Chapter Forty-Nine: The Aftermath of the Catastrophe

Chen Ruixi and Wang Juan were trembling with fright on the high platform, the air seemed to be getting colder and colder, the roar at the bottom of the lake had not stopped for a long time, the huge haze had shrouded the entire mountain, and the two stood on the cliff more than ten meters high, but the soles of their feet seemed to be stepping on the clouds. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Half of the valley was already submerged in a sea of smoke, and the thick wall of fog seemed to be blocked by something when it met the river, leaving only a thin layer of water soaked across the river, wandering slowly in the quiet mountain village.

Chen Ruixi involuntarily hugged Wang Juan tightly to his chest, Wang Juan did not resist at this time, but Chen Ruixi had no thoughts in his heart, and with the clear moonlight, he saw that the hands on the watch stopped at 3 o'clock.

Near the dawn of the morning, under the glow of the dawn, the strange noise at the bottom of the lake gradually subsided, the fog began to rise and disappear slowly, and the village shrouded in the mist gradually became clear again, and the fog wall on the other side of the river seemed to be suddenly boiled, and after a violent rise, gradually thinned and dissipated.

By the time the first rooster crows in the village, the foot of the mountain had already regained its vitality, but the morning fog was much thicker than usual.

The grass under their feet was covered with dewdrops, the sun was warm on their bodies, Chen Ruixi and Wang Juan were like animals waking up from hibernation, and finally felt the heat on each other's bodies, everything was like a dream. The two men supported each other and trembled down the mountain.

The more the two walked, the more frightened they became, the corpses of various small animals were dead on the hillside, Wang Juan began to sobb quietly, and Chen Ruixi was also furious in his heart.

After seeing the corpse of a python with the thickness of her wrist spasmodically twisted, Wang Juan finally couldn't help crying bitterly.

Chen Ruixi supported Wang Juan, who was crying, and while comforting him, he walked down with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

After seeing the next scene, Wang Juan, who had been tormented in the middle of the night, finally reached the limit of her endurance and collapsed.

Qin Ruilin's twisted body was hundreds of meters away from the cliff, and the whole person was prostrate on the ground, but his neck was twisted at a strange angle, his eyes were wide open, staring at the sky deadly, his eyes were full of fear.

Not far from him, was Jin Xia's corpse.

Wang Juan screamed, rolled her eyes, and fainted.

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Chen Ruixi's lazy and calm voice also became nervous and trembling at this moment, and his breathing became short, even if he watched on the surveillance screen, everyone could still feel the creepy.

Jin Guihei stood up with a calm face, walked to the interrogation room, and appeared on the screen after a while.

In the screen, Chen Ruixi was half lying on his back, still muttering: "I was so frightened that I turned my head and ran, and after a while, I thought of Wang Juan, so I went back and dragged her back to the top of the mountain......"

"Wang Juan was so frightened that she didn't eat, drink, or say a word all day, and we stayed in the tent for two days and two nights, not daring to go down the mountain. Later, when the food was finished, I was so hungry that I dragged Wang Juan down the mountain in the dark......"

When Professor Zhang saw Jin Guoqiang coming in, the pen in his hand stopped spinning, and he still said in that special voice, "Okay, I know everything, you don't need to say it, wake up!" ”

The last three words seemed to have magical power, Chen Ruixi stopped abruptly like a tape recorder that suddenly pressed the stop button, slowly sat up straight from the chair, as if he had just woken up, and looked at Jin Guoqiang with a black face at the door in confusion.

Jin Guoqiang shouted to the guards outside the tent to take Chen Ruixi away.

Professor Zhang and Jin Guoqiang glanced at each other, and the two walked out without saying a word, and after a while, the two came to the command center together.

The general nodded and said, "Professor Zhang is really extraordinary, and he can even hypnotize such a stunt." ”

Professor Zhang said, "Where, where, carving insect skills, the top priority now is to organize a team to search the mountain to find the whereabouts of Jin and Qin, I think this secret may be hidden in the lake on the top of the mountain." ”

The general said, "Okay, Xiao Jin, you immediately dispatch two teams to search the mountain." ”

After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Bring the military doctors and technicians with you, be sure to protect their safety, take care to preserve the evidence, and report the danger immediately - cancel the radio silence." ”

"Notify the perimeter personnel and lower the alert status."

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A series of orders were issued, and immediately all kinds of radios sounded, Jin Guoqiang deployed personnel through walkie-talkies, and the headquarters was busy and orderly.

Professor Zhang said, "I want to personally participate in this mountain search operation. ”

Zi Yang and Lao Wang also said that they shared weal and woe with the professor, and seeing that these people were very resolute, the general finally agreed to their request, and this group of people was formed together with Jin Guoqiang and the alpha team.

The special forces acted quickly, and as soon as the order was given, everyone was on standby in a few minutes.

At that moment, the team was divided into two groups, and they marched towards the Broken Soul Peak-Zenith Lake from two directions.

Although the heavy instruments and equipment are on the special combat personnel, Zi Yang and Lao Wang are still a little unable to keep up with the speed, thinking that they are still carrying dozens of pounds of combat equipment, not only admiring the physical fitness of these people.

Halfway up the mountain, Professor Zhang was a little old after all, and gradually felt a little tired, Jin Guoqiang ordered to rest in place, and the other groups continued to advance - without the fetters of these few people, the whole team immediately moved a lot faster - it turned out that just now they were still leisurely about them.

After more than ten minutes of work, a sound came from the walkie-talkie, and the Beta team found an unnamed female corpse and a male corpse, with XXX.XXX coordinates.

The people looked at each other and found it.

A few hundred meters away from the top of the mountain, there were two corpses more than a dozen steps apart, and when the professor and his party arrived, a cordon had been set up around them, and the staff were collecting evidence and taking pictures at the scene, and there were some signs with numbers scattered on the ground.

Zi Yang took a closer look, and several heavily armed special forces soldiers were scattered around to keep guard. Although the alert level was lowered, these people still wore oil paint camouflage on their faces, put their fingers on the trigger, and their eyes patrolled around vigilantly.

After obtaining the consent of the forensic officers, the group was able to enter the cordon and observe the two bodies up close.

Leaning against a large tree, a young woman wearing a fiery red sweatshirt on her upper body and white sweatpants on her lower body, one leg curled up under her body, her left hand clutching the clothes on her chest, and her right hand holding on the ground and grasping a piece of grass and mud. His long black hair hung down to cover his face.

A dozen paces behind her lay prone on his stomach, dressed in a black sweatshirt, his neck seemed to be broken and twisted strangely, and a hand reached out to the female corpse, his whole body spasmed and twisted.

After the forensic doctor took the photo, made the mark, and took the surrounding laboratory materials, a gloved military doctor stepped forward to pull the hair of the female corpse, and a beautiful face appeared in front of everyone, with tight eyebrows and a blue face. Physically, it seems that he experienced a lot of pain before he died.

Lao Wang sighed heavily beside him, it's a pity that such a beautiful girl died in this barren mountain range.

The forensic doctor at the scene came to the preliminary conclusion that the cause of death was the same as that of the animals under the mountain, and it was unknown.

Judging from the appearance of the corpse, both seem to have experienced painful struggles before death, especially the male corpse, whose body spasmed, with one hand stuck in the dirt beneath him.

Professor Zhang silently watched the staff busy beside him, and asked softly, "Can you confirm the time of death?" ”

A young military doctor in his thirties replied, "Around 2:30 a.m. on the X day. ”

Lao Wang pretended to nod his head and said, "Well, half an hour earlier than the collective death under the mountain, it seems that the factors that led to the death of the two people are the same as those of the villagers." ”

Then he looked at the military doctor with admiration and said, "Master, I heard the teacher say before that those old mages with high Taoism do not need instruments, and they can accurately infer the exact time of the corpse's death from the changes in the characteristics of the corpse's surface alone, with an error of no more than 1 hour." ”

The medic modestly said, "It also depends on the length of time, and if the time is too long, it will not be so precise." The changes in the human body within twenty-four hours of death are the most noticeable, and can be accurate to the minute...... Judging from my experience, although the two bodies died for more than two days, they were not more than 10 minutes apart from each other. ”

Professor Zhang nodded, and then his eyes met Jin Guoqiang, and the two of them looked at the top of the mountain together, and the culprit who caused the strange death in Qinhan Village was above.

For safety reasons, Jin Guoqiang first sent a group of team members wearing biochemical suits to go up to investigate, confirm that there was no problem with air quality and atmospheric radiation, and then notify the people below to go up the mountain.

At the moment, some people stayed behind to dispose of the corpses, and the other people climbed the mountain under the leadership of Jin Guoqiang.

When they reached the top of the mountain, everyone not only frowned, but the dark blue bottomless lake in Chen Ruixi's mouth did not appear, and the lake in front of them was yellow-orange, as if it had been washed by the landslide.

At the pass near the hillside, the branches and leaves of several large trees are yellow, and there is a kind of bleak atmosphere of autumn and winter in the north, and most of the vegetation near the lake on the shore is also withered yellow. However, some of the trees in the upper part are still verdant and green, creating a strong contrast between the top and bottom.

Lao Wang patted his thigh, this kid still didn't tell us the truth.