ghost market

The sense of approaching crisis made us all stiffen, and then hurriedly turned our heads to find the direction of the sound.

After a while, Yan Daojie stared at the rock wall on the right, and said: "At three o'clock, the distance can't be judged, but the direction should be correct."

Ruan Yu nodded, agreed, and said, "There is only one hole where people can enter. Although I'm not sure where it came from, I think we should go and have a look."

"Well, let's follow the team we discussed just now." I said.Turning around and picking up the backpack I had just prepared, I said again: "There is no better way to do road markings, just follow our old rules. The time for this operation is scheduled for one hour. If we haven't returned by the time, you Just leave a mark and wait in another place. Now, check the list."

The teammates nodded upon hearing the words, and got together to unify their watches.Arslan looked at us in a daze, and wanted to speak several times, but he couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only shake his head and sigh, looking very distressed. [

I walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, brother. We're just going to check on the situation and we'll be back in a while. We won't offend Mr. Hu Da."

"Alas! Mortals should not speculate on the divine meaning." Arslan recited a proverb, and then sat back silently by the campfire without saying a word.

When I saw this, I didn't say anything more, I just winked at Ruan Yu, signaling her to pay more attention to Arslan's actions, and then I and Yan Daojie got into the cave on the rock wall with the equipment.

The light of the flashlight can't shine too far in this irregular cave, and it is often blocked by a sudden turning point, which makes people feel like they will hit a stone after walking two steps.The sound of the wind in the ear is constantly changing due to the change of the terrain. The sound is loud and small, sometimes sharp, sometimes low, like a group of entangled devils whispering and clamoring in the ear, which makes people feel upset chaos.

Yan Daojie, who was walking in front, suddenly cursed in a low voice, and kicked the suddenly appeared rock wall without resentment.Vent the growing irritability.After kicking, he sighed heavily, then shook his head and squatted down, using a knife to draw a small long triangle on the rock wall [-] centimeters from the ground.This is the mark negotiated between the four of us. The Yangtze River Triangle indicates the direction of the explorers, and the longest sharp corner is the point.If two crossing lines are drawn, it means "this road is blocked".besides.There are also symbols such as circles, squares, and wavy lines, each of which represents a different meaning.

I saw Yan Daojie drawing symbols, so I stepped over him, intending to turn around the fork first.Just after taking two steps, a gust of wind rushed towards his face with a "huh", and then disappeared into the rocky mountain screaming.I couldn't help being taken aback.Immediately afterwards, his body tensed up immediately, and Yan Daojie, who was squatting on the ground, jumped up at the same time, ran to me with a weapon in his hand, and whispered: "It smells like blood!"

I nodded and exchanged a few words with him with gestures.Then he covered the light of the flashlight with the hand holding the dagger, and stood silently in place.After waiting for a while, I suddenly took two steps forward and crossed the rock wall.At the same time, he moved the hand covering the flashlight away, and quickly swayed between the rocks with a dazzling beam of light, searching for abnormalities.

Suddenly, my eyes were fixed, and my body reacted at the same time, quickly retracting into the fork where I was just now.I saw a pistol pointed obliquely at me.

I told Yan Daojie what I found with gestures, and then communicated with him to make a plan.Then he jumped out just as abruptly as before, and ran to the side violently.Yan Daojie came out according to our plan, squatting on the ground and aiming the gun in his hand at the muzzle, looking for an opportunity to shoot.However, nothing happened around us.

I stopped and waved Yan Daojie to be alert, while I cautiously approached the muzzle of the gun.Take a closer look.I found that the man holding the pistol was hiding behind a waist-high rock, and the arm with the gun was slanted on the rock and stretched out, as if he was on guard.However, his legs were stretched straight out on the ground.The head was also drooping vigorously, and there was a large dark wet spot on the front of the chest, without ups and downs, it seemed that he had not breathed.

I sent a safe signal to Yan Daojie, squatted down and examined the corpse carefully.The deceased was a male, young, estimated to be around 23 or [-] years old.He has short black hair and black pupils. From his facial features, he is probably a Han nationality.He was wearing a set of gray and black outdoor adventure suit, which was of good quality, but there was no brand, so it was impossible to judge the source.He had nothing else in his pocket but a pack of cigarettes and a few bars of chocolate.Cigarettes are local brands bought in surrounding cities, which cannot reflect the person's daily life or location. The same is true for those few bars of chocolate, which are things that can be seen everywhere, without any characteristics.In short, this person has no clues to prove his identity, and he appears to be very "professional".Judging from this, he may be engaged in a special profession that requires constant attention to these details, such as a mercenary.Or, he was searched by others after his death, and all the clues were processed.

"It smells like gunpowder smoke. I've used it recently." Yan Daojie, who had been checking the pistol of the deceased, sniffed the muzzle and said.He put the clip back into the gun, pulled the bolt and tried it, then put away the safety pistol, and said: "There is no number on the body of the gun, but the strange thing is that the position of the number has not been polished, unlike the It's something from the black market, but it looks like it was assembled individually."

"Perhaps it was specially issued to conceal my identity." I told him about my inspection results.

Yan Daojie nodded and said, "It's quite possible! I touched it just now, and this guy has calluses on his fingers. He's an old hand."

I heard that I picked up the dead man's hand and looked at it, and found that there were indeed calluses formed by holding the gun for a long time. It seemed that the dead man had a very unusual occupation.In addition, I found that his fingers had started to become a little stiff. Judging from the skills I learned from Zheng's forensic doctor, when the rigor developed to the small joints of the upper limbs, the deceased had been dead for at least five hours.

"Third brother, how long have we been in this Yadan?" I turned my head and asked.

Yan Daojie looked at his watch and said, "About four hours, what's the matter?"

"This man died before we came in here," I said.

Yan Daojie frowned when he heard the words, and said, "This guy arrived here earlier than us, so it probably has nothing to do with us. This is strange. Arslan didn't mean that no one would take the route we took. Is it? Is it a coincidence?" [

"Not necessarily," I touched my nose, "He may have used the method of 'tracking in a roundabout way', so he ran ahead of us."

The so-called "detour tracking" is a very professional tracking method. The characteristic of this method is that the tracker will predict the direction of travel of the target, and then abandon the traditional way of "following behind" and run to the necessary place of the target ahead of time. Wait on the road to reduce the chance of being discovered by the target.However, it is very difficult to complete this method independently. After all, predicting such things has a very high failure rate. If the judgment is wrong, the tracking will definitely fail.Therefore, this method is generally carried out by a small group, and some people follow the target in the traditional way to provide support for the prediction, and it also has a certain "insurance" effect.The other part of people ran to the direction of the target according to the prediction, and replaced the original group of people to continue tracking after the target appeared, so that the target method could find any "familiar" things to follow them.

In this regard, I think the deceased in front of me should have teammates, and they are probably still here.In addition, we checked the surroundings just now, but did not find this person's backpack.This is a desert full of people, not a city where people come and go. It is impossible to travel here without a backpack.If his backpack hadn't been taken by the murderer, it would have been in the hands of his teammates.More importantly, the two gunshots we heard just now were definitely not caused by this dead man. The most likely situation is that his teammates and the murderer who killed him were fighting.No matter who the final victor is, it is absolutely necessary for us to capture him.

With the plan established, we didn't waste any more time, and immediately got into the cave behind the deceased and walked deep.Before leaving, I couldn't help but look back at the corpse on the ground again, and carefully pondered the strange feeling in my heart that had been haunting me since just now, but I still couldn't tell the difference, so I had to shake my head and give up.

Yan Daojie and I made marks on the rock wall while advancing into the darkness beside us.Since we had just discovered a dead body, we couldn't help but increase our vigilance a little bit, and our exploration became more careful as we marched.After walking for a while, we came to a fork. Seeing the four fork roads in front of us, we couldn't help but feel troubled.There are only two people, Yan Daojie and I, in this investigation. Even if the team takes a fork in the road at this moment, there are still two fork roads left that cannot be checked.Besides, I don't really want to march in groups at this time. The number of enemies is unknown and their positions are unclear. It is very dangerous for a single person to break in, and it will even make the whole team passive.

After discussing for a few words, we decided that the two of us should act together. If there is still no result at the agreed time with Ruan Yu and the others, we should go back first and make plans later.Then, we took the flashlight and started to illuminate from the leftmost cave, intending to look at the general situation of each cave first, and then choose one to go deeper.

The beam of light from the flashlight kept shaking on the khaki-yellow rocks, shining a blur of light and shadow.Just when we looked at the third cave, a bright, blood-red color suddenly appeared in the bright beam of light.

At the same time, the two figures who fell on the ground became clear in our sight against the bright background. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)