Chapter 36: Attacked
We camped for the night near the Longgu Temple tonight, all pending for Professor Li and them to find the passage to the underground ruins. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'm embarrassed to see that everyone is busy again, and I'm embarrassed by the fact that I'm doing nothing by myself. So I volunteered to help cook dinner.
We brought rice and could eat in the evening, but the side dishes were all canned. But it's quite rich, there are meat, vegetables, and canned soup.
I was very tired from climbing the mountain today, so I went back to my tent to rest after dinner. During this period, I talked to Xu Li about some things about her college days. Although the little girl is also tired, she is out of control when she talks about her college life, and she keeps talking. And I was so tired that I ended up falling asleep without knowing what to do.
"Bang! Boom! ”
I was woken up by two shrill sounds. I dimly opened my eyes and found it still dark outside. So I closed my eyes and went back to sleep. It started to be noisy outside. Several more shrill voices followed. It was like the sound of firecrackers, and this time it cleared my mind a lot.
"Gunshots?" I sat up in amazement.
Xu Li, who was sleeping next to her, was also woken up. She asked me what was going on. But I don't know.
Then someone rushed in. I turned on the tent light and realized that this person was Ma Liu.
Ma Liu's face looked panicked, and he said, "You guys hurry back to the big army, there is danger here!" "He still has a pistol in his hand.
"What danger?" I'm getting dressed right away. Because it's winter, I'm wearing more clothes, and it's a little slower.
"Hurry up!" Ma Liu urged, "Our companion who watched the night was attacked by an unknown creature!" Miss Xu, Dr. Wu needs you over there, please hurry up! ”
"Good!" Xu Li quickly put on her clothes. She and I were stunned.
"What do you mean? What unidentified creature? I asked.
At this time, we followed Ma Lu and walked out quickly.
"I also heard from one of my companions, I don't know the specifics!" Ma Liu said.
At this time, I saw everyone gathered around a big fire. Professor Li and the others were surrounded in the middle, and the others were on guard with pistols. Beside the fire lay two companions with blood on their bodies. Dr. Goh is resuscitating one of his companions. When Xu Li saw it, she immediately rushed over to help.
Ma Liu led us to the middle of the crowd, and then he asked one of them, "Where's Captain Cao?" ”
"Captain Cao led a few people to chase down what attacked us! He told us to stand by and protect Professor Li and them! The man replied.
"Good!" Ma Lu said as he pulled up the bolt of the gun and joined the guard.
Dr. Wu was rescuing one of them, and Xu Li immediately crouched down to rescue the other wounded.
"He's dead!" Dr. Wu said, "Come and help save this guy who isn't dead yet!" ”
Xu Li covered her mouth in disbelief!
I walked over to Xu Li. At this time, I saw that the team member was dead, he was about 30 years old, there were no injuries on the surface, but the ground where he was lying was covered with blood, it was estimated that he had suffered a very serious injury to his back, and he had died of excessive blood loss. The other injured companion, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, had missing a large piece of flesh from his thigh, and blood was pouring out. Dr. Wu is helping him stop the bleeding, and Xu Li is helping him with injections, which are probably anti-inflammatory injections or painkillers. The man was moaning incessantly, but consciousness was already quite blurry.
In the instinct of a forensic doctor, I was going to examine the wounds of my dead companions. I began to untie the man's clothes, and a tall man next to me saw it and yelled, "What are you going to do?" Da Liu is dead, what are you doing unbuttoning his clothes! ”
"I'm a medical examiner!" I said, "I want to examine his injuries and find out the cause of his death!" ”
"No way!" The tall man said, "You are disrespectful to the dead! ”
I know that forensic medicine is a profession that is disrespectful to the dead in the eyes of Chinese, who have taken root in the concept of gods and ghosts. Because we will autopsy the body and find out the cause of death. A lot of people are very taboo about our business!
Because of the tall man's objections, and because the watchful people around me were not looking very kindly at me, I had no choice but to stop my movements.
I went to Xu Li's side to help treat the seriously injured companion. I saw Master Zhang talking to the commissioner in a low voice, and Professor Chen and Professor Li were also listening. They all looked sad.
At this moment, there was movement in the forest not far away, as if something was coming towards us. All the guards were holding their guns in the direction of movement. Everyone was looking ahead with a high degree of nervousness. The last to come out of the woods was Captain Cao and his party, and then we breathed a sigh of relief.
Ma Lu went up to inquire about the situation. Captain Cao shook his head, indicating that the murderer had not been caught.
"How are Da Liu and Lao Zhang?" Captain Cao walked over and asked Dr. Wu.
At this time, Dr. Wu had already bandaged Lao Zhang after stopping the bleeding. But at this time, Lao Zhang was still delirious, and he shouted "monster" and "monster" vaguely in his mouth.
"Da Liu's injuries are too serious, and he died of excessive blood loss!" Dr. Wu said disappointedly, "Lao Zhang's injury is not optimistic, and he should be sent to the nearest hospital for treatment as soon as it is dawn!" ”
The faces of Captain Cao and the few team members who had just returned suddenly sank.
"Ah Chun! What kind of thing the hell is attacking our people! Captain Cao asked the tall man who scolded me just now, "Aren't the three of you in charge of keeping vigil?" Do you see what that thing looks like? Why does Lao Zhang keep talking about monsters in his mouth! ”
"Because of the light, I can't see the monster clearly! Only the outline of it can be seen! Ah Chun said, "That's a monster in human form!" I started thinking it was a monkey or an orangutan! But that thing only crawls on the ground, and it crawls fast! It came to us in an instant, and it attacked Da Liu at the beginning. Lao Zhang and I immediately fired when we found out, but the monster was not only not afraid, but pounced on Lao Zhang! As he spoke, his eyes turned red, apparently blaming himself for not being able to save his companion, "I'm sorry, Captain! ”
"A humanoid monster that can crawl?" At this time, Captain Cao said in surprise, "When I sent the villager back this afternoon, he said that mountain ghosts would haunt at night. The image of the mountain ghost is a monster that can climb in human form! ”
The crowd was amazed. I also looked at Captain Cao in disbelief. I'm an intellectual from an institution of higher learning, do I really want me to believe that we were attacked by mountain ghosts tonight?
For a while, everyone was talking.
"There are ghosts in this mountain! Are we going to continue excavating ancient ruins? One of them asked.
"Could it be that the mountain god doesn't want us to dig, so he sent the mountain ghost to punish us?" Another member of the team said.
"There are no mountain ghosts here!" The commissioner walked up to the crowd and said, "It's just a gorilla, don't follow the wind of superstition." Captain Cao, as the captain, don't spread these evil tendencies! ”
"I'm sorry!" Captain Cao said.
But I could see that everyone was not convinced by the commissioner's words. Regarding the topic of mountain ghosts, Master Zhang, who was sitting in front of the fire, didn't say a word, and I felt a little wrong. It stands to reason that the master of metaphysics is engaged in this kind of god and ghost thing, and now when it comes to his old profession, how can he not be silent?
"Captain Cao, just now when you were chasing that beast, I already radioed the relevant person in charge of the government! He asked us to continue the archaeological work! Send the wounded and dead back tomorrow. You schedule your work for tonight now! The commissioner said.
"Good!" Captain Cao said to everyone, "There will be six people to keep vigil tonight, and Doctor Wu and Nurse Xu will work hard for you to take care of Lao Zhang tonight." And Da Liu's body will be put aside and covered with a cloth first, and then sent away tomorrow. Let's go and rest for the others! ”
"We've found a way down the ancient ruins!" Professor Li, who had not spoken at this time, said, "There is no need to destroy the Longgu Temple, and everyone no longer has to worry about the fact that destroying the temple will be punished by the mountain god." Take a break, everyone, tomorrow we will officially get to work! ”
"One more thing!" The commissioner walked up to me and said to me.
I'm wondering why the correspondent is talking to me alone. Everyone looked at it curiously.
"It's your turn!" The commissioner said, "The superiors need an on-site autopsy report, the sooner the better!" ”
"Huh?" I didn't react for a while, why did my superiors ask me to issue an autopsy report? Won't the autopsy be done when the body is brought back? There are more specialized post-mortem equipment in the autopsy room.
But a forensic doctor came with the archaeological team, what else could he do without doing an autopsy? It is strange to say that the superiors seem to know that something will happen, and something bizarre will happen, and they need first-hand autopsy information, so as to more accurately reflect the condition of the deceased, so they arranged for a forensic doctor to accompany the team. This made my uneasiness continue to grow!