Chapter 18: Intrigue and Intrigues

I don't know if I should suspect He Mancang at this moment, but there are all kinds of signs that if someone has done something in our equipment, then this person is likely to be He Mancang.

I was a little puzzled by him before, because he claimed to have worked with Tianxiang for many years, but he had never seen Tianxiang take him to the grave. And the main thing is that he is responsible for distributing our equipment, in other words, he is the only one who has touched the equipment before departure, so it makes sense to suspect him.

"Old prostitute, how many bullets do you have left in your gun?"

The old prostitute took the gun out of her waist and handed it to me for me to see. I took the pistol and unloaded the magazine, and I saw that there was not a single round of ammunition in the magazine.

"All gone? Don't you have any other guns?" I asked.

"There are still a few rounds in the skinny monkey gun, but it's no different from nothing." The old prostitute continued: "It seems that we are really trapped in the tree this time, and it is impossible to find a way out by shooting."

I looked at the giant hyenas watching over us in the distance, and I deeply felt the mistake of entering the gate ditch this time. Maybe it's really that I'm too anxious, if I hadn't been in a hurry to enter the gate, I wouldn't be in the current predicament, let alone be calculated.

But at this moment, what haunts my mind is not only the predicament here, but also about the person He Mancang.

I don't understand, I really don't understand, if it's really his hands and feet, then why did he do it?

"Why did He Mancang do this?" I thought about it as I spoke.

"I'm afraid only he knows this question." The old prostitute paused for a moment before continuing: "Xiao Qi, don't you think we suspect that He Mancang is a bit of a Mao Dun?"

"Mao Dun?" I looked at the old prostitute puzzled and asked, "Where is Mao Dun?"

"If it's his hands and feet, it means that he wants to harm us." I nodded, and the old prostitute continued, "But since he wants to harm us, why not come in a direct way?"

"Isn't that straightforward enough?" I wondered, "We're going to have to die in a tree without weapons, that's straightforward enough."

"No, there's a more direct way, he had a gun in his hand before he ran back, and the magazines were still with him, and Wang Jingang and I were entangled in giant hyenas, and at that time he only needed to pull the trigger a few times to get rid of all four of us."

I didn't think about what the old prostitute said, but it is indeed as the old prostitute said, He Mancang has a gun and enough bullets, if he wants to harm us, he can be more direct. But the fact that he didn't do it is a little incomprehensible.

"It does look a bit of a sloppy shield, but anyway, our equipment is passive, he is the biggest suspect, as for why he did it, like you just said, only he knows in his own heart." I said.

"Maybe there is another possibility, it is not He Mancang who does it."

As soon as I heard the old prostitute say this, I was a little confused, and I didn't understand who else he was referring to.

It is obvious that the old prostitute was also suspicious of He Mancang just now, although it is not clear what He Mancang's motive is, but one thing is certain, except for He Mancang who is not here, everyone else is there.

Anyone here can basically rule out suspicion, after all, they are all in a predicament now, and I don't believe that anyone would be willing to force themselves into such a situation after making a move. Unless, this person is very sure that he will get out alive, he will never take such a big risk to be with us.

"Old prostitute, who do you suspect? Is it a skinny monkey, or is it Wang Jingang?" I didn't want to think about this anymore, so I asked the old prostitute directly.

"No, not the two of them."

"It's not the two of them that you suspect, who else is there? Could it be that the person you suspect is me. I looked at the old prostitute in bewilderment.

"There is another person, who is not one of us, but this person has taken advantage of the right time and place, and we have neglected him."

When I heard the old prostitute say that there was another person, I quickly thought about who else was suspicious. Soon a person appeared in his mind, and this person did take advantage of the right time and place.

"Are you suspicious of Cao Daring?" The old prostitute nodded, and I continued, "How could it be him."

"I don't know, I can't tell, I just feel that he is very suspicious. Actually, I don't want to doubt him, because once it is really Cao's bold move, it means that our trouble is not as simple as not having bullets. After the old prostitute finished speaking, she suddenly changed her words and asked me, "Xiao Qi, have you ever thought about the consequences of your senior brother and their incoming."

I was deeply struck by the question of the old prostitute, which I had asked myself in my mind when it was in the opposite tree, but I didn't want to think about it, let alone guess the outcome. I firmly believe that if the elder brother had suffered the same thing as us, he would have found a way to deal with the giant hyena and get out of danger. Maybe it's my self-deception, I've seen the ferocity of the giant hyena, but I still don't want to think about the worst.

"Damn, I've figured it out, figured it out." Just when I was thinking about the question raised by the old prostitute, the old prostitute suddenly said that she had figured it out.

"What did you figure out?"

"I figured out why I should doubt Cao Daring." The old prostitute looked at me and said, "Xiao Qi, we are too careless, we shouldn't believe Cao Daring." He exploited our thirst for truth and captured this weakness of ours, so that we would easily believe what he said. ”

I looked at the old prostitute and still didn't understand what he meant. He went on to explain: "Don't you think we're getting too much information here? And there are a lot of coincidences. Xiao Qi, if you think about it carefully, since I saw the turquoise at the auction, all the information has pointed to Cao Daring. Then after we met Cao Daring, there was a series of information about your senior brother, and whether it was turquoise or your senior brother's information, the final point converged here in Guanmengou. All this seems reasonable, but it is a bit too reasonable, don't you think Cao Daring seems to have done research on us? He provided information that we desperately wanted to know. ”

After the old prostitute said this, I really feel a little bit like this. Turquoise directs us to Cao Daring as a person, and Cao Daring provides us with more unexpected information, which seems to be really coincidental, all the information is what I desperately want to know, and everything is what I dreamed of, so after hearing this information, it is not surprising that my brain made the decision to enter the gate ditch with a hot mind.

"So we were tricked by Cao Daring?" I said.

"It's not a trick, it's been carefully calculated." The old prostitute continued: "The person who planned this must be a person who knows us very well, no, no, not very well with us, but very well with you. In fact, all the information about the gate ditch is not us, but you alone, whether it is turquoise, or your senior brother, and Xiao Qi who is pretending to be you, these three points are all information that you can't refuse, and they are all information that will make you hot-headed at any time. These three points are enough to confuse your mind and make you have no master, so that you can follow their train of thought and enter the net they have laid out. ”

"Old prostitute, I admit that what you think is well-founded, but why did he do this, is he trying to trick me in and let the giant hyena bite me to death?" I glanced at the old prostitute, who was listening carefully to me, and I continued: "Could it be that Cao Daring tricked me in for the purpose of feeding the giant hyenas and filling the stomachs of the giant hyenas here? Or do I mean that I am a Tang monk, and I can ascend to immortality after eating the giant hyena? If Cao Daring wanted to kill me, it would not be much simpler, he didn't need to go to such great lengths to put some medicine directly in the water of his house, and we would all confess, why bother to trick us in. ”

"There must be an article in this, and as for what the real purpose of tricking you in, I haven't thought of it yet. One thing is for sure, though, that the giant hyenas here are specially bred by people. ”

"Someone raised it?" Between the words, I was a little skeptical of the old prostitute's judgment, after all, the giant hyena was too fierce, and it didn't look like it was raised by a human at all.

"Have you noticed that there are no other animals in this valley except giant hyenas? If it weren't for humans, the food chain would have been broken long ago, and the giant hyenas here would have been extinct long ago. ”

I really haven't looked at this valley carefully, after all, I was chased by giant hyenas all the way to the trees, how could I still have the energy to see the ecological environment along the way. I looked around, and it was already completely dark, not to mention the distance, but the location of the giant hyena, and I couldn't see it clearly.

"If it is really raised by people, then our speculation is all true, the person who raised the giant hyena should be Cao Daring, with his familiarity with Guanmengou, it is not impossible to raise a giant hyena here." After saying this, I felt so stressed that my heart tightened as if it had been clamped by pliers.

I don't know what Cao Daring's purpose was for raising so many giant hyenas, but it's clear that the purpose of these giant hyenas is to trap us in trees. I suddenly had a terrible idea that these giant hyenas were bred for me, and that they were raised to deal with me.

It's definitely a terrible thought, and if that's the case, should I be glad that there is such a person who cares about me, or should I think my life is too sad. My life has grown up in this way, whether it is my grandmother or my master, it seems that every step of my future is calculated, and now there is one more person who wants to deal with me, and my life is calculated and calculated.

How unwilling and helpless I am.

"Actually, if it's really Cao Daring who planned all this to attract you here, it wouldn't be without any benefit." The old prostitute said.

I glanced at the old prostitute helplessly, and said in my heart, it has been calculated, what good will it be.

The old prostitute continued: "At least it can be proved that what Cao Daring said is a lie, that is to say, the matter of your senior brother coming here may have been made up by him, in fact, your senior brother has never been here at all."

It's a good thing that the old prostitute said this, otherwise I can't imagine what the consequences of the elder brother encountering these giant hyenas.