Chapter 3: Corpses

Fang Duo and his party moved forward slowly, the stone steps from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain were blocked by weeds and bushes growing on both sides of the road, Fang Duo then knew why he sent Wang Wei to the farmer to borrow a sickle, the weeds under his feet were enough to grow to his waist, if there was no Wang Wei and Xiao Chen in front of him wielding a sickle to open the way, even walking would be a problem.

"My mother, how did these grasses grow so tall, Lao Tzu's pants have been cut through several holes, and there are openings in his legs, these blades of grass are a little sharp." Wang Wei screamed strangely in front, thinking that he was not lightly scratched by the blades of grass and branches.

"You kid, don't open your mouth Lao Tzu and close your mouth Lao Tzu, if you don't step forward to open the way, do you want me to go with Wen Wen? Be quick in your actions, don't talk so much nonsense. Team Chu shouted urgically.

"Team Chu, I remember that there is a temple not far from here, why don't we ask the monks in the temple to see if they have found the whereabouts of the passengers, and if they do, we will not have to look around." The policewoman warmly suggested.

Wang Wei and Xiao Chen, who were walking in front, were overjoyed when they heard this, and walked for nearly an hour, and their bodies were pricked by branches, and after hearing this suggestion, Xiao Chen hurriedly seconded: "Yes, maybe those passengers are in the temple at this time, but they are trapped by these bushes and grasses and can't go down the mountain." ”

Fang Duo shook his head, these two guys were obviously a little passive and slacking off, if the passengers were really in the temple, wouldn't they call to contact the outside world, Fang Duo didn't believe that these people would not be able to think of this detail, they just wanted an excuse to rest.

However, this hour's mountain road is indeed exhausting, and Fang Duo can understand it, after all, after his physical fitness point reaches 2 points, his physical strength and endurance are much better than theirs, and he doesn't feel tired, it doesn't mean that these people won't feel tired.

At this moment, Wang Wei, who was walking in the front, suddenly fell on his heels, the whole person was drowned in the grass, and his mouth let out a sharp scream, and Xiao Chen beside him stared at his feet with his eyes straight, staring at his feet, opening his mouth and not saying a word, his body stiffened there.

"What's the matter, it looks like you've seen a ghost." Team Chu quickened his pace and walked up.

Fang Duo followed closely behind, and before he saw anything on the ground, a pungent smell of blood rushed to his face, and his heart suddenly tightened, and he picked up a strong light and shone it on the ground, only to see a ragged corpse lying on the ground, the way of death was very peculiar, as if it had been splashed with strong sulfuric acid, this corpse revealed a lot of white bones, most of the flesh disappeared, and the internal organs and intestines in the chest cavity flowed out along the gap, and the smell was very unpleasant.

"Gasp!" The young college student had never seen such a terrifying and disgusting scene, and he bent down and threw up, and the policewoman on the side was not much better.

Captain Chu's face was gloomy, and it looked black and white under the illumination of the light, he held back the unpleasant smell and squatted down to inspect the corpse, and then said in a deep voice: "Judging from the condition of the corpse, the muscles on this corpse are slightly contracted, the joints can no longer be flexed, and there are no obvious large corpse spots on the body, I guess that the time for this person to die should be two to four hours, and it is very likely that he is one of the passengers of the minibus." ”

After listening to the analysis of the Chu team, Fang Duo gasped, now that the bodies of the passengers have begun to appear, then the experience of the other passengers is afraid that it is very dangerous, he is a little worried about whether Xu Xin is still alive now, whether it is from his personal psychology or from the perspective of the task, he does not want Xu Xin to encounter danger.

In order to understand what happened to the owner of this corpse, Fang Duo took a strong light to probe the situation around the corpse, the surrounding grass was pressed by the dead body, and the grass directly in front of the corpse had a few dented green marks, which were left by people or animals walking. As the lights flickered, there was a slight reflection of light in the grass, and he looked forward, where the blades of grass and some transparent viscous liquid on the ground were sticking to it.

"What is this?" Wen Wen also noticed these transparent liquids, walked up to Fang Duo and pinched some transparent liquids with her slender fingers and smelled them, she frowned and said, "It smells bad, maybe it's these plant secretions." After saying that, he wiped the liquid off his hands in disgust.

This is definitely not a plant secretion, Fang Duo used to have snails as a child, and these viscous liquids look more like the fluid left behind by snails or slugs after crawling, this slime helps them crawl and can increase their crawling speed.

And this kind of viscous liquid, there are also on the corpse, wherever the blade of grass is pressed down there are these traces, Fang Duo looked at it, judging from the thick width of the bucket on the ground, if it is really a mollusk like a slug, how big should it be? Fang Duo didn't say his guess, so as not to increase everyone's fear, lest it would be bad if these people retreated, if he wanted to complete the task now, he couldn't do without the help of these people at all.

After this episode, Fang Duo found that these people were starting to have some stage fright, and Wang Wei stammered: "Why don't we wait until dawn to act, how about spending the night in the temple first." He has only been in the police station for more than two months, and he has never encountered such a strange and dangerous case, so he naturally wants to escape at this time.

Wang Wei's suggestion, basically everyone was moved, Wen Wen and Xiao Chen looked at the Chu team expectantly, waiting for his final decision.

"Then let's decide, it's really not easy to find someone if the vision is too blurry at night, and I'll be moving during the day tomorrow." The Chu team thought for a while, anyway, they had to go to the temple to ask those monks to see if they could find some clues, and then they would rest there by the way.

Seeking advantage and avoiding harm is a person's natural surname, Fang Duo didn't say much, if it wasn't for Xu Xin who disappeared this time, he wouldn't have entered this deep mountain full of dangers.

Lingyuan Temple is very close to the location of Fang Duo's group of people, only walked for a few minutes, he saw a red tile-roofed ancient buildings lit up, the scale of the temple is quite large, there are a total of one hall, three halls, one worship pavilion, seven pavilions, it looks majestic and atmospheric.

However, when Fang Duo stepped into the main hall, he found that something was wrong, under the red and yellow light in the hall, there were traces on the marble floor of the main hall, and he couldn't help but become solemn, these traces not only had the transparent liquid he saw before, but also the red blood stains, which were dragged on the ground to form long blood marks, which were drawn directly from the main hall to the back door.

"Damn, things are a little tricky, Xiao Chen, you and the little brother with the bow and arrow will go to the backyard to see if there are any monks alive, I'll call to inform the bureau of the situation here and see if I can send some support." Team Chu made arrangements almost instantly, and his face was so gloomy that he was almost dripping.

Fang Duo nodded, and followed Xiao Chen to the backyard, although there were rows of lights shining, the temple corridor at this moment also gave people an eerie feeling, the ground and walls were filled with a large number of blood stains, some had dried up and turned black and red, and some were bright blood red, this glance knew that it had just been sprinkled not long ago, which made Fang Duo's eyes condense, and he became more careful.

Fang Duo restrained his snort, stepped on small steps, followed Xiao Chen very cautiously along the bloodstains left behind, and didn't go far before he came to the end of the bloodstains, which was a room for monks to sleep.

I saw that the door was open, and a cool breeze wafted out from behind the door, bringing out a strong smell of blood.

There was a faint sound from behind the door, and a gnawing sound that looked like chewing food!

What is this sound?

It seems to be the sound of some kind of animal biting **, and it sounds like there is more than one, could it be that the wild dogs nearby smell blood and run over? Probably not, Fang Duo quickly rejected his hypothesis, the wound of the corpse he had seen in the grass before was definitely not something that a wild dog could bite out.

Fang Duo and Xiao Chen glanced at each other, both of them saw deep confusion in each other's eyes, Xiao Chen pulled out his pistol and aimed at the door, nodding at Fang Duo and motioning for him to push open the door.

Fang Duo didn't dare to be too bold, leaning sideways against the wall, stretching out the soles of his feet and gently pushing open the door, the compound bow in his hand tightly pulling the bowstring, ready to attack at any time.

The door slowly opened, and all the scenes in the room fell into view, without Fang Duo deliberately looking for it, he found three greasy white worms with thick water pipes, which were lying on a fat man in monk clothes at the moment, frantically sucking flesh and blood, the fat man was lying on the floor of the living room, most of the fat on his body was gnawed, and he could even see the yellow-white fat and bones.

As the door opened, the three insects stopped their movements, and raised their chrysanthemum-like heads one after another, looking at Fang Duo's location, their round mouths revealing sharp teeth, which were stained with flesh foam and blood.

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