At nightfall, Batu hunted two rabbits, roasted them on the fire and roasted them for us to improve our food, but unfortunately we were a group of big men, and the two rabbits were stripped of their internal organs, and the rest of the meat was divided into a little bit of meat, and it was not enough to stuff the teeth. And the rabbit meat is fragrant, but it arouses gluttony, and the tofu looks completely dissatisfied with the rabbit bone in his mouth, so he asked Ouyang Xuan to be the translator and ask Batu to go to the river to get two more fish.

Since the river was not far away, we didn't think much about it, but not long after, Tofu ran back nervously, soaking wet, panting and saying, "No, it's not good, Batu, Batu is gone." ”

We were resting, I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard the words, I looked behind Tofu, only followed the corpse fairy, and couldn't help but get up immediately, and said, "Say slowly, what's going on?" "These two people are a corpse, go to the river, this; There are no beasts in the oasis, why is there still an accident?

Tofu hurriedly said: "The three of us went into the water to fish in the river, and when we were looking at each other, I saw Batu running along the river, I thought he was playing blind, and ignored him, but when I looked up again, the person was gone." ”

Zhen Rui said calmly: "Have you looked for it nearby?" ”

Tofu pointed to the sky and said, "It's not completely dark yet, and there is no one around who can see it at a glance and not find it." ”

Everyone looked at each other, all puzzled, and there were no beasts, and there was no movement, how could a big living person suddenly disappear? Batu is the son of Old Man Billier, and he is kind enough to show us the way, if something happens to him, how can we explain to Old Man Billier? So I said to Zhong Gong: "Old Zhong, you and Miss Ouyang stay to watch the camp, and we will look for the rest." ”

Zhen Rui said: "Do what Chen Hang said, take the guy away." "There were guns in the equipment, and everyone brought three guns, two cold weapons, flashlights and other things and ran to the river with tofu.

The river was densely covered with rabbit grass, leaving no traces, and there were no clues in the riverbed, so when we arrived at the ground, we were blinded and didn't know what to do. Zhen Rui pointed to the upper reaches of the river and said, "Did you go missing when you ran up?" ”

Tofu nodded affirmatively. So Zhen Rui said: "The soldiers are divided into two roads, along the upper reaches of the river, one left and one right to check. So Tofu and I waded across the water with the corpse fairy, and the two groups of people called Batu's name as they walked, and gradually parted along the river.

I kept an eye out for the marks on the meadow, but unfortunately the rabbit grass was tangled and elastic, so it didn't leave any traces of trampling, and as time went on, it was completely dark, and we had to turn on all the searchlights, and by this time it was far from our camp.

In the end, the two groups of us reunited to the river, Zhang Wen looked worried, and said, "I didn't find any clues, strange, what's going on?" When I was wondering to myself, the jack-of-all-trades turned his gaze to the riverbed and said, "Could it be that there is a problem in the river?" ”

Tofu said: "This river is so shallow, you can see the bottom at a glance, and there can't be any big fish that eat people, what can be the problem?" ”

The know-it-all shook his head and said, "Other than that, I can't think of any other situation that would make a big living person disappear." As he spoke, he took off his shoes and socks, pulled up his trousers and walked to the middle of the river, and began to walk forward, saying as he went, "Let's try to restore the scene." As Tofu had described, he began to run forward in the river. I stared at the back of the jack-of-all-trades, and a question suddenly came to mind: Why did Batu suddenly run away at that time?

Could it be that he saw something attractive at the time? The rest of us stood on the bank of the river, following the figure of the know-it-all, when suddenly he stumbled under his feet, and almost fell into the water, and then he saw a bright red blood in the water.

"Oh, shit." The know-it-all said this, estimating that it was a scratch on the instep of his foot, and quickly retracted one of his legs, and when the light shone on, he saw that the side of his foot was bleeding. Tofu quickly helped the person up and said, "The scene is restored like this?" ”

The know-it-all covered the wound with his hand and said, "Can you blame me, don't say it." "I said something was wrong in my heart, at this time in the desert oasis, the riverbed was full of sand, there would be no stones and other things, how could a jack of all trades be scratched? Then, ignoring the rest of the people, I waded to the point where the know-it-all had been injured, reached under the riverbed, and found something out of the sand.

When I looked closely, I couldn't help but be shocked, because this thing was a broken bone of Bai Sensen. I stared at it for a long time and didn't see what kind of animal bones it was, and at this time, Zhen Rui concluded, "Human leg bones." ”

Human bones?

I felt a sudge in my heart, and when I looked closely, the bone seemed to be some years old, slightly yellow, broken in half, and protruding with sharp bone spurs.

How can there be human bones in this place?

Could it be that there is something strange under this riverbed? Thinking of this, the people did not say much, but gathered together and began to dig the sand, and the riverbed could not be dug deep under the impact of the water, but in a few moments we dug out two more things, one was a half-broken human skull, and the other was a waist knife.

This is a Mongolian waist knife, I have seen, and it is carried on Batu's waist.

Tofu stared at these two things, dumbfounded, and the whole person was like being struck by lightning, and said, "Could it be that this bone belongs to Batu...... How, how can this be? "I also thought about tofu at first, but it soon dawned on me that human bones could not be Batu's. As a mushroom digging Tufuzi, there is still a little bit of eyesight to distinguish other bones, this bone is yellow, at first glance it is an old bone that has been dead for an unknown number of years, and some places have appeared frosted particles, showing signs of natural weathering, it is conceivable that this bone must not be recent or even modern.

So I said to Tofu, "Don't crow's mouth, this is not Batu's bone, but it seems that Batu was in danger in this place at that time." ”

Zhang Wen looked puzzled, stared at the riverbed and speculated, and said: "This river is shallow, and there are no big fish, what kind of situation will make a person suddenly disappear when he runs here?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the know-it-all answered, "The ground is sinking." ”

"Subsidence?" Tofu looked puzzled, then lifted his pants and jumped up in the river, splashing and rattling, the riverbed was soft but thick, and it really didn't look like it had subsided. At this moment, the know-it-all ignored us and walked straight to the side of the riverbed, and then squatted down without the water soaking his clothes, tilting his head, as if observing the rabbit grass at the water's edge.

I thought to myself, did he find something? So he walked up to her, and at this time, he saw the know-it-all gesturing to us, pointing to the roots of the rabbit grass in the water, and said; "You see, there is no sediment under this grass root, but there is no such phenomenon in the rest of the area, which means that there was a sandslide here not long ago, and most of the sand under the grass roots was suddenly taken away." When I saw it, I found that it was.

Zhang Wen looked pity on his face and said, "In this way, Batu had a sand depression in the riverbed when he walked here, and there was an accident?" That...... Isn't he buried under the riverbed now? "After such a long time, people have long been suffocated.

My heart sank for a moment, and I said, "I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death, and it's too early to draw conclusions." ”

Tofu said anxiously: "But how can we see the corpse, if the corpse is deep under the riverbed, we don't have sand pumping equipment, and we can't get it out." I said, "What kind of sand pumping equipment, have you forgotten what we are doing?" ”

Tofu didn't understand, but Zhang Wen and the others understood, and said, "I'm in a hurry, forget about this stubble, wait, I'll go back and get the guy." Then he ran towards the camp, and after a while, Zhang Wen brought an iron hammer as thin as a Western sword.

This thing is the customary piece of Tufuzi, which can be lengthened and inserted into the soil, and the structural composition of the soil is different, and the vibration sensation transmitted is also different, such as the vibration of slamming on the stone and the vibration of hitting the wood chips are different. With long-term skillful use, you can judge the distribution of sand or objects in the soil with the help of iron drills.

Whether Batu is buried under the riverbed or not is not determined by digging the sand at all, it can be done with an iron drill. This kind of technical work is naturally Yuan Rui personally out of the horse, he is calm, slowly inserted the iron drill, inserted to the end, seemed to be dissatisfied, frowned, lengthened the iron drill, continued to go down, and added three times before pulling it out. Immediately after repeating this, a pentagonal point was formed, which was inserted five times in a row, and finally the iron drill was withdrawn, squinted, and said, "There is no corpse." ”

Tofu breathed a sigh of relief, made a gesture of Amitabha, and said, "Fortunately, this means that Batu is not buried underneath and may still be alive, thank God." Zhen Rui glanced at him, did not say anything, and continued: "But there are a lot of small and smooth hard objects in the sand layer, which should be human bones, and there are thick stone slabs about six meters down. ”

Flagstone?

There are no corpses, but there are slates?

Tofu said suspiciously: "Big boss, is your iron drill reliable, just such a thin thing, you know that there are bones and slates underneath?" As for the tofu, Zhen Rui took a disregard and made a decision on his own, saying: "There is no way to dig at the bottom of the riverbed, strengthen and dig from the side of the meadow, maybe what we are looking for is below." ”