[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

Without fluctuations, he was between depression and bewilderment.

Gu Ran sighed inwardly, and came over to relieve Zhang Qiling: "He who has the same tattoo as you does not necessarily have something to do with you. I remember that in the history of your family, it was a Miao man who gave you tattoos at the very beginning. It’s common to get tattoos to ward off evil spirits here in the village, and it’s possible that you and Pan Ma just happened to meet the same tattoo artist.” After he finished speaking, he smiled.

"Thinking about it from another angle, we have already found the clues, and we don't necessarily have to rely on Papa Panma. It's not impossible for us to find the place where the archaeological team went. As long as we get to the place, everything will be revealed." Gu Ran photographed He patted Zhang Qiling on the shoulder, "I advise you from the perspective of someone who has experienced it, don't take memory too seriously, it will make you very sad."

Gu Ran couldn't help but think of himself. He was in exactly the same state when he was in Yunding Tiangong and Tamutuo, but when he knew everything, he felt a strong sense of sadness and at a loss as to what to do.

Zhang Qiling remained silent, and Gu Ran didn't bother to speak any more. This kind of obsession had to be figured out by oneself after all, and it was useless to be persuaded by others.

After waiting for a while, Gu Ran suddenly felt that something was missing, and after thinking for a while, he asked Zhang Qiling, "Has the fat man not come back yet?"

Zhang Qiling looked at him, and the two realized that something had happened. The fat man went to buy some sulfuric acid, but he didn't come back all night.

Gu Ran was worried about the fat man, so he quickly pinched his fingers, and he was relieved. The fat man was at the village office where they had just left.It was only when he arrived that he found out that the fat man had stabbed a hornet's nest on the way back, and he was bitten badly. He hung the water in the village office all night and fell asleep just in time, so he missed Wu Xie and the others perfectly.

When Wu Xie came back, the fat man hadn't finished hanging the water, so he waited for a while before he finished. He went back to Agui's house and asked Yun Cai to help the fat man treat the wound and change the dressing.

The fat man had several large bumps on his face, and he had to cut the swollen places with a stick before he could apply the medicine. It was like picking flesh alive. The pain made the fat man grin his teeth, but in order to show his masculinity in front of the clouds, he insisted on not screaming.

After this tossing, the sky was dark, and the four of them finished their meal before Wu Xie told them about the horse riding.

Panma was the guide of Chen Wenjin's archaeological team back then. After taking them into the mountain, he reported for duty at the agreed time. However, unlike the rumors in the village, he did not enter the mountain alone, and the archaeological team did not disappear.

At that time, he had four brothers who went into the mountains together, and they did not leave after delivering the food, because they could eat a meal of white rice in the evening, which was the same treatment as the emperor in that hungry era.While the five brothers were waiting, one of them became suspicious of the archaeological team's military supplies.

At that time, Shiwandashan in Guangxi was very poor, and there were years of border conflicts. There were few wild animals, and there was very little meat that could be hunted and eaten. It was difficult to grow dry food. Adults and children were starving. Can keep them for a year.

Panma's brothers thought about stealing some rice at night, so that they could improve the food at home.Pan Ma is an old hunter with good skills, and if the children in the family can't starve to death, he won't do such a risky thing.

The problem was here. They sneaked in to scoop rice, and were discovered by the soldier who was checking the tent, and they smothered the soldier to death in desperation.

Killing a soldier is a serious crime, so the soldier could only be dragged out as missing, but the sentry found out after a short delay, and they killed the sentry again.

After hearing this, Gu Ran already understood that they were all hunters and had never killed anyone. By this time, they had gone mad after seeing the blood, especially when they killed two people who had the status of soldiers in that era. The pleasure of upper-class people has spread.

Gu Ran made a wild guess about the following story, as Wu Xie continued to tell, the Panma five killed the archaeological team who was sleeping soundly in the tent, and then threw all the corpses, guns, and ammunition into the lake, and put The rice and some food were carried back to the village, and some daily necessities that could not be carried were hidden, and they would come back to get them when the weather calmed down.

Three days later, Pan Ma entered the mountain and found another camp by the lake, where there were still people active, and the archaeological team they had killed appeared in front of him again.

Pan Ma asked tentatively, but the people in the camp were the same as usual, and that day seemed to be just a false memory belonging to the five of them.

Strangely, there was a special smell on the reappearing archaeological team. This smell was the same as the smell in the iron box that Pan Ma got later. To him, it was the smell of a dead person. Pan Ma said that the reason why he was hostile to Zhang Qiling was also because he had this smell in him.

A few days later, accidents began to happen in the village. The four brothers of Panma had this smell one after another, and then they went crazy, and finally they all died one after another.

Wu Xie also asked about Panma's tattoo, and said that it was done by a Miao wizard before, and that he can travel unimpeded when he arrives at the Miao Village.

In the story of Pan Ma, one of the biggest problems is the archaeological team he killed.

Regardless of the possibility of strange powers and chaos, Gu Ran, as a person who once stepped into the realm of the gods, can basically be sure that such a miraculous phenomenon of resurrection from death will not occur in this world, so the only possibility is that it is man-made.

There are two archaeological teams, but they may have the same costumes and the same size. Without knowing the archaeological teams, Pan Ma can't tell them apart.

With this major premise in place, the following things are easy to analyze.Someone must want to switch the archaeological team, then there must be a killer who wants to kill the original archaeological team, and it happened that Pan Ma did it for him. The replacement archaeological team thought that the killer had completed the task, so he started to disguise step by step, and he became a pan horse. The revived archaeological team arrived.

As for the death of the Panma brothers, Wu Xie speculated that it was possible that when Panma killed the archaeological team, not everyone was there, and there were survivors who came up and found that their identities had been replaced by others. They killed people and silenced them. As for the madness of Panma's brothers, it is not impossible to do it artificially.

As for why Pan Ma didn't die, it might be because he was too strong and the surviving archaeological team couldn't kill him, or it might be because of the tattoo on his body.

The latter is just Gu Ran's guess.

Gu Ran agreed with Wu Xie's conjecture, and the best proof was Chen Wenjin. Both Wu Xie and Gu Ran were basically sure that Chen Wenjin was not the one who was dropped.

Laiba came before going to Xisha. Wu Xie guessed that the reason why the interested people want to switch to the archaeological team may be that the target is Xisha, and even Yunding Tiangong behind.

Of course, all of this is only based on the speculation that Panma really killed an archaeological team. The best way to prove it is to see is believing. Wu Xie proposed to go to the lake where Panma threw his body back then. Even if the body is rotten, The bones must still be there. Anyway, they planned to go to the place where Chen Wenjin led the team to investigate.

Although Fatty thought this statement was absurd, but in terms of analysis and reasoning, he listened to Wu Xie, and he was originally an active member of the one-day trip to Yangjiao Mountain, so he naturally agreed with both hands and feet.

Zhang Qiling was eager to know his past, so he naturally agreed. Gu Ran also wanted to know what the archaeological team experienced back then. He had a feeling that this was the key to many things. Connect the things before and after.

Once you decide to go, you have to consider the equipment, which is the most troublesome.

Originally, they came here with the intention of finding Zhang Qiling's residence, so they never thought about going to the field. Except for Gu Ran who brought some things he could use, the other three were all traveling in their outfits, and had to buy many things.

Fortunately, the villagers make a living by hunting, and the equipment for survival in the wild is easy to buy, mainly preparing weapons.Agui has three guns at home, two of which are in good condition, and the oldest one was taken out of a chicken shed, and the inside of the gun is completely rusted, from Agui to Fatty, no one dares to use it.

Although Gu Ran disliked the quality and smell of this gun, he resigned himself to his fate and took over the gun to tidy up in order to have one more weapon.

At any rate, he came from the era of war and chaos. Gu Ran knew very well about firearms, and his skills were much better than those of the old hunters that Agui had seen, which made him stare.

Bullets can only be bought at a high price of 50 yuan a round, and the ones you buy are all the ones that you can tell at a glance that they are produced by small workshops. Gu Ran has no choice but to give him a workshop and he can also make bullets , but he can't modify the ready-made bullets.

For some other things such as ropes, flashlights, etc., Wu Xie wrote a note and asked Agui to buy them. It took a day or two to buy the equipment. Anyway, the hunters did not come back, and no one could take them in, so they simply bought them in Agui's family is waiting.

Although the fat man was bitten all over his face, the task of buying sulfuric acid was successfully completed. He was eager to melt the iron pieces to see what was inside, but Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling felt it was inappropriate.Panma said that there was a strange smell in it, and it might be a poisonous volatile substance. It would be safer to go to Yangjiao Mountain to find some clues before doing it.

Gu Ran was noncommittal about their caution. Although that thing was dangerous, he always had an intuition that this thing was the core of Chen Wenjin and their archaeological team.It would be a good thing to know what the dangers are before going down to Yangjiaoshan Lake.

But Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling insisted, so Gu Ran didn't comment.

Before coming to Banai, Gu Ran made a decision. He should hand over the power of analysis and decision-making to Wu Xie as much as possible, so that he can get used to being a person worthy of others' dependence. Only in this way, Wu Xie's future path It will be easier to walk.

Gu Ran saw the enemy's trail earlier than they did,