Burning fire

"Why did you bring him out?" Bai Yuxing waited restlessly at the bottom of the hillside, looked at Zhou Qizun, and immediately jumped over.

The injury on his leg was still hurting, and his ankle had just healed, so these two steps were not as good as a half-limped man, and his face was covered with dirt.

The blood that fell on the tip of Zhou Qizun's nose before was not wiped clean, his face was covered with blood now, when Bai Yuxing saw it, his brain shuddered: "What's wrong with your face?"

"I'm fine, other people's blood." Zhou Qizun said.

Bai Yuxing: "Other people's blood? Whose blood?"

"What's wrong with the guide?"

Seeing that Zhang Jueming was unconscious, everyone immediately surrounded him.The brain capacity of the team leader is not enough, and now it's over, he doesn't know where to put his hands and feet, and he keeps muttering: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"I'm scared to death." Zhou Qizun was going to put Zhang Jueming under the nearest big tree to lean against, but he remembered the tree branch inside...

Feeling cold in his heart, he took a few more steps and placed Zhang Jueming on the far side of the rock.

"Who gives me a bottle of water, hurry up." Zhou Qizun turned his head and said to the people behind him.

Someone dug out a bottle of mineral water from the bag: "I'm done drinking the hot water, can it be cold?"

"Okay." Zhou Qizun took it over, poured some into his hand, and patted Zhang Jueming on the face.

Zhang Jueming didn't open his eyes, but there was some reaction.He frowned, and rolled his eyes a few times under his eyelids.Zhou Qizun squeezed Zhang Jueming's chin again, and poured his saliva on him.

"Ahem..." Zhang Jueming was choked, and water came out from the corner of his mouth.

Zhou Qizun wiped his chin: "Wake up, Zhang Jueming?"

Zhang Jueming coughed twice more, and slowly opened his eyes, which were not yet focused.

"It's okay." Seeing that he was awake, Zhou Qizun stood up and threw the water bottle into his arms.

Zhou Qizun paused, then felt something bulging in his pocket, remembering that Bai Yuxing put a box of ginseng slices in his pocket earlier, he took out the ginseng slices, and threw them on Zhang Jueming's lap: "Take it."

Then he ignored Zhang Jueming, turned around, and met the panicked faces of the crowd.

"What's going on? What's in the bushes?" The leader asked with his mouth open, "Why did you two..."

The blood on Zhou Qizun's face made the team leader lose his soul, and he couldn't see the light in his eyes.

Zhou Qizun hesitated for a moment, but still had to tell the truth.He couldn't get around at the critical moment, and he saw the blood: "We found a dead body in the bushes."

"Dead...dead?"

"real or fake?"

"Really? The guide fainted from fright... Look at the blood on his face..."

"It's the one who got lost..."

"Hey shut up, shut up!"

Some people exclaimed, while others were silent. Fear has different reactions in different people.

Xiaoying stood the farthest, but Zhou Qizun still subconsciously glanced at her.She and Zhou Qizun met their gazes and instantly understood something.Xiaoying covered her mouth with her hands, screaming and being strangled to death.She lost her strength and fell to the ground, shaking like a bumpy sieve.

Zhou Qizun said calmly: "In the current situation, we need to discuss whether to wait for rescue or continue down the mountain."

Zhou Qizun asked the team leader again: "Can I contact the rescue again?"

"I, I'm just..." The team leader took out his phone tremblingly, his hand was unsteady, the phone fell and rolled around on the ground, and he squatted down to pick it up hastily, this time he knelt down.

Zhou Qizun had no choice but to bend down to pick up the phone: "Let me do it."

All the seven and eight mouths were silent, no one dared to say a word, and no one dared to mention going to the hillside to have a look.All together, there was a rare honesty, an extraordinary unity.

Especially a cowardly turtle like Chen Ming, who simply hid behind Liu Hongshuan instead of getting out, grabbed Sun Feiteng's arm, and was begging his boss Sun for protection.

Looking at this state, it is enough to continue down the mountain.Zhou Qizun walked aside and used the team leader's mobile phone to contact the rescue again.

Behind him, Zhang Jueming was leaning on the rock, his eyes were cold, he didn't look like someone who just woke up from a coma after being frightened.

The ginseng slice thrown by Zhou Qizun was still on the side, Zhang Jueming took it, rubbed the box twice with his fingers, and put it into his pocket.

.

Although the signal in the mountains is poor, at least the phone can still make calls.Zhou Qizun got in touch with the rescue again. After the communication, he hung up the phone and told everyone to wait in place. The rescue is already on its way and should arrive soon.

"Zun'er." Bai Yuxing's face twisted stiffly, "In the forest above... it's really..."

He couldn't continue, and couldn't help but look at Xiaoying.Xiaoying was pulled up from the center of the ground, and now she is sitting on the farthest side.She hugged her knees with her arms, buried her head in the crook of her arms, and shrank herself into a shivering ball of fear.

"Wipe your face, it's scary." Bai Yuxing handed Zhou Qizun a piece of paper, and said, "What the hell..."

"Don't ask." Zhou Qizun wiped his face clean, watching the snow-white tissue stained red with blood."It's miserable," he whispered.

"Then..." Bai Yuxing became dumb, and squatted down at Zhou Qizun's feet.

Zhou Qizun didn't speak anymore, recalling the dead body hanging from the tree branch over and over again in his mind.From the back to the chest, it may have been completely pierced.

He was killed like that, and was still hanging on the tree after death.Such a short period of time should not be done by humans.Who is so capable?Could it be some ferocious beast?But in broad daylight, where did the beast come from?

Zhou Qizun closed his eyes, suddenly there was a stabbing pain in the back of his head, his eyes were blood red.He actually thought of Zhou Yunheng again.Thinking of the five bloody holes on Zhou Yunheng's body, and the coldness of his limbs...

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Seeing that something was wrong with Zhou Qizun, Bai Yuxing quickly stood up.

Zhou Qizun waved his hands and rubbed his eyelids wearily: "It's okay."

Zhang Jueming kept leaning on the rock and did not get up. The team leader trembled around him and couldn't stop asking questions. He could only reply weakly, pretending to be frightened and out of spirits.

The longevity bell moved in his pocket again.Zhang Jueming put his palm on his side waist and pressed it through his clothes.

The sun was slowly lowering, and the sky was gradually oozing a blood-red color. For more than an hour, everyone was waiting in dead silence in the icy mountain wind.

When the bright red in the sky stained the branches and paved the black and yellow frozen soil, rescue finally came.

Everyone was rescued down the mountain.

Surrounded by yellow cordons, the small high slope is like an ugly and trapped beast, silent in the afterglow of ruin.

The body was sealed and carried out.In the heavy body bag, all the fresh and unknown possibilities of life are all over. They are fragmented and will become the bones of the stars, hanging above the darkness, never reaching the temperature.

.

into the night.

Sister-in-law's hotel is very quiet.It was so quiet that everyone closed the doors and windows, nestled in the house and did not dare to move.

Just like what Bai Yuxing thought, Lao Peng really cooked a big hot pot with charcoal fire, but no one could still eat it.

The lobby is empty, and you can still smell the strong smell of country hot pot. The fragrance pours into the bottom of the stomach from the nose and mouth, making the trembling stomach twitch again and again.

I don't know why, when people are extremely frightened, they always like to find some more sins for themselves, such as not being able to eat or sleep at night.Now, maybe hunger can bring them the most sense of security, at least it can tell them that they are still alive after the disaster, and still have stomach pains.

Zhou Qizun sat at the table, feeling tired and about to fall apart.He rubbed his face, thinking about Yaoyao.

It has been completely confirmed that the corpse is Yaoyao.

The village is nothing but big assholes, and bad news spreads quickly. As long as two mouths open and close, the bad news will suddenly flee and go to all the corners of the village.It's like the plague.

Now the whole village knows that a girl who came to Xiaotai Mountain to see the waterfall died.Not only did she die tragically, she also died without a whole body.

Yaoyao's entire vest was torn open, and all internal organs were taken out.The police searched the mountain for a long time, but have not been able to find her internal organs so far.

Some villagers said that the way she died must have been done by wild beasts on the mountain. Her heart, liver, spleen and lungs were also eaten by wild beasts on the mountain. It is impossible to recover her whole body.

Zhou Qizun believed it, but he didn't believe it either.

From common sense, the facts tell him that Yaoyao's death is hardly man-made. Although Yaoyao's body has not been sent for examination, the degree of tearing of the flesh does not seem to be human-made.

But it is strange to say that Xiaotai Mountain is calm all year round, and the hunters hunt pheasants and hares. I have never heard of man-eating jackals and bears on the mountain.The hiking route is even safer, and I haven't made any mistakes in many years.Why did wild beasts suddenly appear in the clear sky?

The people in the village were in a state of panic that night, and everyone was guessing what kind of vicious thing was so cruel.

Among them, some hunters boldly speculated that they had seen lynx in the mountains.

The lynx is cunning and vicious, with a very high IQ. It often hunts and kills roe deer and other medium and large animals for food.It is said that they are used to going alone, but who really knows what is going on on the mountain?Food is scarce in winter, if the animals are too hungry to come out normally, and see someone alone, they join forces to besiege and tear people apart.

There is no basis for the statement.But no matter what the truth is, Yaoyao is gone.

There was movement upstairs, it was my sister-in-law who came down from the second floor.

"Xiaoying is asleep?" Zhou Qizun looked up, his eyes were bloodshot.

"I drank Quhan's ginger soup, tired from crying, and went to bed." My sister-in-law guarded Xiaoying in the middle of the night, she didn't know what to say, she just sighed heavily.

Xiaoying spent half the night looking at the last photo with Yaoyao, which was the one that Zhou Qizun helped take earlier.Yaoyao above is smiling so brightly.They were holding hands just a second ago, but why did they disappear in the blink of an eye?

Xiaoying watched and watched, crying so hard that she almost fainted.

Yaoyao's tragic death is not only the shock tonight, this tragedy will never let Xiaoying go.The dark and bloody shadow will grab her and torture her, and the pain will never be healed. Just like that little whirlwind girl, she will be lost forever in the barren mountains and permafrost, and will never come back completely.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qizun felt so tired that he wished he could close his eyes and not know anything about personnel.But unfortunately, he is also a layman, and he is the one who can't sleep at night.

"Sister-in-law, you should go to bed too." Zhou Qizun said to sister-in-law.

He elbowed Bai Yuxing next to him again: "And you, you still hurt your leg today, go rest."

Zhou Qizun even said unreasonably: "Take a sleeping pill if you can't sleep, you need to rest."

"...What about you?" Bai Yuxing was exhausted physically and mentally.He was a little afraid to sleep, because he would definitely have nightmares tonight.

"I'm not going to sleep, I'll be looking at the shop below tonight." Zhou Qizun said, "You can rest assured."

"You..." Bai Yuxing frowned, and wanted to say something, but was kicked by Zhou Qizun.

Zhou Qizun waved his hand upstairs, as if his stomach was full of firewood sticks, and his whole body would be on fire immediately: "Hurry up."

Bai Yuxing looked at Zhou Qizun in silence for a while, then nodded, "Okay, then I'll go up first."

He pinched Zhou Qizun's shoulder, then dragged a wooden leg, turned around and slowly went upstairs.

"Xiao Zun." The sister-in-law walked up to Zhou Qizun, "You should lie down for a while too."

My little aunt trembled all over just hearing about Yaoyao's death, but Zhou Qizun saw it with her own eyes, so she was very worried about Zhou Qizun right now.

Zhou Qizun knew what she was thinking just by looking at her expression, he smiled briefly at his sister-in-law: "I'm fine, don't worry. Don't you know me?"

"Sister-in-law knows." My sister-in-law said softly, but if she pronounced her words a little harder, her heartache would be unbearable.

"Haven't slept yet?" At this moment, Lao Peng came out of the kitchen holding a bowl of boiling hot pimple soup.

Such a big incident happened, afraid that my sister-in-law would be worried, Lao Peng has not left, and probably will not return to his place tonight.

Sure enough, Lao Peng put the pimple soup in front of Zhou Qizun, turned his face and said to his sister-in-law: "Lianzi, you go to sleep, I will watch in the lobby with Xiaozun tonight, don't worry."

The little aunt blinked her eyelids, tears welling up in her eyes.She didn't say anything, went to the house and took out two thick quilts.

In the corner of the lobby there was a small earth kang for people to rest on. The night before Jiang Qiuqin was buried, Zhou Qizun spent the whole night on it.

The sister-in-law removed the small tea table from the kang, and spread the quilt on the earthen kang: "This place is a bit narrow, so you two can squint for a while if you don't talk."

"Okay." Lao Peng smiled, "Don't worry, we two men, don't worry about it."

The sister-in-law smiled reluctantly, turned around and went back to her hut.

The sister-in-law left, and Lao Peng went to turn off two lights in the lobby, and the light above his head dimmed by a degree.

"Uncle Peng, you don't need to accompany me." Zhou Qizun said to Lao Peng.

Lao Peng sighed, walked back to the table, and handed the spoon to Zhou Qizun: "Eat something to fill your stomach. Can you eat it?"

Zhou Qizun scooped up the pimple soup with a spoon, scooped it up twice and put it down.He took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, exhaled a mouthful of gray mist: "I can't eat it."

Who said eating was inherently easy?Sometimes it is the same as sleeping, it is indeed born, but it is really difficult.

The author says:

Lynx: Also known as the mountain cat, it is a cat family and belongs to the medium-sized beast.