Chapter 68: The Grave Pit
With Zhou Xuanye's words, Song Qiaoming dared to delay, and said: "Brother, I'll leave it to you here." Then he ran away. While running him, he looked back, and saw Zhou Xuanye holding the Si Ghost Sword in his hand, and with a sword slashing over, no matter how many hands he had slashed away, he was also slashed away by Qi Brush. And the child who was squatting on the tree disappeared without a trace the moment the tree fell.
Song Qiaoming felt that he couldn't help it, so he left someone and ran away by himself, which was not done by a gentleman. But after thinking about it again, Zhou Xuanye was hired at his own expense, and besides, his body is not proportional to him at all, and he can't help at all if he stays.
After overcoming the little regret in his heart, Song Qiaoming ran faster, falling twice from time to time. In the surrounding mud, some insects such as earthworms were turned out in the soil, and sometimes a fat earthworm could be seen wriggling when it fell.
After a while, Zhou Xuanye also caught up, he retreated while fighting, his speed was a little slow, and he opened a distance from Song Qiaoming, but he never fell behind. Song Qiaoming turned around and shouted, "Boss Zhou, you have to hold on." After shouting, when he turned his head again, he suddenly found that on the big tree in front of him, the gray-faced child from before was squatting again.
But at this moment, the child didn't laugh, he opened his mouth wide, revealing the fangs in his mouth, and then a puff of gray smoke sprayed from his mouth to Song Qiaoming's face. Song Qiaoming was sprayed in the face by the smoke, and he only felt dizzy and swollen for a moment, and in an instant, he fell to the ground, and he didn't know who was dizzy.
What happened during the period after he fainted, Song Qiaoming didn't know, and he also guessed by himself based on the situation at the scene after he woke up.
When he awoke, he was still lying where he was, unkilled by the unknown little monster, and the vegetation around him had overturned, and some of the smaller trees had fallen crookedly, leaning against the branches of the larger trees. The vines that inhabit the trees hang down, and when the morning breeze blows, they sway with the wind, the moss is clear, and the morning mist is filled, and if you ignore what happened in this place last night, then the surrounding scenery really feels like a fairy tale.
Song Qiaoming sat up holding his still somewhat sore head, his memory was a little chaotic for a while, and after a while, he remembered his experience last night, he stood up abruptly and looked around. But the jungle is reckless, where can you see the shadows of the rest of the people.
What about Boss Zhou?
After he fainted, what happened to Boss Zhou?
Song Qiaoming immediately realized that something had happened to Zhou Xuanye, because if Zhou Xuanye hadn't had an accident, then he would definitely not have been allowed to faint in place. Then, he found traces of a fight around him and on the ground. Zhou Xuanye used a sword, and the traces left behind were very easy to distinguish, and all kinds of straight sword marks could be seen on the surrounding trees and dirt surfaces.
In other words, after he fainted last night, there must have been a fierce battle here, and it was Zhou Xuanye who protected him!
Song Qiaoming thought of this and wiped the sweat on his forehead.
He didn't know where the equipment bag on his body had gone, he only carried some personal equipment such as daggers and lighters, and the top priority was to find the team convergence first, or find Zhou Xuanye's whereabouts. He searched around, but to no avail. But fortunately, the equipment bag he lost was found, and the only thing that made people feel dissatisfied was that the food packaging bags in the equipment bag were all bitten, as if some animal had bitten them.
After the animal bit it, it obviously felt unpalatable, so the food was still there, but it was mixed with a lot of saliva and bad breath of the animal, and it was impossible to eat it again. Song Qiaoming scolded and threw away the food, picked up the rest of the equipment, and continued to look for others.
Last night's hurried escape had scattered the whole team, and every now and then, he would blow two whistles.
In the process of searching, Song Qiaoming found a clue. The ground is very soft, so the footprints are very clear. He first followed Zhou Xuanye's footprints to find it, but in the end, the footprints turned into a trail of dragging.
That scene was like Zhou Xuanye was originally running, but in the end he fell to the ground and was dragged away.
Song Qiaoming chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly followed the trail of dragging.
The trail only spread about fifty meters, because the dirt had not been tumbled fifty meters away, so it was very strong, and no other traces were left. But it is clear that people are being dragged in this direction.
Song Qiaoming began a long search, and this process lasted for two days, which can be said to be the most miserable days he lived. Acting with the team before, there were still Song Qiaoming's comrades-in-arms and brothers taking care of him, at that time, he was alone, he didn't have to eat, he didn't know a lot of wild fruits, and he didn't dare to eat them casually, there were monkeys in the jungle, and from time to time he would be surrounded by monkeys, and a lot of fruits would be smashed on his head.
As for mosquitoes, insects, locusts, and other things, not to mention, as if he knows that there are few people and are easy to bully, he will come to bite him if he has nothing to do, and spraying insect repellent will not have much effect. The only thing I dare to eat is wild pineapple, this thing is easier to identify, not easy to confuse with poisonous fruits, but if you eat too much, you will have diarrhea, and when you take off your pants every day, what you pull out is yellow thick thin water, not to mention how disgusting.
Finally, in the afternoon of the next day, he made a discovery, but this discovery was better than no discovery for Song Qiaoming.
At that time, he walked into a humid area, which is characterized by few trees, but every surviving tree can grow very large. The second is that the soil is moist, there are shallow puddles everywhere, and there are many vampire insects breeding in the pits, and there are many hidden swamps, and if you are not careful, people will fall into them.
Myitkyina has a lot of such wet swamp areas, and when we encountered such places before, we tried to bypass them, but this time Song Qiaoming couldn't spare them, because the traces left along the way showed that Zhou Xuanye was probably brought into this area.
Although Song Qiaoming was extremely careful, he was still hit in the end. In front of him was a shallow puddle covered with mossy green space, who knew that when he stepped into it, it turned out to be a swamp pit. I don't know how deep the swamp pit is, but fortunately he fell with quick eyes and grabbed some vegetation on the shore, and then climbed out with difficulty on his own.
The sinking force of the swamp was too strong, in order to climb out, he had to give up the equipment bag, and the backpack sank into the swamp, and in the process of climbing out, some things in the swamp were also taken out. But at that time, Song Qiaoming was busy crawling out, so he didn't pay attention to what was in the swamp at all, and when he completely climbed out and gasped for breath on the edge of the swamp, he found that the things that were brought out by his own movement were a human corpse!
It turned out that this was not a swamp pit, it was actually a corpse pit!
Some people's hands, feet or human heads and other things were brought out like this, floating on the surface, those corpses did not decompose, as if they had been fermented by the environment here, they were round and bulging, their skin was covered with moss, and they looked green, because they were wearing gas masks, Song Qiaoming didn't feel how smelly.
He was covered in slimy liquid, which had come out of the grave, and who knows what it was.
Song Qiaoming hurriedly went to a diving pit not far away to clean it, and took off the gas mask.
While washing the disgusting mucus on his body, Song Qiaoming went to look at the corpse pit.
He was born in the military, and his courage was already greater than the average person, and he had encountered too many disgusting and strange things in the jungle recently, so he actually felt like he was used to it. After the initial horror and nausea faded, Song Qiaoming began to feel strange.
How could there be so many corpses in that pit?
Who are those bodies?
Could it be that of the Expeditionary Force?
Could it be that the corpse of the expeditionary force buried by his companions, because of the environment, did not decompose, but fermented?
After washing, Song Qiaoming stayed away from the corpse pit, his main purpose was to find Zhou Xuanye and the other lost people, although this corpse pit was strange, he did not intend to spend his time on it. Then he searched for another day, he was in pain from the wet and painful, and there were no wild pineapples growing around, and finally he found one, and cut it with a dagger, but the inside was already rotten, and it was full of insects crawling and crawling, and it was disgusting.
As a last resort, after the third day, Song Qiaoming gave up the search, because his food and physical strength no longer allowed him to stay in the wetland. He started trying to find the others, and eventually, he ran into us.
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