Judgment Day [Unlimited]

Chapter 23

The overly quiet atmosphere made people feel hairy, and there was a faint feeling of bad premonition.

Lu Fen also sat up immediately: "Go out and have a look."

The two put on their clothes and got out of the tent, only to find that there was no movement in the camp.The bonfire has gone out, and the man who kept watch last night has disappeared.

Xie Xingyin asked strangely: "Where are the people who watched the night last night?"

The night watchman should not leave his post without permission. Last night, the person who was in charge of watching the second half of the night was one of the low-level players who made up the number.They searched around and found no one, and asked in other tents, but there were none.

Xie Xingyin hurriedly pulled up Lao Liang who was still sleeping.

"Strange." Old Liang looked up at the holes on the rock wall, "Would it be convenient to hide in the holes?"

"how is this possible."

Everyone heard that someone was missing, and soon they all came out of the tent.

The companion of the night watchman last night suddenly cried out.

"Hey - why are our water and food missing!"

As soon as the others heard it, they hurriedly checked to see if their things were still there.Fortunately, their food is still there.

A short man was feeding the camels with a handful of hay in his arms: "That guy didn't take the food and left us, and ran away secretly by himself."

"Impossible, he didn't even ride a camel, so could it be that he wants to cross the desert on two legs?"

"It's also possible that I don't want to look for it anymore and I'm going back. Who knows." The short man shrugged.

But everyone knew that it was impossible.Abandoning the mission is tantamount to death.

Food and water are important resources. If something is lost right now, everyone will be a little suspicious.Could it be that someone deliberately killed people and stole supplies, or is there another reason?

The night watchman's companion claimed that the supplies were missing, but it was only one-sided, and everyone still couldn't help wondering if he secretly hid them himself.

That big man, Li Tiefeng, was the most stubborn. He insisted that everyone take out their bags and search them.

There is nothing extra in everyone's package, and that portion of food is lost.

Old Liang muttered in a low voice: "Could it be that someone among us did it?"

Lu Fen looked up at the densely packed caves on the rocky cliff, and said in a deep voice, "Not necessarily."

Xie Xingyin felt that this happened very strangely. "Why don't we go to the mountains and look for it?"

Lu Fen nodded: "I listen to my brother."

Li Tiefeng also agreed with their opinions. "I'll help you guard the others. Hurry up to the mountain to look for them. If you can't find them, come back quickly. I think it's strange that he disappeared. Safety is the most important thing."

He's big, straight-minded, and has the muscles to kill an adult with a single punch.With his support, the others dare not leave them behind.

So Xie Xingyin and the three of them went up the mountain without worry, and searched nearby.

The mountain was very steep, and the feet were full of gravel. Lao Liang yawned as he walked, slipped and almost fell over.

Xie Xingyin clung to him as if: "It wasn't you who kept watch last night, why are you more sleepy than us?"

There was a bit of sadness in Lao Liang's eyes: "What do you know, Brother Tie Feng snores and his feet smell. I didn't sleep well last night. It seems that I can still smell that smell now..."

After finishing speaking, Lao Liang suddenly let out a "hey", rubbed his eyes, and pointed to the grass.

"I said, why does it seem to smell, there is really a shoe here!"

Sure enough, there was a shoe hanging in the knee-high bushes over there.

Cinderella wouldn't drop her Converse sneakers, they must have belonged to the night watchman last night.

They picked up the shoe and looked at it, and Lao Liang shook his head: "It's over, it's over, it's bad luck."

Xie Xingyin took the shoe and took a closer look, then searched around, and soon found a cave not far away at the bottom of the cliff that was as wide as a person.

The dark cave entrance sloped down at a huge angle, preventing the sunlight from entering.Xie Xingyin picked up the flashlight and found that the bottom was very deep, and he couldn't see how big it was. There were still some bones of unknown animals piled up on the outside, which had already turned yellow.

"My god, this can't be a wolf's lair, right?" Lao Liang was startled, "Did the night watchman be taken away by wolves?"

Xie Xingyin was still hesitating, if the wolf really took it away, what about the other food?If wolves don't eat dry food, could it be possible that someone fished in troubled waters and took it away?

If you want to know the truth, you still have to find the night watchman first.Live to see people, die to see corpses.

"It doesn't look like a wolf den." Lu Fen took the portable flashlight from Xie Xingyin's hand, and walked towards the entrance of the cave: "I'll go in and have a look, brother, wait for my signal."

As he said that, he quickly supported it with his hands, and the whole person disappeared into the hole.

Xie Xingyin didn't know the details of this Young Master Lu, but it was obvious that he had extraordinary skills.And Lu Fen is a smart person, since he dared to go in, he must have his own grasp.

Having said that, no one can say for sure what will happen next, Xie Xingyin and Lao Liang were waiting outside, so they still couldn't avoid worrying.

After a while, the flashlight below flashed a few times, and Lu Fen's voice came from the narrow opening.

Xie Xingyin didn't hear it clearly, he only knew he was telling them to go down, and he breathed a sigh of relief.He turned around and discussed with Lao Liang: "This hole is too narrow, and the three of us can't get out if we go down. Otherwise, I'll go down first, and you stay here as a lookout for us."

The entrance of the cave was scary to look at, so Old Liangba had no choice but to keep using it, and repeatedly agreed: "All right, all right, I'll guard here. Come up quickly when you're done."

"..."

Xie Xingyin glanced at him, turned and left.He squatted at the entrance of the cave and observed it for a while, then carefully supported the ground, leaned his lower body in, and looked for a foothold in the narrow opening.

It was easy to watch Lu Fen go down just now, but it was only when he climbed up by himself that he realized how difficult it was to get down.There was a lot of moss growing on the dark and damp cave walls, and it was easy to slip when stepped on.

Xie Xingyin climbed on the raised stone with both hands, and slowly lowered it.After finally leaning half of his body in, suddenly his trouser leg was hooked by something, his foot slipped and he fell straight down——

Damn, if this fall landed on the white bones all over the ground, it wouldn't be smashed into a sieve by sharp bone spurs!

But what Xie Xingyin fell did not land on the pile of hard bones, but fell into an embrace.

Lu Fen caught him.

Afraid of falling, Xie Xingyin unconsciously hugged his neck with his backhand, only to realize that he had offended him, so he quickly let go and stepped on the ground again.

The entrance of this cave is narrow, but the space below is very large. The ground is full of bones of various animals, thick layer after layer, and it is impossible to tell how many there are.Some of them have been worn for a long time, and they shatter into powder when stepped on.

Xie Xingyin saw a small beast among the bones all over the ground. It looked like nothing, with a pair of horns and sharp teeth. The body was still fresh, as if it had just died.

Lu Fen kicked it away as if he didn't see it, walked inside with Xie Xingyin, and pointed in one direction with the flashlight: "Look, brother."

There was a man lying beside the rock wall, it was the watchman last night.Xie Xingyin knelt down to look at the cold and stiff body, his pupils were dilated, and he had already died.

Xie Xingyin stared at his face. The expression on the night watchman's face was stiff and ferocious, his eyes bulged, as if he had experienced a fierce struggle before he died.

Xie Xingyin thought for a while, and slowly turned his body over.Sure enough, there was a wound on the back of the head of the corpse, and blood was gurgling.

When a beast hurts a person, it bites off the trachea. The person in front of him seems to have been artificially hit on the head with a blunt instrument, and died of excessive blood loss.

"Murder and dump?"

Xie Xingyin supported the rock wall, trying to turn over the corpse for a closer look, but felt that the touch of his hands was not right.

The rock wall is full of uneven notches.

Xie Xingyin's first reaction was that the night watchman had left a hint for them before he died, so he quickly picked up the flashlight to take a picture, only to find that the stone wall was engraved with cuneiform characters.

According to the popularity of education in that era, people who can write are definitely not small people.Xie Xingyin had a hunch that these contents must be very important.

He knew some cuneiform characters, but he could only recognize the general meaning of individual characters. It would take some time to understand them all together, but it was impossible for them to take this stone wall away.

Xie Xingyin took a few glances, but could only vaguely recognize the words "monster" and "cave", and remembered that this place might be a lair of monsters.So he decided to go first, anyway, the monsters in the cave had nothing to do with the main task.

Xie Xingyin originally wanted to take the corpse back, but Lu Fen stopped him, telling him to pretend he didn't see it.

"This person was murdered. If my brother wants to know who it is, it's best not to go back and ask in a big way. Let's pretend that we don't know, and then observe secretly. I think that person will definitely be impatient and then do it again. "

Xie Xingyin felt that what he said was reasonable, so he turned to look at the little beast next to him: "Then can we take the bison's carcass back and roast it?"

Not because he wanted to eat bison.Their food share is limited, and it would be nice to have more supplies.

Lu Fen's expression changed slightly, and he coughed lightly: "It's best not to eat this."

Xie Xingyin didn't ask him the reason, presumably it was because the buffalo was really ugly, looking at it made him feel a little unappetizing, and he didn't know if he could eat it.

Soon, the two returned to the ground, and Xie Xingyin told Lao Liang what happened next.

The three of them went down the mountain, returned to the vicinity of the camp, searched around along the way, and found a large blood-stained stone with sharp edges and corners in a hidden corner.

Xie Xingyin raised his eyes and looked at Lu Fen, both of them knew it in their hearts.The evidence is overwhelming, this is the murder weapon.

Back at the camp, Li Tiefeng came up to them and asked them what they had found. Xie Xingyin glanced at the people behind him who were poking around, and shook his head: "Nothing was found."

The others listened and booed: "If you can't find it, let's go. It must have been taken away by wild animals. It will be noon soon, and we will die here if we delay too long."

The night watchman's companion lost food and water, and everyone had to share some for him reluctantly.

The crowd continued to set off, bypassing the mountain peaks along the way, and soon entered a drier desert.

This desert is even more desolate than when we came here, there are not even that kind of poisonous bushes, and it looks earthy everywhere.The dry cracks on the ground spread like tree branches, splitting into countless small cracks, like raised fish scales, which look jagged like fallen leaves from a distance.

On the way, Xie Xingyin was doing nothing to help Lu Fen wipe his knife, when suddenly a hand passed through his armpit and stuffed a piece of cloth into his arms.

Xie Xingyin tilted his head, and saw Lu Fen put his chin lightly on his shoulder.

"I didn't have time to look carefully just now, so brother, I'll take a look at what is written on the stone wall of the cave."

Xie Xingyin took it over and took a look, and found that Lu Fen had written exactly what he saw in the cave.

Being able to recite even unfamiliar languages ​​can really not be described as just a good memory, Lu Fen may really have a photographic memory.

Right now, Xie Xingyin has enough time to study these words.It took him a while to decipher these contents.

It turned out that those words were carved by a nobleman in the city-state, and he also went to the land of sunset to find the elixir of life.The nobleman found the tree of life according to the ancient legend, but the flowers of the tree of life need to be watered by the painful soul to grow the fruit of life.

He was kind-hearted and refused to harm others, so he gave up, but the good people were not rewarded, and they were killed by the man-eating monster Humbaba on the way back.

Xie Xingyin looked at those contents in surprise.It turns out that the cave just now is the lair of the legendary monster Humbaba.

It seems that they were lucky not to meet Humbaba.After so many years, I don't know if the monster still exists.

Xie Xingyin took a closer look.

"Humbaba the yellow monster with horns and long canines..."

Wait a moment!What Humbaba, isn't this the ugly little buffalo they saw in the cave?Who killed the man-eating monster! ?