Volume II, Chapter 120
When everyone heard the roar of the beast, they were all startled, and Goode was immediately alarmed, and raised his spear and rushed towards the beast.
"Lord Good!" the soldiers also galloped away with Goode.
The grass in this area grows very densely, high enough to drown a person, and if the average person walks here, it should become very slow, but for the Montessori who have lived in the forest for a long time, this is not a big obstacle.
Goode skillfully wielded his spear to cut the grass in front of him to open the way, and the soldiers behind him were also on guard to prevent the enemy from sneaking up in the grass.
"Roar ......" another cry of the beast came out, but the voice was weak, as if dying, begging others not to kill their wails.
"It's not far off!" said Goode to the soldiers behind him in a low voice, "Everyone take your steps lightly and try not to make a sound." ”
Everyone nodded their heads in understanding.
Everyone quietly took every step, as if they were afraid of waking up the sleeping person, everyone under the leadership of Goode, kept moving forward, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Goode suddenly stopped.
Dahl whispered, "What's wrong?"
Goode put his index finger to his mouth, made a silent gesture, and then pointed to the grass out.
Dahl immediately peered through the grass.
Outside the grass was a relatively open circular clearing, but it was not very large, only about two meters in diameter, and the surrounding jungle was dense, and the moonlight could barely shine through the leaves on the clearing.
In the middle of the clearing, a figure was crouching on the ground, obscured by the shadows of the trees behind him, so that he could not see his true face. But judging by his figure. Roughly estimated that the man was at least two meters tall, but he looked very thin, and it was not too much to describe him as skinny, and he had long hair, but his gender could not be judged from the length. Because there are also many long-haired men in the Montessori clan.
With the help of the moonlight, everyone could also see a dead tiger lying in front of the man, and it could be speculated that the roar of the beast that Gude had heard just now was made by this tiger, and now the tiger had been killed by this man.
Dahl whispered to Goode, "Who is that? ”
Goode shook his head, not knowing.
Dahl continued, "Lord Good. What should we do now? This man looks suspicious, why is he alone in the forest at night?
Goode stared at the man and continued to shake his head.
"Shall we rush up and catch him, then?"
"We'll hold our ground for the time being, and we'll keep watching. Goode shook his head and replied, "He probably has other companions nearby, because even I can't kill a tiger with my bare hands so easily." ”
The crowd heard Goode's instructions. Nodding, he continued to watch the man's movements intently.
I saw that the man raised his hand, plunged down the tiger's abdomen with his five fingers together, inserted the whole wrist completely, and then inserted the other hand into it, and then tore it hard to the left and right with both hands, and suddenly, the tiger's blood sprayed out like a fountain. Splashing on the surrounding grass and trees, the tiger's chest immediately broke a large hole, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and intestines were also exposed.
This kind of scenario. In time, Gude and they couldn't help but feel chills when they saw it.
Then, like an animal, the man shoved his whole head into the hole, gnawed and tore at the disgusting entrails, ate for a while, and then peeled off the tiger's skin piece by piece. After devouring the bright red tiger meat underneath the tiger's skin, after. He put the white bones of the tiger in his mouth and bit them, and then swallowed them into his stomach with the tiger's blood.
And so the people saw it. They couldn't help but feel a wave of vomiting, although they also knew that there were indeed many strange people in this world, but they had never seen a beast swallowed alive like this, and it felt like an animal. But they were well-disciplined soldiers after all, and although the vomiting was very hard to bear, no one made the slightest sound.
The man had eaten for about a quarter of an hour, probably having eaten enough, and he placed the gnawed remains of the tiger on the ground, began to stand up, and then turned his back to the Guddes and walked in the direction of the Mira Forest. However, he walked in a very strange way, bent over like a hunchbacked man, and his long hands fell naturally from his body, looking like a listless old man.
Seeing this, Goode made a "action" gesture to Dahl and the others, and everyone immediately followed Goode out of the grass and flew towards the strange man.
If it was a normal person, when he heard a sudden shout from behind, he would definitely reflexively turn around to see what was going on, but that person didn't look back after hearing the sound of Gude and them rushing out, but ran away. However, he runs very strangely, in addition to the constant movement of the feet of ordinary people running, in order to integrate the balance of the body, the body should be straight, and the hands will move with the movement of the feet, but the person is just running with the feet, and the body is still hunched back, and the hands are still in a vertical state.
However, no matter how ugly his running form is, after all, everyone has their own habits, and running posture is not uniformly prescribed, so Goode didn't pay too much attention to these trivial things. He saw the man running forward, so he chased after him and shouted, "Brother, there is the Mira Forest ahead, there are often monsters infested, it is very dangerous, if you don't have a place to stay tonight, we can ask you to stay in the Star City for a night." ”
Of course, Goode didn't really want to invite him to the city, he just didn't want him to flee, but the man continued to run in the direction of the Mira Forest as if he hadn't heard.
Goode had no choice but to continue chasing after him.
This is the fifth floor of the city tower, in the patriarch's room, this room is not big, nor is it very luxurious, there are some sun, moon, and star ornaments on the wall. There was only one wooden door in the room, and there was a small desk facing the door, and the silver dragon lance was leaning against the desk, and Rhodes was sitting in front of the desk. Looking at the report of the corpse outside the North City today.
"Knock knock!" came a knock at the door.
Rod shouted out the door, "Who is it?"
"Brother, I'm Rose. ”
Rod responded, "The door is unlocked, you can come in." ”
Rose pushed the door open and walked over to Rhodes' desk.
"What's the matter with me, aren't you going to accompany the guests?" said Rhodes, though he was talking to Rose. But his eyes were still on the report in his hand.
"Brother Chen Fan said that he wanted to walk around the city tower alone, and asked me to go back to the room first, but I felt bored when I went back to the room, so I came to you. ”
"So my brother is the object of your boring time, and it's really sad to be an older brother when I hear my sister say this!"
Rose pretended to be angry and said, "Hmph! brother obviously knows that I didn't mean that!"
"Hehe!" Rod smiled, finally putting the report down. He looked at Rose and said, "What are you laughing at, what's the matter? Is it that you are going to marry your eldest brother Chen Fan, so you came to me as a matchmaker?"
"Not really!"
"Then it must be your eldest brother Chen Fan who thinks you are too ugly, so he doesn't want you, now come to my brother to complain, right?"
"No, no...... You guess again. I'll ignore you. ”
"Okay, okay, I'm kidding you, let's talk, what's the matter with looking for my brother?"
"Big brother, I'm still not worried about today's corpse, after I left with Brother Chen Fan, did you find anything?"
"I can't say no!" Rod spread his hands and said helplessly, "But I can't say yes." ”
Rose asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"We brought the body back this afternoon. And the coroner's guy just brought me the report, No, right here. You can take a look. Rod handed the report to Rose, with a still unchanging expression on his face, and said lightly: "According to the report, these people are not members of our Mengshi clan, and according to the fragments of clothes, they should be some residents of the town." ”
"What are the residents of Los Angeles doing here?" Rose flipped through the report. He asked out loud.
"They may not have come here on their own, but after they were killed. And then they were brought here. ”
"How do you know?"
"The report said that the skin of the deceased had some traces of dragging. So the preliminary inference is that they should have been killed somewhere, and then dragged to the place where the bodies were found. ”
"Why do you want to go to such great lengths? If you want to kill people, you can't just kill them, why drag them here and kill them again?"
"I'm not very clear about that. "But according to the research report, based on the time of death, they should have been killed last night," Rod said. ”
"Last night!" exclaimed Rose, "so what does this have to do with the Forest Lookout?"
"I think there should be!" Rhodes nodded and said, "Because that delirious soldier is the captain of the sixth team of the forest reconnaissance team, and the sixth team is responsible for the detection of the north of the city, and these five bodies were found in the north of the city, so these two things should be related." ”
"Since that delirious soldier is a member of the sixth team, why don't you call back the sixth team and ask about it, brother?"
"We tried, but it didn't work!"
"Why?"
"Because the twelve members of the sixth team have all disappeared!"
"What!"
After listening to Rod's words, Rose was very surprised, after all, the forest detection team is composed of people from the Montessori clan who are more athletic, they are not only familiar with the terrain of the forest, but also have extraordinary facial features, and they are absolutely calm, they can really be regarded as elites, but such a person was caught by others and even driven crazy, which shows that the other party also has a great background.
Rose asked, "None of them can be found?" and what about the other teams? They should be fine, right?"
"For the sake of safety, all the members of the other forest detection teams have been recalled, and even a single member of the sixth team cannot be contacted. ”
"Is it because winter is approaching and the north wind is too strong, so the sound of the calling flute is blown away, so they can't hear it?"
Here to mention, the Montessori family's communication tool is a kind of flute called the sound flute, the flute is a vertical flute, about forty centimeters in length, the flute body drilled with ten round holes, each round hole has a different representative of different scales, so the flute is composed of ten scales, through different combinations of scales, the length changes, you can express different meanings, but only for the communication between troops.
"No way, the sound of the calling flute can definitely be heard unless there is a strong wind blowing above level ten. Rod said: "So I think the brothers of the sixth team have all been killed." ”
When Rose heard the news, she couldn't help but show a sad look on her face, although Rose had never seen the people of the sixth team, let alone said half a word to them, but when she heard the news that they were all killed, she couldn't help but feel sad in her heart.
The two were silent for a while, and then Rose spoke again and asked, "Do you know that these people are the cause of death?"
Rhodes shook his head and said, "I don't know, but they weren't killed by sharp weapons, or they were bitten like this by beasts after they died, they were skinned like this by someone, or something, from the touch of an intact person, as if they had put their hands in their stomachs, and then torn their bellies open, and then they had bitten their internal organs and heads with their teeth." ”
Rose listened to Rod's words, and immediately remembered the death of today's corpse, and a feeling of vomiting surged up her throat from the bottom of her heart, but she immediately suppressed her brain, trying not to think about those disgusting things, and after a round of breathing adjustment, her spirit finally calmed down.
"Rose, are you alright?"
Rose shook her head: "I'm fine, it's just that I feel bad to see the dead of those corpses today." ”
"Actually, there is one more thing that I suspect the most. Jade continued, "Why did the members of Forest Scout Team 6 go to the forest to the east?"
Rose immediately realized: "Brother is right, if they are in danger and escape, then why don't they go back to Xingyao City directly, but deliberately go around a big circle to the east of Xingyao City?"
Jade nodded and said, "Moreover, the most puzzling thing is why the whole team is missing, only the captain is fine, and he can escape so far?"
"Could it be that he was so lucky that he was able to escape?"
Of course, this possibility is not ruled out. Jade nodded and said, "In short, this matter is full of suspicions, and I suddenly have an ominous premonition, I think that something big will happen to our Montessori clan in the near future!" (To be continued)