Daomu Biji

Chapter 28 The Third Night: Hunting

"Ah? Why?" I couldn't react.

He didn't answer me, thought for a moment, and suddenly said to me: "Follow me!" After saying that, he immediately ran out.

I looked at the sun and went down a little. I thought I would kill him, so I followed him immediately. He ran to the place where the tents were originally pitched, found a waterproof bag from one of the tents, ran over again, grabbed a few toothbrush cups placed on the rocks, picked up a miner's lamp, and ran towards the forest.

I stumbled behind and saw him running into the swamp at the junction with the jungle. He immediately jumped in, used the cup to dig out the mud at the bottom of the swamp, poured it into a waterproof bag, and smeared it on himself. I was stunned, he waved to me, I nodded and jumped down immediately. Before I could stand still, a cup of mud was slapped on my face. A few seconds later, the two of them were smeared in the mud and looked exactly like the Wen Jin they saw at that time.

I originally thought of applying it when it was foggy, but it was uncomfortable to be wrapped in mud and I felt unhappy. When I asked him what he was doing, he said: "Catch Wen Jin."

"Catch Wen Jin?"

"She's looking for food. She's running out of food, so she's bound to come again tonight, and we're going to set up an ambush."

"At night? Ambush?" I immediately shook my head, "If I don't do it, I will never be able to stand up if I lie down."

Menyouping looked at me and suddenly said: "Why do you come here?"

I was stunned for a moment, and he looked at me coldly, climbed into the pool, and left without looking back.

I froze in the pool, feeling extremely uncomfortable and thinking: Why are you staring at me? I’m not here because you’re hiding everything from me. Why should I come here? Damn it----

As I thought about it, I figured it out, and I knew what he meant. I'm afraid it's too late to die! I cursed. Also climbed up.

Go back and talk to Fatty. The fat man was also a little hesitant. Yesterday's situation was too shocking, and he thought it would be risky. But after careful discussion, the fat man agreed.

The nature of the matter changed. Suddenly we went from trying our best to survive at night to trying our best to die at night. But Fatty said no, and Wen Jin wasn't stupid either. She should have appeared when the fog didn't rise, or when it just woke up, or even if we were not near the camp, she should have come as soon as it got dark. If it was as my brother speculated that she was looking for a place to eat, then she might have been very hungry.

The stuffy oil bottle asked the fat man to boil another half of the pot of soup, making it look like the soup base was uneaten. The fat man immediately started to make the stove burn hotter, very quickly. Another pot of chowder hot pot is cooked, and the aroma is overflowing. Mengyou Ping carried the mud to Pan Zi's side, wiped him with mud, and covered him with mud. Then came the fat man.

All done,

Lift the pot with the oil bottle. Let the two of us follow. I asked: "What should Pan Zi do?" He said: "We will come back before the fog rises. The three of us will go. The probability of being caught is higher." The three of them walked all the way to the original tent, and put the oil bottle on The pot of chowder was placed at our campfire yesterday.

It was still early at this time. The three of us found a hiding place and squatted down. I just felt like laughing. This thing was a bit nonsense. Wen Jin was seduced with a pot of soup. Wen Jin was not a cat.

We squatted there, watching the sun go down from the tree line, and the darkness around us gathered like a ghost. Nothing happened, and even the soup became cold. The fat man couldn't help it anymore and wanted to ask him something, but he stopped him with a wave of his hand, and then pointed to his ears to tell us to pay attention to the sound.

We were attentive and listening to the movements around us. The mud all over us was smelly and sticky, which made me extremely uncomfortable. Especially the face and waist, because they are easy to dry out, the skin in these areas is pulled up and itches terribly, but you can't scratch it. If you scratch it, it will itch even faster and it will dry out faster.

I gritted my teeth and kept waiting until it was dark and only a little light was left. I had already entered a trance state. Suddenly, the people around me moved. I woke up immediately, tensed my body, shook my head, and followed them to peek out from behind the stone. In the very dim light, I saw a person covered in mud walking cautiously out of the forest. Judging from the figure, it was clearly a woman.

"It's really Wen Jin!" My throat tightened, and I thought it really worked. Before I had time to ponder the ins and outs of this, Menyou Ping's hand had already pushed on my shoulder and pulled me back.

I looked at him, and he made a gesture to me and the fat man, which meant that as soon as he moved, the two of us would immediately cover up from both sides of the camp to block her.

At this time, we didn’t know what Menyoupin was doing. We nodded and waited patiently. The feeling of ambush was quite exciting. My heart was beating wildly until we heard the movement of the soup bucket.

The fat man wanted to go out, but Menyouping didn't move. If he didn't move, we didn't move either. After waiting for about ten minutes, Menyouping closed his eyes and suddenly turned over and jumped out from behind the stone. Almost at the same time, we Hearing a cry of surprise, followed by the sound of turning around and running wildly.

The fat man and I immediately spread our legs and rushed out from both sides, then surrounded the camp and rushed through several tents. Three people arrived at the same time and surrounded her in one go.

Wen Jin was obviously panicked, and he circled among the three of us at a loss, with a look of horror on his face.

Through the firelight, I could clearly see Wen Jin's face. I couldn't see the real situation in the mud, but I was sure that she was extremely young, almost a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, even in this kind of situation. Despite the circumstances, I can still tell that this woman is extremely delicate, far more beautiful than that photo.

This was almost a meeting that transcended time and space. Under normal circumstances, I would almost feel like she had walked out of that photo, but now I don't have the leisure and grace to think about this at all.

Wen Jin was obviously frightened by us and a little overwhelmed. He looked around, trying to find an opening to escape.

"Don't be afraid, Aunt Chen..." I wanted to speak to comfort her, but after I said it, I found it really difficult to scream.

Wen Jin looked at me and suddenly rushed towards me. I opened my arms and wanted to hug her. Subdue her. Unexpectedly, she suddenly dwarfed. Twist my arm. She twisted my whole body around and I screamed in pain. She pushed me down onto the tent, almost crushing the tent, and she ran wildly into the thick fog.

I got up and saw that Fatty and Menyoupin were already chasing after me. I cursed myself for being useless and immediately followed them.

Chapter 29 The Third Night: Secret War

Wen Jin ran at the front. I can't see it anymore. What I'm chasing is the fat man's back. When chasing someone in such light, you can't even miss a step, otherwise you won't be able to see him in a flash.

We must not let her run away this time, I thought in my heart, we have too many questions to ask her.

After running outside the camp, we haven't entered the wide area of ​​​​the jungle. In a place like this, Menyoupin was extremely fast and forced her to a boulder. The three of us surrounded her again. She leaned against the boulder, as if there was no way to escape. Only the sound of her breathing was heard.

"Sister, what are you afraid of?" Fatty asked, "We are good people. Don't run away, it will make us and the Japanese chase flower girls."

Wen Jin suddenly shouted. I didn't hear clearly what she was yelling for. She suddenly turned around and climbed up the boulder. Her movements were extremely light. She had obviously practiced kung fu, and there was no trace of sluggishness at all.

Among us, only Menyoupin could follow. He immediately turned over and grabbed Wen Jin from behind. As soon as Wen Jin struggled, the two of them rolled together and rolled behind the boulder. They heard a sound of water, as if they fell into the water.

The fat man and I chased after it and saw that behind the boulder was the kind of pool we saw before. Below was the low-lying part of the temple, which was bottomless. There were corridors and corridors below that led to the interior of the ruins. After the stuffy oil bottle fell down, I had to let go to avoid suffocating Wen Jin. He came up to the surface, and I thought to myself that he must have caught it this time. I and the fat man grabbed a piece of each other on the shore. If she climbed up, I would press her down immediately. live.

However, there were three people, two on the shore and one in the water. When the waves on the water calmed down, Wen Jin did not come up.

After waiting for a few seconds, I thought it was terrible. Could it be that she couldn't swim and sank? This is not killing us. Mengyou Ping immediately plunged in and dived into the water to look for it.

There were constant bubbles in the water. It took him half a minute to float up, and he said to us: "This leads to other places, and she got in!"

"What should we do? Isn't she dead? We need to rescue her immediately!" I said.

The structure in this kind of ruins is extremely complex, with intertwined corridors, and there must be a lot of debris everywhere. Even if there is an oxygen bottle, it will be very dangerous.

"No, all the pools here seem to be open to traffic." As soon as we finished speaking, the sound of someone coming out of the water and gasping for breath could be heard from somewhere behind us.

We immediately turned around and rushed towards that place. After running a few steps, we saw that there was indeed a pool there. The edge of the pool was wet, and the footprints went straight into the forest. It was obvious that Wen Jin was extremely familiar with the waterway under the temple. .

We immediately followed the footprints and gave chase. After running a few steps, we heard rapid breathing and footsteps in front of us. We immediately accelerated. At this moment, a heavy black mass appeared above my head. Suddenly, I realized that we were pursuing. In the rainforest.

I paused for a moment and thought I couldn't decide, so I just chased after me. What if I got lost? After just such a meal, Menyouping and Fatty ran away immediately. I cursed loudly and could only follow her. Now I could only hope that the Mengyou Bottle at the front could catch her immediately, otherwise I would feel bad.

Although the fat man analyzed that the fog in the forest was not poisonous, who knew whether his speculation was correct? If he suddenly went blind inside, it would be absolutely doomed.

But this brocade was like a loach in the rain forest, shuttling between the trees and the ground. It was like entering an uninhabited land. The sky was dark and the ground was dark. In the end, I hit my head on a low branch and was knocked over. Then he stopped. By the time I stood up, the fat man and the oil bottle had long disappeared. There was only the sound of walking through the bushes in the distance, and I couldn't tell the direction.

My eyes were filled with stars. I squatted down and gasped for a long time before I recovered. I felt like my lungs were about to get cramped. I raised my eyes and looked around, but I couldn't tell the direction. I suddenly became very anxious.

After chasing for a few meters in the general direction, I stopped and didn't dare to chase anymore. I started shouting to them to stop chasing. It was too dangerous.

After calling a few times, I heard the shaking of leaves and gasping, as if they were running back again. I immediately chased in the direction of the sound.

He crossed several vines that were almost impassable. Suddenly it was lost again. I thought to myself this was like filming Tom and Jerry, always going in circles.

I looked for the sound again to identify the direction. At this time, suddenly behind me, someone called: "Little Third Master."

The voice seemed to be made by pinching the nose and screaming. It was extremely high-pitched. It was a woman's voice, and it sounded chilling to the heart.

I was startled. Turn around immediately and shine it with a miner's lamp. "Wen Jin?"

There was thick fog behind me, and I couldn't see anything. But the voice was indeed genuine. I knew I heard it correctly and immediately asked: "Who?"

Deep in the thick fog, someone called out again: "Little Third Master?"

I immediately adjusted the direction of the miner's lamp, shone it in that direction, and took two steps, but still couldn't see anything.

There's something strange in my mind. That voice was very close to me. It should be very close. It was definitely within the reach of a flashlight. Why was there no one there? Could it be that the person was hiding?

"Who are you?" I asked again.

no answer. Something doesn't feel right. I looked around with a flashlight, trying to find something to defend myself from. But it was too dark to see anything, and I didn’t dare let the flashlight light leave my front for too long.

"Are you from Third Master?" I asked again.

"Mistress?" The voice rang again. And it moved to my left. I was startled and immediately shined the miner's lamp over it. Still no sign of anyone.

This guy must be hiding, I felt bad, but then I thought, no, the person who can talk must be a human, and the name is Xiao San Ye, he must know me, he should be San Shu's guy, listen to this It sounded like he was circling me. Could it be that he couldn't see clearly and didn't dare to show up rashly?

Thinking about it, I immediately said: "I am the third uncle, who are you from?"

There was no reply from there, so I wondered to myself what he was taboo about. I immediately rowed the miner's lamp and walked in the direction of the sound. As I walked, I said, "Come out, I am a human being, not a ghost."

After walking forward for six or seven meters, a big tree appeared in front of me, but I still didn't see anyone. I became puzzled and hesitated for a moment. Suddenly, another voice came from behind the big tree: "Little Third Master." "

This guy must be deaf, I thought to myself, and shouted at the top of my lungs: "I'm here!"

The bush behind the tree suddenly trembled. I thought to myself that I don't have time to waste time with you, so I rushed over and took a photo after I rushed behind the tree. Unexpectedly, there was a cliff behind the tree. Before I could stand firmly, I stepped on the ground and fell down.

Chapter 30 Night Three: Quagmire

This fall was completely unexpected. It was completely different from the fall while trekking in the jungle. I didn't even have time to react before I rolled down the cliff. In the confusion, I grabbed hard behind me, trying to catch anything. I could make myself stop, but the ground I touched was all bare and moss-covered rock surface. My hand slipped directly down, and then my knee hit the rock again. I couldn't control my posture, and I fell over and fell to the bottom of the cliff. .

Fortunately, the section was not high, and there was water and silt below, so there was no fatal injury. However, I found that the current was very fast, and it dragged me downstream. I immediately fluttered a few times, grabbed something under the water, gritted my teeth and stood up with difficulty, and found that the miner's lamp was hanging halfway up the cliff and was out of reach.

After a while, I felt that there was no fracture anywhere. I looked at the surrounding environment and could not see clearly. I could only feel that I was standing in a swamp with my feet stuck in the mud. The area illuminated by the miner's lamp above showed that I had fallen to the ground. The rock face should be part of a ruins.

I was wondering, why was there a cliff behind the tree? So where was that person talking just now? Is it lying on the tree like a gecko?

So I yelled, but there was no reply. It was as if that person was trying to seduce me into falling. I suddenly thought of the sounds I heard during the day, and thought to myself: It's over, it's over, I really have some auditory hallucinations. Could it be that the forest here has disturbed my nerves?

After a few more flutters, I swam to the edge of the cliff, grabbed a protruding stone to steady my body, and started to climb up using the extremely weak light reflected from the mine lamp by the stone wall, but the moss was too slippery and I couldn't. There was nothing to lean on, so I slipped off after climbing several times.

I changed several sides but nothing worked, so it was the only place I could move forward. Just follow the rock wall to the lower reaches of the swamp. It's dark over there. But the water here is so fast. There are either wellheads or steep faults nearby. If I lose my footing, I may be sucked into the vortex at the wellhead, or rush down a small waterfall. Even if I don't die, I will have to shed my skin.

After hesitating for a moment, I realized that I was actually trapped in this situation. I had to wait until dawn or someone come to rescue me. I will never wait until dawn. He immediately raised his voice and shouted "help" several times.

They may be not far away. It's so quiet here. If you shout louder, they may be able to hear you.

But God did not follow my wishes. After shouting for a long time, my throat became hoarse, but there was no reply at all. The surroundings were silent, and it was ridiculously quiet. There was not even a bit of movement in the darkness that could make people think.

I really couldn't cry anymore, let alone the depression in my heart. I thought that all kinds of bad luck had happened to me. After taking a deep breath to calm down, I looked at my watch to see when the fog would lift. After the fog cleared. Visibility will increase. The light of this miner's lamp can illuminate a wider area, so maybe I can climb up. Or I can find something under the water and smash the miner's lamp down.

I looked at my watch. According to yesterday's experience, the fog should not last for a few hours, and the time is still bearable. I touched the stone protrusion on one side and maintained a more comfortable posture. I looked around and said to myself: I can't see anything. How to kill a few hours?

My feet were in the mud, which made me feel very uncomfortable. This feeling was definitely not good. I still remember the story Pan Zi told me. At this time, I also felt that my feet in the mud were being eaten by insects, and they were lifted out from time to time. I touched it and found out it was just an illusion.

This illusion made me uneasy. I tried my best to climb up on the rocks to get my feet out of the water, but I failed every time. I mustered up the courage and leaned against the rock wall with my feet close, thinking that there might be something under the water that could help me step out of the water. Or it can step on some branches and debris, and I can use it to smash the miner's lamp.

My feet moved, and sure enough I stepped on something, but it was not a branch. The feeling made me excited.

The hair is thin, like human hair.

I suddenly started breaking into cold sweats. I now have a memory of extreme disgust towards my hair. In the first few weeks after returning from Xisha, I almost felt nauseated when I touched my own hair. I immediately pulled my foot back. I didn't dare to stretch it out again, but as soon as my foot moved, I kicked something again. This time it was soft. I suddenly realized that there might be something big in the mud here.

To be cautious, I turned on the blue light of my watch and shined it underwater. This blue light was originally designed to allow people to see the values ​​​​of electronic watches in the dark. The light could hardly shine into the water, so I had to squat down. , sink the watch into the water.

Then I was stunned. Under the ghostly blue light, I saw a person sinking in the mud. He was buried in the mud, with his hair dancing along the water waves like water plants.

My hands trembled as I moved, and I discovered that this was a corpse, and it was a fresh corpse. Although it was completely wrapped in the mud, it could be seen that the marching uniform he wore was very similar to Fatty's.

Then, I realized something was wrong. I turned the direction of the watch and pushed forward. I found that the mud in front of me was full of dead people. They were all sunk in the mud, and their limbs were intertwined together, like those after a massacre. A mass grave. And all of them had recently died.

I pulled the corpse in front of me out of the mud and found that it was as heavy as lead. I immediately saw that the various equipment around the man's waist were exactly the same as those of Fatty and Pan Zi.

I was trembling, and suddenly I understood what was going on - Uncle San's team was actually here!

Chapter 31 The Third Night: Hiding the Corpse

Looking at the corpses again, I found that these corpses had been soaked in water until they turned gray, but they were not seriously decayed. It was obvious that they had not been dead for a long time. The corpses were not soaked in muddy water until they turned white. Instead, they turned a little blue and looked a little bit green. unusual.

There are so many dead people here, and they all died not long ago. Obviously these are the third uncle's people. I shuddered when I thought of the deserted camp. These people must have been bitten by cockscomb snakes and transported to this quagmire.

Are these people the first ones to have an accident? Or is it the group of people from Sanshu’s land who survived? Is Sanshu among them?

I suddenly thought of the mistress' cry that I heard just now, and thought to myself: Could it be that this is not someone calling me, but the ghost of the waiter here, who wants me to discover this place. Are you guiding me?

My mind is spinning. But the blue light of the watch went out again. The surroundings fell into darkness again.

I turned on my watch again and started touching the pockets of the corpse in front of me. I took out a wallet from his trouser pocket, which was already heavily soaked in water. I weighed it up and threw it towards the light spot on the stone wall. The first throw missed, so I took off the electrolyte from the man's belt and threw it away. I realized something was wrong as soon as I flicked it, but it was too late, the flashlight had already flown out. I was about to slap myself, but this time I succeeded. The bush that stuck the miner's lamp was hit, and the miner's lamp slipped off, fell into the water, and sank.

I grabbed the protrusion of the rock with one hand and stretched my hand as hard as I could. I barely reached it and picked up the miner's lamp. The flashlight was very light, but it was carried several meters downstream by the current and disappeared.

I shined the miner's lamp around, and now I could see more clearly. This is part of the swamp. Similar to a circular pool, the water flows to one side. When the miner's lamp shines on it, downstream of the water flow, there is a stone ruin carved with an animal head. The water flows towards the ruins. It flows in from the open mouth of the beast. Just as I thought, there must be a wellhead below, and it must be dangerous in the past.

I started to go upstream, tied the miner's lamp to my waist, and moved against the rock wall. I looked all the way and saw a large number of corpses lying in the swamp. Most of them were sunk in the mud, with only the Stiff hands or other parts. Almost the entire bottom of the pool is covered in it.

I avoided the corpses as I walked, but there were too many corpses to escape. The mud on many corpses was washed away by the water I stirred up. I found that there were two black holes on their necks. The entire neck was black, and the surrounding parts turned cyan.

I understood immediately that they were all bitten to death by snakes. No wonder there are no traces of fighting in the entire camp. It was possible that he was bitten to death directly in his sleep. It is also possible that they were attacked on a large scale while marching here.

I adjusted the miner's lamp and anxiously looked for their faces one by one, trying to see if there was any third uncle.

I didn't want to see my third uncle, but my reason told me that I couldn't escape. I felt like a parent identifying their son's body. They had to confirm it but really didn't want to confirm it. However, it was not easy to identify it under the cover of silt. I looked over them one by one, but I couldn't find anyone who looked like Uncle San, but I couldn't be sure that none of them were Uncle San.

Just when I wanted to give up, my miner's lamp shone on one of the faces. The face was not completely covered with mud. I stopped subconsciously and suddenly realized that this face was a bit familiar, and I immediately recognized it. come out.

That's Aning!

Her eyes were closed, and her whole body was in a very weird posture. Her body was only covered with a thin layer of mud, and the corpse spots on her face were already very obvious.

I almost suffocated. I looked around and thought to myself that those snakes had also brought her body here!

The more I thought about it, the more chilled I became, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized: Where is this quagmire? Is this where they store food? So maybe a huge python will appear here to eat?

I feel extremely uncomfortable. This place is unsafe and I must leave immediately.

While thinking about it, I waved the miner's lamp and looked for places to climb around. I soon discovered that in the opposite direction of the water flow, there was a tree vine hanging into the water. I bit the miner's lamp and swam over there. I reached it after a few steps and grabbed the vine.

The fog had become a little thinner, so I gritted my teeth and climbed up the vines, but then I thought about what Mengyou Bo said about "silt preventing snakes", so I went down again, picked up a hand of mud, and wiped it to the parts of my body where the mud had been washed away by the water, and then climbed up again, and kept going. After climbing onto a branch covered with vines, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Following the branches, I walked to the center of the tree crown. Just as I was about to climb down the tree, I suddenly heard the sound of water in the pool on the side, and something fell down?

I searched for the sound and looked at it, and I saw ripples on the edge of the pool. Something rolled down the shore. When the miner's lamp shined on that corner, I saw a red intestine-like thing, which was intertwined. There were a large number of cockscomb snakes, and something seemed to be wrapped among them.

I looked carefully, and for a moment I saw a hand sticking out from the pile of snakes, and then I saw a fat human head.

I felt a chill all over and realized it was Fatty.