Chapter 41: Throwing bricks to attract jade
"Blood?"
We were all stunned under the words, we didn't think of how there would be blood in this strange tree, could it be that this is really a cannibalistic tree? We were surprised in our hearts, at the same time also immediately surrounded the past to observe the place where the strange tree was sawed, and indeed saw that the place that was sawed by the strange tree has a large amount of red liquid outflow, bright red, and human blood is almost the same.
"Aiya mama really have blood, this strange tree is not cultivated into a spirit?!"
The fat man is the most superstitious, then took a look at really have blood, then began his tree eating theory again, and also said that this tree has become essence, but Cheng brother to this is shook his head, "This is not blood, you guys smell, there is no blood flavor."
Cheng brother said, also with a finger dipped a little bit of the red liquid flick, "This seems to be tree pulp."
Tree pulp?
Under the words we were all stunned, at the same time also immediately went forward to dip a little bit of that liquid to study a little, and indeed found that these liquids are very viscous, far more than the viscosity of the blood, and put under the nose to smell, there is an astringent flavor, and the fishy smell of fresh blood is very different.
"It's really not blood, but how come this tree pulp is red?"
I asked curiously. I've seen white tree pulp before, but this is the first time I've seen red. And in the face of my question, that little loli Zhan Lu Ning spoke up.
"I know, when I was in Miaojiang and my grandma went to the mountains to catch bugs once, once my grandma and I came across some plants with red liquid. But my grandma said that this is due to the special geology and environment, there are some plants that mutate and produce different colored slurries due to absorbing special minerals and nutrients from the ground, this is not a strange thing in our Miaojiang."
The little loli, Zhan Lu Ning, said in a cute manner, and then also took out a short knife that she carried with her, and cut off a dark red grass plant under her feet, and pointed at the break, "Look, people didn't lie to you, right, this is also red."
Little Lori continued to say, and we also more or less relieved at a glance, it seems that this is really a special plant produced by a special landform, and the fat man said that it has nothing to do with becoming a spirit.
And this strange tree can bleed to get an explanation, the crowd is not much concern, continue to saw that strange tree, and this time I and Cheng brother afraid of accidents, also joined the process of sawing the tree.
We found that this strange tree grows thick, look quite strong look, in fact, the density of this strange tree is not high at all, ten points of flaccid, with a knife saw gently a scratch, you can cut out a very large mouth. And if you use your hands to tear that mouth, it is easy to tear a large area.
So at that time we decomposed those three strange trees very easily, only used about less than three minutes to completely saw those three strange trees, and after sawing those strange trees we found that there were no other human tissues inside those three strange trees, only Feng Fugui and their three heads.
At the same time, we carefully observed the broken scar at the neck of Feng Fugui's head, and the tree trunk that wrapped Feng Fugui's head and other people found that the tree trunk seemed to have been used with a sharp instrument to cut a mouth first, and then used the hand to tear and expand. And that Feng Fugui and other people's neck of the disconnection is also very neat, seems to be with a sharp blade at once cut off.
So things are not difficult to deduce, through this series of traces we can see that it should be someone who cut Feng Fugui and other people's heads with a sharp weapon, and then cut open these strange trees, and stuffed Feng Fugui and other people's heads into the trunks of these strange trees.
"It seems like a human did the case!"
After making a series of deductions at that time, Cheng used a heavy voice to come to the conclusion that someone had killed Feng Fugui and the others, but who was it?
"It can't be one of our own people who did it, right? We're the only ones here!"
After our analysis, Fatty muttered, suspecting our own people. However, I don't blame him, in this deep forest, when someone suddenly died in our team, the most suspicious murderer would of course be one of our own people.
And that Wei San Gun shook his head when he heard that, ''It shouldn't be one of our own people, our team has sent ten people to watch around the camp for absolute security, if any of our own people went out to commit a crime, it's impossible for them to escape the eyes of the guards. And the rest of us, we are all in tents of three, basically keeping an eye on each other, so the possibility of one of our own is almost non-existent."
Wei San Gun said, and as soon as we heard that we also put the doubt of our own people committing the crime to rest, just as Wei San Gun said, our tents are all three of us, and they are not far away from each other, so you can hear even a fart. So the possibility of one of our own going out and committing a crime was too small.
"Aiya mama this is even more evil, if it's not one of our own then who is it, could it be a ghost murder?"
Fatty began his superstitious theories again, to which I can only ignore him, have you ever seen a ghost with a knife to cut people?
I said: "and ghosts should have nothing to do with, if it is a ghost murder, directly in the camp on the kill, still need to spend so much effort? Besides, if it was a ghost that killed someone, how could it kill our map expert so coincidentally? So I think this murderer should have hijacked Team Zhang and their group to do it."
I said, and then analyzed it as I said, "Remember when Wei said that this group had used the bug wave to destroy the traces in order to stop Wei and their special forces from tracking them down in the first place. And now they might have sensed our tracking as well, so this group sent a killer and just killed our map expert in order to make it impossible for us to track. And that murderer he hid the human head in the strange tree, it should be all because he wants to create panic and make us disorganize ourselves, thus making us slow down our tracking."
I analyzed, and Cheng, Master Xue also nodded when he heard this, in fact, this is not difficult to think about it, there are just two groups of people in the mountain forest, us and the people who hijacked Team Zhang and their people, and our relationship is one chasing and one fleeing, so our team's map expert is dead, it must be the other party's doing.
"It looks like it's the other party that did the case."
Elder Xue gave a conclusion to my analysis before continuing, "However, Xiao Gao, Xiao Cheng, there is not much point in us discussing who the murderer is now, now that the map expert has been killed, we are in trouble. Our tracking this time relies on the map expert to direct the route, but now that the map expert is dead, our tracking will be delayed.
If we ask the top to send another map expert, it will take at least a day or two. But now it has been three days since the disappearance of the archaeological team, if we delay for two days, then I'm afraid that those people are going to find the Yu Wang Tomb of the Yue Clan, and by that time, that group of bandits who have hijacked the archaeological team will most likely kill everyone in the team to silence them!"
Elder Xue analyzed, his face very heavy. This time this old man entered the Great Forest with a 70 high collar still because he was worried about his granddaughter, and now that our team has encountered an obstacle, his mood can be imagined.
"Ai, what Elder Xue said I also thought of it just now, it is indeed our problem. Master Feng's map routes were all conceived by himself, as many as a dozen of them, and they were all uncertain, and could only judge the next route on the spot as the team advanced. And now that we are located in the mountains, contacting the top needs to build a 30-meter-high satellite station, and if this is the case, we need a day's time, plus the top to send us another map expert will also need to be probably at least a day or two. And that would be too long for us, and it's likely that Team Zhang and the others were killed during that time."
Cheng also sighed, obviously he was at a loss in the face of today's predicament.
And at this moment, after thinking for a while, I said, "Brother Cheng, Elder Xue, do you think this will work. This is a hypothesis, first of all, let's assume that the group that hijacked Team Zhang and the others must have sensed our tracking, and that's why they sent someone to kill our map expert, in order to stop our tracking. But what if our team's map expert didn't die? Will the other side continue to send people to kill them?
That is to say, there are actually two map experts in our team, and if the other party senses this, will they send killers again to kill the 'other' map expert, and if we catch that murderer, will we be able to get the whereabouts of the group that has hijacked Team Zhang and the others from his mouth? "
I even said, giving an envision, and at this moment Cheng and the others all had their eyes light up at the words.
"Xiao Gao do you mean throw in the towel, use fake news to lure the other side to the bait, then catch their people and ask everything?"
Cheng said, while I also immediately nodded, "That's what I mean, but I don't know if this method will work, after all, the other party should also have very powerful characters among them, I'm afraid that they will be able to detect our plan."
I even said, while Cheng nodded at his words, "En, the other party is able to hijack Team Zhang and the others, surely none of them are simple. But nowadays, our situation is also urgent, so we can only give it a try. In this case, tomorrow, I will pretend to be the second map expert of our team and lure that murderer out, while you guys are in charge of arresting them."
Cheng said, and even took the dangerous task of disguising as a map expert on himself, but in response, Elder Xue interrupted Cheng with a wave of his hand.
"You can't do it Cheng, you're too young and will easily arouse the other party's suspicion. And you're still the person in charge of the team this time, if something happens the team will fall apart, it's better for me to do it."
Elder Xue said dryly, at the same time he was afraid that we would root for him to ink, he also said to us, "You boys with hairless mouths can't do it either, none of you fit the characteristics of a map expert. So don't argue with me, tomorrow I will pretend to be the map expert, and you will be responsible for the capture. Alright, it's settled."
Elder Xue finished his speech in a thunderous manner and left, but we could only be helpless, this old man is quite stubborn, wanting to argue with him is definitely out of the question. Moreover, the old man was right, he was the only one in the team who could pretend to be a map expert, the others couldn't really do it, just that temperament was not right.
"Alright then, let's do as Elder Xue said. Now everyone, let's dispose of the remains of Master Feng and the others, and then follow the plan tomorrow."
Cheng was also a dry person, seeing that Elder Xue insisted on pretending to be a map expert, so he didn't ink any more and settled the matter.
And after we had a plan again we didn't bother thinking about it any more, after we were done with Master Feng and the others we returned to the camp to sleep. And early the next morning we started off again.
This time our plan was very simple, although our map expert Master Feng died, but this master had left an accurate map of the route for nearly two days before his death, so we were not afraid of taking the wrong route to be detected by our opponents this time, and we continued to track at the same speed as yesterday.
And this time Master Xue on the road also played a map expert, on the motorcycle holding a map decent command, along the way can be said to be a little bit of cracks have not revealed.