Chapter Seventy-Six: Missing
After walking for 20 kilometers, Wang He saw Paramount's unique shape from a distance, which was parked in the middle of the road, and it was the Mercedes-Benz off-road right behind it.
The doors were locked, there was no one in the car, and Wang He did not respond to his radio calls, so he climbed on the roof of the car and looked around, it was already daylight, and there was nothing to see around except the farmland covered with snow.
There were no other traces on the snow except for the footprints left by the four people, and the footprints looked very messy, as if they were running, and in the direction they were going, it was actually a forest in the distance.
There were probably corpse birds in the woods, and everyone except Li Chenyang knew very well that it was dangerous to rush into the woods, and they suddenly stopped the car and hurriedly ran towards the woods, which was obviously unreasonable.
Unless there was something in the woods that they had to go, he couldn't think of anything that would make them leave their cars with excellent off-road performance and venture into the woods despite the danger.
Wanting to do more to no avail, Wang He decided that it would be better to go over and have a look, but he didn't plan to follow them to walk over, nearly two feet of snow, if it weren't for the front of motorcycles and cars, which could be used as a snow shovel, it would be difficult to walk an inch in this snow.
Driving a motorcycle, following the footprints on the snow, cautiously approaching the woods, it can be seen that they were in a hurry, even a little panicked, and there are obviously several places on the snow mountain that are marked by people falling down.
This made Wang He even more unable to understand what made them panic like this, and he didn't dare to let go of any clues, and tracked them all the way to the edge of the woods.
The woods were so dense that motorcycles couldn't drive, and the footprints meandered into the depths of the woods, and Wang He jumped out of the car and walked inside.
From here, the footprints are not so easy to distinguish, the four people no longer act together, but separately, and the strange thing is that each footprint is stop-and-go, or circle, or repeatedly pacing.
Wang He picked a person's footprints at random and began to circle in the woods, the owner of the footprints was simply wandering aimlessly, almost all over the woods, and the other footprints were the same, without any rules at all.
It's not a way to go on like this, too much time has been wasted, how could four people run around the woods under normal circumstances, it is likely that they have already encountered danger.
Wang He still found a little pattern from the chaotic footprints, although these four people seemed to walk aimlessly, but every ten meters, one of them would circle around a tree, and the others would circle around him.
found the law, Wang He no longer followed the blind walk, only looked at the snow at the root of the tree, where there were messy footprints, he walked where, sure enough, although it was still a little in a circle, but it has always been going in a reverse.
With the method, the speed naturally increased, and after walking about a kilometer, under a large tree with obvious footprints and more complicated footprints, Wang He stopped, and there were no more trees left traces around, and it seemed that this was the end.
But still did not find the figure of the four people, Wang He turned under the tree to find clues, this big tree is obviously much thicker than the other trees, the branches are luxuriant, even in the winter when the leaves are dropped, still can't see the scene of the top of the tree.
There were many bones under the tree, not only human ones, but also various animal ones, and Wang He was afraid that he would see his companions from these bones, so he just picked up a branch and searched silently.
Some of these human bones are still very fresh, and you can smell the unique fishy smell of zombies on them, and it seems that the other party's recipes are relatively rich, and they can eat everything.
In addition to the bones, a large number of feathers were found, and at first he thought that the tree was a nest for a flock of corpse birds, but he quickly dismissed this suspicion, as there were a large number of crow and magpie skulls in the bones, and the corpse birds were also in the other party's recipe.
Moreover, it is impossible for these medium-sized corpse birds to bring the zombies back to the nest to eat, they don't have that strength at all, and they are generally eaten up on the spot.
All the clues revolve around this big tree, maybe the answer is on the top of the tree, but climbing a tree is a technical job, not a strong can climb up, such a thick tree, you can't hold it, you can't hold it, and you can't start it for a while.
Wang He had no choice but to use the most stupid method to use a knife to cut a gap in the trunk of the tree, and climb up with the help of the gap.
Fortunately, the horizontal knife is sharp, and it is effortless to cut a few gaps, and after a while he climbed six or seven meters high, but he still can't see the top at a glance, but this height already has a lot of thick branches and forks for climbing, so it saves a lot of effort.
After climbing a few more meters, he finally realized why he could not see the top of the tree without fallen leaves below, and the poles and branches were covered with gray and black feathers.
These feathers are more than 20 centimeters long, and unlike the feathers of ordinary corpse birds, these extremely hard feathers do not have fluff, but are thin sheets of bone-like material, light and sharp.
Wang He pulled one out casually, checked the weight, and shook it casually, and the feather went straight into the tree pole with a "boom".
"Good guy, if you can be a flying knife, Shi Chong will definitely like it."
As he continued to climb up, the stems became thinner and thinner, and the branches became more and more numerous, and although there were more feathers in the way, it was still much easier to climb until Wang He picked up a feather that was as colorful as his forearm.
This feather is not only different from other feathers in color and size, but also soft in texture, and it seems that there is more than one species of bird on this tree.
By this time, Wang He could already see a huge bird's nest made of branches, colored feathers, and bones on the top of the tree, which was shaped like a round egg, with a hole in the side that could be accessed.
Cautiously walked to the edge of the bird's nest, and through the undisguised gap, Wang He saw at a glance his companions, lying in the corner, unknown whether they were alive or dead.
A large bird, nearly a man tall, was pecking at a corpse in front of it, it looked like it should be a zombie, and a few eggs could be faintly seen under the big bird, about the size of an ostrich egg.
The big bird, which was eating, suddenly shook its head, "Bang! Boom! Boom! A few feathers flew out and slammed into the inner wall of the nest, almost injuring four people.
It turned out that the feathers on the tree pole came from this way, if you want to solve this guy, you must first lure it out of the bird's nest, and then say, I am afraid that it will hurt Wu Ting and the four of them in the bird's nest, and then Wang He took out his bow and arrows and walked towards the distance of the tree pole. Turn around and yell at the nest.
"Chirp......" The big bird immediately poked its head out of the nest, screamed a few times at the guy who disturbed it eating, and raised its wings with a flick.
"Whoosh...... A few feather arrows flew towards Wang He, but he didn't panic, there were branches everywhere on this tree pole, and he dodged them all when he moved, and he still had the strength to shoot back a few arrows with his backhand.
Wang He's angle of archery is also tricky, the eyes, chest, claws, and the inside of the wings are each an arrow, he is afraid that the feathers of the big bird are hard, and the arrows cannot penetrate.
Sure enough, the arrow shot at the eye was easily dodged, and the shot on the chest and claws was like a shot on the armor, and after only a little puncture, the arrow was bounced away, except for the arrow that shot into the inside of the wing, which pierced deeply.
"Chirp!"
This sudden injury made the big bird completely angry, and a prey actually injured it, its wings spread out, and the feathers on its body shook vigorously, and suddenly the flying knives shot towards Wang He.
At this time, Wang He recognized that this was clearly a harrier, but he didn't expect it to grow so big after mutation, like an ostrich.
Faced with the feathers in the sky, he stepped into the air, landed on the tree pole below, let all the feathers shoot into the air, and climbed up again with a few more steps, the bow and arrow in his hand did not stop, and the move went straight to the weakness of the harrier eagle.
The harrier eagle was not stupid, but a little clever overhead, and as soon as its wings were closed, like two large shields, it protected its whole body, and the arrows clanged on it, and it actually made a metallic knocking sound.
Wang He was so annoyed by its feathers that he simply shot a series of arrows, and the harrier eagle was so unable to raise its head from the machine-gun-like arrows that it pounced on Wang He with a rain of arrows.
Seeing the harrier eagle rushing over, Wang He took out his horizontal knife and pounced, and with a snort, the feathers that the harrier eagle was proud of were cut open in an instant, and half of the wings were cut off on the spot.
Wang He was unforgiving, picked up the horizontal knife and cut his head, the harrier eagle turned around and wanted to escape, but unfortunately its wings were abolished and could no longer fly, and Wang He caught up with him in a few steps, and slashed on the claws with a knife.
The claws were cut off, and it chirped in pain, Wang He stepped forward and stabbed it in the head, and the harrier eagle let out a miserable eagle chirp, which was abnormally piercing, Wang He covered his ears, and it took a long time to recover, and then look at the harrier eagle, which was already dead of anger.
kicked the body of the harrier eagle off the tree, Wang He hurriedly ran into the bird's nest, Wu Ting and the four of them lay quietly in the corner, he stepped forward to check, the four of them were still breathing, but they didn't know why they had been unconscious.
The top priority is how to transport the four of them down the tree, one by one, I am afraid that it will be too late, the owner of the colorful feathers has not returned, and it is very likely that he is a more difficult guy to deal with than the harrier eagle.
didn't come up with a good way for a while, the anxious Wang He kicked the bird's nest to vent his anger, but he didn't expect the force of this kick to be bounced back by the elastic bird's nest.
Suddenly, Wang He had an idea, got out of the bird's nest, cut some thick branches with a horizontal knife, and stuck Wu Ting and the four of them in the corner of the bird's nest with branches.
Then he pushed the bird's nest down the tree, as long as the four of them didn't roll around in the bird's nest, the height of more than ten meters, plus the protection of the bird's nest, would not hurt them at all.
The bird's nest tumbled and fell to the ground, and bounced several times, and by the time Wang He climbed down the tree, the bird's nest had already rolled far away.
He hurried over to check on the people in the nest, and as he expected, the four of them had nothing to do except for a few bruises, except for the eggs, and three of the four eggs were broken.