Chapter 34: Deception
I rolled my eyes and said, "Come on, you've all moved your guns, this time you are pretending to be a great-grandson, and you can't get it back." The fat man listened with a depressed face. Dr. Zhang and the others had already woken up, sitting not far away to observe the movements of me and the fat man, when the German beauty came over and asked, "Do you still want to go back?" ”
I knew that the surname Zhang asked her to probe the mouth, so I smiled and said, "Don't go back, let's continue to go." The German beauty breathed a sigh of relief.
I thought it was a little strange, how did this German beauty react as if she was rejoicing when she heard that I was going to continue to partner with her? The four of us are tearing our faces now, so it stands to reason that she shouldn't react like this, right?
I was thinking it was strange that the fat man had already gotten up, kicked me in the ass, and said, "Okay, get up, the mission of 'saving the little brother' is still ongoing, don't stand up for the corpse." The German beauty didn't say much, and the four of us cleaned up and buried ourselves on the road.
The weather was calm along the way, there was no big wind and sand, the Peacock River had come to an end, and we could only rely on the sun and compass to identify the route, and when we walked for about half a day, we saw the second mark.
It was a stretch of telescopic steel pipe, which was pulled to the longest, half of it was buried in the yellow sand, and the remaining half was exposed, and the top was tied with a quick white cloth, which was very eye-catching.
We took off the white cloth and wrote on it: 12 o'clock sharp, we will start our journey eastward.
Dr. Zhang put away the white cloth and said, "It was left by Lao Sun, 12 o'clock was two hours ago, they went east, let's follow." ”
I felt that something was wrong and asked, "Dr. Zhang, the route to Yabuda is to the west, why do you want to go east now?" ”
The surname Zhang explained: "Strictly speaking, we have not determined the specific location of Yabuda, now we are in the hinterland of the Black Desert, and we have entered the search range of Yabuda, since Lao Sun will change his route to the east, he must have found something." ”
She had a point, and the fat man and I had no objection, and then we ate some food at random, and walked eastward, and about two hours later another dry riverbed came into view, and then we found a large crowd gathered in the middle of the riverbed.
Yes, a large group of people.
As soon as I saw this group of people, the German beauty immediately cheered and ran up, I squinted under the scorching sun, it was about ** people, all men, and there were two of them.
I went to see the surname Zhang and found that she looked a little strange, not happy, not unhappy, as if she had expected it a long time ago. I've always suspected that the surname Zhang deliberately got separated from another team, and now it seems that there is really something to be done.
The fat man poked my arm and said in a low voice: "It's over, the surname Zhang and the army have joined forces, this person is so powerful, aren't we going to send it to the door for people to ravage?" "Now it's useless to say this, fortunately, I and the fat man still have a gun on our shoulders, if you really want to fight, it's a big deal to fight to the death, although there are many people in this group, but they are all literati, how can I and the fat man train in the fight.
Thinking of this, I made up my mind, told the fat man to be more vigilant, and then followed the surnamed Zhang to the middle of the river.
The German beauty was already happily reunited with Four Eyes, and I didn't know what to say, and as I walked in, I gradually saw the others clearly.
There were seven people in total. Among them, there is an old man with gray hair and a white felt hat, which is estimated to be the guide Afanda, and the remaining six people are all tall and tall men, with fierce faces, not like literati at all, but like the underworld.
The more I felt that something was wrong.
At this moment, one of the white-clothed men with his back to me suddenly turned his head, and in an instant, the fat man and I stopped at the same time.
The fat man snorted and said, "The road is narrow." ”
My head was a little confused, because the person was none other than Passerby A.
How did he end up here? The day after he got the Zansheng Sutra, Dr. Zhang and his party set off for Xinjiang, even if he wanted to find someone surnamed Zhang to decipher the content of the Zansheng Sutra, it should be behind us, how could he rush to us now?
Could it be that before he received the Zansheng Sutra, he had already been placed in the team surnamed Zhang?
Passerby A obviously didn't expect it, I saw me and the fat man, looking at us with sunglasses for a long time, and finally slowly got up, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked up to us with a blank face.
"It's you again."
The so-called loser does not lose the battle, I remembered the process of Zansheng being taken away, and I was full of grievances, and I was not polite immediately, and sneered at each other: "Heh, I also want to ask this sentence, you are everywhere you go, you are really like a fly." ”
The half of the face exposed by passerby A still had no expression, and after a while, he said slowly: "It seems that Wu Erbai's sacrifice this time was done in vain." The smile on my face couldn't help but freeze, the anger in my heart couldn't be held back any longer, I grabbed the collar of passer-by with both hands, and shouted angrily: "You did it to my second uncle? Damn, what the hell are you trying to do! ”
Passerby grabbed my wrist violently, and my eyes couldn't open in such a great pain that he threw my hand out violently, and said coldly: "I should ask you this sentence." Wu Xie, do you know how much someone has paid for you to get you out of this matter? But you have been involved again and again, and you are so disappointing! ”
I froze on the spot.
What do you mean? What exactly did he mean by that?
"Do you know how much someone has paid for you to get you out of this?" What does this mean? What does this surnamed Qi know? Is there any secret behind this that I don't know? He said that the second uncle sacrificed, what did the second uncle sacrifice? During the time I left Beijing to Xinjiang, what happened to my second uncle?
I was so flustered that my whole brain was like a mess.
After passer-by A finished speaking, he gave us a cold look, and walked straight past me with his hands folded. Seeing this, the fat man hurriedly said: "Naive comrade, don't mess up, I think this surnamed Qi is lying to you, how can Second Master Wu be so easy to have an accident." ”
I don't know which ones are true and which ones are false, the fat man's words were like a life-saving straw, and I hurriedly said, "What do you mean?" ”
The fat man analyzed: "You think, the surname Qi will walk ahead of us, there is only one possibility, that is, after getting the Zansheng Sutra, she immediately found the surname Zhang, and everyone was in Beijing at that time, which is not a difficult thing." He followed the surname Zhang, and set off one step earlier than us, when we left, your second uncle was fine, how did he know that your second uncle had an accident? ”
I understood what the fat man said, but the words of passerby A made me very uneasy, and I was worried that the second uncle would make some terrible deal with 'it' in order for me to get rid of this matter.
Now, I and the fat man have no advantage at all, these people, no one is easy to mess with, and from the distribution of these two groups of people, the team of German beauties is obviously led by Dr. Zhang, and the other team seems to be passers-by.
I sat in the riverbed for a while, and my heart gradually calmed down, and thanks to the fact that I had experienced so much in the past few years, I am afraid that I would not have been able to slow down the news.
After calming down, I analyzed the situation in front of me with the fat man.
Now that I am in the desert, the matter on the second uncle's side is beyond the reach of the whip even if I break my heart, and the situation in front of me, I and the fat man are alone, and there are passers-by in this team, so it's not a matter of beating and killing?
"And one thing, you think, why did Passerby A come here? He must have found a translator surnamed Zhang for the content of the Zansheng Sutra, and after the translation, he personally went to Yabuda, which shows that Yabudari has what he needs. This thing may be a physical object, it may be a piece of information, but it must have something to do with what 'it' wants. It may be the secret of immortality, or it may be related to the little brother, aren't we here for this purpose? ”
The fat man nodded and said, "Yes, and when you say that, I still think of it." As he spoke, his eyes gestured to Dr. Zhang and the others in the distance, and then said: "Since the surname Zhang has already read the full score of the Zansheng Sutra, then from the beginning, this woman has been pretending to be confused with us, she has long known our purpose, but she has been cooperating with our lies, why?" ”
I was shocked, and then I thought about the deliberate separation of the surname Zhang and passerby A, and I couldn't help but guess, could it be that the surname Zhang was coerced? She didn't want to come here at all?
But based on her performance along the way, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Since she is in the same group as Passerby A, why did she deliberately split the team?
At this time, the person surnamed Zhang had already held a meeting, and it seemed that he was discussing the next trip, and the fat man and I had little information in our hands, so I adjusted my mentality and leaned over to listen.
The surnamed Zhang glanced at me, and then continued to draw a map on the paper, and said to the people in a circle: "According to the clues provided by Mr. Qi, we can basically determine that the ruins of the city of Yabuda are not within a radius of two kilometers, so next, my opinion is that everyone will divide into four ways and search for the detailed location before sunset tomorrow." ”
Listening to the surname Zhang say this, I was even more determined in my inner thoughts, this woman is scattering the team again, yes, she is trying to find a way to get rid of the team of passers-by. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and maybe I can work with her.
It's already three o'clock in the afternoon, the time is no longer suitable for the search, that day, we slept on the riverbed, I haven't slept at night, carefully pay attention to the surrounding movements, in the early hours of the morning, everyone has been asleep, by the faint starlight, I see a dark shadow suddenly slowly towards me, I squinted, thinking it was a passer-by, when I found that it was surnamed Zhang.
Looks like I guessed right this time.
She came over with a cat, and I immediately opened my eyes, and in the dark, we looked at each other, didn't speak, but we both understood each other's thoughts. At this time, the surnamed Zhang made a gesture and pointed to the equipment on the side, I nodded and stabbed the fat man next to him, he immediately opened his eyes and was full of energy.
The three of us lightly grabbed a bag of gear, and then walked into the desert in the dark.
In the darkness, I turned around and looked at the riverbed, where all the people were sleeping soundly, including the vigilant passer-by.
I vaguely feel that something is wrong in my heart, when did passerby A's vigilance become so low? When I was in Kunlun Mountain, I suspected that he slept with his eyes open, and I didn't have time to think about it, but the fat man saw me grinding, and after getting out of the riverbed, he grabbed me and ran.
The one surnamed Zhang led the way in front, and the three of us ran wildly with our equipment on our backs in the dark night, as if there were ghosts chasing behind.