hearing me say this, Lao Zhao looked up from top to bottom. It was true that it was not quite the same as what I used to see, but I didn't take it too seriously, and said to me: "What's the fuss about this, in this kind of no-man's land, trees grow at will, and after hundreds of thousands of years, it is inevitable that they are not the same as what we usually see, which is not unusual!" ”

I retorted, "No! This is not normal. I pointed to the area and said, "Since we came in, all the light has been obscured by the canopy overhead, and the visibility has dropped in height, as if no sunlight had ever shone in here." Do you feel like it's cold in here right now? Will there be a cold war from time to time? This shows that the yin energy here is very heavy. ”

Lao Zhao didn't understand what I meant, and asked me, "So what?" ”

I sighed and said, "There is neither beauty nor wonder here, and the fact that a group of travelers are still here shows that they are not ordinary tourists at all, nor are they here for sightseeing, there must be some ulterior secrets." ”

Lao Zhao felt that I was talking nonsense, and he said a little impatiently: "What you said will be known when we find them and ask!" ”

I patted Zhao on the shoulder, a little speechless about his rough nerves, and I explained to him, "I mean, I'm afraid we won't find them that easily, and I guess we may not find them at all." There must be a big secret hidden in this forest, secrets that we can't imagine. ”

Seeing that my face was solemn, Lao Zhao also paid attention to it. But he thought about it for a moment and said to me, "Maybe it's not as difficult as you say, because there is a variable hidden in these people." ”

I immediately understood what he meant, so the two of us said in unison: "Liu Wenxia! ”

If that trekking pole is really left by Liu Wenxia as we judge, maybe she will leave some clues for us in this mysterious forest. With that being the case, we identified our direction and continued our journey deeper into the forest.

After a few hundred meters, we are fully into the forest. Before, when I occasionally looked back, I could still see some light coming in from outside the forest, but now I can't find any light, and everyone is completely integrated into the black of the forest.

The black greatly compressed our line of sight, and even more than ten meters away had become blurred, Zhao Jinfu gave an order, and everyone turned on the tactical spotlight on their heads, and some fighters directly turned on the spotlight on the 95 rifle. Obviously, the darkness brought uneasiness to everyone, and the mental power was involuntarily highly concentrated.

Walking in this densely wooded, intertwined primeval forest, there are no roads at all, we just go straight in the established direction, encounter trees around trees, and avoid pits. Due to the rough underfoot, the team moved forward at an unusually slow pace. I couldn't help but be a little worried, I didn't know when I would be able to catch up with the group of tourists who mysteriously disappeared.

I did a rough calculation, from the time we received the mission until we arrived here, even if we traveled quickly, it would be at least five or six days away from the missing person. Because from what we've learned, this group of missing people must have come here with an obvious goal, and they will not waste unnecessary time on the road like other tourists.

I was secretly pondering in my heart, and suddenly Lao Zhao, who was leading the way in front of me, suddenly stopped, and raised his right hand into a fist. Everyone immediately understood that he had discovered the anomaly, so everyone reacted instantly, immediately squatting on the spot, and alerting all around.

I took a few steps forward, leaned over to Lao Zhao's side, and asked him in a low voice, "What's the situation?" ”

Lao Zhao didn't speak, and shook the bright flashlight in his hand not far ahead. I followed the light of his flashlight and almost exclaimed.

It turned out that on a tree not far ahead, there was a severed hand!