Chapter 33: The Remains of the Snake Skeleton
Zhang Qixun was thinking in his heart why the little brother disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the branch above his head suddenly trembled.
Immediately afterwards, the little brother's small half of his body came out of the shadow covered by the vines that had just escaped from the rain, and when he saw Zhang Qixun, he beckoned him to come up.
After Zhang Qixun climbed up, the little brother pointed to a large piece of dead vines in front of him, and then stepped forward and pulled it hard, causing a burst of rotten and moldy stench, and a large group of grass ticks suddenly gushed out of a small nest.
It looked like the kind of bran that formed into a lump after being damp, and it was really spicy and tight, but it was quickly washed away by the rain that poured down.
The little brother pointed to the stuff in the nest that was tangled up and asked Zhang Qixun to take a closer look.
Zhang Qixun wrinkled his nose, held his breath and leaned over to take a look, and suddenly understood, "No wonder there are so many grass ticks here, they were all recruited for this thing."
The little brother nodded and said, "I don't know what kind of animal it is, it's very big, it may have been infected and died after sucking the blood of these insects, and lying on a tree before dying, and as a result, all the insects around it were attracted and the blood on the corpse was directly sucked dry, and then the insects rested on the dried corpse, waiting for the next victim to come."
As he spoke, he squatted down, put his hand into the hole in the bones, pulled out a blue-green iron lump from it, reached outside to let the rain wash it off, and then showed it to Zhang Qi.
"Flashlight?!" Zhang Qixun raised his eyebrows, and took the iron lump twisted into the rotten soles of his shoes and looked at it carefully, "It looks like it was in the eighties and nineties."
"How did this thing end up here? Could it be that at that time, some seniors came here to find the Western Queen Mother?" Zhang Qixun was a little puzzled and looked at the little brother.
The little brother shook his head, indicating that he didn't know, and then put his hand in again, and then his hand suddenly stopped.
Zhang Ji hurriedly asked him, "What did you find?"
The little brother's expression was a little strange, his movements were extremely slow, he pulled his hand out of the hole, and between his index finger and middle finger, he was holding an old-fashioned grenade that looked like a garlic hammer.
There was a soft "click".
The rusty back cover touched the vines on the side when it was moving out, and it was knocked off at once, and it was hung out along with the lead inside.
"I'll go!" Zhang Qixun screamed, snatched the grenade, and threw it into the distance.
Then he quickly turned around with the little brother and hugged his head.
Boom โ
The canopy of the entire area was shaken by the sudden shock, and the raindrops that accumulated on the leaves fell on the two of them, instantly drenching them into soup.
Zhang Qixun scolded, shook the water on his head, wiped his face, and said to the little brother next to him with a slightly dazed expression, "This skeleton is a bit dangerous, let's go back and inform the innocent them first, and then discuss countermeasures together."
The little brother nodded, "Hmm".
The two climbed down the tree, and as soon as they turned around, they met Wu Xiaoxie and them.
"What's going on?" Wu Xiaoye hurriedly asked.
The fat man checked that the two of them were not injured, and then smacked his tongue and said, "What are you two doing here?" The whole explosion was so big, and my frightened heart almost burst out."
Zhang Jixun waved his hand, "The grass ticks here are still there, don't stay long, let's go back and talk about it in detail."
A few people returned to the tarpaulin, and as soon as Zhang Qixun told him what had just happened, the fat man suddenly became a little interested in the skeleton.
The fat man guessed, "Could it be someone who came here to look for the Western Queen Mother like us?"
Zhang Qixun nodded, "Very likely."
He asked "A-Ning", "Has your company found similar information?"
"Ah Ning" shook his head and denied, "The only people we found who have been here are Chen Wenjin, according to what you said, the flashlight and the old-fashioned grenade should be from the same person, according to the time, this person is likely to be someone from Chen Wenjin's team."
Several people looked at each other, but they were silent and did not speak.
The atmosphere was a little stagnant, and the fat man stood up with a pat on his thigh, and said:
"If there is a hard discussion here, it is better to go over and see if it is a mule or a horse, and you will know if you pull it out and slip it away."
Everyone felt that what the fat man said was very reasonable, so Zhang Qixun and the little brother crawled over there and pricked their fingers and put a little blood to drive away the grass ticks, and then beckoned Wu Xiaoxie and them to come over.
Cutting off the dry vines on the side, everyone dug and planed, and finally cleaned up a long and deadly animal skeleton, which had been corroded to a pulp, and basically couldn't see the original shape, or Pan Zi was experienced, and found mineralized scales buried under the rotten dead branches and leaves, so as to speculate that this should be a python.
Next, everyone took turns to fight, and finally cleared out the huge snake bones.
Pan Zi saw that Wu Xiaoxie's face was tired, so he asked him to go back under the tarp, wrap his back and nest in it to rest for a while.
Because the snake bones are too brittle, they will be broken when they are touched slightly, this kind of meticulous work can only be done by Zhang Qixun and the little brother, who have worked hard under their hands, and there is nothing else that can help, so they went to the side with the fat man to rest, and after a while, both of them fell asleep.
Listening to the snoring of a fat man behind him, Zhang Qixun glanced over to "A-Ning", but was noticed by her before she could retract her gaze.
"A-Ning" frowned, "See what I'm doing?"
Zhang Qixun smiled, "It's nothing."
It is estimated that after a while, Wu Xiaoxie will be frightened awake by that prophetic dream.
Pan Zi took out a half-missing skull from the belly of the snake bone with gloves, and there were very obvious bite marks and traces of gastric corrosion.
He took it under the miner's lamp and looked at it carefully, and said, "This person probably let the snake eat it, and the snake called the grass tick to die here, let's look for it again and see if there are any other clues."
"Be careful." Zhang Jixun reminded him, "The weapons that this man carried before he died may have been swallowed by the snake, and if he touches the grenade again, we will all be blown up to the sky."
Panzi nodded, cheering up his spirits.
The excavation work was still going on here, and Wu Xiaoxie on the other side suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on his face, his brows were tightly locked, and he was still muttering something in his mouth.
"Ah Ning" noticed his situation, and his eyes rolled, seeing that Zhang Qixun and they didn't pay attention to this side, so he wanted to lean over and listen to what Wu Xiaoxie was talking about.
As a result, as soon as he got closer, Wu Xiaoxie shouted violently, opened his eyes, and saw a black figure in front of him, and the scene in the dream suddenly overlapped with the scene in front of him, and he was frightened, and immediately subconsciously kicked over.
"Fuck offโ"
"A-Ning" was caught off guard and was kicked, and his body was suddenly unstable, if he hadn't grabbed the trunk of the tree in time, he could have planted it directly from the tree.