desert abyss

On the third day, the weather was still fair.The temperature warmed up slightly in the early morning, so we lined up on the ground and continued our long trek.The team rested as usual at noon, and started to rush again when the temperature dropped in the evening.When I walk this day, it seems that someone always touches me from behind.At that time, I thought that such a vulgar prank could only be caused by Li Zhen.

In the evening, the sand was still warm, and we found small pools of water among the dunes.The golden grass beside the water pool reflects the sky, and sometimes water birds can be seen flying, which makes people feel very happy.We unanimously took off our equipment and relaxed on the spot.

Li Zhen is also in a good mood.Being able to see the desert lake means that the groundwater is abundant, which will bring great convenience to Huang Kun and the others.When Li Zhen was in a good mood, there were always some bad things about to happen. For example, when he was at the foot of Tianshan Mountain last time, on a whim, he encouraged Huang Kun to leave the team without authorization to go hunting in the desert.The two of them carried the gun with sunglasses for a while, dragged a few deer and an adult wild camel with two cars and brought them back for the cook to burn.I'm sure one of the deer is a rare protected species.Such a good thing, they didn't take me with them, they only left the antlers for me to use for aphrodisiac.

We wandered freely. Andreas and Simon are going to wash their hair in a lake and beg Genia to take a photo of them.Liao Xiaodan also seemed to want to relax, and it was rare for him to allow it.A few of them were racially gifted and tall, and we never worried much about them.But not long after they left this time, we heard panicked shouts not far away.

"What are you talking about? The ditch? What's the fuss about the ditch? Where the hell is it not a ditch?" Liao Xiaodan cursed sharply.

"Go and see?" The two Germans were still yelling about the "ditch". Director Gu and Ma Zhonglin followed Liao Xiaodan and ran towards the shouting.

"Shall we go and have a look too?" I asked Xu Jin.

Suddenly Lee Jin grabbed my hand.

"Yang An, let's not go." He held my elbow tightly. "I do not want to go."

"What's the matter, don't you always like new things? What are you talking about?"

I looked at him in surprise and shook his hand away.

Li Zhen's face suddenly changed.

"Go if you want." He turned around and began to tie up his long hair patiently.

"Inexplicable." I complained impatiently, picked up the goggles from the ground and said, "I really don't understand what's going on with either of you."

Xu Jin, who was walking in front, turned her head and smiled at me.Her face was half hidden in the dim sky, and there seemed to be something inexplicable in her eyes.Thinking about it afterwards, it was almost the same as the look in the eyes of the math invigilator when he saw me doing the questions. It was pity, a gentle and sad pity for innocent and ignorant people.

Only when we found three foreigners did we understand what they meant by "ditch".A long and narrow area in the sand collapsed inexplicably, more like a pit than a ditch.A branch-like thing protruded from the pit, and I only realized that it was a hand when I got closer.The two Germans were trembling with fear, hiding behind me and pointing.After all, Yenia is a fighting race, so she doesn't care.Director Gu and Ma Zhonglin both have archaeological experience and are not afraid.Xu Jin pulled me and ran forward excitedly.

"Just stick out of the sand and grab me!" Simon announced to the group in English.

"Catch a fart!" Liao Xiaodan said mercilessly, "Look at that skin is so brittle, it's obviously a dead person. Can a dead person arrest a person? Even if a dead person can arrest a person, you, a living person, can still die for it ?"

We dug that hapless brother out of the sand.His body was completely dehydrated, his skin shattered when touched, and his lips and eyeballs also shrank.In fact, seeing the mummy is just like that.Those few living people who were raped by Huang Kun were much more terrifying than such dead people.

We turned the body over, and Ma Zhonglin said "hmm".

"It seems to be a modern person, but it has been dead for a long time, and the color of the clothes can't be seen."

"It's been five years." Li Zhen muttered next to me.

"There are straps in the sand. There are backpacks!" Director Gu said.

The belt on the backpack was almost rotten, as if it had been bitten by a small animal, and it would shatter when pulled.There was nothing in the backpack but a fat reptile.

I observed the corpse with great interest, but found a strange phenomenon. The head of the corpse fell off halfway. It seemed to have been cut, but it was not cut through. There was only a deep wound.

This is murder!

I was about to speak when the front called out again.

"There's more here!"

There was more than one corpse!We all got excited and jumped into the pit to clean the sand, and two more were pulled out in no time.There's more in the pit, it's literally a cemetery.Every body had obvious fatal injuries, many with broken bones and signs of severe blows, and nearly half of the bodies had cuts at the mouth of the throat.

"It's so strange," Liao Xiaodan said, "there is nothing here to prove their identities. Judging from the backpacks, these people should belong to a well-equipped team, but everything in the backpacks was taken away."

I looked closely at the wound on the corpse's throat.It can be clearly seen that this was artificially scratched with a sharp tool, and the scratch was very sharp, leaving obvious marks on the bones.This shows that the murderer's skill is very neat.It's more than neat, it's like the rhythm of passing people's heads and falling down the street all the way in the busy city.Looking at it, my cold sweat came down, because the last time I saw such a knife mark should be on the neck of a rare deer species.At that time, a man cut off the head of a deer and scratched it hard twice, leaving such scratches on the bone, the left side is high and the right is low, the left side is shallow and the right side is deep, exactly the same.

I seem to know exactly where the expedition team that disappeared five years ago went.

"Yang An, let's not go", "It's been five years"...

They were artificially wiped out in the desert, and only the murderer survived.

The murderers included Li Zhen and Huang Kun.

In an instant, all the little things about Li Zhen and I got along with each other in the past three months came to my mind.There was a nausea in my throat, and I almost retched on the spot.It's hard for me to describe why I knew in a split second that Lee Jin killed those people.In fact, the knife marks on the bones alone cannot prove this point at all.If I have to say it, I can only say that I have a feeling.I can't record this feeling in a notebook, because this feeling stems from a thousand and ten thousand little things that happened when I got along with Li Zhen.From the time he got on the bus in disguise, everything made me form an "opinion" about him, and this "opinion" told me that these people were killed by him.

I looked up, only to find that Li Zhen was gone.The huge psychological pressure made me almost unable to breathe, and I couldn't help but exclaimed.When I called out, everyone realized that Li Zhen had disappeared.And those two notes disappeared at this time.

In the confusion, I was bumped again.

This time I was prepared and caught it with my backhand, but I didn't catch anyone.There was another note in my pocket, but this one was written in Chinese and the quality of the paper was different from the previous one.

——These people were not killed by "Li Zhen".Please trust him.

I look up.

Five steps away, Xu Jin winked at me and smiled mischievously.

I felt dizzy.Xu Jin's note not only did not dispel my doubts, but made me more sure that this matter had nothing to do with Li Zhen, because she did not directly write "Li Zhen did not kill", but deliberately put "Li Zhen" The two words are enclosed in quotation marks.

What's even more strange to me is how does Xu Jin know what I'm thinking? Does she have mind reading skills?

Could it be that Yenia felt that Xu Jin was "very wrong" for related reasons?

I know I can't stop thinking like this, but I can't help it.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the distance, and a very standard southern accent cursed there.

"My grandma is a fucking stick! How dare you sneak up on your grandpa and let me try again? Sneak up on your grandson! If I light the sky lantern on your [-]th generation ancestor again, I won't blow up your ancestor! "

Only Li Zhen can do this kind of scolding that doesn't distinguish between seniority.Hearing his energetic voice, I subconsciously felt relieved.

Huang Kun once said that Li Zhen is the only one who can talk about his ancestors in one sentence, and said that this is why he still finds it very interesting to hear Li Zhen scolding him for so long and is willing to continue listening.The two of them often get into a panic over trivial matters, and being able to quarrel with Huang Kun is really Li Zhen's skill.There is a saying that goes well: People who share adversity with you in times of crisis may not always get along well with you, and people who get along well usually may not be able to share weal and woe with you in times of crisis.This is human nature, there is no right or wrong.

There were a few creepy shouts and curses in the distance, and then Li Zhen poked out half of his head from behind the sand dunes in the north.

"Oops." Liao Xiaodan jumped up.

"He'll be fine!" I followed closely.

"I'm not worried about Li Zhen, I'm worried about those two guys. Li Zhen doesn't know what to do!" Liao Xiaodan said.

We left the mummy aside and rushed forward, only to see a police officer stuck in the sand.He is also considered smart and did not struggle, but the sand has already buried his chest, and the sand buried in his chest is basically equivalent to buried above his head, because it is difficult to breathe.Another was standing on the sand, but was visibly afraid to move.Li Zhen stood on a high pile of sand with an angry expression on his face.

Under the guidance of Ma Zhonglin, people began to try to rescue the two comrades in the quicksand who were supposed to rescue us.I tried to climb the sand dune where Li Zhen was located, but after climbing two feet, I fell face down and slipped down.

Li Zhen shook his head.

"So, Caitou is Caitou, tell me where you have grown in the past few months." He sighed, stretched out his hand to pull me, I centered my weight forward, kicked my legs and climbed up.

We squatted on the sand dunes and watched the busy people below.

"Are they here to arrest you?" I wondered and asked. "Those two people."

Li Zhen froze for a moment, then smiled in relief.

"Oh, I don't think you have any brains," he said. "It's not bad that they came to arrest me. Actually, I've seen it for a long time, and I just waited for them to do it. It's just that I didn't expect these two bastards to attack me with a sneak attack. They don't have the quality of civil servants at all."

"Why did you kill them?" I asked cautiously.

"Who?" He looked at me suspiciously.

"Those... expedition members? The team from five years ago?"

"Did I kill it? Boy, did I kill it? No wonder they came to arrest me. But even if I killed it, I can't say it, the central government ordered." He said with a relaxed face.

"What are you hiding from me?"

"The two bastards came here just now to bury me alive. Can I let them bury me alive? Don't even look at who I am. Is it for nothing that I have worked with Huang Kun for so long? I haven't finished my glory and enthusiasm for the motherland. I haven’t built a new socialist society yet, so I don’t dare to die! If I don’t want to die, I’ll just run away. Who knows that there is quicksand here? So jumping on top of a guy stomped him in the sand and jumped out."

"You stepped him into the quicksand?! Don't you know he's going to die?"

"If I die, I won't have to worry about it. If I had known that Sister Liao would come over so soon, I would have made up my feet."

"Li Zhen! What else do you know?"

Li Zhen turned his head and looked at me with sharp eyes.I shuddered.He narrowed his eyes.

"Yang An, a person once taught me a word, and I always remember it: if you suffer, you will gain wisdom. Don't look for trouble." He paused, and then added with a relaxed expression, "Besides, be careful about that Girl film, she is not an easy character, although she may be one of the few people in this team who don't want me to die. Oh. Look, those two hazi are up again, we should go back to the team. Hope they Be kind to me in the future."

"What if they report to the criminal agency after they come out? What will happen in the future?"

"The logistics force has its own way." Li Zhen said meaningfully.