readx;? Dennis took Ian to a small hill about a hundred meters away from their rest. In fact www.biquge.info this cannot be called a hill at all, it is more appropriate to call it a "hillside", because it is only three or four meters high. There were no trees on the hillside, but it was covered with dense vines.

Nicole stood under the vines that had crept down the hillside, her expression complicated.

"What's wrong?"

"You'll find out when you come and see. ”

Nicole dropped the words and began to lead the way, leading Ian to the back of the hill with a dazed face. At the back of the hill there is a large space like a cave. The cave is embedded in the hillside and faces away from the setting sun, so it is a little dim. At first, Ian didn't see what was inside, until he took a few steps inside, and he was shocked to find that there were several white bones inside!

Ian froze and looked closely. There were four skeletons, all huddled in corners, dressed in black or dark green hunting suits. Ian could probably guess where they came from.

"Someone from the previous team?"

Nicole nodded, "Definitely, there are no other hunters who can get here except my father's team." ”

Ian sighed, then walked straight to the bones. In front of the four bones, there was a mass of charred dry wood, and it is conceivable that the four men snuggled up to the bonfire and died. Of course, it is not necessarily, maybe the bonfires would have been extinguished long ago, before they died.

But how did they die?

Ian's heart couldn't help but have this doubt, you must know that there is also a high-level hunter among these four people.

"How did they die?" Ian asked.

"That's what I've always been unable to figure out. "I just looked around their bodies and found no blood, which means it's very likely that they weren't hurt, but were here silently waiting to die." ”

"Impossible!"

Ian and Dennis said in unison.

"I knew you wouldn't believe it. Nicole spread her hands helplessly, "But that's the way it is, maybe they have some internal injuries, and they can't be detected after they turn into bones." But for now, it does seem like they're getting together and waiting to die. ”

"I'd rather believe they had internal injuries. Dennis said, "None of them are novices among hunters, and there is also a senior hunter, and the survival ** and ability of senior hunters are the strongest." ”

Ian nodded in agreement. Except for himself, a high-level hunter who is not very reliable, among the high-level hunters he has seen, whether it is Ellington, Sico or Al Granger in Liuyun, or the three in the King-killing mission, they are all hunters with strong abilities, how can they easily give up the ** of survival and wait for death here?

"There's no point in arguing about these now, let's look for clues from them first. Nicole said, "Maybe you can find a clue in their backpack." ”

The four corpses correspond to the four backpacks. Ian took the one that belonged to the high-level hunter and opened the backpack, a foul smell pouring into his nostrils. Ian endured the discomfort and poured out the contents of his backpack in one go, a climbing rope, a dagger, herbs, and

When Ian saw the dark red ball, he almost missed his backpack!

The source of fire.

Ian was scared into a cold sweat, he actually poured out the source of fire, once the source of fire exploded due to the violent collision, all three of them would die here. In this small space, the power of the source of fire can be maximized, and they can be turned into roast meat in an instant.

After reminding Dennis and Nicole to be aware of the source stone in their backpack, Ian picked up the source of fire. It was found that this source stone was no longer usable, because it was damp, and now it is just an ordinary stone. This reassured Ian a lot, if this source of fire could still be used, they would have just been tragic.

Putting down the damp source stone, Ian began to look back at the relics of the former High Hall Hunter. He was surprised to find that the dagger he had just thrown out turned out to be a bone knife. Ian held the bone knife in his hand, and a strange sensation welled up in his hand, and the dragon flame mark on his arm seemed to be responding.

That's right, this is indeed a bone knife, a bone knife made of keel.

"Sure enough, none of the high-level hunters are weak. Ian muttered, "I guess they've all slain dragons." ”

Ian looked at the lines on the bone knife in his hand and suddenly had a strange idea. Judging from the lines on this dagger, this dagger should only use a small part of the keel, but what about the larger part? This high-ranking hunter has no reason to throw away the larger part. So, in addition to this keel dagger, there should be a bigger weapon, the big bone knife, or the bone sword?

So, where?

Ian looked around and didn't see any bigger weapons. This is quite unusual, as neither are the remaining three intermediate hunters. How is this possible! It stands to reason that every hunter should have a long sword or broadsword, and without these weapons, how could they complete the hunt? Relying on this dragon bone dagger? It is simply unrealistic.

Ian was about to tell the two of them about this discovery, but Nicole preempted him and spoke early.

"They're running out of food. ”

Ian was stunned: "What?"

"Their dry food is gone. Nicole frowned and repeated, "That is, they must have been starved to death." ”

"Starved to death?!"

Ian still expressed disbelief at Nicole's conclusion. Hunters would starve to death in the forest, just as farmers would starve to death when they had fields and fishermen could starve to death when they had the sea. For hunters, the forest is full of food.

"Although I don't quite believe that they were starved to death, as things stand, the probability that they were starved to death is not small. ”

Nicole said as she turned her gaze to Ian, and at that moment, she suddenly noticed something, and her face changed suddenly. Then she walked to the fire under the quizzeful gaze of Ian and Dennis, picked up a charred piece of firewood, put it to her nose and sniffed it.

Ian suddenly had a bad feeling.

"How, how is it possible. After putting down the firewood, Nicole's voice trembled.

"Don't tell me this bonfire has only been extinguished for a short time. Ian pretended to be relaxed, but he himself noticed that his voice was shaking.

Nicole turned her head to look at Ian and Dennis, and nodded palely.

"A day ago. "The bonfire was extinguished a day ago. ”

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