"Whether it's or not, it's not good." Li Zihao stood up and shone a circle around with a strong flashlight, and checked the ground within a few meters of the vicinity again for a while, and the smell in the air did not weaken, "It's still so stinky, it seems that the other party hasn't left yet, let's go back first, we can't be broken one by one, and we will know when we go to the river at dawn." ”

"Do you want to tell them?" Zhong Dahai felt that things were very strange, and many people knew about it and had to be prepared.

Li Zihao leaned over and picked up the branch that was about to extinguish the flame, he felt that the thing seemed to be afraid of the flame, "Don't say it, we can't be sure of anything yet, let's just say that it may be a wild boar, so as not to increase the fear and cause chaos, go back and burn the fire more vigorously, and everything will be clear when the day dawns." After a pause, Li Zihao continued: "But the two of us can't relax, we must always pay attention to the surrounding situation." ”

The two of them returned to the campfire and told the others that there might be wild boars or other beasts around, and told them to rest around the campfire, so that everyone could take care of them if anything happened. This kind of arrangement is very normal in the wild, after all, there is a lot of power in numbers, and many times the situation that you don't notice is likely to be discovered by others, such as behind what you can't see.

In the next few hours until dawn the next day, three more traps in different directions around the campsite were triggered, and the disgusting stench lingered, and Li Zihao, at the suggestion of Zhong Dahai and others, also took a nap on the edge of the campfire with a big backpack, barely recovering a little energy.

It wasn't until about five o'clock in the morning that the sky began to light up, and the disgusting stench that had caused everyone to suffer suddenly and quickly dissipated.

"Oh my God, it feels like I've been around the for a night, and I'm sick to death." The two women let go of the handkerchiefs that covered their noses, stood up, took a deep breath, and stretched wide.

As time passed, the surrounding fog gradually faded and disappeared, and seeing that there were no dangers nearby, Li Zihao and Zhong Dahai went out to inspect and only found some strange traces, which were nothing for the time being, and the tense strings in their hearts were also loosened.

I cooked some of the processed wild ingredients left over from last night and had breakfast.

"Let's go to the river." Li Zihao said that he originally planned to go over and see it by himself, but when he thought about it, there were only two weapons, and he must have brought the shotgun when he walked away, so they would be really dangerous when they encountered danger, and now there may still be speculation about those stenchs in everyone's hearts, rather than thinking about it, it is better to go over together.

Du Xiaoyan simply washed the dishes and chopsticks with water and put them away, "Are you going to see the corpse?" The smell of last night...... "She didn't continue, everyone probably knew what it meant, if a beast came over with some stinky things, it would never be boring enough to circle around them, and then take it away before dawn, not to mention, when Li Zihao threw the fire out, everyone saw a hazy and moving human shadow intentionally or unintentionally.

After glancing at each other with Li Zihao and nodding, Zhong Dahai said, "Don't think about it, you will know if you go to see it." ”

Everyone had no objections when they heard this, and they all packed their big backpacks and prepared to set off, Li Zihao lifted the remaining water and doused the bonfire, "Let's go!" ”

After the fog had passed, the sun was good, and it was relatively easy for them to hurry, and at about nine o'clock they returned to the place where they had fetched water the previous evening.

"Are you looking for the right place, you see, you can't see that orange dress over there." Deng Shufen used a telescope to look at the location of the corpse in the downstream impression, but found nothing.

"That's right, you see there are four big rocks that I used to press the rope in the bathroom." Li Chuan, who was beside her, pointed to the four obvious rocks not far behind her, and said with certainty.

Li Zihao's face was very bad, and he didn't speak, and walked over directly to take a look. In fact, the place where the body was lying on its stomach was only about a hundred meters away from them, and it only took two or three minutes to walk there.

They walked forward for a few minutes and didn't see the corpse, Li Zihao took out his mobile phone and opened the photo, looked at the stones around the corpse in the photo, and walked back more than 30 meters, standing in a position looking at the stones on the ground in a daze.

After the others followed, he pointed to a place about a meter in front of him with a blue face, "It's here, but it's gone." ”

"How could the corpse not be seen?" Listening to his words, the other five people, you look at me and I look at you, they don't know what to say, especially the two women, thinking of the stench last night, they suddenly became afraid, "Could it be a zombie?" ”

"Whatever it is, it's not a good place to stay long." Li Zihao took out the map and looked at it, pointed to the location of a river tributary and said: "We are here now, if we go back, we can return to the scheduled route at noon tomorrow, but there are too many trees and shrubs on the road, if you camp at night, if that thing that doesn't know what it is, it is not easy to take precautions, if you go directly through the valley in the middle here." He pointed to the location between the tributaries and the main channel, "It will take at least two days, but there are relatively few trees in this valley, I went to my grandfather once before, and there are some big rocks protruding from the side of the cliff, which can be climbed with a climbing hook as a safe camping spot, what do you think?" ”

The other five people listened to him, discussed for a while, and came to a unified decision, safety first, and chose to cross the valley.

Li Zihao took back the map and glanced at the location of the original corpse again, "In that case, immediately go back to the location a little upstream, load up enough drinking water and set off." He was very anxious, because he recalled that when he was a child, he went into the mountains with his grandfather to hunt, and one night when he spent the night on the mountain, his grandfather told him a story, and he once said that his great-grandfather (Li Zihao's grandfather's father) was once hired by a Taoist priest as a guide to go into the mountains to eliminate zombies. Li Zihao was so frightened at the time that he hurriedly asked his grandfather if the matter was true, but his grandfather laughed and said that he also listened to his grandfather.

Although many years have passed since this incident, the parties have passed away, and the authenticity has long been impossible to investigate, it is better to believe it at this time than to leave early, and if you can't provoke it, you can only hide.

The valley they chose was mostly rocky, and the dust accumulated on the rocks was easily washed away by rain, so there were not many plants and trees, and this tributary did not have much water, and it was easy to cross it by stepping on stones in some places. When leaving the river, Li Zihao found that there was a small patch of lush stone iris growing on the riverside, thought about it, walked over and pulled out a few handfuls, and gave each of the others some to carry, stone iris is a medicinal plant, folk rumors can drive away evil spirits.