Chapter Seventy-Nine: Humanoid Creatures
"Come back, come back." Zhang Yuan put the sword aside dissatisfiedly, took out a pair of gloves from his bag, and said, "Master, I'm not a forensic doctor. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry, I won't be able to find my way later." Zhao Xuan lit up Zhang Yuan while looking in the direction where the roar came from, hoping that this time it would last a little longer like last time.
Zhang Yuan snorted and roughly flipped over the corpse.
"Like the previous one, the age of the tooth does not match the other parts......"
"Clothes in good condition, nothing in ...... pocket"
"There are no signs of a fight on the body, and the cause of death cannot be found......"
Zhang Yuan described the situation to everyone while inspecting.
"No matter how you look at it, it's all old and dead." Zhang Yuan finished the inspection, quickly threw the gloves aside, and said, "The last pair of gloves, don't look for me again!" ”
"Is there anything around?" Song Shaofeng confirmed with Zhang Yuan.
"Absolutely not." Zhang Yuan said affirmatively: "Master, I am known as Sherlock Holmes. ”
"Are there any foreigners on your rivers and lakes?" Zhao Xuan complained.
No matter how weird the atmosphere is, it has to be stirred up by Zhang Yuan.
Not much information was found on the corpse, and Zhao Xuan didn't know what the roar in front of them was coming from.
I don't know if the two bodies died at the hands of something that roared, or if they belonged to the same kind of thing.
Zhao Xuan: They had to move on.
The cave gradually lowered down, and in some places you could reach the top of the cave by raising your hand, and the road began to fork.
Fortunately, the terrain in the cave is not complicated, and several forks in the road are quickly judged by the roar.
The materials and traces of man-made things are no longer visible, and everything is back to its original state.
More than a hundred meters further from where the body was found, in a natural stone room, the group found two boxes, around which four or five rifles were dropped.
Lin Ling stepped forward to check, and it was still Zhao Xuan who was responsible for lighting up.
The wooden boxes all looked new, one with a lot of bullets in it, and the other was larger but empty.
Lin Ling flipped through it and found that there were only some consumables for maintaining the gun, such as strips and lubricants.
It looked like the box was supposed to be a gun, but the gun was taken out and thrown on the ground haphazardly.
"One less." Lin Ling put the guns on the ground together, and there were only four of them. Usually there should be five sticks in a box.
"The same model as the last attack." Lin Ling picked up a gun, took a closer look at the light of the flashlight, and asked, "Do you want to test it?" ”
"Try it." Song Shaofeng agreed.
Now that they don't know anything about the identity of the corpse and don't have any clues about the roar, now that they have a chance to find some clues, and it's certainly okay to spend some time.
Lin Ling nodded, took out more than a dozen bullets from another box, disassembled the warhead, and poured out the gunpowder from the bullet, then picked up a gun, unloaded the magazine, and pressed the empty warheads into the magazine one by one.
Then he loaded the magazine, pulled the bolt, and pulled the trigger.
I heard the firing pin hit the cartridge casing, making a crisp "click" sound.
The roar in the distance, I don't know if it was particularly sensitive to the gunshot, or for some other reason, after Lin Ling pulled the trigger, the roar stopped.
Song Shaofeng signaled a pause, and then together with Zhang Yuan, he carefully searched the nearby cave, but found no situation, and then turned back to Lin Ling and said, "Go on, test first." ”
Lin Ling's test method is very simple, which is to compare the position of the firing pin.
After each gun is used, the firing pin will be more or less deformed, resulting in the position of its striking on the cartridge case is different, and the position of the firing pin can be roughly determined whether the two bullets come from the same gun.
Lin Ling used the four guns on the ground, each of which struck two or three bullet casings, and found that the traces were more obvious, and the back shells were facing upwards and arranged on the wooden boxes.
Then he took out his mobile phone and compared the photos of the bullet casings he had previously found from the attack site.
It took a few minutes for Lin Ling to put away his mobile phone, nodded to a few people, and said, "It's these guns." ”
"So, we've really been attacked by a gang of old immortals?" Zhang Yuan couldn't help but sigh: "I don't have the face to be a man." ”
"But why did they go and steal cattle without their guns? Why don't you use it on fire, but eat it raw? Zhao Xuan was puzzled: "Besides, they are abnormal, it shouldn't be difficult to survive in this mountain." ”
"Suddenly my brain is dead." Zhang Yuan pouted.
"Brain-dead...... a thought flashed through Zhao Xuan's mind and said, "This is it!" ”
"Brain-dead?"
"It's not suddenly brain-dead." Zhao Xuan was a little excited about his guess and said, "Maybe for some reason, their brains have degenerated?" ”
Zhao Xuan pointed in the direction where the roar came from, and continued to speculate: "Only biological instincts are left, so eating raw food, and the ability to speak has also disappeared?" ”
"Then how did you get old like this?"
"The same reason." Zhao Xuan's thinking is getting better and better: "Maybe it's because of an abnormality, they are aging rapidly, resulting in a rapid decline in thinking ability?" ”
"There is no such outrageous anomaly in the bureau." Zhang Yuan objected: "This must at least be a 'money' surname." ”
"It's just a guess." Zhao Xuan saw that Zhang Yuan was opposed, and he couldn't refute it, after all, everything was conjecture.
"Anyway, let's go further." Song Shaofeng did not participate in the discussion, but was ready to continue walking: "It should not be far away, cheer up." ”
Zhao Xuan stopped these chaotic thoughts in his mind, took a deep breath, pinched the gun in his hand, and buckled his thumb on the insurance to ensure that he could open the insurance as soon as possible.
A short walk further on, a fishy smell came from afar. Even if there is no roar, there is no need to worry about getting lost.
The cave was narrower, and it was no longer possible to move forward side by side, so the four of them lined up all the way, two or three meters apart from each other, and continued to walk forward.
Zhao Xuan walked in the third, mainly to help Lin Ling behind him follow the direction he came from, while Lin Ling held a rifle in both hands, ready to shoot at any time.
Zhao Xuan held up the flashlight and cautiously tested the ground, the ground was uneven, and it was very likely that he would break his feet if he walked fast. At the same time, he also had to observe the situation behind him, ready to support Lin Ling at any time.
Song Shaofeng and Zhang Yuan in front of them were also not walking fast, and everyone continued to advance slowly.
After all, what you need to face is likely to be an anomaly whose strength and speed are stronger than that of wild animals, and you can't be too cautious.
The cave was silent, except for the breathing and footsteps of a few people.
Just when Zhao Xuan was about to say a few words and ease his emotions a little, something new was discovered in front of him.
A pile of animal bones is piled up here. Roughly speaking, there must be at least seven or eight. Large and small, different varieties.
Except for a half-sized boar in front of him, there was only half of the boar left, and all that was left was bones.
The previous fishy smell should have come from here.
"This ...... How many anomalies are there? Zhao Xuan was stunned and looked at the animal bones on the ground.
If it was really the four anomalies that attacked them before, calculating the time, even if the food of the outermost humans was deducted, they had eaten at least a thousand catties of meat in half a month!
Zhang Yuan looked at the bones on the ground, turned his head and said to Zhao Xuan, "I have some faith in your previous speculation. ”
Even if it is a few hundred catties of Siberian tigers, it can't consume thirty catties of meat every day.
Such a fast metabolic speed makes Zhao Xuan's previous speculation more likely.
Just when Zhang Yuan turned his head to talk to Zhao Xuan, Song Shaofeng let out a low shout: "Be careful!" ”
Zhao Xuan turned his head, and not far away, two people, or two beasts, were half-squatting, lying on the ground staring at them.
The clothes on the two were almost completely torn, except for a little strip of cloth hanging from them, and their eyes glowed green in the reflection of the light, staring at several people closely.
Looking a little younger than the two dead corpses, Zhao Xuan could finally tell that these must be two foreigners.
It's just that at this time, it seems unreasonable to say that they are "people". Except for appearance, it has nothing to do with creatures like "people".
The two creatures, one on the left and one on the right, were lying on the ground side by side, as if they were looking at Zhao Xuan and the others in front of them.
The one on the left took two steps forward, only to be knocked to the ground by the other wave. The one on the right was taller, pressed against the one on the left, and roared loudly.
It's the same roar I've heard before.
"How?" Zhang Yuan asked.
"Killed." Song Shaofeng said.
Whether it's because of the previous attack or the current situation of the two creatures, killing is the best option.
The two creatures fought for a while, then got back to their feet.
Zhao Xuan looked at them, and always felt that the eyes of the two creatures had been locked on him.
"After Zhao Xuandian, shoot!" There was no way to be in such a stalemate, so Song Shaofeng decisively decided to take the initiative to attack.
As soon as the words fell, Song Shaofeng and Lin Ling pulled the trigger.
The goal of both of them was coincidentally placed on the slightly larger one.
At the moment of shooting, in the face of the threat, the creature instinctively twisted its body, and although it could not dodge the bullet, it avoided the vital point.
The creature was knocked to the ground by the massive inertia of the bullet, letting out a painful howl and struggling to get back to its feet again.
Lin Ling obviously wouldn't give him this opportunity, and with a short burst of shots, a barrage of bullets poured down on the creature. Finally incapacitated the creature, lying on the ground, twitching weakly and letting out a faint moan.
The other one was slightly smaller, and when the two of them knocked down the other creature, they had already jumped over, and in the narrow hole, they jumped dexterously, and their movements were irregular, so that all the bullets fired by Song Shaofeng fell in the air.
The creature scurried towards where the people were, and in the blink of an eye, it was almost close to them.
At this moment, Lin Ling finally turned his gun and shot in this direction. Zhao Xuan, who was standing on guard a few meters away, also reacted and began to shoot at the creature.
The creature seemed to be aware of the danger, and simply changed direction in front of the barrage, retreating backwards.
But there seems to be something that attracts it and makes it reluctant to stay away from the crowd.