The footprints on the ground were obviously left by the murderer when he left, stepping on Hu Xiaoming's blood on the ground. There was nothing surprising about it, but to our surprise, the killer was barefoot. Hoshino, on the other hand, doesn't walk barefoot.

I shudder at the thought that in these caves, which are more terrifying and strange than the graves, there are people besides ourselves and the other two groups.

Looking further ahead, I was startled again, and the second footprint was actually two meters away. How can a person take such a big step?

After looking closely, I knew why, it turned out that all the footprints on the ground were left foot. At the same time, however, two irregularities were discovered: first, the footprints were strangely large, and the length of the feet was about 43 yards, while the width and narrowness were small children's feet; Second, the footprints are extremely obvious whether they are the foot board or the five fingers that are slightly divided, but there is not a trace of lines.

Lu Dachuan said: "If a person walks barefoot for a long time, the soles of the feet must grind out a layer of calluses, and if you don't wash it often, there will be thick dirt, and it is normal to have no bucket lines." However, this length and width are seriously disproportionate, which is really incomprehensible. ”

Liu Changleg said: "Will we have a preconceived idea, this is not a human footprint at all!" ”

Lin Xian'er glared at Liu Changshan: "Don't talk nonsense!" It's scary enough......"

"Kill Hu Xiaoming with a sharp weapon and take away our food, isn't it human? Beasts, ghosts, just cannibalism is over, is it necessary to make it so complicated? Lu Dachuan saw me staring at the feet on the ground in a daze, and asked, "What do you think?" Tell us what you think. ”

I looked at Lu Dachuan and then at Liu Fashan: "If these footprints are really human, they can only be the kind of people you carry on your back." ”

"The person we carry ......" Lu Dachuan and Liu Fashan glanced at each other and understood what it was.

The others looked at Lu Dachuan's backpack and Liu Fashan's sleeping bag tied like a mummy on his back in horror, and thought I was talking about dead people.

Liu Fashan asked: "Do you want to untie it and take a look?" ”

Lu Dachuan said: "No need, Zheng Shuang said that he should not leave ten." Let's go and see how long the footprints are and if we can find him. ”

Liu Changleg said: "Dead people can walk and grab food to eat, it's too scary!" ”

Lu Dachuan turned his head to look at Liu Changshan, who was frightened, his trembling sister and Lin Xian'er: "Where do you think of it, Zheng Shuang means to become the person who was like Daddy Boba when he was alive." ”

Liu Changleg breathed a sigh of relief: "You make it clear, don't talk about Keqin and Xian'er, I'm scared." ”

The footprints entered the stone chamber through the hole, and were so faint that they were almost invisible, and disappeared completely at the back door. Standing at both ends of the passage connecting each of the stone chambers, there was no trace of the murderer who had gone in that direction, so we had to continue on, towards another stone chamber not far away.

With the first two experiences, we entered the third stone chamber and quickly fought a quick victory, looked at the wall and retreated, and walked briskly to the next ...... Looking at the remaining six stone chambers on the first floor in one go, apart from the difference in size, we no longer see any clearly distinguishable petroglyphs and other things.

One thought that has been lingering in my mind along the way, that is, whether the person who killed Hu Xiaoming and took our food will be my father Zheng Sanjin. Because I was sure that it was the big-headed villains who went to my house to steal the stone saucer and the corpse, I always thought that they only knew that I had those things in my house after seeing my father.

Of course, I also thought about the other two groups, but when I think about it, the possibility of them is very small, mainly considering the intentions of the other party, if it were either of the two groups, it would never be as simple as just taking the food.

We hesitated to come out of the last stone room at the end of the passage, and finally there was a ramp to turn up outside this stone room, and judging from the previous gunshots, the two groups were on it, and now we were not sure of their condition, and we were afraid that we would meet them as soon as we went up.

After careful consideration, Lu Dachuan said: "I think it is better to go back and get insurance from that side." ”

I asked, "Is there any difference between the two?" They will be on top, and they will meet from there. ”

"It's possible to meet on both sides, but there are also ways to meet, meet head-on, let's go behind them or they go behind us. If the first one we will definitely suffer, the second we can avoid self-preservation, and the last one we will die. ”

"That's true, but how do you know if you can walk behind them from that side?"

"Judging by the gunfire just now, their position should be on that side, or at least in the middle. No gunfire was heard for half a day, and after the exchange of fire, they should have separated left and right and walked to both sides. Now I figured it was almost time to get to the end, and maybe we'd meet as soon as we got up, so I thought it was safe to go back. If there is a road leading to the top as here, we can use this time to avoid it, and in case they come down, we can use our familiarity with the terrain to avoid it. ”

"If that's the case, let's turn off the lights and go back to the stone room for a while. They want to come down, let's retreat to the cave outside, and it is more reassuring to go up again when we are gone. ”

"It's not impossible, but there are two things I'm not worried about, one is that we have been in the dark for a long time, and the other is whether they will be like us, and they will look very carefully at the one or two stone rooms in front of them, and the back will be empty and pass by with a quick glance."

"Well, most likely."

After discussing it, we turned around and walked back. Because of the deliberate procrastination, we don't go fast. After a meal, I walked back to the stone room where Hu Xiaoming was killed, and there was a fork in the road in front of me. Lu Dachuan waved his hand to signal everyone to stop and turned off the flashlight.

There was not the slightest light shining through the black hole above, and no movement could be heard.

Lu Dachuan said: "It doesn't look like there are people up there. ”

Liu Changleg said, "Why don't I go up and have a look first?" ”

"Let's go together, it's not worth it if something happens separately." Lu Dachuan turned on the flashlight.

We turned the corner, walked upwards, and after a few minutes came out of the uphill passage and went straight to the bottom of a cave. I took a general look around with a flashlight, and the cave was not big or small, and there were no other artificial traces in it except for the passage we came up from and a road to other places on the left and right.

After checking separately, we saw that the left side was also sloped, so we did not hesitate to choose the passage on the right side of the cave wall. After walking only a few meters, I came to the cave next door. We were disappointed to see that there was only one less passage leading to the bottom than the other side, and that there was no difference in the others.

I looked blankly around the empty caves: "I can't figure out why they went to such great lengths to dig through all these caves, but they didn't put anything?" ”

Lu Dachuan said: "Don't waste your brains, you can't find valuable clues, you can't figure out these things." Let's hurry up and move forward. ”

"I also know that I can't think of these things, but I can't help but think about them!"

The passage connecting the caves on the upper level is not carved out of the stone chamber below, but directly penetrates the walls of the left and right sides of each cave, so it is easier and faster to enter the next cave from one cave.

At the urging of Lu Dachuan, we passed through the hole and entered the third cave on the second floor from left to right. After walking into this hole, we saw a backpack at the root of the opposite wall, and some convenience food packaging bags were scattered around the backpack.

"My bag!" Lu Keqin recognized it as his backpack at a glance, and couldn't help but stride forward.

Lu Dachuan was afraid that his sister would make a mistake, so he followed closely behind her. Liu Changjiao, Liu Fashan and the others scattered in all directions, checking every corner of the cave to prevent something from suddenly coming out and attacking in the shadows while they were not paying attention. Compared to them, I have more expectations in my heart.

Walking up, Lu Keqin checked his backpack, there was no food in it, and everything else was there. Lu Dachuan picked up a few bags on the ground and looked at them, his eyes fell on the two halves of the broken bones at the base of the wall.

I, Liu Changjiao and the others didn't find any potential danger in other places in the cave, so they walked up to Lu Dachuan's brother and sister, and saw Lu Dachuan fiddling with two white bones, and they were all very curious.

Lu Dachuan stood up with a piece of bone in one hand and said, "Look, this thigh bone is the murder weapon that killed Hu Xiaoming." ”

The fat man was killed by a bone, and we turned from curiosity to surprise.

Liu Fashan and Liu Changleg each took a piece of bone and looked at it. Lin Xian'er was scared and walked over to stand with Lu Keqin. I looked at the two broken bones on both sides, and saw that the bones were broken diagonally in two, and the broken wounds were as sharp as the blades of a knife. I can probably imagine what the scene was like when Hu Xiaoming was killed:

Soon after I fell asleep, Hu Xiaoming had not finished peeing, or had just finished sprinkling and was about to lift his pants. In the darkness, a dark figure silently reached behind him, raised a large thigh bone and slammed it into the back of his head. The black shadow originally just wanted to knock Hu Xiaoming unconscious and take away our food, but due to excessive force, the bones were broken, and the sharp cut cut Hu Xiaoming's neck.

The black shadow just wanted to knock people unconscious, but he didn't expect to kill them, and looked at the blood trickling from Hu Xiaoming's neck for a while, and then walked towards the tent, and after taking two steps, he felt that the half of the bone in his hand was used for self-defense, which was too thin, so he turned around and picked up the other half on the ground.

When we entered the tent and saw that we were all asleep, we took two backpacks with food, slipped outside, and ran away. When he fled, his left foot stepped on the blood that flowed from Hu Xiaoming's neck to the ground, and a string of bloody footprints was imprinted on the ground.

He fled to the third hole above in one go, sat at the base of the wall, ate all the food in Lu Keqin's bag, left the empty bag and two broken bones, and escaped with Lin Xian'er's bag on his back......

"Who would it be to be barefoot and use a bone as a weapon of self-defense?" They fell into deep thought.

"I think it could be my dad." I thought twice before I got my thoughts out there.

"Your dad!" Lu Dachuan looked at me in surprise, "Why do you think it's your father?" ”

"I can't think of anyone else in this place but him."

"That's it?"

"I don't have anything to eat, I don't have weapons, my shoes are too bad to wear, maybe my clothes are gone......," I choked.

Lu Dachuan patted me on the shoulder: "If it's really your father, this is a good thing, you should be happy!" ”

Liu Fashan said: "After eating so many things here, it seems that we can't go far, so let's look around." ”

Lin Xian'er frowned: "Zheng Shuang thinks his father is dizzy, why are you also fainting?" ”

"How?" We looked at Lin Xian'er together.

Lin Xian'er said: "Being able to accurately take away two packs of food from so many of our bags shows that he is secretly following and monitoring us, if it is Zheng Shuang's father, why don't you come out to recognize Zheng Shuang, but you want to kill people and rob things?" ”

"yes, how did I forget this stubble!" I woke up like a dream.

"So when you meet him, you must not be careless, especially you Zheng Shuang, don't rush up defenseless."

I nodded gratefully.

As we spoke, we didn't notice that Liu Changleg had retreated to the entrance of the passage leading to the second cave. Lu Dachuan continued to walk forward with everyone, only to see him and greeted: "Let's go!" ”

Liu Changleg turned back and motioned for us to follow, then entered the passage and walked towards the second cave where we had come out not long ago.

Looking at the appearance of Liu's long legs, he should have made a discovery. We walked briskly over and followed him. This passage is longer than the previous one, but it is also straight, and when the flashlight shines out, you can see the opposite wall of the cave and the entrance to the first cave.

Liu Chang's legs were not fast, but his eyes were always fixed on the entrance of the passage opposite. Just as we were about to enter the cave, a figure ran into the first cave like a rabbit in front of our eyes.

We chased after us.