Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Evil Spirit in the Mountains 9
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the six people with heavy footsteps walked slowly to the place where Li Zihao said that they could be used as a camp.
"It's finally here, and now you can rest assured!" The two women in the two teams finally woke up tired, put down their burdens and sat on the big rocks on the ground without wanting to move except to wipe their sweat, looking at the campsite in front of them, their hearts were full of confidence in the safety of the night.
The place Li Zihao said is actually a huge rock platform with a steep mountain wall, the top of the rock is relatively flat, almost six or seven meters high from the ground, it is estimated that camping for more than ten people will not seem too crowded, the side of the big rock is relatively smooth, it is impossible to climb, only the position of the stone wall is a little prominent place can be borrowed, if you are not afraid of danger, the experienced rock climbing master can go to the challenge.
After resting for more than 20 minutes, Li Zihao took out the climbing hook with a rope fastened, tried to throw it on the edge of the rock wall a few times, and firmly hooked a stone for the third time, and then the monkey quickly climbed up with the help of protrusions and ropes on the rock wall.
"The sea, hook the rucksack." Li Zihao put down the end of the hook, and with the help of Zhong Dahai, he hung all the backpacks and firewood one by one, and also hung more than 20 rocks the size of a human head on it, according to Li Zihao's words, it was a stone used to guard the camp. After resting for a while, Zhong Dahai also climbed up, and the two of them grabbed a rope and helped the others climb up the stone platform with the help of a safety rope they brought.
"You didn't rest well last night, while it's still dawn, hurry up and get some sleep, I don't know what the situation is tonight." Du Xiaoyan took out the tableware and prepared to eat, and said to the four men.
Wang Shiyi and Li Chuan also set up two tents in the middle of the stone platform near the stone wall. The sun hasn't gone down yet, but there is no sunlight in their location, and the mountain breeze is whistling, which is very cool, because the mountain wind is not small, so there is no mosquito harassment. The four male team members also knew that they had to keep vigil tonight, and they were not polite, so they directly swept the dust on the stone platform and went to sleep on the spot.
At six o'clock, everyone ate some dry food and some wild vegetables left over from yesterday, and today due to the tiredness of the journey, Li Zihao only found a little wild fruit and plant roots in the grove, which is a snack to replenish vitamins and water.
After resting for half an hour after eating, Zhong Dahai and Li Chuan, who were guarding the first half of the night, continued to sleep, because the situation was special, the vigil task was to start early at nine o'clock in the evening, and they still had a little time to rest, plus they were tired for a day, sleep was a good way to recover, and Li Zihao and Wang Shiyi began to build a simple fire with a few stones, and lit the fire as soon as it got dark.
When it was getting dark, the expedition team took turns to go down in two groups, and it was necessary to solve the physiological problem in advance, after all, the stone platform was not big, and it was very inconvenient unless the situation was urgent.
The summer nights came late, and the fire in the camp was lit at eight o'clock.
"What are you doing?" Du Xiaoyan saw Li Zihao cutting some branches with a knife on the edge of the fire.
Li Zihao sharpened some of the straighter and slender branches and trimmed the protrusions and burrs on the edges, "The ammunition is limited, make some arrows for backup, I hope I won't use them." ”
Du Xiaoyan sat on the ground and looked at the fire with her knees crossed, "What did you say came last night, is it really that corpse?" ”
"I don't know, don't think about it, maybe we're worried in vain."
"What if it really is?" Deng Shufen, who was sitting next to Du Xiaoyan, said that after nightfall, the chirping of small nocturnal insects such as crickets sounded one after another. Although the sky is full of stars, the dark environment will still reduce people's sense of security, and their hearts are inexplicably afraid, worried that the smell will appear again.
"We've got weapons!" Li Zihao patted the shotgun on his legs, raised the half-finished arrow in his hand and smiled.
Like last night, the first half of the night at the camp was still calm, and Zhong Dahai used a strong flashlight to illuminate the area around the camp and on both sides of the stone platform every half hour. At this time, he looked at his watch again, and just after twelve o'clock, he was just about to get up to see the situation on both sides of the stone platform, but his movements suddenly stopped, and he turned his head sharply to look in the valley in the direction where they had come, and the direction where the mountain wind had blown over, and the sound of insects on that side suddenly stopped.
Zhong Dahai hurriedly stood up and shone his flashlight over there for a while, although he was very vigilant, he didn't find anything.
"Could it be just some critters passing by?" Li Chuan didn't notice it either, and said suspiciously.
"Hopefully." Zhong Dahai returned to the edge of the fire, but he couldn't rest assured after all, "Don't doze off, that thing is very weird." ”
After about half an hour, the disgusting rancid stench came again, and the smell in the air became more and more foul, permeating the area around the camp.
"Do you want to wake them up?" Li Chuan knew that it was definitely the same thing from last night that had followed, what could it be that could emit this smell? He turned a little blue with fright.
"Scream!"
In a short time, the others quickly woke up and smelled the air, and knew what was happening without being told, and the unarmed men grabbed the sticks they had used to help them walk the trail, one end of which had been sharpened with a knife before going to bed, barely enough to be used as a weapon.
"What did you find?" Li Zihao came over with a shotgun and asked Zhong Dahai at the same time, he was also looking around with a flashlight.
"No, according to the concentration of this stench, it stinks when we walked very close to the corpse yesterday, but now we haven't found anything for dozens of meters on both sides of the valley." Zhong Dahai frowned, he was also confused.
"You're right, it must be around, we just didn't find it." Li Zihao's heart tightened, and he suddenly shouted, "It's not good, above!" He suddenly woke up, and the wind in the mountains was blowing down from the top of the mountain at night.
Zhong Dahai was reminded by him, and immediately turned around and shone the flashlight on the rock wall above, on the rock wall above the stone platform, the female corpse gecko was stuck there with her head down, less than two meters away from the top of their heads, fortunately, the rock in that position was too smooth, it could not continue to climb down, and was stretching out its blue and black claws to try to catch the people below.
Under the illumination of the bright flashlight, they can clearly see the female corpse facing their heads, what kind of face is that? The color is blue and black, the whole face is as bloated as water, the eyes are bulging and gray, the cracked mouth shows black and yellow teeth, and the lips seem to be coated with ink.
"Ah~!" The two women were so frightened that they sat on the ground, their hands rolling on the ground and crawling away from the stone wall.