Chapter 41: The Flower of Death
In the twenties, there was a boom in the United States to explore China, during which some people became famous and some people died, and this second-rate nobleman from England, Jonson, was one of the quite miserable deaths. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At that time, Jonson's deputy led a group of people to search for the whereabouts of the captain according to the map, and after they set off, they quickly walked along the rugged mountain road into the dense primeval jungle of Guizhou, where they encountered unprecedented difficulties, first torrential rain, then heavy fog, and soon the three of them lost their way.
Just as everyone was about to give up the search, the deputy's guide saw a dead mule at a fork in the road.
When Deputy Jonson found the mule, he was shocked.
According to the person's own recollection, when the mule was found, the blood had not dried up, but the five organs had been hollowed out, and the most terrible thing was that the mule's stomach wound was extremely neat, and it was by no means cut by a black bear or any known creature, but more like a knife.
Anyway, the deputy and the guide agreed that the wound was caused by some unknown predator.
This discovery made the deputy very excited.
Because the deputy immediately saw that this unfortunate mule was the same mule that Jonson had taken with him when he set out to look for the city of Helamber, and when he found it, he found Jonson's traces.
Excited, although he was terrified of the unknown monster that killed the mule, the deputy still relied on the musket in his hand and enough ammunition to quickly chase the mule in the direction of the mule, trying to find Jonson before the "unknown creature" killed him.
They then spent the rest of their time searching for Jonson and his seven men.
Searchable results that terrify the deputies.
After that, Jonson's deputy did not find a single body, but on the Hibiscus River, Jonson found a large number of stumps, broken bones, pieces of internal organs, broken ornaments, and rags.
It was the kind of scenery that the expedition deputy had never seen before, and it was as if Jonson and his assistants were ...... It's as if someone was using high-explosive (harmony) explosives and blowing it up from within.
Shockedly, the deputy completely lost the confidence to continue the search, so he took the guide and returned to the station.
But on the night he rushed back to the station, a dramatic scene happened.
In order to rush back to the station as soon as possible, the deputy took the guide to walk at night, and in the dark night, they came to the front of a cave by mistake, and then saw the expedition team Zhang "Jonson" who was covered in blood, covered in bruises, and delirious at the mouth of the cave.
The deputy was amazed and inexplicable at Jonson's state at the time, and in his words, "his captain was as delirious as if he had been in a bad mood, and he kept muttering something in his mouth, 'devouring fire, devouring fire, eating......,' and his left hand seemed to be holding something dead." ”
found the captain's deputy, and immediately took him back to the station overnight.
Jonson was then lightly bandaged and groomed, which did not help him recover from his epileptic dementia, but calmed him down.
Later, the deputy carried Jonson to Sichuan, and in the whole process, Jonson quickly weakened, and he was completely unable to hold on to the Jinsha River.
When he was dying, Jonson's face was horrified and haggard, and he was "old" in his fifties like a man who had been sucked dry by a vampire. In the end, all that remained was skin and bones and folds all over the face.
But even in the process, the deputy noticed that Jonson's left hand was clenched so badly that no one knew what he had in his hand.
When the deputy tried to swing Jonson's hand away and take out the contents, Jonson's nervous struggle and howl were exchanged for each time.
The truth of what Jonson had in his left hand was not revealed until the day he died.
Just as the team was about to cross the Jinsha River, Jonson died.
The dead Jonson finally let go of his left hand, which he had been clenching, giving his deputy a chance to get a glimpse of what was in his hand.
He was dumbfounded when the deputy spread Jonson's scrawny arm out with apprehension.
For he saw ...... inside. A strand of a woman's hair.
...... I questioned Hyun Hongye in disbelief: "Hair, what he has been holding in his hand for days, is it just a few strands of hair?!" ”
Momiji nodded helplessly, and at the same time continued to tell us what happened after Jonson's death.
Momiji said quickly: "After Jonson's death, the body decomposed quickly, and in order to avoid spreading the disease, the deputy was forced to cremate him on the spot. ”
But it was on the crematorium that Jonson staged a terrifying scene again.
When Joonson's body was mixed with butter, masson pine, and calamus on fire, everyone suddenly saw Jonson's mouth and suddenly opened.
Immediately after, a red skull demon flower that everyone had never seen before quickly sprouted from Jonson's mouth, opened, withered, and withered.
In the end, both the flowers and the corpses were engulfed in flames, and everything was calm.
...... When Xian Hongye finished translating these, Wang and I roared, Lin Shaosong let out a long breath, and both shivered involuntarily.
Everyone couldn't help but wonder what that strand of woman's hair meant, why the goddess of Miaojiang who would kill someone bloomed in Jonson's mouth, and most importantly, I didn't understand what Jonson met on that trip to "Devil's City", and why he was the only one who survived.
Puzzled, I asked Lin Shaosong: "According to the analysis of this information, the place we went to seems to be very dangerous, can we only bring cold weapons?" ”
Listening to my words, Lin Shaosong smiled, pointed to the Russian mercenary "Golden Fleece" who was driving, and said: "This is not only good at engineering, but also an expert in weapons, who can make all kinds of bombs with explosives, and ......."
As Lin Shaosong spoke, he suddenly threw a stack of money to me and said: "You take the money, if you encounter a crisis, run first, find the locals, hire them to solve the problem, it is said that they have earthen guns in their hands." ”
I was holding Lin Shaosong's money in my hand, and I felt a little like crying without tears.
I suddenly understood that this kid completely weighs everything in money, he uses money to buy information, money to buy information, money to buy mercenaries, money to buy Hyun Hongye, and even tries to use money...... Deal with monsters.
Such a person can walk with the rich father of Xian Hongye, and it really smells like it.
Out of boredom, I didn't want to pay attention to him, so I quickly returned the money respectfully, then picked up my laptop and looked through the materials and files.
To be honest, I couldn't read the files in English, so the only thing I could read was some old photos and images interspersed in the archives.
Fortunately, there are also a lot of video records on it, except for the absence of a photo of the goddess of Miaojiang, I can almost understand the "faces" of that expedition like a comic book. You can also see Jonson's high spirits when he first set off, his hesitation before going to Black Lamber, his loss of soul after his nervous disorder, and then his skinny when he died.
If it weren't for the continuous reading, I would hardly believe that the scrawny body in the photo was actually the same person.
But just as I was about two-thirds of the way through the photo, a "detail" on that photo suddenly caught my attention.