Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Accumulation of Corpses
After separating from Wu Shiling and the others, a few of us began to hurry. During the whole process, Zhou Xuanye was leading the way, he said that he had a way to find Tan Xuanye, but he didn't say anything at all, and the route we traveled was completely a return route, if I didn't know the relationship between Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye, I would almost have to wonder if Zhou Xuanye planned to ignore him.
Two days later, in front of my eyes, there was already a cliff that had been lodged for more than a week, of course, everyone had no intention of going up at the moment, Zhou Xuanye was still silent and led the way ahead. During this time, he seemed very abnormal, and I tried to ask twice, but he was blocked back in a very hurtful tone.
I don't want to recall what he said, but it's not a good memory.
In the end, Song Qiaoming himself felt embarrassed, and said after deliberation: "Boss Zhou, don't worry about us going first, it doesn't matter if I go back later, it doesn't matter if the body can't be found, it's still important that the person who is alive is important, it matters if we find Boss Tan first." ”
Zhou Xuanye, who was walking in front, heard this, immediately stopped, and said sideways: "Here, it is already the edge of Savage Mountain, let's break up here." ”
"Break up?" These words made Song Qiaoming's eyes widen.
Zhou Xuanye said: "I'll go to find Senior Brother, this process will be a little troublesome, you don't have to waste time here with me." As he spoke, he looked at the body that was walking on his own behind us, and said, "I can't walk this corpse, you can resist it yourself." Only one corpse was found, so I only took a third of the price we negotiated before. ”
Song Qiaoming wiped his face and said, "Boss Zhou, what you said is wrong, what do you think of us, the big guys have been getting along for a month, don't you know who my old Song is." How can you and Xiao Su be allowed to find someone in this forest, how long will it take? How dangerous? ”
Without waiting for Zhou Xuanye to speak, Brother Yang said in a deep voice; "There is strength in numbers, so it's easier to find some."
Junko also nodded.
Zhou Xuanye did not answer Song Qiaoming's question, but said: "You misunderstood, I mean, you all leave, and I stay here alone." He gestured to me.
Suddenly, I felt angry in my heart, and said, "Boss, I don't care if the rest of the people leave, but I won't go." ”
"Why?" Zhou Xuanye said lukewarmly, he is usually a very smiling person, but during this time, there was almost no expression on his face.
“…… The boss is not thin on me, if I go back by myself at this time, am I still human! ”
Zhou Xuanye was indifferent at first, but in the end, he didn't know what he thought, the corner of his mouth suddenly smiled, revealing a rather strange expression, and said, "Since you are so loyal, then I have no choice but to fulfill you." After speaking, you motioned for Song Qiaoming and the others to go first, and your expression was very indifferent.
Song Qiaoming and the others looked at each other, and tried to persuade Zhou Xuanye to change his mind, but to no avail, several people sighed, and finally had to part ways. When parting, Song Qiaoming dragged me aside, lowered his voice and said, "Xiao Su, you really don't want to go with us?" Don't you think there's something wrong with Boss Zhou? I always feel like you're going to have an accident with him. ”
I didn't know that something was wrong with Zhou Xuanye, but what could this be, really let him be alone in this jungle? Hell knows what he's going to do.
"Boss Song, thank you for your concern, but I have made up my mind, I have to stay and figure out what's going on."
Seeing this, Song Qiaoming sighed and patted me on the shoulder: "Okay, then you must be careful yourself." Boss Zhou has been wrong recently, you have to be more careful. With that, he suddenly handed me something and stuffed it into my trouser pocket. When I touched it, I saw that it was a pistol.
I was greatly surprised, and just as I was about to speak, Song Qiaoming glanced at me, signaled me not to say it, and immediately whispered in my ear: "Keep one hand for everything." Immediately after, Brother Yang, Shunzi and others said goodbye to us one by one, and after a while, several people disappeared from my sight.
The original mighty team, after two breakups, finally only me and Zhou Xuanye were left.
Two people, two equipment bags, alone, in this poisonous miasma of Yunnan-Burma jungle, there is no difference between tiny ants. The most important thing is that Zhou Xuanye is yin and yang, and he doesn't say a word, just like the corpse he drove himself, I walked behind him for a few hours, and I didn't say a word.
In the end, I couldn't hold back a little and said, "Boss, where are we going now?" ”
Zhou Xuanye didn't look back, and said, "Where there is water." ”
As soon as he reminded me of this, I suddenly remembered that the direction we are traveling in now is not the same position where we were fishing and camping? Was he going to that water source? What are we going to do in that place now? Isn't there a lot of corpses in that place?
My heart sank for a moment and I said, "Where are you going?" Tan Jian disappeared in the wet swamp, and if you want to find someone, you should go to ......"
Without waiting for me to finish speaking, Zhou Xuanye directly blocked me: "If you're afraid, it's still too late to chase Song Qiaoming now." There was undisguised contempt in that tone. I was made angry by his attitude of not yin and yang, and finally couldn't help but explode: "Zhou Xuanye, what the hell is going on with you, if you say something, you can't say it, don't fucking yin and yang!" How did I recruit you to provoke you! ”
After this roar, Zhou Xuanye's footsteps paused, and his other hand suddenly touched the back of his shoulder and rested on the exposed hilt of the sword.
I was startled and took a step back sharply, and my first reaction at that moment was to subconsciously touch the gun Song Qiaoming gave me.
"Choke." The sword was drawn in an instant, and I immediately pulled out my pistol. To be honest, all of this is a knee-jerk reaction of people in a crisis situation, and I couldn't have imagined that I would shoot Zhou Xuanye at that point.
Then in the next second, Zhou Xuanye's sword was not coming towards me, but slammed into the lower right position, and I saw a bubble of black water splash out. I was stunned for a moment, and when I looked out, I found that among the vegetation at his feet, there was a huge black spider the size of a human head.
And at this moment, the Si Ghost Sword directly pierced this spider.
After doing all this, Zhou Xuanye returned the sword to the sheath, and I forgot to put away the gun in my hand because I was shocked. He turned his head to look at the muzzle of the gun directly at him, and a sneering smile appeared on his lips, and then without saying a word, he turned his head and continued on his way.
At this moment, I was overshadowed by a sense of shame that was indescribable, so that for a long time to come, I did not have the courage to ask anything more. In the end, I couldn't withstand the inner torment, so I apologized: "Boss, I was too cautious just now, don't take it to heart." ”
Zhou Xuanye didn't reply to me, and ignored it directly.
As the sun sets, we return to the same waters.
After more than ten days, it rained twice, so the traces of our previous camp were long gone. The only thing that surprised me was that the raft we had set up was still half-stranded on the shore. When I saw it, I seemed to see the scene of everyone working together to build a raft half a month ago, and in a blink of an eye, they were already going their separate ways.
At this time, the sun had not completely set, and there was a layer of golden waves on the water, Zhou Xuanye stood at the water's edge for a while, took out a compass, and then, he slowly adjusted his position in place, and began to think about the position pointed by the red line of the compass.
I quickly remembered that this was the position where the green hair first appeared.
At that time, I thought that Zhou Xuanye was going to the toilet, but it turned out that it was a green hair squatting in that place. Later, after some tossing, we just wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible, and we didn't go to the location where the green hair appeared at that time.
Now it seems that Zhou Xuanye is obviously heading towards that position.
I followed him, carefully watching the movement around me, after all, it was getting dark, and there was a purple hair that I almost burned to death, and I don't know if it was still lingering around here. It is said that the hairy corpse does not have the habit of moving, and generally where it is 'born', it is where it moves, and I estimate that the purple hair should also be nearby, but I am afraid that it will come out as soon as it gets dark, and then it will be troublesome.
Compared with all the anxieties in my heart, Zhou Xuanye seemed unhurried, and slowly walked forward according to the instructions of the compass, and there were occasional changes in the direction, but they were all within a general direction.
More than ten minutes later, Zhou Xuanye stopped, and at the same time, I smelled a familiar smell in my nose.
The smell of corpses.
It smells very strong.
I looked ahead, and saw that there was a large clearing in front of me, and there was no vegetation growing, but the whole clearing was a black-brown color, and there was a layer of slimy things on the surface of the clearing, and I don't know what it was.
The strong smell of corpses emanated from this clearing, and there were many lumps scattered on the slimy surface of the clearing, which I didn't recognize at first, until I crouched down and looked at the nearest lump up close, and realized that it was meat.
Some are the flesh of wild beasts, while others are clearly visible as human flesh, as the flesh is wrapped in human bones and is very easy to distinguish.
I immediately realized that those hairy corpses before were probably born from this clearing.
It's a field of corpses.